Whitby Free Press, 31 Jan 1996, p. 9

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Whitby Free Prou., Wednesdy, January 31, lm,6 Page 9 Robbery suspect -charged A Whitby man was arrested oaiy Saturday marning after an attempt to rob an Oshawa cab driver backflred. Police say the cabbio, a 22-year-old Oshawa man, picked up a passenger on Lupin Drive juat after midnight Saturday. Ho was dlrected east aiong HIghway 2 to Oshawa and thon north on Simoe Stmet to Roséiand -Road, police say, beforo tho passenger lnformed the driver ho had no maney, became angry and threatened the cabbie, demanding ail hlm money and punchlng hlm in the hoad. Free Press, now 251 Outstanding. DURHAM REGIONAL Police constable Dan Denyer (left) and Whitby firefighter Randy Tureskl were recogn lzed for outstandlng community and professional leadership and service Iast Thursday, as the Whitby Jaycees presented their f irst annual emergency services awarcis. Denyer, a i 3-year veteran of tme service, ls a foundlnp member of tme'Whitby bike patrol unit, playeci a leading role in organmzing the police's Whilby (18) division annual com munity day and helped get mhe ChDldren's Safety Village project Up and runnlng. Tureskl has been with the Whitby fire department since 1985. He organized the 1995 Muscular Dystrophy drive, including the annual boot collection, and ran food sales and car washes duning the winter camnivaland assisted the- McDonald and Salvation Army Christmasfood and toy drives. PhoM by Mark Rftssa, Wltby Fiee Pissa Lasco worker injured A 43-year-old Wfinston Crescent hurt his hlp and suffered cuts to his ieg after falllng on ta, a pile of steel at Co-Steel Lasco early Wodnesday morning last week. Police say the maxi was worklng in the yard of the HopIns Street company about 3:30 a.m. when he attemptod ta stepfrom an elevated walkway on te a moving crane. Ho fell about 10 foot ta the steel pile, rolled off and fell another five foot. PROM PAGE 1 consider next an intermediate mani at $6,500 a year'" It reported on haw Edwards, thon a reeve, in fighting a deveiopment that inciuded a new service contre, asked 'haw many mare can we put in this saturatod area." (Edwards was aiea credited witb caining "ta new cauncli phraseolagy, 'those hat dag stands,' which bas repiaced in popuiarity councillar Hugh OConneiUltsV unbelleveabie') The inaugural issue of The County Tawn Paper, faunded by William and Judy Durkee, promised readers honesty - "hanesty with the reader, the advertiser, the carrier and feliow businesses who doubt at this time, and understandably so, the integrity of thoe mail weekly." A note promised readers that if they didn't get their copy of the Whîtby Free Prese, just oeil and M our littie blue wagon' wil ho at your doorway within 10 minutes." Editor Judy Durkee (now McLeod) bas fond memorios of how she and late husband William, who was publishor, Tanthe. Whitby paper. We'V were somewbat'feiety and I remember how tho politicians in Whitby hated my guts; I havenÉt changed- at al -. now the politielane in Toronto halte my guts! "We used to pick on them when they did things we thought were wrong. McLeod has vivid memories of then Whitby mayar Des Newman. "We used to oeil hlm 'supermayor,' and we had ail these cartoons makcing hlm ilook like Superman. "We used' to say that Des Newman was okay but ho was too big a fish for too, little a pond." It was bard work puttingouth paper, McLeod rocalse. "Our staff wouid came in in the morning and flnd Bill and I both asieep with our head on the deisk and I said M Inover again own a monthly or a weekly newspaper - itfs to much work." Current Whitby Free Pressi publisher Doug Anderson says varlous events wiil ho hoid ta mark the newspaper's 25th year. oConversational & Specialized French *Corporate Training and Assessment Service *Group or Private Instruction Fl 1SaEBRUAt fr 7 * rCA NOW tin tOnIY3 S ace etfrY Begi Ln Ecote F-rançaise 666-0993 Offering aIl insolvency services including personal & corporate bankruptcies OSHAWA 122 Albert St. 721-7506 AJAX: 50 Commercial Ave. 619-1473 COBOURG: 72 King St. W. 372-4744 Saturday & everting appolntments available. FREE initial consultation. JAMES R. YANCH Rather than give ln, the plucicy cab driver turned around and managed ta subdue the man, oel the police anid hoid hlm until afficers arrlved. James Marcellus OHara, 28, of 143 Lupin Dr., was arrested and charged wlth robbery. Ho was flot hurt but the cabbie '.ïad ninor cuta ta hie hand. Computer Problems? I ~ Vour computer may need a cheekup! " Specialists in bardware and software trou1beshooting. 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