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Impaired motorist fined $3,000 for repeated intoxicated driving

A local man was handed a heavy fine in Stettler Provincial Court on Jan. 13 for two charges of impaired driving within days last summer.

Kent Donald Volker, 38, was fined a total of $3,000 for two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol content over 08 milligrams with a reading of 180 mg on June 24 and 210 mg on July 3.

“With these high levels, you place your life in jeopardy and other people,” said Judge E. D. Riemer.

He was also placed on probation for 18 months and prohibited from consuming alcohol or non-prescription drugs and ordered to take counseling and treatment for alcohol and drugs.

“If he takes this counseling and abstains from alcohol and drugs, everyone should benefit,” said Crown Counsel Murray McPherson.

William Blake Patterson of Alix, 27, was fined $500 for one count of assault after he struck a female bartender at Alix Hotel bar on Nov. 30.

He pushed the female bartender after she refused to sell him any more drinks.

“No person or this female bartender has to put up with this behaviour,” said Judge Riemer.

Jacqueline H. Desilets, 47, was given conditional discharge and ordered to pay the amount back for one count of theft under $5,000 after she stole $40 from the Terry Fox Run fund at Stettler Middle School last fall when she was employed as a casual janitor.

“You did hold a position of trust,” Judge Riemer told the accused who plans to pay the money back.

John Robert MacDonald was handed a 12-month suspended sentence and probation for domestic violence, prohibited from possessing firearms alongside being ordered to take counseling and treatment for domestic violence, anger management.

His spouse suffered a black eye and a bruise after he hit her in the face twice in their home on Dec. 26.