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street the majority of stouffville residents will re member this fire that changed the face of main street the date was 1971 and it occurred in the ratcliff block at the corner of main and market streets the site now accommodates the cana dian imperial bank of commerce v ted cadieux coroners inquest loose bathing suit suspected in death by christine koserski a loose bathing suit may ha ve caused the drown ing death of an eightyearold locust hill area boy a coroners jury believes it had been shawn lamoureuxs first day at the glenbrook day camp mccowan road rr 2 markham he was discovered lying at the bottom of the pool when lifeguards brought him to the surface shawns bathing suit was around his ankles and a string was tied around his waist despite the efforts of camp staff to resuscitate the lad he never recovered consciousness and was pronounced dead on arrival at york central hos pital richmond hill witnesses agreed that july 16 was a sunny warm day and that the water in the outdoor pool was clean a drain at the bottom of the pool was clearly visible there were about 35 in the pool that legally permitted 90 swimmers three lifeguards were on duty ron pike 15 a junior counsellor told jurors that shawn was late for his afternoon swimming ses sion because he was looking for a string in the change room mr pike helped him find the string something like a shoelace and shawn used it to tie up his bathing suit mr pike testified that the string was tied around the outside of shawns bathing suit instead of being threaded through the waistband when the boy went out to the pool conducted simple tests in their morning swimming session shawn and some other children in his group underwent a sim ple test to determine their capability for swim ming in the deep end the test which was not mandatory consisted of swimming six widths of a competent front swim according to jane heintz 18 the glen brook daycamps senior lifeguard jane testified that in the middle of his test shawn had to stop in order to pull up his bathing suit it was a concern she said i asked him if he had a better bathing suit he said yes but that he couldnt find it i told him he better find it and bring it the next day shawn didnt pass the test and was told he could swim in the shallow and middle areas only the shallow area was defined by a net a buoy line was stretched across the pool between the middle area and the deep end while one lifeguard tested a new group of chil dren the other two watched the swimmers no identification however there was no means of identifying which children had passed the test and which had not only the lifeguard who had actually tested the children knew who was allowed to swim in the deep end and use the diving board mary jane stitt the lawyer representing the lamourcux family asked the junior lifeguard bonnie tarr 17 if there were any means of en forcing the deep end rules other than relying on the children to obey bonnie replied there was not an eightyear old toronto boy also a camper testified he saw shawn get into the deep end of the pool and dive off the diving board another eight- yearold boy from stouffville said he saw shawn struggling to get his bathing suit up while in the water although the camp had not used an identifica tion system in the 16 years it has been operating a system was tried out during the two weeks pre vious to shawns arrival children who passed the swimming test had an orange piece of yarn tied around their wrists however the system was found to be unsatis factory according to the camps nurse lily grove because there was some stretch when the yarn became wet and often fell off also staff found that some children who passed their test gave their piece of yarn to those who didnt and then took the test again in order to re ceive a new piece that was very dangerous said mrs grove the system was discontinued when mrs grove jane heintz and the program director linelle drudge decided the system wasnt working but we hadnt come up with anything we were com fortable with so we didnt initiate anything else said mrs grove since the accident children who pass the swim ming test have been given red hospital bands which cannot be removed or replaced without breaking campers wear the bands for the dura tion of their stay staff commended the staffs resuscitation attempts were com mended by christopher smith an ambulance attendant called to the scene when smith arrived jane heinz was giving shawn cardio pulmonary resuscitation while mrs grove and bonnie tarr were providing artifical respiration smith asked jane to accompany him in the ambulance and continue cpr because in my opinion she had been doing a good job with the compressions and its better to do twoman cpr he told the court smith also said that resuscitation attempts had to stop for a few seconds in order for the stretcher to pass through a narrow gate on the way from the pool tothe ambulance but the delay had no consequence on the final outcome he stated present recommendations at the end of the twoday inquest the jury re commended to the ontario ministry of health that at least one member of a swimming pool staff in a camp environment possess a valid national life guard award issued by an accredited institution that at least one member also possess an annually validated certificate of cpr and that ontario camps implement a system or means of identifica tion whereby all camp members wear a satisfac tory visual device which will indicate their level of competence in swimming as determined by a rec ognized swimming test it was also recommended that ontario camps implement a buddy chip board system supervised by a staff member which would facilitate easy awareness of the number of campers in a swim ming pool enclosure at any one time and further that ontario camps provide suffi- cent accesss to swimming pools for emergency equipent and personnel to pass through unob structed the jury also recommended that ontario camp personnel be advised and regularly brought up to date on all ca mp rules and emergency procedures