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The Pickering 44 PAGES ✦ Pressrun 47,600 ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2004 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 FOOTBALL POWER GO FISH Dolphins continue their Check out Funerals in a multicultural world season of dominance Shark Tale Feature, page 15 Page 28 Page 27 ROBBED AT THE DOORSTEP Board looks to public for planning help DURHAM – Residents are invited to make a pitch for a new school, a school addition or to avoid a school closure in their community later this month. As part of the second phase of its current accommodation plan, the Durham District School Board will hear deputations at an Oct. 19 public meeting. It takes place at the Whitby education centre, located at 400 Taunton Rd. E. (at Anderson Street). Phase 2 of the plan covers the 2006-2008 years. Trustees passed Phase 1 in March, approving three new ✦ See Residents page 4 ® Introducing the A.J. Groen / News Advertiser photo Touareg AJAX – Telus Lightning goaltender Jennifer Piitz makes a glove save on a point-blank shot from Toronto Aeros forward Lara Perks during the National Women’s Hockey League matchup Tuesday night at the Ajax Community Centre. It was one of 45 saves Piitz made on the night, but it wasn’t enough as Pick a road. Any road. the team suffered a 5-4 defeat. The Lightning represent the Ajax and Pickering area. For more on the game, see page 28. 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Visit our showroom (over 20,000 sq. ft.) today over 5 Million dollars worth of inventory. 1050 Brock Road Unit #7 Pickering Monday– Friday 10am-7pm Tel: 905-831-5644 Saturday 10am-6pm Fax: 905-831-5617 Sunday 11am-5pm durhamregion.com THE NEWS ADVERTISER, OCTOBER 1, 2004 PAGE 3 A/P Federal inmate caught after flight attempt Truck rollover Convicted killer on While he was at large, the in- Durham Regional Police said. is likely to be transferred from closes 401 day parole makes mate from Frontenac Institution, The escape attempt came as a Frontenac to a prison with a high- a minimum-security prison in surprise to prison officials, who er level of security as a result of the dash for freedom Kingston, was target of a manhunt had previously allowed Mr. Ren- escape attempt, Mr. Stafford said. PICKERING — Three people that included the police helicop- aud numerous day passes in prep- Mr. Stafford said that, despite were sent to hospital with minor ter, canine units and officers from aration for his eventual release on the incident in Pickering, he injuries after a collision involving By Jeff Mitchell Ajax-Pickering Community Police. parole, Mr. Stafford said. doesn’t expect corrections officials a car and a tractor-trailer on Hwy. Staff Writer Mr. Renaud, who’s been incar- “He had been out on many ab- to review policies on day parole or 401 Saturday night. PICKERING – A convicted killer cerated since being convicted of sences before ... more than 30,” Mr. absences with civilian escorts. Westbound collector lanes were who eluded a police manhunt in second-degree murder in 1987, Stafford said. “It’s such an anomaly you closed for several hours after the Pickering for three hours Tuesday was being accompanied on a day Day parole is a privilege earned wouldn’t do that,” he said. crash, which occurred around night was being escorted back to pass from jail by a volunteer with by prisoners over time, Mr. Staf- “It shouldn’t affect the way we midnight, according to Whitby prison in Kingston by a volunteer the Lifeline organization, said ford said. As they show they can be do business.” OPP. when he made his dash for free- Chris Stafford, assistant warden of trusted, convicts can move to in- Mr. Stafford said volunteers with Police said a westbound BMW dom, an assistant warden said. management services at Fronte- stitutions featuring lower levels of groups such as Lifeline, which pro- carrying two occupants swerved James Lionel Renaud, 53, was nac Institution. security and eventually qualify for vide support for inmates serving suddenly into the path of the west- nabbed by a plainclothes Dur- The two were returning to Kings- absences from custody, he said. life sentences, undergo training bound truck. The truck overturned ham Regional Police officer as he ton from Welland, where Mr. Ren- Mr. Stafford said it’s “very, very before escorting prisoners. and both vehicles wound up in the walked through a parking lot in aud had visited family, when the rare” for an inmate such as Mr. “They have to keep the person north ditch, police said. the area of Brock Road and Hwy. convict made a break for freedom Renaud, who had earned such within sight and sound,” he said. The truck driver and the occu- 401, about three hours after he around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. The vol- privileges and was nearing release Mr. Renaud is serving a life sen- pants of the car sustained minor slipped away from the car he and unteer had stopped to get gas at on parole, to bolt the way he did. tence for the second-degree mur- injuries. 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In doing so, However, Mr. Kennedy has a presentation to trustees at trustees adhered to education criticized that rationale for the 7 to 10 p.m. public meeting minister Gerard Kennedy’s re- closing a school, and while the must register by noon on Oct.