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Photo by Peter J. Thompson S W E E T S O U N D S : A1 Connelly, along with other members of Glass Tiger, congre­ gated at The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday for a special reunion of the band to benefit charity. Proceeds from this year's Alan Frew and Friends concert will go to Camp Trillium and the Rose Cherry Home. For more photos see page B6. 9-1-1 PROBLEMS Christine Giorgio: gruelling routine for competition Christine's workout regimen not for the faint of heart Ju s t reading bodybuilder's routine m ay c a u se exhaustion So you think the grapefruit diet is tough.? Try four, solid months of nothing but egg whites, chicken breasts, porridge, potatoes and yams. For Christine Giorgio, the bizarre diet is only a small part of the torture she inflicts upon herself in preparation for competitive body­ building. " It's a v e r y p e r s o n a l t h in g . . .S o m e p e o p le s a y I'm s e l f i s h , b u t I lik e t h e f e e l in g o f h a v in g c o n tr o l. It's a s t r e s s re lie f." -Christine Giorgio The 39-year-old mother of three saw her efforts rewarded this past fall when she won two provincial champi­ onship titles-- the Masters Women category for women over 35 and the provincial middle weight title for women between 115 and 125 pounds. But as much as she loves the sport, Gioigio says she's taking time out and won't compete again until the Canadian championships in 2000. The reason is the gruelling routine and the stress it subsequently inflicts upon her life as a single mother, not to mention the added finan­ cial strain. Giorgio frankly admits that the only reason she has been able to come as far as she has is thanks to the support of her employer, Oakville's Thomas Pigeon Design Group. "The cost of the food, the protein supple­ ments, the suits, the personal trainer; it get's very expensive and I'm a single mom, so do the math," she says. "I couldn't have done it without the support of Thomas and the staff here. They even put up with the smell of yams at nine in the morning and the times when I wasn't in the best of moods." Understandably. Although bodybuilders train year round, things get deadly serious in the 16 weeks leading up to a competition. When your goal is six percent body fat (the (S e e 'S p o r t ' p a g e 5) a i r t ^e l l P ^ 847-5700 \ C ommunications inc. Approved Agent 481 N o r th S e rv ic e R d . W . (E.of 4th In .) 8 4 7 -5 7 0 0 Tracing calls futile in high-tech world of com m unications * Lear Corp. sends 215 jobs south ̂ Windstar seat maker cuts third of employees It was a bleak Easter weekend for 215 hourly-paid Lear Corp. workers who were told they'd be losing their jobs to a sister plant south of the border. "It was a bombshell," said Bill McKeon, who has worked at the Oakville auto parts plant since 1994 and escaped layoff because OTHS stu d en ts in ^ Kosovo relief effort Three senior Oakville Trafalgar High School students have organized a relief effort for the thou­ sands of Kosovar refugees fleeing their war-tom homeland. After hearing about the plight of the Kosovar refugees, Kelly and Sarah Vogt, along with their friend Dawna Barrett decided to help out. "We just thought about how we would feel in that situation," said Kelly Vogt, an 18-year-old OAC student. "We just wanted to help out." The Vogt family searched through their house­ hold and came up with eight garbage bags of items for the refugees. The students will be accepting public donations this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at the front entrance of OTHS on 1460 Devon Road. Donations of clean clothes, linens, medical sup­ plies and food and other essentials are being accept­ ed. The students have also organized a collection drive within OTHS and have asked its feeder schools to participate. A letter was sent to all OTHS feeder schools ask­ ing them to provide a drop-off box at the school. They have also asked the schools to make daily announcements encouraging students to participate. So far, all schools contacted have joined the relief effort. ""We've had a great response," said Kelly. "Some people have told me they already have a few garbage bags for them." For more information on the relief effort call 844-0337. of his seniority. The company is one of the biggest manu­ facturers of car seat systems in the world and is producing seats for the Windstar minivans built at Ford's Oakville plant. It's known as a just-in-time operation because its production lines are synchronized with the Windstar assembly line at Ford. McKeon, a former union steward, said the 666 hourly workers, who are members of Canadian Auto Workers Local 1256, had little idea what to expect when they were asked to attend a meeting at Silver City Theatre in Oakville last Thursday. They had little reason to expect bad news because they'd just been given an 80-cent an hour raise as part of their contract, hiking most hourly wages to more than $20. "A lot of people were wondering what was going on. We were told it was a 'state of busi­ ness address,'" said McKeon, a seat assem­ bler. He said the company announced that all the workers on a production line manufacturing second row seats for the Windstars would be laid off and the line would be moved to a plant in Romulus, Mich., which is operating at 50% capacity. Once the line is installed in Romulus, the second row seats will be trucked back to Oakville each day to coincide with the pro­ duction of the Windstars, a distance of 373 kilometres. (The trip from the Oakville plant to Ford takes about 12 minutes.) The Oakville plant will still produce front seats and third row seats, however. "There was a question and answer period. It was pretty civilized. There was some heck­ ling but no yelling and screaming (until later)," McKeon said. Later, the workers expressed bitterness at learning their jobs would be exported to the United States. (S e e 'N o ' p a g e 5) By Tim Whitnell SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Halton Regional Police say the entire 9-1-1 emergency response system is beginning to falter due to an ever-expanding cellular net­ work, the unbundling of local telephone service and the emergence of new telecommunications tech­ nologies. Here's the scenario:You're trapped in a house with an out-of-control fire or you see a robbery going down in the store where you're shopping. In both cases, the only phone available is a cellular model. You pick it up and press 9-1-1. You can't speak and have to put it down, but you're feeling confident emergency response personnel will be able to lock onto the phone signal, pinpoint its origin and rescue you. Think again. Your name, address and phone number will not appear on the screen of a 9-1-1 dis­ patcher. Halton Regional Police Staff-Sgt. Bob Waller, head of communications and chair of the region's 9- 1-1 committee, said police were sent to the wrong address during a restaurant hold-up in the summer of 1998. "We had an armed robbery in Oakville and a woman inside the restaurant who saw them (rob­ bers) coming in, dialed 9-1-1 on a standard phone and set it down. "The 9-1-1 display identified a totally different location (in Oakville) from where the call originat­ ed," said Waller. He noted this highlights a separate, but parallel safety issue. Typically with conventional wired phones, the 9- 1-1 caller's name, location and phone number appear automatically on the call taker's screen, allowing dispatchers to send immediate aid to the appropriate location. In the case of the armed robbery in Oakville, Waller said the business held up had been using the phone service of a re-seller and the re-seller's address, not the restaurant's, showed on the 9-1-1 dispatcher's screen. Waller said that is a potential pitfall of subscrib­ ing to the services of a re-seller, a company that buys phone lines from Bell Canada and leases them to residents and businesses. He suggests anyone con­ sidering using a re-seller should ask about the extent of its 9-1-1 service. After the incident, Waller said the Oakville restaurant switched its phone business back to Bell, which has point-of-origin 9-1-1 information display for wired phones. "Wireless phones are marketed partly as a safety tool if you're caught in an emergency. That's not completely true unless we can handle a 9-1-1 call properly," said York Regional Police Insp. Bruce Herridge, who also serves as the chair of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OCAP) Information Technology Committee. Herridge's comments are part of a directive from the OACP that challenges governments at all levels, as well as the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission, to resolve obstacles facing the emer­ gency telephone system. (S e e 'P o lice ' p a g e 2 ) INSIDE today's paper E d ito r ia ls . . . . . . .________ ........__________ A 6 F o c u s ._______________________________ B1 A r t & E n t e r ta in m e n t_______________ B 4 H o m e s & G a rd e n s .................... ,C 1 B u s in e s s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .______ ......______ C 3 C la s s if ie d .. . . .................................................. 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