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The Huron Expositor, 1994-09-21, Page 20EDUCATION Huron schools find ways to keep violence out of the education system. see page 18. -A matarrerromodorgaromaimmosalmilsolselMolmamiselb 7 E4osito 70 cents plus 5 cents G.S.T. (75 cents) COMMUNITY Children and adults enjoyed a sunny Ciderfest. see pages 1,6,16,17. MILTON J. DIETZ LIMITED SEAFORTH 522-0608 • Pesticides & Custom Spraying • Spraying Equipment & Parts • Nutrite Premium Fertilizer • Ventilation & Livestock Equipment 1�lNei PURINA FEEDS [ & PET FOODS The Huron Expositor, Seaforth, Ontario September 28, 1994 TELEPHONE SYSTEM Experts defend the proposed changes to Tuckersmith Telephone. see page two. Your Full Une Dealer Sales - Service - Selection HART FORD MERCURY USE CA� titat.HW *:W10113'J !!4Ril( 'The Friendly Dealer With The tib Hurt' t Briefly Theft of safe at Seaforth Legion Branch 156 A safe encased in concrete was removed from the Scaforth Legion sometime overnight Thursday in what may be a string of thefts from arca Legions. Thieves broke into the Branch 156 on Main St., Seaforth in the early hours of Friday, September 23. The alarm system was ren- dered inoperable by cutting telephone lines leading to the building. Entry was gained by forcing open the south door located next to the Lawn Bowling Club. Once inside culprits broke open the door to the bar which in turn gave them access to the store room. Inside the store room the concrete around the safe was smashed and thc safe removed. The thieves also went upstairs and rummaged through the upstairs bar. Nothing was stolen upstairs and only minor damage done, according to Seaforth Police. Total amount stolen in cash and cheques is 55,357.84. Dam- age estimates and price of a new safe are unknown at this time. Seaforth Royal Canadian Legion Branch 156 President John Lansink Jr. said it was definitely the work of pro- fessionals. He said the Legion would be insured for the dam- ages buy may not be reimbursed for the stolen cash. Thefts have also occurred at Legions in Stratford, Kincardine, Tavistock and New Hamburg recently. Huron Warden tops at ploughing match Huron County's warden, Allan Gibson, went to the International Ploughing Match in Pembroke and won first place in the Warden's class. It was the first time the International Ploughing Match had been held in Renfrew County. Sharon Kelly, Huron County's Queen of the Furrow, was selected by her peers as 'Miss Friendship' in the Quccn of the Furrow competition. There were 27 contestants. Charlene Townsend, of the Seaforth arca, won the Ontario Ploughmen's Association Schol- arship for $2,500 towards study at one of Ontario's Colleges of Agricultural Technology. Local ploughmen who fared well included Paul Dodds, Paul Pentland and Brian McGavin. They placed near the top of their class. The Eastern Ontario hosts defied the sceptics by attracting about 126,610 people (including 25,200 school children) to the event. The IPM was virtually rain -free this year and Huron County people have compli- mented the graciousness of the hosts. INDEX Entertainment... pages 15-17. Sports...pages 8,9. Letters...pages 4,5 "Your community newspaper since 1860..serving Seaforth, atibirn,Itiiisall, Walton, Brussels and surrounding communities." DAVID SCOTT' PHOTO DELICIOUS! - Ella Korgemets, 2, of Bayfield and Sarah Cook, 4, of Seaforth enjoy candy apples at the Ciderfest held Sunday at the Van Egmond House in Egmondville. There was good weather and a large turnout for the annual apple festival which featured live entertainment, crafts, food and displays. Local man races Indianapolis competition with the London track being the only Canadian entry. MacDonald qualified for the race by finishing seventh this year in his points series for London Motorsports. He competed in the Division 3 ET bracket racing finals. There were 300 drivers in his class. Unfortunately MacDonald was out after the first round. But that does not discourage the 19 -year-old who is only in his second year of com- petitive racing. This was his first time to Indianapolis and first year he took the points series seriously, says MacDonald. • • • • BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor" Stall A Seaforth man recently raced at Indianapolis. It wasn't the Indy 500 but Mark MacDonald took his 1983 Ford Mustang down to the States two weeks ago to compete in the Street Eliminator class at the Scars Craftsmen races. MacDonald was one of 40 drivers in five different classes from the London Motorsports Park who took the trip to Indianapolis. Twenty-two differ- ent tracks were represented at the "It was a great experience. I'm very happy with the results." He will continue competing until the end of October but the points series is over for this year. MacDonald plans to continue racing. He is sponsored by Hart -Ford Mercury, Seaforth. Mark MacDonald would like to thank his sponsor and also Jim DeJong of DeJong Auto Service in Brucefi.eld for the use of his trailer for his trip to Indianapolis and also thanks to Bill Charters of Kippcn for the use of his trailer all year. Youth attitudes big factor in occurrences of crime What's the primary cause of youngsters turning to crime? In the late 60s and 70s, the answers ranged from low self- esteem to poverty to permissive parents. But the "single more important" factor, says Dr. Alan Leschied, is the personal attitudes and values of the individual youth. "The extent to which (an offender) justifies or rationalizes his or her deviant behaviour indicates how persistent that behaviour will be," said Leschied, who is the assistant director of the London Family Court Clinic. He was one of four speakers at Thursday's Bluewater Youth Justice Sympo- sium, held at the Blucwater Youth Centre. "We know an awful lot in the area of youth corrections," he told the approximately 160 people at the symposium. "There's more than 600 accounts of successful pro- grams. There's no excuse for ignor- ance any more." In 1990, Leschied was part of a group looking at the factors that cause youths to turn to crime. He believes their findings are more reliable than more previous studies because "we look at who re -offends and who doesn't after completing a particular program. Too many earlier studies tended to focus on peripheral issues, like 'how are you feeling about yourself today?' "If you feel better about yourself but you continue to rip off the local variety store, that's not a viable result," said Leschield. Perhaps the most important part of a successful program is what Leschied called "relapse preven- tion," meaning a series of 'booster sessions' to reinforce what the program taught. "When the kid finishes a program, you can't just send him back out in the streets," he said. In the 1960s and 1970s, "every- body thought kids with low self- esteem committed crimes to 'pump themselves up'." So programs were set up with the idea that all they needed to do was raise the kids' self-esteem and they'd stop commit- ting crimes. Area native international Ironman BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Staff A Dublin man has turned into an ironman. Darrell Dietz, son of Mervin and Norma Dietz of RR 1, Dublin, will compete in the Ironman Triathlon World Cham- pionship to be held in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on October 15. The Huron Expositor talked to Dietz, who was home in Dublin recently with his wife Marianne, visiting his parents. Dietz, a consumer marketing manager for Gatorade with Quaker Oats of Peterborough, will compete in three events at the ironman com- petition: a four km (2.4 mile) octan swim, a 180 km (112 mile) bike race and a 42.2 km (26.2 mile) run. What docs it take to be an ironman? To train for the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon, Dietz competed in the Toronto Marathon in May and also competed in Olympic Triathlons in Guelph, and Peterborough which consist of a 1.5 km swim, a 40 km bike race and a 10 km run. Then he warmed up to Half - Ironman Triathlons in Collingwood in July, Orillia in August and one in Ottawa. The half-ironman race is comprised of a two km (1.2 mile) swim, a 90 km (56 mile) bike race and a 21.1 km (13.1 mile) run to train for the full Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. Dictzr_,a..Seaforlh.,District High Scitoot graduate from 1981 and past student council president at SDIIS, started running about eight years ago when he attended thc Univer- �.'; .T'4 1' [, I* • IN TRAINING - Dublin native Darrell Dietz bikes as part of his intensive training for the Ironman triathlon in Hawaii, October 15. sity of Western Ontario in the MBA program. He ran for fun and czercisc with a few friends at school and con- tinued running at the same pace with his co-workers at Quaker in Peterborough. The long , road to 4 "It's the opportunity of a lifetime." becoming an ironman began with a few 10 km races. Two years later, Dietz was interested in trying out a triathlon. In 1990 he competed in his first three -event race in Peterborough. And from there, he was hooked. In May of this year, Darrell Dietz ran his first marathon in Toronto which he described as "just a step- ping stone" to the ironman competi- tion. It was just prior to January of this year that Dietz decided to work towards competing in the ironman world championship. When he began training for the Toronto Marathon the Dublin native ran about five or six times a week usually 10-12 km at a time. That increased to 15 and then 20 km. He then entered a 30 km race around the bay in Hamilton and Toronto was next. "That was the first time I did the full distance (26.2 miles)," said Dietz, who finished his first marathon in three hours and 25 minutes. Dietz was able to bypass the world -qualifying races at the Penticton Iron Man competition because he is an employee of Gatorade. Gatorade is the title spon- sor of the Ironman World Cham- pionshipp in Hawaii and hold ten spotsfry their employes world- beet► training 25-30 hours a week, wide< at=s 41 opportunityi B together with Marianne. It's easy to see how that could put a strain on a relationship if your spouse wasn't involved in your training. see Dietz, page seven weight alloy bike with a tri -bar and special racing pedals that go along with bike -racing shoes. There's no cheap pair of sneakers you wear through the whole race. First there's the bike shoes, then the expensive professional running shoes. Dietz said he had about $2,500 tied up in equipment and accessories. What is the toughest event for him? "The swim. Geuing the breathing down was difficult," said Dietz who started his swimming training in a pool and then moved to the lake where the environment is unpredictable. And in the world championship, he will be swimming in the ocean. The world championship is always held on a full moon since the competition goes most of the day into the evening. Darrell Dietz will be one of 1,400 people who will jump into the Pacific Ocean on October 15 at 7 a.m. at Kailua- Kona, Hawaii. He will travel to Hawaii a week before the race with his wife to get acclimatized to the heat and partici- pate in planned events for the race. They will also stay a week after to recover, jokes Darrell. His wife Marianne also took up running over the last three years. She has com- peted in the Peterborough triathlon a few times and has run a Half - Ironman triathlon as well. In the weeks leading up to the ironman competition, Darrell has lifetime," said Dietz. Being an ironman isn't without its costs either. "The top guys spent $8-10,000 in equipment.' Dietz had to find himself a light - "A lot of 'kids who commit crimes are full of self-esteem." "There was only one problem," Leschied said. "It didn't work. A . lot of kids who commit crimes arc full of self-esteem." Another theory during those same decades was that poverty breeds crime, but that turned out to be as much of a red herring as the self- esteem issue, he said. When speaking about personal attitudes and values, he pointed out that sometimes, an entire culture can turn its values upside-down. A prime example in Canada today is the underground economy, by which Canadians avoid paying both the GST and PST. "This spring, Macleans (maga- zine) said it totalled $8 billion," he said. "That's 20 per cent of the deficit." More and more people are refusing to pay the GST and justify- ing it with various reasons: it's not fair"; "the government 't OW it"; "they manage our money poor- ly" and so on. What has occurred is a sharp shift in the Canadian attitude towards at least one type of criminal behaviour - tax evasion. "Now it's OK to engage in the underground econ- omy," said Leschied. Besides personal attitudes and values, the two most crucial factors are a youth's companions and early family conditions. "We found that, six months after leaving custody, two-thirds (of the young offenders) will re -offend," he said. "And they were all the low- risk ones." But these low-risk offenders had been incarcerated with high-risk offenders. Far from being rehabilitated, they had picked up points on how to be at. least slightly more successful criminals, Leschied said. Early family conditions include the presence (or absence) of open displays of affection, effective levels of discipline and supervision by the parents, and how well par- ents agree on expectations and rewards. Also, Leschied says, if the parents flout the law, their children will most likely follow suit, but he added, "We're not trying to dismiss personal accountability." Punishment is not among the things that deter criminals, said Leschied. Manitoba is currently looking at a military -type 'boot camp' for young offenders, an idea that he said has been around in the U.S. since the 1980s. A need for management and organization may be something that a lot of high-risk kids need, but as a catalyst, it's not exactly up in the top 10, he said. But the idea of boot camps is "very seductive," he added. "The public loves them." •for related story, see back page. Marijuana found in Staffa home An anonymous tip resulted in several charges laid against a Staffa area man. Sebringville OPP Constable Ross Marshall said the 34 -year-old man was charged with cultivation of marijuana, possession for the pur- pose of trafficking, possession of stolen property over $1,000 and unsafe storage of fire arms. Police seized one pound of cured marijuana, a quantity of loose mari- juana and drug cultivation equip-"- — ment, and stolen property which included fire arms. He appeared Stratford Provincial Court to face these charges on Monday. He will appear in court again on Oct 31.