EDGAR o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-08-02 published
Man charged with murder in brother's death
Police release few details about 18-year-old's death
By Doug EDGAR,
Thursday,
August 02, 2007
One brother is dead and another is charged with his murder after
Ontario Provincial Police officers were called to a home in the
former Kincardine Township Tuesday night.
John Robert
FORRESTER, 18, is dead and Asa John
FORRESTER, 22,
is charged with second degree murder, South Bruce Ontario Provincial
Police said in a news release Wednesday.
Officers from the detachment and Bruce County paramedics were
called to the
FORRESTER home on Concession Road 5 of the former
Kincardine
Township,
Const. Jeff
MERCEY said Wednesday afternoon.
"It came through dispatch in London as a call for assistance
just prior to midnight," he said.
They found John
FORRESTER "with critical injuries,"
MERCEY said
in a news release.
The teen was immediately taken to hospital in Kincardine, where
he died of his injuries.
MERCEY said he could not comment on the nature of the younger
FORRESTER's injuries, since the information could be evidence,
nor could he comment on what happened before police were called.
"We're still investigating that," he said. "There isn't a lot
of information we can release."
John FORRESTER attended Kincardine District Secondary School,
where he took part in athletics including track and field and
hockey.
"He had just successfully graduated in June," Kincardine District
Secondary
School principal Dan
HOBLER said Wednesday evening.
The school cafeteria was to open at 9 a.m. today for students
or others who might want help dealing with
FORRESTER's death.
The school board's tragic response team was to be there.
"We don't know much detail,"
HOBLER said. "We just want to be
there for anyone who needs it."
The news came as a shock, said Tanya
BYERS, who coached John
FORRESTER in Grade 9, when he reached the Ontario Federation
of School Athletic Associations regionals in midget hurdles,
and again this spring, when he trained in shot put and discus.
While they were not close,
BYERS said
FORRESTER had said he wanted
to be a helicopter pilot.
"He was a pleasure to coach," she said. "He was a very likeable
guy.Asa" John
FORRESTER was to make a court appearance in Walkerton
Wednesday afternoon and would likely be back in court today,
MERCEY said.
The investigation is being directed by Det.-Insp. Bill
RENTON
of the Ontario Provincial Police's criminal investigation branch,
with help from South Bruce detachment officers. An Ontario Provincial
Police forensic identification unit based in Mount Forest has
also been called in.
"We still have police at the scene,"
MERCEY said late Wednesday
afternoon.
The last homicide investigation in the Kincardine detachment
area was in 1994, he said.
John FORRESTER was a student at Kincardine District Secondary
school, where he competed in track and field events.
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EDGAR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-14 published
CLARKE,
Alan
Martin
(August 1, 1929-June 12, 2007)
After a full and wonderful life, and a long struggle with Parkinson's
Disease, Alan died in Toronto on June 12, 2007 at the age of
77. Alan cherished his family, and will be forever missed by
his beloved children Andrew (Lucy
VAN
OLDENBARNEVELD,)
Beth
(Laura
CABOTT,)
Jeffrey
(Jane
RUPERT,) and Matthew Devlin (Alexandra
KIRBY,) his granddaughters, Ella and Grace, and Margot, his wife
of 40 years. He leaves behind his brother Edgar (Betty), his
sisters, Mary (Haruo
KAWAI,)
Harriet
(Jacob
ENNS) and Margaret
(Sidney TJEPKEMA, his sister-in-law, Vicki
BRODDY, and many nieces,
nephews and life-long Friends. The
son of Emily
(EDGAR) and Lorne
CLARKE,
Alan was born in Stratford, spent his early years in
Sudbury and his childhood and teenage years in Ottawa South.
He graduated from Glebe Collegiate Institute and Victoria College,
University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in philosophy
and ethics. Alan dedicated his life to social change through
adult education, and community development. He was also a committed
advocate for human rights. In the 1950s he spent several summers
as a labourer/teacher and then supervisor for Frontier College
beginning a lifelong interest in fostering adult literacy. He
worked for ten years with the Young Men's Christian Association
at various branches in Toronto. In 1958 he was the founder and
first director of The Centre for Adult Education at the North
Toronto branch which led to the founding of York University in
1959. From 1960 to 1966 he was Executive Director of the Canadian
Citizenship Council and concurrently, for three years, of the
Canadian Centenary Council. His next challenge was as the first
Executive Director of the Company of Young Canadians, 1966 to
1968. He began a fifteen year tenure at Algonquin College in
1970 as the Director of the Demonstration Project in Community
Development and then as the Director of Continuing Education.
In 1985-86 he was Advisor to the Canadian Emergency Coordinator
for the African Famine. The last ten years of his formal working
career were as Communications Advisor for the International Joint
Commission. Throughout his working life and as a volunteer in
retirement, Alan worked with many local, national and international
organizations, contributing, among others, to Project 4000, the
Movement for Canadian Literacy, and the United Nations Association
in Canada. He was a contributing author to 'Strong and Free:
a Response to the War Measures Act', in 1970. Alan's family would
like to express a great debt of thanks to the 3rd and 4th floor
staff at the North York Seniors Health Centre, especially Lidia
and Mary-Helene. The family would also like to thank Estelle
REED for the love and care she provided in Alan's last years.
A memorial service celebrating Alan's life and legacy will be
held in Ottawa at the First Unitarian Congregation, 30 Cleary
Avenue, on Sunday June 17, at 3: 30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made in Alan's memory to the Parkinson Society of Ottawa,
1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, K1Y 4E9.
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EDGAR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-16 published
He steered Canada's answer to the Peace Corps through rough waters
As executive director of the Company of Young Canadians in the
idealistic Sixties, he fended off critics who said it was infiltrated
by Communists
By Douglas
McARTHUR,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S10
Toronto -- As a toddler during the Depression, Alan Martin
CLARKE
helped his mother hand out food to men riding the rails in search
of work. As a university student he spent summer months with
the adult-literacy organization Frontier College, toiling on
a railway gang during the day and teaching his co-workers to
read in the evening.
Those early acts kicked off a lifelong commitment to adult education,
social action and human rights, in which he played key roles
with Frontier College, the Young Men's Christian Association,
Algonquin College, the International Joint Commission and the
United Nations Association in Canada.
But no job brought him more publicity, good and bad, than his
stint from 1966 to 1968 as executive director of the fledgling
Company of Young Canadians. He headed the government-financed
agency at a time when the press and many politicians were charging
it was controlled by Communists, radicals and Québécois separatists.
"Alan's life touched a lot of people," says David MacDonald,
a former Conservative cabinet minister who hired Mr.
CLARKE for
projects several times. "He was a community educator par excellence.
He had an intense interest in citizen empowerment."
Over the years, Mr.
CLARKE fought for many causes, both as an
employee and as a citizen volunteer. Early in his career, he
played a key role in the establishment of Toronto's York University.
He worked in Ottawa to help settle Vietnamese "boat people" fleeing
Communism in 1979, to raise funds for African famine relief in
1985 and 1986, to help Canadians increase their reading skills
through the Movement for Canadian Literacy and to turn an old
Ottawa courthouse into a centre for the arts.
He first came to national prominence in the 1960s as head of
the beleaguered Company of Young Canadians. The group, modelled
roughly on the U.S. Peace Corps, was created by prime minister
Lester Pearson's Liberals during a turbulent era when baby boomers
were coming of age and questioning traditional values. The Company
of Young Canadians's mandate was to deploy young Canadians in
impoverished communities across the country where they would
help people better their lives.
In 1967, opposition members demanded the government put the Company
of Young Canadians on a short leash after two volunteers, David
DePoe and Lynn Curtis, took part in a rally against the U.S.
war in Vietnam.
Mr. CLARKE insisted the volunteers had acted strictly as individuals,
and threatened to resign if the prime minister didn't defend
the agency's independence in Parliament. Eventually, Mr. Pearson
did just that, thanks to the intercession of Marc Lalonde, then
a member of the Company of Young Canadians council and an adviser
to the Prime Minister's Office. Mr. Lalonde would later become
a cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau.
Mr. CLARKE's victory was short-lived, however, as new charges
of radicalism and overspending continued to dog the organization.
In 1968, Mr.
CLARKE was ordered by the office of Gérard Pelletier,
then secretary of state, to fire Martin Beliveau, a Quebec employee
accused of separatist leanings. Despite his misgivings, Mr.
CLARKE
asked Mr. Beliveau to resign, then he handed in his own resignation.
Mr. CLARKE quit on a matter of principle, says Stewart Goodings,
who replaced him as executive director, and was to quit himself
within a matter of months.
"No one man could have solved the dilemmas that
CLARKE faced
daily," wrote Ian Hamilton in his 1970 book, The Children's Crusade:
The
Story of the Company of Young Canadians. He praises Mr.
CLARKE
for fighting for the group's independence and involving the volunteers
in decision making, but faults him for not hiring people capable
of keeping the Company of Young Canadians on an even keel. The
group was brought under government control in 1969 and finally
disbanded in 1976.
Co-workers remember Mr.
CLARKE as a serious man who worked long
hours. But his family saw his fun-loving nature.
"Every so often he would come into our bedrooms, stark naked
and carrying just a briefcase," recalls his oldest son, Andrew.
"He'd say, 'Okay, I'm off to work.' The children, fearing he
was so distracted he had forgotten to dress, would rush downstairs
to head him off. They would find him hiding in the closet.
The son of Emily
(EDGAR) and Lorne
CLARKE, both teachers, he
grew up in a strict Baptist home in Sudbury. The family later
moved to Ottawa where he was graduated from Glebe Collegiate
Institute.
While earning a degree in philosophy and ethics at the University
of Toronto, he spent his summers as a labourer-teacher and later
as a supervisor with Frontier College. He went on to become first
a member, then chairman of the college board. He was employed
during his university years, and immediately after, by the Young
Men's Christian Association. In 1958, while serving as founder
and first director of the Centre for Adult Education at the Young
Men's Christian Association's North Toronto branch, he was a
member of the group that set up York University. York recognized
his contribution in 1992 by awarding him an honorary degree.
In 1958, he married Margo
BRODDY, a teacher, and lived with her
for more than 40 years. They separated in 1998 and were divorced
in 2003. They had three children together: Andrew, Beth and Jeffrey.
He had another son, Matthew
DEVLIN, through a separate relationship.
Alan CLARKE never paid attention to the speed limit when driving,
says his son Andrew. "The only times my dad stepped on the brakes
were for stop signs, red lights and to check out pretty girls."
At the family dinner table, Mr.
CLARKE challenged his children
by leading discussions about current events. "He wanted us kids
to learn to think things out for ourselves," says his daughter
Beth.
Prior to Mr.
CLARKE's appointment with the Company of Young Canadians,
he served six years as executive director of the Canadian Citizenship
Council and concurrently, for three years, as director of the
Canadian Centenary Council. For 15 years, starting in 1970, he
worked at Ottawa's Algonquin College as director of a community
development project and later as director of continuing education.
In 1985, he was hired as an adviser to David MacDonald, who had
been named Canadian emergency co-ordinator for the African famine.
Mr. MacDonald says he was initially reluctant to hire Mr.
CLARKE
because he had employed him in the past, and because they were
close Friends. He feared the appointment would look like nepotism.
But he went ahead when Joe Clark, then prime minister, insisted
Mr. CLARKE was the only person capable of motivating Canadians
to contribute. A Decima poll later showed that two out of every
three Canadians made a donation.
For the next 10 years, Mr.
CLARKE served as communications officer
with the International Joint Commission, a Canadian-U.S. body
that deals with issues concerning shared boundary waters. Mr.
CLARKE
joined the board of the United Nations Association in Canada
in 1989, and worked there on a contract basis after his retirement
from the International Joint Commission in 1996. He continued
to come into the office after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's
disease but realized that his memory was starting to fail.
"He was remarkably calm as he faced that challenge, recalls Joan
Broughton, the group's public information officer. "It was tough
to watch and wonderful to watch at the same time."
In 2000, he moved in with Estelle
REED, a civil servant and long-time
friend. They lived together first in Ottawa and later in Toronto.
She continued to care for him after he was admitted to North
York Seniors Health Centre in Toronto, where he was to live for
2½ years.
Alan Martin
CLARKE was born on August 1, 1929, in Stratford,
Ontario He died in Toronto on June 12, 2007, of complications
from Parkinson's disease. He was 77. He leaves his wife of 40 years,
Margo (née
BRODDY;) children Andrew, Beth and Jeffrey
CLARKE
and Matthew
DEVLIN; two granddaughters, Ella and Grace
CLARKE
a brother Edgar; three sisters, Mary, Harriet and Margaret; and
his common-law partner, Estelle
REED, . A memorial service will
be held tomorrow at the First Unitarian Congregation, 30 Cleary
Avenue, Ottawa at 3: 30 p.m.
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