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t -~ WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER, 1,e1982, PAGE il TORONTO - Ever dance with an owl? It had ta be a first for 111-year-old Dawn Weagle of Whitby. She stop- ped ta watch the banjo band outside the Aberta Pavilion of the Canadian National Exhibition recently and the first thing she knew an owl named Seemore was dancing with her. Dawn, who lives at 58 FulWood Crescent, said afterwards that this had neyer happened ta her in Whitby. Seemore, by the way, means "See more" of Aberta. Whoo? -Photo courtesy of the Caniadian National Exhibition Duplicate Bridge resuits The foflowing are the resuits of last week's play at the Whitby Curl- ing Duplicate Bridge Club as reported by Mrs. Harvey.Winter. North and South: Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wil- son, 54; Mrs. John Frost and Mrs. P.N. Spratt, 53; and, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Baker, a tie with Mrs. A.W. Armstrong and Mrs. W.C. Ristow,. 52%. East and West: Mrs. Willia m Austin and Mrs. Robert Broadbent, -54; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Winter, a tie with Mrs. June Thompson and Bill Fraser, 49- and, Mr. and Mrs. Ken unliffe, 47½. The results of each week's play will be reported in the following issue of the Whitby Free Press. Seminar provides forum' on revitalization By DOUG ANDERSON President Whltby Historical - Society "Downtown Revital- ization" is the theme of à seminar to be sponsor- ed' by the Whitby Historical Society on Sunday afternoon, Oc- tober 17. The seminar, which will be held in Whitby's Centennial Building, will have three or four speakers who will dis- cuss the problems faced by downtown mer- chants, eview .some earlier -proposais and discuss rejuvenation projects undertaken in other communities. .One of the speakers will be an- architect from Goderich, Ontario, who has had extensive experience in restoring downtown streetscapes in that part of the pro- vince. Another is a rep- resentative of CAUSE (Community Assist for Urban Study Effort) a program. sponsored by the Ontarzio Association of Architects which parachutes teams of ar- chitects and planners into communities like Whitby ta draw up de- tailed analyses and plans of how the com- munities could develop. Because of the costs involved in setting up such a seminar, a regis- tration fee of $5 will be charged. ($3 for mem- bers of the historical society) and advance registration will be required. Registration forms will be available soon. Whitby's downtown suffers from the same problems as hundreds of other communities in Ontario. Although located at the heart of the town, Most of the business has moved to modemn plazas and side street developments. Without the business, the merchants have flot the money to make im- provements in their buildings, which are gradually deteriorating. The historic buildings of Oshawa 's NIEWES T "Dining and Mingling Place"' The Wairehouse NEW YORK STYLE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE WHERE FAMILlES CAN AFFORD TO EAT AND MEET downtown Whitby were built in the days of the horse and buggy, out- door plumbing, and gas lighting and , the problems of bringing these buildings up ta 1982 standards should niot be underestimated. However other commu- nities have managed, with a littie bit of ima- gination ta overcome these difficulties and me- establish their central cores as healthy, com- mercial centres. Many downtown mer- chants. have already re- furbished their build- ings and the historical society commends their efforts and wishes ta of- fer them every en- couragemfent. They hope that the seminar they have planned will focus public attention on the pmoblems and may lead ta solutions which will ensure the preser- vation of the histomic chamacter of downtown Whitby. 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