O'MALLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-12 published
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART,
James
Clinton (1923-2007)
Born September 18th in Montreal, P.Q. and passed away peacefully
on October 8th, 2007 in West Vancouver, B.C.
Jim joined the Canadian Merchant Marine and proudly served from
1942 to 1946.
He was extremely successful in his business career in the Container
Industry which took him from Sarnia, Ontario to Toronto, Ontario
and finally to Vancouver, British Columbia In Vancouver he owned
and operated Can Am Steel Drums Ltd. which is still run as a
family business.
He will be profoundly missed by his wife and best friend of sixty
years Billy (Vera) and his three children, Heather, Gail (Jim
SAFFREY) and Rod (Tia
O'MALLEY.)
Jim is also survived by his
five grandchildren, Paul
SAFFREY,
Colleen
BEZEAU (Scott) and
Samantha, Jim and Travis
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART.
He leaves behind his sister Grace
CARR and numerous nieces and
nephews.
A Memorial Service will held on Tuesday, October 16th at 11: 30 a.m.
at Hollyburn Funeral Home, 1807 Marine Drive, West Vancouver,
B.C.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke
Foundation or Lions Gate Hospital Hospice Foundation.
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O'MALLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-30 published
WILSON,
John
Reginald "
Reg"
Rauni's 'Big Boy' slipped away quietly late Monday night at Mount
Sinai Hospital. It was the way Reg would have wanted. No fuss.
No bother. No unnecessary sadness. Born January 13, l919 in Tilbury,
Ontario, Reg was shy of his 89th birthday. There were no surprises
in store for that celebration because he would have hated that.
What would have been there is the beautiful love he inspired
in all around him. His special love of 20 years, Rauni
GILLESPIE
was always at his side. Their life together was one of enjoyment
and shared experiences. Theatre, walks, Friends and travel (Australia,
Turkey, Caribbean… you name it). They were a handsome couple.
From Tilbury Reg moved to Saint Mary's where he was raised by an
aunt and uncle and savoured the life of one of Canada's special
small towns. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 and
served overseas returning in 1944. After moving to Windsor in
1947 he began his long and admirable career with Seagram's. He
soon became V.P. and sales manager, ultimately advancing to Toronto
to the position of District Sales Manager of Calvert Distillers.
His Windsor Friends will remember him as one of the city's most
active and dedicated citizens. The Windsor Jaycees, AKO fraternity,
the Windsor Kiwanis Club, Ad and Sales Club, Branch 94 of the Royal
Canadian Legion and Beachgrove Golf Club all benefited and were
served by his energy and loyalty. Married to the former Jean
CLARK, they had two children, Richard (Gloria
SMITH) and Barbara
(Terry O'MALLEY) to whom he was devoted. After his wife's death
Reg continued his residence in Toronto. Reg is survived by Ms.
GILLESPIE,
his children and half-brother Alexander
WILSON
(Georgina) and
a large array of Friends gained through his passion for curling,
tennis, bridge and 45 years at his alternate home St. George's
Golf Club. His presence is gone but his memory will be with us
forever. His was a wonderful life. And as he would say 'I love
you, too'. A funeral service will be held at the Humphrey Funeral
Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton
Avenue East), on Friday, November 30 at 12 noon. Private internment
will be held Friday, November 30. Remarks and condolences can
be registered at www.humphreymiles.com
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OMAR o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-06-11 published
Only one gun used in fatal Toronto shooting
By Jonathan
JENKINS, Sun Media, Mon., June 11, 2007
Toronto -- Just one gun was used to pump bullets into the packed
Honda carrying Jose Hierro
SAEZ and several Friends, killing
the teen and wounding three other men, police said yesterday,
dismissing the suggestion the victims fired back.
"We have no evidence to support anyone in the Honda firing back,"
Toronto police homicide Det.-Sgt. Gary
GRINTON said.
"If it's a gunfight, it's an awfully one-sided one."
Hierro SAEZ, 19, was hit in the head and pronounced dead at the
scene Saturday afternoon.
"It's not a good time right now," said a man outside the victim's
townhouse, just metres from where he died.
GRINTON said
SAEZ was working as a shipper-receiver and living
with his mother and sister.
Like the three other men injured with him, he was known to police,
but only in "a very minor way,"
GRINTON said, adding police have
no firm reason why their car was targeted.
"There's a lot of different possibilities that we're getting,
but none that we've confirmed and none that are terribly plausible,
to be honest,"
GRINTON said.
"There's a lot of stuff we're looking at, but nothing I could
say."
McFrinn PADDY, 19, Moustaffa
OMAR, 20, and Matthew
DALE, 18,
were all injured in the barrage, fired from inside a silver Mercedes-Benz
sport utility vehicle about 3 p.m.
All three are speaking with police about the shooting.
One of the men was released from hospital Saturday, a second
was expected to be released yesterday and the third was to be
treated for about a week, the detective said.
"They're very lucky, especially the one chap who got it in the
stomach," GRINTON said.
The shooting continued for about 50 metres, he said.
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OMAR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-11 published
Shots only came one way, police say
By Colin FREEZE,
Page A1
Toronto -- Hope has a habit of dying in Jamestown.
Joan BAKER, a mother of three, heard about six staccato bursts
echo up the road from her housing project on a beautiful Saturday
afternoon. "Oh, maybe it's firecrackers," is what she recalls
hoping.
Then she saw a shiny silver Mercedes sport utility vehicle speed
around a bend on John Garland Boulevard, followed by what looked
to be a blue Honda. Before long, she saw the Honda, stopped just
around the corner, with all of its doors open and the passengers
having fled, all except a young man who lay dying on the grass
- the unarmed victim, police say, of a drive-by attack.
Paramedics arrived and put a tarp over the man. It was at that
point that Ms.
BAKER held out another hope, that maybe the victim
was not one of her neighbours. "Oh jeez, that person is dead,"
she recalled thinking, while looking at the body. "You want to
bet they're going to blame it on Jamestown?"
But then she saw a distraught mother of four from across the
walkway. "She was just begging for someone to tell her, 'no it
was not him,' Ms.
BAKER recalled. She told her neighbour she
had gotten a glimpse of the victim, and that it was a young white
man, wearing a white do-rag and white sneakers.
The other woman burst out in hysterical crying. Hope that her
teenaged son was alive had just evaporated. It was his body that
was lying under that tarp; he had gotten to within a few metres
of his home after fleeing an attack.
Toronto
Police yesterday identified Jose Hierro
SAEZ, 19, as
Toronto's latest homicide victim. The shooting seriously injured
three of his Friends - Paddy
McFRINN, 18, Moustaffa
OMAR, 20,
Matthew DALE, 18.
Homicide detectives said the victims were too "groggy" to say
much about the shooters, leaving police few leads yesterday.
"We have some possibilities, but even those are perhaps a stretch,"
Detective
Sergeant
Gary
GRINTON said yesterday.
The detective said that most of the shooting victims held down
jobs and that he has no information to indicate they are gang
members. Most lived in the neighbourhood.
The shooting has been reported as a "gun battle," but detectives
said yesterday that it was one-sided. "It wasn't a battle, that's
the best information we have right now," Det.
GRINTON said. Police
believe the shots were fired from the silver Mercedes sport utility
vehicle, just east of the housing project near Kipling Avenue,
before the two cars got to the housing project.
"It's tremendously frustrating when these things happen because
we work hard in these neighbourhoods and we work hard in Jamestown,"
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said at a news conference to
announce the infusion of $5-million from the province to combat
crime in the downtown nightclub district. "It's tremendously
frustrating when a few, frankly, idiots go out and engage in
such wanton violence."
He held out hope that people wouldn't lose faith in police efforts
to curb the violence. During 2005, more than 10 fatal shootings
occurred in the Jamestown housing complex. Since last year, after
Chief Blair announced that his force had "surgically removed"
the leadership of the Jamestown Crew while arresting scores of
alleged gangsters, homicides and shootings have been rare.
Still, the housing project has yet to blot out all the Crips
gang graffiti on its walls, and its residents generally had little
to say to reporters yesterday. "Yeah, that's what happened. That
was my friend," said one young man, before walking off with a
shrug. A few people laid wreaths at the crime scene, but wouldn't
comment.
Twenty-four hours after the shooting, Joan
BAKER sat outside
watching her daughter do her homework, and warning another group
of children playing soccer not to veer into the road where the
cars had sped by the previous day. Many of her neighbours, she
said, "think if you talk to the police or anybody, you're snitching."
Many people in the housing project mind their own business. Still,
the BAKER family knew the shooting victim, not well, but they
liked what they knew about him.
Every morning in the winter when Ms.
BAKER walked her children
out to the bus - she said she sends her children to schools farther
away because of the "peer pressure" in local ones - they would
see the young man warming up the car for his mother. He would
say "Hi Mummy" and smile and sometimes tell jokes.
Ms. BAKER's daughter cried when she learned that their neighbour
was dead. It was a grim reminder for the family of a homicide
two years ago. In that incident, a man who had visited the
BAKERs'
house just before going a party up the street was shot in the
leg when the other man was killed.
The family has been living in the project for seven years, and
it's an uphill struggle at times. Still, "if I can survive Kingston 11,"
Ms. BAKER said, referring to her old neighbourhood in Jamaica,
"I can survive Jamestown."
She hopes to move out of it one day, but "every time I think
I can afford to leave, I just come back down to zero again."
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