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Page 12 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November IS, 1998 Santa Claus Parade All Set to Go by H. Jill Booker Staff Writer For children across Claringlon, the long wait is finally over. Santa Claus is coming to town! ' The 37th annual Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade will be held this Saturday, November 21, in Bowmanville. Organizers say they have been pleased with the community response to the parade. "We all thoroughly enjoy it," Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade Committee Chairman, Valerie Gardiner said. "We've noticed a lot more interest in the parade this year from Durham." The theme for this year's parade is 'Letters to Santa.' "What gave us our theme was two high school teachers who asked their art class to design buttons for the parade," Ms Gardiner said. The winning button displays a mailbox with 'S. Claus' on it. To complement the parade's theme, the committee's committee's float has a giant crossword puzzle and a mailbox on it. During the parade, children will ride on the float, holding letters to Santa. As in other years, volunteers from the post office will be on hand to collect letters to Santa from children children in the crowd. The letters are answered by Santa himself. On parade day, members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 178 will be selling buttons featuring the mailbox design to help finance the parade., The revenue from the button sales, together with donations, donations, provides enough money to put on the parade. Along with the floats, 12 bands have already been booked for the parade, including bands from local schools. A trophy will be presented to the float that comes in first place. The 37th annual parade is dedicated to Carson Elliott, who passed away this year. Mr. Elliott was one of the original founders of the Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade. Due to construction, the starling location of the parade has been changed this year. It will begin at Church and Silver streets, proceed west on Church, continue south on Scugog, east on King Street and south on Liberty. The parade route ends at Memorial Park. In addition to bundling up the children, don't forget to bring blankets, lawn chairs and a camera. As well, don't forget the letters to Santa. CHRISTMAS CROSSWORD -- Nick Van Seggelen and Valerie Gardiner take a break during the construction of the Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade Committee's float. The float features a giant crossword puzzle and a mailbox, which help demonstrate demonstrate the 'Letters to Santa' theme of this year's parade. Police Briefs Portables Broken Into At Mother Teresa Two break-ins at Mother Teresa Elementary School in Courtice resulted in the disappearance of computers, a printer, and a video camera. The thefts occurred Monday, November 9th, and Friday, November 13th, when portable classrooms at the school were entered. The break-ins arc currently under investigation by Durham Regional Police. Pickpocket Makes Off With Wallet A pickpocket is considered to be the culprit in a theft which happened last Friday at a service station along Highway 401 near Newcastle. A 55-ycar-otd Cobourg man told Durham Regional Police he stopped at the station and was relieved of his wallet, which contained his identification, credit cards, and about $160 in cash. Fatal Crash In Scugog The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is investigating a weekend car crash which claimed the life of an Oshawa father of four. It's the second time in just over two weeks the SIU has investigated incidents involving the Durham Regional Police (DRP). Monday, members of the DRP were cleared of any wrong-doing in a double fatality which occurred in Oshawa October 30. This weekend's crash took place at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Highway 12 and Highway 7A in Manchester. Durham Regional Police officers responded to the Port Perry Community Police office after receiving a call from a female reporting a domestic dispute and a driving incident. As police arrived on the scene, a suspect driving a 1997 Ford pick-up truck lied the area. The vehicle was chased by police westbound on Highway 7A from Port Perry. As the vehicle entered the intersection of the two highways, it collided collided with a southbound car. Both vehicles ended up in the ditch. The driver of the second vehicle, 47-ycar-old John Michael Gibbons, was taken to Lakcridge Health Port Perry, where he died of injuries sustained in the collision. Gibbon's wife, 35-year-old Lorna, was treated for minor injuries and released. Gibbons was the father of four children, aged four, five, seven and 15. DRP Officers Cleared in SIU Investigation by Jennifer Stone Staff Writer A Durham Regional Police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing wrongdoing following an investigation investigation into a double fatality fatality which occurred in Oshawa last month. Jeremy Arsenault, 22, and Dcon Hobbs, 28, both of Oshawa, died October 30 when the van in which they were travelling collided collided with a vehicle being driven by a 62-year-old Oshawa woman. Another passenger in the van, 20-year-old William Woods, of Whitby, sustained non-life threatening injuries. The 62-year-old woman suffered suffered serious injuries, and has since been released from hospital. 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"The actions of the Durham Regional ' Police officer who was the subject subject of the investigation by our unit did not cause the death of Jeremy Arsenault and Deon Hobbs," said Acting SIU director Leslie Chapin. The SIU immediately dispatched eight of its officers officers to the scene of the collision. collision. "Civilian eye-witnesses confirmed that the officers were not pursuing the van" at the time of the incident, added Chapin, adding at least six civilian witnesses were interviewed during the investigation. The officer in the marked cruiser told the SIU he chose not to chase the stolen van because they were in a residential neighbourhood neighbourhood with a school Request for Traffic Signals Turned Down The Region of Durham lias determined that traffic signals arc not required at three area intersections. 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