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Zfc ûnabian Statesman News/7 Ward has his eye on mayor's job CLARINGTON'S AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1854 Sports/13 Hall of Fame opens its doors Store owner run down ;fiut police make arrest, recover $6,000 in stolen goods BY STEPHEN SHAW Staff Writer BOWMANVILLE - A downtown Bowmanville jeweller is nursing bumps and bruises after being run over by a fleeing van while trying to stop a pair of thieves Saturday. Dan Hooper, co-owner of Hooper's Jewellery on King Street, and his brother, Ron, were following two suspects from i their store after noticing a gold .chain had been snatched from a display case just before 4 p.m. Durham Regional Police said the brothers caught up with the bandits as they stepped into a van parked on Church Street, near Silver Street. The storeowners confronted the men about the missing jewelry. jewelry. A struggle broke out and Dan Hooper, 52, was knocked to the ground and run over by the van, which drove over his leg as it sped away, police said. "I'm just trying to put it out of my mind. It was something that started out as a simple attempted shoplifting and turned into something something that could've been a lot worse obviously. Everything happened so fast," said Ron Hooper, who is also president of the Historic Downtown Business Improvement Area. He said his brother managed to get up on his own and although although he suffered bruising to his legs and upper body, X-rays showed no broken bones. The thieves didn't get very far. Ron Hooper, 55, said police showed up "within seconds" and an officer was given a description description of the van, which was stopped a short distance away at Liberty Street and Parkway Crescent. "All I wanted was the gold chain back or for them to pay for it. Fortunately no one was hurt," Ron Hooper said. Police said three occupants in the van, two men and a woman all from Quebec, were arrested at gunpoint. More than $6,000 worth of stolen property, taken from various various businesses including Hooper's, Hooper's, was recovered, police said. Jorgeo Zapata Vilches, 29, Rodrigo Lopez Linares, 18, and Marie France Medlin, 41, have each been charged with one count of robbery. Ms. Medlin is also charged .with possession of stolen property property and dangerous driving causing bodily harm. All three were held for bail hearings. Anyone with information information about the incident is asked to call Detective Paul Edwards of 16 Division's criminal investigation investigation unit at 905- 579-1520 (toll free 1-888-579-1520), ext. 1691, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222- 8477. Jason Liebregts/ Statesman photo Which old witch? The wicked witch! COURTICE - The Haunted Maze at Pingles Farm is ready to put a scare into anyone brave enough to visit this week. Witches Lindsay MacArthur, left, and Lyndsey Muir will make sure of it. Funds raised at the charity event support Bowmanville Kinsmen and Cystic Fibrosis. Revenue Canada warns: watch your back Sensitive info in stolen computers BY JANE MCDONALD Staff Writer DURHAM - Murray Strong has been warned. The 52-year-old Oshawa building contractor received a letter Oct. 20 from Canada Customs Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) informing him his security security - and perhaps that of others - is in jeopardy. Sensitive, personal personal information about him, the kind of data identity thieves, fraud artists and even terrorists would love to get their hands on, has been stolen. Although it is cold comfort. he is not alone. Mr. Strong is among 120,000 Canadian taxpayers whose name, social insurance number, address and business transac- See SHOCKING page 4 Durham has students acting blue A.J. Groen/ Statesman photo Before they could put blue boxes to proper use, this group of students at Hampton Junior Public School needed a crash course in what items belong in the recycling program. program. T he Grade 3 class listened intently to a speech by Bunny Lockett, a waste management management technician, during a recent tour of the Durham Recycling Centre. Region tours stress importance of recycling BY CARLY FOSTER Staff Writer DURHAM - Perched on mini blue boxes in a chilly portable, the students shot their hands in the air, anxious to answer answer questions on what goes in their blue boxes. The Grade 2 and 3 students from Hampton Junior Public School, just north of Bowmanville, Bowmanville, were starting a tour of Durham's recycling centre, with the incessant beeping of reversing trucks bouncing off the walls. The students rhymed off tin cans, paper and cardboard. But they also learned about aerosol and paint cans and bottles, Tetra boxes and bottles with twist-off lids - the newest additions additions to Durham's recycling roster. "This is really important because because they'll remember this and bring it home to their parents," said Peter Watson, manager of waste management for Durham. The centre holds year-round tours of its Gerrard Road facility facility in north Whitby, but were there last week as part of Waste Reduction Week. Mixing education with safety, safety, the tour moves from a teaching teaching portable, to a giant-scale sorting warehouse, then to a truck dumping area and finally back to the portable for a wrap- up. "We stress recycling all the time, and the school really encourages encourages garbage-less lunches," lunches," said the kills' teacher, Paul Martin, on his fourth tour of the facility. The boys especially like the recycling tour because of the See CLASS page 4 Rookie trustees are going to learn on the fly School boards will have several new members making education decisions BY DANIELLE MILLEY Staff Writer CLARINGTON - There will be a lot of fresh faces representing representing Clarington on both the public and Catholic school boards after the Nov. 10 municipal municipal election. With new blood comes fresh ideas, but it also means the new trustees will have to learn the ropes. The two candidates who put their names forward for the Peterborough Peterborough Victoria Northumberland Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board have been acclaimed. Granville Anderson and George Ashe, both from Courtice, are new to the board. There are six candidates running running for two trustee positions with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board. Nancy Coffin of Courtice is seeking re-election to the board. She's joined in the race by Bowmanville Bowmanville residents Colin Argyle, Brian Vanstone and Steven Cooke and Newcastle residents Cathy Abraham and David Saunders. Mike Langlois, director of education with the Catholic board, said he can't wait to get all the trustees to the board table. He said there are a lot of issues issues new trustees will need to get up to speed on. "One of the first issues they will be dealing with is providing accommodation for students across the board," he said. This will include both the building of new schools - a major issue in growth-happy Clarington - and the amalgamating amalgamating of others. Mr. Langlois said the board would probably build two new elementary schools in Claring- See SAFE page 7 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 •À» olTiclid murk til" lliv Province of Ontario used under licence. 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