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PAGE 4, WIIITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1999 Sehool boards'9 to be finished next month By Trudîe Zavadovies Bcth school boards are dee)p in budget discussions but it will be at least April before any definite figures are decided. UftY5 stili very premature for us, says Catherine Tunney, chair*man cf the Durhamn Region Roman Catholic Separatec ocýi Thl'ie 69 0 M ON**TD..AXVMARC H Board. «We're still at committee level. rve ne idea right new what it (the budget) wl ook like. We're looking at April before we know.» The Durham Board cf Educa- tien is aise i the committee stages with their budget. Their f»Irst draft of the preliminary 's 1,4-6P.1V., O SJAWA CEN"4TR $20,000Or<> 13le -Scld Btiay e«ach dollar for oxily 690«-at the Choo Readio s.ales booth. Yucai speid thiem a t more thai 65 stores, pl-us Eýatoris, T]he Beay, Zellers. Se«ars an.d 1.C"C>OO RADIO 1390 AM Durham's Voice ... by Choicel budgets dlollar comning RADIO 1390 AM Durhams Voice.. hy Choicel OS,@H eAe W* A CENTRE budget is $311-million up $44- million over iaat year.1 «Normaily we go through three drafts,» says Brian Cain, super- intendent of business and trea- surer. «We g to each depart- ment to mfe budget submnis- sions. There are no cuts on the first draft." He said that the grant, regula- tions are expected by the end of March afterê which a miii rate wili be established. Arretost m;iwade after hospitcd drug theft ByTrudie Zavadovice Durham Regional Police have arrestedl a 37-year-old Toronto mani for the theft cf 10 ampoules cf drugs stolen Feb. 25 from a crash cart of the emergency spe- cial care unit at Bowmanville Hospital. Donald Richard Taverner tur- ned himself i te Bwmanville liceMarch 2, and returned the *Polie haveanother suspect ii mind for the first theft cf 20 ampoules cf druge from the sanie location Feli. 18,but have laid ne charges. A court date for Taverner has yet te be determined. Police have released ne further information. Polie layI charge Of practising wïitchcraft A chare of pretending te practise wthcraft has been laid against a 26-year-old Pickering wcman. 1Acting on a complaint Dur- hami Regional Police iast àJ.'urs- day went te a Pickering resi- dence and -seized a quantity cf materiais usualiy associated with fortune-telling. Among the items collected by police were tarot cards and a crystal bail. A woman living n the home was arrested and sut- sequently charge.d with three cifences. Ini addition te the witchcraft charge, the accused aise faces charges of attempted fraud under $1,000 and false pre- tences. (0harged is Kelly Juanita Keré cf 847 Liverpool R.Sewl appear i shwprovicial court on March 9. According te the criminal code cf Canada the mere telling cf a fortune is not "per se» iilegai. The Crown must also,,prove an itent te delude or defraud.