BL4 unveilspromoltion.... Heritage By MIKE JOHNSTON BIA approached the Free Press Staff town, they contacted The. Downtown other towns and cities to Business Improvement discover the benefits of Area's Heritage Day having a Town Crier. should be even more One place the BIA successful than contacted was the City Discovery Day, accor- of Kingston. The city ding to BIA president responded in a letter Ed Buffett. from the city's ad- "Vie decided to take a ministrator. different approach this It read: "The Town time and have more ac- Crier is asked to present tivities and more things at various conferences for people to do," said and other similar events Buffett. held in Kingston and The highlight of the most of the tourists have September l3th day corne to think that this is should be a contest to rather unique. select an officiai Town "The downtown mer- Crier for the Town of chants make use of the Whitby. services provided by the Buffett said the idea Town Crier for various for the contest was the sales throughout the inspiration of BIA summer and as a manager Georgina method of com- Phillips but before the munication -of their Day events to the general walking public along the streets of Kingston." The BIA passed the letter along to the town and soon received a let- i ter of support from 1 Mayor Bob Attersley. 1 "t's a good idea. 1I think it will be good for ( the town and it will add t another dimension," E said the Mayor. r Buffett hopes that at least five or six people will enter the contest v but "the more the tI merrier" i He also pointed out li that the contest is not restricted to maies. C "I'm hoping the con-p test doesn't end up being e restricted to rmales. 1 p would like to see a p female contestant. " Contestants wil be f( sep t. 13 Judged by local per- by the town to proclaim sonalities and Town proclamations and he or Criers fromn other cities. she could be used by the One of the Town BIA or downtown mer- Criers who will attend chants for promotions. wilI be Frank Knight "The person will help, from, Scarborough. publicize the com- Knight was recently in munity," said Buffett Whitby. where he called and indeed pride in the out the narnes of those cornmunity will be the the town honoured at its biggest asset for a Town annual sports Crier. recognition night. In a newsletter from The criers, besides the BIA the two most judging the contestants, important criteria for a ,vill hold a conteat of contestant wili be to their own and they in "(a) have pride in their .urn will be judged by community and (b) ocal personalities. woiild be wiling te Buffett said a Town shout the nierits of our Crier will not be a paid town to anyone, position but if an oc- anywhere." cassion warrants it, ex- The contest is open to pense money may be ail residents of Whitby provided. who are 19 years of age He said a Town Crier and over. Further for Whitby could be used SEE PG. 3 eVol. 16, No. 33 Wednesday, August 20, 1986 .20 Pages He a rYe! Linda, Lawson of the BIA modela the uniform of a town crier. The BIA wiII be holding a* contest to select an officiai town crier for Whltby during Heritage Day. Town criers from outaide Whltby and local personallties wiljudge theement. FMe Press Staff Photo Grand Oaks proceedmng slowly Congratulations* to the Brookfln Redmen Tykes as they won the Tyke Provincial Lacrosse tour- nament held in Whitby on the weekend. The Tykes went unbeaten tbroughout the two days of com- petition beating Kitchener 4-3 in the finals. The two day tournament was hosted by the Witby Garrard Road Minor Lacrosse Association and gaines were held at Iroquois Park and Brooklin Memorial Arena. Leading goalseorers for the Tyke's during the tournament were Brian Power with eight and Gavin Prout with seven. Whitby domninated the Toronto Beaches on Saturday, winming the game 7- 1. Seen here is a face-off in the Toronto end. For more pictures and a'story on the tournament see page nine. By MIKE JOHNSTON Free Press Staff Repairs ta homes built by Grand Oaks Homes just south of Woolco on Thickson Rd. S. are proceeding but the ramn is playing havoc with the repairs, accor- ding to Public Works Director, Dick Kuwahara. "Their working out there but the weather is against themn com- pleting a lot of stuff,". said Kuwahara. Deficiencies in the new homes became public after councillor Joe Drumm called on town council ta draw on a letter of credit ta make the repairs. Drunim said the new homes and the lanhd around them looked like craters on the moon. Mfter the town threatened ta draw on the $100,000 letter, Grand Oaks Homes said they would begin the repairs. According ta Kuwahara, work that is currently underway in- cludes landscaping and sodding. "With the weather lately there is one day of ramn then it takes two or three days ta dry. With that type of weather it's hard to get ln and While giving Grand Oaks Homes the benefit of the doubt because of the weather, Kuwahara said the town is mnonitoring the repairs that are being done. "As long as work is getting done, that's fine. If they stop, we will go in and get the work done." And for the town to complete the -repairs it would mean drawing on the letter of credit, somnething town ad- ininistrator Bull Wallace hasn't ruled out. "We haven't drawn on it at this point. It's still there for our con- sideration,"' he said. Wiallace said the town would only draw on the letter of credit on the advice of the public works or planning departmients. "Vihen we feel the work is not proceeding," added Wallace. A letter of credit is irequired by the town from a developer in the event of a default of bankruptcy. As developnient proceeds the amount of the credit decreases. Sehool portables hit new high By JAN DODGE Free Press Staff The Durham Board of Education will have the equivalent of 17 ta 18 average size schools in portables alone when it adds its 52 new por- tablesi Jn,;September, sidtheéor'ssno planner. This will make a total of 247 portables in the region Steve Edwards said, up from 195 last year. Each portable ac- commodates about 26 students,, depeadingp Redmen tykes win M I a"