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Strike over, wo rkers acecept offer By S. GREENAWAY Frec Press Staff -Free Press Photo By Stephen Gre The Pickering-Ajax Unit (PARU), thc City of Oshawa Marine Rescue Association (COMRA) and Uhc Coast Guard held a rescue training operaions off of Port Whit- by harbour last Saturday. Above a man is lowerd from a rescue helicopter flown in from Trenton for part of Uic excersize onto the deck of Uic Coast Guard ship Im. j>ust hanging aro und."9 Ottawa. The second lcg of training operations involved Uic simulatcd disappearan- ce of a small craft in Lake Ontario. A Boston Whaller, a small craft with two people on board, lost itself somcwhere on Lake Ontario ap- proximatcly 5 miles from- shore. The PARU, COMRA and Ottawa then tried to locate the boat .witi aid of radar. proceedure for eac] boats included a set of consentrically ei square runs. Attersley to run for mayor By MIICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff In a not totally unexpccted move, Regional Councillor Bob Atterslcy formally an- nounced last Saturday that he wil run for Mayor of Whitby. In a written statement At- tcrslcy said that 'II have made a firm decision to run for mayor of thc Town of Whitby. "My committment to this role bas reccivcd serious consideration and I know scrving the people of our town is my responsibiity. " Attcrlcy, Uic president and sole sharcholder of At- tcrslcy Tire, also said Uiat if he was clcctcd he would be a full-timc mayor. 'II will offer this position 100 per cent of my efforts and expcct Uic same support from our staff and council representatives," he said adding, 'II will do Uic job to the bcst of my ability. I The 47-year-old father of two childrcn said that he wants to sec some changes made in Uic town although he did not claborate on Uiem. "I'd lilce to sec some changes," he said adding Uiat he doesn't sec a grest many issues to be fought in Uhc election. 1"I don't Uink there arc too many issues." Attcrslcy said that he secs running Uic town in Uic same way as he runs his business, that is, council, being the board of directors, sets policy and thc staff's rcsponsibility is to carry out Uiat policy. Attersley, who bas served in local government for in- termittent pcriods since 1964 was and is a strong suppor- ter of Uic newly established municipal bus system and although Uic system is having its troubles, lic said he is confident that Uic buses will prove a great asset to Uic town. Attcrslcy aLso indicated that no accurate elevation of Uic systcm's performance should be made until the end of theyear. Attersley said that he bas reccive-d no open endor- sement from retlring Mayor Jim Gartshorc and Uiat '-l ccrtainly didn't ask for it." He did say, however, " have a grest deal of respect for Uic job he bas don e from Uic town. " Of retirement, 44I respect Gartshorc's Atterslcy said, his decision realizing Uiat perli bas recognized it is t- a change. I do acknc Uic dedication he Uiis position and 1 w tainly try to justi mayor if electcd. " A 14-hour-old strike was ended Sunday whcn garbage collectors and other cm- ployecs of the Town of Whit- by votcd 90 per cent in favour of accepting an offer from the town. Members of CUPE Local 53, the union representing 73 garbage clerical staff and works employees-accepted a new two-ycar.contract. Th otract willlsec the workcrs get- a 7 percent wage increase at the begin- nlng of the first ycar and a further 3 per cent increase six months later. In the second year they will reccive a 9.5 per cent eenaway pyicrae Bull Wallace, clerk- administrator of Uhc town, said that thc contract was acceptcd by the union in an ovcrwhclming fashion. As hout the wcll town council Search unanimously ratificd the h of the contract in a special Lpattern meeting held Monday night. nlarging "It provides that if, there is any contracting out by the town or technological changes that resuit in the laying off of an cmployec the town, in accordance wiUi it's past practice will try to retain the employec if possible by relocating hixn in aps he another job of his area of kap he competance" or by Lime for rctraining him to f111 another Mwldge job, said Wallace. offcrcd Wallace added that if that vill cer- was not possible or did neot ify the work'Uien the town would have to "consider layoff. " "Don t mid nme. T imber Jay Witkowski of Whitby surveys the damage donc to an automobile parked on one local street during the L IL1 A se-vere storm that the town suffercd last week. The car was severely damaged when a tree feil on it because of heavy ightening and gale force winds. That afternoon, trees and powerlincs were blown down......... during the storm which saw the downtown losing elec- trical power for about an hours. However, there were no severe injuries reportcd. m,77 777779w7777777-ý,,-= .- 7 7:, ý 77 -77- . Il 1 .1 , ý- ý- " e, ,ý,_ý- 1 Il - , . -! - 1 < < . ý ý - > 'l - ýà - 1 < 77 rF7r PRE