esurvives Teen..... lightning joit By ROXANNE REVELER Doctors told Matthews it was his A Brooklin teen is thankful he is rubber-soled sneakers that saved still alive after being struck by him from death. As it was, the force lightning while at summer camp was sufficient to burn his ankles. last Friday. "It was a "weird feeling," is how Fourteen-year-old Mike Mat- Matthews describes the jolt. thews of 5035 Anderson St. was one "I saw a bright vellow flash...like a light bulb exploding," he said, ad- ding he didn't know what had hap- pened at first. "It didn't take me and Allan long to figure out we'd been hit by light- ning though." He was taken to South Muskoka Hospital in Bracebridge along yith 14 other campers where he was un- der observation for three days. The following day, electrical charges were still evident in his body accor- ding to the hospital's administrator Frank Lovelock. Mike was released from the hospital and came home on Monday with a clean bill of health from the doctors. Just to be SEE PAGE 9 JOHN SLOAN of Lindsay was more than a little surprised when he was greeted by 65 penguins at daughter Jane Nash's Whitby home in the West Lynde area on Saturday to recognize John's birthday. Jane and husband Jack plan to rent out their wooden penguins for anyone wanting to hold similar surprises. Free Press photo MIKE MATTHEWS of a group of campers at the 'Y' Pinecrest camp at Torrance when a freak electrical storm ripped through the area at 2:20 p.m. last Friday. He and his friend Allan Booth of Milton were standing on the porch of their cabin attempting to close some shutters with a broom handle when lightning struck the building. 25 arrests for trafficking A two-month joint investigation involving members of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Oshawa detachment) and Durham Regional Police has resulted in the arrest of 25 people, including four from Whitby, for trafficking in a nar- cotic. The arrests were made at Towne Billiard and Variety at 130 Dundas St. W. in Whitby and Leisure Amusement Arcade, 53 King St. E. in Oshawa last Wednesday, July 22. The arrests came after an under- cover officer purchased hashish, hash oil, LSD and cocaine from the two establishments with a street value of approximately $10,000. Durham police say ap- proximately 25 people will be arrested relating to 56 drug and criminal code charges. Eight per- sons under the Young Offenders Act were also.charged. Arrested from Whitby were: - Steven Lyle Green, 19, of Garrard Rd. charged with one count of trafficking in a narcotic and one count of possession of a narcotic.Rihr -Brian Richard Pascoe, 21, of Dundas St. E., two counts of traf- ficking in a narcotic and one count of possession of a narcotic. Mason Rd., two counts of traf- ficking in a narcotic. -Elio Roland Tassone, 25, of Dundas St. E., two counts of traf- ficking in a narcotic. Durham Regional Police say the investigation is continuing and fur- ther arrests are anticipated. Whitby torchbearer. will run in Inuvik FRANK SEGUIN is one of 11 Whitby residents who.will carry the Olympie torch in a cross-Canada relay but Seguin will be doing his running, or maybe dogsledding, in the Northwest Territories. Free Press photo By JANET BROWNE A Whitby man has been selected to carry the Olympic flame in the farthest reaches of the Canadian Arctic this year in the cross- Canada relay which will begin on Nov. 17 in St. John's, Newfoun- dland. Frank Seguin, will be one of 14 athletes running through the city of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. Inuvik is located over 600 km northwest of Yellowknife. "I got the application, got the map out, and just picked the fur- thest place away from Whitby that I could find," says Seguin, who will be running on Jan. 19. No further information concer- ning the run has reached Seguin as yet, but there is a possibility that he may be snowmobiling, or even dogsledding, over the snow rather than running. "I heard that at this time of year there may only be one hour of daylight," says Seguin. "It should be interesting." According to Reference Canada, it is not un- common for temperatures in that area to drop to -40 or -50 degrees Fahrenheit. This year marks the first time the Olympic relay has crossed north of the Arctic circle. The path of the runners covers mainly the southern parts of the provinces, but will pass through every major community, and every province in Canada. The run will last 89 days, and the 1.5-kg torch will pass through the hands of 6,214 Canadians. Ten other Whitby residents were chosen for the relay out of an astounding 6,624, 582 applicants, making this the largest contest in Canadian history. Robert Collins, Mark Edwardson Jr., Robert Hamilton, Gordon Hampson, Anne Jordan, Nancy McGreevy, Charissa Morrice, Lindsay Nolan, Norman Van Duyn, and Gayle Yet- tman will each be running their one-km distance from December 19-22 in an area ranging from Cobourg to Each runner is given a red and white track suit designed for winter use to wear during their run. The SEEPAGE3