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f News/3 Efforts of Newcastle teen recognized Sports/12 Captain coming to end of junior career CLARINGTON'S AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1854 fto Canadian Statesman Pressrun 22,150 January 29,2003 • 30 Pages • Optional 3 Week Delivery $5/$l Newsstand durhamregi^p.com WHAT'S ON Feb. 5: Business people in Courtice, get out your planners. planners. The Courtice Business Association meets Wednesday, Feb. 5 at While Cliffc Terrace, Hwy. 2 and Varcoe Road. Guest speaker is Gene Chartier, Chartier, manager of transportation planning and design for Durham Region. Discussion will include an update on the median at King Street and Townline Road, the proposed Townline Bridge and the future of Hwy. 407. The meeting starts at noon. Cost is $10. RSVP to Jennifer Sherlock at 905-571-6210. Feb. 6: Moneymaking advice advice will be given for free at an upcoming seminar. Greg Row- den, a financial adviser with the Investors Group, will be conducting a workshop, Investing Investing For a Lifetime, at the Courtice Courtice branch of the Clarington Public Library, 2950 Courtice Rd. N., on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 2 to 3 p.m. The workshop is geared towards helping participants participants better understand investment investment planning, especially in the area of RRSPs. For more information, call 905-623- 7322. INSIDE Wheels: Nissan Canada Inc.'s luxury division, Infiniti, has announced pricing on the all-new 2003 FX45 premium crossover SUV, which is set to go on sale early February at Infiniti dealerships across Canada. INDEX Editorial Page 6 Classified 8 Sports 12 GIVE US A CALL General 905-579-4400 Distribution 905-579-4407 Death Notices 905-683-3005 Sincerely Yours 1-800-662-8423 General FAX 905-579-2238 Newsroom FAX 905-579-1809 durhamreg5on.com -ScN (y ONTARIO'S DRIVE CLEAN • SERVICE • PARTS • NEW & USED SALES & LEASING EXTENDED SERVICE HOURS MON., TUES., THURS., FRI. 7:30-6:00 WED. - 7:30-9:00 SAT.-9:00-1:00 ACCREDITED TEST & REPAIR FACILITY ♦An offldul murk or (lie IVmlncv of Onliirlii usvd umlt-r IIvvikv. Whitby - Oshawa Honda H 1110 DUNDAS. ST. E. WHITBY, LOCAL (01)5! 666-1772 HON DA www.hontln1.com A swing and a... KENDAL - Brock Prescott takes a mighty swing at a baseball placed on a tee during an indoor workout at the Kendal Community Centre Monday night. He was showcasing showcasing his skills for a new baseball team for kids aged 7-9. A.J. GR0EN/ Statesman photo Ruling takes air out of drug unit Court of Appeal says 'No' to heat-seeking helicopter searches BY STEPHEN SHAW Staff Writer DURHAM - Dealing a blow to local police anti-drug efforts, Ontario's highest court has ruled it is an invasion of privacy to fly police aircraft over private homes using heat-seeking technology technology as a surveillance tactic. . The Ontario Court of Appeal decision places dozens of cases involving marijuana grow homes in Durham Region in jeopardy, a justice official said. Police can still rely on the thermal imaging equipment, or FL1R (Forward Looking Infra- Red), to help, detect marijuana- grow homes, the court said. Only now, they are required to obtain a search warrant first. Taking aerial infrared pictures of a home to detect excessive heat emanating from a home - a telltale sign of indoor marijuana growing - is an "unreasonable intrusion" intrusion" of a homeowner's privacy, privacy, a three-justice panel said in its unanimous decision. The surveillance tactic amounts to a police search, requiring requiring a warrant. "I am satisfied the FLIR technology technology discloses more informa-, lion about what goes on inside a; house than is detectable by nor-; mal observation or surveillance," Madam Justice Rosalie Abella wrote on the panel's behalf. "It would, I think, directly contradict the reasonable privacy; expectations of most members of the public to permit the state,'. See SEARCH page 7 Glarmgton animal programs praised WENDY GALLAGHER Special to The Statesman CLARINGTON - If the saying saying is tme that the way society treats its animals reflects how it treats its people, Clarington residents residents are in good hands. Monday night, Clarington councillors were given a glowing report on the operation of their animal shelter. Liz White, director of Animal Alliance of Canada, called Clar- ington's animal program among the best in Canada. "Animal Alliance cites Clar ington as a shining example of what can be accomplished with a willing council, municipal staff and shelter workers," said Ms. White. In a brief to Winnipeg City Council, Animal Alliance cited Clarington as one of the "most progressive municipalities" in implementing animal services policies that stress making their communities "animal friendly" and encourage responsible companion companion animal guardianship' See PROGRAMS page 7 Compost program comes to the curb Photo courtesy of Miller Waste Systems A Scarab churns the compost at a facility in Richmond Hill where Durham food scraps will be sent. Clarington gets curbside composting in February BY JACQUIE MclNNES ^ Stall Writer / DURHAM - If you open your door and find a green container container sitting on your front porch over the next few weeks, you'll know it's a welcome to curbside composting in Durham. Four municipalities - Clarington, Clarington, Scugog, Uxbridge and Brock - arc poised to begin collecting collecting kitchen scraps from residents, residents, using lire new containers, in February (check the calendar located in the bin for your first pick-up), Meanwhile, the Region is working with the other four municipalities municipalities of Pickering, Ajax, Oshawa and Whitby to try to bring the same type of service to those communities within the next year. Some containers have already been delivered to the 42,000 households taking part in the first phase of the Region's move toward toward higher diversion of garbage. Those residents will also he encouraged to add a number number of items to their blue boxes including drink boxes, empty paint cans and nil twist-olf lop plastic containers, regardless of the number on the bottom, says Peter Watson, manager of waste for the Region. "We're all getting older and those numbers on the bottom are getting harder to see," he jokes. In reality, lie says the market for the number one mid two plastics lias stabilized and the Region is hopeful to he able to divert many or all of the other plastics it collects. "We don't know yet how much of these less desirable plastics will make it into the stream," lie says, but the Region is certainly going to try to find a market for them, he adds. The program works like this: residents use the smaller green container, lined with a biodegradable biodegradable bag, in the kitchen to collect food scraps including vegetables, fruits, meat, daily, coffee grounds and filters. Then the bags are transferred into a larger green container, which has a locking mechanism to prevent animal scavenging. It is important not to double-bag the compost, Mr. Watson says, so the larger container container should not be lined. The trucks have a split back, one side for garbage headed to landfill and another for garbage to be transferred to a compost facility facility in Richmond Hill operated by Miller Waste. The facility is an outdoor operation currently used for yard waste. The food waste from the four municipalities municipalities will he mixed in with the yard waste, as a small percentage of the overall organic material at the facility, and processed, says Scott Wolfe, general manager of Miller Waste. Some people have expressed surprise meat and dairy can be included included in the composting stream, says Mr. Watson, but Mr. Miller notes the processing of the waste, which takes about half a year, ensures ensures all bacteria and other micro-organisms and possible pathogens in the meat are destroyed destroyed long before the compost product is spread onto farmland. The food scraps provide an important important component in the chemical chemical combination required to break down the materials into compost, he says. Miller Waste provides a number number of different compost product mixes to market, which Mr. Miller says are an alternative often used by organic farmers instead instead of manure, which is not processed prior to spreading. Durham is really at the lencl- Sco GOING page 7 61111 11 -- 0 PiiîBâ e ml TC5D fill |7:' 166 King St. E. 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