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WITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1986 PAGE 5 "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mir d of man." - Thomas Jefferson 0 Advise and Dissent. TFHE CROW'S NEST fby Michael Knell By any chance, are you doing anything special on June 21 between the hours of il a.m. and 4 p.m.?, If not, I'd like to invite each and every reader of this up- standing litIle newspaper - on behaif of Ed Buffett, Rob Morton, Tess Matthews and the rest of the gang - to visit downtown Whitby. WVs going to be the first ever Downtown Discovery Day and it is being organized by the Whitby Downtown Improvement Ares Board of Management (or B.I.A. for short) in an effort to get people downtown and take a look aI everything ithas to offer. Tis is going to be, Ed assures me, a 'people oriented" day. A day for local people just to ses their neighbours, be seen by their neighbours, meel new neighbours and just plain have a nice day. The whole event kicks off when Mayor Bob Altersiey (no stranger to Ibis littie chore himself) gets a helping hand from pro boxer and up-and-coming idol of the young Shawn O'Sullivan in a ribbon cutting ceremony at il a.m. This takes place right at the four corners between the Bank of Montreal and Family Trust. Shawn wil then hang out forsa bit, meel bis fans and sign autographs. Sbawn wll then repeat tis performance in front of Peacock Sports on Green St. frons 11:301'il 12 and in front of the I.G.A. on Brock St. S. from 12 unlil 12:30. Thenbhe'II spend tbe half-bour between 12:30 and 1 p.m. in front of Whitby Audio st Dundasand Kent Sts. Wile that la probsbly enough to attracî a fair sized and reasonably en- tbusiastic crowd, tbat's not ail that wilI be going on. Following Shawn around wiI be the Witby Senior Public School Band, who wiII arrive at each location just.as Shawn la departing for the next to provide a littie musical interlude for his msny fans and admirera. On anoîher musical note, Bob Mooney's Dixieland Band will be winding its way around the core riding a flatbed to provide stili more enlertainmant on what the board la praying wlbe a fine, sunny day. WsiI, there's more. Including: clowns; a magician; face painters; a mime or Iwo; free balloons for tbe kids; free coffee, tes or amali soda aI participating restaurants; free parking and, I'm tbld, some stores are even going to have a sale. After ail, notbing beats a bargain, especially on something youve always wanted. But, I'm not finishad yeî. The Whitby Rotary Club, in co-operation and con- junction witb tbe local boys-in-blue (and what a fine bunch thay are) will ba holding a Kid Cbeck program at the Bank of Nova Scotia at the corner of Brock and Mary Sts. For $2, a parent can have his children photographed and finger- printed. This information will be kept on file by the Durham Regional Police Force for use in the unforlunate event that the child goes missing. Ed says Ibal tins program bas met with a greal deal of succesa throughout Canada and tbe United States. Wbile Ed is naluraily big on the downtown and wants 10 see il prosper com- mercially - he also believes that the downîown core has a responsibility to be a part - a concerned part - of the community. "Tins is somnetinng we feel is a really valuable program," Ed says of Kid Check. "The downtown core has to get involved with more of these kinds of communiîy programa. We want to include Ibese kinda of Ihinga 50 Ihat our promotions aren't just self-serving - we're putting something back in tbe com- munty."o If Kd Check is successful, Ed hopes to see some kind of community project undertaken during every promotional event the B.I.A. holds over the course of the suminer. There is a real effort on the part of the downtown board to prove the core, reailylis a people place. And Ed says that the only way to do that is to hold even- ta such as Downtown Discovery Day to show thal it's people that make the downtown core speclal and vital. "Our big tblng la to try to make it a people oriented day," Ed says. "Il la the board's bellef that for the downtown to be ultimaIely succesaful, it has to be a people place." Part of making the downtown core a people place is atlracting the kinda of buainesses that people want and patronize. Ed tells me that Georgina Phillipa, Ibeir ful-tinie (boy, it's about time) co-ordinator is literally busting her chops in the effort to seil the downtown core to potenlial commercial citizens. The easily discernable problem fscing the core is the lack of a good mix of retail services. For example, did you notice thal there is neither a habadasher nor a buteher in the downtown core? We could also use a realiy firat rate an- tique shop, a few lesa real estate firma and one fewer strip joint. (If the down- town coreis going to be a top-notcb family oriented commercial district, council la going to have to do sometinng about Ihat place.) A good mix of gooda and services that focus on people will go a long way towarda making the downtown core a really vibrant and dynamic commercial district. Ed bas been encouraged of laIe. Ha notes that Ihere are several development plans psnding in the downtown core including a new townhouse complax at Mary and Byron and a proposai for a mews of boutiques slong the south wall of Ary's Galery on Brock St. N. Georgina's efforts to atlract investment in the downtown core from outside the community is bsginning to bear fruit - requests for more information about Whitby and its core area are receivad almoat every day. Thinga are starting to gel. Phase one of the streetscaps enhancement project has been completed. The flower pots and plant stands will soon be in full blossom. Hopefully, thare'll be a new spirit in downtown Whitby. Plans are being made and people are working and for tbe firat lime in many years, I'm bsginning to believe thal there really is hope for our downtown core, wich is af- ter ail, tbe beart of Iis community. WITH OUR FEET tEP By Bill Swan once upon a time, before there were microwaves and before people were told 10 "Have a nice Day" - in other words, a long, long lime ago - a cbild was born tos very, very, poor family. The fsmily was poor because tha child was thair lwenty-lbird. Nowsdays, everyone knows thal children create poverty. But back Ihen, people didn't know. Families kepl having babies-because, well, that's what people did. Besidea, elecîricily wssn't invented yel and people knew bitter than to atrain Ibeir eyes sitling around aI night wsîching television by candleligbî. But back to the cbild. The firsî 23 children in the family had been named aflar uncles, grandparents, bishopa, ministers, and politicians, and itinerant tinkers - in short, for anyone who had a recogniÏable name. The family bad bestowed more than one hundred Christian names over the past two decades. So when number 23 came along, tbey bad run out of names. "Well," said the father. "I think we sbould name Ibis child Henry Everett Jacob. " But mothars have rights, 100, evan Ihen, and she said no. "William would be nice, " she said. "But we already have a William," said her husband. "And a Bill, for thal malter. " "Tbat's rigbt. In fact, I like Bill aven btter." So il was that the child became Chrislened Extra Bill. .Extra Bill was a precoclous child. His firat words were, "I'm gonna be ricb when I grow up." His second word was "Monay. " The family knew that Extra Bill was a go-getter from the firat day he played doctor with Emmy Lou, who lived naxl door. He liked the game so much thal by the lima he gol home thal night he knew he would make medicine his career. To prove il, he examined tbe whole faniily, Mom and Dad included, and billed the provincial government. (OHIP had nol been in- vented yet, so the polilicians were puzzled. But il was a harbinger of Ibinga 10 coma.) From his firat moment in medical 'achool, il became clear 10 bis teachars that Extra Bill was a nalural. While adniittediy weak in courses such as Health, Nutrition and Flînesa. ha excalled in Ac- count Practicum, Multiple Billing, and Diagnostic Overkill. Il was also while in mredical school thal he firsl became aware of wbat ha later pbrased as tbe Learning-Earning Gap. This was coined from bis observation thal al tbe leachers in medical achool were salaried and Ibus poor. Leas learned medical practitioners lived in larger homes and drova even larger cars ail because of their akill aI referring tough cases 10 other doctors wbo cbargad even more. Wban socialized medicins was invented, otber doctors talked tougb and Ibreatened 10. join the Canadian Labor Congreas or the CommuniaI Party or the Imperial Order of Dsughters of the Empire - on wbom the sun neyer sets because il wouldn'l dare. But our hero did none of Ihese. Quietly, ha wovs ina way Ihrougb political parties and quietly wbispered ianame. Extra Bill. Thus the concept was born, and peace reigned in the medical profession. And money rained in, and doctors took Ibeir rigbtful place as ricb people of substance, the type of people who make lough Ian- diords and jittery stock players - ail because of socialized medicine. But then Iough limes feil on the land of milk and honey. A nsw rular 10 the land tbreatened 10 reduca the Iangtb of the trougb atjwhich doctors fesd. And doctors lhrougboub the land Ibreatenad 10 join the United Auto Workers or the Ontario Public Service Employeesa Union or tbe Foreign Legion. But Ihrougb the thick of baIlle Extra Bill hald up ina band and broughî attention among tbe medical troops. "Sinca we're gonna end up as clerks or union people anyway," ha said, "than lat's bave us a work-lo-rula. Lst's go on a slow down." Thal was bis mistake. What he forgot was that wôrk-lo-rule only works on overwrought assambly lines. Wbat Extra Bill didn't know la thal you can neyer win any strike in which tbe customer ends up with btter service and the total bill ends up lower. You can neyer win providing low coat quslily. SEE PG. 27