just start when kids hit 14 _. they?re two. In the old days, — ‘| > Now. kids are’ bringing f° don’t pretend to know th ag long as it takes to drink a cup of coffee. Wednesday, May 13, 1998 -eview asked you: On Monday, May 11, Gary Lunn, Reform MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, hosted a forum on the Young Offenders Act at Mount Douglas Secondary. On May 26, SD63 will host a ferum on youth violence. This week, The Re- view asked you: What changes, if any, do you think need to be made to the Young Offenders Act to make it ee more of a deterrent to youth crime? ee The k : Susan Hughes _ FredBennett > Lesiey Bennett _ Mark Davis ~~ Sidney: Central Saanich =———-——s Central Saanich . ~ Sidney 66 6G GE a Eee sn koa I don’t know what iow- No more of those fluffy ‘I think thatifthey’reold) = Y'ma firm believer in the ering the age will solve. sentences. Parents need to enough to do the crime, punishment suiting the - That, to me, is just putting - have some control, but once ~ they’re old enough todo the crime, although that’s a dif-. : - out the spot fires and leav-. kids have stepped on the time. Parents need to be re-_ ficult thing when it comes — sponsible for their children, — but there’s only. so much | -wrong side of the law it’s — gone beyond just what a parent can do. The court control. they can be exe. system as a whole — well, | pected. to have. Once they - _». (kids) have broken the law, . they’re beyond the control. _ just a parent can have.” ing the main blaze to burn. . Some of the cnus needs to | be taken back by the par- .. “ents, These. things don’t _den’t understand the conse- quences of their actions. . Y i to might help change that. ~ (years old). It starts when: B aw: " itused to be that a fist fight straightened out a problem. knives and guns to a fight. T ‘answers, but parents have® to take back some of their... paper, it sou -. Fesponsibility.” 2 peality, it’s nothing know that: S Cigar smokers sh public. —P.T: Barnum ae ~. “a cigar is just a cigar.” I guess it’s true. I guess folks will buy just about anything, as long as some ad agency guy dreams up a way to’convince themtheyneedit : us ‘Take cigars. Please. eg Bathe Fa MR : There was a time, not so very long ago, when cigars were recognized for what they are: stinky cylinders of a foul herb -.. that pollute the air, soil the drapes and burn ~ holes in one’s lungs and lapels with impartial. abandon. : But cigars have had a Madison Avenue makeover. They've become chic, trendy, cool. Visit a newsstand these days and you see the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Peter Falk (not to mention Goldie Hawn, Demi Moore and Sharon Stone) grimacing back at you, their capped tecth clenched around a stogie the size _ . of a Rottweiler’s hind leg. a oe Cigar Afficionado is the pretentious E ve - moniker of one of the rags. Another one bills itself as The Smoker. Perhaps the least f7)( pompous is one called simply Cigar. ms, The trouble ig, these publications are de- ~ ‘voted to one thing and one thing only: tothe: * notion that sticking a large tube of weeding your mouth and sucking on one end while you ignite the other. - will make you a more attractive person. fo ee "And we're not talking El Cheapo cigars here. ‘The readers who fall for the cigars-are-cool line will be paying big bucks for -_ "Davidoff RRs sound like anti-ballistic missiles — and indeed, they're not too far off, size and shape wise. But actually, they are extremely rare and expensive hand-rolled cigars. Canadian. Each... : ; Since he took office two years ago, Prime Davidoff RRs to visiting bigwigs like kiss can- dies at Halloween, an incredible $114,000 worth of the things. The problem is, Netanyahu has been putting those cigars “on his tab” as long as St he’s been in office. Isracli taxpayers have if) just learned that they've been paying the bills for Netanyahu's habit all along. . expensive tobacco. tastes, At a Christie's auction held in Bern, Switzerland recently, ‘ary anonymous oil tycoon from Saudi Arabia of $25,000 for 25 —- that’s twenty-five — cigars. are almost impossible to find these days — rare “Trinidad” cig- cars, hand-made in Cuba by master craftsmen, Still, anyway you ~ the privilege of courting lip cancer and smelling like apool ‘sliceit, that guy is laying out an incredible $1,000 for every af- ne a “ter-dinner stogie he smokes, 6 4 POOMG ose Relea ae alae ete -- Nowadays, Trendoids don’t bat an eye at the prospect of ~ paying $25 or $30 for a “pleasure” that will last approximately products came “packed in their original cedar box.” We seem:to have collectively forgotten one of Sigmund’ purchaser will be packed inif he continues to smoke cigars. 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Often, kids — Naming young. offenders .- _, Just the public being aware — Davidoffs cost the equivalent of 43 dollars. § Minister Netanyahu has been handing out — : He's also managed to puffhis way through | ~ Benjis not the only onein the world with | eagerly shelled out the Canadian equivalent - Now, it’s true that these were creme de lacreme cigars that ~" Mind you, the Christies brochure points out that the prized : | Somewhat smaller, one assumes, than the wooden box the. | | PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW @ | IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME l} = © Foot Bath . * Care of Nails, Cuticles, Corns and Calluses ° Foot Massage ; » Reflexology Available Upon S#tetSeticshss | SP cf Request Connie be «655-5053 3 Tippie t __BSCN, RN SATURDAY MAY 23, 1998 | 5 Cocktails at 6pm’ Dinner at7 pme Show follows dinner Reservations recommend { an-Eat ed t [featuring the great taste of KRAFT cheeses... . ggememiemaners Sirloin Steak and Salad Bar | — $tl99 1 Ba LUNCH SRECIALS:, lm Mozzarella Mike $5.99. fl Cordon Biew a Chicken Burger. $6.99 ‘ft ie , : a fs. 1960 203-1595 McKenzie Aves McKenzie Professional Centre|. f go (On McKenzie at Shelbourne): aera : Cttwrs neryre May 3441, YO90 ans e oe “(On Goldstream at Millstream) _ a : i ; Ae are Langford 478-7300, pee ete Nl a aya Uae abi} i Ba srt K “st RPE CLEA fea iafs eat Wl hes