Lakeshore Advance, 2013-05-22, Page 1616 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, May 22, 2013
DRINKING AND BOATING: Save your excuses say OPP
Paul Morden
OMI Agency
Anyone caught drinking while boating off
Sarnia-Lanlbton can save their excuses, say
Laznbton OPP.
"We have a zero tolerance," (.oast. Steve
MacNally said Wednesday during the kickoff
for the LAlllbto►l Drug Awareness Action Com-
mittee's Purple Ribbon Campaign.
"If you're drinking on a vessel, you're going
to get charged."
The committee, made up of community
groups, public health and law enforcement
agencies, is focusing this year's awareness
campaign on impaired boating and water
safety.
"Alcohol and driving don't mix, whether it's
on land or on the water," saki Terry Lasterby, a
committee member 111(1 it health promoter
with 1.(unbton's public health office.
':..'Tragic things can happen."
The Purple Ribbon Campaign runs through
June 1.
1:asterby said MADE) Canada has estimated
that about 40% of the country's boating fatali-
ties are alcohol-related.
He noted Lanlbton OPP's marine patrols
didn't lay any impaired boating charges over
the last two summers.
"1 hope the message is getting out," Mac -
Nally said.
Some charges were iai(i locally last summer
when patrols found open alcohol on boats, he
said.
Passengers can only drink if their vessel is
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equipped with permanent cooking, sleeping
and washroom facilities.
"A hibachi on the back of your boat, a sleep-
ing bag and a port -a -potty don't fall within
that regulation," MacNally said.
Once a boat's underway, open alcohol can't
be onboard, and the driver and passengers
can't be drinking, he said.
Ontario's laws treat boaters and drivers on
land the sante, even when it comes to
penalties.
Anyone convicted of operating a boat while
impaired also lose their drivers' licence for a
period of time, MacNally said.
1 le also stressed that wearing a lifejacket is
one of the best ways to stay safe on the water..
"'There's no law that you have to wear them,
but it would be nice if there would be," Mac -
Nally said.
The latest regulations require that lifejackets
be readily available and not just stored away
somewhere on the boat, he said.
MacNally said he almost always sees life
jackets on children while patrolling, but esti-
mated only about 15' of adults he sees wear
them.
"If you're sitting on a lifejacket and get
thrown overboard, that lifejacket is going to do
you absolutely no good," lw said.
"Water is so unforgiving. It's not like falling
on the pavement where you can stand back
up and brush yourself off."
'This holiday weekend narks the start of the
season for the La►nbton OPP's marine
patrols.
Two festival committees join for presentation
Bach Music Festival of Canada, Exeter
and the Alice Munro Writers and
Readers Festival, Wingham
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Together two Festival committees are
hosting a presentation by actor and crea-
tive director Peggy Coffey in a reading of
her mask and story piece - I Was Born -
at 2pm on June 19th, 2013 at Trivitt
Memorial Anglican Church, 264 Main
Street South, Exeter. Peggy brings alive
the stories of women who began their
lives at the turn of the century in rural
Ontario - - extraordinary women who
lived through some of the most dramatic
changes of any generation. 'the presen-
tation is based on stories of the women
of the Women's institutes, which were
collected and published by the Women's
Institute (WI) in a book called From 'This
Place by Pat Salter.
"1 was immediately taken by the power
and historical significance of the stories
these women tell about the lives they
lived in the early part of the 20th Century
in rural southern Ontario," Peggy says,
and she began to envision a theatre piece
which would tell these stories .ld cele-
brate the lives of these remarkable
women.
Working in collaboration with I leather
Ruthig, a prop and mask maker from the
Stratford Festival, they created the first
mask. '(race' is a ninety year old
woman who tells the first story in the
hook. Peggy recalls: "1 envisioned 'Grace'
standing on a white pedestal with "circa
1901" on a sign at her feet, the idea being
that she is a'nlseum piece; 'Then (race
steps off the pedestal and tells her story."
Peggy gives "voice to an entire genera-
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