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A 24-year-old Sidney man was
sentenced to 30 days in jail after
pleading guilty Oct. 25 in Sidney
provincial court to charges of

ssault, threatening and breach of
an undertaking.

Crown counsel Edward Orm-
heim said Paul Rene Desjardins
was spotted by an auxiliary consta-
ble driving on McDonald Park
Road at 10:30 p.m. April 9 despite
being on a court undertaking to
observe a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew.

t 11 p.m. on March 10, Desjar-

S punched and kicked a young
# man during a dispute in a parking
A lot off Beacon Avenue in Sidney.
Defence lawyer Mayland
® McKimm said Desjardins admit-
ted shoving the young man but
denied kicking the assault victim.

The fight started after someone
® threw Desjardins’ case of beer
4 E035 the parking lot, McKimm
im Said.

: The third offence occurred in
the 7-Eleven store just after noon
Jan. 19 when Desjardins entered
the store.

@ A clerk who suspected Desjar-
“@-dins of vandalizing one of the
video machines ordered the man
out of the store, at which Desjar-
dins became angry, swearing at the
clerk and making threats, Orm-
heim said.

McKimm explained Desjardins
had not vandalized the machine,

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thought the clerk was aware he was
not responsible and lost his tem-
per

McKimm said Desjardins has
had problems in the past but is
now living with his common-law
wife, working full-time and
attempting to upgrade his educa-
tion.

McKimm suggested his client
had an anxious temper.

Taking the collection of offences
and Desjardins’ previous record
into account, Judge Michael Hub-

| “Three charges add up to 30 days jail

bard said previous attempts to curb
Desjardins’ actions with fines and
probation had not been successful.
He sentenced Desjardins to 30
days in jail on the assault charge,
30 days concurrent on the threat-
ening charge and 14 days concur-
rent on the breach of undertaking.
He also placed Desjardins on

"six months” probation follow com-

pletion of the jail sentence and
suggested the man get counselling
to learn to control his temper and
get counselling on alcohol abuse.

Feds help fund AIDS prevention

The federal government will
contribute $500,000 to a provin-
cial AIDS prevention pilot project,
Perrin Beatty, federal minister of
health and welfare, said last week.

The $1.24 million program,
developed mainly for intravenous
drug users, will include referrals to

addiction treatment programs or
other relevant health and social
service programs.

Education on the risks involved
in intravenous drug use, as well as
the proper use of condoms to stop
the spread of HIV infection and
AIDS is also part of the program.

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has been below the level where
population is maintained at a
steady level, Statistics Canada fig-
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number of births over a woman’s
lifetime) was 1.7 in 1989.

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