Since 1986, Brampton’s Shirley Nash and her late husband John have sponsored more than 100 children in countries around the world through the Christian Children’s Fund. On the table are photos of some of the children the family has helped.
Photo by Ken Hay
Traffic ground to a halt on Hwy. 410 Wednesday night after a transport truck without a trailer lost control and rolled into the centre median during rush hour. There was heavy rain at the time and there were no reports of injuries— only frayed patience.
Photo by Sean Magenniss
Rahim and Nazifa Shahghasy were laid to rest Monday at Brampton Memorial Gardens. More than 200 mourners, some of whom had flown in from Australia and the United States, attended the service.
Photo by Ken Hay
Brampton Guardian Publisher Ken Nugent, left, and Mayor Susan Fennell present John Cutruzzola with The Brampton Guardian's 2007 Citizen of the Year Award during a ceremony Thursday night. For his dedication and love of Brampton, his volunteer work with the Salvation Army Family Life Resource Centre, the local business community, several city committees, and for the time, money and artistic donations he has contributed over the years, Cutruzzola received the honour.
Photo by Bryon Johnson
Rahimullah Shahghasy, 53, of Brampton was stabbed to death Wednesday while trying to save his wife, Nazifa, 52, from a man wielding two kitchen knives with 9- to 10-inch blades, according to Peel police homicide Insp. Norm English. Police are looking at the possibility the stabbing was a carjacking gone horribly wrong.
Submitted photo
A Good Samaritan was stabbed to death when he tried to prevent the killing of a woman during an apparent domestic dispute at a Brampton plaza this afternoon.
Police were called to the plaza, in the McLaughlin Road and Williams Parkway area, around 12:25 p.m. A woman and a man had been fighting, and the man appears to have stabbed the woman, police said. When a passer-by tried to intervene, it appears the man stabbed him as well, before trying to take his own life, police said.
By George Beshiri
Corruption charges against a local Catholic school trustee and three former executives with the public school board have been dropped.
Fraud charges against Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board Trustee Tony da Silva, 58, were withdrawn in a Brampton courtroom this morning. Da Silva, along with co-defendants James Gollert, 69, Gary Hollo, 59, and John Danson, 61, were vindicated almost one-year after being charged in connection with a multi-million dollar fraud involving federal government grants.
All are former teachers with the Peel District School Board and senior managers with its Centre for Education and Training (CET), created by the board as a not-for-profit corporation providing career-training services. Da Silva, Hollo and Danson are retired directors, while Gollert, who served as chief...
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