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Lengthy list for
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By Carly Foster
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Social services
agencies are losing volunteers
because of the exceptionally long
wait times for police background
checks.
It takes two to eight weeks to
get a criminal background check
(CBC) or vulnerable sector check
(VSC) done by the Durham Re-
gional Police, the same length of
time in Toronto — a city with more
than 3 million people and almost
triple the number of checks in
2004.
“If they have to wait eight weeks
before they start volunteering, the
organization has to stay in contact
with them or they lose the volun-
teer,” said Nancy Burke, executive
director of the Durham Volunteer
Resource Centre, which matches
volunteer’s skills with agencies.
“We’ve heard that volunteers
are seeking out agencies where
they do not need police checks.”
A CBC looks at whether you’ve
been convicted of a crime, while
a VSC shows whether you’ve been
pardoned from a sexual offence.
The VSC is usually a requirement
if a person is working with chil-
dren, the elderly or disabled.
In 2004, Durham police com-
pleted 27,000 checks, while To-
ronto did 70,500.
The Durham cops say the de-
lays are two-fold: an exponential
increase in demand and staffing
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Region to receive
$9.8 million in 2005;
Pickering in line
for $849,577
By Carly Foster
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Spectacular. Phe-
nomenal. A great day.
With $9.8 million of federal gas
tax money flowing into Durham
this year and $32.6 million by 2010,
Regional Chairman and Associa-
tion of Municipalities of Ontario
(AMO) president Roger Anderson
was beaming Friday.
“We really felt this was the most
fair and equitable way of distrib-
uting the gas tax money to every
municipality in the province of On-
tario,” he said. The money is based
on population — not transit rider-
ship as the city of Toronto wanted.
By 2009-10, around $1.9 billion
will have gone to Ontario mu-
nicipalities from the promised 5
cents of federal gas tax revenue.
The funds will come from the fed-
eral government, to AMO, to mu-
nicipalities. Pickering is to receive
$849,577 this year while Ajax can
expect $719,068. In total, Picker-
ing is to get more than $7 million
in funding, while Ajax will receive
nearly $6 million.
The money can be used for any
environmentally sustainable infra-
structure program, including tran-
sit, sewer and water and roads, Mr.
Anderson said. Municipalities and
regions under 500,000 will have to
pick two areas in which to focus the
funds.
“This is a very strong commit-
ment to cities and communities
and is especially important to Dur-
ham Region because of its rapid
growth,” said Ajax-Pickering MP
Mark Holland, in a release. “The
municipal level of government is
the level closest to the people, but
municipalities have been feeling
the pinch in recent years. Our gov-
ernment has made cities and com-
munities one of its highest priori-
ties.”
But there is a catch.
“One of the problems, though,
with capital money like this is if
you spend it solely on (one pro-
gram), you just expand your op-
erating costs,” Mr. Anderson said.
Gas tax fuels
Durham coffers
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“The staffing issues have been corrected,”
said Jim Lockwood, superintendant of ad-
ministrative services, adding two new clerks
have been hired. “Now the number of crimi-
nal information checks we’re processing and
completing is exceeding those coming in.
“So the backlog is coming down.”
The wait times in Durham also mean resi-
dents are going to neighbouring communities
to get the checks done. Around 50 per cent of
the background checks the Port Hope Police
Department does are for Durham residents.
While Ms. Burke said she appreciates the
increased workload of the police, the agencies
themselves are having to do almost double the
amount of work to keep volunteers engaged
— which costs precious time and money.
Linda Curley, mentoring co-ordinator for
Girls Inc., said the organization has to wait to
match any girls until the checks are done.
“It certainly is impacting everyone,” she
said. “It’s not only agencies, it’s everywhere,
whether a business, community group, for-
profit or not-for-profit.”
While some checks are mandated by a
group’s funding source, the jump is also due to
“the increased media attention on offenders
who have taken advantage of their position to
commit an offence,” Supt. Lockwood said.
Lengthy wait for background checks having a big impact on Durham organizations
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Jacobson loses composure
under questioning over
who pulled trigger
By Jeff Mitchell
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Accused killer Cosmo Ja-
cobson squared off with prosecutor Paul
Murray as his trial in the slaying of an Ajax
man wound down this week in a Whitby
courtroom.
Over three days on the stand, the 29-
year-old sparred with Mr. Murray, stead-
fastly denying that he was the man who
shot Roy Jones four times and left him to
die outside his Twilley Lane home in Ajax
on the night of Feb. 4, 2001.
Mr. Murray has pounded away relent-
lessly at Mr. Jacobson, attempting to point
out for the jury what he says are inconsis-
tencies in his story.
Mr. Jacobson has for the most part re-
mained calm under the withering cross-
examination, speaking in low, level tones
as he responded to question after question
about the story he began telling when he
took the stand in his own defence June
10.
But Friday morning his composure
began to crack.
He became involved in several testy ex-
changes with Mr. Murray, who once again
confronted him with the Crown’s theory
that it was Mr. Jacobson who shot Mr.
Jones, not a friend, as the accused man has
testified.
“I understand what you’re trying to say,
but just listen: I didn’t shoot this guy, OK?”
Mr. Jacobson said.
He then launched into a diatribe against
the Crown prosecutor.
“All these suggestions you make, it
sounds like you were there. You weren’t
there, Mr. Murray,” Mr. Jacobson said. “I
told you the truth. Everything.
“I’ll swear on the Bible.”
“You have sworn on the Bible,” Mr. Mur-
ray shot back, referring to the oath Mr.
Jacobson took to tell the truth when he
began his testimony.
Mr. Jacobson has testified he went to
the home that night with a friend, Sean
Hall, to confront the 28-year-old Mr. Jones
with a gun in an attempt to scare him out
of testifying against Mr. Jacobson in court.
Mr. Jones, a security guard at a Pickering
flea market, had seen Mr. Jacobson using
bank debit cards stolen during a home
invasion robbery in a bank machine, and
told Durham Regional Police investigators
about it.
Mr. Jones was murdered just days before
he was to testify against Mr. Jacobson, who
has admitted he feared going to prison for
several years.
Mr. Jacobson said the plan went awry
when Mr. Jones fought back against Mr.
Hall, who was armed with a .45 calibre
handgun. It was Mr. Hall who chased and
shot Mr. Jones, Mr. Jacobson testified.
The Crown rejects that story. Mr. Mur-
ray has spent several days portraying Mr.
Jacobson as a desperate man who resorted
to a desperate act — murder — to avoid a
prison sentence.
“Roy Jones was your problem, not Sean
Hall’s problem,” Mr. Murray said.
“You thought with Mr. Jones gone you
were going to skate on these (robbery)
charges.”
“It was never that clear,” Mr. Jacobson
replied.
The trial, before a jury and Superior
Court Justice Donald Ferguson, contin-
ues.
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That could mean inflating the
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EDITORIAL
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Eliminate the
lengthy backlog
Social services agencies at risk
without access to background checks
Social service agencies in Durham Region losing volun-
teers due to the lengthy waiting times for police back-
ground checks should be able to expect an improvement
in the situation soon.
Now that Durham Regional Police have hired two extra
clerks to deal with the demand for checks, the backlog should
dissipate. If it doesn’t, something’s wrong.
Currently it takes two to eight weeks to get the neces-
sary background clearances in Durham before someone can
volunteer in any of numerous agencies, or start a job with
the school boards. Agencies are complaining they’re losing
volunteers to organizations that don’t require the checks. Oth-
erwise, the agencies are spending those long weeks staying in
touch with would-be volunteers, trying to keep their interest
up, until the paperwork is complete.
Considering that Toronto has the same waiting time with
triple the number of checks done last year, Durham’s turn-
around time is incredibly slow. Many residents are making the
trip to nearby Port Hope, which offers faster service. Fifty-per
cent of Port Hope’s workload on background checks involve
people coming from Durham. Port Hope can provide the
checks in a matter of days, while Halton and Peel offer same-
day service. The discrepancy between the service levels in
those municipalities and our own is huge.
Durham police pointed to staffing issues and an increased
demand for checks as causing the waiting time.
The background checks, which reveal past criminal convic-
tions or a pardon for a sexual offence, have become necessary
in our society. Everyone has heard cases of adults working
with children and youth groups who abuse their positions of
trust. Parents want to know their child’s coaches, youth group
leaders and teachers have been checked and cleared. Employ-
ers, sports leagues, day cares and even the Durham Humane
Society now require background checks.
If two additional clerks in the Durham Regional Police
department can’t quickly get the backlog down to the point
where Durham’s service is on par with Port Hope, Halton or
Peel, the department needs to revisit the issue and streamline
the process further. The work done by volunteers in Durham
Region is invaluable and the quality of life in our communities
would suffer greatly without them.
No one who’s willing to roll up their sleeves and donate time
and talent to our children should be asked to wait weeks and
weeks for police to confirm they’ve done nothing wrong.
Get sold on removing every last item
To the editor:
Re: ‘Clean up after your dog,’ letter to the editor, June 8.
Having just finished reading this letter, I would like to sug-
gest another — ‘Clean up after your yard sale.’ It’s amazing
how people have the energy to put up all these signs for sales,
but they must have worked so hard all day that they cannot
find the energy or time to remove the same.
Apart from looking a mess, I, as an avid ‘yard saler’, find
it very frustrating to see three or four signs, all for different
weeks.
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Local projects could be
coming to the big screen
M any people in Ajax and Pick-
ering are involved in the film
industry at some level.
Whether it’s behind the scenes in
production or in front of the cam-
era acting, the News Advertiser has
brought some of their stories to you, of
interesting careers, through our enter-
tainment section.
In Ajax, I recently spoke to Blake Van
de Graaf who directed his first film and
is hoping ‘Sidekick’ will make it into
the Toronto International Film Fest. It
was great to hear his enthusiasm for
the project, something he did on his
own time with limited funds, with a
group of friends in the industry, many
dating back to his days in university.
Personally, I’d like to see his movie
because the concept sounds like a fun
movie. He called it a big budget-style
of movie, minus the big budget. They
made a superhero flick, something big
film studios spend tens of millions of
dollars on in some cases, on credit and
by cashing in favours from friends in
the industry.
Basically, the story of the movie he
explains, involves a comic book store
owner, a big fan of superheroes, who
meets someone with super powers
and tries to talk him into using them
to fight crime.
Unfortunately, it may be tough to
see because they can only cross their
fingers they will make it into the To-
ronto festival and then into other fes-
tivals from there. And after that we
may have the opportunity to see it on
cable.
Another local in the industry, Harp-
er Forbes of Claremont, is working on
a project that will be a must see. He’s
working with a team filming the story
of Terry Fox.
In between his time in and around
Hamilton and the surrounding areas
lately, he was at the McLean Commu-
nity Centre for a few minutes last week
to talk about his photography exhibit
ongoing there this month.
While discussing the exhibit’s pic-
tures he’d taken in different parts of
the world, while working on films, he
explained how they are determining
locations for the new look at Terry
Fox’s Marathon of Hope.
It sounds like a great project and I’ll
be doing my best to stay on top of the
movie and bring you details as they are
made available. I’ll be depending on
my inside source close to the produc-
tion to find out when and where we
can see the film.
Hint, hint, Mr. Forbes: I’ll be in touch
again.
David Stell’s column ap-
pears every third Sunday. E-mail
dstell@durhamregion.com.
Passion for the art fuels filmmakers
David
Stell
news editor
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drugstore for press-on nails
and the infamous ‘tan-in-a-
bottle’, hundreds of students,
especially girls, are spending
ridiculous amounts of cash
on their high school prom.
But, are they spending too
much and succumbing to
the cash-grab?
Rightfully so, parents are
sometimes reluctant to fork
out $400 or more for a single
night, despite the dramatic
puppy-dog eyes we feed
them. So, 18-year-olds every-
where are raiding whatever
is left of their piggy bank to
pay for what most believe is
the best night of high school.
For the lucky ones with part-
time jobs, they have the op-
tion to ask their employers
for additional hours. How-
ever, although they may be
receiving more money in the
bank, these students are sac-
rificing what is really impor-
tant during this time of year
— a college acceptance and
maintaining that Grade 12
average.
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sive and students definitely
know it. Some even skip it,
knowing they cannot afford
it. One soon-to-be prom at-
tendee asked, “Why does
the (prom) committee need
$18,000 for a five-hour night?
What could they possibly
spend that amount of money
on?” To answer his question,
the prom committee and the
teachers associated with it,
need the $18,000 to pay for
many things.
Firstly, the hall alone can
cost upwards of $10,000 for
the night. Throw in police-
men, decorations, a DJ, place
settings, and the catered
meal, and you have yourself
a bill of about $18,000. To
students, a bill of this amount
is almost unfathomable for
a five-hour night and they
feel a prom can be organized
with significantly less dough.
Ye t, graduates know they will
spend anything to go to their
prom — but the question is
why?
The stigma attached to
this night has an incred-
ible influence on how much
money students are willing
to spend. When students
think about prom, they think
romance and magic. Any-
thing can happen at prom,
and that is what lures them
into spending ridiculous
amounts of money. In addi-
tion to this, students feel they
have worked incredibly hard
over the past four years and
embrace the opportunity
to celebrate their many ac-
complishments, regardless
of cost.
The tradition of prom has
been around for decades, but
it seems as though the event
is getting to be too expensive
for us teenagers. Yet, despite
the stress and often ridicu-
lous price, prom is prom and
we only get one, so have fun
while you still can.
Katalin McLean is a stu-
dent at J. Clarke Richardson
Collegiate. She is the News
Advertiser’s youth columnist.
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Rail line passed
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The Grand Trunk Rail-
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making travel to and from
Pickering much easier than
in the past. It crossed the
mouth of the Rouge River
at Rosebank. There were
train stations at Rosebank,
Dunbarton, and Pickering
Village.
During the 1930s and
1940s, Rosebank and
Frenchman’s Bay were very
popular areas for camp-
ers and cottagers and sev-
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area. Leaving Toronto at
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Pickering by 2 p.m.
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an National Railway. Even-
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Dunbarton, Pickering, and
Rosebank disappeared.
In 1967 when the Ontario
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service, a new station was
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Liverpool Road.
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Rouge opens wide for
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A trip into our past
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THIS WEEKEND
The Pickering Pirates senior baseball team
hosts the Durham Chiefs at Kirkey Field
(Brockridge Park) today (Sunday) at 3:30 p.m.
Team Impact pins down Trillium funds
Ajax-based wrestling
club to use money
for equipment,
female program
By Al Rivett
Sports Editor
DURHAM — The Team Impact
Wrestling Club put a headlock on
some extra funding to buy new
equipment and expand its current
program.
The cash, $148,000 to be exact,
came courtesy of a Ontario Tril-
lium Foundation grant to the
non-profit club, which has been
training provincial, nationals and
international champion ama-
teur wrestlers in Durham since
1973. A cheque was turned over
to Team Impact by Lloyd White
from the Ontario Trillium Founda-
tion (OTF) and Terry James from
the provincial government at the
club’s annual lobster fundraiser in
Pickering recently.
Head coach Stan Tzogas notes
the Trillium money was the direct
result of months of hard work by
club president Don Westlake and
secretary Chris Stefopulos, who at-
tended several meeting with OTF
staff and ensured all the paper-
work was submitted.
The money, to be allocated over
a three-year period, will allow the
club’s executive to take their eyes
off the bottom line and put the
focus where it belongs — on the
program and the wrestlers, says
Tzogas.
“Over the last couple of years,
we’ve been pinching the pennies
and balancing the books,” says
Tzogas, who’s also an educator at
Pickering High School. “The big-
gest difference will be the quality
of delivery of the program as most
of the money allocated will be for
equipment.”
In terms of equipment, Tzo-
gas says the money will allow the
club to replace aging mats and
crash pads, which allow wrestlers
to work on their throws without
fear of injury. Currently, those
mats and pads have outlived their
usefulness and are bordering on
being unsafe.
“In terms of safety, (the new
equipment) will be as safe as we
possibly can get — the highest
safety possible,” says Tzogas.
Once purchased, Tzogas says
the new equipment will be useful
in allowing the club to organize
wrestling clinics at area elemen-
tary and secondary schools, which
will hopefully attract more mem-
bers to the club.
In addition, Team Impact will
be able to offer a female wrestling
program, complete with a female
head coach. That aspect of the
club is currently in its infancy, says
Tzogas, even though the club won
the provincial women’s crown this
year.
“We won the provincial cadet
title with two girls whose primary
sport is judo,” he says. “We hope
to start a program that will allow
more females to be involved.”
OTF, an agency of the Ontario
Ministry of Culture, receives $100
million annually in government
funding generated through the
Ontario charity casino initiative.
Ron Pietroniro/ News Advertiser photo
Team Impact Wrestling Club had something to celebrate with the news it had received a $148,000 grant from the On-
tario Trillium Foundation. On hand for the presentation at the club’s recent fundraiser were, from left, Terry James,
a representative of MPP Wayne Arthurs’ office; Canadian champion wrestler Paul Rabjohn, Lloyd White of the Trillium
Foundation and Team Impact head coach Stan Tzogas.
Ron Pietroniro/ News Advertiser photo
Too hot to handle
AJAX — Shant Pilavdjian from the McDuffie’s team can’t get his hands on this pass as Alex McVean of the Bandits
tries to intervene during Durham Touch Football League action at Pickering High School recently.
Dearth of hits
derail Spartans’
Cup bid
Lorne Park edges
Dunbarton, goes
on to win ball title
By Al Rivett
Sports Editor
PICKERING — Timely hits could
have gone a long way to improving
the Dunbarton High School Spar-
tans’ fortunes during their Prentice
Cup semifinal game in Toronto on
Thursday morning.
Playing another team of Spartans,
from Lorne Park Secondary School
in Mississauga, the Dunbarton Spar-
tans varsity boys’ baseball squad
had its scoring chances, but couldn’t
move base runners around to score
in a heartbreaking 1-0 loss in the
game played at the Rogers Centre.
To add insult to injury, Lorne Park
went on to defeat another Mississau-
ga school, the Loyola Warriors, 6-2 in
the Prentice Cup final, also at Rogers
Centre on Thursday afternoon.
“We didn’t hit the ball,” noted
Spartans’ coach Brad Reeson. “We
had three hits the whole game. That
was definitely our Achilles heel. We
had two guys on base on two differ-
ent occasions.”
The pivotal play of the game came
in the fifth inning. With a Lorne Park
runner on first, the next batter nailed
a line drive between left and cen-
tre field. Spartans’ ace centre fielder
Louis Beare had a bead on the ball,
diving and stretching to make the
catch but, unfortunately, the ball fell
in front of the all-star outfielder and
proceeded to the wall. In the interim,
the Lorne Park base runner trotted
home with the eventual winning run
on the triple.
“It was a do-or-die play,” explains
Reeson. Beare “dove for the ball and
missed it. It was a tough judgement
call to make. There were two outs,
(so a catch) could have ended it.
I have no problems with his deci-
sion.”
The lack of offensive support
spoiled an outstanding pitching per-
formance from starter Ryan Cam-
eron. The Spartans also had their
usual solid defensive game in the
semifinal, especially by third base-
man Shawn Mayhew.
For Dunbarton it was their sec-
ond one-run loss to Lorne Park this
year. At the Sinclair tournament last
month, Dunbarton lost 3-2.
Dunbarton’s mostly silent bats for
Thursday’s game belied the big bats
displayed in Wednesday’s quarter-
final 8-2 win over the St. Mary’s Cru-
saders of Hamilton, also played at
the Rogers Centre.
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