The Pickering 36 PAGES ✦ Pressrun 48,600 ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2005 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 GAME 4 BOUND HAND IN HAND Rock aim to close Caring for an out playoff series aging population Page 25 Page 16 Taking Region reads SENDING A SMILE YOUR WAY stock of ‘riot act’ to health risks Rising temperatures means extra caution restaurants needed; Pickering Pickering doughnut Bayly St. in Ajax had seven charges extends pool hours worth $1,700, ranging from sanitary shop on list; tobacco conditions and food affected by the convictions up way the restaurant is run, to failing By Jillian Follert to protect food from adulteration Staff Writer or contamination and not properly DURHAM — As Durham resi- By Carly Foster cleaning utensils. dents continue to wilt under an Staff Writer Coffee Time Donuts at 300 Kings- ongoing heat wave, experts are re- DURHAM — A Chinese buffet ton Rd. W. in Pickering had $1,500 minding the community that in ad- restaurant and two doughnut shops worth of fines for not having soap, dition to making you hot and sticky, top the health department’s twice- storing hazardous foods at incorrect soaring temperatures can pose a annual list of establishments with temperatures and using equipment serious health risk. food safety and tobacco violations. in bad condition. The shop was Heat stroke, heat exhaustion, se- “It’s only because we’re continu- also convicted in 2003 of similar of- vere dehydration and respiratory ally having to nag...that we have to fences. John’s Wholesale Donuts at problems are common throughout write these tickets,” said Alex Con- 10 Sunray St. in Whitby had $1,455 the summer months, but hit a spike nor, manager environmental health, worth of charges including failing when temperatures remain above adding those on the list are offend- to protect food from adulteration or 30 degrees Celsius for days at a time, ers that were repeatedly warned. contamination and failing to oper- as was the case this week. Mr. Connor and his inspectors ate premises free from conditions “We’ve seen a substantive in- see everything from debris falling that may affect sanitation. crease in short-of-breath calls,” said into uncovered bowls of fried rice to The convictions were from Janu- Steve McNenly, assistant director raw meat drippings hitting salad. ary to June this year. With only seven for Durham EMS, which has 27 am- “To me, that’s disgusting,” he said. restaurants on the list this time bulances operating across the re- “I like to have the food protected as around, Mr. Connor said public dis- gion. “People who have any kind much as possible. We have to read closure of the offenders is working. of respiratory disease or challenges the riot act to these people.” are definitely going to have more Good Deal Super Buffet at 75 ✦ See Smoking, Page 5 trouble under these conditions.” Patients are their first priority, but Mr. McNenly said health officials Thinking of are also concerned with keeping the Hardwood? paramedics comfortable. Working outside and entering Free Teen Give your home a new homes that are often without air look for Summer Celia Klemenz/ News Advertiser photo conditioning is a major challenge, Skateboard Competition PICKERING — Shevon Harper makes the return during a game he said, noting that the job involves We are Durham’s fl ooring experts! of volleyball at Millennium Waterfront park this week. The game a lot of strenuous lifting. So far, air July 21 - 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm was played on the boardwalk because the sand was too hot for >>`>Ê>À`Ü`Ê conditioned ambulances stocked Pickering Recreation Complex bare feet. 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But the murder trial. in Pickering. He became the all along to kill Mr. Jones to he will also be sentenced on Dishevelled in an open in man’s death; Crown’s key witness in the silence him. the robbery and conspiracy blue shirt and white T-shirt, Pickering home case against Mr. Jacobson. In the end, the jury charges. Those sentences a bearded Mr. Jacobson shuf- During his trial Mr. Jacob- brought back a guilty verdict will likely run concurrently fled into the courtroom sur- invasions also son said he and his friend, on charges of first-degree with his life sentence. rounded by police officers, to be addressed Sean Hall, went to Mr. Jones’s murder and conspiracy to Two of the women who his arms and legs shackled. home with a gun looking to commit murder. Last No- sat on the jury were in the He said nothing during his By Jeff Mitchell scare him out of testifying. vember a jury convicted Mr. nearly-deserted courtroom appearance, merely nodding Staff Writer But the plan went awry when Hall on the same charges. for Mr. Jacobson’s appear- when the judge set his sen- PICKERING — Convicted Mr. Jones fought back and He’s serving a life sentence ance Wednesday. They saw tencing date. killer Cosmo Jacobson has Mr. Hall shot him, he told the in prison. a prisoner who looked much Then he was gone as the been ordered to appear in jury. Mr. Jacobson can expect different from the neatly officers escorted him out of court after the Labour Day But prosecutor Paul Mur- a similar fate; the automatic groomed, well dressed the courtroom, the sound of weekend for sentencing. ray said it was Mr. Jacobson sentence for first-degree young man who’d sat in the rattling leg irons echoing be- Mr. Jacobson, 30, made a who pulled the trigger. He murder is life in prison with- prisoner’s dock throughout hind him. brief appearance in a Whitby Roy Jones court Wednesday afternoon. He’s scheduled to return Jones’s death, but denied Sept. 6 for a hearing to deter- there was ever a plot to mur- UNIONVILLE mine the sentence he’ll be der the man. Pine Ridge 4038 Hwy. 7 given not just for the first- Mr. Jones was shot four (former White Rose location) degree murder of Ajax resi- times outside his Twilley 905-479-2480 dent Roy Jones, but also for Lane home on Feb.