SERVING PICKERING SINCE 1965 News Advertiser PRESSRUN 48,600 ✦ 32 PAGES ✦ FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 ✦ durhamregion.com ✦ OPTIONAL DELIVERY $6/$1 NEWSSTAND ROCKING THE HOUSE! A BIG BOUNCE All the latest curling news Stars are out for new movie Sports, 26 Entertainment, 25 Shooter gets 18 years Maragh opened the equivalent of five years and four months in pre-trial custody, fire during pickup leaving a remaining sentence of basketball game 12 years and eight months, Judge Glass ruled. By Stephen Shaw He will be eligible for parole in Staff Writer just over four years. DURHAM – A gunman who After a four-month trial, a Su- opened fire in a crowded high perior Court jury last September school gymnasium during a pick- found Mr. Maragh guilty of the up basketball game, shooting an April 3, 2001, shooting of Mr. Ajax man four times, was handed Richards during an after-hours an 18-year prison sentence yester- basketball game at Pine Ridge day. High School in Pickering. Marlon “Indian” Maragh, 23, of Court heard he fired four bul- A.J. Groen/ News Advertiser photo Scarborough was sentenced by lets from a .357-handgun into the Justice Bruce Glass to 12 years victim, hitting him three times in for the attempted murder of the back and once in the elbow, Might as well bump Teran Richards, then 22. during a “dispute over a foul” be- He received an additional two tween opposing teams from Pick- PICKERING –– With National Beach volleyball champion Conrad Leinemann over for a visit, the students and staff at years for each of three other of- ering and Scarborough. St. Isaac Jogues Catholic School took the opportunity to challenge him to a game. Mr. Leinemann played by himself, fences: using a gun during the Moments before the gunfire winning both games against a team that included teachers Joe Griffin and Stefania Accardi. commission of an offence, posses- began, Scarborough player sion of firearms while prohibited Tyshan Riley sucker-punched and fleeing police causing bodily Pickering player Al Nabe, a team- harm, making for a “global sen- mate of Mr. Richards. Hwy. 407 expansion delayed tence” of 18 years. Mr. Maragh has already served ✦ See He page 5 Construction landfill site near Napanee has “What was supposed to be changed what types of environ- under construction next year is PICKERING TOYOTA could be put off mental assessments the now 2010 or longer,” he said. until 2010 or later Province will accept. “What this does is delay what is THE LARGEST TOYOTA DEALER IN DURHAM! That means the terms of refer- vital to Durham.” SERVICE HOURS: By Carly Foster ence (the study that must be The proposed extension would March Break Camps MON., TUES., THURS., & FRI. Staff Writer done before an EA) the Ministry take Hwy. 407 from its current 7:30 - 6:00 P.M. DURHAM – The elusive quest to of Transportation has complet- end at Brock Road in Pickering Register Now WEDNESDAY: 7:30 - 8:00 P.M. get Hwy. 407 extended through ed for the Hwy. 407 expansion to Hwy. 115/35 in Clarington. Call for Daycare SATURDAY: 8:00 - 3:00 P.M. Durham has hit another road- needs changes and additions. 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Curriculumwww.durhamregion.com hitsNEWS ADVERTISER,hard FRIDAY EDITION, January 30, 2004 PAGE 3 A/P Durham boards looking ning on post-secondary education) met “This four years is a big change for or surpassed the provincial standard of a kids,” says Mary Ann Martin, chairman for changes to materials, level 3, or 70 to 79 per cent. However just of the Durham Catholic District School and testing 21 per cent of applied students met or Board. did better than the standard. “It’s a lot more work for students and By Mike Ruta “The difficulty, and we’ve expressed they have to be more focused. I think Staff Writer this to EQAO, around the applied Grade students who aren’t working to the best DURHAM – The new four-year high 9 testing is the testing is done in a style of their ability, anything we could do to school program is failing students in which is inconsistent with the stated assist them... is very important.” Durham and across the province, ac- philosophical goal of the course,” says She recently struck an Education-Min- cording to a study. Mr. Wyszkowski. “The course was meant istry mandated committee to help en- The Ministry of Education last week to present the same curriculum as the hance student learning. released Dr. Alan King’s Double Cohort Grade 9 academic curriculum, but in a Dr. King in the study noted that 30 per Phase Three Study, which looks at how different fashion to address different cent of the first four-year high school high school students are faring after the learning styles. It was meant to be much graduates returned for a fifth year of elimination of the OAC year. more hands on.” high school. In Durham, 1,800 high The answer is that one in four are un- However, the assessment style is iden- school students were back last Septem- likely to graduate, largely because of the tical to the academic test, he says. ber. high failure rate in some Grade 9 and 10 applied level courses. Dr. King pointed specifically at Grade 9 and 10 math, Eng- lish and science, Grade 9 geography and Tiano’s Quality Produce Grade 10 history, which he says “must be modified to be consistent with the needs Garden Fresh Quality Fruits & Vegetables and abilities of the 25 per cent of stu- MARY ANN MARTIN “It’s a lot more work.’ Product of U.S.A. dents who take them.” Product of Mexico Product of U.S.A. Charles Wyszkowski, the Durham Dis- HOT HOUSE SUNKIST PEACHES & CREAM trict School Board’s math program facil- load means that in the given course time CORN itator, notes that a provincial curriculum it’s difficult for teachers to go into much TOMATOES ORANGES review is now under way. depth with the concepts they are teach- size “One of the messages coming from ing. large ¢ ¢ pkg ¢ size 72 of 5 right across the province is that the On the most recent Education Quality 99lb 69lb 99 number of expectations for the Grade 9 and Accountability Office (EQAO) Product of U.S.A. Product of U.S.A. courses needs to be reduced,” he says. Grade 9 mathematics assessment, 62 per Product of U.S.A. Mr. Wyszkowski says the heavy work- cent of board academic students (plan- PINK CAULIFLOWER CELERY GRAPEFRUIT ¢ 99 ea 4 / ROMAINE size 00 ¢ ¢ 48 1 99ea 69 ea Specials in effect Friday, January 30 through Monday, February 2, 2004 Out here, I am free. 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