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CONSTABLE GERRY Smith. is over- tured firom ' left are. Micheile Mlen, loaded with knitted - teddy bears- Brownie Emily McPherson, Smith, donated- by the Girl 'Guides. The Pathfinder ,Suzanne Ogilve-K ingt bears will ,be -used ýto help comfor and GuideKrifsten Iâo*. You.ng victims of auto accidents. Pie.NFreP~ ht An Oshawa man charged with murdering a 8-ear-old Whitby resident last Decombor must undorgo a 30-day psychiatrie assessment. . Judge Donald Halikowski ordered Douglas James Whittle, 28, of 247 Bruoe St., remanded i' custody for the purnooof having an assessmont, fo owing.Whit- tle's a peracei Whitby pro- vincial court isalt week. Defence coungel Robert Nuttal told the court Whittle has been iagnoed as a paranoid schizo- phrenic. Ho was. released from the Whitby Psycbiatric Hospital, where h. had been a patint for, severaJears,i»mearly m brb.' Whitte in ar7Med with frant- does 'murëdWriLn* onnection A polio investigation revealed that tho -alf!in gs of Dow- son' death were mn error and that.he died after being struck with an' axe.',The' s'uspet was living ini Dowson'shoie, at the time-. Whittle will next appear mn courton March 16. MAJORFIRE IMPOSSIBLE No tire dumps in DurhamJein says Leitch By Mike Kowaiskl Could a Hagersville fire catas- trophy happen in Durham Region? t ,aill depends on who you ask. For more than a week a maLjor fire has boon buning away ini a Hageraville Ont. dump contain- ing 14 million u*'sod automobile tires. The fire bas foroed aimost 500 residents of this community near Hamxilton ta, leave their homes. Pire officiais estimate it will take at least a month ta extinguish the blaze, while the extent of long-torm evironmental -damage may neyer be known. According ta, Durhami Region opoerations manager Art Leitch a Hagersville lire could not occur here. "We don't stockpiie tires, thero is no possibility of that happen- ing in Durham,» said Leitch. H e pointed out that used tires are not accepted for burial in regon andillsites. «AO w d is take tires at the transfer stations and hold theni for -the'recycler, we don't keep them for very long.» Leitch explained that Durhamn bas contractod a private recy- dling company, Achievor Tire of Mississauga, ta take tires off its hands. Durham's agreement with Achievor stipulates that it must pay Achievor 70 cents a tire for every one picked up. Ken Donneliy, solid waste ope- rations manager for the region, said Durhami st p ped burying tires at its iandfill sites iast summer. Ho said tires were aiways diffi- cuit ta keep covered because dur- ing the landfilling process the tires kept «Ipopping up» whenever a tractor d.-ove over one. ires w re also taking up too much roon4 i region dumps. "Itfs osiatedi that Canadians generate one tire per capita,» said Donnelly, "that's about 300 000 a year i Durhami, we do not hae the spaoe.» Donneliy said Achievor collects the tires on a regular basis and no more than 500 would ho kejpt at any one of the five trans fer stations. Ho sai4 only residentsmay dis pose cf Iused tires. Business is prohibited from dumping tires at EN VOGUEZ aA Monthly Fashion and Beauty Review 1990 ÇLridQfffeature- See pages 21 to 27 Durham iandflil sites. Donneliy added that there is no way tires previobsly buried i Durhamn dumps wouid ever catch flire. «There is no oxygen in a land- fil site, so there's no way a fire could resuit.» Don Langie, manager of Dur- hanm Auto Wreckers in Ajax, told New parent s group ta:uks separate board to task over strike By Trudie Zavadovicu learned information about this Parente teck the Durhamn particular negotiating proces ReinRoman Catholic Separat;e that, cSuite frankly, was dis- Schol Bardto askMonday a pointmng and raised conoerns night for their handhing of the Mout the principles practioed by three-and-a-half week toachers' the Board, the -Board that was strikte. elected by11us, the parents ta, act Alex Honeyford, spokesperson on Our hoalf.w for the Durham Region Separate Ho asked why it bas taken a Secondary Schooi Conoerned year (talks startod six months Parente' Committee, questioned aefre the teachers' contracte the Board's actions and the were up) of negotiations te get te effects those actions would have where they are now, and why, for on their children. the first three weeks of the strike Honeyford omphasized that were there no nemotiations bet- the parent group is acting out of woen the parties. Ho asked for a concern for their children and written summary of oxpianation that thoy plan ta stay involved, and said teachers wouldio asked constructiveiy. ta subniit the sanie. Commenting on tho contract Further questioning the negotiation process Hcneyford Boards actions ho continued, "As said, "I wouid like ta, proface aur with most strikes, certain postur- remarks here by stating that ing by involvéd parties in sup- parents recognu#o that the noga- port of their respective positions tiation process is itself a matter is ta ho expected. In the case of hotween the Board and teachers tho Bcard s recent strike, the and not the direct concern cf perception by some parents is parents. However, in its' efforts that a combination of posturing ta encourage the resumption of the Free Press ho used ta dispose of tires at the Metro Toronto landill site in north Pickering. SEE PAGE 18