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' No chance at parole for ten years 3 - i Arh SRE a et tine thE Ghost Road killer gets life in prison ------------ rc ---- SE ----0 ---------------- 1 -------- - EE a eT ------ rr------------r------ oy ~ Nlrramer MHA gL ha rid gh hy The man convicted in the "Ghost Road" murder has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for ten years. Mr. Justice Paul Philip handed down the sentence last Wednesday against Gary New- man of Ajax. . Newman, 24, had been found guilty of second degree murder in June for the death last fall of 35-year old Alfred Meitner of Whitby. Meitner's body was discov- ered by a Scugog Island resi- dent in a field beside the Is- land's so-called "Ghost Road." Newman was arrested De- cember 1 in Vancouver by Re- gional Police detectives Tom Chambers and Rod McDonald. Evidence given at the June trial showed Newman and Welfare Meitner were drinking together last September 19 when they drove to the isolated rural road on Scugog Island. They got into an argument, and Meitner, a known drug pusher, wound up dead from blows to the head. : Newman admitted he struck Meitner with a rock, but said it was in self defense while the two were fighting. Pathological evidence at the trial suggested Meitner had been struck on the head five or six times, and any of those blows could have been fatal. The prosecutor argued Newman killed Meitner to steal Turn to Page 2 Vol. 124 No. 36 PORT PERRY, ONT. - TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1990 Crisis forces Region to ask for help The welfare crisis in Durham has forced regional councillors to get tough with the provincial government. At an emergency meeting of regional council Thursday, councillors agreed to send a five-person delegation to Queen's Park to demand finan- cial assistance from the prov- ince to help alleviate the costs of Durham's soaring welfare rolls. Although Durham had for- seen a crisis early in the year and had set the budget accord- ingly, if the problem continues to snowball council fears the eneral welfare assistance und will be broke by mid- November. "Based upon information pro- vided by the commissioner of social services in his report, and finance department data, it appears there will be a deficit of approximately $600,000 (net) in general welfare assistance payments, (and) a_ $191,000 subsidy shortfall in (GWA) ad- ministration," a regional report states. Goat shot Durham Region Police are looking into the shooting death last week of a goat on a farm in Scugog Township. A police spokesman *gid the shooting took place the night of July 24-25 on a Conces- gion 11 farm, west of Green- bank. The goat was found on its knees in the barn-yard the next morning bleeding from a wound in the neck. The goat later had to be de- stroyed. The spokesman said the wound appeared to be from a 22 calibre weapon. The farmer told police he didn't hear any shots during the night. Councillors agreed to a rec- ommendation of the joint fi- nance and administration com- mittee and the health and social service committee to fund the welfare payment over- expenditure of $600,000 by us- ing: any surplusin the social ser- vice department; *$250,000 from the 1990 con- tingency account; *and up to $922,887 from the 1990 Homes for the Aged spe- cial levy which had been allo- cated for Hillsdale Manor in Oshawa. But the region refuses to pay the estimated $191,000 deficit for GWA administration stat- ing that the province has not paid its share of the costs. "The real emergency is that the province and even Ottawa have been cutting back on their agreed share of costs such as welfare," Regional Chairman Gary Herrema said. "And they have put more and more of a load on the municipal taxpay- ers." Chairman Herrema, along with social service committee chairman Diane Hamre, fi- nance and administration com- mittee chairman Don Hadden, regional chief executive officer Don Evans and commissioner of finance Jack Gartley were recommended by council to meet with Ontario treasurer Turn to Page 3 When temperatures soared last week, these two young entrepreneurs decided to help passers-by beat the heat, and quench their thirst. Katie and Hannah McLean were selling "The Best Cold Drinks In Port Perry" for only 10 cents a cup along the sidewalk on Queen Street last Thursday afternoon. Longer term for hit and run driver Ahitand run driver who se- riously injured a six year old Scugog Township girl last year, has had his sentence increased to three and a half years in pris- on. The Ontario Court of Ap- peal imposed the longer sen- tence last week against Harry Archibald, 24, of Ajax. He originally had been sen- tenced to two years less a day in reformatory, and a three year ban from driving. ~ In increasing the prison term last week, the Appeal Court also banned him from driving for six years. On April 16, 1989, Kristy Trotter, then six, was badly in- jured when hit by a car while cycling with her mother on a ru- ral road near their home west of Greenbank. The car sped off, and it took Regional Police two weeks to track down Archibald and charge him with dangerous driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident. In upping the sentence last week, the Appeal Court panel of judges said the public must be protected. Archibald was described in court as being one of the worst driving offenders in Durham Region. At the time of the accident that nearly killed Kristy Trot- ter, he was under licence sus- pension and without insurance. He has 15 previous convic- tions, including dangerous driv- ne failing to remain and speed- ng. Archibald had been serving his sentence at the Guelph Cor- rections Centre. : He is to be transferred to the federal penitentiary in Kingston to serve the remaind- er of the longer sentence. a -e Feil a-- i i i 2 3 ) 9 a |