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PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 15, 1986 -- 17 Published every Wednesday by Port Perry Star Company Limited - - P.O. Box 567 Brooklin, Ont. LOB 1CO Serving Brooklin and area since 1983 Brooklin Profile ROXANNE REVELER News & Features Editor Phone 655-3637 or 985.7383 Ea } 3 § L i She just keeps joggin along A familiar figure has returned to the streets of Brooklin in the personage of Vicki Pettigrew. For the past five years, Vicki has been jogging through all types of weather ... extreme heat, rain, even snow. She always tried to maintain her goal of 12 to 15 miles a day, but since returning to jogging after the birth of her second child, has cut back to six miles a day. Why does the Anderson Street woman do this. "You get addicted to it," said Vicki, *'It feels good and helps keep me in shape, | guess." Master culture and rec plan is nearing completion The Culture and Recreation Master Plan for Whitby and Brooklin area, initiated last year by the Parks and Recreation Depart- ment, is moving towards completion. Within the next few weeks, Town of Whitby officials will be taking a fresh new look at the first draft of the plan, which should take care of the municipality's cultural and recreational needs well into the 1990's. The consulting firm of Jean Monteith and Associates, based in London, Ontario, has been working on the report since its inception. Last April, they conducted a ran- dom sample survey and presented their findings to Council on April 26. Following this, the public were ask- ed to participate in discussing the background Master Plan Document on May 15, and subsequent to this public meeting, staff and the study committee met with the consulting firm to revise the draft background report. . The committee which includes Paul Brown of Brooklin, has suc- cessfully completed the review phase of the study and have in- structed Monteith to update the in- formation to include sections felt relevant to the study, such as water- front development and schools. On July 30, the committee will meet to further review the existing background report and begin to review the draft Master Plan, presently being prepared. This draft Master Plan will con- tain some of the estimated costs, policy framework statements, and specific goals and objectives of the town to support the information con- tained in the background report previously presented to council on April 21. The committee hopes to have all its work completed in early September, and both the background report and Master Plan report will be forwarded at that time to council for consideration. After receiving council's approval in principle, the coramittee an- ticipate a final meeting in October to advise the public of the final con- clusions and recommendations related to the study. RI sag ; EY a Cal i RR PN a Youth gets six months in criminal negligence case A Brooklin youth has been sentenced to six months in jail and had his driving licence suspended for three years for his involvement in an accident in May 1985 which resulted in five local residents being sent to hospital. During the sentencing last Fri- day, Judge Richard Lovekin stated he had taken into consideration the fact that Patrick Martin, age 18 when the accident occurred, was a youthful offender and that a pre- sentence report ordered on the ac- cused had been a positive one. The pre-sentence report, asked for by Lovekin after he found Mar- tin guilty of criminal negligence causing bodily harm on June 6, was completed by a probation officer and pointed out that the accused came from a good home; was at- tempting to complete his education; had performed service in the scouting movement over the years; and had no previous criminal record. During the sentencing, the accus- ed's father, Ralph Martin, took the stand to testify that his son had been extremely withdrawn and quiet since the accident. "He sort of fell apart after the ac- cident," said Martin Sr., adding that although his attendance at school had been good, his marks had fallen badly. : Stating that "a car is far more lethal than a sub-machine gun," Judge Lovekin questioned how you could get the message across to , "dy {ve LZ / Parishoners of St. Thomas' Anglican Church in Brooklin gathered last Sunday for a ground- breaking ceremony to mark the beginning of con- struction on the Memorial Hall. Seven represen- tatives of the congregation took turns to lift that first shovelfull of earth from the ground. Shown holding the spade are Ruth Robinson and Jeremi Mountjoy. Also participating were, from left to young people they had to be careful when driving a car. He asked Mar- tin if he felt his son had learned his lesson concerning the dangers of driving, to which Martin stated he had. Defence counsel, Paul Greenaway, stressed the accused was being persued by another vehi- cle at the time of the accident, ad- ding Martin was "a young man who had a decision to make and made the wrong choice." Greenaway was referring to the fact that Martin had originally statéd he had been harassed by two men in a car who had pursued him from the intersection of Anderson and Winchester Streets, through the . back roads of Brooklin and onto Col- umbus Road, where, while travell- ing westbound, Martin ran the stop sign at Ashburn Road and struck the stationwagon carrying five passengers. Martin had stated he was checking his rearview mirror tc see if the pursuing car was gaining ground and did not see the stop sign. The impact of the collision sent the wagon, which was hit broadside, across the intersection, through the ditch, and into a tree, severely injur- 'ing those inside. So As a result of the accident, the driver, Dick Randall, 52, of Macedo- nian Village, received a shattered jaw and a skull fracture. His 14-year-old daughter, Dianne, was the most severely injured with a torn aeorta which required exten- sive heart surgery, a fractured pelvis, broken thumb, broken teeth and facial lacerations. Leanne Cole, also 14, received extensive head in- juries and lacerations to her knee, shoulder and face. Alison Fleming who was the same age, received a fractured hip, broken collarbone and concussion. Astrid Sauer, also a passenger, escaped with minor in- juries and lacerations. Crown attorney, Rick Bagg, presented as evidence medical reports on the three girls, stating that Alison must still face further corrective surgery on her hip; Dianne still had to undergo stress tests to ascertain whether the aeor- tic graft was successful and undergo plastic surgery to her face; and that Leanne still suffered from partial weakness in her left side that was irreversible. The three girls took the stand to state they had been harrassed by the accused at Anderson Collegiate since the accident. Alison stated that Martin and a group of friends had made fun of her as she walked the halls using her crutches. "They said stuff like...let's trip the cripple and see if she falls down...and then they'd laugh," said Alison. Dianne and Leanne told of a dance at the school they attended where Martin and a group of his friends kept following them around the gymnasium, pointing at them and laughing. (Turn to page 18) x 4 / f we py E [ Phat £ Si $ Sa, hs (8 » right, Don Moor, Rev. Ivan Dyer, Jeff Bailey, Catherine Howden, Jerry Gregg, Mary Spragge and Peter Schloen. Construction is expected to start in mid-August and the roof should be on within three months. It is hoped the total pro- ject can be completed within a five-month period. The old parish hall has been sold to another denominatic 1 who will use it as a church. a tat Wb AS