Ontario Community Newspapers

Whitby Free Press, 24 Mar 1982, p. 1

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No big guns will behired J ovialfight Vol. 12, No. 12 Wednesday, March 24, 1982 24 Pages ai w ip "R IE E a residential area," he said, adding that they had been assured several years ago that "a department type store would not be allowed to encroach on a residential area." This does not mean, however, that the residents are opposed to such a development taking place. "The community is fully in agreement with a new Canadian Tire store...but not in that particular location," he said. Emm also claimed that*the developer had retained a lawyer who is a known expert in the field of planning and said that the town should be represented by someone of similar experience. However, he stressed that his motion was not intended to slight the abilities of the town's solicitor, Hugh Nichol. "To add weight to our solicitor, to help our solicitor defend our position, I bring. this CONT'D ON PG. 19 is missig Police forces throughout the Province of Ontario are on the look-out for a young woman who left the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital in the evening of March 15. A spokesman for the Durham Region Police Force said tbey are "concerned" for the young woman's safety. She has been identified as Margaret Daniel, 20. She is described as about 5 feet tall, weighing 120 pounds, has brown eyes and black-brown hair worn in the pageboy style. Police said that when she was last seen she was wearing a brown jacket and brown cords. An air and ground search for the missing woman was conducted throughout the hospital area last Tuesday and Wednesday but failed to give any indication of where she might be. Anyone having information on Daniel's whereabouts is asked to call the Durham Regional Police Force at 579-1520. Police have said that all information received will be treated as confidential. Whitby Town Council has rejected the idea of hiring special legal counsel to defend its position at an upcoming Ontario Municipal Board hearing. That hearing will deal with the denied ap- plication of Jovial In- vestments Limited and its partners to construct a Canadian Tire store on the northern half of its property on Dundas Street East im- mediately behind Bowman Ave. Council denied Jovial's application to build the outlet after considerable opposition was heard from area residents who claimed that the development would cause insurmoùn- table traffic and other problems in the area.- The motion to hire the' special legal counsel was made by Regional Qouncillor Gerry Emm. Emm pointed out that council had accepted the residents position on the traffic question. "They persuaded council of the dangers of traffic...pertruding into o

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