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Halton police pleased with 96% seatbelt compliance rate According to Halton Regional Prolice Sgt. Tom Chapman, 4% to 95% by the end of 1995. ‘After the numbers for this month‘s crackdown were tallied, they revealed that 96% of drivers in the region buckled up. This positive statistic was based on 8,707 vehicles stopped during the two weeks with only 276 drivers being charged. a I C e Liberals will introduce national gun registry Justice Minister tells party fundraiser he will not be swayed by gun lobby peration Impact â€" the twoâ€"week, nationwide " seatbelt ~safety blitz Avhich ended Friday â€" was an unqualified local success story. He told Liberal supâ€" porters Friday that although he respects the | hunting tradition and the | % perspective of gun ownâ€" Alla ers, he has to balance it with the safety of the commumty He has spoken to many hunters and gun groups and says although it is a divisive issue, there are "broad areas of consensus." Police provinceâ€"wide have set a goal of raising the average provincial compliance rate from Last month, more than 10,000 proâ€"gun people gathered on Parliament Hill to denounce the Liberal party‘s plans for tougher gun control. The massive show of support on the part of the gun owners determined to block furâ€" ther restrictions on their weapons, prompted the minister to travel across the country to talk about gun control. Leaders of J the new gun lobby were | clearly hopeful they | could force the Liberal | minister to ease up on ‘cun control. Speaking at a $130â€"aâ€"plate Liberal fundraiser Friday, the justice minister said the national registry will be introduced as long as it is affordable. will go ahead with plans to set up a national registry of all firearms, a contentious issue that brought 10,000 angry gun owners to protest in Ottawa last month. J ustice minister Allan Rock said the federal government By DIANE HART Special to the Beaver ‘"We are very pleased with the "All acree â€" we do not want a Brett Gervais receives his award from Oakville Chief Fire Prevention Officer John Peters Allan Rock On Monday at around 5:30 p.m., say Halton Regional Police, the Elm Road resident noticed two young males acting suspicious near a fence to a playground owned by Halton Housing. She grabbed her video camera and caught the two of them on tape kicking out the boards of the fence. Police were called and the tape was shown to the investigating offiâ€" cers. Two young offenders, aged 14 and 15, were charged with misâ€" chief under $1,000 and will appear in court Nov. 23rd. A 40â€"yearâ€"Oakville woman and her video camera are being credited by police with the arrest of two young vandals. Smile â€" You‘re on Vandal Camera citizens in the region and their attitude toward buckling up," said Sgt. Chapman, who sent a note of thanks to all those offiâ€" cers who took part in the camâ€" paign. Police chiefs across the counâ€" try, he noted, have been lobbying for tougher gun control for years. As to the argument by some (See ‘Toronto page 5) "It‘s much more than just that (crime control)," he said, during a break in the dinner. Rock said ownership of guns j in Canada has got to be 1 addressed and cited ] statistics such as the 1,400 people who died by gunfire last year in Canada and the 1,100 suicides related to guns. On average, said the jusâ€" tice minister, one woman dies every week of ock domestic abuse. "There are Canadians who go over the edge," he said. country where you have to have a gun," said Rock. Afterwards, he told the Beaver gun owners have not convinced him the real problems lie in crime control, not gun control. "Canada‘s Best Community Newspaper" CCNA Better Newspapers Competition 1993 Operation impact took place from Oct. 1st â€" 14th. In 1993 the compliance rate in Halton was 92% and in Oakville it was 97%. Sgt. Chapman explained that the necessity of seatbelts was Thanks to the warm fall weather, Ron Jensen was once again in Bronte Harbor entertaining passersby with his unique brand of music. With the help of backâ€"up tapes, Jensen, a fixture in Bronte Harbour during the summer played the complete musical score of the popular musical The Phantom of the Opera. (Photo by Barrie Erskine) PHANToM oOF TtHE Accorpian Thanks to a fire safety lesson he learned as a fiveâ€"yearâ€"old kindergarten student, Brett was able to respond accordingly when he was faced with a lifeâ€"threatenâ€" ing fire in his Holton Heights home last year. By ROD JERRED Oakville Beaver Staff I hirteenâ€"yearâ€"old Brett _ Gervais is living proof K. that fire safety education saves lives â€" in this case young Brett‘s. The fine for not buckling up your seatbelt is $90 and two demerit points off your driver‘s licence. According to police, if everyâ€" one had worn a seat belt or child restraint system correctly last year, an estimated 200 lives could have been saved in Ontario. Fire safety lesson left impression The driver was not wearing a seatbelt. In fact, Sgt. Chapman said that each year at least three or four fatalities occur in Halton which likely could have been preâ€" vented through the proper use of seatbelts. underscored by the fatality which occurred on Royal Windsor Drive during the course of the twoâ€"week blitz. Brett was at home alone when (See‘Kindergarten‘ page 3) ment Planning n RRSP‘S INVESTMENT PLANNING _ PETERC. WATSON MBA, CEP REP PrEIER WaArsON INVESIMENTS LANTED We are an indlependent Oakville firmn spggglmng in "I got totally down and thought about it (suicide) as a way out of things," she told the Beaver on condition that her real name would not be used. In a way, her suicide attempt might be described as a lucky escape in that she discovered willing and sympathetic ears for the problems she was wrestling with. "I can go to my friends now," she said. "Before I was A year later, this Oakville student could talk about a the despondency and kyz despair stemming from the taunts of fellow students cenâ€" tring on her weight, (although her friends tried to assure her she wasn‘t "fat"), about her fear of pregnancy after she‘d given herself to a boy she wanted as a boyfriend, about the fight with her family over her plummeting grades. Betty walked into the school washâ€" room, fully intent on slashing her wrists and ending her painful exisâ€" tence. Fortunately some friends, ~ who had been warned by her closest friend, rushed in to save her. She was 13. f ripping the metal cutters she‘d lifted from the shop, 5 By BARB JOY Special to the Oakville Beaver A desperate call for help Teenage Suicide 60 Pages Call Investment Advisor Mark Slipp, at (905) 359â€"4633 or your Nesbitt Burns Investment Advisor what they‘d say." Betty and her best friend knew of others in their peer groups who had tried to kill themselves. But statistics on actual attempts and compleâ€" tions are hard to come by and even those in police records are estimated to represent only oneâ€"tenth of the total figure. The other nine out of 10 could be cloaked in "accidents" such as a car plummeting off a bridge or a vehicle slamming into a tree, noted Lisa Campbell of the Halton branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA). 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