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Firnishired hiaul off regiq garbage toý Lasco tined on 's $250,0OO for safety pae 2 violation pae Road work r'injustice,' clai 4 resident ms star dies page 15 at 65 Town attitudle coud jeoardize highwaysaysMP tehlab foes on board[ By 1?1&e Kowalski Opponénts of Whitby General Hospital's proposed rehabili- tation rois - will -have more clout in hospital affairs. Two advocates of retaining acute cars and 24-hour orner- gency services were elected'to thehospital'. board of directors at last Wednegday" annual meeting_ at Heydenhore Pavi- lion. JoAnne Prout and ]Richard Eluton defeated, incumbents 'Moyra Dobson and- Mary Lof- thouse folo- a vote bjy 245 of the ho.pital corporation'. approxuiately 750'members. Pruco-chair of the Save Our General Hospital (SOGH) ýciti- zens' committee, and- Elston, ý:for- mer. administrator of Memoria Hospital'iii Bowmanvilleï recei- ved 122 and 114 votes respec- tively They and incumbents Peter: Spratt, who collected 146 votes, and Jim Souch., 116,will srveý three years on the 20-member- board of directors. Totél for Dobson, Icfthousèe and candidates, Norm àln Geore Panelasan Craig -Brownh were flot announced. à-Not Fol1lowing the metig,.ru told ' ah. had "Wied, feelingsabou the outcome. 1"1 would Mek.te have seen Norm and 'George panelas be successfbI, that would havegiven us more strength," s aaid Prout in reference tesa controversial letter, that' was maîled te hospital, members. "But Fim pleased because it makes the last t Wo yeaïs worth- while," she said of the camnpig aanst converting Whitby Gneral mnta a réhabilitation- treatment centre serving Dur- SU~ PAGE 26 By Mike Kowaisd Town council has been warned to ton. down its opposition te the Hlighway 401-407 cnnectinlnk or risk jeopardizingthe. latter projectcoming toWhtitýby. Durhm Cntre MPP Jim Fia-- herty has cafled on council te temporarilýy put aside its objec- tions te the proposed eight-lane freeway between Hlighway 401 and thé. future HighwaLy 407. Flaherty said the Knk,- which threatens te sever the western- Most rtion of Whitby ini haif, shoulJ<not b. the piaycn cern of council at tis time. Councl should instead be con- centrating its energies on ensur- ing that %ihway 407 dom. not end at Pickering, wbich Flaherty dlaims is a distinct posslillty. sibiHity. "Our firat priority, from what I hear from my constituents, is te gt the 407 bufit te Whitby," said Faherty of plans for Ontario's first fuily electrnic teil highway. ,Tone second issue is where the link should b.,' ho said, "but overwhelmingly its getting the 407 built.' However, the Town's persis- tent opposition te the Iink could work against lits support for the 407, Flaherty said. "My concern is we run the risk of putting rtii. link as the first isu nd-having the 407 stop at Brock Road in Pickerxng"»ho said. MEE PAGE 12 'r ForrDunlops page1 20ý