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‘Ordinary man,’ not a monster Lawyer argues child-porn lover is not a danger to the public BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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tried to restrict it in certain areas, which is, essentially, the Chilliwack approach. City staff have created a complicated criteria to figure out where longboarding will be allowed. To start with, it is prohibited on all arterial and collector roads. As to local roads, there is a complex calculus to determine if the road in question is subject to prohibition or if the sport will be permitted. To be permitted, the road has to have traffic volume of fewer than 3,000 vehicles per 24 hours and have visibility greater than 65 metres. If the road width is less or greater than 8.5 metres and whether
ohn Patrick Davy’s lawyer painted a picture on an ordinary man—a successful, intelligent educator—who happened to have a terrible secret that has destroyed his life. That secret is that he collected, watched and distributed child pornography. Lawyer Martin Finch spoke about Davy’s plight in Chilliwack Provincial Court last Friday on the final day of a protracted sentencing hearing for the former Greendale elementary school teacher. Davy pleaded guilty on Feb. 19 to possession and distribution of child pornography after he was found with more than 27,000 digital child porn images, and 866 videos. “The perception in the community is that my client is somewhat of a monster,” Finch told the court. “Aside from that secret, he was a very ordinary man.” Finch called Davy an “immensely popular and capable teacher” who was committed to his students and to his profession. Arrested, charged and released under strict conditions last year, he was then found in Kelowna on Sept. 12 with a computer that had more than
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No free ride
Longboarders say new restrictions won’t keep them off popular roads
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ew restrictions on longboarding quietly introduced in the City of Chilliwack will have little effect on the sport, according to those involved. Jackson Vanderveen and Nick Hurley, both sponsored by The Truth Skate & Snow, say new prohibitions on the sport on some of the most popular streets doesn’t mean they’ll stop, even if that means fines. “It’s just unfortunate because, regardless, this is what we do, this is what we love to do and we are probably still going to be skateboarding
on the roads,” the 20-year-old Hurley said. Hurley and Vanderveen chatted with the Times on Weeden Drive on Promontory on June 2 where they were skating. Weeden is one of the most popular longboarding hills for the freeriding style, where skaters slide and turn trying not to put their hands on the road. Weeden is also one of four roads where recreational longboarding is now prohibited. The issue over longboarding in the city has been considered by staff and the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) for some time. Increased activity over the years, coupled with highly publicized
incidents involving injury and even death in other communities, prompted the city to act. On Jan. 20, 17-year-old Ryan Thomas Wallace-Tarry died after he was hit while skateboarding by an oncoming flatbed truck in Nanaimo. On Jan. 2, a 16-year-old boarder also died in the Comox Valley. Most recently, on June 2, 11-yearold Dustin Mackenzie died of the injuries he sustained while longboarding without a helmet in Abbotsford two days before. Some municipalities, such as West Vancouver, have totally banned the sport. But even there the mayor has conceded it’s difficult to enforce. Others, like North Vancouver, have
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