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Last suspect
arrested
City police have arrested the last
man wanted on an outstanding
warrant in connection with Project
Crackdown.
“This was the last outstanding
arrest we had to make,” Sgt. Wal-
ter DiClemente told The Examiner.
Crackdown was an undercover
operation that targeted street level
crack cocaine dealers and ran from
Sept. 13 to Nov. 3, police said.
At the time, a total of 129
charges were laid against 45 indi-
viduals, police said. Arrest war-
rants were issued for 11 individu-
als.
On Dec. 1 City of Kawartha
Lakes police arrested one man
wanted on an outstanding war-
rant, police said. DiClemente said
the man sold drugs to an undercov-
er officer on Sept. 14.
Joshua James Campbell, 18, of
Little Britain is charged with traf-
ficking crack cocaine.
He was to appear in court yester-
day.
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By DON PEAT
Examiner Police Writer
The change in municipal politi-
cians will bring a change to the city
police services board.
Three of the board’s five members
were affected by the Nov. 8 elec-
tion, with one retiring, one becom-
ing deputy reeve and one diving
into politics.
The five-member board is made
up of two politicians, two provincial
appointees and a community repre-
sentative.
One of the political members, for-
mer mayor Sylvia Sutherland, will
be replaced by
Mayor Paul
Ayotte.
At the board’s
last meeting
before the
change, chairman
Tom Symons rec-
ognized Suther-
land’s contribu-
tion to the organi-
zation
throughout her
time in office.
Ayotte will be sworn in as a board
member in a short ceremony today.
The other politician on the board,
Lakefield Coun. Mary Smith, was
elected deputy reeve of Smith-
Ennismore-Lakefield Township.
“I certainly will put my name for-
ward if council sees fit to sit for
another term,” Smith said.
She said the township council
will make that decision Dec. 12
when it meets to decide who will sit
on boards and committees.
Smith has been a member of the
board since 2001.
“I look forward to working with
the new members who will be com-
ing on,” Smith said.
The board is also waiting on the
province to announce their new
appointee.
Current provincial appointee
Ann Farquharson said she had to
give up her seat after being elected
to city council.
Farquharson will be representing
Town Ward.
The city lawyer said she had been
absent from the last two board
meetings due to court scheduling
with cases she has.
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By JEANNE PENGELLY
Examiner Staff Writer
Watch out for the Century 21 staff
this week, especially the ones with
pointed ears.
About 20 or 30 will be morphing
into elfin guise and, instead of sell-
ing homes, will be whipping down
the aisles of Canadian Tire on Lans-
downe Street, buying toys.
Organizers of the company’s
annual toy drive say the sleigh is
already in high gear, thanks to bet-
ter advertising and donations col-
lected at the Santa Claus parade.
“We are ahead this year. Last year
we had very little going into the
drive,” said organizer Lynn Gagliar-
di.
Yesterday morning, Gagliardi
sorted piles of Canadian Tire
money, tallying up $66.10, to add to
$153.07 in cash donations brought
in at the parade.
“More is coming,” she said, and
can be dropped off today or tomor-
row at the Century 21 United office
on George Street in Peterborough.
The group also welcomes cash dona-
tions, and toys.
Donations will be pooled to pay for
toys for children who might other-
wise miss out this Christmas.
Century 21 real estate
broker/owner Carl Oake said the
drive seems to have a life of its own.
“We’ll come out with 50 or 75 bags
of toys,” he said. “If we hear some-
one likes a doll, we’ll take every doll
we can find that’s like it.”
Dave Roach of Freedom 55 donat-
ed 200 hockey sets and some Nerf
earth rockets.
“We had to find a place to store
them,” Oake said.
That was another happy story,
Oake said — McWilliams Moving
and Storage opened its warehouse
for the toys.
Century 21 staff hold employee
fundraisers to gather the dollars for
the annual shopping spree, all for a
child’s smile, Oake said.
Started in 1991 by Merv Gray, the
drive continues to bring in sleighs
full of toys for local children.
Last year, it helped 400 children,
said organizer Paul Eppin.
“People don’t realize how many
kids there are who need help. It just
boggles your mind,” he said.
Despite a change in ownership at
Canadian Tire’s Lansdowne Street
location this year, general manager
Craig Gillis said his store wouldn’t
miss taking part and is donating a
few carts full of toys itself, as it has
for 11 years.
“It’s just a chance for us to be able
to help out by putting a smile on the
faces of some less fortunate chil-
dren,” Gillis said.
Saturday morning Gerolamy
Motors and Ideal Lease will truck
the gifts from Century 21 to Lans-
downe Place, where they will be
stuffed into bins destined for the
Salvation Army Toy Drive.
Keeping up with the times
By RACHEL PUNCH
Examiner Staff Writer
Each day about half a dozen cus-
tomers ask library staff if the facili-
ty has wireless Internet access.
In the new year, staff will be able
to say yes thanks to the Peterbor-
ough Public Library Foundation.
The foundation helped purchase
a wireless Internet module. Becky
Rogers, library manager, said in
the new year the facility will have a
50-seat wireless network.
“We’re busy redesigning the net-
work to take into account the
increased traffic. That work needs
to be completed first,” Rogers said.
This is just one of the many pro-
jects the foundation has quietly
made possible at the library.
“Library staff really appreciate
what the foundation does,” Rogers
said. “I don’t think they really get
the credit they deserve for what
they have done.”
Projects range from providing
new CD bins to forking over
$13,000 for new security gates.
The foundation was first formed
in 1995. The goal was to raise a
$750,000 endowment fund so the
library could use the interest to pay
for special projects.
Joyce Armstrong, the founda-
tion’s office manager and secretary,
said the fund is at about $700,000.
About $544,000 of that has been
added since 2003.
“Once the money is in the endow-
ment fund it cannot come out,”
Armstrong explained. “We only use
the interest from that.”
Donors can also give money
toward a certain project or to pur-
chase a specific type of resource.
Armstrong said the foundation
got off to a rocky start, but momen-
tum has picked up.
In the last three years, the foun-
dation has given about $63,000 for
furniture, projects and equipment
at the library.
The foundation has also been
there to support staff, especially in
the wake of the 2004 flood.
“The foundation was tremendous
during the flood, recognizing the
sort of psychological impact that it
had,” said Rogers.
The library was severely dam-
aged and about 11 staff members
were totally displaced.
Not only the interior of the build-
ing was damaged.
“The insurance would cover the
inside, but not the outside. Things
had been washed away and died,”
Rogers said.
The foundation provided funds
for landscaping and helped pay for
the grand re-opening on the one-
year anniversary of the flood.
“Around the time of the flood peo-
ple were very generous,” Arm-
strong said.
Since then donations have dwin-
dled, aside from five or six estates
willed to them,which have “been
our saving grace,” Armstrong said.
Library staff will advise board
members on what is needed and
the foundation selects which items
it will pay for.
Rogers said one project she is
hoping to secure funding for in the
future will help out immigrants.
She said the city doesn’t have an
authorized computer-based
English as a second language facili-
ty, which the Ministry of Immigra-
tion and Citizenship supports.
She said 60 per cent of children
using the library’s summer reading
club are from immigrant families.
“We watch their moms, in partic-
ular, come in and they don’t have
English,” Rogers said.
She said they usually are not get-
ting the English lessons their part-
ners would.
Rogers has been meeting with
Carmella Valles from the New
Canadians Centre.
“She’s got at least seven women
who fall under the category of
needing the training,” Rogers said.
“We hope to start with an
evening a week where these women
can come in. The foundation is giv-
ing us the seed money that we
would like to leverage into funding
from other government agencies to
try and make this a reality.”
For more information , call Arm-
strong at 745-8958, ext. 2301.
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Fact Box
What: The Peterborough Public
Library Foundation has raised about
$850,000 since it was formed in 1995.
Here are some of the projects it has
paid for:
— $26,800 for Internet stations
— $13,000 for security gates
— $15,000 for furniture, including the
40 new chairs and tables for the audi-
torium
Clifford Skarstedt, Examiner
Jillian Bonter works at an Internet station at the Peterborough Public Library. The Peterborough Public Library Foundation
has raised about $850,000 since it was formed in 1995 for the library’s projects such as Internet stations,.
Library foundation has raised money for wireless
Internet access, security gates and CD holders
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By BRENDAN WEDLEY
Examiner Municipal Writer
Drastic changes could be on the
way for city subdivisions, with rear
lanes replacing driveways in an
effort to shift the emphasis away
from vehicles to pedestrians.
That’s just one of the planning
policy changes being considered as
part of a rethinking on how subdi-
visions will be designed to improve
communities and accommodate
more people in less space, planning
director Malcolm Hunt told plan-
ning committee yesterday.
“The status quo is not likely sus-
tainable in the long-term,” he said.
“It would seem if our world has
changed so much the thinking
around how we build our communi-
ties should see a similar shift.
“The recommendation we have
for you doesn’t presume there is a
better way, rather we are seeking
the agreement of council that the
exploration is worth the energy.”
Council, sitting for its first plan-
ning committee meeting in its four-
year term, agreed. Staff will contin-
ue to investigate the options and a
report is expected in February.
Hunt indicated a pilot project
with the new design elements is a
possibility with Mason Homes in a
planned subdivision in the city’s
north end near Chemong Road.
Other possible changes include
more mixed-use housing — single
family homes, semi-detached units,
condominiums and apartments —
within subdivisions, as well as
decreasing the width of roads, mov-
ing houses closer to the street by
putting vehicles behind buildings
and wide lots instead of deep lots.
The dominant subdivision design
— large lots with houses well back
from the street and garages as the
prominent feature — stems back to
1951, Hunt said.
That’s changing with economic,
demographic and environmental
shifts. Hunt showed census infor-
mation from 1951 and 2001 to illus-
trate how much Peterborough has
changed.
About five per cent of residents
lived in one-person households in
1951 while 56 per cent lived in
household of three to five people,
according to the census information
Hunt presented.
In 2001, 28 per cent of city resi-
dents lived in one-person house-
holds and 34 per cent were in
three- to five-person households.
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Front driveways could be history
Council to look at new ways
subdivisions are designed