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.,- w, Whltby'Free Pross, Weclnosday,'Juiy 26.1995' Page 7 Just axe We take you now five storeys below street level at Queen's Park. Premier Mike Harris, resplendent ini plus fours, peaked cap, plaid veet and golf cleats, stands with a designer axe slung just su over his right shoulder. Iviis is the famous Furore Bunker,"l he says, waving the axe in ail direà~tions. "Bob Rae had it decorated in early washroom. Fitting for the En Dee Pee, I suppose. Whaddya think, Ernie?" Harris's companion, a dapper lawyer, drools."4 finance minister of Ontario, two things strike me rigEt away, Mike, Sir, Boss, Sir. First, we can't admit te Furor. We just won't." erYeahl Mike cuts ini. "Yuh got that right. What else?" Ernie Eves continues. "We don't have the'budget te change it. I say we just brick it up.l" Mike stroils through the re .n , wD Jing relaxed, golf- like swings with his axe. Hie aplits a door jamb with one swipe; with another, sunders a wooden chair in two. "Und if I try that?" Ernie asks. Mike hands himn the axe., Awkwardly, Eves sliceà te the left, te the left again. And again. One overhead swig brings the blade down solidly, burying it in the top of an oak desk Eves struggles, wiggles, pulls, but cannot free it. "Here, let me," says Mike, one-handing thé, axe blade free. "Now. About your swing, you've 'got to -relax more. Remember, we're doing this for fun. Don't rush your stroke. Pull nice and even, bend your knees just so ... then let the weight of your body do the work. Then you follow through, making sure you keep your eyes down. Wanta try again?" Eves tries'a few practice swings, then steps up again te the furniture. A precise, side-stroke cornes in cleanly, severing one leg froin the desk Even so, the remaining five legs -of the six-legged, almost-ancient, oak desk carry the load. 1"Good stroke, Ernie!" says Mike. "Nice, clean, takes out sixteen, seventeen per cent and the desk still stands. Hey, I bet you could take another leg off that desk and it stilI won't wobble." Ernie eyes the desk again. "Take off one more of the remaining ýfive legs would be a further twenty per cent cut. That would be thirty-three te thirty six per cent, depending on how we add it Up." Mike signaIs a time-out. "We'll save that for the second round. You know, we could turn this place inte a sports bar. Mike and Ernie's Sports Bar, Just Axe For Anything You Want! Har, lier, Har!" Ernie's eyes flash. 'We don't have the budget, Mike. We couldn't hide the decor costs anywhere. No sir." Mike throws a large arm over Ernie's shoulder. "Ernie, babe, you gotta understand. First, this will be a sports bar, you know, like the nineteenth green or curling behind the glass. That means we don't need no dey-core. Ini fact, you just lopped off ail that dey-core subsiciy stuff anyway, remember?" "That was day-care, not dey-core, Mike!" '"We just give this te Maurice Strong at Ontario Hydro vw%- TI a4Le hisbecase h wasBob ae'sma- - A r r - *1 1 iff 3 - rd LI Mil luloi Il CHEVROLET 1MOTOR COMPANY 4Ar M'W CHERVROLIf MR CMPANYPICIC AT CORBET'S POINT, JULY22,1919 Corbett's Point (now Thickson's Point) was a poulapicsotsneheeret pioneer times. In the front row centre, are R. cLaughlin, Robert McLaughlin and George McLaughhin, owners of tAe company, which was Oshawa's largest industry. Whltby Archive. photo 10 YEARFS AGO Prom the Wednesday, July 24, 1985 edition of the WEU Y FEEPRESS *The Oshawa-Whitby Agricultural Pair is in its seventh year on a site at Garrard and Conlin's roada. *Patients at the Wbitby )Psychiatric Hospital workshop want a, pay raiuëe, but the hospital says they are doin therapy, not work. A A $ million facelift for Pairview Lodge has'been approved by Durham Region Council. *Brooklin Horticultural Society has donated $3,,000 for the development of Grass, Park. 35 YEARS AGO Prom the Thurda Jùl 21, 1960 edition of the w ffý WEIKY NEWS *Ontario Minister of Health Dr. Matthew B. Dymond and Tommy Thomas, MPP, laid the date stone for the new Wihitby Municipal Building on July 19. *The Public Utilities Commission will turn over four acrèq of lakefront parkeast of the pump house te the Town of WVhitby. *Tom Edwards, an employee of Dunlop Tire, wrote an account of the company picmic for the Weekly News. " Bryan Gibson, the firet Whitby athiete te compete in the Canadian Olynipic trials, reached. the finals in the 200- and 400-metre sprints at Saskatoon, Sask. 80 YEARS AGO Prom the 'Thursday, July 22, 1915 edition of the WKIBY AZTTE AND CHRONICLE " Aprisoner named McGinnis escaped from the Whitby Jail by crawling through a holein the window only eight by Il inches in size. " The County of Ontario Old Girls' Association wants the Town Council te purchase waste p aper baskets for the downtewn streets. *Capt. George W.P. Every, Superintendent of the Whitby Water and Light Commiss- in, bas enlisted for overseas military service. * ie prisoners from the Guelph Reformatory have been placed in the Whitby Jail and fed bread and water because they refused te work on the Ontario Hospital construction. cxmý