Brooklin’s Community Newspaper • Circulation 8000 • Delivered via Canada Post Friday, February 17, 2017 brooklintowncrier.com 100 Years Young! Catherine Jackson turned 100 on Feb. 6. She’s pictured here with Whitby-Os- hawa MPP Lorne Coe who presented her with a special certificate at The Court of Brooklin. She moved there 12 years ago because, she says, she got tired of cooking and shovelling snow. Longev- ity seems to run in her family. Her older sister lived to 100, another to 98, and a third is now 86. Her brother Bruce lived to his 80s. She and her husband Orval celebrated 50 years of marriage before he passed away in 1988. Catherine has 9 children and 20 great grandchildren. Meanwhile, at a lunch table a few feet away, Kay (Kathleen) Fritz looked forward to her 101st birthday on Feb. 24.The first and thus longest serving resident of The Court, Kay spent 35 years as an elementary school teacher, with her first job teaching the Amish. HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS BTC: Less than Half the Picture .................... page 2 Bidding Wars becomes Soldingo ....... page 5 Whitby named bike friendly ................ page 2 Brooklin Baffler: Black History Month ........ page 6 Students raise funds for Children’s Wish ... page 3 Plant-based eating: In love with easy ........ page 6 BHS hockey team aiming high ........... page 3 Blooming in Brooklin: Seeding ........... page 7 Our Brooklin Kids: Facilities? ................ page 4 Ward One: New hires settling in ......... page 7 2 brooklintowncrier.com Friday, February 17, 2017 Less than Half the Picture By Richard Bercuson Male Attempts to Lure Child The “Fine-r” Side in Vehicle in Brooklin Investigators have released a com- Anyone with any new information of Drop-offs posite sketch of a male suspect who regarding this incident is asked to tried to lure a child into a vehicle in contact D/Constable Sullivan of On behalf of Brooklin High School, that the school has had to add a Brooklin on January 24, 2017. More Central West Criminal Investiga- whose principal Warren Palmer did Traffic Flow bulletin to its website images of the suspect vehicle have tions Bureau at 1-888-579-1520 not give me permission to do this, to explain ever so politically cor- also been released. The suspect is ext. 1847. I wish to thank the many fine folks rectly that folks are parking illegally described as male, white and ap- who’ve recently donated $160 to the and, well, dumbly and to please get proximately 65-years-old with Anonymous information can be Town of Whitby coffers. Some may with it. Getting with it translates to, grey hair and a full white beard. sent to Durham Regional Crime not yet know of their donations, but “Teenagers do not need door-to- Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) the proof will be in the mail shortly. door service, except for the prom, The suspect vehicle is described or online at www.durhamregion- in a limo.” as a four-door grey or silver vehicle. alcrimestoppers.ca and tipsters First, a clarification. Your $160 does The licence plate may contain the may be eligible for a $2,000 cash not get siphoned to BHS for educa- The good-grief answer? Teenag- letters BTTV. The images can be reward. tional accoutrements such as traffic ers are generally ambulatory. BTC’s found at drps.ca under Newsroom. bouncers. If such a person existed, Research Department has uncov- they would be large muscle-bound ered studies which show that the people who glare at you when you typical adolescent can manage park where you shouldn’t to let your a one kilometre walk in about 14 Whitby Awarded Bicycle teenager off at the school. minutes. Add 20 seconds for each transported math textbook and per- Friendly Status No, those dollars go to Whitby haps another minute to account for where they probably slosh around dawdling, chatting and texting. But The Town of Whitby, along with With 15 applications, this was also and squirt out as a decrease to the it’s still a reasonable time frame. Cambridge, Collingwood, Cornwall, the largest round of the Bicycle proposed tax increase. Thanks to This contrasts with research about and Temiskaming Shores, has been Friendly Communities Program your generosity, we will each pay a elementary age children who are in- recognized with a Bicycle Friendly since the program began. fraction less in taxes next year, per- capable of walking in straight lines Community (BFC) bronze award, haps as much as $2.74 (rounded) since everything in their path be- as announced by The Share the “Share the Road is thrilled to rec- per household. Mighty big of you, all comes a plaything. Road Cycling Coalition (Share the ognize this new group of Bicycle for the sake of a really poor parking Road), a provincial non-profit orga- Friendly Communities,” said Jamie decision. Thanks to the prescience of the nization working to build a bicycle Stuckless, Executive Director of town and developers, sidewalks friendly Ontario. Share the Road. “The continued Meanwhile, BHS wrestles with this: throughout Brooklin have made expansion of the Bicycle Friendly Where oh where should people walking so much safer and cleaner Kingston, London and Markham Communities Program is indicative drop off their teen snowflakes to than in the old days when kids had were all renewed at the Bronze of the growing interest in cycling get them as close to their lockers to dodge piles of horse patties on level designation, with Honourable across the province. With 66% of as possible? We have the correct the cobblestones. And don’t get me Mentions being given to Belleville, Ontario residents agreeing that in- answer, the bad answer, and the started on the truants who’d harass Essex, Midland and Norfolk County. vesting in cycling benefits every- good-grief answer. students with pointy sticks. one, not just people who bike, the The Bicycle Friendly Communi- case is clear for communities of all The correct answer is to use the The only exception to teens walking ties (BFC) Program, an initiative of shapes and sizes to invest in pro- school’s circular roadway, designed I could abide by would be the BHS the Washington-based League of viding their residents with the option for this very purpose. It has three hockey players and their equipment American Bicyclists, was launched to choose cycling.” kiss ‘n’ ride areas, as inaptly named bags - even the wheeled ones - on in Ontario in 2010 by Share the as one could have chosen for high game or practice days. At least they Road with support from the Cana- For information, contact: schoolers exiting cars. Hug ‘n’ Ride need to conserve their energy for dian Automobile Association (CAA) Jamie Stuckless, Executive Director would have been acceptable. Fist their run to the provincials (see the South Central Ontario. The program (905) 233-2273 ext. 100, jamie@ Bump ‘n’ Ride even better. story on page....) provides incentives, hands-on as- sharetheroad.ca sistance and award-recognition for Justin Jones, Bicycle Friendly The bad answer is what folks are The others? Good grief. communities that actively support Community Program Coordinator doing. It’s become such an issue bicycling. Municipalities are judged (905) 233-2273 ext. 110, justin@ in five categories often referred to sharetheroad.ca as the Five “E’s” of being bicycle friendly: Engineering, Education, Join the local Rotary Satellite Club Enforcement, Encouragement and at the Evaluation & Planning. 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