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a Mma EI TTT TY arrears --on x, I ! EE oh qe Copy 65¢ @1e+4¢GSD 40 Pages A two-year-old Uxbridge boy drowned last week after climb- inginto a neighbor's pool. According to Durham Region- al Police, Scott Fuller was found shortly after 6 p.m. in the pool approximately 250 yards from his Feasby Road home. Both the Police and Fire de- partments were called to the scene an hour earlier after a re- port was filed of the missing boy. "A search was co-ordinated to comb a wooded area near the house. Durham's newly intro- duced canine unit was also set to be deployed. But the search ended tragi- cally just after 6 p.m. after mem- bers of the search team lifted a solar blanket covering the pool and found the body. It is be- Boy drowns in ' lieved he had tried to walk on the covering but got caught up in the blanket. According to police there was no fence surrounding the pool. A fence is not required in rural ar- eas of Uxbridge, only urban are- as. Uxbridge Mayor Gerri Lynn O'Connor, shaken by the acci- dent, told the Port Perry Star Ux Rape crisis centre mismanagement in the past: director By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star A recent news story regard- ing a local rape crisis centre is old news, an official at the cen- tre says. Sarena Williamson, execu- tive director of the Scugog and District Sexual Assault/ Rape Crisis Centre, says a July 15 ar- ticle in the Toronto Sun regard- ing financial mismanagement at the centre "is based on events that occurred more than a year and a half ago." Ms. Williamson was respond- ing to a news article which ap- peared in the daily newspaper outlining a multitude of prob- lems at various centres across 'the province. The information was found in two confidential reports from the Ontario gov- ernment's auditors report. The article included the Port Perry-based centre and indicat- ed there were "concerns about. financial mismanagement." __Although Ms. Williamson ad- mitted the article was accurate, she criticized it for not telling the entirestory. "The Toronto Sun story that labelled the Scugog sexual as- sault centre and others as 'Mon- ey pit nightmares', is largely ac- curate but fails to mention that the Board of Directors took im- mediate action and remedied the situation when it came to light," she said in a press re- lease. Ms. Williamson said the for- mer executive director was "ter- minated following the dionsry of financial discrepencies relat- ing to the centre's privately- raised funds." A subsequent police investi- Turn to Page 2 Accident claims life of Cawker teacher By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star A page in the S. A. Cawker Public 8 ehool year book will be dedicated to a popular teacher, killed in a tragic accident which occurred on Friday. The flag at the school was fly- ing at half-mast Monday in memory of Lisa Carlson, a Grade 4 teacher, who died in Sunnybrook Hospital in Toron- toon Sunday. Miss Carlson, along with fel- low baseball teammate Joyce McFarland-Elyea, died as a re- sult of injuries sustained in the accident east of Newcastle on Highway 401. A number of the that council would be studying the bylaw to see if changes should be made. But unlike Uxbridge, Scugog has a more comprehensive by- law. According to Bill Henshall, Scugog's Bylaw Enforcement Officer, pool owners are re- uired to have at least a four oot fence, as well as a self- latching and self-closing gate surrounding an in-ground pool. teammates in the van were also injured. The accident occurred late Friday evening after a car crossed a grassy median and collided head-on with the van. The team was heading home from a baseball tournament in Grafton. "She was absolutely wonder- ful," said Trudy Deacon, vice- principal at S.A. Cawker. "She had a very special way with the children." According to Mrs. Deacon, the 29-year-old teacher became in- volved with many of the stu- dents on a personal level be- Turn to page 2 bridge pool Above ground pools do not re- quire fences if they are above four feet in height and without a deck. There must not be any lad- der permanently attached to the pool. According to the Canada Safety Council, 45 children un- der the age of four drowned in Canada in 1989, (the last year statistics were available). Na a eV Cn. ae i ts pry = I e307 ar es SO I oR i Sota vad NZ wl ye Cami uaitn . --- + Lg OW = A EY MN pn mr an le IN i A I SA i I re A.