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I News/5 Board of Trade new president CLARINGTON'S Sports/14 Junior hockey prospect gets wish AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1854 Pressrun 22,150 May 7, 2003 • 38 Pages • Optional 3 Week Delivery $5/$l Newsstand durhamregioii.com Guns and knives seized from Courtice home WALTER PASSARELLA/ Statesman photo A search of a home on the Courtice-Oshavva border resulted in more than 100 charges, as police recovered $200,000 in stolen goods, including guns, ammunition and knives. Five charged as police find stolen goods, drugs and guns IN BRIEF Friday: The Newcastle and District Chamber of Commerce would like to invite young people people in the community to a youth dance on Friday night. The dance, for youth ages 10 to 14, will be held May 9 at the Newcastle Community Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is $5 and drinks and snacks are 75 cents. A DJ will provide the night's entertainment. For more information call Diane at 905-987-5653 or Connie at 905-983-5139. Saturday: Put down that TV remote and pick up a book. The Clarington Museum's annual annual book sale will be held on May 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Clarke Museum, located at the Kirby exit of Highway 35/115. A variety of books will he for sale including children's, mystery, romance and non-fiction. non-fiction. The event is a fundraiser for tire museum. For more information information call 905-623-2734. 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Police executed two more warrants on tire weekend and found another $50,000 worth of loot stashed in storage units on Baseline Road in Courtice and Eastern Avenue in Toronto. Four guns, ammunition, three-and-a-half pounds of pot with a street value of $ 1,400 and drug-making equipment were also seized from the Townline residence, police said. A Trulls Road home was raided earlier in the probe. Police believe a group of thieves was behind a recent string of commercial and residential residential burglaries, which were being investigated by the intelligence intelligence unit and Clarington's and Oshawa's break-and-enter squads. They include Hero Army Surplus, on Phillip Murray Avenue, Avenue, broken into April 7, as well as homes or businesses in Oshawa, Clarington . and Cobourg. Four people - three men and a woman - were arrested at tire Townline Road residence, while a fifth person is still sought. Facing various drug, gun and property charges are Shannon Dale Schillemore, 23, Steven Robert Schillemore, 27, Jason Nicholas Latulippe, 24, and Jamie Lynn Reid, 24, all of Townline Road North, Courtice. An unidentified fourth man, 24, is wanted. The investigation continues. Any victims who think their stolen property was located can call Durham detectives at 905- 579-1520, ext. 2737 or 1691. Wilcox Road residents say safety at risk by off-road vehicles BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - Residents Residents in the Wilcox Road- Hwy. 115 area say they've had enough of dirt bikes and all- terrain vehicles tearing up their street, and want the situation situation dealt with by whatever means possible. "It is a total assault every weekend," says Debbie Tin- mouth, whose home lies directly directly in the path of off-road- ers heading into the Ganaras- ka Forest. "You almost have to leave your residence on a Sunday Sunday or you find yourself so frustrated, so angry." Both noise and safety arc at issue, say the residents. "A lot of them arc very small kids. These are just little boys," says nearby resident Wendy Partner,, noting there have been a number of near- misses between cars and offroad offroad vehicles. "I'd be sick if I was the one who pulled out and hit one of them." The ATVs also kick up a lot of dust, say the residents. "We put on a new black (steel) roof last summer," says Lois Moore. "It was gray by the end of tire summer." The problem has been evident evident for some time, says Councillor Gord Robinson, who raised the issue at Clarington Clarington council last week. The ATVers, he says, "come down the snowmobile trails on the shoulder of (Hwy.) 35, then See OFF-ROAD page 6 905-683-3005 Sincerely Yours 1-800-662-8423 General FAX 905-579-2238 Newsroom FAX 905-579-1809 durhamrogioEi.com • SERVICE • PARTS • NEW & USED SALES & LEASING EXTENDED SERVICE HOURS L, TUES., THURS., FRI. 7:30 - 6:00 WED.- 7:30-9:00 SAT.-9:00-1:00 ACCREDITED TEST & REPAIR FACILITY *An «illldnl murk of the Province of Ontario used under licence. Whitby - Oshawa Honda 1110 DUNDAS. ST. E. WH,TBY fO) LOCAL (005) UHaj 666-1772 honda wvvw.homln1.com Clarington won't muscle in on fitness centres Municipality won't build any new gyms after complaints raised BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - The Municipality Municipality won't be muscling in on the fitness industry's business anymore, says a resolution resolution passed Monday by Clarington's general purpose and administration committee. The resolution, which says the municipality will build no new gyms, follows concerns from Clarington's fitness industry, industry, raised after the municipality municipality opened a gym at the Courtice Community Complex Complex in 2002. Gym owners were claiming the municipality had an unfair competitive advantage, since it doesn't pay taxes on its fit- Charlie Trim: Doesn't waul lo he in competition with private sector. ness facility, says the resolution resolution brought forward by Mayor John Mutton. "They didn't want us in the business as well," says the mayor. It's important not to be in competition with the private sector, says Regional Councillor Councillor Charlie Trim. "We, as a council, knew we were competing directly and it's come back, I guess, to nail us," says the councillor, referring referring to the past council decision decision to build the facility in Courtice. "We have to endeavour that we aren't in competition with individual people." But the only option now is to ensure it doesn't happen again, says (lie mayor. "If there was an objection that was to come into play with that facility, it should have come forward in the planning stages, not after it was built," lie says. Clarington council will vote on the recommendation Monday. Group makes bid for library space Special needs group has outgrown current space in the Old Fireball BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - An organization organization which helps special needs adults is asking the municipality municipality to grant it use of the recently-vacated library on Temperance Street in Bow- manville. But, though tlic Municipality Municipality will not to he able to allow the group to use the library, it will help the organization look for space, says Clarington's mayor. The group, which provides those with developmental disabilities disabilities with services like career career counselling, employment preparation, literacy training. and assessment, says it's outgrown outgrown its current space in the Old Fireball at 132 Church St. in Bowmanville. "Essentially, the Clarington Project is at its capacity," says Ron Worboy, an advocate for the organization. The group is currently serving serving 35 people and there will be a need to serve about 75 people within the next two years, says Darlene Matthews, the project's project's facilitator. "Tlie need is huge. We have a lot of people in Bowmanville who are seeking services," says Ms. Matthews. The group is also challenged challenged by the fact it currently shares its space with the Firehouse Firehouse Youth Centre, which means neither group can leave activities set up overnight. 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