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40 PAGES ✦ Pressrun 49,900 ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2006 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1
PLAYING MIND GAMES
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at new regional exhibit
Page 26
Every Monday and Thursday
But public input sought
first on new bylaw
By Danielle Milley
Staff Writer
PICKERING — After a year and
a half of discussions and input,
Pickering has a new taxicab bylaw
that it says just might be the most
comprehensive in the province.
“This particular bylaw has had
more input and scrutiny than any
other bylaw that I can recall in the
City of Pickering,” said Maurice
Brenner.
The Ward 1 regional councillor
is chairman of the Taxicab Advi-
sory Committee, which has been
working since its inception last
summer on the bylaw.
After the year and a half of work
by the committee and taxicab driv-
ers and owners in the city, a draft
bylaw is now available for com-
ment. A public meeting is being
held Monday, July 24 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Pickering Civic Complex.
After that, the draft or an amend-
ed version will come back in the
fall for council’s consideration. It
would come into effect Jan. 1.
The bylaw covers everything
from applications to taxicab plate
licences to accessible taxicabs to
passenger rights and responsibili-
ties.
Kewal Manocha is pleased with
what the committee has accom-
plished.
“This is a fantastic achievement.
It was hard work, but eventually
we reached a point that was good
for drivers, owners and the envi-
ronment,” he said, following the
last advisory committee meeting
before the public meeting.
Mr. Manocha has been a driver
in Pickering for 11 years and is a
committee member.
“I hope this bylaw will bring
better service for customers and
bring self-respect for owners and
drivers,” he said.
Coun. Brenner said it was im-
Pickering ready
to make the
call for taxis
✦ See Pickering, Page 4P ost-secondary groups
assist teenager’s wish
to stay in Canada
By Crystal Crimi
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Brought illegally to
Canada as a child, teenager Mat-
thew Nguyen has a wish Durham
students are unable to ignore.
With the 18-year-old native of
France scheduled for deportation
July 23, students at the Durham
College and University of Ontario
Institute of Technology campus
gathered July 17 to hear Mr. Nguy-
en’s story and show their support
for his struggle to stay in Canada.
“We need to respond as fel-
low humanitarians, as students...
to help Matthew stay,” said UOIT
student, Jaclyn San Antonio, ex-
ecutive of Students Against Social
Injustice. Along with Students
for Humanitarianism and Action
through Respect and Education
(SHARE), campus church, and the
student association, the group is
part of a campus coalition formed
to help Mr. Nguyen stay in Canada
as a victim of human rights injus-
tices.
“I just want to make something
out of myself and out of my life,”
said Mr. Nguyen, while talking to a
crowd of more than 50 students at
the north Oshawa campus.
Mr. Nguyen said he was born
Durham students fight to help Matthew stay
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in Paris and raised by his mother. In
1993, his mother was in a car accident
and he and his three siblings had to
learn to live on their own while she
recovered. A few years later, she was
diagnosed with cancer and two years
after, died, leaving Mr. Nguyen an or-
phan. The only family they had was in
Canada and three of the four children
were brought to the country illegally by
relatives. Mr. Nguyen was 10 years old
when he arrived.
“I was kept inside the house for six
years doing house chores,” said Mr.
Nguyen and added there were other
details surrounding his stay that he
didn’t want to get into. During those
years, he was kept out of school and
illegally in the country.
“I decided I have to do something
about this. Suicide was the first option
I considered.”
He said he thought of his mother
and decided she wouldn’t want him to
do that, so instead, he ran away from
his relatives to pursue education. He
lived on the street for a couple of nights
and contacted a social worker who
helped him find a place to stay. Mr.
Nguyen ended up attending Eastdale
Collegiate in Toronto with only a Grade
5 education. In two years, he’s made it
to Grade 11 and currently he attends
Jar vis Collegiate Institution in Toronto.
“I’ve built a life here,” said Mr. Nguy-
en. “Having to go back (to France)
would be the worst thing to happen to
me, especially at this time when I’m
halfway done high school.”
Mr. Nguyen said to go back now
would mean starting his education
again.
“We’re saying Matthew has been
through enough,” said Bruce Lyne, one
of Mr. Nguyen’s teachers from East-
dale.
Mr. Lyne said supporters think the
best thing to do to help Mr. Nguyen
is to get the minister of immigration
to overturn the deportation decision.
He added they’re including in their
argument that Mr. Nguyen was still a
child when he applied for legal status
in 2003; he found out June 26 that he
was being deported. Mr. Nguyen’s two
sisters are also scheduled for deporta-
tion and one of them has an extreme
case of Down’s syndrome.
“His story is so real,” said UOIT stu-
dent Munir Nayyer. “It could have been
anyone of us, it’s just a matter of cir-
cumstance.”
Mr. Nayyer said he will support Mr.
Nguyen through online campaign ef-
forts.
“We were really inspired,” added
Aamna Nasir, another UOIT student. “I
just found his story to be so inspiring,
especially since I had someone who
was in a similar situation.”
Naheed Dosani, president and
founder of SHARE, said the goal is to
mobilize students to do the right thing
and contact the minister.
“It is urgent that we make that noise
against injustice,” he said. “We’re stu-
dents and we care about education,
we would stand up for anybody getting
educated.”
To join the campus coalition’s e-mail
campaign, visit www.sharedcuoit.org.
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THE NEWS ADVERTISER, July 21, 2006 PAGE 3 A/Pdurhamregion.com
DURHAM — Toronto Po-
lice are investigating after
a confrontation with two
men in a stolen car caused
a plainclothes Durham Re-
gional Police officer to fire
his weapon.
At approximately 1:15
a.m. on Thursday, the officer
followed a stolen car into a
McDonald’s parking lot in
the Port Union and Kings-
ton Road area, just inside
the Scarborough-Pickering
border. The officer partially
blocked the stolen car into
a parking spot, got out of his
unmarked car and verbal-
ly identified himself to the
driver and passenger, police
say.
The driver of the vehicle
then reversed the car toward
the officer and struck the un-
marked police car.
The officer fired his gun.
No injuries have been re-
ported.
The vehicle, a stolen white,
four-door 1995 Plymouth
with Ontario licence plate
AT PA 418, fled eastbound on
Kingston Road. The two sus-
pects are described as white,
17 to 18, with light or fair
complexions.
Anyone with information
is asked to contact Toronto
Police Services 42 Division
at 416-808-4200 or Crime
Stoppers anonymously at 1-
800-222-TIPS (8477).
Suspects fled from police
Jason Liebregts/ News Advertiser photo
Police are investigating after a Durham Regional officer fired his
gun when a car was driven at him in the parking lot at this Scar-
borough McDonald’s Restaurant.
portant to include the industry
in the process.
“I’ve seen so many munici-
palities who have attempted to
do taxi bylaws without input
from those who are directly af-
fected and it results in chaos,”
he said.
The City’s current
taxi bylaw dates back
to 1986 and it basi-
cally just covers fees,
Coun. Brenner said.
The new bylaw
also covers fees, as
well as a range of
other areas such as
the requirement for
drivers to complete
a driver training and
testing program, and clean air
cabs, which goes along with
the City’s Sustainable Pickering
initiative.
As an incentive to get 10 per
cent of the taxis on Pickering’s
streets to be green, the fee for
the plate owner licence and
plate licence for a clean air cab
is half the current $250 and
$2,000, respectively. Clean air
cabs would include hybrid or
electric vehicles, as well as
those that run on propane, hy-
drogen or other clean fuels.
“We can’t
force you; all we can
do is make it finan-
cially more viable
for you to go green,”
Coun. Brenner told
those from the in-
dustry at the meet-
ing. There are con-
cerns, as the bylaw
states the City may
place three clean air
cabs on the road if
the industry doesn’t accom-
plish the 10-per cent target.
Drivers and owners don’t want
further competition in an al-
ready flooded market.
There is even a section listing
drivers’ duties, which include
a dress code provision. Coun.
Brenner points out this was re-
quested by drivers.
“We should be looking neat
and have a pleasant appear-
ance,” Mr. Manocha said. “We
are ambassadors for the city;
we are the first impression of
the city.”
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DURHAM — The caption
under a photo in the News
Advertiser’s Wednesday, July
19 sports section contained
errors.
Dalton Wright rode his
horse Pollyanna in the Central
Ontario show jumping quali-
fier in Ajax on Sunday. Wright
represents the Durham Pony
Club.
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the errors.
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Police called to fight
at Pickering bar
PICKERING — A 40-year-old
Brooklin man is in serious condi-
tion after being stabbed in the
abdomen early Thursday morn-
ing.
Ajax/Pickering community
police were called to the Pal-
ace Tavern on Dillingham Road
shortly after 2 a.m. regarding a
man suffering from several stab
wounds.
Witnesses at the scene told po-
lice two men became involved
in a dispute outside the bar,
which escalated into a physical
confrontation. The suspect fled
with two women in a cab head-
ing towards Toronto, police say.
The victim, who was found with
serious life-threatening injuries
to his abdomen, was taken to
Rouge Valley Health by Durham
EMS. He remains in serious con-
dition.
With the assistance of Toronto
Police Service, Durham Region-
al Police arrested a suspect at
Kingston Road and Mason Street
in Scarborough.
Brian Michaud, 25, is charged
with aggravated assault, posses-
sion of dangerous weapons, pos-
session of a controlled substance,
and three counts of breach of
probation. He is being held for a
bail hearing.
Anyone with information is
urged to contact Det. Tom An-
drews at 905-683-9100 ext. 2538
or Durham Regional Crime Stop-
pers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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Region also releases
details of latest fines
for restaurants
By Erin Hatfield
Staff Writer
DURHAM — The Region’s twice-
annual list of convictions under the
To bacco Control Act and the Food
Premises Regulation may be grow-
ing but so too is compliance, ac-
cording to John Ingrao.
Durham Region’s manager in
charge of prosecution and legal ac-
tivity said the list, released on July
17, detailing convictions in the past
six months, is longer than the one
for the previous six months, but in-
spectors have been more active.
When the Region was preparing
for the Smoke Free Ontario legisla-
tion to come into effect in May it
received instruction from the Prov-
ince that it would be required to test
every one of the 650 to 700 cigarette
vendors in Durham twice a year,
says Mr. Ingrao. Previously the Re-
gion was required to inspect a por-
tion, 150 to 200, each year and the
compliance rate was around 92 per
cent.
The Region has increased its spe-
cialized tobacco enforcement team
to six and it has hit every vendor in
the region at least once in the last six
months.
Even though the number of con-
victions for selling smokes to minors
has more than doubled, Mr. Ingrao
said the compliance rate has actu-
ally increased.
“As of today we have a 96.7-per
cent compliance rate,” he said, add-
ing that provincially the Region does
very well in terms of compliance.
Under the Tobacco Control Act
there has been nearly 50 convictions
in the past six months for selling or
supplying tobacco in Durham to a
person under 19 years old. During
the previous six months there were
just less than 20 convictions.
The tobacco enforcement team
also deals with smoking in prohib-
ited places. There were six offend-
ers in the past six months, includ-
ing Joe’s Sports Bar and Billiards on
Brock Road in Pickering, which was
convicted of 12 counts.
The offences, which included fail-
ure to prohibit people from smoking
in an enclosed workplace, failing to
post no-smoking signs, and having
ashtrays in a workplace, occurred
in November 2005 and the bar was
convicted in March.
The owner of the establishment
was fined $1,500 for two of the
counts and given a suspended sen-
tence for the remaining 10.
Other convictions included two
taxi companies, a gas bar and a Gen-
eral Motors of Canada employee.
The Region’s health department
also released this week a list of con-
victions under Food Premises Regu-
lation 562 for Durham eateries.
“Predominantly, inspections are
mandatory inspections conducted
by public health inspectors,” Mr. In-
grao said. “Inspectors look for things
like temperature control and cross
contamination.”
Yo u and Me and Cuisine on
Park Road South in Oshawa was
convicted of five charges, the most
in the region, including failing to
store hazardous foods at the proper
temperature, failing to protect food
from contamination, and operating
the premises in a manner adversely
affecting sanitary conditions. The
fines totaled $350.
Racking up three convictions
each were The Waterfront Dining on
Liverpool Road in Pickering, Forum
Drive-in Restaurant on Ritson Road
in Oshawa, the Down Omer Res-
taurant and Bar on Ritson Road in
Oshawa, Out of Rita’s Kitchen on
Main Street in Uxbridge, and The
Thai Orchid on Kingston Road in
Pickering.
“A lot of these (establishments) I
am sure will not show up on this list
again,” Mr. Ingrao said.
There is a large educational com-
ponent to the health department’s
program. It offers a certified food
handling course which, Mr. Ingrao
said, reinforces the importance of
food safety.
The full list of convictions is avail-
able online at www.region.durham.
on.ca.
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Tobacco convictions up, but so too is compliance
Police auction
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DURHAM — Durham Regional
Police will be holding their next
property auction of unclaimed
goods today, July 21, in Newton-
ville.
The auction will begin at 5 p.m.,
but items can be viewed at the auc-
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A/P PAGE 6 THE NEWS ADVERTISER, JULY 21, 2006 durhamregion.com
Be vigilant with whom
you entrust your kids
S uppose you enrolled your child in
a sport and found out the person
coaching him had done hard time
in prison in three different countries, had
twice been busted in massive drug rings
and was even implicated in a murder
investigation when he admitted to burn-
ing a butchered body in a silo on his
property.
Yo u would think it couldn’t be possible
such a man would ever be granted the
chance to coach with a record like that,
but you’d be wrong.
Cecil Russell, who once called Oshawa
home, who has what only can be de-
scribed as a disgraceful, reprehensible
crime resume, is now coaching a youth
swim team based in Oakville and Barrie.
Mr. Russell, 53, was “outed” in a pair of
recent Toronto Star stories and it would
be fair to say the reaction to his back-
ground has many astounded he is even
coaching. After all, the man was banned
for life from coaching in Canada in 1997
but, amazingly, had his ban lifted last Oc-
tober by the Council for Ethics in Sports.
That’s why he’s poolside once again,
shaping the swimming careers of young,
impressionable people. And somehow
he’s convinced their parents that having
him coach is fine.
In this day and age when anybody
who works with youth must pass a police
check it is incredible that Mr. Russell
coaches, and almost more baffling that
an organization would hire him and that
parents would put up with him. What
kind of life lessons can Mr. Russell im-
part?
It’s clear the Oakville club either didn’t
bother to check Mr. Russell’s background
or chose to ignore what was discovered.
In fact, in a clear oversight, Swim On-
tario does not require background police
checks in order that someone coach. It
recommends police checks but does not
demand them.
The former Oakville coach who brought
Mr. Russell into the club was apparently
unaware of his unsavory past.
What’s sad is that, like anything else,
the fact that Mr. Russell is coaching de-
spite his brutal past, taints all who work
with youth. I mean, what’s to say your son
or daughter’s coach is clean? If Mr. Rus-
sell can coach, can’t just about anybody?
His active involvement in sport is a
warning to all parents to make sure all the
proper procedures are followed and that
anybody who chooses to work with youth
must be above suspicion. While we long
ago passed the point where pro athletes
served as role models for young people,
surely we need our minor sports coaches
to fit the bill.
And Cecil Russell is clearly nobody’s
idea of a role model.
Tim Kelly is an editor with the Metro-
land Durham Region Media Group. E-
mail tkelly@durhamregion.com.
Coach’s past a warning to parents
Tim
Kelly
staff editor
DVDs not best way to get message out
To the editor:
I read with interest the Durham Works newsletter and the
article on ‘Green Means Go.’
I am somewhat fanatical about recycling, conserving en-
ergy and reducing waste. I noted that along with these bins
132,000 households will be receiving an instructional DVD.
I phoned the works department to find out if these DVDs
were biodegradable or recyclable. I was told that I could per-
haps make something out of the plastic, or take the disc back
to the works department so they could give it to someone
else.
Sending out 132,000 pieces of plastic that cannot properly
be disposed of is contrary to the message the Region is trying
to get out.
Josephine Geraghty
Oshawa
Young man deserves
to stay in Canada T an ‘Matthew’ Nguyen was nothing more than your
average high school student trying to get good
grades and move on to college or university -- until
two weeks ago.
Then, suddenly, Mr. Nguyen, 18, became a major story
as his hardscrabble existence in Toronto and his imminent
deportation to France, set for July 23, galvanized a small
army of dedicated supporters to fight for him.
Last Friday, Mr. Nguyen appeared at the Durham College
and University of Ontario Institute of Technology campus
where he received plenty of encouragement from students
in his bid to stay in Canada.
“We need to respond as fellow humanitarians, as stu-
dents... to help Matthew stay,” said UOIT student Jaclyn
San Antonio, executive of Students Against Social Injustice.
Added Naheed Dosani, another UOIT student and presi-
dent of Students for Humanitarianism and Action through
Respect and Education, “It is urgent that we make noise
against injustice. We’re students and we care...”
Mr. Nguyen was the subject of a major feature in the
To ronto Star on July 8. What followed was a flurry of letters
to the editor, a website dedicated to helping him stay in
Canada (www.helpmatthewstay.com), and television and
radio stories about him.
Mr. Nguyen has led a tough life to say the least. Essen-
tially orphaned at age 10 -- his father left the family when
he was very young and his mother died -- he was then
brought illegally to Canada from his native France, by rela-
tives. He stayed home and did not attend school until 16,
when he ran away and finally began his education. He has
progressed to the point where he is now starting Grade 11
at Jar vis Collegiate in Toronto -- but has been denied an
application to stay in Canada and will be deported this
Sunday, unless a last-ditch effort by his lawyer to allow him
to stay is accepted.
Mr. Nguyen has made many friends and has a long list
of growing tributes backing his cause to remain here. His
story can appeal to any of us. He has fought for positive
change in his life and wants to make a strong contribution
in the only country he considers home: Canada. He’s an
example of the type of young, ambitious person Canada
would like to attract.
However, Mr. Nguyen is here right now -- it only seems
an act of cruelty to send him back to a land he barely knows
and where he has no support system. He should be allowed
to remain here.
Community
volunteers make
up collaboratives
DURHAM — Te ams of
volunteers are willing and
ready to help make the
Central East Local Health
Integration Network serve
its communities as best it
can.
Nearly 100 residents
and health-care providers
from across Scarborough,
Durham Region, Northum-
berland-Havelock, Peter-
borough, Kawartha Lakes
and Haliburton Highlands
have volunteered to join
local health planning ad-
visory teams or collabora-
tives to support the Central
East LHIN in developing an
integrated health services
plan (IHSP) to better co-or-
dinate health-care services.
Local teams have been
created in nine zones, in-
cluding Durham East, Dur-
ham West, Durham North
Central, and Northumber-
land-Havelock.
“This kind of collabora-
tion, embracing consumers
and caregivers, front-line
workers and health-care
professionals, community
and social services repre-
sentation, and health-care
administrators and private-
sector employers, writes
the textbook on the LHIN
concept,” said George Smi-
therman, minister of health
and long-term care, in a let-
ter read to volunteers at an
orientation session in late
June. “The range of indi-
viduals, and the breadth
of experience and exper-
tise and enthusiasm each
brings to the collaborative,
is a virtual guarantee of the
success of the Central East
LHIN in reaching out to the
heart of the community to
fulfil its mandate.”
In late April and early
May, individuals from
across the Central East
community were invited
to join one of the nine
community-based teams,
whose role will be to sup-
port and advise the Central
East LHIN on local health-
system performance, stra-
tegic priority setting, plan-
ning and evaluation.
The Central East group
had a lot of applicants.
“The response from
the community was over-
whelming and the calibre
of people who sent in an
expression of interest form
was outstanding,” says Fos-
ter Loucks, chairman of the
board of directors.
Collaborative mem-
bers are knowledgeable
about population needs
and health-care challenges
in their communities and
they bring a variety of per-
spectives to the table. They
begin meeting in August to
review LHIN-wide health-
care strategies related to
mental health and addic-
tion, seamless care for se-
niors, and chronic disease
prevention and manage-
ment.
Their input will be in-
corporated into the IHSP,
which will then be available
for public comment before
submission to the minister
on Oct. 31.
To submit comments
or questions for consid-
eration by the collabora-
tives, call Karen O’Brien-
Monaghan, consultation
co-ordinator, at 905-427-
5497 or 1-866-804-5446
ext. 212, or e-mail karen.
obrienmonaghan@lhins.
on.ca.
The Durham West team
is Susan Bland, Marilyn
Brown, Natalie Bubela,
Morgan Dever, Dr. Karen
Dockrill, Angela Dye, Cheryl
Elson, Brent Farr, Judy Hef-
fern, Brock Hovey, Christine
Kent, Paul McGary, Melissa
McGuire, Anita Ross, and
Char-
lene Welsh.
The Durham East team
is Linda Gallacher, Rose
Griffiths, Catherine Hilge,
Lee Kierstead, Jean Kish,
Brian Lemon, Cheryl Ma-
cLeod, Kevin McAlpine,
Cheryl McCarthy, Lynn
Park, Joan Skelton, Martin
Wrobel, and Colleen Za-
vrel.
The Durham North Cen-
tral team is Tina Demmers,
Dr. Bill Eull, Jim Hunt, Anne
Kewley, Tamra Laughlin,
Dale Lowe, Larry O’Connor,
and Betty Penny.
The Northumberland-
Havelock team is Trish
Baird, Ruth Dixon, Carol
Donaghey, Mary Anne
Greco, Susan Miles, Joan
Ross, Patricia Sinnott, and
Connie Smart.
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the collaboratives or the
volunteers, visit www.cen-
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DURHAM — The public will not
be given any information about talks
being held between executives of
General Motors and Renault-Nissan
as the companies contemplate a pos-
sible three-way alliance, General Mo-
tors announced in a press release.
On Friday, GM president Rick Wag-
oner met with Carlos Ghosn, presi-
dent of Renault and Nissan, to discuss
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therefore, we will not be providing
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DURHAM — The fight for fund-
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Resource Centre for Durham.
But, according to the centre’s ex-
ecutive director, Nancy Burke, a re-
cent contribution from the federal
government will do much to secure
the centre’s future.
After nearly being forced to close
its doors in February, Services Can-
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for three positions on a six-month
contract.
“With these three individuals
doing the marketing work, I can
focus on fundraising,” said Ms.
Burke, who was the lone employee
prior to the funding.
The Centre now employs a mar-
keting co-ordinator, an event plan-
ner and a volunteer co-ordinator.
“I submitted a request to (Servic-
es Canada); I outlined the positions
and they approved the request,” she
said.
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munity, according to Ms. Burke,
while the special event co-ordina-
tor will organize two fund-raising
events and the volunteer co-ordina-
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volunteering.
“They will assist us in getting
things done that we wouldn’t nor-
mally have been able to do,” Ms.
Burke said. “It will enable us to ac-
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munity involvement, academic
achievement, and interest in in-
novation.
Oshawa students Nathan
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Tina Hu of R.S. McLaughlin Col-
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College School are recipients of
this year’s Canada Millennium
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“They represent our country’s
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board of directors.
Local award winners Mr.
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World’s largest
rocking chair now
resides in Pickering
By Alistair Lowe
Special to the News Advertiser
PICKERING — It is 13 feet tall, eight
feet wide, weighs 1,700 pounds and is
red and yellow all over.
What is it? Bob Mowforth and Doug
Peters’s rocking chair.
Co-owners of The Solid Wood and
Ta ble Company, Mr. Mowforth and Mr.
Peters originally had the chair designed
and built “as an attraction for (their)
booth at the Brampton Home Show” in
2001.
“So many people commented on the
chair,” said Mr. Mowforth. “We decided
to pursue a Guinness World Record.”
Actually, this is the second chair the
duo and their company has built. The
prototype was of similar size and con-
struction, however it failed due to an
engineering problem, and glue that was
not strong enough.
“It was more work than we expected,”
agreed Mr. Peters and Mr. Mowforth.
“People don’t realize the amount of
engineering and physics that go into
constructing a rocking chair,” said Mr.
Mowforth.
Built at their Midland, ON location,
the chair took more than one month,
$40,000, and four gallons of paint to
construct.
With considerable foresight, the chair
was built in two separate pieces for
easier transport. It is made of pine and
cedar and actually rocks, but for insur-
ance purposes “we had to put chocks
under the rockers to stop it from mov-
ing,” commented Mr. Peters. Sadly, for
the same insurance reasons, the public
is not allowed to sit on the chair, as a
sign clearly states.
Mr. Peters and Mr. Mowforth feel theft
and vandalism is a concern, therefore
cameras have been installed for added
security.
It took over a year to receive the of-
ficial word from The Guinness Book
of World Records. When asked why
the chair isn’t on the Guinness Book
website, Mr. Peters explained that “they
have so many records that they rotate
them.
“It keeps the book interesting from
year to year and if the book had all the
records in it, it would be far to big,” he
said.
The Solid Wood and Table Company
encourages the public to drop by and
see the chair and take pictures. They
also plan to inquire about having a sign
put on Hwy. 401, indicating its location
at 1020 Brock Rd. S., in Pickering.
These guys are truly off their rocker
Ron Pietroniro/ News Advertiser photo
Solid Wood Bed and Table co-owners Doug Peters and Bob Mowforth stand in front
of the world’s largest rocking chair, presently on display at their Pickering store. The
record was confirmed by Guinness Book of World Records.
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Public help sought
in finding suspect
DURHAM — Police are seeking the
public’s help to identify a man who has
been trying to have bank card skimmers
installed in stores.
The man entered an Ajax conve-
nience store on June 23 at approximate-
ly 2:20 a.m. and offered the clerk $5,000
in order to allow a friend of the suspect
to come into the store and install a bank
card skimmer. The clerk refused and the
man left the store.
The suspect is described as white,
17-18 years old. He is approximately 5-
foot-9, clean-shaven with short brown
hair. The suspect was also noticed
wearing a black baseball cap and black
pants with while running shoes. He was
last seen getting onto a bike outside the
store.
Anyone with information about the
suspect’s identity is asked to call Detec-
tive Constable Jeff Caplan of the Major
Fraud Unit at 905-683-9100 ext. 5702 or
anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 905-
436-8477 or 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
Pair charged in
Pickering fraud
DURHAM — A Toronto couple is
facing fraud-related charges after police
say they used counterfeit traveller’s
cheques in Pickering.
Ajax-Pickering community police
were called to the Pickering Town Centre
on Thursday after a man and woman
were observed making numerous pur-
chases at various outlets at the mall.
Fred Paradie, 43, and Andrea Vardy,
41, are jointly charged with five counts of
fraud under $5,000, six counts of utter-
ing forged documents and possession of
property obtained by crime.
Mr. Paradie is also charged with
failure to comply with probation. The ac-
cused were released from custody and
will appear in Oshawa court on Sept. 5.
Police say retailers should be aware
of an increase in counterfeit American
Express traveller’s cheques in Durham
Region. The denomination used has al-
ways been $100 Canadian. Police suggest
if a retailer is suspicious or has concerns
about a traveller’s cheque they contact
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the police.
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terfeit traveller’s cheques or fraud is
asked to contact Det. Const. Jeff Caplan
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also be made to Durham Regional Crime
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C ouncillor gets
another court date
PICKERING — A Pickering council-
lor facing fraud charges is to return to
court on Aug. 4.
Accompanied by a lawyer, Ward 1
Regional Councillor Maurice Brenner
made a brief appearance in the Ontario
Court of Justice in Oshawa on July 18.
Coun. Brenner was charged in May
after Pickering officials filed a report
with Durham Regional Police following an
internal City review. He is alleged to have
submitted false documents for reim-
bursement claims and clerical services
for more than $5,400 between 1999 and
2000.
Coun. Brenner faces two counts
each of fraud under $5,000 and utter
forged document, and breach of trust by
a public officer.
Crime and courts
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A charitable organization, the
WMRCC is looking for volunteers to
sit on the board for a two-year term.
Founded in 1993, the group provides
services and supportive counselling to
women and children.
The core values of the centre are
social justice, feminist, and anti-op-
pression. Board members have an un-
derstanding of violence against women
and children, finance and administra-
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systems and public relations, fundrais-
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offer leadership skills.
Board members serve on a com-
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training, and commit to attend a once-
per-month board meeting.
For more information, call 905-427-
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DURHAM — The Women’s Multi-
cultural Resource and Counselling Cen-
tre of Durham (WMRCC) wants your
ear.
On Thursday, July 27 from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. the group meets at the Kins-
men Heritage Centre, 120 Roberson
Dr., in Ajax. Along with the centre’s
annual general meeting will be the
launching of the group’s reports: trans-
forming the landscape, and integrating
gender and diversity into service deliv-
ery in Durham.
Durham Police Chief Vern White is
the keynote speaker.
Reservations are required prior
to July 25. For more information, or to
RSVP, call 905-427-7849.
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potential tragedy
DURHAM — St. John Ambulance
wants to teach you how to help others.
Basic rescuer CPR (CPR-C) is an
eight-hour, $65 course that teaches
how to assist a victim suffering from
shock, head and spinal injury, heart at-
tack, or cardiac arrest. Course dates
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at St. John Ambulance, 314 Harwood
Ave. S. Oshawa dates are Aug. 8 and
Sept. 2, at 64 Colborne St. E.
For more information, course
times, or to register, call 905-434-
7800.
St. John Ambulance
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DURHAM — Opportunities to help
others when they need it most are
available.
The St. John Ambulance Communi-
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and patient care at a number of events
such as parades, concerts, cultural
events, and hockey games.
St. John provides comprehensive
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sense of community responsibility and
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In brief
JULY 21, 2006
By Crystal Crimi
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Safety in
Durham schools shouldn’t
be jeopardized if a set of Safe
Schools Act recommenda-
tions is approved by
the Province.
The recommen-
dations, which
came following a
review of the Safe
Schools Act, will be
studied by the gov-
ernment over the
summer with a re-
sponse developed
for the fall. The Act
was implemented
in 2000 and has since re-
ceived numerous complaints
about fairness. Durham’s
Catholic and public school
boards are not concerned by
the recently released sugges-
tions.
“There was no recommen-
dation, I don’t believe, where
they were going to take
major things out of the Safe
Schools Act,” said
Craig Burch, the
Durham District
School Board’s
director of educa-
tion.
Originally, he
was concerned
major changes
could occur.
“I believe our
balance is quite
reasonable right
now and I hope that bal-
ance doesn’t change and it
doesn’t appear to be,” said
Mr. Burch.
Paul Pulla, a superinten-
dent for the Durham Catho-
lic District School Board, said
it doesn’t appear any of the
recommendations would
hinder school safety if ap-
proved.
“I think one of the con-
cerns most boards had was
they would scrap the Safe
Schools Act altogether,” said
Mr. Pulla.
Some significant changes
in the recommendations are
eliminating having two types
of expulsions; right now,
there are school and board-
wide expulsions. Mr. Burch
said principals have reported
some parents find the two
types and their determina-
tion confusing. Mr. Burch is
in favour of the suggestion.
To Mr. Pulla, including
mitigating factors for disci-
pline into the Act, such as
age and grade, is a good rec-
ommendation. He added it
hasn’t been a factor at Dur-
ham Catholic, but it’s always
nice to establish provincial
protocol.
“In some boards in the
province, it may have been
applied in a more black-and-
white way,” said Mr. Pulla.
The public board currently
considers the circumstanc-
es in each case as well. Mr.
Burch doesn’t like current
implications that, under the
Act, each specific case is not
viewed individually.
“The (suggestion) that we
don’t consider each circum-
stance is a myth,” said Mr.
Burch. “We’ve always consid-
ered all the different shades of
grey in each circumstance.”
Also suggested was re-
moving a teacher’s right to
suspend students, which has
never occurred in the public
board anyway, he said.
“We like the recommen-
dations very much,” said Mr.
Burch. “They believe in pro-
gressive discipline and we’ve
had a progressive discipline
program in place for two-
and-a-half years.”
Mr. Burch is also in favour
of alternative programs for
expelled students. Durham
school boards currently offer
a Return Ticket program.
“We’ve had such success,
how could I disagree with all
boards having it,” he said.
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Durham university
receives grant for
lab equipment
By Crystal Crimi
Staff Writer
DURHAM — Parasitic worms may
have less of a chance in the future,
thanks to new research funding for
the University of Ontario Institute of
Te chnology (UOIT).
The Oshawa campus’s faculty of
science recently received more than
$38,000 from the Canada Founda-
tion for Innovation (CFI) to develop
a research lab for parasite treat-
ment. Dr. Kamiel Gabriel, associate
provost of research at UOIT, said
the funding will be matched by the
provincial government and UOIT
is also receiving some private con-
tributions to bring its value up to
$90,000.
“We’re pretty thrilled here,” said
Sean Forrester, who was awarded
the opportunities grant to further
his parasitic studies. Although he
wasn’t expecting the grant, Dr. For-
rester said he was hoping.
“It’s probably the most impor-
tant component in my research,” he
said.
An assistant professor at UOIT,
he has been studying the genet-
ics of parasitic worms that infect
cattle and sheep in North America.
With the funds, he’ll be able to pur-
chase lab equipment to examine the
nervous system of the worms. Dr.
Forrester said there are many anti-
parasitic drugs available, but some
worms are adapting.
“You always have to stay one step
ahead of the parasites,” he said.
In Durham, the equipment can be
used in collaboration with research-
ers from other institutions, said Dr.
Forrester. It will also benefit gradu-
ate and undergraduate students.
The new lab equipment can be used
to study other types of parasites and
hosts as well.
“Right now we’re building our re-
search capacity,” said Dr. Forrester.
Currently, he is the only person at
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drugs.
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Educators come
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transition smooth
By Crystal Crimi
Staff Writer
DURHAM — With funds
from the Ministry of Edu-
cation, school boards have
been working on plans to
make the transition to high
school easier for struggling
students.
“Most kids are really ner-
vous when they start high
school,” said Karen Hume,
an education officer for stu-
dent success at the Durham
District School Board.
She said the ministry
funded every school board
across the province for tran-
sition days. The days allow
a board’s educators to share
their school’s plans for mak-
ing the entrance to second-
ary school smoother.
“What it does for us now
is give us a sharing opportu-
nity,” said Ms. Hume.
She said the funds pay
for supply teacher coverage,
lunch, copies of paperwork
and resource packages for
the transition meetings.
The Durham Catholic Dis-
trict School Board also holds
transition forums, which in-
clude Grade 7 and 8 teachers,
high school guidance coun-
sellors, elementary and sec-
ondary teachers responsible
for serving special-needs
students, principals and vice-
principals, as well as student
success teachers. John Mal-
loy, a superintendent of edu-
cation at the board, said of-
ficials have been involved in
transition planning for some
time.
“The funding will help
because it will provide us
with an opportunity to re-
lease teachers to participate
in these conversations,” said
Mr. Malloy.
The board’s transition
plans include meeting with
families of schools; inviting
high school and elementary
teachers to meet through-
out the year and learn how
things are taught and how
the transition can be made
smoother; and developing
new ways for students to visit
high school before they at-
tend.
“This is great stuff,” said
Mr. Malloy. “In my personal
opinion, we’re really focus-
ing on those issues that im-
pact students and student
success the most.”
According to the minis-
try, nearly 27 per cent of last
year’s Grade 9 students did
not earn all of their compul-
sory first-year credits and
are already facing an uphill
battle toward graduation.
The Province’s transition
plan includes more teach-
ers, intensive professional
development and improved
tracking of students and their
progress.
Ms. Hume said research
suggests going from Grade 8
to 9 is one of the biggest tran-
sitions to occur in a person’s
life. “They’re afraid of the un-
known,” she said.
Ms. Hume said some kids
don’t adjust as easily as oth-
ers and may not be as good
with organizational skills or
particular subjects. For stu-
dents educators may be con-
cerned about, some schools
look at their timetable and
make sure it’s balanced with
some subjects they are really
good at and enjoy.
Ms. Hume said some high
school transition programs
include taking kids into high
schools to sit in on classes,
having high school peer men-
tors go to elementary schools
to talk about high school, and
holding after-school tutoring
at high schools.
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THE NEWS ADVERTISER, July 21, 2006 PAGE 17 A/Pdurhamregion.com
Demands increase during
the hottest months
DURHAM — As water demand increases
50 to 80 per cent during the summer months,
the Region of Durham is reminding residents
to conserve water wherever possible, espe-
cially when watering lawns.
A Region bylaw states, in part, that resi-
dences with an even street number are asked
to water lawns on even-numbered calendar
days, while odd-numbered homes are to
water on odd-numbered calendar days. Fur-
thermore, limiting car washing, pool mainte-
nance, or installing a low-flow shower head
or toilet dam can help during the peak water
use season, which runs from May to Septem-
ber. It is also a way to save on water bills.
When watering lawns, a sprinkler that
sprays low to the ground and delivers large
droplets is more water efficient, as opposed
to a sprinkler that sprays higher into the
air, losing water through evaporation. Early
morning hours, before the temperature
reaches its daily peak, are the best time to
water the lawn, which only requires 2.5 cen-
timetres (one inch) of water, including rain-
fall, per week. The Region offers free water
gauges.
To pick up a free gauge call or visit the
following distribution centres: Vandermeer
Nursery, 588 Lakeridge Rd. N., Ajax, 905-
427-2525; Pickering Civic Complex, 1 The
Esplanade, Pickering, 905-420-4620; Pine
Ridge Garden Gallery, 2215 Brock Rd. N.,
Pickering, 905-683-5952, Rundle Garden
Centre, 1015 King St. E., Oshawa, 905-725-
6551, Environmental Factor, 133 Taunton Rd.
W., Oshawa, 905-571-5047.
For further water conservation advice,
‘The Household Guide to Water Efficiency’
is available free of charge.
To obtain a copy, call 905-668-7711 ext.
3511, or fill out an online form at www.re-
gion.durham.on.ca, under services, ‘water,
water efficiency, and household guide to
water efficiency.’
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