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“There was a list of names of people that were not allowed on the property. I believe one was his wife, and somebody else told me there were three OPP there.”

Jeff Stewart, manager of the Round Lake Centre Food Market, said the sign with its list of names went up on the Borutski property four or five years ago. A big white corrugated plastic sign was nailed to a hydro pole by the road, and names were handwritten on it.

He and his wife checked it once in case their names were on the list. “We went down and took a peep. Our names weren’t on it so we were OK. There were at least, oh, close to 20 names on that sign.”

Though he doesn’t remember the wording of the sign, “it was definitely threats … It was definitely a threat directed at the people on the sign.”

He knows some were police officers because their ranks were listed. And he remembers many of the local detachment — the OPP in Killaloe — were listed. When he saw the number of names, Stewart said, he thought, “This guy’s got it in for everybody.”

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Stewart said he never had any real problem with Borutski, but checked the sign just to be sure there was no ill will.

“He (Borutski) was in the store several times and we knew who he was. We had to tread with itsy bitsy steps. We didn’t want to tee him off in any way.”