mustalsocomplete200hoursofcommunity
"I am so
service.
JusticeJeanLegaultexplainedDuquette
was not sentenced to a prison termbecause
hehadnocriminalrecord,wasaproductive
sorry"
member of society and had demonstrated
remorse.
Eric Theoret told court that when he
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learnedofthelossofhisdaughter,hecould
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hardly breathe.
The Alexandria man wrote: “This was
followed by a pain I’d only heard of before
“I am so sorry. I don’t know what to
but never experiencedmyself, the pain of a
say,” André Duquette said in L’Orignal
father’s heart breaking at the loss of his
court Friday after he was sentenced to
most cherished child. It was a real physical
two years less a day of conditional
pain unlike anything I’d ever felt yet in
incarceration for his role in an accident
some perverse way it was a welcomed
that claimed the lives of two teenagers
sensation. In the days that followed the
near Vankleek Hill January 10, 2011.
confusion, the blurred jumble of emotions
The 44-year-old Hammond trucker
intensified. The funerals, Naomi’s first,
pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal
followed by Garret’s the next day, were
negligence.Ontheeveningofthetragedy,
excruciating.”
Duquette had unhitched his truck from
“Naomi’s death has been the most
two loaded flatbed tandem trailers on
intense, the most earth-shattering event of
Concession Road 2 west of VankleekHill.
my life,” he said.
The truck blocked the westbound lane;
“And even though months have passed
Duquette did not put out flares to warn
there are moments still that I reach for my
motorists of the hazard.
phone to text her, moments that result in
At about 5:30 p.m. Garett Allen, 18,
the same pain all over. There are times that
wholivedonthefamilyfarmonCassburn
her image sends me crying into another
Road, and his girlfriend, Naomi Theoret,
room away from anyone’s gaze. Can it be
17, of Concession 2 in The Nation, were
true that this pain will become more
travellingwestboundinhispick-uptruck.
tolerable?Becauseatthemomentitdoesn’t
The 1994 GMC hit the truck. Both were
seem possible. It has changed all of the
pronounced dead at the scene. The driver
things insideme, most of all to cherish each
had been speeding; neither of the victims
day I have with Louvy-Anna, my second-
was wearing a seatbelt, police told the
born daughter and not to take for granted
court.
that I have all the time in the world to
Faye Allen wrote in a victim’s impact
experiencethingswithher.Ithastaughtme
statement that her son was an “excellent
Garett Allen and Naomi Theoret
that anything at all can be taken away at
driver, a natural.” She fears driving now.
any given time and therefore not to waste
The parents of two Vankleek Hill
“If something like this could happen to
time.”
him,itcouldhappentoanyone.Inolonger
Faye Allen said the community has lost
have a lot of trust and or confidence and
teenagers who were killed in an accident a
“a great pair of kids.”
findmyselfwaitingforanothertragedyto
Herstatementconcludes:“IfGarettcould
hit.”
year ago are still trying to recover from
say something to me now, I imagine it
Duquettemustservethefirst12months
wouldbehisoften-usedphrase:Don’tworry
of his sentence under house arrest but he
the tragedy.
about it, Mom. It’s all good.’”
can leave his home forwork purposes. He
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Drug, weapon charges
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H AWKESBURY
A 35-year-old Hawkesbury man has been charged with several drug offences and
one weapons infraction following a raid on a Laurier Street home December 21.
Philippe Lavoie has been chargedwith numerous counts of possession of illicit drugs
for the purpose of trafficking, as well as unauthorized possession of a weapon, resisting
arrest and possession of property obtained by crime. The charges were laid after police
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confiscatedawiderangeofsubstances,includingmarijuana,cocaine,“magicmushrooms,”
hashish, “speed” and Ecstasy tablets and hashish oil. The street value of the drugs is
estimated at over $30,000. Officers also seized a quantity of cash, a stun gun and a large
quantityofcontrabandcigarettes.TheseizurewascarriedoutbymembersoftheOntario
Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Drug Enforcement Unit and
members of the Hawkesbury O.P.P. detachment.
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Fatal collision
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LAURENTIAN
Grenville (Qc) 819-242-3131
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A 76-year-old Plantagenet woman died
last Wednesday night after succumbing to
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injuries she suffered earlier that day in a
head-oncollisiononCountyRoad17westof
Hawkesbury.
Thérèse Laframboise passed away after
beinginjuredintheaccidentwhichoccurred
at about 3:15 p.m. January 11 on County
Road 17 about 500 metres west of the
FRI. & SAT. AT 7:15 SUN. & WEEKDAY AT 7:00 SUN. MATINEE AT 1:30
Highway 34 overpass.
The accident occurred when a 33-year-
old Hawkesbury woman, driving an
eastbound 2003 Kia Rio, lost control of her
vehicleandcrossedintothewestboundlane,
reports the Hawkesbury Ontario Provincial
Police detachment.
It then collided with a westbound 2000
Ford Windstar driven by the victim.
Both drivers were transported to the
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Hawkesbury and General Hospital.
The driver of the Kia was treated and
released.
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