PAGE 20, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1989 Regional police have checked 7,000 vehicles this month Durhan Regional Police have spent 678 hours trying to reduce impaired driving in the region this month. Through the region's two RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Every- where) programs, police have checked 7,003 vechiles during November. Of those vehicles checked, police administered 477 ALERT tests to drivers. Three drivers refused to take the roadside test. Twenty-eight people failed the ALERT test. The number of dri- vers exceeding the legal blood/ alcohol level of .08 ml was 31. In addition, police issued 86 12-hour driver's licence suspen- sions and eight impaired driving charges. Police also laid seven Liquor Licence Act related charges; 36 Highway Traffie Act charges; nine CAIA (Compulsary Auto- mobile Insurance Act) charges; and nine other criminal charges. Close to 675 Highway Traffic Act cautions were also issued. Brooklin Profile Phone 668-6111 7-year prison sentence for drug store robber A Hamilton man has received a seven-year prison sentence for robbing a Brooklin drug store last February. Donald Gordon Butchart, 37, earlier found guilty of holding up the Brooklin IDA last February, was sentenced in Whitby district court on Monday, Nov. 27. The Baldwin St. store was robbed Feb. 9, 1988, by two men wearing ski masks. One man used a gun during the heist of cash and narcotics - worth approximately $1,500 - while the other held a knife to the throat of a young part-time employee. Butchart was arrested by Dur- ham Regional Police 10 days later in Brampton, after Peel Regional Police found him in possession of drugs found to be stolen from the Brooklin IDA, and in possession of a ski mask and a gun, which police said belonged to Butchart. Before asking Judge D.M. Lawson to sentence the Hamili- ton man to a five- to eight-year prison term, crown attorney Franesca Yaskiel reminded the court of Butchart's 35 previous convictions stemming back to 1972, including a robbery he committed in 1972. The Crown also recalled the ordeal Butchart forced his vitims to live through during the Brook- lin incident. Festival of lights contest part of Old Tyme Christmas Group 74, in cooperation with local service clubs, has organized a 'Brooklin Old Tyme Christmas' for Sunday, Dec. 17, starting at 6:30 p.m. The Anderson CVI Brass Band and Choir will perform candle- light caroling at Grass Park, in 'an event held in cooperation with the Brooklin Optimist Club. Hayrides, provided by the Brooklin and District Kinsmen, will take residents to the Brook- lin community centre where Santa Claus will greet visitors. Hot apple cider and homemade baking will be served. Group 74, a non-profit goup made up of Brooklin and area women, will also hold the first annual'Festival of Lights.' Brooklin, Myrtle, Ashburn and Macedonian Village Village resi- dents are invited to participate in the Christmas lights competi- tion which has categories for both residential and commercial. Originality, overall effect and ingenuity will be the areas of judgmg. Judging will be held Wednesday, Dec. 13. First prize is $50 in each of the residential and commercial cate- gories. Honorable mention brings a prize of $25 in the residential category. To be judged, residents must include namne, address, location of home and telephone number on an entry forn to be mailed to: Group 74 General Delivery Brooklin, Ont. LOB iCO Entry forms must be received by Dec. 12, 1989. Yaskiel said the young employee is scared, insecure and cannot be left alone. And, the young girl "freaks out" when she sees television programs with things such as guns and masks, the judge also heard. In reviewing the evidence from the October trial and Crown's comments on Monday, the judge called Butchart a "perpetual cri- minal." Judge Lawson, calling the in- cident a "carefully planned" rob- bery, sentenced Butchart to seven years for armed robbery. In addition, Butchart received a two-year concurrent sentence for possession of the gun during the robbery, and another two- year concurrent term for wearing a disguise during the robbery. The judge also ordered that Butchart not be in possession of ammunition, weapons or explo- sives for five years after his release from prison. Butchart's accomplice, who is said to be the one who held the knife to the young employee's throat, is still at large. EVERT Meijerink, with nine-month-old daughter Sara, look over the assortment of tasty desserts prepared for the Brooklin Horticultural,Society annual meeting and Christmas show Nov. 22. Chris Bovie-Free Press photo or RE/MAX CANAAN LAND REALTY INC. This year you can help make Christmas "Merry" for a needy family. Simply drop off: 1 EW UNWRAPPED TOYS 2. DRY! CANNED FOOD 3. DONATIONS to RE/MAX CANAAN LAND REALTY INC. 55 Baldwin Street Brooklin, Ont. Wheels to Meals Dec. 6 Thenext Wheels to Meals lun- cheon, a special Christmas lun- cheon, will be held Wednesday, Dec. 6. Tickets for the luncheon may be obtained from any of the churches involved at the special price of $3.50. For information concerning rides, call Jerry at 655-4284 and a ride will be arranged. LETITTER Bazaar 1a suces To the editor. We would like to thank everyone who assisted in any way to make our recent bazaar the success it was on Saturday, Nov. 4. The winner of the Christmas cake was Phyllis McKeough of St. Thomas Angican Church Women LUCILE TOTH, director of Idevelopment and public relations for Renascent's Paul J. Sulliv an treatment centre for alcoholics in Brooklin, receives a gift from Rotary"Club of Whitby Sunrise president Sherry Bassin after Toth discussed alcoholism and treatment programs. Froe Press photo