Death of One of Their Own

8 •^^Ite, '-^ - Il-'O HuMBER Et Cetera Anthrax scare Backyard Spy time hits home brawlers Page 1 Pages Page 9 www.etcetera.humberc.on.ca -- Humber College's Newspaper -- October 18, 2001 - Vol. 30 No. 6 Hockey players mourn death of one of their own taken to hospital via ambulance. career Guirestante faced numerous By JASON THOM ' "All day I was periodically check- challenges, including the physical & JOHN-PAUL McNALLY ing on him, and he was sleeping," challenge of being almost completely Et Cetera Staff McFadyen said. "Sometimes in the deaf. He needed hearing aids to hear The Humber College hockey team is back of my head, 1 wish I had done anything at all, according to Assistant mourning the loss of one of their own more for him." Athletics Director Jim Bialek. following the death of first-year stu- Those who had just come to know "I know he battled through adver- dent and promising Hawk forward Guirestante were equally shaken by sity in the past," McFadyen said. "He John Guirestante Sunday afternoon. the loss of their teammate. pretty much had everything he want- The 26-year-old died this weekend "The best way to put it is. ..you met ed right now." of pneumonia, according to Humber him and you remembered him," D.J. Guirestante used everything he Athletics Director Doug Fox. After Marchese said. learned in his many hockey seasons being rushed to nearby William Osier Guirestante was a great hockey to help players and friends like Health Centre, Etobicoke Campus, player, and an even better guy, Cordeiro. This was all second nature Guirestante was pronounced dead according to friends. for the six foot, two inch, 195 pound just after 6 p.m. "He was just an amazing person," forward. Guirestante played his only game McFadyen- said. "He affected every- "It wasn't about 'I'm going to help as a Hawk last Saturday night, when body in some small way." you and you're going to help me the men's hockey team faced off Though Guirestante only knew back' or 'I'm going to help you against former Hawks' players, dur- some of his teammates for a short because it's going to make me look ing an exhibition alumni match. time, his impact both on and off the good. It was, 'I'm going to help you After netting four points, ice was immeasurable. because I care about you,'" Cordeiro Guirestante pulled himself out of the "He was definitely a centerpiece in said. game with five minutes remaining, the dressing room," McFadyen said. Student Athletics Association due to illness. "He talked to everyone out on the ice. President Tara Reed and Bialek According to Hawk player Rob He never segregated anyone and helped Guirestante with his entrance Cordeiro, following the game, some made sure everyone knew we were a to Humber College. team members, including family." "He got into school, which was Guirestante, gathered at teammate "He always wanted the team to be important to him because he wanted Chris McFadyen's house. Cordeiro close," said recent Hawk addition, to become something more than a and Guirestante have known one Jamie Chikowski. "Whenever some- guy who played hockey," Bialek said. another for many years. thing was going on, he liked all the "He wanted to work, he wanted a Diane Denby Cordeiro said the gathering lasted guys to be there and we all could see career He was just someone who was Number li John Guirestante pictured at last weekend's alumni game until the early morning, with some what he was doing." always up and laughing and smiling reality of something like this hap- both Humber 's No. 22 home and players spending the night. Over the years Guirestcinte played and now he's gone, like that." pens, it's overwhelming." away jerseys from Guirestante's stall. Guirestante fell asleep soon after, but in a host of professional hockey In remembrance, Humber 's flags number's grief counsellors met Guirestante's teammates wiU hon- never regained cor\sciousness. leagues, including the Ontario were flown at half mast earlier this with the team early in the week, our him with a moment of silence According to Toronto police at 23 Hockey League, and also overseas in week. Humber President Robert Gordon before their first game at this week- Division, a 911 call was made late Germany. The New Jersey Devils Fox said he understands the said. end's Maybury Cup tournament at Sunday afternoon. drafted Guirestante in the fifth round impact the death has had on the "It's a tremendous loss, especially Westwood Arena. McFadyen, a longtime friend of of the 1993 Nahonal Hockey League Hawks' athletic community. at such a young age," Gordon added. A service is being held today at the Guirestante, then administered CPR Entry Draft, above current NHL stars "There's an invincibility factor Guirestante's locker is now Neweduk Funeral Home, by instruction over the phone. Fox Miroslav Satan and Tommy Salo. that young people feel they're going cleaned out, and Cordeiro has hung Mississauga Chapel. said. Soon after, Guirestante was Throughout his professional to live forever," he said. "When the Anti-poverty protests cause $200,000 damage By PAUL CARLUCCI came for Dudley George, a Native protester who was shot by an OPP Et Cetera Staff officer in Ipperwash Provincial Park in 1995. They came to protest for Kim Anti-poverty protesters flooded Rogers, an eight-month pregnant Toronto's financial district on woman sentenced to house arrest for Tuesday in an effort to grind opera- welfare fraud, who later died of heat tions to a temporary halt. stroke in her apartment. Some 75 activist groups, united They came to protest a frozen min- under the name Ontario Common imum wage, a 60-hour work week, Front (OCF), converged at Nathan povert\ and homolessness. Phillips Square at 5 a.m. to eat break- A batallion of police, carrying fast and have their passions ignited batons and dressed in riot gear, closed by an array of speakers. off the comer of Bay and Queen in Paul Carlucci The protest was against the poli- front of Nathan Phillips Square. Common Front protesters took to downtown streets In an anti-poverty rally that resulted In 40 arrests cies of the Ontario Tories. Protesters See Anti-poverty on page 3 etc. October 18, 2001 Newsetc. More mysterious powder Tight security at Etobicoke med centre after Toronto By ASHLEY KULP £/ Celem Staff Police and firefighters rushed to the medical centre beside William Osier water scares Hospital on Monday as yet another anthrax scare surfaced. Hiroshi Taniguchi, the city's direc- Support and hazardous materials By JULIE DEANGELIS tor of water supply, said that security £/ Cetera Staff units of the fire squad surrounded the checks have been more frequent in centre, located at 89 Humber College the past month. Blvd., at around 2:45 p.m. The Area residents have noticed an "We enhanced security on Sept. 11 entrance to the centre was blocked off increased amount of activity sur- at all of the reservoirs aS a precau- by yellow caution tape, as firefighters rounding the R.L. Clark Water tion," Taniguchi said. "We want to be asked all people going in and out of Filtration Plant next to Number's extra vigilant especially now with the the building to stay put and remain Lakeshore campus. anthrax scares." calm. The graffiti-smeared sign reads Last Wednesday, the room that Garnet Reid, platoon chief of the "Sudanese Slaughter." Police gath- houses the piping system of the St. Etobicoke Fire Department said a ered outside the plant in front of the Clair reservoir was broken into. white powder had been discovered vandalized sign on both Wednesday Toronto police said that a door was by one of the employees in the med- and Thursday mornings as curious Desmond Devoy pried open, and a metal container ical centre and they were taking the Firefighters spoke with concerned public during the Monday scare neighbours looked on. partly filled with an unknown liquid Johanna Marie Petruso, a 23rd call very seriously. come back here to the hospital and tact with infected animals, use of was left behind. Street resident, and a Humber gradu- "We were called because a suspi- get yourself checked out," Reid said. infected products ingestion of and According to Taniguchi, the reser- ate, was worried about the prospect cious white powder has been found This was the third anthrax scare tainted meat or anthrax spores. If voir is now open and functioning of contamination. in the building. We don't know what the department had received that day. inhaled directly or left untreated, it normally after tests on the liquid con- "The police have been down here it is, but we are taking every precau- The other two calls had been false can cause death. firmed it to be harmless. for two days now," she said. "I really tion and not ruling anything out," alarms. At press time, test results of There are three types of anthrax, "We conducted tests last week on hope that our water hasn't been tam- Reid said. the Etobicoke medical centre powder the first of which is cutaneous. It is the unknown liquid substance left pered with." After about five minutes of frantic had not been returned, but Reid said found on the skin and causes lesions behind in the five litre bottle, as well Police said they believe the van- waiting, the small crowd of people he was expecting the sample to be and blood poisoning, but isn't fatal if as the water in one of the basins at the dalism was the result of an isolated that were asked to remain behind negative for anthrax.

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