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* jq PAGE .16, WEDNESDAY, APRIL.18, ý1984, WHITBY FREE PRESS COMING EVENTS LUBE, ýOIL,& ýFILTER SPECIÀ oMcst ArnricanCHE K 0 COOLING SYSTEM INSPECTION FREE ESTIMATES ON BODY& PAINT urham 23 Baseline Rd. rv WHITBY 666 Kpires Aprîl 30/84 AL ALL BELTS BATTEAY LIGHTS - TIRES FLUID LEVELS AfORK *m2330: ERSTER SERIS, DRRW wIN11 ERBBRGE PRTEH DBOLI TICKETS S50<-3 mlI.DDo WODLCO MRLL 19-21 SPONSORED BY ANNOUNCEMENT EAST END QUALITY MEATS ARE CELEBRATING 'THEIR 15TH ANNIVERSARY While you are shoppinc enjoy a FREE COFFEE and. a HEAýTY SNACK STORE SPECIALS.ýk.* En oy our home co'ok'ed meats, spiced roast beef, rare roast beef, meatloafs, hams. rabbits, cheeses, bacon rois. fondue- meats, party platters.'etc. "We also take freezer orders (To avold any disappointment ple.ase câIl early.) EAST END QUALITY MEATS' DELICATESSEN Ciose(l Goo(j F-ri(jaý 0[)En Saturdav 104 Lupin Drive, WHITB 1 y 668-4782 Blair Park P.laza ITEACHERS' MEETING !The- annual general E meeting of Unit 2 (Ajax and Whitby) of 'the EDurham Women iTeachers -Associatioi Iwill . be held at the IMarigold Dinner *Playhouse, Brock St. N.$ * Whitby today at 4:30 *p.m., * Dinner *111 begin at E The guest speaker wil Ibe the director of the Durham Board of I Education, Bruce Mather. For more information eall Emd Schloen at 668- 1351. Us i I D~ '~OPEN HOUSE Henry Street Higt, Sehool, 600 Henryý St., will hold an open housE on Apr. 26 from 7:30 ta 9:30 p.m. This event wilI feature displays, demon- strations and perfor- mances involving all the subjeet departments at the sehool. Many of the students will be par- ticipating* in the ac- tivities. P.TA. MEETING The next meeting of the Colonel J.E. Farewell, Public School Parent Teacher Association will be held on Apr. 24 from, 7 to 9 p.m. at the sehool. The.guest speaker wil be a representative of the. women's action group "Outreach" who wiil give a "street- proofing information -session. Ail parents with ehildren attending the school are weleome. PARENT FINDERS The next meeting of Parent, Finders (Oshawa) will be held on Apr. 30 at 8 p.m. in the cafeteria of East- dale Collegiate, Har- mony Rd. N., Oshawa. This group offers help and support to, aduit adoptees wishing to .trace their origins and to birth parents' sear- cbing for their now adult children. Adoptive parents are as welcome. For more information cail 728-6983. RUMMAGE SALE The Durham Regional Police Ladies' Auxiliary will hold a rummage sale on Apr. 25 from il a.m. toi1 p.m. at Simeoe Hall, 387 Simcoe St. S.,, Oshawa. Anyone, wishing to donate items (elothing, skates, dishes,ý etc.) is asked to cail either 576- 6084 or 668-3982. -MONTE CARLO The Whitby Lions Club wiil hold its annual "Monte Carlo Night" on May il from 7 p.m. to, 1 a.m. at the Heydenshore Pavillon.' Featured will be games of chance, draws, a cold buffet and Three year old, neutered male Shepherd-Colle-Huekle. Weil behaved andi tralned. Complote- wlth dog house'and dishes. Must have fsncsd yard and loving people. $30. cal! 66&.2912. RIGHT TO LIFE The next meeting of the Durham Region Right to Life Association wilI be held on Apr. 17 at 7:30 p.m.'in the meeting room -of St. John the- Evangelist Church, 903 Giffard St., Whitby., A discussion on plans for "Respect for Life Week" will be held. The' week will end with a rally on May 13 at 2 p.m. Forý more information cail 668-7911 or 723-3264. ............................................................... CA NADIAN CLUB The annual meeting of -the Canadian Club of Durham Region wiil be held on Apr. 25 at 6:30 p.m. at theýHoliday Inn, Bloor St. E., Oshawa. The guest speaker will be Jean-Claude Picard, director-general Of Youth and Music Canada. For reservations. or more information cail Charles Rycroft at 668- 2848. Tickets are $10 each and include a chance at kl a $1,000 elimination x draw and a $100 door Be prize. n For reservations or n more information Cai e John Wiggers at 668- ,r 5376, Merv Patton at q 668-9304 or Ian Robb at 0668-060. tFLEA MARKET OfThe grade 8 students ofKathleen Rowe e Memnorial Public School 'f will hold a fund raising -flea market and bake sale at the school, 1125 Athol St.', on Apr. 28 from 10a.m. to 2p.m. There will be ail kinds Of "treasures", toys, books,' records, games and household items. Refreshments wiil be served. AU proceeds wiil be used to fund the studen- ts' upcoming trip to Ot- tawa and their graduation. <CONCERT, On May 9, Whitby area schools wiil be par- ticipating inaà concert in celebration of Ontario's bicentennial. The event will be held at Anderson Collegiate at 7:30 p.m. and will of- fer a variety of music including experts from the operetta "Canada Goose",. old timne fid- dling and square dan- cing as well as band and choral numbers. Admission is free. D.R.F.N. MEETING The next meeting of the Durham Region Field Naturalists wiil be held on Apr. 30 at 8 p.m. at the McLaughlin Public Library, Bagot St., Oshawa. The guest speaker will be Jim Richards, a recipient of the Federation -of Ontario Naturalists Conser- vation Award for his ef- forts to preserve the Second March.* The-meeting is open to the public. For more information call- Lorna Machell at 668-0855. CHILI NIGHT The Ladies' Auxiliary of Branch 112, the Royal Canadian Legion will hold a "Chili Night" this Saturday beginning at Ott awa Hig hliog hts TAKE-O VER SUCCESSFUL IN WHITBY There has been a non-violent take-over at Nurse Chevrolet-Oldsmobile Ltd. ln Whltby. A giant 43 foot, 1000 lbs. gorilia stamped ln to the dealership on Sunday and dethroned Bill Nurse as president of the company. »The'gorilla is currently standing defiantly outside the dealership and can be seen for miles. The monster ape toid dealership staff that he had heard of a new method of selling used vehicles calied Triex. It was for this reason that he decided to take-over the dealership. Staff members say that.the Triex gorilla must have a heart of goid because he has the biggest blue eyes that they've ever seen. This has proven to be true because the gorilla Is offerlng speciais In every department of the dealership to anyone who dares to look upon hlm. There-are sale prîces on ail new and used vehîcles. With every o11 change, customers get a free lubrication. Thereils free pinstriping with every body repaîr and a f ree car stereo system with every new bease. -Maybe it's a throwback to his jungle days, but the Triex gorilla Is givlng away free bananas and is sending some family to Jungle Land ln Dlsneyworld to see hîs ape relatives. Mayor Bob Attersiey welcomed the Triex gorilla to Whitby on Sunday and remarked that he hoped the new dealership president would not set his sights on thie cty council next because he would not be able to stand having banana peels ln counicil chambers. When asked if he was staying at the dealership for good, the Triex gorilla repiied,. "No. Only a week. The top of the Empire State Building needs cleaning." The "Son of Kong" is at Nurse Chev.-Olds. Ltd., at the top of the hili ln ýWhitby. w w By MARY-ANN HUBERS Free Press Staff L l Centuv, rý7m - ý COLD JACK( f PFAtTY LTD 668-6221 ;; ýj 1 0 Michael Blvd. Tickets are $3 and are available by calling the school at 668-3354. A recent report of an ail party Special Committee on- Visible Minorities inèluded,- among its recom- <mendations, a cail for compensation for Japanese Canadians who were interned during the Second World War. That action by Mackenzie King's government i 1942 is one which Canadians should look back on with shame. 1In the aftermatb of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the government used -the War Measurers Act to confiscate the -property of, and forcibly relocate and intern, over 20,000 men, women and. children of Japanese extraction. Over 80 per cent of these "1enemy aliens", the majority by, birth, were Canadian citizens and were no less patriotie than the average Canadian. The fact that no other racial group was'singled, out,' despite the fact that Canada's population In'- cluded many people'whose country of ancestry was at war with Canada, made it clearly a raclst move, ail the more regrettable. At various times i the 42 years since then, the~ issue of compensation for those abused Canadiffps has arisen.'- The committee's recommendation-. prompted NDP MP Lynn McDonald te, ask Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to begin negotiationson. compensation. Tueute ofrdbspersonal view of the issue. He did not agree with-the idea-.'of, compensating- the Japanese Canadians because he was flot in- terested in "rewriting history". If "one group was compensated, where would the lime be drawn?.- Would the descendents -of Acadians',expelledi the. 1750's or the Chinese Canadians mlstreated i the late 1800's also have to be compensated? Trudeau argued that as a result of the new Charter of Rights "'the kind of actions that we regret would flot be justified or condoned by the courts in the future.". Instead of worrying about the past, which can't be cbanged, Trudeau would rather "be just in out time"' for example, by using funds te, create jobs for the unemployed "rather than to try and use the money to compensate people whose ancesters in « some way have been deprived." That's where Mr.- Trudeau's logic breaks down and bis lack of understandig shows tbrougb. Many of those Japanese Canadians are stiil alive and are stil suffering the consequences of having' their homes and businesses confiscated over 40 years ago. We are talking about "Justice in our tinie."1 But there la more than just economie compen- sation at question. bere. Besides the question of moral justice, there la the issue of restoring the faith and trust of an ethnie miority who understan- dably feels insulted by this historic wrong and by the government's refusal te right it. A government cannot act as -if it la operating in isolation. It must have a sense -of future accoun- tability for its actions. It-must, with an eye te the. future, build on and improve what it basinherlted-te leave an'even fuiler legacy te its successors who wil, in turn', do. the same. A society eould not con- tinue for long -without that sense of future and responsibility -for succeedig generations. Perbaps if Mackenzie King had thought long and bard about how he would'be judged a haif century later for bis actions, be might have made a different decision. Trudeau now must also use someforesight. By refusing to correct this injustice, be would be set- ting a dangerous precedent. The perceived message would be that acts of raeism are telerated in this country. How can those Japanese Canadians, or amy other ethnie minority for that matter wbo sees this example, be expected to be fuily integrated.and feel accepted in a eountry where 'that message is ailowed to be passed on. In a country like Canada, -made up of so many diverse ethnic groups, attention must be paid to ensurimg their complete integration Inte national Ilfe.