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HIGH SCHOOL HOOPSTERS ASKETBALL ALLSTARS SELECTED Mulort Drive 18887712106 Its fl nl THE ERA 1 INCLUDING GST PAGES Thursday Jan 7 MARKET PUBLIC LIBRARY PARK AVE NEWMARKET ONTAHO POUCETARGET DRUGGED DRIVERS Officer teaching to recognize drug impairment BY JOE Many of us have seen the com mercials The beer glasses pounding down one by one until tires screech and an inevitable crashing sound The well- publicized war against motorists blitzed from booze has been waged for years by law enforce ment and advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving But the against drivers impaired by other kinds of intoxi cants Is a fairly new development York Regional Police say its drug recognition expert program is nationally recognized with one officer teaching Mounties to identify drugrelated impairment The last two evaluations Ive done for have both been for impaired driving by prescription medication You could take too much cough syrup and not be able to drive York police employ 30 drug rec ognition expert officers Before provisions of federal leg islation Bill C2 became law in Jury 2008 police could not demand a test from drivers suspected to be impaired by drugs said Sgt Ed Villa- mere a York police drug recognition expert Now Sgt Villamere said police can demand three things of a motor ist suspected of being Impaired by drugs to submit to sobriety testing to perform an evaluation by a drug recognition expert and to provide a urine sample to be analysed Impairment by drug doesnt just mean street drugs It can also include prescriptions if someone uses medi cation in a way not recommended by his doctor People selfmedicate all the time Sgt Villamere said The last two evaluations Ive done for have both been for impaired driv ing by prescription medication You could take too much cough syrup and not be able to drive The annual police festive RJDJE program launched in late November During the second week of the blitz two impairedbydrugs arrests were made by officers on patrol See UTTLE pop AS AIMING HIGH Huron Heights Warriors Stef Thompson prepares for a spike during York Region Athletic Association senior girls volleyball action against the unbeaten Aurora Eagles Tuesday in Aurora Aurora won Redmen Destiny is Nike ad Six peewee players appear in TV commercial BY JOHN CUDMORE jc rmg You never knows when that big break that leads to an acting career is going to come along For six members of the New market Minor Hockey Association including five players from the Red- men peewee team show business is happening right now as they appear in a Nike TV commercial airing regularly across Canada dur ing the heat of the hockey season The players are cast as part of Nikes Destiny Force Fate com mercial featuring NHL stars and Dion and which started airing in Late December We rounded up a dozen kids mostly from our team and not know ing really what was going on went Chesswood Arena said Doug a team parent who answered an e- mail last summer seeking tryouts from young hockey players 1 just took a shot You never know and a halfdozen of our kids got selected I just took a shot You never know and a halfdozen of our kids got selected They got their callback and a chance to be in a commercial that has played during the world junior championships and NHL broad casts and will likely be played a lot now especially with the Olympics coming up Filming of the ad was conducted over a twoday period at Westwood Arena in Toronto in midJuly The 60second spot depicts ath letes defining destiny in an series of quick camera cuts They said wed be lucky if we saw the kids in the background that the only ones who might recognize them was their parents Ikeda said There was a lot of sitting around but I think a lot of them think it was pretty neat As it turned out son Cole goalie Andrew and Jacob Brill inger a member of the minor pee singleA got the meati est and most identifiable roles The other players include Adam Bott team captain Dustin and Mackenzie After making the cut in tryouts a See BEING A7 Perfectionism unhealthy in kids study BY TERESA tlatchfordOyrmgcom Sally was assigned to draw a detailed diagram of a pul ley system demonstrated in her Grade 7 science class as homework She double checked her notes before leaving class to ensure she had all the information she needed and on her way home she visual ized the drawing she would create fc Perfectionism pointless and potentially harmful for most elementary she sat down with some paper and students according to a York University study a pencil and began to draw but couldnt get the lines quite right and decided to erase her efforts and begin again She became frustrated when she couldnt get the drawing to resemble the picture she created in her mind After crumpling the paper out of frustration she started again The next day Salfy didnt hand in her drawing as she felt it would be better to receive a zero on the assignment rather than hand in what she perceived as an imperfect project Perfectionism is pointless and potentially harmful for most elementary students accord ing to the York University study Perfectionism Achievement and Afreet in Children A Comparison of Students From Gifted Arts and Regular Programs featured in last months issue of the Canadian Journal of School Psychology It turns out that perfection ism In children is actually not just unhealthy its totally unnecessary Set FEW page AS FINAL WEEKEND TO SAVE BoxJngWeekSalLiPI2L SAVEUPTOSO ON SELECTED AUDIO VIDEO ALL FLAT PANEL TVS SURROUND SOUND SPEAKERS Pod Speakers Audto and Video FURNITURE Video PROJECTORS SUBWOOFERS BLURAYS DVDs CDs and related components are on SALE Newmarket Plaza Davis Drive 90549671 33