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18 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues., February 10, 1987 Published every Tuesday by Port Perry Star Company Lensted PO Box 57, Beooklin, One LOB 100 hep -- ec ee ---- ! Brooklin Pro Brooklin Serving Area since 1983 BOXANNE REVELER News & | s dow y 3637 x 985 7383 Going nowhere....fast Sunday's snow and blowing conditions played havoc with many drivers, such as the owner of this vehicle left abandoned in the ditch just north of the village limites. The hazardous . condition caused Durham Regional Police to "close many arteries including Simcoe Road north storm. of Columbus to traffic. By first thing Monday morning the worst was over and it was just a matter of time before local garage operators managed to dig out stranded vehicles and boost ~ persnickety autos that protested the winter Don't pass the buck says rouneil Whitby council has laid the mat- ter on the lines...Sunday closing regulations should remain under the auspices of the provincial govern- ment, and not be shifted to the municipal level. The: matter came from a unanimous recommendation of the three-man operations committee; chairman Ross Batten and coun- cillors Tom Edwards and Joe Drumm, who voted to approve a resolution from the Islington-based People for Sunday Association of Calling youths and teens to go 'Over the Top' Youths & teens are welcome to compete in the first "Over The Top" Ontario Jr. Armwrestling Event, 'being held during The 3rd Annual Metro East Custom Car & Bike Show (MECC&B), at the Metro East Trade Centre, in Pickering. _ Run-offs for the Jr. Top' event will be held at MECC&B Thurs., Feb. 12th & Fri, Feb. 13th, from 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in the "Over The Top" display ~The Jr. Finals will take place at MECC&B on Sat., Feb. 14th, 4:00 p.m_, during the "Over The Top' Ontario quali- fying Event on Stage. (12: 30 noon - 6:00 p.m.) Youth Classes: 0-5 yrs. old. 6-8 yrs. old; 9-12 yrs. old. Teen Classes: 13-15 yrs. old; 16-18 yrs. old. All participants in the ar Event will receive a personalized photo of Superstar Sylvester Stallone from the moyie "Over The Top," com- pliments of Warner Bros. The winners of each Jr. Class will receive a 7" armwrestling/ figure representing a character in the film "Over The Top," compliments from Canada Games Company Limited. 1986 World Middleweight Arm- wrestling Champion, Gene Tatti, 38, from Hamilton, has been appointed executive producer of the 'Over The Top' Canadian Jr. Series by Mar- vin Cohen, Executive Vice Presi- "Over The | dént Merchandising, Licensing & Promotions World Wide, Cannon Films, Inc., arm wrestling technical advisor for the movie "Over The Top," and president of IAC. Remember Heart and Stroke Month February is Heart and Stroke 'month and again this year our volunteers for Brooklin and surroun- ding areas will be out canvassing your home to raise funds to fight the major health threat facing all Canadians. With the continued support of our citizens we can help in the advances of cardiac care and stroke rehabilitation, in surgical techni- ques and artificial devices to help patients. | Your support will also help the significant progress been made in prevention as heart attacks are down 34 percent and stroke by 25 percent. With everyones help we should be able to improve on these figures. Please help out when the canvasser calls at your home or business' - IY Canada stating that laws regulating Sunday hours for retail businesses should - remain under provincial legislation. Edwards stated transferring the responsibility for Sunday hours to municipalities would create "utter confusion' across the province. "Can you imagine the situation where a street is a boundary bet- ween. two municipalities and one (municipality) allows Sunday open- ings and the other doesn't?" he asked. Turns himself in Fail toremain An Oshawa motorist, charged with the hit-and-run death of a 14-year-old Whitby youth appeared briefly in bail court last Tuesday. Michael John Humphries, 37, of Nipigon Avenue, has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene of an accident. The accident occurred around 7 p.m. Sunday February 1, on Hopkins Street, just south of the driver remanded railway tracks. Craig Holley, a Henry Street High School grade nine student was struck by a van driven by Humphries, who then fled the scene. The boy was rushed by air ambulance to Toronto's Sick Children's Hospital suffering from multiple injuries, but died the following day. Humphries turned himself in to police on Tuesday morning. , Overhaul slated for Whitby Psych Whitby Psychiatric Hospital will be rebuilt in conjunction with an $81.2 million project aimed at 'modernizing mental health in On- tario according to provincial health minister Murray Elston. Elston was on hand at the hospital last Tuesduy to make the long- awaited announcement. He told a crowd of over 200 officials, staff and patients that $66.4 million will be spent to replace the 75-year-old hospital over the next 10 years. The project is to include a new 325-bed hospital, increased _psychiatric services at the general hospitals served by WPH, the ex- pansion of community-based men- tal health programs in this area, and upgrading - of facilities, at the psychiatric unit of Sunnybrook Hospital. General hospitals within Durham will also reap the benefits of the pro- gram. They will receive 35 new psychiatric beds at an estimated cost of $4.7 million, although there are no details as yet as to how these beds will be distributed. - Elston stated Whitby was chosen as a test area for the project main- ly because of its age. He added once the overall project began to take shape, the system of de-centralized, more cost efficient, mental health care may be applied to other psychiatric centres in the province. Speaking of Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, Elston stated, "these facilities have just out-served their usefulness." " The facility was built on 196 acres between 1912 and 1919, and was originally named the Ontario Hospital for the Insane. It was designed to house 1,500 acute and chronic patients, but at one time in the 1930s there was a record 2,400 patients at the hospital. Presently, there is a bed capaci- ty of 504, with 407 beds actually set up for an average population of 370 in-patients. The hospital has been expanded three times since its original con- struction and was slated for a ma- jor facelift in 1977. The present re-development pro- ject was largely based on the 1983 Haseltine Report which confirmed the ministry's decision that more emphasis should be placed on community-based mental health programs that would allow patients to receive treatment in a homelike environment. Planning for the new hospital and the community programs will begin immediately according to Elston, although he could not offer a specific 'time when demolition of the old structure would take place. Elston was quick to point out that none of the 907 employees at the hospital would lose their jobs, ad- ding that some employees may be re-trained and re-assigned to new positions in the community-based programs. The minister described the new program as the "prototype for the future direction of mental health services in Ontario" and as reflec- ting "state-of-the-art concepts in psychiatric care." He said the redevelopment plan for Whitby Psych maps out the staged develop- ment of an integrated, area-wide mental health system for the 1.8 million papi from East Metro to Haliburton. ! it's official. Dr. Joseph O. Ruddy General Hospital is no more. In its place we have Whitby General Hospital, a move which has been the subject of contraversy over the past several "ie min PN 3 wT 3 = hd months. Hospital Administrator Jim Miller in- formed the Profile on Saturday that the name change for the facility at Gordon and Victoria Streets had now become official through the ministry. {A bhi i