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Weekend burgiaries keuep police busy Durham Regional Police are investigating a number of break- ina in Wihitby over the weekend. Thieves wrecked a $400 door te steal about $30 i change from the Wmne- and Malt Shop, 10 Sunray St., overnight Friday. Police saLy the break-inccur- red sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday. TIhey note the thieves misaed spotting $77 in bills sitting undeneath the cash regster. Thieves wrecked a $1.200 cash register and -a $400 door to steal $20 in change from Pizza Pizza, 315 Dundas St.- E., Saturday morning. Police say the theft occurred sometime between 4 and 9:50 a.m. The door was smashed te getit the restaurant and the. retr was smashed on the lort get at the locked cash drawer. About $20 in change was sto- len in a break-i Sunday morn- ing at Headquarters Haïr Salon in the Anderson and Manning Plaza. smashed the front door around 5:30 a.m. te get in, causing about $300 damage. Thieves caused about $1400 dlamage by smashingr the Font doorwindow and cash reeiter at Expression Hair Design, 80 Thickson Rd. S., Sunday morn- ineolice say the theft occurred between 2:30 and 7 a.m. The cuprits got about $60. Whitby free Press, Wednesday, Dooember 21, 1994. ap6 Health council relents PROM PAGE 1i SOGH was one of about 125t organizations and individuals whch submitted briefs i res- ponse te a controversial report on the future of acute care health services in Durham Region. A 'discussion pape released by a speciai health council com- mittee last May recommends that Whitby General be conver- ted into a rehabilitation treat- ment centre serving ail of Dur- hamn. The comnittee is expected te soon niake its final recommenda- tion on the future of the 25- year-cllhospital. Goldwater told The Free Press that council's executive commit- tee supported her decision not te hear SlOGH last week. "We felt 'it would be pre- mature," she explained. But now that SOGH will be heard next month, Goldwater conoedes that other groups may be gie the saine opportunity «We'll consider aniybody,» she said. "Theirs (SOGH) was the only request at ths time. We decided tod eal with it on that basis.» In a previous interview Prout said the situation has dCanged since SOGH 9'ubmitted its 10- page brief last spring. "t would be easy te lose the input from ours," she said. 'And when we imade it we didn't have 30,000 names. That's why we felt it was important te get on the agenda." Prout added that the acute care steering committee is not necessarily comprised of the saine people that sit on the health council. A 16-member, publicly-funded body appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Health, the health council advises the ministry on local issues. please cal 666-0244 FOR AN APPOINTMENT " Insurance plans accepted " Days, evening3,s & Saturday appointments aval labie " Emergency cails accepted (duiring office houirs) 701 ROSSLAND RD. E. SUITE 207, (Rossland / Garden Plaza) WIB The health council, in turn, selected the 15 steering commit- tee members based on provincial criteria which stipulated the committee's makeup. Past Whitby General Hospital board chairEd Buffett and Ah- burn resident Jean Achmatewicz are members of the steering cern- mittee which is chaired by for- mer Brock Township mayor Allan McPhail. Meanwhile, Prout has mixed feelings about a resolution adop- ted by Whitby council last week. Town council is «stronglyn urg- ing the health council te céircu- late the steerng committee's pending report for "public com- ment and consideration» prior te any decision by the health coun- Cil.- «I welcomne public consultation if, and only if, the health council decides against our position on Whitby General Hospital," said Prout. "If they decide against what we are looking for, then please do have public input,» she said. uLeVs talk, but why make it necessary?» The steering committee's dis- cussion paper was based on a consultantfs study which reconi- mended the rehabilitation centre proposal. Patients recovering from seri- ous illness, surgery or traumna would be treated in the proposed centre, the study says. Services associated wîth a g:nr',,h,'Pta woldno longer Residents in need of orner- gency services or surgery would travel te) expanded hospitals in Oshawa or Ajax, the study sug- gests. rehabilitation centre proposal was instigated by Queen's Park and is a foregone conclusion, ministry bureaucrats and government politicians reject this accusation. 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