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Orono Town Hall BOWMAN VILLE LIBRARY 163 Church Street 1.1.05ac Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 1P7 $1.00 GST Included Wednesday March 2, 2005 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since^937^ out skateboarding in the subdivision, in north Orono on Sunday afternoon. Newcastle bookkeeper facing fraud charges . • „ nmn nr<iac t-lftfirmo find I Downed causes power outage Slippery road conditions were blamed for the accident that caused the power outage for over 10,000 hydro users Friday night. The hydro pole on Concession Road 8,. at Leskard Road snapped when a car driven driven by a 21 -year-old North York man, hit it at 10:15 p.m. on February 25th. Hydro'One, which supplies power to the rural areas, reported that 6,800 of their customers in Darlington, Clarke/Manvers Townships lost power at 10:15 p.m. on Friday night. Power was restored to 6,170 of these customers customers by 12:34 a.m. while the remaining 630 customers, in the local facility did not get their power restored till 6:55 Saturday morning, more than nine hours after power was lost. . An additional 4,000 hydro users in the village of Orono and some Bowmanville customers, customers, serviced by Veridian Connections, were without power for two hours following the accident. A 56-year-old self-employed self-employed bookkeeper from Newcastle is facing multiple multiple fraud charges after a police investigation found accounting irregularities in several Bowmanville busi-, nesses. Police began an investigation investigation after one of the business business owners came forward with concerns over missing funds. After investigating, Durham Regional Police Services detectives found three separate companies involved with the bookkeeper bookkeeper have been defrauded of approximately $110,000 over the past four years. Bonita Antoinette Cunningham, Cunningham, age 56, of Stephenson Road in Newcastle, a self-employed bookkeeper operating under the name I3C Accounting in Bowmanville, has been charged with five counts of fraud over $5,000. She was held for a bail hearing and released on a recognizance. The next court date is March 10th, 2005 at the Ontario Court ol Justice, 850 King Street in Oshawa. Anyone with information about this or similar incidents incidents is asked to contact Detective Robinson of the Durham Regional Police Services Major Crime Fraud Unit at (905) 579-1520 ext. 5321. Montreal man jumps from moving truck Highway 401 west bound was closed for four hours Saturday morning, while OPP investigated the scene of a fatality. Whitby OPP were called to scene just east of Liberty Street at approximately 2:27 a.m. Preliminary investigations investigations indicated the pedestrian had been struck by numerous vehicles, however, no motor vehicles were stopped at the scene. Reports now indicate the deceased, a 34-year-old Montreal man, who was a passenger in a tractor trailer, committed suicide by jumping jumping out of the moving vehicle.