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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, SEPTEMBER 26,2001 PAGE 5 CORRECTION A story in This Week Friday, Sept. 21 regarding paramedic training contained an error. The story should have stated all funding for the training will be paid for by Durham Region. This Week regrets the error. Region seeks sludge answers REGION from page I rized sewage plant," added Oshawa Regional Regional Councillor John Neal, who called the Gartner Lee study a "snapshot telling us it's an urgent matter that needs to be addressed." As well, the committee committee is asking the Ministry ensure any paper sludge remaining in a Courlicc- arca gravel pit previously used to store paper sludge by Courticc Auto Wreckers Wreckers be completely removed. The company company is currently facing municipal charges of illegally storing the sludge on the north Courticc site. Members of Protect the Ridges, a resident watchdog group, expressed concern to politicians Mr. Ambrose's company has not fully complied complied with municipal bylaw orders to remove remove the sludge from the pit. Monday, Clarington bylaw enforcement enforcement officer Lcn Creamer said he was unaware any material remained on the site. "I thought it was done, finished," he said, adding the municipality would investigate investigate the status of the site. Mr. Ambrose Ambrose was charged with a zoning infraction infraction because the site is zoned agricultural agricultural (for aggregate use) and storage of any material, toxic or otherwise, is forbidden. forbidden. The committee also made a recommendation recommendation that Regional council ensure it is not contributing to the problem of illegal waste sites. The committee is asking council to ensure any composting composting site receiving yard and leaf waste from the Region is a licensed operator with a certificate of approval to accept composting materials. The MOB promised residents it would conduct an air-quality study in August 2000 and have promised area residents wells would be checked, says protect the Ridges vice-chairman Kevin Campbell, who adds the air study is still awaiting financial approval at the ministry. ministry. Residents are fearful that while the Studies are held up, drinking water and air could be contaminated. «■ According to Geoff Carpentier, supervisor supervisor at the York-Durham MOB office, office, the gun club berm has been permit- (ed because the paper sludge was used as a raw material in the manufacturing of Sound-sorb and has been classified as an "exempted waste", for that reason. Jiound-sorb is generally accepted to be a (pixture of approximately 30 per cent sand and 70 per cent paper sludge, j! Mr. Carpentier's office is currently ^working to better define" that manufacturing manufacturing process with Mr. Ambrose ^ifter the Regional consultant's study repealed repealed in some areas of the berm sand seemed to exist in far lesser quantities than that definition and in some areas Was non-existent. ii htaff work for free STAFF from page I but that money can only be used for such infrastructure purposes. This is also the case for the youth program, The Refuge, which received government funding earlier this year to get up and running but is not entitled to use any of its seed money to pay wages. Money from the Trillium foundation is also designated designated for only one of the youth programs programs and cannot be used to pay staff. J; "The money that we got, $60,000, had to be used for renovations," says Rev. Brecht. "We receive it in incre- tfients and I have to send in the receipts (to Human Resources and Development Canada). The same goes for the youth program. That money can only be used for supplies, not wages or any type of Administration expenses." i - Even the money Gate 3:16 received for renovations to the King Street East tiùilding it moved into last May will be used up quickly. "We still need another $44,000 in renovations," to finish the job, she says. And she and her staff need time. Because of the move last spring and all the renovations going on to accommodate accommodate the growing number of needy and homeless people in Durham, the reverend admits "fund-raising took a hack seat." ! Rev. Brecht plans to apply for anoth- e) - IIRDC grant for the homeless in 2002 in order to complete the necessary renovations to the centre, and to ensure nil safety and fire codes arc observed. ! "I spend $265 every two weeks for sfipplies," she explains. "We use Styrofoam Styrofoam cups and plates and plastic cutlery. We must be able to throw them away because of the diseases some of the people people have. It all has to be replaced and things like Styrofoam have gone up in ijrice." | As for Gate 3:16ls staff members not getting paid, they unanimously have decided decided to keep working at the shelter as Ihng as supplies last. ; "So, we're working for free," she says. "It says a lot about the staff that continues to conic in and work for no money, One of the board members called Monday (Sept. 17) to ask me how ninny staff showed up for work that day. z^ll of them did." Accused killer admitted beating victim: witness BY STEPHEN SH.WV Staff Writer As Joseph Pace lay bleeding bleeding under a highway overpass, overpass, one of his accused killers returned to a nearby doughnut shop and confessed to beating the street person, saying the victim deserved to die, a friend testified. Betty Anne Donnelly, a waitress working at the Oshawa Oshawa doughnut shop the night in question, said she asked John Oliver if the man was dead or alive. "He said something like, 'I hope he dies, he deserved it,"' Ms. Donnelly testified Thursday in Superior Court. "I said he doesn't deserve to die. He didn't deserve to get beat up." Mr. Oliver, 33, and friend Dave Anthony Morrison, 23, have both pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Mr. Pace, 44. The drifter's lifeless body was found in a Ritson Road pedestrian tunnel under the Hwy. 401 overpass early on Nov. 10, 1999. He suffered numerous blunt force injuries and died from brain hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging, the jury has been told. At the lime, court has heard, Ms. Donnelly was living living at a Stacey Avenue rooming rooming house with Mr. Oliver and his girlfriend Amanda Daigle. Ms. Donnelly worked the night shift at Pete's Donuts Nov. 9, 1999 and Mr. Oliver, Ms. Daigle and Mr. Morrison,, Morrison,, her boyfriend, kept her company. Later in the evening, her friends left the Bloor Street East restaurant and an "old man" with long, unkempt hair whom she earlier saw standing outside entered the shop. Mr. Pace walked up and down at the counter, looked out a window, mumbled something under his breath and asked for ice water, court heard. "Did the gentleman in the coffee shop do anything of a threatening nature?" asked prosecutor John Scott. Ms. Donnelly replied. "No." Ms. Donnelly said she phoned her friends at home and asked if they could comeback comeback to the shop to "keep me company until the man left." The three friends returned, Ms. Donnelly testified, at which time- Mr. Oliver in a loud voice asked. "Do you want me to get this punk oulta here?" Ms. Donnelly said she replied, "No, he didn't do anything." At that time, Mr. Pace left the doughnut shop, she testified, anil was followed out the door a few moments later by Mr. Morrison and Mr. Oliver. "I ran to the door to see where they were going... They started to run." Mr. Oliver returned 10 or 15 minutes later and was "pumped up, hyper." said Ms. Donnelly, adding his hand was swollen and his knuckles bruised. "He said they beat that man up. That he gave him some punches to the head and when the man fell he started kicking him and the man started shaking... It didn't didn't seem like he really cared," Ms. Donnelly testified. She said Mr. Morrison returned returned shortly after with blood on his clothes. Ms. Donnelly testified she suggested calling an ambulance ambulance for Mr. Pace but Mr. Morrison replied, "Don't call the ambulance because I'll go to jail." Based on Ms. Daigle's testimony testimony Mr. Morrison said, "He won't need it." In evidence yesterday, forensic forensic biologist Denis Michaud, of the Centre for Forensic Sciences, told the jury DNA analysis showed blood found on the golf shirt, hiking boots and shorts worn by Mr. Morrison was from Mr. Pace. Bloodstains also found on Mr. Oliver's overalls and leather boots were also from the victim, Mr. Michaud testified. In earlier testimony, John Murray told court Mr. Pace was sprawled across the sidewalk in the tunnel when he and a friend spotted him after 2 a.m. "There was blood all over his face. He was in terrible, terrible condition. I wondered if he was still alive." said Mr. Murray, adding he felt fora pulse. 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