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Young students at Brentwood elementary school give delightful performance. in Alice i in
Wonderland.

Members of newly formed Kiwanis. Key Club of: Parklands school, with advisors Dennis
Varga and G.D. Giles on the occasion of their charter night June 5.. Members: Cathy
Beddoes, Nadine Fraser, Danny Horth, Karolyn Jones, Christine Kipot, Jennifer Lindsay, .-
‘Dave Lowen, Shirley Mott, Sherril Murray, Tan Myerscough, Susan Snow, Danny Varga, po as
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a “Ter Teartlip: Sidney: Cubs. Two-day campout | for boys aged & » 1 included competitions, .
 gampfire: singsong and obstacle ‘races.Cub leaders were Ray Dean, Joe. Harrison and —
Carson Hamber. Some fathers went along as well as service scouts who make the tetrip each ©

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A Sidney corner’s jury ruled last week that. the death
of a 20-year-old West Saanich Road native Indian v was
accidental.

After an. hour’s deliberation, the jury. concluded
William ‘‘Billy’’ John Jones died by asphyxiation due to
drowning March 27 in Duck Farm Creek off Canora
Road. -_

It also ruled that Jones was intoxicated at the time of
death from a drug, Elavil, which had been taken earlier
at a party.

- In its recommendation to the coroner, the jury called
for.a review of the practice by physicians of supplying
prescriptions over the telephone without first examining
the patient.

The recommendation followed lengthy testimony by

- Pamela Jean Brown,’22, who described herself as the

dead man’s girlfriend.
Testifying under the Canada and B.C. evidence acts

to protect herself from self-incrimination, Brown told |
the inquest of her lengthy involvement with drugs nat :

began more than 10 years earlier.’

Brown said she got her drugs by telephoning a doctor
and ‘telling-him. she was: having trouble. sleeping. at
night..The doctor prescribed Valium and Elavil, telling”
Brown to take one pill of each kind every. night.

~. She picked the pills up ata local pharmacy the af- -
. ternoon before Jones died.

Despite continued questioning. by Chris Considine,

~Jawyer for the dead man’s family, Brown. balked ‘at ..

revealing the.:name. of the. doctor. who. “gave the
prescription the day Jones died.

But when Coroner John Davidge told’ her to answer
she identified him as ‘‘Dr. Groves”’ of Sidney. .

'. “Sometime later, she: again ‘refused: to answer. when =.
‘Considine pressed for names. of other doctors. whom | a

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“If that drug had. not been available to her, Billy
Jones would probably be here today,’’ he said. »

But Davidge suggested the point had been made after
Brown flatly refused to name any more doctors.

Brown’s recollection of the party at her home earlier
the night Jones died was blurred from her drug taking at
that time. She said she drove Jones to her home where
she wanted him to install a tape deck in her car.

She opened two bottles. of beer and later in the
evening phoned to invite lan Ramage and Brian Offer to
the party.

They came with a bottle of vodka, but Brown, -
Ramage and Offer all testified they drank the liquor and
no one actually saw Jones drinking it. As well, no one
was sure if Jones even had any beer.

She’'said she and Jones had smoked some marijuana
before Ramage and Offer arrived. -

Brown said she didn’t see Jones take any , pills that
night, and added the only pills she had ever seen him
take. were two Valium capsules: he bought in the Sidney”
Hotel pub.

But she said she had one. beer and threé kinds of pills

a Valium, Elavil. and Fiorinal,- an analgesic and.
‘ sedative — on the night Jones died. -

."*] was kind of eating them like. candy,” she said.

By the time her father yelled from upstairs tc to send her. :
friends.home, she said Jones was intoxicated. ¥

The last, she saw of Jones was the: other two > helping

him out the door, she said.

“Her first realization that. something was: wrong came

two days later; on March 29, when Jones’ mother, Mrs...’

Pauline Oiund, phoned to ask for her-son. - :
“.Olund told Brown an Indian: ‘boy has: been found on.

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