The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 39

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SECTION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2000 City rO' ALL OVR PACHAGINJ NEEDS! 111 Sllll NIIAI COMMI hcial CUSTOM ROX SIIS Math are students being stung for su ppl ies and programs in public schools? Editorial, C4 Editor: Ric Davey, 596-8581 cityOthecitien.southam.ca 8B8 Belfast Ottawa (613) 238-1222 -t i mil Sflf. Vr.i! ir il i 7 i Mon. 77 Many believe it's only a matter of i. 1 3 MW fMlHWi Witt 4Bwwahr twiMaats mmmemmmw! niiMWi i' n-r0W on par with those in larger cities. Here a golfer practises at Loch March BRUNO SCHLUMBERGER, THE OTTAWACITIZEN Golf Club on Old Carp Road in Dunrobin earlier this week.

Golfers unfazed by jump in fees Ex-officer proclaims his innocence Man who pleaded guilty to assault says he couldn't afford defence Demand, upgrades push costs up as sport overtakes hockey in popularity BY DOUGLAS QUAN Sharp increases in green fees don't appear to have put a wedge between Ontario golfers and the sport they love. The fee increases have been most pronounced in the Greater Toronto area. At the high-end Glen Abbey Golf Course, the site of this year's Canadian Open, green fees have jumped to $230 from $150. "Fees are definitely going up because of the demand," said Dave Mills, executive director of the Ontario Golf Association. "It's only been happening in the last few years.

But people are willing to pay." Year-long membership rates at some semi-private clubs can i1; i 1 AARON SANDS, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN "My lawyer told me it would cost me at least $40,000 to fight the charges," Mr. Daviault said. "I had already paid $15,000. I don't have that kind of money. Money is what talks today and I didn't have it.

That is why I pleaded guilty. If I had the money I would fight it. Now, I just want it over. "What I say comes from my heart," Mr. Daviault said.

He began to cry and apologized for it. "I did nothing wrong to these women. Maybe the only thing I did wrong was to end the relationship and ask them to leave. The only thing I am guilty of is maybe being a little bit of a gigolo, because I love women so much, and getting involved with the wrong girls." Mr. Daviault resigned from the Aylmer police force a few days after pleading guilty to five of the 10 charges he faced.

See ASSAULT on page C2 time before this area's green fees are range from $25,000 to $50,000, and up to $75,000 at exclusively private clubs, he said, adding he wouldn't be surprised if rates continued to go up again next year. In Ottawa, the fee increases have been more modest, but one assistant pro says it's only a matter of time before this region's green fees are on par with those in larger cities. "It's safe to say, pretty soon, courses in Ottawa should be rising to even out (with Toronto, and Montreal)," said James Hill of the Meadows Golf and Country Club in Gloucester, which raised its green fees by $1 dollar this year to $29 on weekdays and $34 on weekends. Mr. Hill estimates that on some days, the club will have to turn away as many as 200 people because the tee-off times are booked so quickly.

"When the weather's right, we turn away lots of people. It's crazy." See GOLFERS on page C8 was expressing displeasure at politicians, administrators, and a citizenry that doesn't react when it's being abused. "The system is broken," he said flatly. The broken hip is a replacement. It's in Jules "Julie" Co-gan, 70, who runs a shop called Paper World at West-gate.

We've swapped wisecracks for decades, but yesterday he wasn't feeling funny. The hip is now six years old. More than a year ago it started malfunctioning. The ball joint pops out. It hurts.

He has to go to hospital by ambulance. Four times medics were able to manipulate the joint back into place, but last time, about a year ago, surgery was required. A replacement is needed and surgery was scheduled. He donated blood twice to have it ready for his use. See BROWN on page C2 A surgeon sticks his neck out Pierre Daviault.with his new wife, Celine Gregoire, will be sentenced tomorrow on charges of drugging and assaulting women.

Atwood accepts keys to city By Aaron Sands On the eve of his sentencing last night, his new wife at his side, former veteran Aylmer police officer Pierre Daviault wiped the tears from his eyes and proclaimed his innocence. In June he pleaded guilty to five criminal charges initiated by three former girlfriends for offences dating back more than 15 years. That plea, 50-year-old Mr. Daviault said, reflects no truth. Today, the former 24-year veteran Aylmer constable will be sentenced on three counts of assault, one count of administering drugs with the intent of committing a criminal offence and one count of possession of a firearm.

Five additional charges were dropped because there was no evidence. Mr. Daviault said the case against him was one that he did not have the funds to fight. Ms. Atwood said it was the first time she had received the keys to a city and she will cherish the award.

In the evening, she was the special guest at a fund-raising gala at the Congress Centre in aid of the Ottawa Public Library. Ms. Atwood, whose novels, poems and short stories have often been credited with bringing Canadian literature to the world, spent the early years of her life in the Glebe at 314 First then moved to a home on Patterson Avenue, before leaving for Sault Ste. Marie. See ATWOOD on page C2 2496 Bank Si.

733-6931 Monday-Friday to Saturday to 5)ni in The first woman of Canadian literature spoke to a gathering in the Glebe about the perplexing duality that is her native city. Tony Lofaro reports. n't vj Dave Brown Brown's Beat Among the 13 people knocked off yesterday's operating room schedules for orthopedic surgery in Ottawa was a woman who has been waiting five days to have a broken forearm set, and a man with a broken hip. If it was a bad day for them, it was shared by Dr. Alan Gi-achino, chief of orthopedic surgery for the Ottawa Hospital.

A call to him caught him in a rare mood, and doing something doctors seldom do. He was sticking his neck out. He this tradition and happy indeed that you have welcomed me as one of yourselves." Yesterday, as hundreds looked on at the Glebe Community Centre on Lyon Street, Ms. Atwood accepted the keys to the city from Acting Mayor Allan Higdon. The Corpus Christi School Choir sang the lullaby Dreamland and Ottawa author Frances Itani and David Staines, Dean of Arts at the University of Ottawa, paid tribute to the author.

CHRIS MIKULA, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Acting Mayor Allan Higdon gave the keys to the city to author Margaret Atwood yesterday. Ms. Atwood spent part of her childhood in the Glebe. Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood reflected cryptically yesterday on the perplexing duality that is Ottawa as she accepted the keys to her hometown. "Ottawa has always been noted for its juxtapositions of incongruous elements," said the writer, who spent the first six years of her life in the capital.

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