CAIAZZO
CAIN
CAINE
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CAIRNCROSS
CAIRNS
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CAIAZZO o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-10-10 published
VANSTONE,
W.
Stuart
(World War 2 Veteran)
Peacefully at the Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen Sound on
Monday
October 8, 2007. In his 98th year, W. Stuart
VANSTONE,
beloved husband of the late Gladys L.
VANSTONE (née
SEAMAN, 2001.)
Cherished father of Patricia
ROGERS, and Bill
VANSTONE and his
wife Gail. Loved grandfather of Mark
HETHERINGTON (Sue), Susan
MOLNAR (Alex), Scott
HETHERINGTON (Kim), Lee Ann
CAIAZZO (Carmine),
Trisa THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON
(Jason) and Jamie
VANSTONE (Aimee) and fourteen
great-grandchildren. Fondly remembered by his nieces and nephews.
Stuart was employed by the Department of Highways until his retirement
in 1971. Friends may call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral
Home on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will be held
at the funeral home on Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. Interment in
Greenwood Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations
to either the Alzheimer's Society or to the charity of your choice
would be appreciated by the family.
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CAIN o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-06-09 published
YOUNG,
Roxie
Irene (née
KERRY)
Of Hanover, formerly of Walkerton, passed away at Hanover and District
Hospital on Friday, June 8, 2007 in her 102nd year. Loving mother
of Donald and his wife Sheila of R.R.#2 Paisley. Mother-in-law
of Bill DUNCAN of Walkerton. She will be missed by her grandchildren,
Keith YOUNG,
Joanne and her husband Bob
LINDBLAD and Dwayne and
Julie DUNCAN as well as her great-grand_sons, Michael, Paul and
Adam LINDBLAD.
Predeceased by her husband Maurice; daughter Doreen
DUNCAN and her parents Jack and Margaret
(CAIN)
KERRY.
Visitation
will be held at Cameron Funeral Home, Walkerton on Sunday, June 10,
2007 from 12 noon until time of the funeral service at 2: 00 p.m.
Memorial donations to Saint Paul's United Church or charity of
your choice would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
www.cameronfuneralhomes.com
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WARNOCK,
Catherine
June (née
McLEOD)
Of Chesley, passed away at South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Chesley
on Sunday, December 16, 2007 in her 83rd year. June was a lifetime
member of Royal Canadian Legion Branch #144 Ladies Auxiliary.
Cherished mother of Dianne
MAULE of Chesley. June will be sadly
missed by her grandchildren, Gary (Sophie)
MAULE and Carol (Paul)
RODRIGUES as well as her great-grandchildren, Britney, Brandan,
Victoria, Melina, Brandon, Brian and Ethan. She will be fondly
remembered by her brother, Cecil (Orma)
McLEOD of Chesley and
sisters-in-law, Edith
McLEOD of Edmonton, Evelyn
KERR of Vancouver,
Ruth TURNER of Bleinheim and Joyce
CAIN of Owen Sound as well
as many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her husband Bill,
son Paul William, son-in-law William
MAULE, brother Mick and
her parents, Norman and Reta
(McCASKILL)
McLEOD.
Visitation will
be held at Cameron Funeral Home, Chesley on Thursday from 7-9 p.m.
A Royal Canadian Legion Branch #144 Ladies Auxiliary service
will be held on Thursday evening at 7 p.m. The funeral service
will be held at the funeral home on Friday, December 21, 2007
at 1: 30 p.m. Spring interment in Chesley Cemetery. Memorial donations
to the Chesley Hospital Foundation or the Alzheimer Society would
be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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CAINE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-15 published
CAINE, W.H. "Bill" (April 27, 1932-October 12, 2007)
It is with profound sadness that the family of William H. (Bill)
CAINE announces his passing on Friday, October 12, 2007. Bill
will be lovingly remembered and deeply missed by Terry, his loving
wife of 30 years and sons, Byron and Brent. He also leaves to
mourn his passing sisters, Harriet (John)
YOUNIE and Louella
RAYNER, and brother James (Evelyn)
CAINE, sister-in-law Alice,
as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Bill was predeceased
by his brothers Robert and John (Jane) and his sister Annie.
Bill devoted much of his life to the oil industry and was inducted
to the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame in 2000. In addition to
the countless hours spent in the oil business, he still found
time to dedicate his energies to charitable pursuits. He served
as President of the Edmonton Shrine Club Division of Al Azhar
of Calgary and devoted his time to the University of Alberta
Hospital Foundation. Bill was recognized by the North American
Waterfowl Management Plan, the Alberta Conservation Association,
Alberta Fish and Game Association and Nature Conservancy Canada
for his conservation ethic and his support to making Buffalo
Lake Moraine Conservation Area a reality. His other interests
included happy times spent with hunting and fishing buddies and
numerous rounds on the golf course with his golfing compatriots.
Relatives and Friends are invited to a Celebration of Bill's
life on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 1: 00 p.m. at Hainstock's
Funeral Home, 9810-34 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, with a reception
to follow. Those who wish to do so are invited to a service of
burial immediately following the service. In lieu can be Stroke
Kidney of flowers, donations made to The Heart and Foundation or
The Foundation. Hainstock's Funeral Home and Crematorium 440-2999
Honoured Provider of Dignity Memorial
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CAIRD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-30 published
CAIRD,
Carol
Ann
Janet
(GAULIN) (1944-2007)
Senior Vice President (Retired) Exit Realty International
Carol Ann Janet
CAIRD
(GAULIN) on Saturday, July 28, 2007, after
a lengthy illness and courageous fight, passed peacefully in
her hometown of Napanee, Ontario. Carol commenced a successful
career in real estate in 1977 and entered business in Kingston,
Ontario as owner/operator of C. Caird Real Estate in 1982. Having
owned and operated five Re/Max offices in Kingston and area,
Carol was named Broker Owner of the Year in 1993. In 1996 Carol
joined in the launch of what would become Exit Realty International
with extensive operations in Canada and later in the United States.
She retired from Exit in 2003. Honoured to be one of the first
women invited to be a Rotarian in Canada, Carol has been a constant
supporter in Kingston and Napanee areas, being named a Paul Harris
Fellow. Carol's chosen charities are World Vision and the Salvation
Army. Survived by her spouse Dennis
CAIRD,
Carol is missed by
five children, Dennis Lawrence Jr., of Napanee, Kelly Lynn (the
late Garry
McLEAN), Mary Beth, David Ross (Suzanne), of Ottawa,
Andrew Preston (Josie) of London, England, and five grandchildren,
Nicolas, Claudia, Talia, Gabrielle of Ottawa and Lawrence of
London, England. Carol is survived by brothers Terry (Helen)
of Calgary and Douglas (Roxanne) of Newburgh and predeceased
by sister Linda, brothers Dennis and Ricky
ROSS.
The
Caird family
would like to express their appreciation to the parishioners
of St. Patrick's Church for their continual prayers, the many
health care providers and the close family and Friends who provided
additional support throughout Carol's spirited fight. Family
and Friends will be received at Wartman Funeral Home, 448 Camden
Road, Napanee, July 31 from 6-9 p.m. and August 1 from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. In celebration of Carol's life, a Funeral Mass will
be held on August 2 at St. Patrick's Church, 179 West Street,
Napanee, at 11 a.m.
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CAIRNCROSS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-02 published
RUSHFORTH,
Frances
Finlay (née
WHITTLESEY)
Peacefully at home, in Ottawa on July 30, 2007 in her 88th year.
Wife of the late Jock
RUSHFORTH.
Loving mother of John (Tanya)
of Victoria, Sarah (Greg)
CAIRNCROSS of Calgary, Caroline (Bill)
PEARSON of Canton, New York and Peter (Di) of Ottawa. Cherished
grandmother of Nathen and Kio
RUSHFORTH,
John,
William and Zoe
CAIRNCROSS,
Kate and Beth
PEARSON and Jake and Isobel
RUSHFORTH.
Friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service on Saturday
August 4th at 10 a.m. at St. Columba Anglican Church, 24 Sandridge
Road, Ottawa. Reception to follow in the church hall. condolences/donations
at www.mcgarryfamily.ca
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CAIRNS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-03 published
'True hero' killed in the line of duty
Two men face charges after 22-year veteran is slammed into a
tree while attempting to arrest suspected airbag thief
By Timothy
APPLEBY and Geoff
NIXON with a report by Alan
CAIRNS,
special to The Globe and Mail, Page A1
Markham, Ontario -- An undercover York Regional Police officer,
dragged to his death yesterday by an alleged car thief on a sleepy
residential street, is "a true hero" who paid the ultimate price
for his "selfless sacrifice," Police Chief Armand LA
BARGE said.
A charge of manslaughter has been laid against a 19-year-old
Toronto man, with further charges pending. A second suspect in
custody also faces an array of criminal charges.
Constable Robert
PLUNKETT was a 22-year veteran of York Regional
Police and 43-year-old father of three. He died after an abortive
5 a.m. operation when he approached the driver's side of a car
to arrest a man suspected of trying to steal airbags - a profitable
mini-industry in the auto-theft world.
The suspect threw the Honda into reverse and Constable
PLUNKETT
was trapped by the open driver's-side door. The vehicle drove
over a curb, across a lawn and slammed into a tree, fatally injuring
the officer, Chief LA
BARGE said.
Backup police then rammed the vehicle and arrested the driver
as he attempted to escape. The other suspect, nearby in a second
car, was also quickly apprehended.
Rushed to Scarborough Grace Hospital, Constable
PLUNKETT died
soon afterward - the first York Regional Police officer killed
in the line of duty in more than 20 years.
The slain officer once won a bravery reward for rescuing an elderly
woman from a frozen lake and was renowned for his work on behalf
of the Special Olympics, a forum for disabled athletes.
"Rob and police officers like him are true pillars of the community
that we serve, and their selfless sacrifice and their hard work
ensures that the communities that we call home are safe places
in which to live and to raise a family," Chief LA
BARGE said.
Asked if Constable
PLUNKETT's approach of the suspect was in
line with normal procedure, Chief LA
BARGE replied, "Surveillance
officers, when they undertake these types of details, formulate
a plan as to how they would effect the arrests where arrests
need to be made."
As upwards of 30 officers descended on the crime scene early
yesterday, residents of Ascot Crescent described the chaos.
Startled awake by the ruckus, one resident described seeing Constable
PLUNKETT lying on the street.
"I heard a very loud noise and somebody yelling," said a woman
who asked that her name not be published. "He was lying on the
ground and they were trying to get him to breathe."
She said she took a blanket outside to an emergency worker in
hopes that it would be passed on to Constable
PLUNKETT, but it
was too dark for her to tell if it was eventually placed upon
him.
A few doors away, at a home directly across the street from where
he was killed, another homeowner recounted hearing officers yelling,
"Breathing! Breathing!"
Police had followed two cars - both Hondas - from an address
in Toronto to Ascot Crescent, in the Birchmount Road and Steeles
Avenue area. At least one of the vehicles was stolen and police
believe it had been taken to a quiet location to remove its airbag.
The driver was trying to do just that when Constable
PLUNKETT
moved in for the arrest, Chief LA
BARGE said.
The death is the first killing of a police officer in York Region
since 1984, when two officers died in the line of duty within
weeks, and sent shock waves across the force, formed in 1971 and
now serving more than 900,000 people.
"It's an organization where we've not lost many officers, but
even one is one too many," Deputy Chief Bruce
HERRIDGE said.
The theft of airbags and other auto accessories is a long-established
business, said Detective Staff Sergeant Scott
MILLS, who heads
the Ontario Provincial Police auto-theft unit.
"There is a very large grey market for replacement auto components,
airbags being one, along with Global Position System, stereos,
body components - things that can easily be put into high-end
vehicles," he said.
"Body shops buy them. There's a very low profit margin in auto
body repair, so if the owner can buy, say, airbags for a Cadillac
Escalade for $100 on the grey market, then he doesn't have to
go to General Motors and buy them for $400."
As for the thieves, police say they range from drug-hungry addicts
needing a fix, to slick, well-organized criminal gangs.
"And some shops buy them up like candy," another police source
said.
In this instance, detectives believe the suspects specialized
in the theft of airbags, which also get shipped abroad to developing
countries.
Chief LA BARGE suggested Constable
PLUNKETT had no choice but
to act as he did.
"Surveillance officers work in a team environment, but the situations
that they encounter can happen so quickly that there is absolutely
no alternative but for the surveillance officers to make those
arrests," he said.
"And this is the particular situation that we are dealing with
here."
Chief LA BARGE indicated that 43 airbags had been stolen in Markham
since January of this year - most from Honda and Acura model
vehicles - and that this particular investigation had been under
way for two or three weeks.
Nadeem JIWA, 19, has been charged with manslaughter, which usually
describes an act of unintentional homicide. Baseer
YOUSAFZAI,
23, faces charges of breach of bail and possession of stolen
property.
Both men are from Toronto and likely face additional charges,
police said.
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CAIRNS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-03 published
Friends mourn a man who was cheerful, selfless
Constable Rob
PLUNKETT is York Regional Police's first fatality
in the line of duty in more than two decades
By Timothy
APPLEBY and Alan
CAIRNS and Tim
SHUFELT,
Page A8
On the chilly February day nine years ago, when 78-year-old Katherine
TOPPI's car skidded across a frozen lake and then plunged through
the ice close to the retirement home in Markham where she lived,
her prospects could scarcely have been more dire.
Ms. TOPPI had suffered a stroke and lost control of her vehicle,
which now was submerged in a couple of metres of bone-numbing
water.
Fortunately for her, a couple of uniformed guardian angels were
on hand.
One was York Regional Police Constable Brent
LUCKASAVITCH; the
other his partner, Constable Rob
PLUNKETT.
Together the policemen carried an inflatable boat out across
the ice and paddled it out to the stricken car, the windshield
of which Constable
PLUNKETT smashed with his baton. They then
scooped the shivering Ms.
TOPPI to safety.
A cheerful, gregarious father of three and a star athlete who
ran triathlons and excelled at half a dozen other strength-testing
sports, Constable
PLUNKETT won a bravery award for the rescue
and would likely have said it was all in a day's work.
But the volunteer work he did, over and above a 22-year police
career cut short early yesterday morning, set him apart.
And his particular passion was in working with mentally handicapped
athletes.
"He had a tremendous impact; he's been a great inspiration for
everyone who knew him. This is a huge loss," said Deborah
BRIGHT,
president and Chief Executive Officer of Special Olympics Canada.
"He was just one of these good people you don't meet very often
in your life."
When York Regional Police played host to the Ontario Special
Olympics in 2000, Constable
PLUNKETT chaired the bidding team,
raising close to $1-million for the roughly 800 participants,
drawn from almost 100 countries. Five events took centre stage:
floor hockey, five- and 10-pin bowling, swimming and powerlifting.
As well, he was for many years instrumental in organizing the
annual Law Enforcement Torch Run, since 1987 the favoured charity
of Ontario's police.
"Rob was one of our top fundraisers for more than 15 years,"
Special
Olympics
Ontario president Glen
MacDONELL said.
"He really believed in what the Special Olympics did for people
with intellectual disabilities and he was really engaged in the
community. It was in his nature to be that way and he was well
thought of right around the world. He was recognized locally,
provincially, nationally and internationally because he was one
of the best."
Why did he do it? It was not because he had any vested interest.
None of his three children - two sons aged 16 and 14 and an 18-year-old
daughter - bore any of the handicaps shared by the people whose
cause he championed.
"He didn't do this for any obvious reasons - he was just a great
man, he loved doing things for other people," said Constable
Alan RICHARDSON of the Timmins Police Service, the National Torch
Run co-ordinator.
"He had no connection with the Special Olympics other than that
he was a police officer and that's our charity of choice. He
was just a great family man who loved sports. Everybody he touched
and talked to and got to know held him close to their hearts."
Constable PLUNKETT spent several years with the York Regional
Police tactical squad, one of the more hazardous police duties,
before switching to undercover surveillance work.
"As a police officer you'd think that might be a safer job,"
Constable RICHARDSON said. "But you know, there is no safe job
as a police officer."
In Constable
PLUNKETT's small hometown of Midhurst, just north
of Barrie, residents were reeling yesterday after learning their
neighbour and friend was the fallen policeman they had heard
about in news reports. One family friend broke into tears.
"He was a really lovely man, with a really strong family," she
said, asking not to be named, before running to the
PLUNKETT
home. Constable
PLUNKETT's widow, a school teacher, was "devastated,"
the woman said.
The PLUNKETT family sat on the front porch of their grey-brick
house on what is normally a quiet street. Cars lined the tree-filled
front yard as Friends and family gathered to offer support.
A spokesman for the family said they were too distraught to speak
about their loss. A friend of the
PLUNKETTs' youngest son said
he went over to the family's house after hearing the news.
"He's upset, but it hasn't really sunk in," said 14-year-old
Brian HUGHES. "No one wants to believe it's true."
By every account, the veteran officer was a well-liked, if private,
neighbour.
Roland DEMPSTER, a 30-year community resident, was aware that
Constable PLUNKETT was a policeman but only knew him well enough
to wave from his yard.
Mr. DEMPSTER shook his head at what he said was a senseless crime.
"For an airbag? Does that make any sense to you?" he said. "It's
sad our society's going that way."
The PLUNKETTs' oldest child, Amanda, is preparing to go to university
in the fall, said Kay
RADMAN, a co-worker at the nearby Sears
department store.
"She's a wonderful girl; we just love her," she said of Amanda,
who attended Ms.
RADMAN's 50th birthday party last weekend.
In yesterday's wilting heat, flags at all city facilities in
the City of Vaughan flew at half mast, as they did at Toronto
police stations, to honour the slain officer. They will remain
that way until Constable
PLUNKETT's funeral.
"Our heartfelt sympathies and prayers are with his family," Vaughan
Mayor Linda
JACKSON said in a statement. "The full meaning of
the police motto, 'To serve and protect,' is brought home to
all of us today by today's tragic event."
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CAIT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-20 published
LIST,
Wilfred "
Wilf"
Suddenly on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre. Wilf
LIST, beloved husband of Ethel
LIST. Loving
father of Marcy, Stephen, Wendy, and Cary. Dear brother of Ruth
CAIT.
Devoted grandfather of Samara, Sarah, and Shayna. At Holy
Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst Street (Bathurst south of Eglinton)
for service on Friday, December 21, 2007 at 10: 30 a.m. Interment
Holy Blossom Memorial Park. Shiva 575 Briar Hill Avenue. Memorial
donations may be made to the Mt. Sinai Hospital Foundation, 416-586-8290.
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