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PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6. 198 1. WHITBY FREE PRESS Edw rdscats fr ickering airport lanil to be retained for agricultural purposes By MICHAEL KNELL Free Presis Staff Whitby Regional Coun-, cillor Tom Edwards said Tea Wagon .....'162 Rocklng Chair ... 1245 Sofa Rattan ...750 Dining Room (5 pi M I last week that he wilt urge fellow memnbers of Durham Regionat Council to vote against a resolution suppor- ting the construction of the controversial Pickering Airport. At last week's meeting of regional council, Councillor John DeHart (Oshawa) tabled a motion authored by him and Pickering's Alex Robertson that catis on council to support the project. Dellart asked that the resotution be tabled because of Robertson's absence at the meeting. However, councillors heard several different delegations opposing. DeHart's motion. Among those appearing were former New Democratie Durham West MPP Dr. Chartes Godfrey and Pickering area coun- cillor Nora Stoner. "I'm outraged that coun- cillors DeHart and Rober- tson, who have every right in the world to bring the matter up, after publicizing it and causing concern and distress to those who tive in the area did not see fit to proceed with it," Edwards said indicating that Rober- tson's absence may have been detiberate. (Under council's rules of SUPERIOR PROPANE'9s SUER~$IZZLIN' PO RTA B LE ANN UAL GAS BARBECUE SALE ALL OUR BROILMASTER, CANADIANA, FALCON & JACUZZI MODELS ARE ON SALE WITH PRICES STARTING AT 149 95 WITH SUPERIOR YOU ENJOY VOUR PURCHASE IMMEDIATELY AS SUPERIOR ONLY SELLS BAR- BECUES THAT ARE: " FULLY ASSEMBLED & TEST*FIRED " COMPLETE WITH A FULL 20 LB. CYLINDER " DEMONSTRATED BY OUR STAFF *SERVICED AND GUARANTEED BY SUPERIOR BROILMASTER *;r G4TXPL (ABOVE) DELUXE FEATURES ECONOMICAL PRICE * ENAMEL COATED CASi COOKING GRIDS * TEMPERATURE GAUGE * EXCLUSIVE ENAMEL C( CAST IRON 40,000 BTU B( BURNER * 2 REDWOOD SHELVES * HEAVY DUTY CART * 460 SQ. IN. COOKING AREA SALE PRICE 41995 ISA I401 PROPANE LTD. THROUGHOUT CANADA 505 VICTORIA ST. E. WHITBY TELEPHONE 668-3328 procedure, the mover 0f a notice of motion may table it if his seconder is not present at the time it is to be discussed.) "I consider it to be an in- tolerable abuse of a coun- cillor's responsibilities," Edwards continued. He added that in fairness to the people who made the presentation to council, the matter should have "been deait with expediously." The long-time municipal politician said that when the matter does come up for discussion (probably next week), he will vote and speak against it. "I think it woutd be detrimental to the Town of Whitby," Edwards says of the airport project. "We're in its flight path," he maintains adding that "The Town of Whitby woutd have al of the disadvan- tages with none of the benefi ts. " Tom Edwards Among the disadvantages to the project, Edwards believes are the problems of noise, pollution and in- creased traffic. If the airport was con- structed, Edwards says that a two mile wide strip of land somewhere north of Brooklin would be frozen for development purposes SELLOUTI! BARGAINS FOR EVERY ROOM FOR AS LONG AS IT LASTS. ~ M because of its use as an ap- proach area. Edwards also believes that Whitby Town Council's position has changed since 1968 where council voted 9 to 2 to endorse the project. (The dissenters were Ed- wards and the late coun- ciltor Heber Down.) The old Ontario County Council also took a simitar stand, he said. "Thank goodness that the residents of the area for- tunately knew better than the people they had elec- ted." The deputy mayor is con- fient that "regionat council will not vote in favor 0f DeHart's motion." Edwards is of the opinion that the airport in Pickering is simply not needed and points to the Mirabel Air- port, just outside of Mon- treal, as an example. Mirabel, which has been dubbed the "'great White elephant" at present carnies littie in the way of commer- cial air traffic and has not produced the expected amount of industrial development. "Mirabel doesn't produce the wealth and the prosperity that's the main purpose in its being," he said. The land should be left for agriculturat purposes, a purpose that Edwards believes will be more benefi*ciat for the people of the region. "I'm not going to buy a 'pig-in-a-poke'," Edwards said of the airport saying that advancement of technology has reduced the need for more airports because of the larger passenger capacity and lower noise levels of jets. "I'm not anti-progress but because of the disadvan- tages that surround airports I'm very dubious of the so- called economie benefits," Edwards concluded. Now $129 Now s199 Now $450 oces> ...... 499 Now $399 MANDERS RATTAN 305 B ROCK ST. 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