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a VA Marion Melnichuk sure is glad to know her grandson Dustin Kellesteine, 6, is all in one piece after a terrifying plunge down his grandparents' forty foot well. It was Mrs. Melnichuk who pull- ed young Dustin from the icy water, when she heard screams from the yard. See story for details. Vol. 121 No. 15 Tuesday, March 10, 1987 Copy 35¢ 44 Pages Street scuffle trial continues After three days and the testimony of eleven witnesses, the trial of two Scugog Township men charged in connection with a scuf- fle on Queen Street March 16, 1986, is still not over. The trial will continue this Wednesday March 11 in Oshawa -§ Provincial Court. Three days had initially been set aside for the hearing, which was held last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in an Ajax-Pickering courtroom. The case involves Louie Farkas of Caesarea, charged with assault police, having liquor .outside a licensed premises, and assault with attempt to resist arrest; as well as Brian Lindensmith of Queen St. Port Perry, charged with assault police.: According to testimony, the inci- dent began in the early hours of Sun- day March 16th following a housewarming party for Mr. Lindensmith's girlfriend, Sandra Knowlton, in her newly acquired apartment above the Port Perry Pet Shop. Witnesses for both the Crown and Defence talked of a fracas between police and citizens, as two officers attempted to take Lindensmith and Farkas into custody. But while both sides agree there was a degree of violence and abusive language, testimony was conflicting at times, when it came to why the incident happened at all, or who was to blame. According to police witnesses for the Crown, Constables Dave Mann and Lorne Annas were patrolling Queen Street in their cruiser when they spotted two men crossing the street, one with a styrofoam cup (Lindensmith) and one with a mug (Farkas). ° Telling Judge Norm Edmonston they saw one of the suspects drink from a cup, they stopped the pair. A scuffle ensued when, the of- ficers said, the suspects gave them a hard time about showing iden: tification. Other officers joined the scene, along with family members and friends of the accused, including Lindensmith's mother, Sandra Lindensmith. Witnesses for the Crown testified there was much swearing and yell- ing going on as Farkas and Lindensmith were wrestled into the back of a police cruiser. The struggle continued, police said in the police station. "As we were going irito the station he (Farkas) was still kicking and screaming and biting and clawing," PC Dave Mann testified. Sgt. Ken Hudson, who arrived at (Turn to page 3) Two weeks less a day after a Honey's Corners girl was pulled from her parents' 30 foot well, a six year old Caesarea boy was rescued from his grandparents' well on Shirley Road. Dustin Kellesteine was visiting his grandparents Steve and Marion Melnichuk at their home just south of Port Perry on Saturday after- noon. He was playing in the yard when Mrs. Melnichuk heard screams coming from outside. According to her husband, she ran outside, searching the property, and for a few moments, couldn't find her grandson. . "What a horrible feeling when you hear someone; screaming and you * can't see them," Steve Melnichuk said in an interview with the Star Monday morning. Shortly after, however, Mrs. .Melnichuk found Dustin clinging to the inside of the well, three or four feet from its surface. Wet and freezing cold from the dip in the cold water, with scraped fingers, the terrified little boy had been inside the well for no more amazed at his wife's sudden burst of - strength. | "With the weight of him (Dustin, about 80 pounds) and all that water, I'm really surprised she did it all by herself,"" he marvelled. "She's the hero of the day!" Luckily, Dustin was uninjured from the fall, and his grandfather says he now thinks of it as "an adventure." Five year old Erin Hoekstra, the Terrified young boy pulled from old well youngster who fell into her parents' well two weeks eartier; wasn't quite so lucky The tyke suffered facial cuts and a lowered body temperature and was treated in hospital for a few days. Mr. Melnichuk read in the Port Perry Star about Erin's. mishap, and at the time, he vowed to take a look at, his own well when the (Turn to page 2) than a few minutes when his grand- mother found him. And despite a bad back, the 56 year old grandmother stretched her arms out to the young lad, and with what her husband calls "superhuman strength," pulled him -- =~ © out of the well. Mr. Melnichuk, who is hard of hearing and was unaware of the in- cident until after it was over, was Wants more police Durham Police Chief Jon Jenkins wants more officers and civilian staff added to the Regional Force this year. But even if the Regional council agree to allocate the funds necessary to hire the requested 36 additional personnel, Chief Jenkins said the Durham Police force will still be under-staffed in relation to other regional municipalities with a similar population. In uhveiling the proposed 1987 Police budget last week, Chief Jenkins asked for 24 additional of- ficers, three cadets, two by-law en- forcement officers and seven civilian employees for administra- tion duties with the force. (Turn to page 3) When a group of students from grades five and six at R.H. Cornish School spent a day last week at the Nonquon Outdoor Education Centre just north of Port Perry, one of the first things the kids had to do was snap on a pair of snowshoes for a two km. trail hike. Kendra McCrae managed a big smile for the Star photographer as she wrestled with the straps on the snowshoes. (More photos and story about the Outdoor Centre are inside this issue of the Star). &