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The Citizen, 1990-05-30, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1990. Ethel Compiled by Mrs. Margaret McMahon. Phone 887-9250 Friends help couple celebrate anniversary Winning smiles Proud winners at the Brussels Public School Track and Field Day Friday show off their first-place ribbons. Winnersare (front row, leftto right), Cory Bragg, tyke boys; Jay Siebert, mite boys; Mandy Sellers, mitegirls; KaraPepper, tykegirls; (back) BrettClarkson, bantam boys; AngieYoon, bantam girls; Adam Carr, atom boys and Stacy Hahn, atom girls. Drug charges dominate court Drug charges took up a good portion of the court’s time when provincial court was held in Wing­ ham May 23. A Wingham-area man was fined $100 after pleading guilty to pos­ sessing about $75 worth of cannibis resin (hash oil). The court was told that Wingham OPP Constable Den­ nis Thompson stopped a car driven by Robert Harkness, RR 2, Wing­ ham in a RIDE check at concessions five and six, Morris township on April 14. They smelled the aroma of marijuana and searched the car, finding a small vial of the hash in Mr. Harkness’ coat pocket. Be­ cause of the small amount involv­ ed, the early guilty plea and the fact the defendant had no record, Judge R. G. E. Hunter fined him only $100. DON BAAN John and Mary Baan, RR 3, Walton are pleased to announce the recent graduation of their son, Donald James, from Ridge­ town College of Agriculture Technology. Donreceived his Honours Diploma in Agriculture Production Management with a Field Crop Major. Don is pre­ sently employed on the family farm. A Wingham man was fined $2,000 or four months in jail for drug trafficking after pleading guilty in an episode dating back to last September. Judge Hunter was told that the home of Gerald B. Kingyens on Scott St. in Wingham was raided Sept. 23, 1989 by police acting on a tip from the OPP drug squad. They found five chunks of hash weighing a total of 47.1 grams, each wrapped separately, a set of scales and seized an amount of money that was later returned. Police put the value of the drugs at $700 but Mr. Kingyen’s defence attorney said Mr. Kingyens had paid $400 for the drugs. The attorney said Mr. Kingyens had bought in Cambridge for his own use and had been offered more drugs than he had originally want­ ed in a sort of volume discount. He admitted that Mr. Kingyens might have sold some of the drug to help pay for the drugs. After a preliminary trial Paul Kenneth McMichael of Wingham was committed to trial by district court judge after police seized 12 envelopes in his Josephine St. apartment Janaury 9 filled with marijuana and “magic mush­ rooms’’ with an estimated street value of $4,043. His defence attor­ ney suggested that since one of the evidence envelopes sent away to the provincial laboratory for anal­ ysis had been opened accidentally on return there must be some doubt in the court’s mind as to the integrity of the evidence. Judge Hunter didn’t have, however and sentenced him to stand trial on this, and two other drug-related charges. A Wroxeter man was found not guilty of charges he possessed drugs in an incident that dated back to March 20, 1989. Police had raided the home of James G. Shaw of Wroxeter that day, acting on an anonymous tip phoned in to the Perth County Crime Stoppers. Mr. Shaw testified that he and his second wife and children had been away for the winter break weekend while the children from his first marriage stayed with his first wife. He had only been home for an hour when police arrived at his door with a search warrant. He welcomed them in, saying he had nothing there to hide. Police, acting on a tip, went directly to the kitchen cupboards where they found a plastic bag filled with about $70 worth of marijuana and some cigarette rolling papers soaked with hash oil. Mr. Shaw said he was stunned and asked police to take him for a blood test to see if he used drugs and asked if they couldn’t test the bag for finger prints. A half-hour after the police arrived, officials from the Child­ ren’s Aid Society arrived acting on a complaint from his ex-wife that he had struck his oldest son, breaking his glasses. The two children from his first marriage had been taken away but the investiga­ tion, he said, found he hadn’t abused the children and his second child had since been returned to him although his son, with whom he had been having discipline problems, now lived with his mother. Mr. Shaw said the door in the kitchen of the rented home had no lock and anyone could have entered the house to put the drugs in the cupboard. Crown attorney Randy Evans found it hard to believe he would leave the house unlocked and go away for a weekend. Judge Hunter said it wasn’t up to Mr. Shaw to prove he didn’t own the drugs, it was up to the crown to prove he did. The drugs could have belonged to any of the residents of the house even if they had belongs ed in the house. He dismissed the case. Ml* bank to plaea my ad cuaaarraD am vomxi Friends and relatives gathered at the Kurtzville Community Centre on Friday evening to help Allan and Margaret Edgar celebrate their 40th anniversary. On Saturday evening friends, relatives and neighbours gathered at the B.M. & G. Community Centre to help Bob and Isabelle Bremner celebrate their 40th anni­ versary. Congratulations to both these couples. An open public meeting for the WINGHAM AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL CORPORATION Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Wingham and District Hospital Corporation will be held in the Nursing Assistants Training Centre, Catherine St., Wingham, Ontario on Thursday, June 21,1990, at the hour of eight o’clock p.m., for the revision of bylaws; for the election of Governors; for the appointment of Auditors; and for the transaction of such other things as may properly come before the meeting. Copies of the Annual Report and Hospital Financial Statements may be obtained at the front desk of the Wingham and District Hospital priortothreeo’clockp.m., Thursday, June 21,1990. Said documents will also be available at the Annual Meeting. Memberships granting voting privileges may be purchased at the front desk of the hospital for one dollar [$1.00] prior to five o’clock p.m., Wednesday, June 6,1990. No membership sold after that time, on that date, will entitle the purchaser to a vote. Dated at Wingham, Ontario, this fourteenth day of May, 1990. By Order of the Board of Governors. N. M. Hayes, Secretary w.« i * Tickets are available from •Mrs. P. Whitehead -Teeswater 392-6847 •Middleton's Home Furnishings-Wingham 357-1411 •Mr. H. TenPas-Brussels 887-6486 •Mr. N. Hayes-Wingham & District Hospital 357-3210 Ethel Hall renovations is being held on Wednesday evening, May 30 at 8 p.m. Q? HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO IMPROVING YOUR ODDS AGAINST CANADA'S #1 KILLER. jWINGHAM DISTRICT /.HOSPITAL & I ANNUAL S FUND- ■ RAISING Dress - Semi-Formal Tickets $100/couple A receipt for tax purposes will be issued, afterexpensesarededucted, fora portion of the purchase price.