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By MIK Free A $4.27 to Iroqu approved by Whitl week. The ex Whitby facility i begin No will inclu of a se complete rooms, o a first-ai seating proximat sons. The will be summer i Include renovatio Iroquois Park rec facility... $4 million expansion approved E JOHNSTON sive improvements to pleted by late Novem- accepted the low tender The differe Press Staff the Anne Ottenbrite ber or early February. of Division Construction opinion causedi million facelift Pool, an enlarged lobby According to a letter Ltd. in the amount of council whic lois Park was area, a central office from the Parks and $3,579,400. Division Con- seems to havE d unanir ously area, additional public Recreation depar- struction is the same following the un by council last washroom facilities, an tment: company that originally approval of th additional concession "During this time, constructed the arena in sion at Iroquois :pansion of the with facilities for both building and 1974. Division recreational indoor and outdoor mechanical difficulties Last spring, Edwards tion'sitender s scheduled to seating and improved that cannot be corrected along with Mayor Bob scaled down e vember 3 and landscaping. during regular use will Attersley and councillor was the lowest de the building Renovations will also be attended to. Marcel Brunelle were in received by ti cond ice pad be undertaken at Whit- While these items are favour of a $6.2 million with the highes with dressing ney Hall to provide an not necessarily visible multi-faceted expansion in at $3,637,000. ificial's rooms, expanded and improved to the users, these im- at Iroquois while coun- The remainin id room and publie and staff area. provements are of ab- cillors Joe Bugelli, Joe the expansion,, for ap- No date has been set solute necessity to en- Drumm, Gerry Emm estimated to ely 200 per- for the closing of Whit- sure long term use of and Ross Batten favour- $4,247,678 is a e new ice pad ney Hall but the Anne this key facility." ed a limited expansion to conti equipped for Ottenbrite Pool will It was an apparently at iroquois with a new ($296,000), co ce. close.November 3. Im- unified council that recreational complex to fees ($271,278) a d in the provements to the pool gave the go-ahead for be built north ofSee ns .are exten- are expected to be com- the expansion when it Rossland Rd. nces in a split in h now e healed nanimous e expan- Construe- for the xpansion of three the town t coming g cost of which is total ttributed ngencles )nsulting Lnd other Pg. 3 "Rats thriving by the hundreds" in Whitby? See Page 6 Whitby Hydro and workers still at odds... See Page 3 Board rejeets self-insurance Wednesday, October 22,1986 24 Pages Councillors Joe Bugelli, Ross Batten and Gerry Emm stand in front of the Bell long range helicop- ter as it leaves the ground to take staff members for a birds-eye view of the town. The helicopter, at a cost of $625 an hour, used the lawn of the municipal building to land and take off as it took staff, Whitby councillors and members of the media on 15-minute jaunts over the town. The town hired the helicopter to provide a view most people don't see of Whitby. Those who were brave enough to go up witnessed the progress being made in the north end of town and the picturesque view of Whitby Harbor. Councillors also mentioned how much land in the south of the town was available for industrial use and how clean the town looked. For more pictures and a story see page 11. Free Press Staff Photo By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff Trustees at a recent meeting of the Durham Board of Education decided to go against the trend by not sub- scribing to the reciprocal insurance exchange. About 70 percent of school boards in Ontario have subscribed to the self-insurance plan, ac- cording to the Toronto Star, including the Durham Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board. Soaring premiums, the difficulty of getting coverage for sports programs, and the failure of some school boards to get any liability coverage at all provided the impetus for the creation of the exchange. Since boards are required under the Education Act to provide coverage they asked the Ministry of Education for help. With assistance from the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations the reciprocal insurance exchange was proposed. The plan has no track record on which to be judged, but boards must commit themselves to a five-year term, Sandy Lawson, Ajax trustee and chairman of the finance committee said. "The premiums could change after the first year, depending on the actual administrative costs, the claims, and the reinsurance market," she said. In fact, Lawson said, even in the first year, if claims were more than anticipated, the ex- change would have to go back to subscribing boards and ask for ad- ditional funds. The Durham Board currently carries $20 million coverage at a cost of $217,000 with Frank Cowan, the Uuai's insurance broker since 1969. 'The exchange was offerng $10 million coverage at the initial cost of $162,685. Vice-chairman Ian Brown noted that would be half :he coverage at three quar- ters the price. Because some Ontario school boards have had difficulty getting coverage for their gym programs, Lawson was concerned that the ad- visory committee which determines the See Pg.8 $250,000 damage in Thickson collision A Downsview man has been chaçged with disobeying a red light following an accident which caused more than a quarter of a million dollars damage on Thickson Rd. N. early on Monday morning. Durham Regional Police report a gravel truck with a trailer hit- ched to it went through a red light at the intersec- tion of Thickson Rd. N. and Taunton Rd. E. around 7:15 a.m. striking a truck travelling eastbound along Taunton. Police said the giavel truck then preceeded to hit three more vehicles travelling north on Thickson Rd. Four people were taken to J.O. Ruddy Hospital with undeter- mined injuries. 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