Oakville Beaver, 10 Jun 2010, p. 1

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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 www.carstaroakville.com 905-8457579 905-847 -2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. 547 Trafalgar Rd. www.dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 www.brantflorist.com/ob HALTON TRANSMISSION Beaver Trails around the world Travel (905) 559 SPEERS ROAD, UNIT #3 842-0725 905.639.7001 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 65 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2010 32 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Halton police Roaring good time veteran was gentle giant By Tim Whitnell METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP Bill Henshaw is being remembered as a gentle giant of a man who looked out for the best interests of his fellow officers. The 33-year Halton Regional Police officer died suddenly Tuesday while on duty at police headquarters. Public Affairs Sgt. Brian Carr said Henshaw, a 54-year-old longtime Burlington resident and former president of the Halton Regional Police Association (HRPA), was in the basement of police headquarters around 11 a.m. He was getting a drink from a water fountain when he collapsed. "He was our firearms instructor but he wasn't on the (basement) range at the time," said Carr. Carr said within seconds fellow officers rushed to his aid. Halton paramedics, based in an adjacent building, were on the scene quickly. CPR was administered. Carr did not know if Henshaw was revived at any point. Halton police believe Henshaw died of natural causes. It is not known if an autopsy has been performed. The regional coroner's office is usually involved in cases of sudden death. Most recently, Henshaw spent three years seconded to the Ontario Police College as a firearms instructor. Henshaw was a street patrol conSee Regional page 8 Erratic behaviour alarmed friends By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The theories differ as to why, but Sara Carlin changed drastically in the year leading to her suicide. This sudden change in behaviour was reported by a number of Sara's close friends Tuesday during the second day of a Coroner's inquest into the young woman's death. Sara, who was only 18 when she passed away, hanged herself in the basement of her family home on May 6, 2007. At the time of her death, Sara had been taking the powerful antidepressant Paxil, for which Health Canada has issued advisories about it producing suicidal thoughts in adolescents. The Ontario Coroner's Office is holding an inquest to examine what led to Sara's Sara Carlin suicide and to see if similar deaths can be prevented in the future. The second day of the inquest began with the Coroner's Counsel Michael Blain calling on Carlin's ex-boyfriend Rob Desimo to testify. Desimo started dating Sara in 2004 and described her as being a See Friends page 3 MICHELLE SIU / OAKVILLE BEAVER PICNIC FUN: Six-year-old Sam Colin lets out a roar during the Glenburnie School picnic at Fogolars Country Club in Oakville on Sunday afternoon.

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