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48 PAGES ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1
LIFE’S A BEACH
Professional event attracts
top players in Pickering
Page B1
Man was shot to death, trailer load stolen
Mike Pochwat/ News Advertiser photo
A firefighter breaks a windows with an axe, as Pickering Fire Services battled smoke from a fire Sunday at Vaughan Willard Public
School. The cause of the fire is still unknown. The blaze attracted a large gathering of onlookers, many of whom were students of
the school.
Pickering parties
for Canada Day
PICKERING — Pickering is throwing
one big birthday bash for Canada on
July 1 at Kinsmen Park.
Pickering’s annual Canada Day party
of free family entertainment and activi-
ties begins at noon and ends after dusk
with the fireworks display.
The children’s area is open from noon
until 4:30 p.m., featuring classic enter-
tainment such as face painting, penny
carnival games, crafts and an inflatable
alley featuring Dora the Explorer. But it
also has several new components.
Body found in truck
behind Pickering store
By Jeff Mitchell
Staff Writer
PICKERING — A trucker found mur-
dered outside a Pickering Wal-Mart store
was shot, police say.
Durham Regional Police homicide
detectives are appealing to the public
for information as they try to trace the
movements of Donald James Woods,
whose body was discovered last Friday
morning in his truck behind the Brock
Road store.
An autopsy conducted Saturday
morning in Toronto confirmed Mr.
Woods, 35, was killed by gun fire. He is
Durham Region’s third homicide victim
of 2006. Police
say his truck was
seen parked in
the same spot at
least 24 hours be-
fore a concerned
citizen called to
report the suspi-
cious vehicle.
Mr. Woods, 35,
of Island Lane in
Athens, Ont., near
Brockville, was
last seen in the parking lot of a Brockville
A&P store between 9 and 9:30 p.m. June
21, police said. He was headed west with
a load of meat and was expected to pull
over at the Truck Stop before continuing
his run to the Toronto area.
The load of meat, destined for delivery
north of Toronto, was missing from the
trailer when police examined the scene
Friday morning.
Police say Mr. Woods’s truck, a white
2006 Volvo tractor hauling a silver tri-
axle transport trailer with the logo “AK
Brothers Transport” on the side, was
seen behind the Wal-Mart store around
8 a.m. Thursday by a citizen who took
note of it. Police were called in around 8
a.m. Friday.
Police swarmed the area throughout
Durham officers honour
35 people for helping
them do their job
By Erin Hatfield
Staff Writer
DURHAM — With the left side of his
pressed shirt slightly untucked, six-year-
old Rick McLean shyly stepped in front
of Durham’s community leaders, cam-
eras and 100 onlookers.
Rick, Whitby’s littlest hero, was at Dur-
ham council on June 21 to accept an
award from Durham Regional Police.
The plaque, as large as his torso, rec-
ognizes Rick’s demonstration of excep-
tional courage and calmness in a scary
situation.
“O n June 13, 2005 then five-year-old
Rick’s mother, Lisa, passed out from a
medical condition on the kitchen floor,”
Deputy Chief Mike Ewles said. “Rick
called police for assistance, calmly relay-
ing important information to officers.”
Rick then waited outside and waved to
officers so they would know where to go
and then directed paramedics.
Rick was among 35 citizens honoured
for lending local police a helping hand
with arrests and investigations in 19 sep-
arate incidents from the past year.
Following the ceremony, Rick said it
was a special experience.
“I’m going to show it to the kids at my
school,” he said.
Also recognized at the ceremony were
eight citizens from Pickering who helped
protect a woman whose husband came
to her workplace and began stabbing her
while she hid under her desk.
“Their quick actions that day helped
save the life of the victim and prevented
the suspect from harming anyone else,”
Deputy Chief Ewles said.
Still no cause in weekend
blaze that damaged
portapac classrooms
PICKERING — A cause may never
be determined in a weekend fire that
brought an early end to the year for
Pickering’s Vaughan Willard Public
School.
A handful of students arrived at the
Dixie Road school Monday morning to
learn of the fire on Sunday in a porta-
pac of primary classrooms. The Dur-
ham District School Board announced
Monday classes would not resume this
week, the last in the school year.
“Not a positive way to end the school
year,” said Principal Scott Van Driel,
noting no one was hurt.
Mr. Van Driel was contacted at his
home by staff
Sunday night
when the fire
broke out. He
noted Monday
it was still early,
but he was hopeful a lot of the equip-
ment inside could be saved.
Pickering Fire Services remained on
Tu esday, while Vaughan Willard teach-
ers worked out of Pine Ridge Secondary
School.
“Right now we’re saying (the cause)
is undetermined and we’re not sure if
we’ll find a cause or not,” said Pickering
Fire Services Chief Bill Douglas.
The school went ahead with its Grade
8 graduation yesterday (June 27) at Pine
Ridge, and the dance was held there
instead of at Vaughan Willard.
In a press release Monday, the board
announced student report cards will be
available for pickup tomorrow (Thurs-
day) from noon to 4 p.m. in the portable
at the school.
Pickering Fire Captain Dominic
Browne said it was “heavy-duty work”
finding and extinguishing the fire. Fire-
fighters responded at 5:47 p.m. to the
rear of the school where the portapac
is attached to the main building. Capt.
Browne said the fire began underneath
Pickering eight among super citizen crime fighters
✦ See Loss, Page A4
✦ See Fireworks, Page A4
[ Briefly ]
Fourth murder
suspect arrested
PICKERING — A f ourth
suspect in the murder of a man
whose remains were found last
year in rural Pickering is now in
police custody.
Robert (Bobby) Quinn, 26,
surrendered to police in British
Columbia Monday.
Durham homicide cops are on
their way to Nelson, B.C., where
the man is being held, to charge
him with second-degree murder.
Mr. Quinn, formerly of Kes-
wick, is one of four men with ties
to the Bandidos biker gang ac-
cused of beating Shawn Douse, a
35-year-old father of two, to death
in a Keswick house last December.
Police said the attack arose from
a dispute over drugs.
Mr. Douse’s battered remains
were found last December in a
f ield just east of the York-Durham
line. Police believe he was killed
in the Keswick home of Bandidos
prospect Jamie Flanz, who was
one of eight members or associ-
ates of the outlaw gang slaugh-
tered last April near London. Mr.
Douse’s murder was not related
to those slayings, police say.
Three other men -- Cameron
Acorn, Pierre Aragon and Ran-
dolph Brown -- have also been
charged with Mr. Douse’s murder .
Pickering clerk
threatened
PICKERING — A clerk was
threatened with a knife during a
convenience store robbery Sun-
day night in Pickering, police said.
Tw o men burst into the Mac’s
store at Liverpool and Kingston
roads around 7:45 p.m. and held
a knife to the 54-year-old em-
ployee’s stomach, Durham police
said.
The suspects took the man’s
wallet and emptied the till of
cash before taking off. The clerk
wasn’t hurt.
Police are seeking two sus-
pects.
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School’s out for Vaughan Willard
Donald Woods
For more
on this story
DurhamDurham Daily News
Every weekday at noon
the day, toiling behind crime
scene tape.
Mr. Woods’s identity and
cause of death were con-
firmed Saturday.
Homicide cops are hop-
ing to hear from anyone who
may have seen Mr. Woods or
his truck -- the tractor and
trailer bore Quebec plates -
- between June 21 and 23.
Call 905-683-9100, ext. 7810,
or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-
222-8477.
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