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Smtr brah EAT art A RTA is Re pr TT VER TN Ms. Champagne, along with reporter Kevin Tibbles and a CBC cameraman, spent a day in Port Perry on Valentine's Day, February 14th, interviewing SADD members, teachers, parents and various people within the community. They will return to the area sometime this week, hoping to conduct more interviews with representatives of the Durham Police Force and other individuals. fatalities in the Scugog area. her to investigate the story. While other television and radio stations, as well as newspapers, have done stories on the energetic group of SADD members, this will be the first major feature documenting the entire set of circumstances surrounding the number of young Ms. Champagne said she was intrigued by the high number of student deaths and by the SADD organization itself , Which led CBC presents major | Judg feature on P.P.H.S. SADD organization | Port Perry will become the focus of national attention once again when CBC's Newshour presents a major feature on the high school's SADD organization (Students Against Driving Drunk). Newshour producer Edith Champagne says the story will ap- pear on the six o'clock news program March 6th. Durham Police okay one year contract Durham Region Police officers ratified a new one-year contract Tuesday night that will give a first- class constable a salary of $36,950 by next July. Approximately 85 per cent of the 100 ballots cast by officers were in favor of the agreement, Dale Allan, president of the Durham Regional Police Association said Tuesday evening. The contract offers a 5.45 per cent pay- increase over the life of the agreement - a f. ur-per cent in- crease, effective retroactively from Jan. 1, followed by a 1.45-per cent hike on July 1. - "We felt it was a fair contrac salary-wise, compared to other forces across the province," said Allan. "That was something we were trying to accomplish (make the salaries comparable) last year in our negotations."' Allan described the 38 per cent. vote turnout as average for their ratification meetings. "If the men feel its «1 good offer, then they stay home and don't vcte on it." The 5.45-per cent pay hike raises the salary of a first-class constable -- who make up about 80 per cent of 377 officers represented by the association -- to $36,950 from $35,018; staff-sergeants, the highest rank represented by the association to $44,340 from $39,580 and a fourth- class constable, at the bottom of the scale, to $27,516 from $27,121. In addition to the pay hike, the contract also calls for: * anincrease in the court time an officer receives if he has to attend on his own time, to a guaranteed minimum of five hours from a previous 4% hours; * increased p~y differentials to of- ficers in the youth bureau, in- telligence and identification bran- ches after two years and; * an improved compensation pro- vision for the spouses of officers who are accidentally killed on the job. ---------- EE a. FEBRUARY "LACE'" 4 GATHERED - 1 to 4" EYELET - 1 to 2%" TI nin | | EXTRA SPECIALS! Broadcloth SALE ENDS MARCH 1, 1986 \ r / 985-3221 (formerly Modern Textiles) located in Luke's Country Store R01 (meen Street - Port Perry (From page) left and assumed she had taken the children with her. He fell asleep downstairs and was wakened when smoke and flames came from the kitchen. Begin told police he tried to put the fire out with an extinguisher, but failed. He ran from the house when the smoke became so thick he could not breathe. An inspector with the Ontario Fire Marshall told the trial the fire started when a grill portion of a counter top range was left on and ig- nited nearby cupboards, spread to the kitchen ceiling and then into the hall and stairs of the two storey brick home. Begin's former wife, Darlene, (the couple was legally divorced about a year after the fire) testified that she left the house the night of the fatal fire because her husband was drunk and she wanted nothing to do with him or the advances he was making towards her. She went to a neighbour's house two doors away to wait until Begin fell asleep before returning home. She later testified that on several occasions her former husband had left the kitchen stove on after heavy drinking sessions. She said he had been a heavy drinker for eight years and at times suffered alcoholic '"'black-outs."' In his summation, Crown At- torney Ed Bradley alleged negligence in the fact that Begin knew the kitchen stove would over- heat and cause a fire if left on. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, February 25, 1986 -- 3 ement is reserved Bradley also alleged that Begin did not make sufficient effort to rescue his two sons once the fire broke out, and even though Begin was intox- icated, he was aware of the fire and knew enough to try and call the fire department. Begin's lawyer Bruce Affleck argued that leaving the stove on was careless but not criminally negligent. Affleck called the inci- dent a "'freak accident involving a stove and a man who is intoxicated and makes a mistake phoning the fire department." The lawyer told the court this was not 'wanton and reckless disregard for the safety and lives of others -- the elements of criminal negligence." Seagrave and Area News by Diane Cooke Alissa Lee won the highest mark at the Sunderland Music Festival in piano for a duet and solo. Her mark was 89 percent. Alissa is presently taking her grade 10 level in music. The community wishes her con- gratulations and continued success. One of the best turn outs ever was at the February meeting of the Rob- inglade Estages Women's Group. Next month the group will meet Wednesday, March 26th 8:00 p.m. at Ann Curries' home. Another very enjoyable evening is anticipated. The Seagrave UCW invites you to share cofee and fellowship after the service next Sunday, March 2nd. Sunday was the Baden Powell Thinking Day when the boys and girls from the Scout and Guide groups participated in the service. The congregation enjoyed the presentation. The ladies from Seagrave are in- vited to attend the World Day of Prayer Service at Greenbank United Church on Friday, March 7th at 2:00 p.m. That's all for this week, Marilyn and I traded places this time, please call her at 985-3595 with next weeks news. 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