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i(J7 IT it Hi SECTION Editor: Tina Spencer, 596-3757 ftt The Ottawa Citizen Wednesday, May 31, 1995 XL ClTYLIFE MMMMIIMMMUM Ml 111 Jjjp hummi Polite dteimoiminic A thankless search for missing children and repeatedly ignored MacMil-lan's request to show his hands. MacMillan kicked Peever in the head because he feared the suspect was hiding a weapon beneath his body. As soon as Peever pulled his hands out from under his stomach, no more force was administered. A search then revealed Peever was carrying a folding straight jazor blade, Rae said. "The circumstances are such that it was clearly important for the officers to see Mr.

Peever's hands before they approached him in close." Rae said MacMillan used his foot to strike because his hand was holding a gun. In his investigation, Rae interviewed a regional police use-of-force specialist who agreed that a blow with a foot was appropriate. BRIEFLY Lowertown blaze caused by arson A Lowertown blaze was deliberately set, causing an estimated $500,000 in damage, say fire officials. Firefighters took nearly five hours to bring the Tuesday morning Guigues Avenue blaze under control, the second fire in the same block this month. The fire started at about 4 a.m.

at 143145 Guigues then spread to another double unit. The Ontario fire marshal's office said the blaze was the result of arson. A fire May 13 just down the road, at 137 Guigues caused about $140,000 in damages. The cause of that fire was never determined. Both fires began at the rear of the houses.

Renfrew police seize explosives, firearms Police in Renfrew seized about 50 sticks of dynamite, some blasting caps and other explosive materials in raids this month. Project Swift began when Renfrew and provincial police executed a search warrant May 19 at Regional Road 4 in Renfrew, where they found, in addition to the explosives, firearms and various illegal drugs. Additional arrests were made in another raid Thursday. To date, nine Renfrew residents have been arrested, though police expect more arrests before the project is over. CBE, teachers report no progress in talks Teachers and board officials in the Carleton Board of Education labor dispute appear no closer to a settlement after two days of negotiations this week.

The two sides met Monday and Tuesday to try to end the teachers' five-month work-to-rule campaign. No progress was reported. Negotiations are to resume next week. Reprints available of day camp listings Free reprints of our summer day camp listings are now available in the front lobby of the Citizen, 1101 Baxter Road, and at your local libraries in Kanata, Gloucester, Nepean and Ottawa. The comprehensive guide will tell you about hundreds of camps that will keep youngsters entertained and amused this summer.

he had been illegally arrested, searched and kicked in the face. Shocked that MacMillan had kicked the suspect, Nicholas referred to the constable as "seriously misguided police officer." But an internal, professional-standards police review done by Ottawa-Carleton police concluded that the force used by both officers was appropriate. "I feel that Judge Nicholas failed to grasp the totality of the situation," Staff Insp. Garry Rae said Tuesday, "I think her remarks were inappropriate and her rhetoric; was inflammatory and unfair." Nicholas could not be reached for comment. Rae never interviewed Wilson because, though he was one of the arresting officers, the constable fv A 1 1 1 i 4ki 7 'Or 4 VV Probe defends officers' actions during arrest that judge condemned By Leonard Stern Citizen police reporter The senior officer in charge of a police investigation that clears constables Mark MacMillan and Shawn Wilson of wrongdoing has denounced the judge who first accused the pair of brutality.

In April, Ottawa Judge Dianne Nicholas threw out weapons and drug possession charges against Kenneth Peever after concluding Yah3 swg I 1 Tube WORLDWIDE HABIT: Grade 6 students in an Ottawa school have won international praise for an Internet project surveying students on four continents about their television-watching habits. Grade 6 students in an Ottawa classroom can tell you a lot about the television-hatching habits of kids around the world. Using a single computer in a classroom at St. Elizabeth School on Admiral Avenue, they surveyed 3,453 students on four continents on everything from their favorite television shows to how violence on TV affects kids. Dalia Nau-jokaitis's two classes of gifted students CITIZEN EDUCATION WRITER found The Simpsons is the favorite TV show for boys and girls aged 10 to 12 in countries as far-ranging as Australia, Japan, England and Estonia.

Youngsters from around the globe confessed that they find it easier to watch TV than to talk to their families. And they were sure violence on TV affects other kids' behavior but insisted it doesn't make a difference to how they act. The Ottawa classes have been awarded honorable mention in an international competition for the project called "Taming the tube: TV watching habits of The contest sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education recognizes creative teachers who pioneer the use of telecommunication networks in classrooms. Naujokaitis and her students used SchoolNet to invite other schools to participate in their survey and 250 classes did. From Pat Bell '7J i was on stress leave during the investigation.

Wilson killed himself May 9. Rae said, however, that MacMillan was the principal focus of the investigation, since his actions were singled out by Nicholas. "The finding doesn't impress me in the least," said lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who is representing Peever in a civil suit against police. "Police officers investigating other police officers is anything but independent. It's interesting that (MacMillan) is exonerated when a judge, an independent person, finds the police actions unacceptable." According to Rae's report, MacMillan and Wilson pursued Peever on foot, their guns drawn.

Peever then fell onto his stomach 1 AVa-1 1 1 the results of their research project. They say the project involved a lot of fun, learning and more work than they had ever done in their lives. "There was so much work that sometimes we wondered how are we ever going to get this done," said Neil Cavan, a student who says he is as addicted to computers as his teacher. The 28 gifted students from 11 Ottawa Separate School Board elementary schools spend one day a week in Naujokaitis's classroom. They see themselves as leaders As for her brother, the complainant, she said: "I had the impression he liked me and admired me and respected me." She admitted to being alone with the boy on two occasions in 1982, at her apartment and in her car on the way back from a school ski outing to Camp Fortune.

The boy testified that's when they had sexual relations. Gosselin-Taylor said that never happened. Once, the boy visited her apart- ment unexpectedly during March break in 1982 when he heard she had injured her shoulder skiing. She said the two played Monopoly for an hour, and did nothing else. In health class, which included the boy and his sister, she told students which birth control method she used when they asked about the pros and cons of various methods.

'Miss Taylor, do you use that? Yes, I That is the context in which that would have occurred," she said. She talked openly in class about why she and her husband had delayed having children, when they asked her about her aspirations of motherhood. At the end of the 1982 school year, she went on an overnight camping trip with three girls, including the hunter of missing children, got a call from a woman in California last week who fears her newborn triplets were spirited away COMMENT Shelley Page by her husband. You'd think a mother would know if her three babies were missing. Not necessarily.

After the woman gave birth, her husband, who is a doctor, said the three tiny infants died of complications. Then he vanished. She suspects the babies didn't die, but he stole them and may have even sold them. He could be in Canada. Ron has added her strange case to the staggering stack of missing children files that cover his puny desk, the size of a television tray.

His office isn't much bigger, and since the donation of dozens of cases of soft drinks, is even smaller. He's not yet sure what to do with the soft drinks. Ron is the investigator for the National Missing Children's Locate Centre, which came to Ottawa in 1992 from the United States to locate missing children and to aid their families at no cost. A law enforcement expert who's worked for all levels of government, Ron who doesn't want to give his identity away searches for missing children after police, who don't have a lot of people power, give up. He has 300 active files.

He says he hasn't seen his own son in five years, since his wife joined a religious cult near Kitchener and took the boy, now 16, away. Last year he contacted the centre, run by Julie and Tim Armstrong. They checked out his background and hired him. Hindered by apathy The centre runs on goodwill and donations and is hindered by apathy. Unsold streetproofing videos are piled on a cabinet packed with missing children information.

Ron, who only gets money for expenses, lives in the basement. Sadly, there is no shortage of missing children. Ron is hunting for a three-year-old named Emilie Hardy, who disappeared from Colorado and was likely snatched by her non-custodial father, who is from Montreal. Ron turned Montreal upside down and plastered the city with posters of the blonde blue-eyed girl. The father's credit card was last used April 12 in Puerto Rico.

He is also helping a soldier from Petawawa get back his two little boys, aged three and four. They were taken recently by their mother his ex-wife to Germany, where they were born. Ron is getting the boys back under the Hague Convention, which allows them to return to their "habitual place of residence," recently ruled Canada. Ron is mostly hampered by lack of funds. In one troubling case, he is searching for a 13-year-old boy and his mother who came to Canada from Iran on false passports and haven't been seen since.

The father, who lives in Canada, approached the centre for help. His wife is sending let- ters to Iran from somewhere in Vancouver. Centre staff think she and the boy may be working in a sweatshop for those who provid- ed the false passports. Ron has addresses and leads but no money to go look for them. Such is the life of someone hunting lost children.

It's on few people's priority list. But as Ron says, there's the hope that children will be found. He recently -found two daughters in Quebec who were taken from their moth-, er 25 years ago. And when he finds missing children, he can always offer them a soda pop. Call the National Missing Children's Locate Centre, 1 800 999-7846, if you have seen Emilie Hardy," 3, (left) 1 i 1 Paul Latour, Citizen TV TRUTHS: Gifted Grade 6 students at St.

Elizabeth School were engrossed Tuesday by their international computer survey Update The issue: Ottawa students conducted a survey of 3,453 Grade 6 students in 250 classrooms on four continents. What they discovered: Viewing habits: Children aged 10 to 12 watch on average 13.6 hours of television per week. In Ontario children that age watch TV on average 15.5 hours per week. TV vs. family: Asked "Do you find it easier to watch TV or talk to your family?" girls said TV by a margin of 2 to 1.

For boys, TV was the winner by a margin of 3 to 1. Advertising: Fifty-seven per cent of respondents, both boys and girls, said they have felt they "had to have" items advertised on TV. in using the information highway to link others around a project. Students in classes around the world were keen to register for the survey. "They have the connections and wondered what to do with them," said Naujokaitis.

"The students got a chance to learn the navigational tools for the highway, to use electronic mail, capture a file and send it to the printer." Each of the classes in the project was asked to have students keep logs of television-watching for a seven-day period. Students were also asked questions about television's impact on their lives. Before they begani the Ottawa students expected to find that American students watch more television than Canadians. In fact, Canadians watch an average of 14.9 hours per week, while American youngsters watch only 13.3 hours. They found television watching highest in England, at 17.3 hours a week, and lowest in Japan at 8.9 hours.

As with many television programs, there have been spinoffs from this project. Parents of students in Virginia schools got so involved in the project and so concerned about the high rate of television watching among their children that they've set up a committee to offer a range of other activities for them. complainant's sister, because they wanted to thank her for her contribution to their school year. A week later, she went on another camping trip with the complainant and his sister. She denied his allegation they had sex on that occasion.

After the brother and sister moved on to high school, the sister often looked her up, including once in the fall of 1982, when she confided in her former teacher about her parent's pending divorce, she said. She never saw the boy after Grade 8. Court has heard he went on to become a heavy drug user in the next decade. Gosselin-Taylor said she had little opportunity for after-school sexual relations, as the man has now alleged. She took a night course at the University of Ottawa on Mondays that year, and was involved in after school activities on the other four days, occasionally at night and on weekends.

Gosselin-Taylor's has continued her 15-year teaching career during the criminal proceeding against her. She currently teaches Grade 7 and 8 at Alta Vista Public School, and has two children, aged five and 10, from her 19-year marriage. The trial resumes today. 1 Sale approved: An Ottawa Council committee has okayed the sale of Rideau Chapel Towers to a Montreal company that intends to convert Ottawa's largest rooming house into an apartment complex, displacing scores of social assistance recipients, C6 Have a local story to tell? Call the Citizen's tips line at 596-6397. If you have information about coming community events, please call 596-8433.

Teacher denies any sexual contact with Grade boy It' pilot projects in 300 Canadian schools last year, SchoolNet has grown to include more than 6,000 schools across the country. It's expected to quickly expand to all 17,000 schools in Canada because the federal government has committed $13 million a year to the system. The project is an example of how schools can use the Internet to teach everything from mathematics and research skills to science, geography and media literacy. The students learned how to talk to other classes through their computer artd how to tally and report them to avoid situations that could lead to "false allegations" of sexual impropriety, she said. Gosselin-Taylor said she developed a close relationship with the complainant and his sister.

She supervised most of her school's sports activities, including inter-school competitions, and after-school excursions. The brother and sister were both active in sports. Of the two, she had a closer relationship with the girl, she said. Court told alleged 1982 incidents did hot occur By Mike Blanchfield i Citizen court bureau Seconds after taking the witness stand, Ottawa elementary school teacher Dale Gosselin-Taylor confronted the gross indecency charge for which she is on trial. "Before we get into any background or other details," said her lawyer, Dave Matheson, "have you ever touched (the complainant) or has he ever touched you, at any place' or time, for a sexual purpose?" "Absolutely not," replied the 40-year-old Ottawa Board of Education teacher.

In calm testimony Tuesday, she said it was not possible that she had a six-month sexual relationship with a male Grade 8 student in 1982. The former student, now 27, testified against her Monday. But Gosselin-Taylor did not downplay the interaction she had with her former male student and accuser whose identity can't be revealed under court order and Courtesy CBOT Newsday DENIES ACCUSATIONS: Teacher Dale Gosselin-Taylor leaves court Tuesday with husband Rick Taylor his sister. Her testimony evoked a bygone era in education when weren't afraid to get close to their students. In the case of the complainant and his sister, it meant Gosselin-Taylor would sometimes drive them home, be alone with them, and share intimate details during their health classes about the birth control method she used.

Such behavior ended in the late 1980s, when teachers' unions urged.