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i f l A, > i Mss • SINCE 1854 • AMALGAMATED 1999 WITH CLARINGTON THIS WEEK • Pressrun 21,900 30 Pages Wednesday Juh 1 1, 2001 Optional 4 week delivery $5/$l newsstand Jaguar marks its X Wheels Pull out Bigger and better Sports, page 16 Durham short $90 million for housing costs Council looks to Province for funding BY SUSAN O'NEILL Staff Writer DURHAM -- The Region is facing a $90-million shortfall in capital reserves to cover the repairs repairs required to maintain Durham's social housing portfolio portfolio over the next 20 years. Thai's the finding of a recent study and audit conducted to determine determine the condition of the buildings included in Durham's social housing stock and the re serves available to pay for them. "We've become responsible for the funding of this portfolio and there is a long-term inherent liability associated with capital repairs that will be required," Shirley Van Steen, Durham's housing director, said in an interview interview Wednesday. Priest arrested for breaching house arrest BY STEPHEN SHAW Staff Writer DURHAM - A former Newcastle priest under house arrest after being convicted of l sexually abusing a tecnaged boy has been arrested for breaching his conditional sentence. Father Patrick Herlihey, ]49, was found guilty this year of sexual assault and exploitation exploitation for "touching, 'groping and kissing" the victim victim on numerous occasions ; between 1984 and 1988. The jvictim was between 14 and ]\7. ; The former parish priest of }St. Francis of Assisi Catholic •church in Newcastle and ichaplain at St. Stephen's 'High School in Bowmanville was spared jail on May 25 and handed an 18-month conditional conditional sentence by Mr. Justice Justice Alfred Stong, of Superior Court of Justice in Whitby. As part of the sentence the justice ordered Father Herlihey Herlihey confined to his Lindsay- area home 24-hours a day, except except for an hour Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for shopping, personal business and exercise. He must also write three letters to the editors of newspapers newspapers outlining his crimes and the impact of the judicial process, and organize a panel discussion to the Roman Catholic clergy in the Peterborough Peterborough area on the topic of abuse. On Monday, OPP in Emily Township arrested Father Herlihey after receiving a report report he was walking his dog on Thursday July 5 at about 5 p.m. "He was out of his residence residence when he wasn't supposed supposed to be. He was walking on the road when a witness saw him," Constable Ted c w <y ONTARIO'S DRIVE CLEAN ACCREDITED TEST & REPAIR FACILITY •An official mark of Hit? Province of Ontario used under licence. Whitby - Oshawa Honda 1110 DUNDAS. ST. E., WHITBY LOCAL (905) 666-1772 honda The provincial government handed over the ownership and responsibility for administering the social housing program to municipalities on Jan. 1 of this year. "When you look at all of the individual building assessments and match it up against the re serves for capital... it doesn't match," she said. "The needs are far greater (than the money in the reserve accounts)." Durham Chairman Roger Anderson said the Province will have to find a source of revenue to cover those expenses. "My understanding is part of the swap was that they'd be providing providing the necessary funding for capital repairs," Mr. Anderson said in an interview, noting if See DURHAM page 4 FATHER PATRICK HERLIHEY Found guilty of sexual assault assault earlier this year. Schendera said. Father Herlihey remains in police custody and was scheduled to appear in Lindsay Lindsay court Wednesday. He could be ordered to serve a portion or the balance of his conditional sentence in jail. At his trial, court heard Father Herlihey befriended the victim, now 30, after his mother began attending mass and receiving counselling from the priest to help cope with the break up of her marriage. marriage. Court was told the victim was assaulted in his Orono home, during a camping trip with a church youth group and in the rectory at St. Francis Francis of Assisi, where Fr. Herlihey Herlihey was assigned between 1983 and 1985. During visits to the family's family's residence Father Herlihey Herlihey stayed over night, sleeping sleeping in the boy's bed naked and coaxing him to remove his clothes. He is currently waiting trial on sex-abuse charges relating relating to another boy. Inside &tattiman WHERE TO FIND IT Editorial Page 6 Classified 9 Sports 13 GIVE US A CALL General.. .905-623-3303 Distribution 905-579-4407 Death Notices 905-683-3005 Sincerely Yours 1-800-662-8423 Web site durhamregion.com email jbobbitt@durhamregion.com FAX 905-623-6161 REGION TAKES CONTROL See page 3 Man's RON PIETRO NIRO/ Statesman photo Hot-weather hockey COURTICE - Hot weather didn't stop weekend. Morris Piazza chased down a neighbours on Stuart Road in Courtice much smaller Corey Nielsen during the from enjoying street hockey action on the game. under probe Construction site accident investigated by Province BOWMANVILLE - The Ontario Labour Ministry continues continues to probe the death of a man crushed by 35 tonnes of sandy gravel last month. According to ministry spokesperson Belinda Sul ton, the accident, which happened June 28 at a construction site at Scugog Street and Long- worth Avenue, remains under investigation. "The length of the investigation investigation depends on the complexity complexity of the case. It can take from half a day up to a year," says Ms. Sutton, noting the ministry "has up to one year to lay charges." Ms. Sutton says 24-year- old Salvatore Dicaro of Woodbridge was holding a drainage pipe in position while a dump truck dropped a load of granular fill into the ditch when "the load shifted and fell on the worker. Who's keeping an eye on criminally insane patients? Police, mental health centre fail to connect as patients go AWOL BY STEPHEN SHAW Staff Writer DURHAM - Concerns over the supervision of the criminally insane are being raised by police officials in the wake of two recent incidents in which forensic patients patients have gone missing while in the custody of Whitby Mental Health Centre. Durham Regional Police are accusing the hospital of failing to notify them when patients of the 40-bed medium-security forensic unit leave the grounds - waiting as many as three days to report a patient missing in one case. WMHC Administrator Ron Ballantyne strongly denies the claim. "That's absolutely incorrect," incorrect," he said in a recent interview. interview. However, the latest incidents have police worrying about public public safety. Chi Yung (Alan) Lam left the lakefront grounds by taxi at about 10 a.m. June 15 on an unescorted day pass. He was required to report report by phone every half-hour. Later that day, police were notified notified Mr. Lam, 37, was arrested at the Canada-U.S. border, in Gananoque, after trying to cross into New York State. He was detained by U.S. immigration, immigration, arrested by Canadian authorities under the Mental Health Act and held at the Brockvillejail. He was later picked up by See POLICE page 4 An aerial view of the Whitby Mental Health Centre. The facility facility has been accused by Durham Regional Police of failing failing to notify them when patients leave the grounds. Cowan PONTIAC-BUICK GMCTRUCK 166 KING ST. E., BOWMANVILLE 905-623-3396