..nID tree '-îuss, veanesay'November6,'1996, page,, Halloween bandýits hit variety stores Bandits successfully held In the fivm4-à ' d' - - iup on e Whitby variety store Halloween night but were stymied i another robbery attemptjust an hour later. By Mark Reesor Two Courtice men have been charged with distri. buting thousands of racist flyers and stickers in Whitby OshawaanCo - ticeij an9Cour Tii. flyers, which were often just randomly thrown out of car windows or dum- ped on people's lawns or along residential streets were sometimes targetted againat interracial couples or .people with different relhgious backgrounds, police s!ay. Members of the Durham Repional Police street crime unit bega investigating the incidents in the spring of 1994 which waa ea- ded witl the help ofe Lro Toronto Police and the OPP. They concluded their i- vestigtion iJanuary o this year but had to apply to the Attor'ney Generalfor approval to lay the rarely uaed charges of promoting hatred. (The charges, which la WYjujafi c.amp LEUee i wearing masks went CheekesVarietyin (IGA) plaza at Ander- Street and Manning carrY a*mxiumprison Dterni of six months if'the .Crown proceeds by sumni- barY conviction or two years 1if it goes with indictmnent, can't be laid without the approval of the Ministry of the Attorney General). The mu*nistry gave its blessing Oct. 24 and last Friay police arr;ested Guy Carlton Mayne, 30, of Bloor Street East, Courtice and Ted Francis fleavis, 21, of Bruntsfield Street,- Cour- tice.* Among the items seized were a full KMu lux KMan outfit, a Nazi flag, a hel- met, a jacket covered with racist symbole and stickers, pamphlets and flyers with racist messages. There's no evidence the ksuspetare members of the )K, olce say, adn the "do have other evi- denice» of their involvement i other groupe but can't elaborate before the case comes before the courts. Mayne was charged with one count of conspfracy to, Items from Whitby councilagenda(s) Recommendations fLromthe planning and development committee That a rezonlng application from Den oble Homes to permit a pair of seml-detached units orn the northem hait of 210 and 212 GlbertSt. E. be clrculated for public and agency comment before comlng back to commlttee wlth a recommendation from planning department staff. Concems were expressed by area residents about the fate of severai aider trees that now occupy a portion -of the property. Athough the developer sald steps will taken'to preserve as many as possible, not ail can be saved. The remalning portion of the site will be developed under the existlng zoning for five stréet townhouses frontlng Gilbert Street. Referred to planning dspartmont That a request f rom Wendy's Restaurants of Canada Inc. for. a minor variance to the municipal sign bylaw for its outiet at 1601' Chamrplain Ave. be approved. The company will b. aliowed to increase the maximum area for a pylon sign from 107.6 square t feet to 121 square feet and to increase the maximum d height for a pylon sig n from 19.7 feet to 24.75 feet. k Recomnwndsdto councilb tJ That'a site plan ýapplication from 1161065 Ontario ti mnc. to permit expansion of ts workshop and office at 1445 Hopkins St. be ýapproved. The workshop expansion consi stsof a 9,792-square foot'addition, fc whlle the second-storey office expansion Involves a 2,111 -square foot.faciiity. s Recommendedto council Recom edtions from the Soperations committee noadaround 10 p.m. One of the men lifted up his shirt and displayed a handgun when he approa- Ila*.tred charges lai prote hredad, jointly wit Bevis theecounts of wilfullY Promnoting hatred. I addition to the joit charges Beavisj was char- ge witf one count of con- 9piracy to wilfully promot-ý mg hatred and four charges Of wilfully promoting hatred. They were both released and ordered to appear in Oshawa provincial court Nov. 28. Police "have information Of at least one other per- son» Who mayhave been involved, says Durhamn poic e de tective John cLan, «but we haven't been able to identily that person as yet --but there are other -people involved in it.» Most Of the material the suspects were distributing were photocopies of items theyreceived from groupe inthe U.S., he says adding «Icouldn't say tiiat it' 1Uifllyorganized. ltaýppea]red te be organ- ized in our area in what lhey were doing, but whether'they were part of a blr..copsgira tatwas widespread throughout Ontario, I don't know. The Durham street crimes unit actively investi- rates ail such incidents, he Baye., urging apyone with anyi nfmation6f such in-," cidentesto come forward. The joint forces investi- ýtionha concluded «what consider to b. one of the nore serious crimes in this brnmunity and in. other 'ommunities acros anada» says Durham eégional Police Chief Tre- 'r McCagherty. Such crimes are a %tp riority" with Durham clice, h. notes, adding bat they devote «a fairly Irge amount of energq and &sources te combat it. The Iast tume the promnot- g hatred charge was laid ,as in 1994. A. 30-Year-old Whitby Man was cut with a ife during a struggle i T100 WhîÎte Oaks apart- Dnt Sunday afternoon. Police were called te the ,rtment around 1:30 n. and found a female 'in& on her stomach on kîltehen floor, surroun- byblood. ceSrs say a butcher fe with an eight-inch de was held to hier :.at during an alterca- female clerk, says Iiispector G« Reid.' Ie cerk -handed over money from the till and also complied with the ban- dit's demnand to give hlm the lottei ticket money. Ibe u rie alo helped themselves to two traja of lotteiy tickets and leftthe store. They were Isat seen running around the rear of the plaza and blended into the trick-or-treatercrowd. A replica handgun was found at the rear of the Ithsecond case, two INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT I e RETIREMENT PLANNING I oumE KoakCil n TAX I ESTATE STRATEG-21ES ,lamy Services seeka ALTDYFRYU volunteers ipterested ini0* providing emotional, REPOESSONA maaked men attempted to rob a 32-year-oldcîerfk at Garden Variety, Garden and Dundas streets, just ,after he had locked u'p the store. The clerk was jut about' to open hie van door when he noticed two males crou- ched down i the back, police say. "lie started to run south acýroms the lot,» says Reid, "andy-elled out for someone The two gsuspecs gve chase and tried to gra him, h. says, but took off after the occupants of a- car stopped at a trafic light yelled. ~PleaseRcycle SuPPOrt to a parent or Parents of a s3pecial needu child,hiterested hi behig a special friend to a child, and Who would be available te drive faniilies to and from appoitments. Training Provided. Cail 433-0386, ext. 308. I I The operations committee did not meet.The next committee mjeeting ls scheduled for Monday, Nov. 18. men into the son 3' 1 1,ý