Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 province Winnipeg free press Friday july 9, 2004 dance for the love of it More than 600 gather for Scot dance championship series by Lindsey Wiebe you la be in some tiny Village in Scot land and you re like hey Georgina ? Degood laughed. While the average Highland both competitors were decked out in dancer might prepare for a Highland dance garb yesterday with Competition with extra prac red velvet jackets Kilts knee High Tice and a Good nights sleep 18-year? Argyle socks and Black Gillies a Type old Georgina Muir has a More of leather shoe. Superstitious approach. Backstage at Scot dance was a steady i like to use this toothpaste that a in Stream of panicked parents and Kilt a Gold package and i have a pair of Clad dancers hair sleeved Back in buns Lucky underwear she said. Of and and faces Bright with stage makeup. My mom always carries my jewelry in held every year in cities across her left Muir is one of More Canada the Scot dance Canada Cham than 600 dancers gathered in Winnipeg Pion ship series is celebrating its 30th for the 2004 Scot dance championship anniversary. The event is one of the series a Highland dance Competition biggest scottish Highland dance com that began yesterday at the Winnipeg petitions worldwide. Convention Centre. Some of the roughly 22 scottish com of course Lucky underwear does to pet tors at this years event said they Rule out dance rehearsals for the often find a different Standard of danc Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press Markham ont. Native. I practice pretty much six Days a week an hour to two hours said Muir. Also in town for Scot dance is 18?year-old Kate Degood a Michigan res ident and Friend of Muir a through the Competition circuit. Degood started dancing at the age of six and has already won 32 championship titles. The girls have both trav Elled throughout North America and Scotland and Degood competed in Australia a few months ago. She said one of the stranger aspects of Highland dancing is encountering friends on far reaches of the Globe. Ing in Canada. Its much higher said 14-year-old Erin Duncan visiting from Scotland a Angus county with friends Angela Ramsay and Emma Lowson. Duncan said talented competitors often skip Scotland in favour of Canada. Usually in Scotland the Good ones Only come to some competitions whereas All the Good ones seem to come to compete Here she said. The girls have had to Deal with More than stiff Competition during their time in Winnipeg ? they also had to get used to the appetites of local insects. We re taken bad with the mosquitoes said 17-year-old Ramsay. The friends said bugs in Scotland Are of the less voracious variety. We Don to get mosquitoes we get midges said Duncan. Scot dance runs until july 11 at the convention Centre from 9 00 am to 6 00 pm each Day with the North american open championships taking place on sunday. Day passes Are $10 each for adults and $6 for children and seniors and Are available at the door. Four Day passes Are also available. Bagpiper Stuart Johnston supplies the music As dancers perform in the Highland fling event yesterday at the convention Centre. At right Muir left and Degood strike a pose during the Competition. One Day sentence upheld for teen killer by Mike Mcintyre Manitoba a highest court has con firmed a common fear of police prosecutors and the Public in upholding a controversial one Day jail sentence Given to a convicted teen killer. The court of Appeal denied this week the crowns bid to increase the penalty in the Case of an iraqi immigrant beaten to death with an eight Ball hidden in a sock. Justice Barbara Hamilton writing for the majority said deterrence is not a sentencing principle under the new youth criminal Justice act. Provincial court judge Ronald Mey ers was Correct in weighing the needs of the teen who was Only 15 at the time of the August 2001 slaying she said. There is considerable judicial debate about whether deterrence is a sentencing principle under the Yuja wrote Hamilton noting Manitoba is one of the first courts to consider the Issue. In conclusion the sentencing judge did not err when he did not consider the principle of deterrence. Nor is the sen tence demonstrably the High court ruled that punish there is now ment can still be a in place a new sentencing Factor sentencing but found the stigma suffered philosophy by the teen killer one that was sufficient. His crime was accentuates a serious violent rehabilitation offence. The and teen is keenly aware of this him reintegration self and will have to live with his ? provincial court actions All his judge Ronald life wrote Meyers Hamilton. The teen ? who is now 18 but still can to be named under provisions of the Yuja ? was Given 15 months of conditional supervision in the Community in addition to his one Day in jail during his sentencing last year. Meyers admitted at the time the for Mer Young offenders act ? no stranger to criticism itself ? certainly packed a stronger punch than the new Law that took effect in april 2003. He said judges Are no longer permit Ted to consider deterrence As a sentencing Factor. There is every likelihood that had sentencing taken place prior to april 1, the crowns request that the teen serve a substantial portion of the 12 to 15 months in jail would have been a fitting disposition Meyers said at the time. Instead judge said the teens court appearance for sentencing would count As his one Day served in jail so after the court hearing the teen was free to go. His bail conditions include attending school or seeking employment not own ing weapons completing an anger management program not possessing any drugs or alcohol and following a daily curfew of 7 . To 7 . There is now in place a new sentencing philosophy one that accentuates rehabilitation and reintegration said Meyers. Chya Saleh 22, was killed in August 2001 after exchanging some heated words with the teen on a downtown Doorstep. The teen killer said he does to recall the incident because he was too drunk. ;