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Seaton
Ladies’
League
loses nine
holes
Changes under
way after more than
40 years of golfing
By Kristen Calis
kcalis@durhamregion.com
PICKERING — After more
than 40 years, the Seaton Ladies’
League most likely played its last
18-hole invitational tournament
recently.
The league’s president, Carolyn
Nixon, explained the 18-hole golf
course, Seaton Golf and Coun-
try Club, is set to shrink to nine
holes as a result of the recent
Seaton land exchange between
developers and the provincial
government.
“There’s been rampant ru-
mours for the past three years,”
she said. “Last year we thought
would be our last year, but we
survived a whole other year.
“It was just a couple of weeks
ago that we heard the word from
our general manager that yes,
Mattamy (Homes) is taking over
in the fall.”
The Seaton Ladies’ Invitational
Tournament on Sept. 12 attracted
74 golfers and raised money for
Victims’ reluctance
hinders police
By Jeff Mitchell
jmitchell@durhamregion.com
DURHAM — As she usually did,
she hurried toward the path by the
East Shore Community Centre on
Liverpool Road, taking a short cut
to the nearby GO Transit station
at the beginning of another work
day. It was a Monday morning like
any other.
Until the kid pulled a knife.
His face was covered with a ban-
dana but she could tell he was
young, probably a teenager. He’d
ridden by the woman as she made
her way to the train station around
6:20 that morning, suddenly stop-
ping short, dropping the bike and
confronting her.
“He was masked and he had a
knife,” said the woman, who’s in
her 40s and has lived in Pickering
for more than 25 years.
“He said, “Give me your
money.’”
Her mind a blank, she faced her
assailant.
“The only coherent thought in
my mind was, ‘Oh my God’,” she
said.
“And then I screamed at him. I
screamed really loud.”
Maybe it was his intended vic-
tim’s reaction; maybe it was the
garbage truck that came lumber-
ing up to the community centre
just then. Whatever the reason
the would-be robber cut and ran,
pedalling away on his bike. The
woman hailed the garbage truck
driver, who called police.
The incident has left the long-
time resident shaken, especially
since she never thought she’d be a
victim of such a crime in her own
UP, UP AND AWAY
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DURHAM — Aaron Holder launches himself with his kite during a
family outing at Rotary Park in Ajax. The Holders are from Pickering
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the Willow Foundation, a support project
for women with breast cancer.
One of the founding members, Nan Fal-
lon, explained although the golf course
opened in 1955, no ladies’ league existed
at the club until she, along with about a
dozen women, founded it in 1963.
“It’s been a wonderful group.
“We’ve had a tremendous amount of fun
over the years, many, many friendships
were formed and we had people from all
over,” she said, adding women from To-
ronto and Scarborough would often par-
ticipate.
The eldest member of the ladies’ league,
Ruth Doble, is 93 and participated in the
tournament with an 89-year-old grand-
mother.
“I bet it’s an all-time record of combined
ages in a golf tournament,” Ms. Nixon said.
She explained a number of members have
made alternate arrangements to golf else-
where once the course changes to nine
holes, but said some of them would like to
continue playing on the nine.
“If they want to play their nine, we’ll
certainly support them on just a nine-hole
course,” she said.
A member from the golf club’s incep-
tion, Ms. Fallon has many memories of her
years on the links.
“I look at it with a certain amount of sad-
ness now, you know, thinking that we had
such terrific times there and we might not
get them again,” she said.
Land swap leads to loss of nine holes
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PICKERING — A local club is getting
ready for its Christmas sale and looking for
vendors.
The Rouge Hill Seniors Club holds its
Christmas Tree and Craft Sale on Saturday,
Dec. 1. Eight foot tables are available for $20.
The event is at the Petticoat Creek Com-
munity Centre in Pickering from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. If you are interested in a table call 905-
420-4660 ext. 6320.
Board defeats request
to alter purpose
of travel plans
By Crystal Crimi
ccrimi@durhamregion.com
DURHAM — An Oshawa trustee wants
school board representatives to make a
statement while visiting China on busi-
ness this October.
Following the Durham Catholic District
School Board’s approval to send three
representatives to China to look at pos-
sible partnerships involving international
studies, Oshawa Trustee Fred Jones tried
to change the purpose of the trip.
“If we’re going to China, the message we
should be bringing is we’re not interested
(in partnerships) yet because you’re not
ready yet for the world community,” said
Trustee Jones in an interview.
After citing a published report on a
woman in China forced to have an abor-
tion at nine-months pregnant, he asked
during a Sept. 24 meeting for the board’s
delegates travelling there to inform ap-
propriate personnel that they have no in-
terest in making any agreements with the
country until its record on human rights
substantially improves.
He also wanted them to report back on
China’s response at the first board meet-
ing following their return.
Going on the trip from Oct. 12 to 21 are
Brock/Scugog/Uxbridge Trustee Kathy
LeFort and Superintendent Carolyn Anco.
They’ll accompany Rob Fitzsimmons,
principal of continuing and alternative
education.
The board is going in response to an
invitation to Greater Toronto Area schools
from the People’s Republic of China’s con-
sul for educational affairs. The Catho-
lic board has to pay for its travel to the
country, but accommodation, food and
domestic travel will be underwritten by
The China National Office for Teaching
Chinese as a Foreign Language.
Trustee Jones initially opposed the trip
altogether, listing public executions, child
labour and human rights violations as the
reasons.
“It’s deplorable” for the Catholic board
to consider entering into a partnership
with China.
Trustee Jones’s motion was defeated.
Pickering Trustee Paul Bannister ab-
stained from voting, Trustee Jones and
Pickering Trustee Jim McCafferty sup-
ported it, while Ajax Trustee Janice Old-
man, Whitby Trustee Mary Ann Martin
- board chairwoman, and Oshawa Trustee
Joe Corey were against.
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Colour Me Beautiful Fashion Show In
Support Of Cancer Centre Oct 11th
The Oshawa
Hospital Foundation is
proud to present The
2007 Colour Me Beauti-
ful Fashion Show & Din-
ner “In Memory of Ma-
rie Hibbert”, Founder of
the Colour Me Beautiful
Fashion Show and a
wonderful partner and
friend of the Founda-
tion who passed away
in June 2003, after a
brief battle with cancer.
Proceeds raised
through The Colour
Me Beautiful Fashion
Show will be directed
to the R.S. McLaughlin
Durham Regional Can-
cer Centre in Marie’s
memory. To-date that
amount totals more than
$60,000. As a special trib-
ute, The Oshawa Hospital
Foundation has selected
a Chemotherapy Station
in the new Cancer Centre
that displays the words “In
Memory of Marie A. Hib-
bert”.
This year’s Colour
Me Beautiful Fashion
Event will take place on
Thursday, October 11th
beginning at 6:00pm with
a cocktail reception at the
Tosca Banquet & Conference Centre
in Oshawa. The evening includes a
delicious dinner for guests to enjoy as
well as experiencing the latest fashion
trends of Audrey Jane’s,
Churchills-Crossings,
Dezire, JMichaels, Lei-
sure Lady, and Mackie
Harley Davidson Buell.
Although the Can-
cer Centre is now com-
pleted and treating pa-
tients, special fundraising
events like the Colour Me
Beautiful Fashion Show
& Dinner are more im-
portant than ever before,”
said Jim Szeman, Chief
Executive Offi cer for The
Oshawa Hospital Foun-
dation. “Our fundrais-
ing objective has shifted
from the building and
equipping the Cancer
Centre to now working to
continue to raise funds
to sustain this facility, the
research, education and
advanced programs and
services that is now avail-
able to cancer patients
and their families across
Durham Region and be-
yond.”
Thanks to the
dedication and support
of Marie Hibbert and our
many Foundation Friends,
“Bringing Cancer Care
Closer to Home” is no lon-
ger a dream, but a reality.
Tickets for this event are $65
each and can be purchased by con-
tacting Louise Clark at 905-576-8711,
ext. 3824.
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Catholic school trustee wants message sent to China
AJAX — Police have released photos of
suspects wanted for robbing an Ajax gas bar
at gunpoint last month.
The security camera images, captured
during the heist at a Westney Road Shell gas
bar around 3:30 a.m. Aug. 31, show young
men with their faces covered; one of the im-
ages shows a robber pointing a small hand-
gun.
The three suspects are white and believed
to be 18 to 25. They fled with cash and ciga-
rettes after ordering the clerk to lie on the
floor, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call
police at 905-579-1520, ext. 5359, or Crime
Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Robbery suspects sought
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PICKERING — Everyone has a
role to play in providing safe and
clean areas for recreation, says
Mayor Dave Ryan.
That’s why he and members of
council recognized the French-
man’s Bay Community Associa-
tion (FBCA) and The Environ-
mental Factor (TEF) at the lat-
est council meeting. The FBCA
adopted Douglas Park, located
east of Pine Creek and at the
north end of Frenchman’s Bay.
TEF adopted Major Oaks Park,
which is located east of West
Duffins Creek in the Brock Ridge
Neighbourhood.
The City also provided new
signs for the parks.
The Adopt-A-Park program
was reintroduced and revitalized
by the City to encourage com-
munity groups, schools, organi-
zations and businesses to work
with the City to enhance public
parks.
“The program is one of many
ways in which community-mind-
ed groups can make a positive
contribution towards a sustain-
able Pickering,” Mayor Ryan said
in a press release.
Mike and Betty Lau-Cadotte,
TEF owners, said their business
commitment is to educate and
help keep the community and
environment safe, clean and 100
per cent organic.
FBCA president Dave Johnson
said the group is proud of its 16
years of contributing to the City,
and it continues to make resi-
dents aware of Frenchman’s Bay
and Pickering’s waterfront.
“Our dedicated volunteers
will move us towards the next 16
years by bringing forward initia-
tives designed to educate about
good environmental steward-
ship in and around the bay,” Mr.
Johnson said in a press release.
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Correction
PICKERING — An error oc-
curred in a story in Wednesday’s
Pickering News Advertiser regard-
ing the Pickering Panthers car
wash for cancer on Saturday.
The event is at the Pickering
Boston Pizza outlet on Brock Road,
south of Hwy. 2. It goes from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
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error.
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P PAGE 6 THE NEWS ADVERTISER, September 28, 2007 durhamregion.com
No getting by these students
Debate at Dunbarton
High School shows
students care about
politics and their future
T he students at Dunbarton High
School seem to know a heck of a
lot more about politics than I did
before I began to vote.
The number of students who asked
intelligent, well-informed questions at
the all-candidates debate the school
held on Wednesday was very impres-
sive. Kudos to civics and politics teach-
er James Blair for helping organize it,
and for encouraging students to ask the
questions on their minds and push for
change where they see fit.
At the debate were four candidates
looking to snag the first provincial Pick-
ering-Scarborough East seat: Liberal
Wayne Arthurs; Progressive Conserva-
tive Diana Hall; Green Party hopeful
Anita Lalchan and NDP candidate An-
drea Moffat.
The first part of the debate allowed
all the candidates to answer students’
questions, and in the second part, stu-
dents could direct them at certain can-
didates.
At the beginning, students seemed
hesitant to step up to the microphone
and ask questions, but once one went
up, the line quickly grew.
The first question was simply “Why
are you here? We can’t vote.” There
were a lot of “ooohs” and “aaahs” com-
ing from the gym full of students, but
the question had merit. All candidates
agreed there are a number of issues in
this election that directly affect youth:
tuition, school funding, transit and
health care, for example.
And, at the end of the day, parents
listen to their children, something Mr.
Blair pointed out, and I’m sure these
students went home and told their par-
ents all about what they learned.
When Ms. Moffat talked about her
terrible experiences with transit and
how improving it is one of her top pri-
orities, the gym filled with cheering and
clapping. When tuition, school funding
and health care were addressed, many
of the students who questioned the
candidates spoke from personal expe-
riences. This showed that students are
interested in this election, whether they
can vote or not, and are definitely inter-
ested in their future.
One young woman asked how the
Green Party plans to improve things
such as transit while still protecting the
environment. Another asked how the
NDP plans to freeze tuition fees and
eventually get it down to zero with-
out raising taxes. These are all very
thought-provoking questions, and ones
that affect the future.
Another student, and former News
Advertiser co-op student Nadia Hus-
sein, was able to sum up the discus-
sion on something important to her:
lowering tuition fees. She noted Mr.
Arthurs didn’t want to change much,
Ms. Moffat was best at engaging and
relating to youth, Ms. Hall looked at
her papers most of the time and Ms.
Lalchan seemed nervous.
If any one of the candidates thought
they’d get off easily by speaking to a
bunch of students, they were wrong.
Kristen Calis’s column ap-
pears every third Friday. E-mail
kcalis@durhamregion.com.
Kristen
Calis
staff writer
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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As sure as the leaves turn brown and fall from the trees,
the temperature drops, the humidity lifts and the kids
are settled in school, new volunteers will be needed as
organizations ramp up this fall.
After a summer of few or no meetings and a less stressful
social schedule, all kinds of groups need a helping hand or two
to provide badly needed assistance.
Whether it be help with youth groups like the Boy Scouts or
Girl Guides, Big Brothers and Sisters or sports teams, or time
with seniors organizations, you can be sure your help would
be welcome. Community Care Durham- Ajax/Pickering, for
example, generally needs help to deliver meals, take shut-ins
to medical appointments, or simply spend some time visit-
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Volunteers offer support and help save organizations thou-
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And the volunteers can learn a new skill, provide expertise or
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always delivers.
Recently, hundreds of Ajax and Pickering residents donned
gloves and headed to our streams, creeks and Lake Ontario
shoreline to collect tonnes of garbage. These kinds of activities
make you feel good about yourself, proud of your community
and, as a side benefit, provide opportunities to meet some of
the wonderful, like-minded people also pitching in. Many,
long-term friendships are formed in this way.
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Be sure to help it help others by donating to the fundraising
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You don’t have to travel very far to find organizations that
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Just giving a little of your time can make a huge difference.
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To the editor:
Re: ‘Lame Goose frustrates Pickering man’.
I have some follow-up information which may be helpful to
your readers, especially Mr. Tustin.
Myself and a friend also spotted this same (I assume) goose
one morning recently when we went to the Pickering Recreation
Complex to play our morning round of squash. The goose was
on the grassy area of the north parking lot, right beside where we
usually park.
I reported the injured goose at the front desk of the rec centre
and asked them to contact wildlife services. They were very
responsive and helpful and followed up immediately. We then
heard a couple of days later that the goose had been picked up,
examined, and the news was that they felt the goose had an
excellent chance at recovery and was being treated.
James O’Hara
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quiet community.
“It never, ever crossed my mind,” she
said.
In the aftermath of the robbery she’s been
fearful and mistrustful of the people around
her.
“I don’t know that I would ever walk that
way again,” she said.
They called it Project Kansas. In re-
sponse to a veritable epidemic of
street-level robberies, cops in Ajax and
Pickering conducted a review of unsolved
reports of robberies, usually by youths tar-
geting youths, that had taken place in parks,
walkways, mall parking lots, plazas and
other areas kids gather and travel.
As of Sept. 10, 63 people had been arrest-
ed on more than 270 charges. The accused
are between 14 and 20; the vast majority of
the victims were of the same demographic --
with the exception of an 84-year-old woman
who was the victim of a purse snatching.
The numbers sound encouraging until
one factors in a chilling fact: The cops are
made aware of only a fraction of such inci-
dents.
“What we’re finding is that we’ve had
over 100 reported street-level robberies,”
said Detective Constable Craig MacInall,
discussing incident reports for 2007.
“That doesn’t go to the ones that aren’t
being reported,” said Det.-Const. MacInall,
a youth officer working out of Durham po-
lice’s 19 Division in Ajax/Pickering.
Indeed, convincing young people to re-
port such crimes and co-operate with police
is an impediment to addressing the issue in
the first place, he said.
For one thing, there’s the youth culture
attitude that it’s wrong to co-operate with
the cops -- to “snitch”, Det.-Const. MacInall
said,
But there’s another element, according
to Detective Adam Kelly, also of 19 Divi-
sion: They’re scared. Victimized once by
being robbed, many kids are afraid they’ll
be further targeted if they identify their as-
sailants.
It’s a reality rooted in the nature of the
crime, he said. While kids are robbing oth-
ers of modern-day trappings such as iPods,
cellphones, jewelry and high-end hats and
clothing, these robberies aren’t so much
about collecting loot as amassing power
and street cred.
“I don’t necessarily believe it’s about the
merchandise,” Det. Kelly said.
“I think it’s about displaying power, distin-
guishing their toughness to their friends.”
For the victims, there’s a dilemma: do
they tell or not?
“Some do come forward,” Det.-Const.
MacInall said.
“The ones that don’t are terrified of the
ramifications of what will happen if they
do.”
“A lot of cases are closed because we
can’t proceed because of a lack of co-opera-
tion from victims or witnesses,” Det. Kelly
added.
The robbery of the woman near the GO
station is something of an anomaly
in that a young person targeted an
adult victim, Det. Kelly said. But, he added,
it’s symptomatic of what happens when a
criminal does crime and gets away with it:
He gets bolder.
“A 15-year-old doesn’t just wake up one
morning and decide to become a street
thug,” he said.
Adds Det.-Const. MacInall: “We can’t
stress enough that if you don’t step up to
the plate and do the right thing, it will hap-
pen to you again.”
To that end, police are preparing to dis-
tribute reference cards to young people and
their parents, explaining just what robbery
is, what to do if they’re victimized -- and the
penalties for perpetrators of the crime.
It’s the hope of police that parents will
be aware of the extent of the problem and,
should they notice their youngster with,
say, a new cellphone, iPod or other piece
of property, ask the right questions and get
police involved if they suspect illegal activ-
ity. “It’s not just a police problem,” Det. Kelly
said.
Above all, police want to convince young
people to recognize when they’ve been vic-
timized and get the authorities involved as
soon as possible.
“It is absolutely crucial they report it as
soon as it happens and they are in a safe
condition to do so,” Det. Kelly said.
“The quicker we can respond to the area,
the better the chance is of us locating the
suspects.”
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Crime ‘not just a police problem’
AJ Groen/ News Advertiser photo
These police officers from the Street Level Robbery Unit, work out of 19 Division. They are, from
left, Detective Constable Alex Beline, Det. Const. Craig MacInall, Det. Const. Mike Fong and Detec-
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✦ Crime from page 1
Deal reached
with UAW
eliminates
Canada’s cost
advantage,
DesRosiers says
By Izabela
Jaroszynski
ijaroszynski@durhamregion.com
DURHAM — General
Motors workers may be
back on the job at the car
assembly plants in Oshawa,
but their future job security
is being called into ques-
tion by one of Canada’s top
auto analysts.
Dennis DesRosiers is
calling the settlement be-
tween GM and the United
Auto Workers -- reached
early Wednesday after a na-
tionwide strike paralyzed
production at GM plants
on both sides of the border
-- a “very dark day for the
Canadian automotive sec-
tor.”
“With a stroke of a pen
last night, GM and very
shortly Ford and Chrysler
will have created about a
$25 per hour cost advan-
tage to build vehicles in the
U.S. instead of Canada,” Mr.
DesRosiers said.
The cost advantage is the
result of a deal to off-load
health care costs
from the com-
pany to a trust
established by
the union. In ex-
change, the UAW
has been given
“job-security guarantees,”
Ron Gettelfinger, the presi-
dent of the union told re-
porters after reaching the
tentative deal that put his
73,000 members back to
work.
“This is code for ‘GM
will no longer be able to
invest as much in Canada
and Mexico,’” Mr. DesRo-
siers said. “If the UAW job
numbers over the next four
years will not change, then
which workers will lose
their jobs?”
It is a rhetorical ques-
tion to which Chris Buckley
doesn’t want to hear the
answer. The president of
the Canadian Auto Work-
ers local 222 says contract
negotiations -- up for re-
newal in September 2008
-- will be some of the most
difficult in the union’s his-
tory.
“But we knew that even
before the UAW signed their
tentative agreement,” he
said. “We’ve known these
negotiations
are going to be
tough. It is a dif-
ficult time for
the auto indus-
try and the high
Canadian dollar
is making it even harder.”
The Canadian auto sector
has long enjoyed a signifi-
cant cost advantage over its
U.S. counterparts, in large
part due to a low Canadian
dollar and savings from the
public health care system.
But with that advantage
now gone, will the CAW be
willing to also cut benefits
and wages by $25 per hour
to level the playing field?
“No,” Mr. Buckley said
immediately. “We are going
to negotiate the best deal
possible for our members.”
But while he wouldn’t
specify what, if anything,
the CAW would be willing
to concede in the next con-
tract, he did acknowledge
that future product place-
ment will be the top con-
cern for the union in the
talks.
The Oshawa car as-
sembly plant -- which will
soon be transformed into
a single line flexible manu-
facturing facility -- so far
only has commitment for
one product, the low-vol-
ume Chevrolet Camaro,
after 2008. “It’s tough,” Mr.
Buckley said. “And it gets
tougher each week.”
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PICKERING — The Family Coalition Party
of Ontario is pro-life, pro-family and wants
more tax exemptions for families.
Mitchell Persaud, a pastor at New Horizon
United Reform Church in Scarborough and
ESL and Bible teacher to new-immigrant
Chinese, is running
against Liberal candi-
date Wayne Arthurs,
Progressive Con-
servative candidate
Diana Hall, NDP can-
didate Andrea Moffat
and Ontario Libertar-
ian Party candidate
Josh Insang in the
Pickering-Scarbor-
ough East riding.
Mr. Persaud said
the party supports a
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per adult and
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of $2,000 per
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“Trouble with money is it is one of the
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terview.
“So we think these things would help in
that way.”
The party is opposed to abortion on
both moral and economic grounds, “and of
course, we believe marriage is between one
man, one woman, and it’s the best place for
children.”
The party also supports an education
grant per child by the government where
parents could choose where they want to
send their children.
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He believes in stiffer punishment and bet-
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