The Pickering 52 PAGES ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007 ✦ Optional delivery charge $6 / Newsstand charge $1 Which school has the weather forecast? Page A3 Hard-luck Panthers Team waiting anxiously for return of injured players Page B1 YOUNG AND OLD REMEMBER Tensions mounted before shooting: witness tells court Gunfire in college pub Mr. Barrington said he approached and escorted a man wearing a basket- left Ajax man dead, ball jersey out of the pub after he be- two hurt came aware the man had circumvent- ed security that included pat-downs and metal detection. By Jeff Mitchell The man soon rejoined his friends [email protected] inside the pub and Mr. Barrington said there appeared to be tensions between DURHAM — Tensions between two that group and a group of friends that groups of young people in a college included Mr. Moses. pub were mounting in the moments Mr. Moses appeared to be a by- before gunfire erupted, leaving one stander as some of the young men dead and two others seriously wound- taunted each other, Mr. Barrington tes- ed, a Crown witness has testified at tified. A fellow security worker alerted a murder trial in him when it appeared the showdown Whitby. was escalating, he said. Stephen Bar- “They were yelling at each other rington, a stu- and there was some pushing,” Mr. Bar- dent who worked evenings as a ✦ See Trial, Page A2 security guard at the Durham College pub in Oshawa, testi- Pesticide ban fied Tuesday he was on his way to intervene as a Dwayne Moses “scrum” formed gets a little in the early morning hours of April 3, 2004, but stopped short when shots sounded. closer “I start toward the scrum to break it up,” Mr. Barrington said. “As I do I hear a pop and I see smoke.” Mr. Barrington was retreating from Little debate surrounds the source of the gunfire when he real- plans to limit pesticides ized he’d been hit in the legs. He fell to the floor, stricken. in Pickering He said that as he lay on the floor he also saw Eugene “Dwayne” Moses, a By Kristen Calis former Durham student, had fallen. [email protected] Mr. Moses, 21, of Ajax, died after being shot in the chest. Neven Belic of PICKERING — It’s time to use a little Toronto is charged with second-degree elbow grease and stop using pesti- murder in the young man’s death and cides, says a Pickering City councillor. aggravated assault in the wounding of Ward 1 City Councillor Jenni- two others, including Mr. Barrington. fer O’Connell has been pushing for The Crown alleges Mr. Belic arrived the ban on pesticides since she was at the pub with a group of friends in a elected to Council. She gave a number limousine and that he was the gunman of reasons why pesticides should be who fired the shots. Witnesses at this banned, including the cause of various For more Jason Liebregts/ News Advertiser photo on this story Superior Court trial have said they saw of cancers, low birth weight, sterility PICKERING — Joshua Jones looks down at his poppy as Robert Sawdon listens to Remembrance a man wearing a distinctive basketball and toxic breast milk. Day Ceremonies held at the Pickering Cenotaph on Sunday. jersey walking into a circle of friends “I don’t care what anybody says,” she that included Mr. Moses, intentionally said in an interview. “It doesn’t matter bumping into people. if you’re accredited or not. When you spray them, you have no control where the air or the water will take it. And I think that everyone has a fundamental right not to be exposed to these chemi- AIDS conference attracts people from Latin cals.” ✦ See City, Page A2 America but where’s the Durham contingent? Ajax Nissan Parts/Service said it hasn’t attracted local partici- work with young people and commu- youth and HIV. Monday - Thursday 7:00am - 8:00pm Committee disappointed Friday 7:00am - 6:00pm pants and he finds that disappointing. nity organizations.” The opening dinner on Nov. 27 will Saturday 8:00am - 2:00pm with local response “We are having difficulty getting During National AIDS Aware- have a Hispanic flare with authentic any of the local politicians, especially ness Week, from Nov. 27 to 29, the Mexican food and Latin jazz recording 375 Bayly Street West, Ajax By Erin Hatfield the federal politicians, involved,” he AIDS Committee of Durham Region artist Amanda Martinez. (Between Westney & Harwood) [email protected] said. “The AIDS movement is very de- is hosting a full agenda of speakers “We want to highlight the work we 1-800-565-6365 pressed right now in lack of federal and workshops to highlight local and are doing with the Hispanic commu- 905-686-0555 DURHAM — Low local registration support and lack of community sup- global strategies and partnerships sur- nity,” Mr. Richtig said. for an upcoming AIDS conference port.” rounding HIV/AIDS. The conference AIDS remains a crisis in Canada and shows there is more work to be done Mr. Richtig said every two hours will provide opportunities to develop Durham Region, but he said it is also a INCOME TAX by the AIDS Committee of Durham someone in Canada gets infected with and enhance knowledge and skills sur- global pandemic and there’s a respon- Region, says its executive director. HIV/AIDS. rounding HIV/AIDS. sibility to help other places. Seeing PERSONAL INCOME TAX RETURN “AIDS isn’t a very popular issue,” The AIDS Committee of Durham The agenda includes a range of that Latin America was somewhat of a All-Canadian Tax Service Peter Richtig said. “We work popula- Region is a community-based charity speakers, topics and workshops in- “forgotten neighbour” Mr. Richtig said tion that most people would prefer that has provided HIV/AIDS-related cluding: stigma and discrimination; for the past few years the committee only $ 95* that didn’t exist in this community.” services to the people of Durham Re- engaging communities; corporate so- has been working with AIDS workers 49. The committee is holding a three- gion since 1992. cial responsibility; faith-based social from Latin America. * Most returns *GST extra 100 Westney Rd S (Ajax Go Station) day conference with participants com- “We provide both support services justice work; co-infection; criminaliza- As well, he said the demographic ing from as far away as Mexico, Costa to those infected and prevention ed- tion of HIV transmission in Canada; (905) 426-4860 Rica and El Salvador, but Mr. Richtig ucation,” Mr. Richtig explained. “We women and HIV; substance use; and, ✦ See AIDS, Page A2 Get approval anytime at DURHAM CREDIT ZONE % www.durhamcreditzone.com A DIVISION OF AJAX NISSAN 10 0 Private, friendly FREE CONSULTATION Approval OAC We’ll no money down make it happen! 1-866-355-4495 Interest rate may vary from 0 to 29.9% depending on credit history, some down payment may be required. Fin. Example: $10,000 @ 0%=$208.33 mo. for 48 mo. with $0 down. P PAGE A2 ◆ N EWS A DVERTISER ◆ November 14, 2007 Heritage City wants bylaw Camp offers in place by March recreational ✦ City from page A1 mittee. Staff believes that although banning pesticides coincides with sus- The long-awaited pesticide use draft tainable Pickering principles, having activities bylaw came before Executive Com- a municipal bylaw officer prove the mittee on Monday night and was contents of the pesticides being ap- passed for consultation. There wasn’t plied could be difficult. PICKERING — With the P.A. day much debate on the issue, and it will A complaint from a neighbour sim- Nov. 16 coming fast, and many oth- be brought to Council next week. If ply watching somebody use them ers after, kids need a fun, safe ac- passed there, staff will consult the pub- won’t cut it, and even if the officer tivity to do as parents are at work. lic in a variety of ways - through ques- watches someone apply the pesticides, Pickering has come up with a solution. tionnaires and a town hall meeting it will be difficult for them to gather At the Pickering Museum Village, P.A. for example - where changes can be samples. Day Heritage Camp will offer a full day made before the bylaw is passed. Golf But Coun. O’Connell noted the same of activities and games with a heritage courses and areas within a hydro cor- difficulties could be associated with flavour intended to provide kids with a ridor are currently exempted, which the noise bylaw, for example, and said fun and enriching day away from school. Coun. O’Connell does not agree with there are many pesticide alternatives All children between the ages five and and hopes is changed before the bylaw readily available. 12 are welcome at the camp, running is passed. “I think there’s never going to be a from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., with an Extend- The dates of enforcement in the draft perfect bylaw, but I think by banning a-Camp option at an additional cost for bylaw are: March 25, 2008 for commer- companies from spraying this and tell- parents. Extensions will run from 7 a.m. cial applicators and Jan. 1, 2009 for ing individuals that they’re not sup- to 6 p.m. The camp costs $25 per child everyone else. posed to either, I think a good major- and an additional $25 for the extension. Mayor Dave Ryan agreed with the ity of people won’t, and I think that’s Campers must be dropped off at the dates “so they have an understanding what’s key,” she said.