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The Pickering 48 PAGES ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 An influential design As promised Hyundai shows Durham kids dance away off its new wagon with Greenbelt prize Wheels pullout Page A3 [ Briefly ] Toronto man tasered at Ryan joins economic trip to Europe RIDE check Sustainability, energy three Regional officials and one staff ance (GTMA) business mission. Dur- Regeneration Corporation and the To- and the environment member are heading off to Sweden, ham Region is planning another trip ronto Region Research Alliance. DURHAM — A Toronto man Denmark and The Netherlands this to Europe in July for members of the On the itinerary is a visit to SYSAV, was subdued with a taser gun by to be highlighted during June. works committee to tour a number of a municipally owned energy-from- Durham cops early Tuesday morn- “We are looking at all kinds of dif- energy from waste facilities. waste facility in Malmö, Sweden and ing in Port Perry after he became business mission ferent ways to develop in a sustainable According to Mr. Lindeblom there to Linköping, where the city’s fleet of belligerent at a spot check aimed way,” said Doug Lindeblom, director of are more than 20 participants regis- vehicles runs on bio-gas. Participants at removing drunk drivers from the By Erin Hatfield economic development and tourism at tered for the GTMA trip from across will also visit Hammarby Sjöstad, Swe- Region’s roadways. [email protected] the Region of Durham. the GTA, including a number of Dur- den’s most sustainable development According to Durham police, Mr. Lindeblom, Regional Chairman ham businesses like Ontario Power of 6,000 apartments. officers set up a roving Reduced DURHAM — Local politicians say Roger Anderson, Ajax Mayor Steve Generation and Veridian Corporation. There are three things Mayor Par- Impaired Driving Everywhere Durham has a lot to learn from Europe Parish and Pickering Mayor Dave Ryan There will also be representatives from ish said he hopes to accomplish on (RIDE) program during Monday’s when it comes to sustainability, en- are taking the European tour as part York Region, Newmarket, Minto De- evening hours, focusing on areas ergy and the environment. To that end, of the Greater Toronto Marketing Alli- velopments, the Toronto Waterfront ✦ See Ryan, Page A2 in Bowmanville, Courtice, Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering and Port Perry. While authorities made no impaired driving arrests, they did have a fairly active few hours in the Port Perry area where they set up a spot check at the intersection of PICKERING KIDS HELPING KIDS Simcoe and King streets. In one incident, police say a 47- year-old Toronto man began yelling and swearing at officers after he was stopped around 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday. After being served with a pair of tickets, the man became enraged, got out of his vehicle and assaulted an officer, say police. As a result, the officer used a taser to subdue the man. He was later charged with as- saulting police and was held for a bail hearing. Earlier, during the same RIDE check, officers seized approxi- mately 1.7 grams of cannabis resin and an illegal butterfly knife after they stopped a 23-year-old Aurora man at the Port Perry checkpoint at 11:15 p.m. Monday night. He faces charges for pos- session of an illegal substance and unauthorized possession of a weapon. As well, a 24-year-old Oshawa man faces drug charges after of- ficers found him in possession of four grams of marijuana around 11:50 p.m. He was later charged with possessing a controlled sub- stance. Police remind the public that they plan to operate RIDE spotchecks at various locations throughout the year [ Index ] Editorial Page, A6 Sports, B1 Entertainment, B3 Photo by Jennifer Roberts Classified, B5 PICKERING — Nine-year-old David Leonard, eight-year-old Alexandra Vragovic and two-year-old Vlad Surdu, from the Bridges Kinder Connection-Dunbarton-Fairport United Church Daycare, prepare for their ‘Kids Helping Kids’ fundraiser for Sick Kids walkathon. The day care has been involved in the event for 20 years and has [ Call us] raised nearly $20,000. General: 905 683 5110 Distribution: 905 683 5117 General Fax: 905 683 7363 Newsroom Fax: 905 683 0386 Pressrun 49,900 durhamregion.com Hundreds of trees cut down to SPRING INTO SUMMER MAINTENANCE PACKAGE make way for water plant expansion • Oil & filter change • Tire rotation • Coolant check • Brake Inspection Environmentalist plant treats sewage from both regions, “Just one of the mature trees which versity plan for restoration, which is $150 Value $59.95 and approximately 80 per cent comes were destroyed would absorb more part of the Municipal Class Environ- For Only $59.95 criticizes bulldozing from York Region. greenhouse gases and produce more mental Assessment (Schedule C) rec- 905-831-5400 of ‘mature trees’ “It’s not serving Pickering; it’s not oxygen than thousands of seedlings ommendations. Mr. Presta explained 575 KINGSTON RD serving Durham Region,” Mr. Robb planted during earth week,” he said. part of the construction will then in- www.pickeringhonda.com said in an interview. “This big expan- John Presta, director of environ- clude planting new trees to comple- By Kristen Calis sion here is to service York Region.” mental services for Durham Region, ment the site. [email protected] Mr. Robb has been volunteering with specializes in water supply and waste He noted the WPCP treats water for the Rouge Duffins Greenspace Coali- water. He said the trees were removed millions of residents and said “We’re in PICKERING — When Scarborough tion for several years. One of its main in order to expand the WPCP. He ex- the business of protecting the environ- resident and forest ecologist Jim Robb objectives is to protect a large Rouge plained the plant currently has a ca- ment, not destroying it.” had to run an errand in Pickering, Duffins greenspace link between Lake pacity to treat 420 megalitres (420 mil- Mr. Robb criticized the lack of an he decided it was time to visit Duf- Ontario and the Oak Ridges Moraine. lion litres) of sewage per day and will individual EA in the process. fins Creek. When he arrived, he was He raised environmental concerns, expand to 630 megalitres. They’ll be “It’s absolutely outrageous that the shocked to see the removal of “hun- and said it was very discouraging to adding two incineration units, which Province and Premier (Dalton) Mc- dreds of mature trees” under way. see “two-and-three-foot diameter ma- he said will decrease waste shipments Guinty and the regional governments The Duffin Creek Water Pollution ture” trees bulldozed down a week from Durham to Michigan. He said of Durham and York have done this Control Plant (WPCP) is jointly owned after politicians planted trees on Earth they have been working with Toronto by York and Durham regions. 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A AUTO LOANS FOR EVERYONE AUTO LOANS FOR EVERYONE AUTO LOANS FOR EVERYONE AUTO LOANS FOR EVERYONE AUTO LOANS FOR EVERYONE P PAGE A2 ◆ NEWS ADVERTISER ◆ May 23, 2007 Scout leader jailed nine months for child porn Oshawa man “The violation of the chil- dren never ends,” Mr. Broth- caught up in erston said. “It exists in the U.S. Internet Internet world and for all practical purposes it can sweep never be destroyed... it ex- ists in perpetuity.” By Jeff Mitchell Defence counsel Brian [email protected] Scott called for a conditional sentence, urging the judge to DURHAM — A former find the porn collection dis- Scout leader has been sen- covered in Mr. Fairweather’s tenced to nine months in possession was not as exten- jail for distributing child sive or egregious as in other pornography after a judge cases where jail terms have rejected a defence argument been handed out. for a term of house arrest. Mr. Scott also pointed to Kristen Calis/News Advertiser photo James Brian Fairweather, a psychiatric report which Jim Robb stands in front of some of the mature trees cut down at the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant to make way for the plant’s expansion. 45, embraced his parents indicates Mr. Fairweather is and partner in an Oshawa not a pedophile and pres- courtroom before being ents a very low risk to reof- led away to begin serving fend. his sentence Tuesday. He Mr. Fairweather sought pleaded guilty to a single out images of young men as Pioneer home to be reassembled on southern part of property count of distribution of child he went through a midlife pornography in April. reassessment of his sexual- ✦ Pioneer from page A1 management plan; and, limiting son. But in response, Mr. Presta ponds, showing disrespect for He is one of two Durham ity, Mr. Scott said. His repu- the expanded plant’s capacity to said they took timing into consid- our cultural heritage,” Mr.

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