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CENTRAL OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 120 NAVY STREET OAKVILLE, CMTARIO L / WHY PAY FULL PRICE FOR SHOES? Q.E.W. at Winston Churchill Turnoff For the finest in C USTO M UPH O LSTER IN G call Baier's. Makers o f fine upholstered furniture. l i l t W ytcn jft Road. l i l t 7 g (between BrnnlcA Thml Line) A Metroland Publication Vol. 37 No. 44 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14,1999 56 Pages 75 Cents (plus GST) Photo by Peter McCusker Halton Regional Police closed Dundas Street for several hours Monday morning while they investigated a fatal three-vehicle collision on the high level bridge crossing the Sixteen Mile Creek between Third Line and Neyagawa Boulevard. A 25-year-old Mississauga man, Kyle Stevenson, was pronounced dead at the accident scene. M a n k i l l e d in D u n d a s S t r e e t c r a s h By Howard Mozei OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF A 25-year old Mississauga man is dead in the wake of Oakville's third fatality on Dundas Street in a year. The collision occurred Monday around 7 a.m. on Dundas Street (for­ merly Highway 5) on the high level bridge crossing the Sixteen Mile Creek between Third Line and Neyagawa Boulevard. According to Halton Region Police, the investigation to date has determined that a westbound pickup truck lost con­ trol and spun into the path of an east- bound car. striking it in the front This caused the car to spin out of control in in a year the eastbound lanes. It was then struck broadside on the driver side by a third vehicle following eastbound behind. Kyle Stevenson, 25. of Glencolin Court in Mississauga was pronounced dead at the scene. The drivers of the two other vehicles were not injured. Police were forced to close the high­ way both eastbound and westbound for several hours and re-routed traffic else­ where. At press time the accident remained under investigation. Anyone who wit­ nessed the collision is asked to call Constable Rick Ferguson of the Public Safety Unit at 825-4747 ext. 5056 or Crime Stoppers at 825-8477. On Feb. 26th of this year Oakville woman was killed and three others injured after head-on collision on Highway 5. Barbara Kinnaird, 55, of Levanna Lane died when the Saturn in which she was driving was struck by a Jeep con­ taining three'male occupants. The accident took place around 4 p.m. when the westbound Jeep crossed into the eastbound lanes and struck the Saturn. Kinnaird, the only occupant of her car, was pronounced dead at the scene. Those in the Jeep were extricated by the Oakville Fire Department and trans­ ported to area hospitals. Their injuries were not life threatening. In April 1998 two men were killed and a third airlifted to hospital after hsad-or. collision on Dundas just west of Sixth Line that shocked even experi­ enced police officers. In this case, an Escort and El Camino struck each other head-on so hard the Escort licence plate actually stuck to the El Camino so that only the back of it was visible. Richard Sanderson, 29, of River Glen Drive in Oakville was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the eastbound El Camino - Michael Yaremko, 41, of Stanfield Drive in Oakville - was rushed by air ambulance to Hamilton General Hospital with serious injuries. The passenger in the El Camino - James Passfield, 26, of Barsuda Drive ir, Mississauga - was also pronounced dead at the scene. B o g u s a c c o u n t a n t * j a i l e d e i g h t m o n t h s A 30-year-old man already jailed for swindling two other firms while fraud­ ulently posing as an accountant will spend another eight months in jail after pleading guilty to defrauding an Oakville company of $250,000. Richard Hazel was also ordered to repay half the money -- $125,000 -- to Hoke Controls Ltd. of Oakville. He will also be placed on 24-months proba­ tion following his release. For three years, begin­ ning in 1995, hazel bilked more than $300,000 from the Oakville firm and two others in Hamilton and St. Catharines, while posing as an accountant. He also stole more that $4,000 from the Burlington Soccer League in 1997 while volunteering as its treasurer. On Monday, Hazel pleaded guilty in Oakville Provincial Court to a count of fraud over $5,000 for bilking Hoke Controls Ltd. of Oakville out of about $250,000 from 1995 to 1997. On setting sentencing, Judge William Sharpe said Hazel should undergo treat­ ment at the Brentwood Recovery Home in Windsor for his compulsive disorder and made therapy part of the probation order. In outlining the case, assistant Crown attorney Laurie Jago said the scam was uncovered in 1997 after Hazel resigned as a comp­ troller from Hoke and was working in a similar posi­ tion for Fire Monitoring in St. Catharines. At Hoke, Hazel had diverted company funds into his personal accounts by writing cheques to him­ self and his own company and by dipping into the petty cash account. Using a similar approach, he stole about $53,000 from Fire Monitoring in 1997. A community college dropout, he got the $50,000-a-year job at Fire Monitoring by claiming he was a chartered accountant and university graduate. He was fired in the summer of 1997 after the company dis­ covered his false resume. The $53,000 theft wasn't discovered, however, until after he was gone. He used some of the money for a family vacation in Scotland and to start pay­ ing back Hoke officials who were aware of his scheme and were demanding their money back. He paid Hoke about $28,000 from St. Catharines funds. After St. Catharines, he used his phoney credentials to get another accounting job with Carstar Automotive in Hamilton where he was promptly dis­ missed for incompetence in 1998. -- Torstar Network - * R e s id e n t s r e s p o n d i t o p l i g h t o f K o s o v a r r e f u g e e s By Sandra Omand SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Oakville residents turned out in droves last weekend to support two Oakville Trafalgar High School (OTHS) students who organized a relief effort for the thousands of Kosovar refugees fleeing their war- tom country. Moved by the heart-breaking images of refugees forced out of their homeland with nothing but the clothes on their backs, sisters Kelly, 18, and Sarah Vogt, 16, organized a relief effort last week involving OTHS and its feeder schools, as well as organiz­ ing a collection drive on Saturday morning which was open to the public. The generosity Canadians are known for world wide was clearly evi­ dent in Oakville as the amount donated totaled 18,000 items and included such things as diapers, toiletries, and canned goods as well as clothes. (S ee 'D o n a tio n s ' page A3) Photo by Peter C. McCusker IMPRESSIVE SINGERS: Ugandan orphans Leonard Tomusange and Kate Mirembe were among the 18 Watoto Children's Choir members who sang at the Evangel Penticostal Church, 1450 Rebecca St., on Sunday evening. All members of the choir are orphans who have lost their parents to war or disease. The choir is currently on a three-week Canadian tour which wraps up in Montreal on April 20th. INSIDE to d a y 's p a p e r Forms.......................... R1-R3 RiKinMfi____ B4-B5 Rft-Bfi Automotive........ D8-D5 Classified......................... na-ns Sports............................... 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