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PAGE 14, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1980, WHITBY FREE PRESS The eycling Optimist, 81, passes through Whitby on way to ity ---O UC -- -R -SU- - - - -- MO -- -- I IT CUTMIAIYPOOIIHN I .-, ING FRERPLCMN FIO ODC R I FO YOUR NERS LOATO CALL - -cm 555 IWT THSA pÈ 5 F of IEX IUCA FFL i~ By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff Since 1958, William Wangenstein has been traveling the higways and biways of the North American continent on bis way to various Optimist 'In- ternational Club conven- tions. And he is stili doing it today, at the age of 81. Wangenstein passed through Whitby laie last week and stopped at the The Cycling Optimist, 81 year old William Wangenstien, cycled through Whitby last week on bis way to the Optîmist In- ternational convention that was beld ini Toronto. He is seen here with the Whiby Optimists Club's past-president Robin Lyon. 125TH ANNIVERSARY 1855-1980 THE CORPORATION 0F THE TOWN 0F WHITBY NOTICE 0F INTENTION NOTICE is hereby given that the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Whitby Intends to pass by-laws to Stop up, Close and SelI those untravelîed portions of-the public highways municipally known as Coîborne Street and Pine Street, as more specificalîy described as follows:- 1. That ùntravelled portion of Coîborne Street, as shown hereunder-, lying east of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and being composed of part of the north haîf of Lot 23, Con- cession 1, Town of Whitby. J /?O;i4ED LC11-1C4 LIS 2. That untravelled portion of Pine Street, as shown hereun- der, iying north of property municipaiiy known as 223 Pine Street, and being designated as Parts 1 and 2 on a Plan of. Survey deposited in the Registry Office for the Reglstry Division of Durham (No. 40) as Plan 40R-5681. j Ji ~ ' AN FRTERTJE O IlE -1 heConc f teTw FURintheRMetinaKEloIEttthe ouncil ofutelTng57 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario, hear in person or by his counsel, solicitor, or agent, any person who dlaims his land will be preludicially affected by such by-laws and who applies to be heard. DATED at Whitby, Ontario this*25th day of J une, A.D., 1980. Wm. H. Wallace, A.M.C.T., C.M.C Clerk-Administrator, The Corporation of the Town of Whitby, 575 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario Li N 2M8 I s Free Press office to tell a lit- tale about his experiences. Although he admitted that he bas given up the long trips, the convention that the club held in Toronto on the weekend was so close to bis home in Wells, New York that he just had to take to the road. "This convention, was so close, only 500 miles, I just had to ride," he said. Despite the relatively short trip, for him (most of us would faint at the idea of bicycling 500 miles), Wangenstein did say that this was one of the toughest trips he bas been in the last few years. "This one was a tough trip," he said, "it was hilly, I rode through the moun- tains. " Wangenstein, a retired ar- chitect, said that he first started his odessies on bicylce when he traveled from Tennessee to New York to attend an Optimists' convention there and since then he bas tried to attend as many as he could on bis unusual mose of long distan- ce transportation.' The longest trip he has ever done was of 3,300 miles, each way, wben he traveled from biis home in Tennessee to Quebec City. In bis 22years of bicycling long distances, Wangenstein said that he has only been involved in one accident. That was in 1971, be was bospitalized and didn't take to the road for long trips again until 1974. During that time he wrote a book, entitled the cycling Optimist, telling about bis travels. When be started riding, he was traveling anywbere from 75 to 100 miles a day thougb be admited that age bas started to slow him down, a little. "'If I travel 60 miles a day, I'm doing very good," said Wangenstein._ wben will be give up riding? Wangestein says neyer despite tbe pleading of bis children and gran- dchildren. He did say, however, that be might give it up "wben I can't see no more, wben I can't balance myseif anymore. " "I'm doing sometbing that I like to do," Wangenstein said. "I don't want to finish out doing somethin I don't like to do. " Wangenstein is in botter shape, physically, than a lot