* Chamber begins 'missonto Msouri A 'Mission to Missouri' flood relief P~JN....effort has been launched by the Whitby Chamnler of Commerce. Thsmorning (Wednesday), a convoy of tractor-trailers loaded with hay was jscheduled to leave Whitby. bound for Missouri. Andthe chainher has set up a flood '93 relief fund to which donations can lie made by caling 668-4506. Don and Bey Rogers and Robert Heron camne up with the idea to transport hay to the flood-stricken state. Originally they had one tractor-traiier - donated by the Rogers' Signet Signs company - and a donation of one ioad of hay. But as of last Friday, the relief effort expanded to include six tractor-trailers with hay, says Whitby Chamber of Commerce president Lynn Woods. "Whiie the tractors, trailers, hay, drivers and turne have ail been donated, the Whitby chamber is soliciting funds to assist the convoy with fuel and travel costs,' says Woods. Si et Signs Coburn's TransportationSsts and Atlas Van Lines, Highland Atlas Van & Storage and XLT Transport Inc. Toronto provided tractor-trailers and donations for fuel and travel expenses. %ch tractor-trailer wili have 12 to 15 tons of hay, expected to arrive in Missouri on Friday. "Vie have been in contact with the State Of Missouri Department of Agriculture and they will arrange for the distribution of hay to the farnis most in need," said Don Rogers, who with wife Bey earned the Business Person of the Year award froin the chamber in 1984. "There are people who have lost everything because of this terrible and devstting flooding-" says Rogers. 'Any smail effort we can do to help wili at least show our friends that we have not forgotten them." Heron, 1987 Business Person of the Year, got donations of hay from Whitby and area farmers inchj4ding Maurice O'Connor & Sons, Ross MeMaster Neal Grady, Wells Pehieman, John Snowden and Thornlea Farm Brooklin. The hay was loaded yesterday at O'Connor's Maplehurst Farmn on Rossland Road East, Ajax, just west of Lakeridge Road (Region Road 23). DAVE POWELL inspects the underside of one of the entries in Pine Ridge Corvette CIub's 'Concours 1993' show held Sunday at Trafagar Castie School. The cars were judged in two main classes, open hood and closed hood. Open hood cars are considered to be "dloser to perfection" while the closed hood are "more street driven," organizers say. Photo by Mark Reesor, Whitby Free Press Sullivan: !SZsse has let us down agn" Murders prompt pena reform demand By Mike Kowalski A murder spree in Ontario and Quobec hit close to home for local Reforin Party candidate Don Sul- livan last week. The suspect charged with the crimes -- committed while ho was on statutory release froin prison -killed th e man who murdered Sullivan's daughter. Terrence A lan Fitzsimmons surrendered to Ottawa police last Wednesday and was charged in connection with three inurdors in the two provinces. A retired Toronto dentist and Montreal cab driver were killed within a three.day period, while a second suspect in the first two homicides was found dead inside an abandoned Ottawa res- taurant. Fitzsimmons, 29, had been released froni Kingston Peniton- tiary iast December after serving two-thirds of a nine-yoar sen- tence for manslaughter. In April 1987 ho was convicted in the 1986 death of fellow pri- soner Mark Shannon. Five years earlier Shannon had been found guilty of the 1980 murder of Sullivan's 21- year-old daughter Pamela. Fitzsimmons' surrender to police occurred the day before Sullivan and leader Preston Manning unveiled the Reforni Party's justice, platform before a gathering of Toronto supporters. Sullivan, Reform's candiatein Ontario riding, asamember of the party's imnai ustice task force which put togeter the pro. posais. Ironically, a domand that anyone conviCted of violent crimes serve their full sentence, is one of the recommendations. "It (murders) just shows how our criminal justice system has lot us down again," said Sulli- van. "Every violent offender shouid serve their full sentence. There should lie no automatic rolease, ever,» he said. If this policy was in effect, three people would lie alive today, Sullivan said. "I'd like to see the naines of the people who let hini out of prison and their reasons for it,» he said. "I guess if y ou kili someone in prison they don't consider it vio- lence." According to reports publishoc elsewhere,VFtzsimmons was not on parole from prison. Hie was on statutory release. previously called mandatory su- pervision, under the terrns of the foeral Corrections and Con- ditional Release Act. Although Fitzsimmons was liv- ing under the supervision of a parole officer, the parole board did not order his release. It waf SEF PAGE 10 Doctor faces second assault charge By MJark Reesor A Whitby Urgent Care Clinic docter chargzed with sexuai assauit last year has been arrested in connection with another accusation of sexuai impropriety. Dr. Jeffrey Perir,3.5, of Brampton was charged with sxa assauit and sexual exploitation by Pool Regionai Police iast month after an incident at a Brampton waik.xn ciruc. The charges came after a 17-year-oid patient compiained, the doctor fondled oer reasts durin~ an examination in early April. Hos te appear in Brampton court Aug. 26 for a preliminary hearing. Pereira was charged with sexual assault in Juiy, 1992 while working at the Whitby Urgent Car Ciinic after a 28-year-oid Whiitby woman aiieged she was touched inappropriately., Dr. Anu Vakil, a doctor at the Whitby Urgent Care Cinic, says Pereira has stopped working there because it was too far for hini te drive. Pereira began working at the ciinic about once a month in 1987, Vakil says, but stopped shortiy aller the aileged incident. Pereîras preiiminary hearing continues Aug. 18. Crown attorney Lori Anne Turner says :he expects a decision soon on whether Pereira's case will lie committed te trial. INSIDE: Whitby Parks & Recréation Actîvity Book