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PAGE 8. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1 986. WHITBY FREE PRESS i ~ 4Il' Durham Road 23 was the scene for an top picture shows what i8 left of!the truck af-' Anierican made movie ttled Roffing ter the successful stunt. In the bottomnpîcture, Vengeance last week, The road was closed by cameramen get ready to shoot a close-up of police as the crew prepared a stuat whlch in- the back of a car.. vnIved roUfing a tractor tradler at 50 mph!. The Free Press Staff Photo By MIKE JOHNSTON Free Press Staff Hollywood came to Whitby last week for two-days of shooting a new movie called Rolling Vengeance. Durham Regional Police had Durham Road 23 (Lake Ridge Rd.) closed to the public on Swiday, September 28 and Thursday, Oc- tober 3 while preparations were un- derway for a stunt which involved rolling a tractor trailer at 50 mph. Assistant director David Till said the location on Lake Ridge Rd., in the area of the railroad overpass, was choosen for the over- pass and the ability to have the road blocked off. Till said the stunt in- volved a tractor trailer, driven by stuntman Gary McLarty, who worked on the move Beverly His Cop, flip- ping over at 50 mph a!- ter concrete blocks are thrown through the front windshield. Al this while the truck has a car in front and back Hlydro. Whitby Hydro Elec- tric Commission will probably have to raise o! it and a second truck beside It. The crew trled the stunt on Sunday but Till said it was too late in the day so they returned the following Thursday. On hand, In case of an accident , were paramedlcs, ambulan- ces, the fire department and the police depar- tment. But they were not needed and Till said the stunt was executed perfectly. The premise of the movie, which stars Ned Beatty and Don Michael Paul, has a son seeking revenge on drunk drivers on a highway in the south after his family is killed by a drunk driver. To rid the highways of drunk drivers, Till said the son builds "a mon- ster killer truck." Rolling Vengeance is a Shawn His produc- tion, directed by Steven Sterns and produced by Jacj Fredman. Another reason the movie is being filmed in Canada is money. Till said the value of the Canadian dollar is attracting more and more- American film makers north of the 49th parallel. And with the movie makers comes money. Accordlng to Til, a movie being made in Canada has to have an ail-Canadian crew although department heads can be brought up from the United States. 'At one point on Thur- sday, while the director was shooting a close up o! a car being hit from behind by a truck he needed the road to be wet. Ahl through the cast and crew ideas were being passed back and forth on how to 'wet- down one-quarter mile of Durham Road 23. Siphon water from the near by ponds or start a bucket brigade? Nol the answer came moments later as a Whitby Fire Engine ap- peared on the 'scene more than willing to assist the crew. Till could not put' a date on when the movie would be released. rates up ini hydro rates in the new strike, year to keep pace with managemn an average. 5.5 percent busy and is rate increase Ontario work on tli Hydro will implement budget nc January 1, according to budget is c general manager Tom said the ut May. the 1987j Although the local must then utility has yet to strike by Onti the budget for the Up- sometime f coming year and it will Whle Ort be December before the 5.5 percer final rate is set, May crease isj speculated that the in- average, t crease would probably the Whitby be somewhere in the 'increase 1 neighbourhood of the and 5.3 lx Ontario Hydro increase. May. "An increase is cer- If the W~ tain but at this stage I approvedi can't say what it will be. crease of 5. It wil probably be the new ye somrething close to cost the Hydro's increase," said household May. (850 M< Wlth the utility's about $2.20 workers presently on their monthl '87 May said ient has been is just starting he preliminary ow. Once- the completed, he itility will set rates which ibe approved aio Hydro in December. ntario Hydro's ent rate in- a provincial lhe charge to )Y utility will between 5.2 percent, said Nhitby utility a rate in- 5.5 percent in ,er, iL would ýe average consumer ilowatt-hour) 20 more on ly hydro bill. CUT N' DRY NEW LOCATION 116 ATHOL ST., WH ITBY 668-0891 ~ THE CORPORATION 0F THE TOWN OF WHITBy ADULT SOHOOL CROSSINO GUARD BURNS STREET AND ATHOL STREET Applications are now belng accepted by the Town of Whitby for the position of Aduit Sohool Crossing Guard ai the Intersection of BURNS STREET and ATHOL STREET. Applications are ta be received no later than Wed- nesday, October 15, 1986 and addressed ta: - Mr. Wm. H. Walace, Administrator, Corp. of the Town of Whitby, 575 Rossiand Road East, Whltby, Ontario. LIN 2MB R.A. Kuwahara, P. Eng., Director of Public Works.1 Whitby plays host to movie makers 'e':. "là