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WWITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1986, PAGE 23 Council refers Emm By MIKE JOHNSTON freeze on the conversion Free Press Staff- of homes in tbe down- An' interim by-law town area into boarding wbich would have put a bouses and group homes From Pg. 4 1 War Amps launcbed last year. It limb, she is able to keep seems youngsters love up with ber brother and ASTAR and actually frlends In most ac- stop ýplaying when be tivities. Now, she has appears on the - sometblng important to television screen. sa and she joins The ASTAR message ASTAR as a "Safety is the wlnner of tbe Gold Ambassador" in our Circle Award from the prlnted public service American Society of announcement this yesr Association Executives, to warn ail children to the Gold Jury Award PLAYSAFE. fromn the Houston Inter- Sincerely, national Film Festival Il. Clifford Cbadderton and a Bronze Award OC, CAE fromn the Toronto Chief Executive Marketing Awards. Officer. 1Througb bard work Edtor's Note: Look and dtermination, for the ASTAR adver- Josee is overcomning ber tisment In this week's recent loss and, with the Issue of the Free Press. help ofher new artificial was referred to the planning department by Whitby council last Tuesday nigbt. Councillor Gerry Emm bad intended to introduce the by-law during councl's Tuesday nigbt meeting seeking immediate ap- proval but he neyer bad a chance to speak on it. on a motion from councillor Tom Edwar- ds, council agreed to have the planning department look into the problem and report back to tbe ad- ministrative committee within a montb. Counillor Edwards argued that the plan- ning department would be able to comment on the implications of the by-law and the problems ares residents are having with boar- Busing for French students From Pg. il tation: public transit for Oshawa and scbool busing for the rest. He was concerned there be one policy for outside of Oshawa and another for Oshawa. The motion easily passed wltb an amen- dment- from Whitby trustee Tom Qîdman to review the offer of tran- sportation, annuaily. "I'm for t," he said, "but the .cots are 50 high we need to look at them annually. " rBoard staff estimate the cost of Oshawa tran- sit for French mimer- sion students at $12,690 and of scbool buses for Durham West at $131,538. However, witb grants and an an- ticipated five percent rise in costs for 1987 the price tag is expected to be about $U,000 for transportation. Woodcroft said Fren- ch immersion was beginning at grade four because it is a program for Englisb-speaking cbildren. By grade four, she said, students had bèèn exposed to French classes since junior, km- dergarten when tbey started witb 20 m.inutes a day, and so bad some ides about their ap- titude and their interest. Parents and children could tien decide wbether French immer- sion would be suited to the cildren's needs. The public board adberes to the policy that parents must provide transportation for children enroled in French immersion. Parents of French im- mersion students at Witby's E.A. Fairman Public Scbool bave protested tuis policy. ding bouses monE thorougbly since thE department is currently involved in a bousing study for the town anc the Whitby Downtowr Secondary Plan. He also said the towr bas been informed in tbî past by the Ontari Municipal Board thal any attempt by council to-freeze home conver. sions must include thi whole town and not jusI certain sectors. Councillor Emm's in. terim by-law woulÈ have desît specificaI13 witb the downtown ares "I would like to havi gotten it on the floor ani spoke on it but I bave ni great difficulty with il being referred," sai councillor Emm. On the positive side hi noted that by referrini the by-law, staff wil now recognize ,tii situation and wii maki recommendations ini ti report to be brougbi forward in a month': time. And coundillor Emnr said he will bold th( planning director, Bol From Pg. 1 Fata, 36, of Osbawa remains in the hospital in satisfactory con- dition. The truck Fata was travelling in when it was hit by the gravel truck is estimated to have $8o,Ooodamage. Police bave estimated the gravel truck to have damages totalling by -law e Short, to bis promise of ha' e a report in one month. whi y' «1'1l give a week or tiol g two etber way but not by- d any longer," said coun- res n cillor Emm. of1 if adopted, Emm's by- in1 n law would only allow hot e detacbed single family 1 0 dwellings and semi- toi( tt detached dwelling the il houses to be erected in of > the downtown ares and rul ýe would not permit the tbe ;t conversion of homes to 1 boarding bouses or rer - group homes such as coi d those used in provin- cor y' cially supported fai k. programs for the men- ,e tally and physically d disabled, psychiatrict 0 out-patients and other it disadvantaged groups. d The by-law would only be, according to Emm, hai ýe a temporary measure Ch g until the town bas made de] Il a thorougb study of land 1 e use in the downtown co :e core through tbe Down- ori le town Whitby Secondary ha t> Plan. rel s The secondary plan fri will cbart the course the P n dowhtown ares will take mi le in the future. h ýb "People in the area tic arc the tee $100,000. Damages to the other three vehicles involved in the accident are estimated at more than $36,000, wbile $5,000 damage was done to a traffic light. Cbarged witb disobeying a red traffic light and operating an unsafe vehicle is Keith Brown, 29, of Down- .f ors ive been 'waiting a hle for some direc- )n," said Emm, who's -law came about as a sult of the complaints 'those residents living the area of boarding )uses. Two weeks ago, Emm Id the Free Press that ýe increasing number 1boarding bouses is nhing the cbaracter of [e downtown. in a background -port prepared by the Lindillor he called the oversion of single iiily homes toi ïtudy rooming houses a "tbreat". "This threat is the direct result of provin- cial policies and not, anything the town bas done," said the coun- cillor. I The by-law would have put a freeze on conversions in the downtown area except for the area currently zoned commercial 1which includes south of Maple St., east of Euelid St., north of Ontario St., and west of Reynolds St. Cook-Off canned bad to be held the weekend after the May 24 -weekend - *tbe' weekend before the Brooklin Spring Fair. After meeting witb members of the town's operations committee, the organizers of the event were notified that it would not be fair to. Brooklin residents to hold two large events at the Falrgrounds back to back and 50 tbey were asked to find another date. 10 FREE PHOTOCOPIESi Wl TH THI S COUPON. GOOD UNTîL OCT. 31/86 I I 1121 DUNDAS ST. E.I 430-1444 Guidelines please Attersley From Pg. 3 maintains a satisfactory level of personal hygiene. Mayor Bob Attersley said b e was very plessed with the new guidelines. "Tiere are few guidelines from tbe province so we have to bave some control," said the Mayor. He noted that Wbitby is only one of à few municipalities . whicb bave taken a step to con- trol lodging bouses and he added that the town bas the autbority to pass tbe by-law witbout going to the province. The by-law will go before council next Monday nigbt. eNa Thickson crash RETRACTION R: rfhe A&P Flyer dlstrfbuted by houshofd maif for t ho wek cf Ocf. 20 fa Oct. 25. Te lollow.ig In- foimatlon w08omitted:, -PrIces effectilv fhru Oct. 25, 19W6. Mes resre the ifrght fa i mI quantiies fa normalfafmlly requIrementfs. .Savlngu shown In h15 ad baaed on our curront regular reislse. -W. medeem ail food alore coupons. -Som Iflustratio ns In hle ad sre fordeslgn cnly and do nol represani veceasarlly Iomescrn sale. .Gsnerai merchandi se Items only whifte supplies lstl. -A&P apologlzes for Ihoe o mssons and sny lnconvenlence Il may have caused Our cualomers. 0H00 Country Radio as cancelled the CHOO hiii Cook-Off in- efinitely. The announcement ames after tbe rganizers of the event ad made an attempt to flocate the cook-off lm Heydensbore lvillion to the Brooklin [emorial Park due to ie increasing par- cipation. But complications ose when members of ie operations commit- ,e were told the event