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RONO WEEKLY TIMES O'rono Town Hall Volume 63, Number 48 650 GST Included Wednesday, December 8, 1999 - e e. e e - - - - e - e e. e - - - *lsfaceeictio "-W're fot leavr'ng" say Kris, Vladimir, Moses and Nancy Emiedi Tlhe family of five.inluding mothecr Rosalie, face evýictioni from theirï homne and property 011 Townline, northof Mosport. Happenings ORONO ATHLEICl ASSOCIATION NEW TEARS' DANCE TICKETS New Year's dance tickets are stil available for the Orono Arena with the proceeds golng to the Building Fund. For ïnfo. or tickets calilRay Bester 983-5584 or Pete Maartense 983-5617. SENIORS, TEA A Senior& Tea îs being held at Orono Public Sehool on Tuesday, Decemb.--er 14 at 1:30 p.m. ini the grnnasiumi. RS.V.P. 98-13-5006. BREAKFAST WITHI SANTA '9G The Optixnlist Club of Newcasfle Villatge presents Breakfast with Santa '99 on Sunday, December l9tLh at 8:00 - 11:0ü0 a.m., NewcastleCmunt Hall. Aduits $5,00, Seniors/Teens $4.00, Kids $3.00, Farnily of 4 or 5 $ 15.00, Children under 3 years FREE. Cali 987-5653 for tickets. PROUDLY PRESENTS A COFFEE HOUSE St. Stephen's Secondary School presenits a Coffee HE-ouse on Thursday. December 9th. A 3-hour performiance of wonderful entertainment by students. Ticketls are only $S.00 and can be pur- chased at the door or by calring 623-3990. It will take place in the school cafetorium at 7 p.m> The school is located at 307vMiddle Road, Bowmanville. The money raised will be going to variouis charittes. CLA,%RINGTON LIBRARY Family Holiday Storytimne at the -ibraruy, the l5th of December. That's a Wffednesday you sec, Seasonial Stories to fil you with gîe! songs, silliness. and a puippet or two-. Something for the whole famiùly to do! Bowmanville Branch, Wednesday, December l5th at 7:00 p.m. The Emedi family say they are flot leaving their home and property, flot now, flot ever. The Emnedi's family, consist- ingc of elderly parents- Moses and Rozalia, and- their growNn chludren, Kris, Vladimir and Naconv a 600 acre property north of Mosport, on Townline Rd., nortl of Region l d20, They lhave beýen operatîng a ilmer comipany\ on thiis site for the past 26 years. Onl Decem-ber 1, 1999, the Shierif came ro eviet lthem from their propert, whýlich thley daim con- tains one of' the bigg-est sand and gravel depositlslinthle coun- Thie Emnedi br-othiers state thiat, in 1985, TRT Sand and Gravel, thieir neighibour, erected a fence along thie old Township Road that cuts across the south end of Emiedi property. Th-ey thien procceeded to cut down 205 valuable hiardw\ood trees fromn thie 10 acres of Emei l]and south- of thie fence. Viadlimiir Emieidi said, wh1en he--went to thie Gravel Comipany to comi- plain, lie vas told by thien Supervisor, Joe Locke, "maike sure youa don't cut the fence, or any trees, if you do, l'Il make sure you lose al your sand and gravel property in Manvers County." The Emedi's say, the Durham Regional Police told them to go to the RCMP with this matter. The RCMP told the Emedi's they could flot get involved, this was a private matter. Because the family were involved in numerous other legal mnatters at that time, theyv set this matter aside. inthe. spring of 1997, says ViadHir, "TRT cut down Al the reaiingtres, [680] and shiortly after took down the fe n Ce. Whien thle Emedi's called the OPP to lay charges ag-ain1st this tatest action, thleyý were told to ire a professional forester to providie ritten1 proof of damages. Thie !Emled"i's h-ired Gerald Guenkel of Om1emece, who ompleted La full aýssessmentf and reported(am ages of $2,6 14,000). Uiponl receiving tis report, th-e Lindsay OPP inistructed the Emjiedi's to wait a couple of w\eeks for- th chlarges to be laid. Th'le family1 enilisiedi MPP Johin O'Toole's lhelp whlen miany w,ýeeks lhad passed], and yet no chiarges were laid. In a letter to O'Toole, dlated October 20, 1999, 0OPPComm11-issioner GWen M. Bon iface wY-rites: 'Thle Assistant Crown Attorney was of the opinion that since the Wood was removed in the process of clearing the land for the purpose of erecting a fence, the prospect of conviction for thefi is unlikely'. One December 7, Detective Constable Andrew' Pierre, of the Lindsay Detachment was not willing to make any com- ments on the matter. Steve Green, current Supervisor of Operations at TRI, had no comment on these issues, and directed ail inquiries to thieir comipany's lawyver David McFadden. In reply to questions about TRI erecting a fence on Emieidi property and remnoving trees, McFadden replied, "there is nothing to e-stablishi this has happened. '-If thie OPP hiad laid charges," said Vaimr-They would n-eyer have been able to steal our property." The Emedi's trouble really started 21 years ago, w,ýhen they tried to pay off ail their mort- gages, in the amnount of $256,000, at the Credit Union, and were blocked fromi doîng so. Kris Emedi says, "the Credit Union got a fraudulent provincial judgement against us for $700,000 which was served to our family." Four years later, the Credit Union admitted they were wrong, and said it was. a mistake, but this mistake cost us millions of dollars, and we have Iost 45 properties in Ontario because of this mis- take," said Kris.- By that time, says Vladimir, the Credit Union had put an injunction on their property that they could not seil any of their logs, for wýhich they hiad con- tracts for $lmillion per, year. Those logs stayed on the prop- erty, and are now rotten. The, Emedi's dlaim they have -spent $1 million on 29 lawyers to clear Up these atroc- iaies, and nothing lias been resolved yet. While the inijonc- tion was still on their property. the Sheriff's Office sold it to a company owned by Larry Tananbaum, owner of TRI Sand and Gravel, for $525,000. The Eined'sclairn their proper- ty lias over $4 billion Worth of assets on it ini trees, and sand and grave , for which they have an extraction license. The famnily of 5 adults, were flot turned out of their home on December I st. Instead 'they (continued page 2) Ei