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PAGE 12 WHITBY FREE PRESS, TUESDAY, DEC. 30,1986 Renewed faith downtown Damage is estimated at $200 following a, break-in at a shed on Front St. belonging to the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corp. Two windows were damaged, apparently by thrown rocks. Several articles, in- cluding a trumpet and two power drills, were stolen. They were recovered in the bushes near the shed on Dec. 21. Police are in- vestigating. FROM PAGE 1 announced in latter hall of the year: the old car days - Discovery Day in. wash on Brock St, N. June and Heritage Day was sold by the Town to in September - featured Steve Wagner forcon- numerous special . at- version to a strip of tractions to draw boutiques; on Byron St. customers to the down-. S. some professional of- town area to discover fices designed to blend the businesses there. with the residential Both days were highly surroundings are under successful. The main construction; and a low- attraction on Heritage rise professional office Day was the selection of development has been Fred, Martin as Whit- approved for the old by's Town Crier. arena property at Green In May, the high-rise andOntario. condominium project at. Numerous new stores the corner of Byron and opened Up in the down- Mary was abandoned town and several'old because not enough businesses were bought units had been sold. by new owners with Garden condominiums fresh ideas. The second- in a lowrise Victorian hand stores which style were planned in- dominated the down- stead to blend in with town for so nany years the neighborhood. are now almost'ail gone. Market forces had The only disappoin- saved the Byron street- tment for some was the scape. announcement late in The two homes on the Oie year that a four- site were to be storey medical cllic demolished but shortly was to be built nextdoor after they were bought tohistoric Ml-Saints by Bill Little to move Anglican Church and f.cross Mary St. to stand that Oie same develop- between the three ment would leave the houses he already historic Perry Hanse owned there. Thus was standing forlornly in the born Pearson Lanes middle of Oie parking which by the end of the lot. year was nearing com- That pletion. focused attention on Other sympathetic planning issues in the developments were also downtowni area and on Othe Secondary Plan process which was already underway. The Town ha tfinally resumed work on the Downtown Plan after a lapse of il years since ey tabled the last at- tempt in 1975.' The surrgoals were ad- irable in that they stated the intention to preserve and enhance the character of the area. But in the next breath, the plan made proposais which would encouragd the exact opposite. The presence of some 200] residents at a public meeting in December turned back some of these proposals. The process will continue in the New year with fur- ther meetings. One major deficiency in the old core of the Town became evident in the wet weather of August and September. Dozens of basements were flooded by backed- up sewers - the aging sewage system of the core simply could not handle the deluge. At the last meeting of" council before the end ofz the year, a motion wasj passed which would, remove adult enter-- tainment (strip) establishments from the. downtown area. The push behind the bylaw had come from mere chants who felt that such establishments at- tracted undesirable elements to the down- town and in turn drove away customers. The bylaw is to be further debated in the New year. At the close of the year the change in downtown Whitby were in evidence in virtually every store - there was a renewed faith in the future of the area and the merchants all pit- ched in to make the downtown a vibrant and attractive shopping district for Christmas. Vandals cause $150 damage to Vanclals causeC more damage to Whitby schools over the weekend. Durham Regional Police report that van- dals smashed a glass school door and damaged door trim at the Whitby Senior Public School on 300 Garden St. Damage is estimated, at $150. HAPPY NEW YEAR! A brand New 1bar We hop$ t brings to You all your fondest . wishes and hopesm Happy 198y to an. BABY SHACK INFANT AND JUVENILE FURNITURE 131 BROCK ST. S. 666-3767 WHITBY KINSMEN and Pringle smen are Jeff Moskaluk, George Creek IGA manager Peter Plastina Hewson, David Glover and Tom (front, left) load food which was MeTeague. Free Press photo distributed to four needy families in Whitby just before Christmas. Kin- Articles recovered after break-in