tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19402567159130635862012-02-06T18:32:53.531-05:00This Blog is setup for all to post information regarding Whitby Politic's and Regional News. All submittings are subject to screening. Article's posted are not necessarily the views of the site administratorScott Templetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13907814649794539209noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1940256715913063586.post-73244134492771865622011-07-04T21:57:00.001-04:002011-07-04T22:00:40.657-04:00

As Written in The Whitby This Week news paper:WHITBY -- Charges laid against a candidate in last year's Whitby mayoral race have been withdrawn.Rocky Varcoe was in provincial offences court Friday when all counts against him were dropped. Mr. Varcoe was charged with multiple bylaw infractions alleging he had put up election signs prior to the period allowed. He had indicated he was prepared to

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Hi Everyone,I have been super busy of late and I know people have been asking where did I go. Well trying to keep the new company moving along and provide lots of entertainment for Durham Region has been mostly on my plate.. But don't despair as I have been keeping notes and will share them with you shortly. Thanks for reading and I look forward to keeping you informed once again!I almost forgot

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Hi Everyone,Borrowing the headlines from Durhamregion.com (Story by Parvaneh Pessian). Is it just me or is this story an interesting one. Because last year was an election year the The Whitby Minor Hockey Association organization of more than 10,000 members, including 3,100 players and 6,000 parents, volunteers, referees and timekeepers thought they persuaded the Town to freeze ice and floor

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Hi Everyone, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and are enjoying their holidays! As every good news reporter knows we all have our favorite news story of the year and i am going to run through a few highlights that have hit the headlines in Whitby over the past year and a few that may not have hit. We have the “Pieces of the puzzle slowly falling into place as the Town of Whitby inches toward

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Hi Everyone, I would like to update you on where we are with the organization of this Rate Payers Group. I have put a request in with Town of Whitby Clerk to find out if any of the two following names have been used. Whitby Rate Payers Association or Whitby Citizen Group. We hope to hear back roughly in about a week or so. Once the name is established I will send out an e-mail to the over two

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Hi all, It's been over a month since the elections were held and it was a hard ball to swallow. The people of Whitby (ok only 47 percent) favored higher taxes, a possible Performing Arts Centre that will cost us tax payers close to one million dollars a year in losses and a decision which our current Mayor wants to get out of or it would have been a done deal already, which of course is the

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Hi Folks, It's been a while. Do you believe Voting Day is only a short period away? Oct 25th we - yes you and I - have a real choice to make this election for Mayor. There are three candidates, but only two options. We can have life long politicians with a combined 45 years or we can have the one clear choice, a businessman that makes sense. We have two politicians; one that served as Mayor for

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Well here we are at the beginning really of the Municipal elections in Whitby and things are moving full steam ahead. You have Three people Vying for the Mayor’s top job as the controller of our Tax dollar’s. What the residents of Whitby need to do is keep their eyes and ears open during the remaining time and listen to what each candidate stands for. The most important thing that each and every

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Hi everyone,Thought I would write a little about the election before the summer is over. Everyone is concerned with ways to increase numbers at the poll, unless of course you won last election you hope no one shows so you can win again. The people running in this election need to do all the work for everyone if they are going to get the people out to the polls. You have to take advantage of all

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With this Policy the Ministry just outlined what I have been saying all along. A policy comes along and has to be enforced by the School Board, The School Board Trustee’s have no say, oh they may sit there and their mouths open and we hear things like yada, yada, yada. It really doesn’t matter what the trustee’s say at the end of the day it’s a level of government that use to be needed but not

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WE ROCK CANADACLASSIC ROCKPostponed (Oshawa, ON) – Concert promoter representative from We Rock Canada, regretfully announces that the Monday, May 24, 2010 We Rock Canada Classic Rock concert at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario will be postponed until further notice. The postponement was beyond the control of We Rock Canada and any of the performing Artists. Information for the

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Presents Canadian Classic Rock Bringing You Some of Canada’s Best Rock from the 70’s & 80’sMonday, May 24th 2010General Motors Centre ● Oshawa ● 3:00PMTICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY APRIL 9th AT 10:00AM!Tickets are available at the General Motors Centre Box Office, by phone at 1-877-436-8811, online at

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"You can only control those that work for you as freedom is a wonderful thing"Quote UnknownRe: 'Preserving the past in Whitby', April 22. Time after time the Whitby Central Library shines in this town. From children's activities to visits from favourite authors, computer courses to video games, it is the path to discovery. During past challenges in the economy the library was a safe haven to

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That makes 4 Public School closures in Central Whitby since 2008 and no Town of Whitby voice to sit on the Accommodation Review Committee (ARC) that could have possibly saved the Schools. There was a process put in place by the Durham District School Board where the Town of Whitby could participate with members of the community and local businesses in discussing all the scenarios that would have

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Well I see that the Whitby School Board Trustee position has a race that's going to happen. Lets see One person from Oshawa, One from Ajax and One from Whitby. If this was a by-election I would say that I have no problem with anyone from other municipalities running in support of Whitby. But I will use the same story used in the By-election in Oshawa 3 years ago. If you are not from the

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http://newsdurhamregion.com/article/142679RE: Durham School board to unify signs:In all other areas in the business world we are trying to cut back and spend wisely. But not here at the Durham District School Board. During the cut backs to the educational assistants the DDSB Trustee’s kept complaining about not having enough money from the Province to pay for these extra teachers. Low and behold

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Thought I would post something on this...better late than never!June 15, 2009The Durham District School Board (DDSB) approved a balanced budget, which includes an annual operating budget of $623,521,610. and a capital budget of $27,408,139. for the 2009-2010 school year. The budget includes a temporary transfer of working funds of $2,427, 361. to meet the legislative requirements for a balanced

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Durham education assistants plead for their jobsThe positions of 39 level two educational assistants (EA2) will be eliminated this upcoming school year if trustees accept staff recommendations. Saving the board $560,000. Good thing money comes before educating all of our young.Here are some recommendations trustees should look at. Freeze Administrations Salaries or give an increase of 1.5 percent

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In a Nine to One Vote Palmerston Public School is closing; so too are FM Heard and Leslie McFarlane public schools....Whitby Trustee Christine Winters votes against the recommendation this time around. Her vote against would be a little to late, since when the process started a recorded vote was called when the Recommendation to form a ARC committee for closing these schools (never seen one stay

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Well folks here we go again. The Durham District School Board is hitting south Whitby with their second accommodation review. The Schools affected are R.A. Sennett P.S., which is a ministry, approved Prohibitive to Repair School, along with West Lynde Public School and the Newest South Whitby Public School Sir William Stephenson. Even though the DDSB is only looking at these three schools there

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Combining The Country Town Carnival with Canada Day would mean you have a floating Carnival year after year which would be easy to remember as it would always be on July 1st. The down side to this is the event would take place any day of the week. If Canada Day falls between Tuesday and Thursday you can expect high attendance numbers for the Carnival but if Canada Day falls on a Monday or a

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HI All, I have added a link on the left hand side of my blog for you to click and see who has put their names forward for nomination for the 2010 Municipal Election. Lets make sure we elect people with passion for Whitby, have volunteered because they want to, not because they have to and have shown leadership abilities to lead Whitby in this new Decade that is ahead of us. This is the level of

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