HomeMy WebLinkAboutNA2006_05_26 PICKERING — Police have is-
sued an appeal for public assistance
as they investigate a sexual assault
on a woman in west Pickering on
Monday.
Durham Regional Police said
a 28-year-old woman was ap-
proached by a man around 4:45
p.m. as she walked her dog near
Strouds Lane and Rosebank Road.
The young suspect, who was riding
a mountain bike, asked if he could
pat the dog before grabbing the
woman, police said.
The suspect is a white teen aged
15 or 16, about 6-feet and 190
pounds with brown hair and brown
eyes. He wore a black ski jacket
with a red stripe and dark pants.
Anyone with information on the
attack is asked to call Detective
Andy Bussanich at 905-579-1520,
ext. 5349, or Crime Stoppers at 1-
800-222-8477.
Woman grabbed by bike-riding attacker in Pickering
Raises concerns with
a number of regional
positions for city
By Danielle Milley
Staff Writer
PICKERING — Pickering has
some concerns about what the
Region of Durham’s Official Plan
amendments mean for its future
growth.
The Region is currently wrap-
ping up its Official Plan review
and Pickering staff discussed con-
cerns with how the plan relates to
Pickering at the May 23 manage-
ment forum meeting, in advance
of an official report coming to
council June 12.
Pickering had previously re-
quested the area in northeast
Pickering not in the provincial
greenbelt be designated as a future
urban study area. Catherine Rose,
Pickering planning manager, said
the Region has gone one step fur-
ther and given the area land use
designations in the draft, with the
area on either side of the future
Hwy. 407 expansion designated
for employment and the area to
the north of that and around Kin-
sale as living areas.
Ms. Rose said Pickering staff
would like to see the area around
Greenwood designated the same
as Kinsale, but regional staff won’t
do that because it falls in the noise
contour area for the proposed air-
port.
She said despite the possibility
of an airport, staff wants to see the
area around Greenwood designat-
ed as a special study area.
“There’s just too many un-
knowns right now to designate
(Kinsale) as residential and to
leave (Greenwood) as out of the
urban area,” Ms. Rose said.
Pickering also wants to see the
Cherrywood area (part of the Duf-
fins Rouge Agricultural Preserve)
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Regional members
want answers
By Crystal Crimi
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Durham’s
finance committee wants a
report on how funding for
a European waste research
trip was approved.
During its May 24 meet-
ing under other business,
Oshawa Regional Council-
lor Brian Nicholson said he
wants to know how the one-
week works committee trip
was approved, as
well as where it’s
represented in
the budget and
how elected offi-
cials who attend-
ed were chosen.
“I have a 10.5-
per cent increase
in my regional
taxes and we’re
sending peo-
ple on a trip to
Scandinavia,” said
Coun. Nicholson.
He said there is a proce-
dure for approving trips that
was not applied in this case.
“We’re a (finance) and
(administration) committee
and when this happens, it
makes us all look bad,” said
Coun. Nicholson.
Jim Clapp said no rules
were broken in the trip’s ap-
proval.
“Investigations of waste
sites have gone on histori-
cally,” said the Region’s com-
missioner of finance. Cur-
rent policy allows flexibility
in budgets and this situation
is not a problem because it is
a waste-related project, said
Mr. Clapp.
Upon his return from the
trip, works commissioner
Cliff Curtis said the trip was
directly related to informa-
tion gathering specifically
related to an environmental
assessment for energy-from-
waste technology. Although
not a line item in the bud-
get, the trip’s fund-
ing was included
in costs for the as-
sessment. The “due
diligence” trip was
open to anyone on
the Region’s works
committee, said
Mr. Curtis. From
Durham, three
staff and four poli-
ticians attended, as
well as one politi-
cian from York and
a consultant.
“I don’t see how this is
waste related,” said Coun.
Nicholson, adding you can
get thousands of Internet
hits on incinerators from all
over the world.
But Oshawa Regional
Councillor Joe Kolodzie
didn’t have a problem with
the trip.
“Everyone knew these
guys were going,” said Coun.
Kolodzie.
“It’s very strange this
is being brought up now
when they’re there,” he said
We dnesday, the day the
group was scheduled to re-
turn.
He added he saw the itin-
erary list for the trip and
would not want to go be-
cause it was so busy.
“This particular trip was
very quiet and I’m sorry, but
when trips are quiet, it makes
me very nervous,” said Osha-
wa Councillor April Cullen.
Although Mr. Curtis said
the trip was never reported
to council, it was relatively
well-known amongst re-
gional councillors.
Coun. Cullen said she was
also concerned with how
many elected officials went,
and added she could go on
a trip to Switzerland to see
how banking systems work,
but that doesn’t mean she’d
understand the information
presented.
The acting chairman of
the May 24 meeting, Whitby
Councillor Gerry Emm, said
before the blue box program
was introduced, a trip to
New England proved to be
very helpful.
The finance committee
approved getting a report
about the policies that al-
lowed the European trip to
be approved without coming
through council or budget
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PICKERING — Durham
Regional Police continue to
search for clues in the dis-
appearance of a Pickering
boater, while the United
States Coast Guard has
called off its search.
Detective Constable
Brent Shaddick, the lead in-
vestigator in the case, said
the Coast Guard called of
its search for missing boater
Wayne Osborne, 43, at 10
p.m. on May 22. Mr. Os-
borne was reported missing
by his family that afternoon.
The Coast Guard located
Mr. Osborne’s unmanned
vessel drifting in the waters
off Oak Orchard in New York
State before terminating the
search.
“We’re continuing to
search the shoreline in Dur-
ham Region for this man,”
said Durham Sergeant Paul
McCurbin.
Det. Cst. Shaddick said
the marine unit was out
Tuesday and would be out
again Wednesday searching
the Lake Ontario shoreline
from the Scarborough Bluffs
to Newtonville.
“They’re looking for any
signs of this boater or his
dog who was with him,” he
said.
Mr. Osborne was sailing
with Spoons, his black Akita
(similar to a husky), who
was not found aboard the
boat.
When Mr. Osborne’s 28-
foot Corronado sailboat
was found it had damage
to the mast and sails, con-
sistent with rough weather.
A Canadian flag was found
flying upside down, which
is a signal for a boater seek-
ing assistance. The boat’s
radio was set to channel 16,
which suggests Mr. Osborne
may have been calling for
assistance, police report.
Mr. Osborne went sailing
on Lake Ontario Saturday
afternoon and has not been
seen since. He had made
tentative plans to meet with
other boaters near Port
Newcastle, but never ar-
rived.
Mr. Osborne is described
as a white male, 5-foot-8,
with a slender build, and a
fair complexion.
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for lost Pickering sailor
Valuable or a waste? Committee debates European trip
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designated as a future urban
policy area, which matches both
the City’s and the Region’s posi-
tions. Ms. Rose said regional plan-
ning staff wouldn’t designate it as
such because
“it would be
against pro-
vincial policy
to recom-
mend that,”
as the Prov-
ince has in-
cluded it in
the greenbelt
and passed
the Duffins
Rouge Agri-
cultural Pre-
serve Act to protect it from devel-
opment.
Mayor Dave Ryan was surprised
regional staff wouldn’t designate
Cherrywood as a future urban pol-
icy area since Durham council’s
position on developing it is the
same as Pickering’s.
There were also concerns with
the population allocation. The
plan covers until 2031, and with
Ajax running out of urban land
in 2021, an allocation of 50,000
people that was to go to Ajax is
going to be designated for Oshawa
and Clarington.
“Isn’t that going against the Pro-
vincial objective of not leapfrog-
ging?” asked Ward 3 City Council-
lor David Pickles.
Pickering thinks it would make
more sense that it get the alloca-
tion, which would require more
land being designated as urban, or
that it be split between Pickering
and Whitby.
This way there would be less
traffic driving across the whole re-
gion, Coun. Pickles said, and it
would put people closer to the
business centre of Toronto.
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David Pickles
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Looking for a bargain
AJAX — Pickering Village United Church held its first-ever garage sale this month, attracting many vendors and bar-
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Pickering wonders about
Re g ion’s ‘leapfrogging’
EDITORIAL
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
New marketing
program will bring
investment here
Promotion of Durham
now in Region’s hands
D urham Region, to its credit, has decided to stop
putting good money after bad.
After all, the $800,000 invested by the Region of
Durham and its member municipalities since 1997 in the
Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance has failed on nearly
all counts.
The GTMA started up in 1997 on the heels of the city of
To ronto amalgamation.
It was created to draw investment and attention to the
four GTA regions and Toronto. The thinking was simple:
combine forces and create a larger presence that would
help all members.
It was a fine idea, it just didn’t work out that way.
The GTMA has drawn investment, but much of it has
been in the city of Toronto.
That’s fine for our big-city neighbour to the west, not so
good for Durham Region.
After more than eight years of work, the only direct result
of the nearly $1 million put into the GTMA by Durham was
a temporary six-month contract in Clarington.
So the Region of Durham has decided to strike out on
its own, content it has what it takes to bring provincial,
national and international firms to the region.
Using a stake of $59,000 from the Region, plus $6,000
each from other Durham municipalities and funding from
the federal government, the local international marketing
program has $155,000 in start-up funding.
It also has a number of local partners who want to get in
on the act: Durham College and the University of Ontario
Institute of Technology, the National Research Council and
the Canadian Manufacturers Association.
The new group can provide a tight focus on Durham-
only business and investment opportunities and create a
brand that resonates far and wide.
And, instead of having to share with neighbouring re-
gions and Toronto, those who show interest will be di-
rected to Durham itself.
In other words, there will be an easily measured and
direct correlation between dollars invested in the program
and investment produced by it.
What’s best is that Durham will control its own program
and be able to adjust and alter it as needed.
That’s a win for us all.
Speeding types likely wouldn’t stop at sign
To the editor:
Re: ‘Rougemount residents make impassioned plea for sign,’
May 12.
I can appreciate Danielle Holmes’ call for a stop sign at
Rougemount Drive and Pine Ridge Road and her acknowl-
edgement that it is a Band-Aid solution.
I wonder whether the drivers that end up in her ditch
would even stop at the stop sign.
Karl Merrem
Pickering
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P PAGE 6 THE NEWS ADVERTISER, MAY 26, 2006 durhamregion.com
Pro or con, Canadian
men and women on
the frontline deserve
our respect
The people who live next door to me
recently started flying a Canadian
flag in their front yard.
When I asked about it, the neighbour
shrugged and said it was in support of our
troops in Afghanistan. I didn’t give much
thought to the issue until the family next
door to them put up a flag as well. Taking
a quick stroll around the neighbourhood
earlier this week, I counted seven flags I’d
never noticed before.
Does this signify increasing support of
the Canadian mission in Afghanistan or
just a general surge in patriotism?
If you listen to the polls, support for
keeping Canadian troops in the increas-
ingly-dangerous region is waning.
A recent poll conducted by the Strategic
Council found that 54 per cent of Cana-
dian adults are opposed to extending the
mission. That’s up from 41 per cent in
mid-March.
But Prime Minister Stephen Harper
isn’t listening to the polls.
His support of the mission is well
known. Not only did he personally travel
to the region after he was elected into of-
fice, but he recently dispatched his right-
hand man Peter MacKay to pay a visit to
the war-torn country as well.
On Wednesday, a vote in the House of
Commons showed that a slim majority of
our elected officials agree with Mr. Harper
in his push to extend the Afghan mission
until 2009.
Just as the House of Commons was
debating the issue, news came that a fe-
male solider was killed, becoming the first
Canadian woman to be killed in battle
during the mission.
The death brought home an important
point: real people are risking their lives
and their sanity trying to bring peace to
the region.
We may not be able to agree with the
politics of war and can argue as to the
length or purpose of the mission, but I
think we can all agree to stand united
in respect for the men and women who
chose to go to battle. That is worth raising
a flag, at the very least.
Izabela Jaroszynski is a Metroland
Durham Region Media Group reporter.
Email her at ijaros zynski@durhamregio
n.com.
Support of troops does not
have to mean support of war
Izabela
Ja roszynski
staff reporter
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