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police action possible on studio 134 shows wtiiti weekender october 4 1986 p3 from page 1 in an interview recently re tired york regional police depu ty chief darrell burbine was sur prised the police force would be unaware of such performances at the strip club astonished that public acts such as simulated oral sex could go undetected by the police he said that it sure as hell doesnt sound like we are doing our job if this is going on studio 134 in the sherwood pla za on hwy 7 west of main st has been charged in the past he said for several criminal offences ranging from nudity in a public place to immoral theatrical per formances criminal code sec tions 170 and 163 respectively the number of charges would make your head swim but he noted that obtaining a conviction is another story and can be both difficult and frus trating weve taken the evidence that we have witnessed at the time it happened and placed it before thrl courts he explained and in most cases it has been deemed not to have been obscene regional solicitor etlward oakes who often represents the police force commented that this has discouraged police from laying nudity charges against the dancers and instead has resulted in indecent exhibition charges being levelled against patrons who have urinated outside the premises there was one case where the girl had just her shoes on and the judge said that she wasnt nude he said an attempt was also made by the town of markham in 1982 to invoke a licensing bylaw that would eliminate nude dancing where food was served bylaw 39482 was quashed by an ontario court of appeals decision in november 1984 said the towns lawyer ray kallio be cause it was deemed to be an effort to legislate morality a federal responsibility under the criminal code so how do police investigating the tavern draw the line between what is obscene and what is tolerated by community stan dards upon learning of some of the goingson at studio 134 chief of police donald hillock replied youre kidding i thought they cleaned up their act he stressed however that even with substantial evidence there is no black and white answer or anything written down about what is obscene and what isnt but in spite of the lack of a de finitive statement on obscenity he indicated that there are gener al guidelines that the police do fol- low when proceeding with charges the key that we look for is au dience participation he said at studio 134 for 5 a patron can have one of the girls perform a dance at his table some of the girls thursday night went beyond a mere exhibition of flesh and actually fondled the customers and were fondled in return strippers moved from table to table carrying wooden step stools to conduct highly intimate per formances along the lengthy south wall ex tending from the entrance tohhe stage a naked stripper straddled a patron conservatively attired in a brown suit meanwhile in the corner a man in a black leather jacket caressed a table dancers buttocks and breasts when deputy chief burbine was asked about the steps that york regional police may take he replied that he could foresee charges and arrests being made in the near future larry owen a crown prosecu tor for york region agreed that certain acts such as simulated sex that are performed in public are beyond community standards of tolerance and stated that it would probably be a situation where a conviction would be like ly he added however that in the final analysis the decision is in the judgement of the court strip club owner john lazarou denied that simulated oral sex and fondling of customers takes place at the club there is no such thing here he snapped dont make any stories because i think that there is enough already he continued i dont want to get anymore trou ble and i dont want to talk to you on that note he hung up car phones approved for markham councillors by steve houston staff reporter markham council last week hung up on a proposal to have cellular phones installed in mar kham s three regional council lors cars instead an amended proposal was adopted that makes phones available to ward councillors pro vided they pay half the costs mayor carole bell will have one installed and paid for by the town though some local councillors aiifo when are you going to start supper claudy id like to test our new smoke detector admit the phones will be used for personal business purposes they see them as a means to improve their availability to residents councillors fred cox gord landon and doreen quirk are three members who have careers in addition to their municipal duties the original proposal was shot down by members who said the amount of calls received by ward councillors equal those of the re gional councillors markham councillor gord landon chairman of his own soft ware firm disputed the possibil ity that the town would end up paying for half of his personal business calls he also estimated that while on the road constituent calls out number business calls 10 to 1 id be prepared to have our calls logged said councillor landon its fair if were using them for business and paying for half similarly mayor bell sug gested in an interview that a max imum number of calls or some mechanism be introduced to monitor calls she added that the best methods will be looked at by staff i think that some details are going to have to be worked out with the councillors she noted regional councillor bud bon ner on the heels of having the ori ginal proposal turned down said he will not ask for one of the phones with his only occupation being regional councillor he said all of his calls are constituent oriented theres no way in the world im going to pay half the cost of a phone i would only use for town business he said an uxbridge twp truck driver is charged with failure to yield follow ing an accident tuesday that caused 7000 damage to the late mode honda pictured here the cars driver and a passenger were both wearing seatbelts and escaped the bloomington rdhwy 47 crash with minor injuries chris shanahan seatbelts cited as saving men by chris shanahan staff reporter seatbelts are credited with sav ing two toronto men from serious injuries in a tuesday afternoon car accident near the boundary between whitchurchstouffville and uxbridge a tandem dump truck was east- bound on bloomington rd when it turned north onto york region rd 30 and into the path of a west bound 1984 honda according to cst murray gordon of whitby opp the car driven by 21yearold greg nicoll pulled to the right to avoid a collision then left the highway and rolled twice before coming to rest at the bottom of a steep embankment mr nicoll and passenger jamie peters 20 were treated at hospit al for minor injuries and later re leased opp cst murray gordon said physical damage would have like ly been much worse if the two men hadnt been wearing their seat- belts damage to the honda was esti mated at 7000 beer cases and liquotbottles lit tered the mangled vehicle but cst gordon stressed drinking and driving was not a factor in the 1 36 pm accident they hadnt been drinking the officer said noting that the car was being used only to trans port alcohol they were asking us at the hospital why we smelled like alco hol jamie peters said in a tele phone interview the next day but it just sprayed all over us when we crashed we werent drinking the truck driver a 50yearold rr 2 uxbridge man faces a j charge of failure to yield autopsy confirms drowning an autopsy has confirmed that an elderly scarborough couple discovered in their sons markham swimming pool wednesday died from drowning thomas bradley 74 and his 70yearold wife kathleen were found about 2 pm wednesday in a pool on john dexter place in markham detective karl shaw of york regional police said foul play is not suspected in the deaths the couple were visiting their son stefan bradley we deliver we can deliver your flyers for as liule as 35 each call advertising at 2942200 or distribution at 2948244 1986 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