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Sports/14 Clarington Communities/7 School house comes of age Five keys to a successful season Council asked to rescind mileage increase But councillors say price of driving must he covered BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer • CLARINGTON - A local resident resident has asked Clarington councillors councillors to rescind an "obscene" increase to their mileage rate voted on in June. (But, councillors defend the increase, saying the price of driving on municipal business has risen .dramatically, necessitating necessitating the raise. Clarington council voted in June to increase Mayor John Mutton's mileage allowance from $570 a month to $1,293. The councillor appqinted deputy mayor now receives $823 a month, up from $278, while all other councillors' councillors' rates jump from $228 to $564. According to the original original motion, on average, the mayor logged 2,750 kilometres a month on local municipal business-related business-related driving, while the deputy mayor averaged 1,750 kilometres a month. Other John Mutton metres a month. Councillors defended the flat rate at the time, saying it would be arduous to keep track of actual kilometres kilometres driven. "I'm asking you to rescind your motion to give yourselves yourselves that obscene mileage increase," said Bob Hayward, a local resident, at Clarington's General General Purpose and Administration Committee meeting Tuesday. "There's no reason not to keep councillors averaged 1,200 kilo- track of your mileage." The new rate is meant to mirror the mileage rate given to municipal municipal staff, who receive 47 cents per kilometre, but are required to keep track of their actual kilometres kilometres driven. Keeping track - of actual kilometres driven shouldn't be too tough a task, said Mr. Hayward. "There's a tripometre, and you push it, and you push it again when you stop," he said. But, Clarington Mayor John Mutton defended the move, saying the increase rights a wrong. "Clarington was way Don McArthur out of whack" when compared to other municipalities, in terms of both rate paid and size of municipality, municipality, he said in an interview. "I've been subsidizing the Municipality out of my own pocket pocket for quite a few years now," said the mayor, noting he faces a great deal of wear, and tear and even, occasionally, vandalism, on his car. The mayor said his office does keep track of his mileage, and that's how his kilometre average was arrived at. Local councillor Don McArthur McArthur also defended the move, citing increased gas, vehicle, and other costs that necessitated the increase. "If you find an insurance company company that will insure me for free, a gas company that will roll gas prices back to 60 cents a litre, a _ tire company that will give me tires for free ... then I will" consider consider asking to have the increase rescinded, he said. Councillor Gord Robinson also defended the increase, saying saying "There's a lot more to this job than just coming to council meetings." Man jailed 17 months for Merle Robbillard/The Canadian Statesman Flying high in Orono ORONO - Emily Bell, 12, and Mallory Chester, 12, fly high on the Hang Glider at the Orono Fair last Thursday. a council Monday, asking that the Municipality offer free half-hour transit service between 8:30 and 5 p.m. to the downtown event, which is set for Saturday, Oct. 15. "The expectation is that those who live in Bowmanville will Free buses may reduce traffic, woes, during annual le Fest BOWMANVILLE - The Municipality is offering Bowmanville Bowmanville residents a chance to avoid traffic tie-ups and parking woes during this year's Apple Fest. Ron Hooper, chairman of Bowmanville's BIA, approached avoid driving, and will instead take the bus," said Mr. Hooper in making his request. Council voted to extend the service, which would normally be hourly and paid. The Municipality will foot the approximately $700 bill. Judge cites "breach of • sacred trust" in case against Raymond Pike BY JEFF MITCHELL Staff Writer OSHAWA - A Courtice man has been sentenced to 17 months in. jail for sexual assaults on a child which a judge said amounted amounted to "a serious breach of trust." "This was an attack on a vulnerable vulnerable victim," Ontario Court Justice Kofi Barnes said in handing handing down sentence for Raymond Pike Tuesday morning. "(The victim) was only 7-years- old at the time of the incidents." The judge said Mr. Pike, who was entrusted to care for the child on several occasions and took several opportunities to molest her, "breached a sacred trust." Mr. Pike, 57, was sentenced the day after his son, Jeremy Pike, was slapped with 80 more charges of sexually molesting children and making child pornography. pornography. Jeremy Pike, a Grade 5 teacher at Glen Street Public School in Oshawa for the past two years, has been in custody since his arrest in July on child molestation molestation charges unrelated to Raymond Raymond Pike's case. Raymond Pike - was found guilty of sexual assault and two counts of sexual interference after a trial in June. The judge found he molested a 7-year-old girl on three occasions between January 2002 and January 2003; the child disclosed the abuse to a parent and her kindergarten teacher. Justice Barnes rejected a defence submission that Mr. Pike ought to be sentenced to a term of house arrest, opting instead for the jail term urged by Crown counsel Lara Crawford. Ms. Crawford said Mr. Pike's actions have profoundly affected the child he assaulted. . "Mr. Pike violated (the victim) while she was in his care," she said. "She doesn't trust people anymore. She can't sleep at night because she has bad dreams." In arguing for a more lenient sentence, defence lawyer Paul Greenway noted the notoriety Mr. Pike's case has assumed in the wake of his son's arrest, and the wrath he's felt since the community became aware of his conviction. Raymond Pike's Courtice home has been vandalized seven times and he has lost his job, Mr. Greenway said. "He's already paying a substantial substantial price for his complicity in this matter," Mr. Greenway told the judge, pointing out that several reporters were in the courtroom. 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She had surgeries to remove her thyroid, and, after DNA testing showed her children children also carried the genetic information that would make it very likely to develop the cancer, all four had prophylactic thyroid removal. Further testing within her family family found several other instances of the genetic information that was said to cause a 90-95 per cent likelihood of developing the cancer, and soon several other family members were undergo ing surgery. "Eleven surgeries were performed performed between October of 2000 and March of 2002, " recalled Ms. Jones. Her family's surgeries behind her, Ms. Jones took to visiting an online message board for those sharing information on mcdul- ; lary thyroid cancer. It was there that Ms. Jones read the story of Ms. Manuel, who had lost her husband to medullary medullary thyroid cancer. "A few years after he died, I bought a computer, and took a beginner's course," said Ms. Manuel. "As I became less scared of the computer, I started to go on the Internet and read up about that cancer. Still not knowing knowing if it was hereditary or not, I grew concerned for my kids. The more 1 read, the more I got scared." Ms. Jones convinced Ms. Manuel Manuel to ask her children, now aged 26, 28 and 30, to be tested. Two of Ms. Manuel's children, by that point, lived in Ontario, and Ms. Jones decided she could help out in a more personal way than simply providing information information over a web site. "When Craig went to see the oncologist (in Toronto), I got on GO Transit and went and met him," recalled Ms. Jones. "There was no way I wanted this person I didn't even know to go to the doctor by himself, himself, to talk about something that had killed his father," said Ms. Jones. Tests showed that not only did Ms. Manuel's son have the genetic mutation, but that his mutation exactly matched the one that Ms. Jones had. 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