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YOU WIN With Quality Brand Name Furnishings All At Wholesale Prices Chesterfield Wholesalers 1 Coring Arts Mil SHOP THE UMTS LIVING LIGHTING GEORGETOWN 245Gue 4166732996 Georgetown Welcome Wagon hostess Debbie Butler arrived with a basket of special gifts from Georgetown businesses to celebrate Georgetown couple Ken and Sue adoption of two Romanian children Thursday night The couple lust came back from Romania where they undertook the adoption procedure on their own Herald photo by Lisa Boonstoppel Pot Police investigate abuse reports By LISA POT The Herald Three former students of Ernest C Drury School for the deaf in Milton have come forward and reported they were sexually and physically abused by school staff revealed Detective Sergeant Michael Earcrett of the Hal ton Regional Police Force The sexual assaults involving sexual intercourse allegedly between 1972 and said Sgt Eacrett Three females who have come forward so far are all deaf or hearing impaired and were bet ween and 17 years old at the time of the reported assaults Halton Regional Police first became aware of the allegations last Thursday when one of the former students filed a com plaint Two more complaints were forwarded to Halton Police by the London Police Force who are investigating similar allega at the school in An Inside Look SECTION A Police Beit 2 Community Forum 2 CnncUBnett Mom y Mitten 6 Forum Community In Focus Nerval News 21 Legion Lines 22 Business 23 SECTION Sports 1B5B Agriculture ArtsAUeas SB Entertainment School News 10B Classified London Two students stated they were sexually abused at C dating back to Both police forces along with the Ministry of Community and Social Services are investigating the reports So far two former members of the Drury staff who had been transferred to Robarts have been suspended with pay Another former E C teacher now employed elsewhere by the Ministry of Education has also been suspended Det said the in vestigation will take several weeks Police are now reviewing all occurences of sexual and physical abuse the have taken place at the school since The majonty of our records con tain assaults of students on students he said We re in vestigating to see if there is a con nection Education Minister Marion Boyd announced Friday that a probe had begun into complaints of abuse at the School She said there was some indica tion that other provincial schools may be involved and because of that records have been seized from five provincial schools for and blind C School for the Deaf operates out of an adjoining building to EC High School on Ontario Street South in Milton and has about 250 hearing impaired students aged five to Georgetown couple adopts two Romanian babies By LISA BOONSTOPPELPOT The Herald Six weeks ago Sue Disley of Georgetown donned a lab coat and assumed the role of a doc tor s assistant so she could get in side a children home in Romania and catch a glimpse of the toddler who is now her adopted son Now home a week after their six week stay in Romania Sue and her husband Ken Disley of Rexway reflect on the lengths they went to adopt not on ly twoyearold Gordon but also a second son three month old Doug While Gordon crawls from one toy to another throwing pieces all over the floor and Doug con sucks on his bottle Mr Disley talks about the pain and desperation the couple felt last summer when Sue miscarried after an invitrofertihzation pro cess The couple had been trying for six years to conceive after their marriage in 1984 Realizing they may neve have a child of their own the couple deciderfto adopt We knew it would take a long time to adopt a child from Canada so we decided to start the process of international said Mr Disley The process begins with a homestudy which the couple started in December The hired a counsellor ap proved by the provincial govern ment to write a review about the couple and their lifestyle which must be submitted to the pro vince which either denies the pie the right to adopt or replies that It does not object Mrs said because she and her husband believe that children need siblings they wanted to adopt two children at once and it took a bit of sion convince the counsellor of this By end of February this year however the couple learn Continued on Page Weapons seized by police deemed prohibited by judge Over two dozen machine guns that were seized from a business last year were deemed prohibited by a Provincial court judge in Milton Monday and will be disposed of In a precedent setting decision Judge Douglas Latimer deter mined that nine complete semi automatic machine guns and 14 machine gun frames and receivers could easily be con verted to fully automatic weapons which are considered prohibited weapons under the Criminal Code of Canada The weapons Heckler and Kosh MP5A3 nfles were seized from Collector Source a Llmehouse firearms and military memorabilia dealership in January 1990 after Regional Police were tipped off bytheRCMP The machine guns are manufactured as fully automatic weapons but were converted to semi automatic rifles before be ing shipped to Canada said Sergeant Keith of the Regional Police The weapons hadn t been changed back to their fully automatic state but were seized because police believed they could too readily be reconverted to fully automatic weapons This belief was corroborated by an arms expert at the trial who told Judge Latimer the weapons could be easily reconstructed said Sergeant Woudstra As fully automatic weapons the rifles are capable of firing 800 round per minute Detective Sergeant Mike Eacrett of the Halton Regional Police said the case is an impor tant one because police forces across Ontario ana Quebec are proceeding with similar in vestigations and may use this case as a precedent He said no charges are pending against the owner of Collectors Source because he had no intent to commit a criminal offence Since the weapons did pass through British Columbia and Canadian government inspec the owner realize he was even committing a criminal offence saidDet Sgt Eacrett Willow Park protest Willow Park trailer camp residents were out In declared the Willow Park trailer camp to be on the force Saturday protesting the Credit Valley Credit River flood plain and therefore the residents Authority s decision to serve eviction notices lives would be In danger should a natural disaster on the residents as of today Wednesday The flooding occur Herald photo CVCA position Is based on the fact the Authority has