HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-01-11, Page 13Judge reduces fines
for 'guilty'pleas
Honouring a promise he made last
September to levy a fine of $650 or
less against anyone appearing be
fore him who pleaded guilty to an
impaired driving charge, but of $750
against anyone “who wastes the
court’s time” by being found guilty
after pleading not guilty on a similar
charge, Judge R.G.E. Hunter hand
ed out several of the lesser fines at
Wingham District Court on Decem
ber 21.
Reginald Carman Brindley of
Goderich was fined a total of $1,200
and given a three-year driving
suspension after pleading guilty to
three alcohol-related motor vehicle
charges, the result of three separate
incidents which took place in East
and West Wawanosh and Ashfield
Townships between May and Sep
tember of 1988, one of which
involved a minor collision with
another vehicle at an intersection.
Thomas J. MacEwan of RR 2,
Gorrie and Donald L. Carter of
Wingham were each fined $650 and
given 12-month driving suspensions
after they each pled guilty to
unrelated alcohol-related charges
laid last October and November.
Neither man had any previous
record.
Ronald Bain Harris of Seaforth
was remanded to April 26 for trial
after pleading not guilty to two
liquor-related driving charges and
one restricted weapons charge laid
after he was stopped by an Ontario
Provincial Police officer in Grey
Township last October. David J.
Franken of RR2, Auburn will also
appear for trial April 26 after
appearing before Judge Hunter at
the December court session to plead
not guilty to a charge of operating a
motor vehicle while disqualified
from doing so, the result of an
incident which took place in Morris
Twp. last July.
Judge Hunter also ordered a
bench warrant for the arrest of
Hydro test
coming up
Ontario Hydro will conduct a
voltage reduction test on Tuesday,
January 17, 1989.
Electrical voltage on Hydro’s
transmission system will be reduced
at two intervals during the day. From
l:30to2:30p.m., voltage will be
reduced by three per cent. Then
between the hours of 6:30 and 7:30
p.m. voltage will be reduced by five
per cent.
During a voltage test, Hydro
measures the load reductions that
result at the three and five per cent
levels, and can locate an operating or
customer problems.
Voltage reduction can be used in
an emergency to help prevent
electricity shortages. If a shortage
occurs, a five per cent reduction in
voltage, distributed over the entire
Hydro system, can eliminate up to
500,000 kilowatts of electrical load.
That’s equivalent to the electricity
needs of more than 180,000 homes.
For most customers the effect of
these reductions will be impercep
tible.
Ontario Hydro conducts a voltage
reduction test once a year. If the test
on January 17is postponed, it will be
conducted on Thursday, January 19.
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Robert Allen Schnaar of Kitchener
after he failed to appear on
December 21 to be spoken to on four
charges laid under the Highway
Traffic Act, the result of an incident
which took place in Turnberry Twp.
last October.
Carole E. Scott of Lucknow was
fined $240 after pleading guilty to a
number of charges of intending to
defraud by issuing NSF cheques on
several occasions over the past year,
including the issuing of one such
cheque to pay for gas at Walsh’s
Corner Cafe in Blyth last April. In
levying the fine, Judge Hunter said
he was respecting lawyer Alan Mill’s
plea for leniency, during which Mr.
Mill said that the charges arose more
from Ms. Scott’s “sloppy bookkeep
ing” than from any actual intent to
defraud.
And finally, a charge of posses
sion of a narcotic laid last summer
against Douglas Ruttan and Valerie
Comeau, formerly of Walton, was
withdrawn on a technicality.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989. PAGE 13.
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