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- j )Mton s Community Newspaper Since 1860 ekn dto ,APPLE Auto ceeSsores Uphoistery R.apain. Wncshield Repai s ~ 81 MAIN ST!15 MILTON 876 4785 N EW S Residents want more local jobs S PO0RT S Heartbreaking CIS Country artist to titie loss for Gooding launch second CD SI. ...- S, GRAHAtM, PAINE / CANAD AN CHAMPION EYE-POPPING EXPERIENCE: Six-year-old Calvin Taziar keeps a close eye on the moves of the six-year-old northern pine Snake Ces noldng durng a presentat on by trie Toronto Nature Centre at Milton MaIl[ Tuesday. t was part of the mails March Break activi'oes. Murder victim's family speaks to court By Stephanie Thiessen CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF The widow of Milton resîdent Brian Stockton, su ho w-as murdered two years ago in a blazing car, said ber busbands bîggest fear w-as dying in a fîre. a Milton court heard yes- terdav; HIe said be could bandie anything else, but not a hire. He'd been burned before, and be said the pain and suffening are unbearable," said Arme Stockton in a Ntctim impact state- ment at Superior Court of justice. "I can only hope bis God took hlm belote he suffered in the fire, bis worst fear." She explarned that wben Stockton was 13, be was electrocuted, resuhing in both bis legs being amputated below the knees. Michael McDonough, 41, of Halton Hilis, and 49-year-old John McClatchey of Mîssîssauga, pleaded guilty to, second-degree murder and manslaughter respectively in the death of Stockton, who was 48 when he was killed in June of 2004. McDonough - who admitted to, bumning Stockton to death - did so because he thought Stockton was already dead and he wanted to bide the evidence, deêeme Iawyer John Rosen told the court. Rosen toid justice Bruce Durno that biçDonough bad gotteu into an argument wîth Stockton after an eveniîg of drîidkng. Things got out of control and he stabhed Stockton fBye trnes wubh a knife, court beard. Stockton's bodv was discovered burned beyond recognition after crews frorn the Milton Fire Department extinguisbed a blaz- ing car behind Traffix transport company on Regional Road 25, just nortb of Hwv. 40 1. Adjacent tco Traffix was a second crime scene where a pool of blood was found, in front of McKeown Collision. A second-degree murder conv.iction cornes with an automnatic life prison sentence. But Crown Attoney tLaurie jago and Rosen argued over the period of trne McDonougb sbould baw .& wam before being eligible for parole. e »e SENTENNCIG on page A3 A & E United Way happy with $430,000 By Stephanie Thiessen CANADIAN CHAMPION STAFF A dollar can only stretch so far. Nohody knows that better than the folks at the United \Vay of Milton, waho recentiN announced ots 2005 campaign had raised $430,000 falling short of its goal hy S45,000. But executîve director Anne Eadie said shes flot looking negatively at the shortfaîl. realizing there were interna- tional disasters to .w ,hich Miltonians generousx contnibuted in 2005 lîke the tsunami, Ilurrocane Katnina and the carthquake in Pakistan. 'OV\e're flot Iool-ctng ai thîs as a nega- tive thing. Eadie satd. 'Ose didn t reacb xshat use thought we'd ltkc to, but it was stîli a successful campatgn. *see NO on page A13 Inside Today's Champion OPINION AIS DATELINE A14 CLASSIFIED A24 REAL ESTATE B9 www nv.aitonseaichcorn mIgers: FULL DtISTRIBUTIONS LSF AVVS ZELLEPS -SMART F< F - EL * RSPONSIBLE GAMBOFIN PARTIAL DISTRSIBUTION *D SA SEAFS - FOOD BAStCS - :FFCTNAS - FOME HAPSSWA *ASFE1 FSPýT!jE - HME OUTF:,ERS - PRICE CHOPPER *SABEYS - HBRIFCK - SJPFFSflF - PSC F C 'Aqp' - * FA8BA FNB FOOS. SOGSS SHSFFFPS DF55 MFAF' * TOuSPFuS tEST Bu F.FUPUFE SHOP* AD '5MB EPO'ý - 'HE SOURCE BS CIRCUIST CCiR. M CHEALS ROGERS PLUS -CAFiADIAN 55qE. MARKS WORR WARSRAFJSE