Whitchurch-Stouffville Newspaper Index

Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), July 19, 1986, p. 1

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the tribune 30000 copies vol 2 no 29 a metroland community newspaper saturday july 19 1986 36 pages 25 cents stouffvilles rose bowl these roses at the stouffville lawn bowling club were planted nearly 40 years ago by george saunders an avid lawn bowlerrind horticulturalist theyre spectacular enough that participants fre quently take time out from their bowls to enjoy them eleanor crossen left and maude irwin are pictured here the club is lo cated in stouffville memorial park sjoerd wittcveen officers cleared two ontario provincial police officers did not use unreasonable force to arrest a stouffville teena ger for impaired driving an inter nal police investigation has deter mined however the family of 18-year- old shawn leonard loretta cres cent is calling for further inves tigation into the incident by an in dependent civilian body the opps professional stan dards branch in toronto recently concluded a threeweek inves tigation into leonards june 22 arrest in clearing the officers super intendent bill bowles said they acted lawfully in the perform ance of their duty according to part of supt bowles letter to the mans mother carol leonard i am satisfied they used only as much force as was necessary to physi cally detain your son following his recent arrest for impaired driving leonard claimed two police men grabbed him without pro vocation in the main room of the minden opp detachment he said the officers pounded his head against the cement floor after he had submitted to and had undergone two breathalyzer tests if a further inquiry is denied the leonards will attempt to have the officers charged with assault leonard who has worn a prosthetic device on his left arm since birth told police investi gators he was aware he could have hit the officers with the hook during the alleged attack but he decided against such action be cause they were police aide worked for former ministers companies a special assistant to former industry minister sinclair stevens admitted she continued to work for his family com panies while she was on the federal payroll shirley walker made the dis closure thursday while testify ing at the inquiry probing con flictofinterest allegations against mr stevens who re mains mp for the federal riding of yorkpeel he resigned his cabinet post on may 12 after a relentless opposition attack focused on a 26 million interestfree loan made to his wife noreen stevens the funds came from anton czapka cofounder and minority shareholder of magna international inc mr stevens denies know ledge of any transaction be tween his wife and magna which had received millions of dollars in grants from the indus try ministry as the toronto probe neared the end of its first week miss walker maintained she never told the thenminister about the milliondollar business transac tions with which she was in volved she also testified that she did not consider herself to be violat ing conflict guidelines set out for government employees a government worker must lot engage in an outside man agement or operational activity of a commercial nature accord ing to these guidelines i didnt consider that i had any outside activities miss walker testified i was facili tating someone elses wishes requests a letter introduced as evi dence at the inquiry thursday was designed to help a subsidi ary of a stevensowned con struction company qualify for federal incentive grants it was signed by miss walker commission counsel david scott presented several letters and other documents signed by the aide on behalf of the stevens group of family com panies they were all endorsed by miss walker after she had joined the staff of the depart ment of regional industrial ex pansion in october of 1984 mr scott showed her a letter dated feb 28 1985 from stevenscontrolled gill con struction company to hanil bank canada about paying 200000 towards a loan miss walker admitted the signature at the bottom was hers but said she didnt write the note and didnt know who did the inquiry continues before mr justice william parker of the ontario supreme court whats inside stephen ford markham ambassador13 directory comment p4 entertainment p12 childrens page p14 sports p16 to 18 church page p19 real estate p21 to 27 classified p28 to 35 dave ward landscape artist10

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