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PAGE 8 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, MAY 14,2003 www.durhamregion.com Funds will boost community policing BY JEREMY LE PAGE Staff Writer DURHAM - There will be no shortage of kibble for Justice, the three-year-old police dog, joked Whitby-Ajax MPP Jim Flaherty. He, along with Pickering-Ajax- Uxbridge MPP Janet Ecker and Durham MPP John O'Toole, presented presented Durham Regional Police with a cheque for $683,166.34 Friday. The money will cover half the cost of 43 front-line officers the service service has hired under the Community Policing Partnerships grant program. Chief Kevin McAlpine says the money will help the police force keep its current ratio of one officer per 750 citizens. "We'll maintain that as a minimum," minimum," lie says, adding five years ago, that number was about one officer officer per 900 citizens. Response time is better now, too, lie says. As well, Chief McAlpine notes, with current staffing, a domestic call is more likely to take two hours of an officer's time, rather than up to 10 hours several years ago. "Our business is getting more complex every day," he says. "(But) we don't seem to ing... we're not running a be having trouble recruit- skeleton crew." Anthony Photo Studio Introduces: ULTIMATTE STUDIO Over 400 backgrounds to choose from 39.95 +tax ncludes: - Select your background - Fully digital photo session - 8x10 print (Additional packages available) Fora limited time: Upgrade to a 10x13 size for FREE ! Rotary [OMI Million Dollar Hole-ln-One-Returns June 11-15 at Clarington Driving Range Join us for the chance to win $1,000,000 Pre-sell tickets now available from a Courtice or Bowmanville Rotarian Cost: $20.00 for 30 shots See you trHere! The BIGGEST and BEST sale ever on our 5 most popular baked FRESH FRUIT PIES APPLE, BLUEBERRY, CHERRY, BUMBLEBERRY, STRAWBERRY/RHUBARB Made with fresh apple slices, unpreserved, unprocessed fruit, natural ingredients and all vegetable pastry. $075 3J9 6 FOR M7". W DOZEN REGULAR PRICE ON THESE PIES IS UP TO $5.49 EACH Pleoce conte and cample a- ptee dice titece pieo. "We cjm. axe çoùtf to Have txou&le neeidiny - especially at tAese pxieeo. MCMILLAN ORCHARDS Hwy'#2 (Kingston Rd.) between Ajax & Whitby The Home of FLASH FROZEN fruit and vegetables, pies, cookie and muffin batters and meats. open 7 Days A week 9am-6pm The Statesman is on the web www.durhamregion. com more shoppers carry a Sears Card than any other retail credit card in Canada Based on independent national surveys current at time of advertising preparation Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 Use your Sears Card" and vm\ $ F A R S 4? c: L U B bS818X 123H SbTWS 1986 C 6 I CHAR) on reg.-priced bed & bath fashions, small appliances, personal care products, golf sets, children's bikes, lawn tractors and lawn mowers, outdoor gas grills, paint & wallpaper, garage door openers, home modernization products, hardware, power tools, Kenmore® major appliances, sewing machines, vacuums and home electronics Excludes: Sears More Value items, Sears Essentials Items & Wardrobe Essentials® Items with prices ending in .97, national brand major appliances, men's Columbia®, Jockey®, Kenneth Cole, Timberland®, Mexx, Tommy Bahama® fashions, men's Calvin Klein® suits, underwear and socks, women's Mexx fashions, dresses regularly priced at 24.99, 29.99 and 39.99, Intimates and socks with '2 for' and '3 for' price stickers, twin-packs and multipacks, kids' socks, underwear, nursery products and furniture, Prestige cosmetics and fragrances. All offers exclude Items in McIntosh & Watts and Rob McIntosh China S Crystal shops located In selected Sears stores. *0n approved credit Sale prices in effect Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17, 2003, while quantities last on reg.-priced men's, women's and kids' fashions, footwear and accessories, cookware sets, open-stock cookware, dinnerware sets, glassware sets, flatware sets, serveware, home décor, home textiles, window drapery panels, patio furniture, fitness equipment, toys and mechanics' tools 50 50 years of quality, value, service, trust Niosicm.i root so.n%c.iu.iddinc