-Courts/ News TheReview Wednesday, January 17,1990 — Al5 Driver too late Realizing he should not be driv- - ing, the intoxicated man tried to park at the side of the road. But the car slid on the wet bank @ 5nd into the ditch bordering Lands End Road, Christopher Mark Hill told Sidney provincial court Thursday. The 28-year-old Saanichton man pleaded guilty to being in care and control of a vehicle while impaired. Crown counsel Edward Orm- heim said a North Saanich resi- dent called police just after 3 a.m. Nov. 26 to report a car in the ditch on Lands End Road. Police found the driver had vomited and then passed out on gihe ground beside the driver's door. The keys were in the man’s hand, the car’s engine was warm. Police roused Hill and he gave two breath sample readings of .20 per cent. Hill said his wife is expecting a child in two months and the loss of a driver’s licence will affect his job as a carpet installer. Judge Alan Filmer fined Hull ~M. $300 and suspended his licence for a year. ~ Counselling ordered for man_ parked after assault, dynamite threat A man who ordered police from his property, threatening to ignite three. sticks of dynamite, pleaded guilty to assault in Sidney provin- cial court Thursday. Police found no dynamite when they arrested 32-year-old Percy Mulholland of Sidney. Police were called by Mulholland’s common- law wife after she was assaulted, For Week Crown counsel Edward Ormheim said. Judge Alan Filmer placed Mul- holland on probation for a year and ordered him to attend a family violence counselling program. Filmer also ordered Mulholland to do 50 hours community service work. z Ormheim said the assault occurred early in the moming Nov. 30, after the couple celebrated a birthday. When their year-old child began crying, the man dragged the woman from the bed and struck her. © She ran from the house and police were called. Mulholland threatened to blow up the house, Ormheim said. A dog unit was called in and Mulhol- land surrendered, turning his only weapons — a knife and a pellet gun — over to police. - Ormheim said the couple intend to remain together and recom- mended probation and counselling for Mulholland. The recommendation was echoed in a pre-sentence report requested by the judge. Bus window smashed oui Two windows in a B.C. Transit bus travelling through downtown Sidney about 8:20 p.m. Jan. 8 were smashed out but Sidney RCMP don’t know how. An entire section of glass was smashed as the bus was on its regular run, police said. B.C. Transit is offering a reward of $100 for information ending Jan. 6 Solicitor General Angus Ree was among the 29 British Colum- bia lawyers appointed as Queen’s Counsel recently. Whether that would make him a better attomey — general is another question. Why Angus Ree for A.G.? Well, consider the following scenario. Premier Vander Zalm steps down, the current attorney general, Bud Smith, wins the leadership and’ becomes premier That leaves only Ree for attor- ney general, because he’s the only lawyer in the bunch, and attorneys general are traditionally lawyers. left alone. Bonnie Mackensie said. punted, she said. valid, Mackensie said. Wrong listing for Toughlove bothers answerer, parenis An incorrectly listed telephone number in the latest Central Saanich Community Newsletter has a Victoria resident upset. She’s getting calls in the middle of the night from parents troubled by teenagers’ behavior. The parents want to reach the self-help program Toughlove. But the listed phone number gives them a woman who just wants to be “Tis kind of bothersome because some calls are late at night,” said the woman, who did not want to be identified. “And it’s hard on these people because they re looking for some help, and I can’t help them, of course.” So she gives callers the correct number — which is 479-5984, according to Janie Scott, a Toughlove parent spokesman. Scott said the group’s meetings are “growing by leaps and bounds” and because of a growing number of parents needing help with their teens, the woman has been getting a lot of calls. The number will be corrected in the next issue of the Central Saanich Community Newsletter, parks and recreation co-ordinator Numerous telephone numbers are in the newsletter and there isn’t time or manpower to phone each one before each issue is _ Groups and organizations are responsible for informing the municipality if their phone numbers change, she said. One other phone number is not listed correctly. The president of the Victoria/Saanich Inlet Angler’s Association apparently has moved and the listed telephone number is no longer peptethhs | MONTH FREE f leading to the arrest of those responsible. —F aq THE PERIOD CHAIR SHOP _ OLDE FURNISHINGS \=7 ANTIQUES & REPRODUCTIONS UPHOLSTERING