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Correctional Services Officers Riding for Disabled Children The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, August 24,1994 13 Big Band Music and Big Bargains at Midnight Madness Sale A team of correctional services officers officers was scheduled to arrive in Ottawa Ottawa this week in an effort to raise funds for the Disabled Children's Games. The group stopped at Darlington Provincial Park on August 21 as it neared the final leg of the journey. The Correctional Friendship Ride began in Kcnora on August 13. The ride consisted of participants cycling from Kcnora to Ottawa on a tandem bicycle. The team of cyclists was made up of staff from various correctional correctional institutions in Ontario, including including three sets of two riders, two spare riders and a nurse. The objective of the 2,300 kilometre kilometre journey was to raise money for the annual Metropolitan Toronto Police Disabled Children's Games held in Variety Village each May With the financial constraints facing facing everyone today, the participants in the Correctional Friendship Ride arc committed to ensuring that no child who is eligible to compete in the games misses out because of a lack of resources, Peter Northcott, the co-ordinator of the ride and a senior assistant superintendent superintendent at the Toronto jail, said his institution institution has been involved with the Disabled Children's Games for eight ■ 1 \ = = c = = = = = 1 m = years. "Now we want to involve other correctional staff and the citizens of Ontario to show these children that we care about them and that we will continue continue to provide recreational opportunities opportunities for them. "I am hoping that people in the various communities we pass through along the way will come out and wave, join us for a short ride on their own bikes and then drop a loonie in our bucket for the Disabled Children's Games," said Mr. Northcott during the ride. • The group hoped to raise more than $10,000 for the Disabled Children's Children's Games. by Ben Bramble Keeping Out Most Of The Burglars Every homeowner is a target for burglars who for the most part are local amateurs. So keep that in mind when practising home security. Professionals are attracted to high ticket items such as expensive paintings, jewels, furs, coin collections, etc. Since not many of us are so endowed, it follows that most break-ins are for easily fenced items in high demand, like electronic equipment, obtained in a smash and grab method. Burglars hate noise (they make very little) and they are suspicious of a home with a radio playing or a dog barking. There may be no one home but they are usually deterred, even by a special barking dog record alarm. They hate to be conspicuous so they work in neighborhoods where they are known. But they don't want to be seen lurking near your, house at night.. Motion sensitive spotlights will keep them away. But they do love a garage because once inside they can make an accurate guess if anyone is home and they can spend a lot of time breaking through the door into the house from the garage without being detected by neighbors. So your first line of defence is the door into the garage. It should be a standard exterior grade, solid core, 1 3/4" inch thick wood or steel door. Not many are. Secure it with a deadbolt lock and a piece of 3/4" angle iron 18 inches long screwed into the door jamb beside the strike plate to prevent the door being pried open. Apply the same standards to the door leading from the garage into the house with one refinement. Since the door swings into the garage it has hinges exposed to the garage and the pins can be tapped up to disengage the hinges and lift the door out. But not if you use this modification. On each pair of hinges remove a pair of opposing screws and drill out a 1/4" hole about 1 1/2" deep into the door jamb side. Drill a slightly larger hole in the opposite screw hole about one inch deep. Now cut off 2 1/2" of 1/4" steel rod and tap one end snugly into the doorjamb hole. The one inch that protrudes should now slide into the hole in the door side when the door closes. Now, when the door is closed, the door will not Sponsored by come loose when the pins are knocked out of the hinges. The overhead door for the car needs modification also. If you plan to leave for a vacation you can secure the door by drilling a hole through the sliding track just above one of the rollers when the door is shut tight. A padlock put through the hole will prevent the door opening. That is not a solution for regular daily commerce because it would become a nuisance. An automatic door opener is a better solution for daily security. Manually operated doors have no easy solution other than the normal lock in the handle which is a bit of a nuisance when you are in a hurry. Since the door is usually placed so it is in plain view of the street, it is unlikely that panels will be broken through to gain access. They are vulnerable and the only safeguard would be to screw on short metal bars behind each thin panel into the rails of the door. Garage windows should be small enough and high enough above ground to deter entry, but if not you can secure them from being pried open. Remember burglars hate noise so they are fundamentally opposed to smashing glass. A double hung window (goes up and down) can be made secure by drilling small holes to receive a large nail through each upper corner of the bottom sash halfway through the top sash (when the window is closed.) Cut off nails so a small bit protrudes when they are set into the holes. This will allow you to remove them and open the window from the inside. If you have sliding windows, treat them as you would a patio door for safety. Put a broomstick along the bottom to prevent the inner window from sliding and then screw a couple of round head screws into the upper track to take up the slack between the window and the track. Now it cannot be lifted up to remove it from the track. Good luck. Remember, we are not talking about making a house byrglarproof; banks are not able to do that! What we want to do is keep out the opportunist that is looking for an easy entry. Did I mention you should keep your doors and windows locked? The Clarington Concert Band provided a little moonlight music for shoppers enjoying a perfect sum- ; mer evening under the stars during last Thursday's Midnight Madness Sidewalk Sale in Bowmanville.f Selected pieces included lively marches, classic movie tunes and big band numbers. Sfct Canadian statesman Your Community Newspaper Since 1854 62 King Street West 623-3303 Bowmanville I I I I CLIP AND SAVE After the concert, bargain hunters took a stroll along King Street to shop and socialize. Most stores in the downtown core stayed open until midnight, offering late-night shoppers eye-popping low prices on- much.of their stock. 4H Beef Club Report The fourth meeting of the Durham Durham East 4-H Beef Club was held on August 2, 1994 at. Gerry Cornish's, Tyrone. The roll call was name a crossbred. Penny conducted a quiz. We were given a Hereford Heifer to practice our showmanship skills. Each member member then judged the other members on showmanship. 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Buy the cars your neighbours help to build. 166 King St. E. Telephone 623-3396 Don Groves Tom Cowan © Some of the discounts were hard to pass up and merchants report-j cd business was brisk. By 9:00 p.m. the traffic on King Street was really picking up steam. The crowds kept coming until well into the night. »•/ o o < Looking a little sad about being temporarily sidelined, Calvin atid • Emma wait patiently as their owner checks out the bargains in The Little Harbor Trading Company during Midnight Madness in Bowmanville. Bowmanville.