Ontario police officer's funeral set for Tuesday
29.06.11
The constabulary funeral for Const. Garrett Styles, the Ontario police officer who was dragged and pinned by a minivan so-called to have been driven by an unlicensed teenaged driver, will be held Tuesday in Newmarket north of Toronto.
More than 6,000 officers from across North America are expected to look after the funeral, set for Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Ray Twinney Arena.
Visitation for Styles will be on Monday from 1 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Jerrett Inhumation Home, located 8088 Yonge St. in Thornhill.
Styles died in dispensary from injuries suffered after he stopped the 2005 Dodge Caravan on Highway 48 east of Newmarket prehistoric Tuesday.
York Regional Police believe Styles was at the driver's door when the conduit suddenly accelerated, dragged him some 300 metres, and finally rolled over and pinned him.
People who never met Styles dropped off bouquets Tuesday at a monument outside the York Regional Police's District 1 headquarters, where Styles worked. Many were dewy-eyed.
Source: CBC.ca
Grosse Pointe Park changes trash
28.06.11
Become debilitated Management will no longer be collecting Grosse Pointe Park’s filth. At Monday night’s City Council meeting, the body accepted Borough Manager Dale Krajniak’s proposal that the Park switch to Rizzo Services of Superior Heights, a change that will save the city approximately $340,000 over five years.
While Krajniak stressed that Overindulgence Management did a satisfactory job for Grosse Pointe Park, the switch will save over $65,000 in the first year alone. Congress members agreed with the proposal, and the motion was passed.
The council also voted to substitute a public-works vehicle, and buy a new four-wheel-drive pickup truck with a snowplow attachment from the Red Holman Buick GMC dealership in Pontiac, for $26,780.
In the public-observation portion of the meeting, Park resident Robert Payne complained about the reject trucks that are being stored in the Windmill Pointe overflow parking lot near Barrington Technique.
Payne said the trucks are an eyesore, and a danger to children who play on them. “It’s a very park. Why do we have to see this stuff?” he said. Although Krajniak agreed that the trucks are unlovely, he explained that the city is running out of room for them in the Detroit Public Works yard.
Source: GrossePointeToday
