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i Bank Robbery In Courtice Bæw Male Susped Hits Royal Bank A bank robbery last Friday in Courtice has Durham Regional Police searching for a suspect. Police say at about 7:30 p.m. Friday, a lone male entered the Royal Bank at 1405 King Street. The man was wearing an orange wig at the time of the robbery. He demanded money be placed in a bag. The teller com plied, and the man escaped on foot with a quantity of cash. The man is described as white, six feet tall, between 150 and 160 pounds, with a fair complexion, dark hair, and hazel eyes. Witnesses say the man is in his 30's. The suspect was last seen running south from the bank. "Mom" Whyte Helping Others _ BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY, 1 gSK&IO UÇ3A8 ^ EXPIRY DATE: AUGUST 26, 1999 4h/>( 11411 Clarington's Community Newspaper Since 1854 A James Publishing Community Newspaper Wednesday, November 4, 1998 144th Year Issue 44 70# + 5# G.S.T. = 75# Home Sweet Home? A 49-ycar-old Oshawa man faces charges after a hobby farm owner in Newcastle found the man living on his property. The property owner went to his Lakcshore Road farm last Saturday, and found the accused living living inside the house. The 49-ycar-old man is charged with being unlawfully unlawfully in a dwelling, and mischief. Truck Rolls On 115 Traffic was re-routed for about 13 hours after a tractor trailer flipped onto its roof on the on-ramp to Highway 35 from Highway 115 near Orono earlier this week. The incident occurred Monday at about 2 p.m. as the driver was attempting to negotiate the turn. The vehicle flipped onto its roof, causing "extensive damage to the tractor and trailer," says P.C. Terry Cuff of the Whitby detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. No injuries were reported in the accident, although the driver was taken to hospital as a precaution, precaution, says P.C. Cuff. Southbound lanes of the 115 were shut down from the time the accident occurred until about 3 a.m. Tuesday. Traffic was re-routed during the 13- hour period. Police Need Help To Identify Body Durham Regional Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a woman whose body was found in Newcastle last week. The body was found washed up on the beach of Lake Ontario near Mill Street South at about 1:10 p.m. last Thursday. The woman is described as white, approximately 60 years old, 5'2" tall, 101 pounds, with collar-length brown hair and hazel eyes. She had a full upper denture and partial lower denture. Clothing worn by the woman was described as: a medium-sized blue jean quilted jacket with the label "Lady Foot Locker Casuals," a medium-sized black shirt with the label "Peak Collection," a home-knitted sweater, green in colour with a pink and white diamond pattern;' large-sized wine coloured pants with the label "2 Much," a pair of white socks with gray soles; and a pair of black, size seven; "Tenderwalk" loafers. An autopsy was completed Friday at the Coroner's Building in Toronto. The cause of death is listed as drowning. Anyone with information on the unidentified woman is asked to contact Durham Regional Police at 1-888-579-. 1520, ext. 1689, or Crime Stoppers at 905-436-TIPS. Over and Out Police Get New Communications Equipment BaittaiamuiuTHi ------■ ----i ■■■--BT---- ■» -n Aw--11 ------------ Jessica Marie Van Acker and Janay Gibbs, both 2, see what kind of treats they've collected at Maple Grove Public School's Halloween party held last Thursday night. The party was hosted by the Parent Teacher Association to help raise funds for classroom items. by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer The Durham Regional Police (DRP) Service is stepping into the 21st Century with $11 million in new communications equipment. "By industry standards, this is about eight years late," said Durham Regional Police Chief Kevin McAlpine Friday as the new mobile voice and data radio project was announced. After two years' consultation consultation and study by a six- member evaluation committee committee made up of uniformed uniformed and civilian members members of DRP staff, the Service chose ClearNET Communications to provide provide the latest in radio and data equipment over a 15- year contract. The system consists of 200 mobile radios and 150 mobile work stations, or laptop computers in police cruisers. There are also 250 portable radios for police personnel. Initial estimates indicate the new system could be in place, and officers could be properly properly trained to use the equipment by next September. "I'm looking forward to the system being up and running as soon as possible," possible," said Police Services Board Chair Bob New Village Library Not on the Books by Michelle Wyton Staff Writer The Clarington Public Library Board has been told that a new building for the Newcastle Branch is not in the cards. The library has been renting space at 50 Mill St. N. since April of 1990 and would like a more permanent permanent home. "We would like to get out of the rental situation," Don Peebles, chair of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Library Board, told Clarington Council Monday. "We're here testing testing the waters. If council docs not support a new building, then there is no point in pursuing it because we don't have the money it would take." The municipality, said Mayor Diane Hamre, doesn't have the money either. "It would be nice not to have to pay rent, but we have to look at the total municipality and all of its needs," she said. "We are committed to a new Bowmanvillc Branch and I think it would be wrong to defer that project for a new Newcastle Branch. A new main branch in Bowmanvillc is the first priority and there is no way we can do two capital expenditures in the Library board." The board looked at a variety of options, including including alternate rental sites, possible building sites and a new lease agreement with the current landlord. Right now, the library pays about $50,000 a year and their lease, which permits permits termination on six months' written notice, is good until the end of June 2000. The landlord has offered an option of renewal of the current lease at no increase in basic rent for a further five-year fixed term or to reduce the rent for a fixed five year term starting in 1999 and ending in 2004. The option of reduced rent would mean a savings of about $6,000 a year, but it does not include the six- month notice termination Continued on page 2 Boychyn. The communications package is the first of its kind to be used by a police service in Canada. But it is currently in use in at least one southern US state. "This proposal will take" this police service into the 21st Century," said DRP Deputy Chief of Administration Derek Denson, a member of the evaluation committee. The system was chosen from tenders on the basis of three criteria: the system's system's technical design-, features and specifications"; price; and terms and com dirions such as training; maintenance and doom mentation. ClearNET was chosen unanimously by the evaluation team from à list of five bidders. Durham Regional Council approved a ne\y communications system for police as part of its 1998 budget. And, according according to Chief McAlpine, the new system actually comes in at a slightly lower price than had been approved. Robert Simmonds, chair of ClearNET's board, promised "continuous upgrading (of the system) at no cost to the Durham Regional Police Service." Continued on page 2 , : SIU Investigating Deadly Crash In Oshawa on Friday Morning INVESTIGATION CONTINUES - The Special Investigations Unit continues to look into a fatal collision involving a stolen van which struck another vehicle and a hydro pole. The incident occurred last Friday morning in a residential area of Oshawa, Two Oshawa men, aged 22 and 28, arc dead following the collision, while two other people arc injured. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is looking into a collision in Oshawa which resulted in two deaths. TXvo men, 22-ycar-old Jeremy Arsenault and 28- year-old Dcon Hobbs, both of Oshawa, died when the stolen vehicle they were travelling in collided with a vehicle being driven by a 62-year-old woman. A third occupant of the vehicle, 20-year-old William Woods of Whitby, sustained non life- threatening threatening injuries in the crash, Just before 9:30 a.m. last Friday, a Durham Regional Police officer in an unmarked police vehicle observed a stolen vehicle and requested assistance. The vehicle was travelling west on Marion Street toward the intersection at Gibbons Street, in the Park Road and Rossland Road area. A second police officer officer who was travelling casthound on Marion Street in a marked cruiser activated his emergency lights and partially blocked the road with his car. The driver of the stolen vehicle drove around the cruiser and a short distance later collided with the vehicle being driven by the 62-year-old woman. The SIU dispatched eight investigators to the scene. 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