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News/5 An ambassador to the world Sports/13 Generals ready 4^5 to hit the road r4V- CLARINGTON'S AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1854 f fa Canabiati Statesman Pressrun 22,150 September 17,2003 • 42 Pages • Optional 3 Week Delivery $5/$ 1 Newsstand Eves talks victims' rights Her husband killed by a drunk driver, Carol Ryan asks for lower blood-alcohol levels, right to appeal sentences BY CHRIS HALL Staff Writer PORT PERRY - Premier Ernie Eves stepped off his campaign trail bus yesterday morning at the Scugog Community Community Centre where he was promptly greeted by a mob of local residents looking for answers answers - and autographs. Five steps off his bus, the Premier was immediately surrounded surrounded by a large group of students from the neighbouring neighbouring Good Shepherd Catholic School who met the Conservative Conservative leader with a handful of questions and requests for autographs. autographs. . 1 From there, he made his way into the community centre centre where lie held a roundtable .discussion about victims' rights with a handful of guests before officially reiterating his party's stance on the subject. Joining Premier Eves at the table was Durham MPP John O'Toole, Joe Wambaek (whose son Jonathan was severely severely injured after he was beaten by a group of his Newmarket Newmarket high school peers in 1999), Carol Ryan (whose husband Terry, a former Durham Regional Police Association Association president, was killed by a drunk driver a little more INDEX Editorial Page 4 Classified 9 Sports 13 GIVE US A CALL General 905-579-4400 Distribution 905-579-4407 General FAX 905-579-2238 Newsroom FAX 905-579-1809 durhamregion.com ry 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 iiOUiiil murk ul lliv Prmlnvv of Onltirln usvd under lleviu'v. Whitby - Oshawa Honda ST. E. ®- 1110 DUNDAS. ST WHITBY LOCAL (SOS) 666-1772 Hoiuraa. www.hondu1.com JJ Ontario builds no-frills jails ; while Ottawa uses tax dollars i ! to build "Club Feds" , ! " v '• .uc -a\cW : Ï4&- i ÿîSSKs! More shelter beds j Money provided to « I'ervA M>v abused womey ! Ottawa refuses P/(j ! to release identity I ! of missing war U/ j criminals (/()//! fights youth- ' ' it fvto soften nev CARL FERENCZ/ Statesman photo Premier Ernie Eves (right) was joined by Durham MPP John O'Toole during a provincial election stop in Durham Region on Tuesday morning. The two were framed by posters touting victims' rights headlines at a press conference at the Scugog Scugog .Community Centre in Port Perry. than a year ago), Dino Le Provincial Police Association Bassett. Donne (who lost his grand- President Brian Adkin and "Since my son was injured mother and unborn child in an Rick McIntosh of the Toronto in 1999, I have found myself accident on Hwy. 401 in 1998 Police Association. deeply involved in victims' after his family vehicle was Also joining them was Pre- rights," said Mr. Wambaek. run off the road), Ontario mier Eves's partner, Isabelle "Since 1995 (when the To ries were first elected), this Province has done more for victims' rights than any government government before in this province." Mrs. Ryan asked the Premier Premier to consider giving victims victims the opportunity to appeal a convicted impaired driver's sentence; giving police the right to seize a convicted impaired impaired driver's vehicle if he has been caught driving drunk three times; and for the Province to work on lowering the legal blood-alcohol level from 0.08 to 0.05. "The government has the power to change the justice system, to make sure people don't have to be afraid to drive on our roads because they're afraid of drunk drivers," said Mrs. Ryan. As part of his platform, Premier Eves vowed a Tory government would inform victims victims of any plea bargaining before deals are made; give victims a legal right to information information regarding their cases, including notice when a criminal criminal applies for early release, gets released or escapes; give victims an absolute right to speak at parole board hearings: hearings: and overhaul the Criminal Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to eliminate red tape and dramatically speed up the payment of compensation to victims. "Ontario communities are only as strong as they are safe and a justice system that places the rights of criminals before victims is not safe at all," said Premier Eves. "We will enhance the rights of victims and protect community community safety." Tip leads to clarington has big heart crack bust ° ° CLARINGTON - An investigation investigation into crack cocaine trafficking in Claringtoii has led to the arrest of two Oshawa men and a Janetville woman. Durham Regional Police said a tip Sunday sparked the undercover probe during which an officer arranged a drug buy at a Courtice meeting spot. Three people were arrested after their car was stopped near Hwy. 2 and Centrefield Road. Police seized 11 grams of crack with a street value of $2,200 and more than $1,000 in suspected drug money, said Sergeant Paul Malik. Bryan McCallisler, 35, of Maple Street, Oshawa is charged with trafficking in crack, possession for the purpose purpose of trafficking and possession possession of crime proceeds. Ronald James Gilliland, 38, of Townline Road North, Os- liawa and Julia Ellen McLecry, 32, of Fleetwood Road, Janetville are both charged with possession of crack and possession for the purpose of trafficking. Mr. Gilliland faces an additional additional two counts of possession possession and breach of undertaking, undertaking, and Ms. McLecry is also charged with breach of probation. probation. Organizers estimate more than $82,000 raised at Terry Fox Run CLARINGTON - Organizers Organizers of Sunday's Bow- manville Terry- Fox run say numbers were up, both in terms of participants and money raised. While organizers estimate about 1,500 people took part, police have said the numbers may have been closer to 2,000, says walk organizer Walter Gibson. That compares with about 1,100 participants last year. "We had a big crowd," says Mr. Gibson, who attributes the increase to "a nice day and the right cause." Initial estimates put funds raised at more than $82,000, an almost 20 percent increase over last year. "This is a big run site, the biggest run site between Toronto and Ottawa," says Mr. Gibson, noting the event ran smoothly thanks to the efforts of almost 200 volunteers. This marks the 23rd year for the run, which raises money for cancer research iii memory of Terry Fox, a can cer survivor who lost his leg to the disease and went on to run more than 5,000 kilometres to raise money for the cause in 1980. His cross-Canada run was cut short when the cancer spread to his lungs. He died the next year at the age of 22. This was the 21st year for the run in Bowmanville. "It was just an incredible, phenomenal experience," Mr. Gibson says of this year's local event. mmm if--- . i# Ml isiii s PETER CURLEY/ Statesman photo Jcnkiy Lupton and her dog, Zoe, participated in the Terry Fox Run along with T'awnya Clark. durhamregion.com Clarington rubs out bawdy parlours BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer CLARINGTON - The Municipality is hoping it has rubbed out illicit massage businesses through the passage passage of a tough new bylaw. Passed Monday by Clarington Clarington council, the bylaw will allow only two body rub parlours parlours in the municipality, one each in two specific industrial industrial areas in Bowmanville and Courtice. While the bylaw "will not touch registered massage therapist businesses or people who are licensed one way or another under the Regulated Health Professionals Professionals Act," it does lay out the rules under which a body rub parlour using unlicensed attendants attendants can operate, says Clarington solicitor Dennis Hefferon. The bylaw stems from the discovery of one allegedly illicit illicit business that had opened locally, says Clarington Mayor John Mutton. "There was one alleged body rub parlour that came about in Clarington," says the Mayor. 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