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Home My WebLink AboutNA2016_08_03PICKERINGNews Adver tiser durhamregion.com WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 p.9-12 Pickering Real Estate section p.14-17 Special section: Forever Young Justin Greaves / Metroland PICKERING – Pickering Public Library CEO Cathy Grant inside the main branch of the library. Durham cops stop 800 vehicles in mid-summer RIDE effort Police lay one impaired charge DURHAM -- Durham police stopped hundreds of vehicles during a mid-sum- mer crackdown on impaired driving Thursday night, and charged just one driver with exceeding the legal limit. Officers in the North and East divisions set up RIDE lines in their communities July 29, checking in excess of 800 vehicles. In the North division lines were set up in Port Perry and Beaver- ton and 410 vehicles were stopped, police said. One of those drivers was charged with driving while exceeding the legal blood alcohol limit, and two other drivers had their licences suspended for registering a warning on breath tests. A checkpoint on Hwy. 2 in Newcastle saw no impaired charges among the 420 vehicles stopped, but two drivers did get suspensions for warnings. Elsewhere in the region Durham offi- cers laid three impaired charges in stops not related to RIDE, police said. Pickering thinks next generationin library’s expansion plans Cost of library expansion, upgrades could cost around $20 million Kristen Calis kcalis@durhamregion.com PICKERING -- The Pickering Public Library has won many awards and con- tinues to record high usage numbers. But rather than becoming compla- cent, staff and the Pickering Public Library board will only aim higher for the future. See PICKERING page 8 THEBIGSTORE BESIDETHE4010 557 Kingston Rd., Pickering www.pickeringtoyota.com 905-420-9000 SALES •SERVICE PARTS •BODYSHOP Express Silver Detailing Package(Reg.$59.95) $29.95 +Hst AUGUST SPECIAL (SUV’s extra $15.00) 1800 Kingston Road, Pickering (905) 831-5400 www.pickeringhonda.com The Perfect Drive. 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Fracas breaks out during sentencing of Cole Henderson convicted of second-degree murder OSHAWA -- A Markham man has been charged after a convicted killer was attacked during a sentencing hearing Tuesday afternoon at the courthouse in Oshawa. The startling outburst occurred July 26 just after a judge had sentenced Cole Hen- derson of Uxbridge to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years. Mr. Henderson was convicted in June of second-degree murder in the death of Richard Morrison, who was stabbed to death in his Galloway Crescent home in early 2014. Mr. Henderson was being escorted from a prisoner’s dock by guards when a man who had been sitting in the front row of the public gallery throughout the hearing suddenly leapt up and charged, throwing a punch at the prisoner. Court security officers immediately tack- led the thrashing suspect; Durham homi- cide detectives, who were in court for the sentencing, helped restrain the man. Startled spectators, including members of both Mr. Henderson’s and Mr. Morri- son’s families, were hustled from the fifth- floor courtroom. As they left, more police officers arrived on a dead run, summoned by a security officer’s call for help. Mr. Henderson didn’t appear to be hurt; glass surrounding the prisoner’s dock was damaged, police said. One special Constable sustained minor injuries during the melee, police said. Garrett Naylor, 29, of Walden Street in Markham, is charged with assault and mis- chief under $5,000. Markham man charged in courtroom attack on convicted Durham killer Metroland file photo DURHAM -- A Markham man was charged after convicted murderer Cole Henderson was attacked during his sentencing hear- ing at an Oshawa courtroom on July 26. du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Au g u s t 3 , 2 0 1 6 3 PNewly Created Energy Advisor Positions Available Now! 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With the Liberals now in power, the Par- liamentary committee has started the search for a new voting system to replace the traditional one. The options to replace FPTP include preferential ballots, ranked choice voting, single transferable votes and mixed member proportional repre- sentation. All have their pros and cons and it’s a big decision to be made. One major question for the committee to consider is this. Will the ultimate choice be suitable for today’s Canada and get more people out to vote? Under the traditional system, many people feel discouraged and disenfran- chised. Canada has multiple political par- ties but it’s basically just been two parties doing all the governing. The Liberals and Conservatives have formed federal governments for almost 150 years. But what if you don’t identify with either of those two parties? And quite a few people don’t. What if you vote NDP or Green? In many ridings, you might end up feeling your vote doesn’t count elec- tion after election. Take the Oshawa riding in the 2015 elec- tion, where voter turnout was 63.5 per cent. In the immediate aftermath, Elec- tions Canada showed the Conservative candidate won with 38.2 per cent of the votes. The NDP had 31.9 per cent and the Liberals 27.3 per cent, the Greens 2.5 per cent. So the candidates coming sec- ond and third had more votes combined than the winner and the majority of vot- ers didn’t vote for the winner but it didn’t matter because it’s first past the post. You can see why some people, knowing things don’t change and not agreeing with the two main parties, have decided not to vote. And some people don’t even start vot- ing. UOIT professor Scott Aquanno said in 2015 that young people, ages 18 to 35, are less likely to vote and more likely not to be engaged in an election. He said not even four out of 10 young people vote, com- pared to 75-80 per cent of seniors. So how do you get young people, and those who feel discouraged people to the polls, besides by making voting mandato- ry? They have to believe their votes make a difference, their voices are heard. This requires a new voting system that addresses all Canadians’ needs and gives us more than one or two real choices when it comes time to vote, whatever that system is. 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Email: newsroom@durhamregion.com Member of the Canadian Circulations Audit Board, Ontario Community Newspaper Association, Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Local Media Association and the National News Council. Content is protected by copyright. Publication Sales Agreement #40052657 Pokémon GO’s precarious “Play-bour”: real work, augmenting the economy column One balmy evening last weekend, I played Pokémon GO, the glob- ally popular location-based aug- mented reality game. Guided by GO’s GPS-generated map and eyes fixed on the screen of my smartphone, I walked around my neighborhood catch- ing 3D-rendered Poké-creatures like Jynx, Drowzee and Electabuzz. I flicked Poké- balls, collected Potions at Poké-stops, pow- ered up my Pokédex with Stardust and Candy, and eventually advanced to level five. The next morning, I woke up, loaded GO again, and a Drowzee appeared on my desk in front my computer screen. The blend- ing of Go’s fantastical space of play with the humdrum place where I do a lot of my daily writing reminded me of some research on how video games can blur fun in the virtual world with toil in the real one. Ten years ago, the journal Games and Culture published Nick Yee’s path-break- ing article, “The Labour of Fun.” Yee argued that video games are basically “work plat- forms that train us to become better work- ers” for the digital economy by getting us to complete tasks “similar to the work per- formed in business corporations.” With this in mind, GO might be seen as a platform that trains the millions of millen- nials currently playing it to be comfortable with the daily grind of distributed task-work for networked corporations in a global digi- tal economy. With smartphone in hand and an Internet connection, gamers can access GO anytime and from almost anywhere; likewise, work- ers enter online labour markets such as UpWork, Mechanical Turk and TaskRabbit, round the clock, and from locations around the world. The eyes of GO players zigzag from screen to locale to screen in search of tasks to do; workers stare at screens too, shifting from website to website, scanning for fresh gigs. GO play is mobile and entails doing tiny repetitive tasks in exchange for virtual valuables like Poké-coins; similarly, distributed work involves completing little pieces of bigger projects in exchange for vir- tualized cash. GO’s play across borders is not yet regulated by governments and has violated some laws; mobile virtual work often bypasses country-specific employ- ment standards and subverts the basic rights of workers. Go’s play, however, is not just analogous to work in the global digital economy, but is real value-adding labour that supports the bottom line of Niantic, Go’s developer, and many other firms playing in Poké-land to turn a profit. When playing GO, we generate a lot of personal and locational data about our- selves. Niantic uses this product of our play to get advertisers to pay for the service of custom geo-targeting us with ads for their goods. Retailers and fast-food restaurants pay Niantic to turn their stores into Poké- stops in hopes of increasing consumer traf- fic and boosting sales. Using Poké-coins purchased with credit cards, small busi- nesses buy up “Lure Modules” and get their workers to drop them around their entranc- es to attract new creatures, and shoppers. Uber drivers get paid to transport players from Poké gym to gym while college stu- dents “grind-craft” high-level Pokémon accounts, not for themselves, but for eBay, where they sell from $10 to $500. Pokémon GO fuses play to labour. Precar- ious as it is, this “play-bour” is an emerging form of real work that augments the econo- my. -- Tanner Mirrlees is an assistant professor in the communication and digital media studies program, faculty of social science and humanities, at UOIT. Tanner mirrlees Guest columnist du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Au g u s t 3 , 2 0 1 6 7 AP Free Consultations with Qualified Professionals* *Available in-store West Durham Ostomy Clinic Clinics held the 3rd Thursday of every month 10am – 2pm Call to book an appointment 905-839-6200 Clinic@themedicalsupplystore.ca 635 Kingston Road, Pickering (Just west of Whites Rd in plaza beside National Sports) 905-839-6200 1-877-839-6209 www.themedicalsupplystore.ca Marie G. Michaels & Associates BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS & NOTARIES PUBLIC WE STAND UP FOR YOU WHEN IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF! 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The project began in May and was supposed to wrap up by July 22. Now the Region of Durham is reporting it will continue into the fall. If you know of a construction project in Durham Region that’s slowing you down, let us know by emailing newsroom@durhamre- gion.com. AJAX Where: Salem Road offramp on Hwy. 401 westbound will be closed. When: Aug. 2 and 3, 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Reason: To facilitate the construc- tion of Hwy. 407 East through the area. Where: Lane restrictions on Bayly Street around the intersection of Harwood Avenue When: Work begins the week of July 11 and is expected to be com- plete by Sept. 30. Reason: Road rehabilitation work includes watermain replacement, curb and sidewalk replacement, asphalt removal, grading and pav- ing. Where: Lane restrictions around the intersection of Westney Road (Regional Rd. 31) and Rossland Road in Ajax. When: Work began the week of April 11 and is scheduled to be complete by the end of November. Reason: Road reconstruction work includes intersection improve- ments, road widening, curb and gutter, a new multi-use path, and the installation of new traffic con- trol signals, storm sewers, noise barrier fences and street lighting. Where: Rossland Road, Shell Drive to Bunting Court. When: November to 2017. Reason: Road widened to four lanes. PICKERING Where: Lane restrictions on Liver- pool Road. When: July 4 to Aug. 15. Reason: To install a new sanitary sewer. Where: Lane restrictions on Brock Road between Major Oaks Drive and Finch Avenue. When: July 19 to Sept. 30. Reason: Road improvements and watermain installation to support new development. Where: Lane restrictions on the south side of Taunton Road West and Old Taunton Road (Conces- sion Rd. 4), from just south of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Durham Region reservoir con- struction site, located west of Brock Road When: Started in April and is expected to be finished by the end of September Reason: To install a trunk sanitary sewer and a feeder water main Where: Lane restrictions around the intersection of Brock Road (Regional Rd. 1) and Kingston Road (Durham Hwy. 2). When: Work began the week of April 18 and is scheduled to be completed by November. Reason: Construction work includes storm sewer and water main replacements, road widen- ing, sidewalk reconstruction, traf- fic signal replacements, and the addition of bus-only and bicycle lanes. -- For the complete list of road construction in Durham, visit durhamregion.com Reserve 905-472-3085 herongate.com Herongate BarnDinner Theatre This S u m m e r ʼs H i t C o m e d y ! 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Improvements could see an expan- sion of the first and second floors, the basement and possibly the addition of a third floor. Ideally an archive would go into the basement; currently old materi- als are all over the city, at the Pickering Museum Village and even in peoples’ homes. But it isn’t just the physical space staff would like to expand. “One of the things we think this com- munity isn’t aware of is we don’t just want a bigger library -- we really want to build a ‘next generation library,’ a library that is geared for the future.” Many people today have smaller homes or condos, leaving them with less space to meet at home. “We want to be a space that lets people collaborate and learn together, a real community space,” she says. Ms. Grant says young people today learn differently than in the past. “In my day it was in a lecture theatre,” she says. “Now kids are learning hands- on, they’re learning to work collabora- tively and that’s because more things are complex.” Libraries need services, technologies, and staffing to support the new ways people are learning. Ms. Grant is seeing these ‘next genera- tion libraries’ sprout up in other coun- tries, and even in nearby municipalities, such as Clarington where the Courtice branch has a digital media lab, includ- ing a green screen, and Vaughan, which has a library with a recording studio and a green screen room. “It’s about facilitating learning and skill development in communities,” she says, adding these types of features help those who can’t afford to use them otherwise. Although the library is ready to expand, the project is expected to cost around $20 million. The library receives development charges, but not enough for a full expan- sion. Library staff will apply for arts and culture grants, but it could come down to requesting tax dollars in a future bud- get. “It’s a hard thing to ask for at times when you’re trying to keep taxes low,” Ms. Grant says. “I don’t know when that ask will happen but it’ll be sometime hopefully in the near future.” Community consultation is important to Ms. Grant. “We feel a real sense of ensuring that our services meet the needs of the com- munity,” she says. “Absolutely we’ll be doing an awful lot of collaboration with the community.” In the meantime, staff is looking at what it can do with a limited budget, to make a “few tweaks to make us better in terms of our space. But it’s minor.” For more information, visit www.pic- net.org . 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Writer Guy Hibbert initially wrote Mir- ren’s character for a man, but South Afri- can director Gavin Hood pictured the authoritative Mirren in the role of the British military officer, who patiently — though increasingly impatiently — awaits word from higher ups in her government as well as the U.S. leaders to authorize the strike. (spoiler alert) Complications ensue when a young Kenyan girl sets up a stall selling bread to passersby just outside the suspected terrorists’ compound. The film poses moral questions about col- lateral damage and drone warfare while delivering entertaining performances by the ensemble cast. “Breaking Bad’s” Aaron Paul, “Captain Phillips” breakout star Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam and the late Alan Rickman, in his final role, also star. Mirren, who received an Academy Award for her depiction of Elizabeth II in 2006’s “The Queen,” has received a lot of posi- tive notices lately for her performances in 2015’s independent Nazi art theft drama “Woman in Gold,” and her supporting performance as a gossip columnist in the Hollywood blacklist drama “Trum- bo,” spoke about playing a military officer with a great deal of responsibility resting on her shoulders as well as working again with Rickman, with whom she shares no scenes, but remembers fondly from previ- ous projects. Q: Could you talk about how this project first came together for you? Mirren: When I received the script I didn’t know that there was this backstory, this originally being written for a man, and I so applaud Gavin, for casting me. Obviously, that was great for me, but any woman, and I love how [he] articulated it just now, that it takes it out of just being a boy’s movie about war, and it makes it much more uni- versal that we are all a part of this con- versation, and I really applaud [him] for that. I wish more directors had that point of view, and writers. I received the script, and it was an absolute page-turner, but I thought much more than that. I thought the subject matter was serious and threw up a conversation that I think we all need to be having. This is the reality of war in our present day and age, and I can only assume will become more, and more prevalent … so we need to discuss this, and really be aware of what the various issues are. Q: (In January) we lost a great actor, your co-star Alan Rickman. What do you remember about working with him? Mirren: Unfortunately in this film I didn’t actually get to work with Alan, because we all shot our pieces separately, but I have worked with Alan in the past. On the stage actually, not in movies. I think Alan would have been incredibly proud that this was his last movie, because what I love about it is that the Alan you see up on the screen is much closer to the real Alan Rickman that we all knew and loved. You see his intelligence, you see his wit, and you see his authority, and I think that, that was very much the Alan that we knew. He was a wonderful actor, so he always gave an incredible performance (“Harry Pot- ter”, “Die Hard”) but I think the Alan that we see on the screen in this movie is very close to the real Alan. The inner soul of the film, I think is very much something that Alan would have identified with, and would have been very proud to be a part of. 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The hearing aids attune to the person you are speaking to and can also recognize if ambient noise increases in the background. ConnectHearingiscurrently looking to improve hearing for people who experience these challenges and want to try this new technology. We are particularly interested in candidates who have trouble hearing speech in the situations discussedaboveandcan benefitfromatrialtoseewhether they notice an improvement. Interested people can register for a free hearing evaluation and a no-obligation trial of the Audéo V hearingaids bycalling 1.888.408.7377. Mirren: I had no idea how far the technol- ogy has gone, and because it’s gone this far how far, therefore, will it go … in the next 10 or 20 years, that completely took me by surprise. I’ve never really thought about it, and it made me really consider the reality of this stuff on the ground, the extraordi- nary way in which warfare has changed. I do remember my parents, who went through The Blitz in London, said the most terrifying thing about being bombed was not actually the airplanes, the German airplanes coming over, although that was terrifying, it was what the Germans had invented, this thing called the doodlebug, which is just a very early form of drone warfare, which was an unmanned vehi- cle that came over and made this drone sound, and she said the terror was when you heard the sound stop, because when it stopped was when it dropped its bombs. So, my mother, in a way, had sort of first- hand experience of what these people (in the film) experience. It must be so terrify- ing, because it’s coming out of nowhere; you don’t know that it’s coming. Q: When you watched the completed film for the first time with the other parts of it that you were not involved in, what did you think? Mirren: I was thinking, “You know what, in a way it’s like a courtroom drama, and the audience is the jury, and when the jury leaves the theater at the end of the film, they’re going off to make their decisions about what is right and what is wrong, so I’m really hoping that people will leave the theater, go out to dinner, and have very intense conversations about morality, phi- losophy, and all that. Q: Some in the audience may want your character to authorize the bombing as the suicide bombers prepare for their mission. Are they monsters for wanting you to do that? Mirren: No, it was necessary because if you put the camera on and put each one of the (potential suicide bombing victims) in the mall, who will die. You have to think “what about their lives”? Are we sacrificing them? It’s a hor- rendous moral decision. I was thinking of Hitler’s invasion of Hungary, and Poland, and the way the British, the Americans, and the French, all looked the other way, saying, “Well, oh no, we don’t want war. Don’t let us have war. War is too horri- ble.” and then (the Germans) unleashed this unbelievable horror for the next five years, unbelievable horror. At some point you do need someone who makes a tough decision, a horrible decision, a hard, bru- tal decision, but makes it, and in making it saves lives. In the case of Hitler, it would’ve been saving millions, and millions of lives. There’s no easy answer. The other thing the film does —maybe people will argue against me — but it actu- ally is a good argument for democracy, because it’s the democratic process of the chain of command, the discussion some- times it’s foolish. There’s a lot of funniness and farcical and funny, but there is that process. It’s not a military dictator saying to do it. There is a sense of conscious, and moral- ity, and we know we have to talk this out and assess its legality. Photo by Keith Bernstein, Bleecker Street Helen Mirren stars as Colonel Katherine Powell in “Eye in the Sky”. Mirren recalls fondly working with the late Alan Rickman From page 14 du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Au g u s t 3 , 2 0 1 6 16 AP 75 BAYLY STWEST AJAX L1S 7K7 NO FRILLS PLAZA Senior’s Day Last Monday of each monthsave 20% Full Postal Outlet “From anywhere...to anyone” HOURs: MONDAYTO FRIDAY 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM SATURDAY 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM SUNDAY 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Allergies?We have the RELIEFfor what ails you! VisitThe Baywood Walk-In Clinic. Located next to our pharmacy. Open Mon.- Fri.6pm - 9pm Weekends & Holidays 10am - 2pm Fill your prescriptions online at our website! We WantTo BeYOUR Drug Store! 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The site also indicates that between 1998 and 2005, the overall rate of police-reported violence against seniors increased by 20 per cent and nearly half of the victims were victimized by family mem- bers. How many incidents have gone unre- ported? These are alarming statistics con- sidering that the Elder Abuse Ontario web- site (elderabuseontario.com) indicates there are approximately two million seniors aged 65 or older and 14.6 per cent of those live in Ontario. This website indicates that between two and 10 per cent of seniors are abused in some way. The abuse doesn’t have to be physical. There are many different kinds of abuse including financial, physical, psychologi- cal, sexual and neglect. A senior may be suffering any of these or a number of them simultaneously. The victim, the abuser and the family may not even realize that what is happening is a form of abuse. It may be as simple as Mum is living with her adult daughter. Mum trusts her daughter so she gives her the PIN number for her bank card because it’s easier to have her go to pick up Mum’s medications. While she is out, the daughter realizes she needs groceries but is a bit short so she uses Mum’s bank card to make her purchase. This starts to become a pattern and soon the daughter is paying her bills with Mum’s money. When Mum asks why the daughter is taking money from her, the daughter may say “you should be grateful that I’m letting you live with me. If it wasn’t for me, you’d be out on the street. Paying a few of my bills is the least you can do.” Seniors don’t want to complain and they certainly don’t want to get anyone in trouble, so my experience has been that they will often not speak up when some- thing is troubling to them either because they are embarrassed or because they don’t want to make waves. Each of us has a responsibility to pay attention to the seniors in our communities to ensure that if something looks slightly off, we ask questions and offer support. If you suspect that a senior you know is experienc- ing some sort of a problem, please talk to them and let them know there is help. To contact me, e-mail aseniorsfriend16@ gmail.com. -- Anne Murphy has worked for more than 20 years on the operations side of the health- care industry. She loves the outdoors espe- cially, being close to water and unwinds by reading a good book. Guest Columnist Anne Murphy Port Perry prepares for another British invasion with Brits on the Lake car show PORT PERRY -- The British will be riding back into Port Perry this weekend. The 2016 edition of the Brits On The Lake car show will be held on Sunday, Aug. 7, turning Scugog’s commercial core into a parking lot for British vehicles of all sizes and ages. The eighth annual car show, presented by the Port Perry BIA, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown Port Perry. The British invasion is expected to attract hundreds of classic English vehicles -- from family saloon and sports cars to motorcycles and buses -- which will blan- ket stretches of Queen and Water streets. There will also be a kids’ zone, pipe band at noon and the return of the popular valve cover races from 10:30 a.m. to noon which serve as a fundraiser for the Port Perry Hospital Foundation. There will also be an automotive vendors market, a costume contest and live music. Also returning will be the fascinator con- test, with awards to be handed out at 2:15 p.m. du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Au g u s t 3 , 2 0 1 6 17 AP Don’t forget to ask about Manufacturer special PROMOTIONS*. Available at all our clinics. It’s All About Hearing...Call Today! Feeling exhausted at the end of the day... and don’t know why? 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DO IT QUICKLY AND EASILY BY PLACING YOUR AD IN THE CLASSIFIEDS 905-683-0707 VENDORS WANTED DURHAM CRAFT & GIFT SHOW Durham College 2000 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa October 21, 22 & 23, 2016 Your one-stop shopping for ultimate gift giving this Holiday Season For Booth Information Call Susan 905.215.0444 or Email: sfleming@durhamregion.com VENDORS WANTED Friday September 23rd Saturday September 24th Sunday September 25th To Be Held At: CHILDREN'S ARENA 155 Arena Street Oshawa For booth information contact: Susan Fleming at 905-215-0444 sfleming@durhamregion.com Wendy Weber at 905-215-0519 wweber@durhamregion.com VendorsWantedV VendorsWantedV du r h a m r e g i o n . c o m Ne w s A d v e r t i s e r • Au g u s t 3 , 2 0 1 6 19 AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10th: 4:30 PM A U C T I O N S A L E Auction Sale of Furniture, Antiques, & Collectables, for a Markham Home, selling at Neil Bacon Auctions Ltd., 1 km west of Utica. To Include: Bedroom suite, drop front, end tables, single beds, treddle Singer sewing machine, large quantity of Estate jewellery, bikes, table saw, plus many other interesting items. Sale Managed and Sold by: NEIL BACON AUCTIONS LTD. 905-985-1068 ONLINE ONLY AUCTION - FURNITURE - ANTIQUES - COLLECTABLES - OLD TOOLS - Beginning Friday Aug 5 - 10am- Closing Tuesday Aug 9th - 7pm at MCLEAN AUCTIONS - LINDSAY /LINDSAY SALES ARENA at 2140 Little Britain Rd - Orange barn across from Race Toyota - selling contents of several local estates, antiques, dining & bedroom furniture, antique dressers, paintings, prints, antique glass & china, books, comics, coins, jewelry, Lionel model train, toys, dolls, crocks, large collection of original oil lamps of varying types, some very rare, glass, stand and hanging lamps, miniature lamps, night lamps, finger hole lamps, Student lamps, Banquet lamps, Gone with the Wind lamps, Parlor, Vase lamps, Bullseye, Aladdin, figural lamps, Crown lamps, glass lamps, various patterns, some Drape patterned glass, hand painted fonts and globes, Whale-oil, lanterns, Hamilton Co, 1870, Queen Mary, ship's wheel, Provan's Oshawa antique hay car,antique hand tools, generator, auto repair manuals, air tools, SPX OTC Genisys automobile Scan System, Temp- Seeker Mod T-500, MT952 inductive volt-amp meter, Snapon Torque meter, impact wrenches, wakeboards, life jackets, weed eaters, over 1500 interesting and hard to find items, NOTE: closing Tuesday - 7pm MCLEAN AUCTIONS 705-324-2783 photos/catalogue/terms/preview/pickup times at www.mcleanauctions.com CORNEIL'S AUCTION BARN Friday August 5 at 4:30pm Located 3 miles East of Little Britain on Kawartha Lakes Rd 4Selling the contents of a Bowmanville home plus others - oak hall seat - roll top desk - record cabinet - curio cabinet - Vizio 39" flat screen tv - 8pc modern dining room set - area rugs - modern oak table and chairs - chesterfield - Kenmore all fridge - GE front load washer and dryer - Danby upright freezer - 1984 Alcan Alpha 15.5' fishing boat with 35HP Johnson outboard motor and trailer - 1982 Thundercraft 18.5' fiberglass inboard boat with trailer - 1971 Boler house trailer mod 1300 - Qty of china, glass, household and collectable items GREG CORNEIL AUCTIONEER 1241 Salem Rd Little Britain 705-786-2183 for more info or pictures go to www.corneilauctions.com(terms cash, debit, cheque 10% buyers premium visa, mastercard 13% buyers premium) Open for viewing Thursday from 8:30am to 5pmand 7pm to 9pm and Friday at 9am KELLETT AUCTIONS Auction sale for Mr. & Mrs. Wilson Reid at:3191 Courtice Rd., CourticeMoving, property sold - NO BUYERS PREMIUM 5th wheel, antiques, collectibles, horse items, tools SAT., AUG. 6, 2016 @ 10:30 am2009 5th Wheel Cougar Lite 29' trailer, tip out, spotless cond., used only 4 times • 2000 Chevy Silverado extended cab, 4WD, Western snow plow (as is) • Farmall A tractor (as is) • International 5 40, power take off manure spreader • Box trailer, double wheels, 12'x6.5' • Honda gas post hole digger • Antique dresser • Wash stand, late 1800s • Antique wheel chair, late 1800s • Old race sulky, 1920s • Horse harness & related horse items • Old blacksmith vise • Old anvil 705-328-2185 or 905-986-4447AUCTIONEER: Bruce Kellett www.kellettauctions.com ONLINE ONLY COIN AUCTION - Beginning Friday August 12 - 10am - Closing Tuesday Aug 16 - 7pm at MCLEAN AUCTIONS - LINDSAY at Lindsay Sales Arena, the Orange Barn - 2140 Little Britain Rd -over 300 early Can silver coins & pennies, silver dollars, some uncirculated, mint sets, proof sets, specimen sets, paper money, US and British coins, many collectable & hard to find coins, due to an unfortunate devastating fire, we will have a scaled down auction with over 300 lots, unfortunately will not be featuring 1948 Cdn Silver Dollar, Note: closing time - 7pm MCLEAN AUCTIONS 705-324-2783 photos/catalogue/terms/preview/pickup times at www.mcleanauctions.com HOLLAND, Mark Stephen: December 18, 1958 - July 28, 2016. Surrounded by his loving family, after a short-term struggle with cancer, Mark Stephen Holland passed on to be with his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Mark was the beloved and devoted husband of Marcia (nee Barnett) for 27 years. Loving and treasured father of Courtney (residing in Texas) and Nicholas (at home). Precious son-in-law of Alfonso and Laura Barnett, dearest brother-in-law of Trevor Barnett (Mandy), Richard Barnett (Kathy), and caring uncle to his nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his adored and cherished parents, Marion Holland (1995) and Benjamin Holland (2014). Mark will be missed by many extended family and friends in Canada, the USA, England and Jamaica. Mark was born in Columbus, Ohio, and then relocated to Hamilton, Ontario to marry Marcia, eventually settling in Ajax, Ontario. Visitation for Mark will take place at the MCEACHNIE FUNERAL HOME, 28 Old Kingston Road, Ajax, on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 from 2:00-4:00pm and 7:00-9:00pm. The funeral service will be held at The Gathering Place, 1920 Bayly St, Pickering on Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 11:00am, followed by interment at Pine Ridge Memorial Gardens, 541 Taunton Rd West, Ajax. Donations gratefully accepted to Alpha Canada. Please sign the book of condolences at www.mceachniefuneral.ca WRIGHT, Michael Hazen - January 26, 1969 - July 26, 2016. With great sadness we announce the passing of Mike. Beloved son of Paula Wright (D'Amato) and the late Hazen Wright. Dear brother of Karen (Rick) VanGennip and loving uncle to Rebecca. He will be sadly missed by all of his family, friends and by his beloved dog and companion Jack. Visitation will held at The SIMPLE ALTERNATIVE FUNERAL CENTRE (1057 Brock Road, Pickering - south of 401) on Wednesday August 3rd from 1 pm - 2 pm. A Funeral Service to Celebrate Mike's life will be held at 2 pm. Interment to follow at Duffin Meadows Cemetery. 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