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Corridor Capers By MARY MCEACHERN Cal 725-8967 with Items for this column Happy New Year everyone. 1986 holds a lot of promises, don't waste a minute of It. DURHAM WEST P.C. ASSOCIATION Durham West will hold their annual dinner meeting to elect the 1986 Durham West P.C. Association executive on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at the Whitby Legion Hall, 117 Byron St. S. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m., dinner 7 p.m. The cost is $10 for a roast beef dinner. For tickets call Clare Hewson 668-2500 for Whitby and Barb Parrinder 655-4500 in Brooklin. Guest speaker Andy Brandt, M.P.P. Reserve your tickets early. HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION Kick off Campaign - Bring home the charter 1986. For a successful 1986, do attend the Kick-off Heart and Stroke meeting on Monday, Jan. 20,7:30 p.m. at the Whitby Police Station, Rossland Rd. (upstairs). The meeting will consist of committee reports and an educational program. February is Heart Month, and the association needs many, many volunteers to canvass all of Whitby. Please call and volunteer your services to help make 1986 a record year. Remember, Monday, Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m., Whitby Police Station. The Heart and Storke Foundation needs your help. COFFEE POT The Corridor area Ratepayers Association 100 cup coffee perk certainly was well used over the holiday season. We were pleased to be able to assist so many people. It's back home again, so if you · require its use, call 725-8967 and book for your dance or party. Thre is ro charge for the coffee pot, all we ask is that you return it in the same condition as when you borrowed it. Please call 725-8967 with news items for this column. FROM PG.1 - Plant proposal concerns residents two shifts a day. before the 0MB. They claim that roads In addition to recom- are not adequate for mending that council such traffic, and that rezone land for plastics the noise and pollution manufacturing for that wil stem from the automotive use, the factory will disrupt life committee recommen- in the quiet village and ded that the remaining drive property values 175 acres of Andrew An- down. tenna land be rezoned to A retired Ashburn allow for the company's farmer, who claims he's future industrial floor lived in the village space - up to 44,500 "longer than the rest of square feet. the residents put This rezoning is to together," was alone in compensate for the supporting Dominion existing space to be lost Automotive's ap- toDominionAutomotive plication to move into when the 30 acres Ashburn. changes hands. It is According to Bill significantly less, Gardner, the land being however than the 300,000 sold by Andrew Antenna square footage allowan- is "marginal" in terms ce requested by Andrew of its agricultural yield ' and "private enterprise The reason for the should be given free company's request ex- reign." - plained Andrew Anten- "Some of the people na president Hugh here'd be real upset if Swain is its long-range the land was turned plans to consolidate its back to agricultural entire Whitby operation zoning and someone put in Ashburn. (Currently, a pig farm in next to one the conpany is of their properties," he operating in added wryly. leased spaces Other residents were throughout the not persuaded by Gar- municipality.) dner's remarks, By restricting Andrew however, and upon Antenna's future fac- hearing the committee's tory or office floor space decision to allow the dapacity to 44,500 rezoning, one long-time square feet the town is resident's response was "handcuffing Andrew to ask if anyone wanted Antenna into a deal that to buy a farm in Ash- colfc t v burn. oeain usd h j The committee'sae,"hsid recommendation still Acrig t h has to be approved by'znn urnl'i council, however, soplcfothladte residents will have at cmaycudbida least one more chanceinutalpntwh to block the zoningflrspcofvetw change. They could alsomilosqaeftan challnge tedecsion re e MB.2 WlHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8,1986, PAGE 17 Senior co-op Christmas On Dec.13, the Whitby Senior Co-op held their annual Christmas din- ner attended by 83 people. Following a lovely turkey dinner, the co-op held a draw for gifts donated by a long list of Whitby merchan- ts. In all some 20 mer- chants donated gifts for the occasion and co-op members wish to extend their heart felt thanks to the participating mer- chants for helping to make the event the terrific success that it was. Jeff Acheson in the penalty box Sunday at Iroquois Sports Complex Peter Perry award All newcomers, as well as oldtimers, are invited to be present to honour Whitby's 27th Peter Perry on Friday, Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. It is quite conceivable that in a few years' time, one of these newcomers could quite well be adding their name to the list of Peter Perrys. Volunteer local talent will provide a fun-filled intimate variety revue at the end of which the new Peter Perry will be revealed. An octet of Sweet Adelines will provide a comedy routine in song while Tommy Cinnamon will entertain with his banjo and some sing-along. Sherry, a country singer; John Randall with piano and voice: Janice and Rick Kerr with serious and comedy songs; and Adele Stephens and Arleen Hewitt, both Some Ticket If ever anyone was to regret speeding, it has got to be Geoffrey Lye. The Toronto man was stopped by the Whitby OPP recently for driving over the speed limit on Hwy. 401 in Ajax. When the police punched his name into the computer, it was discovered that there were 102 outstanding warrants for Lye's arrest for failure to pay old traffic tickets. The fines, which. had escalated considerably since they were first issued, totalled $2,897. Impaired charges down The OPP laid only two impaired driving charges over the holiday seson, one during the week of Christmas and one during the week of New Year's. That brings the total number of im- paired driving offenses under the anti-impaired program to 13 for the month of December. 668 vehicles were stopped. Impaired charges were up again this week, however, with six charges laid. very good singers, will entertain the audience -BUY-RENTSELL-LEASE- as well. With the help of another surprise artist Bert Heaver, the direc- tor of the show, will in- terest the audience with dribs and drabs of in- formation about Peter Perry and those volun- teers who have followed in his footsteps. Bert won the Peter Perry Award in 1978. Tickets for the evening are available at Middleton's Stationery Store on Dundas St. in the first block west of the four corners. A $5 ticket will buy the pur- chaser an evening of good entertainment Whîtby-style. 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