Youth placed in open custody

A 17-year-old Sidney youth was placed in open custody for 30
days after pleading guilty to 4 break-in and to theft of a boat.

Speaking in Sidney provincial court Dec. 6, Crown counsel
Edward Ormheim said the youth was one of five teenagers
involved in a break-in of a Sidney fast food restaurant on Nov. 9.

Approximately $50 in cash, including $6 from a Remembrance

Day poppy box, some food and some shirts were taken, Ormheim.

explained.

The youth was also charged Nov. 13 with repeated hot-wiring
and theft of a boat for joy riding during the previous month,
Ormheim said.

A report by a youth worker suggested the youth is not willing to
cooperate with his parents or accept counselling. The youth had
been living on the street.

Judge Wayne Smith advised the youth to accept counselling. In
addition to ordering 30 days open custody for each offence, he
placed the youth on probation until June 1991 and ordered the
youth to observe a curfew.

Lipstick lifter placed on probation

_A 13-year-old girl charged with shoplifting a tube of lipstick and
a bottle of nail polish from Shopper's Drug Mart on Beacon
Avenue pleaded guilty in Sidney provincial court Dec. 13.

Crown counsel Edward Ormheim said the Sidney teenager
entered the store at 4:50 p.m. Oct. 16. A security officer saw her
take the lipstick and nail polish, valued at $6.28, hide the items in
a hip sack and walk out of the store.

Duty counsel Rick Schwartz said the girl lives with her mother
and is doing well at school. Following the incident, the girl has
grounded and required to do extra chores at home.

Since then the girl has found a new group of friends and
participates in more worthwhile social activities, Schwartz said.

Given her mother’s action and the girl’s improved attitude,
Schwartz suggested little further court action was required.

Judge Wayne Smith placed the girl on probation for four months
during which time she is not to enter Shopper’s Drug Mart.

TheReview Wednesday, January 2,1991 — AS

Storms force drainage sysiem review

A series of heavy storms has led
to a review of North Saanich’s
storm drainage system.

North Saanich council con-
firmed on Dec. 17 a public works
committee recommendation that a
review of the 1986 master storm
drain plan be done by staff.

Municipal engineer Jack Parry
reported each of the storms, one on
Nov. 23, one on Nov. 26 and one
on Dec. 4, approximated the one-
in-10-year storms for which the
systems are designed.

However three heavy storms so
close together saturated the ground
and forced heavy flows of water
into the drainage system.

Parry said an estimated 50 com-
plaints were received. Blocked
culvert intakes accounted for some
of the complaints, Parry said.

There was also flooding of some
basements on East Saanich Road
and surface flooding near Jahn
Road, Glamorgan Road and Mills
Road west of McDonald Park
Road. Sandown Park was also
flooded, Parry noted.

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Parry said the municipality has a
year-round ditch clearing program.
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