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inside opinion families sports classified 6 18 24 25 q next week marks the celebration of small business and york region hosts a number of events community calendar event st james presbyterian qiurch bazaar when today 10 am to 1pm where 6432 main st serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 o learn how an 40 enterprising child made her halloween costume for less than 25 whitchurchsfouffville puttie library 50 cents including gst32 pages courts police stand by arrest of rocco romagnuolo charge that led to shooting dropped by rick vanderlinde staff writer a routine impaired driving charge that eventually led to the police shooting death of tony romagnuolo last year was dropped wednesday the charge laid against romagnuolos 18yearold son rocco dec 20 triggered a tragic chain of events that culminated with a shooting at the familys sunderland home eight days later in the end tony was dead rocco was shot in the abdomen with a police bullet and two york regional police officers faced criminal charges including sec onddegree murder grown attorney david russell withdrew the impaired driving charge in newmarket court telling mr justice michael caney there was no reasonable prospect of conviction but york regional police arent apologizing for laying the charge arguingthere was ample reason to arrest romagnuolo at the time there certainly were suffi cient grounds staffinsp paul sorelsaidv the party in question did show signs of impairment sorel added while it may have been difficult to prove the case in court compassion was also behind the decision to withdraw the charge y because of the tragedy that has come to the family we agreed b see deadly page 2 saturday oct 23 1999 to reack us 905640210o canine curiosity staff ph0t0sj0erd witteveen gordon wright 11 of ballantrae meets police services dog thunder han dled by const jim hilton while police chief julian fantino addresses a crowd at a town forum on crime wednesday the meeting held at glad park public school focused on the forces plans for the future for the full story see page 3 greens back ousted gilchrist troubled mpp consideredfiiend ofenvironmenmists bymikeadler staff writer the police investigation into mpp steve gilchrist side lined an ally in the conservative government at a crucial time for the oak ridges moraine local environmentali ists believe hi recent years gilchrist a scarborough mpp known for his stubborn approach to issues became knovyn to local conservationists as a potential supporter at tree plantings and at rouge park events gilchrist told them hot to worry about the moraine and insisted he would make certajir it was saved several environ- mentalists have said gilchrist made encouraging statements they added even after he was sworn in as- municipal affaire minister this summer he has always said he will protect the moraine murray johnston president of the rouge valley foundation said- hes been very vocal on that on july 17 gilchrist sug gested he was going to use his csteve gilchrist police probe triggered by developers complaint ministers power to freeze development on the moraine ywith a zoning order save the rouge valley systems president glenn de baeremaeker said according to de baeremaeker gilchrist then added you just watch me and seemed serious the environmentalist who like gilchrist is a voting mem ber of the rouge alliance that governs rouge park said he walked away scratching his head but thinking gilchrist might pull it off steve gilchrist is just the kind of bulldog guy that would do it he concluded bf see complaint page 9 town and country realty ltd 6400888 si-mtai-