Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ill til m Mas if a tar time wrestler sent a a of a Floc s i nil frit1 j Oil by Murray Mcneill a provincial court judge was told yesterday How a time wrestler repeatedly whipped and spanked in Bey after the youngster refused to Stop judge Manly risen was told the Joseph Wilfrid flew into a flu rage the night of May 2 after the his eofflraon4aw wife for 15 of 26 minutes his lawyer told the court that Gautre of Cathedral had been beaten himself As a seen his coffin Ofrias wife beat the boy in the past and saw it As an effective and acceptable Means of silencing the yesterday he found Dot when judge Tusen sentenced him id four months in jail for in passing Lodge Rosen told Gauthier these acts can Only the characterised As those of an and f doubt if even they animals would treat their offspring in such a although the child suffered no per manent physical injuries As a result of the judge Rosen said what damage might have occurred to that child from a mental Only time will Crown counsel Terry Mackean told the court that during the course of the beating Gauthier bit the child five times on the shoulder am and whipped him five or six times on the Back and buttocks with a of Belt and spanked him with his the attack left the child with severe bruising virtually from head to court was Gauthier was arrested after the beat ing was reported to the boy was taken to Hospital and detained for treatment and observe Mackean since then the Winnipeg childrens Aid society has begun Legal proceedings to obtain Cus Tody of the the Crown set in speaking to sentence Sauthier Roy admitted an child almost defies first taste of Freedom one of four Peregrine Falcons exercises its wings in a first taste of Freedom after being released yesterday in Winnipeg by wildlife Branch the release of the six Eskold three males and a is part of an International program to rejuvenate the endangered it is hoped the incubated in will survive to mate with others in the group seeks court Date on overpass Mossbrook House has filed an application in court of Queens Bench asking Justice James Wilson to reopen a hearing in which he quashed a City Council Resolution to scrap the proposed Sherbrook Mcgregor the which is on the court docket this will Likely be adjourned and come up again for argument in late Mel lawyer for Mossbrook said yesterday the inner City drop in Centre is simply making application to be entered As a party so we would have an Opportunity of present ing argument on the Mossbrook House believes they Are a party that has an interest directly in this Myers they have Milvor new emf head former Wabowden mayor Don Mcl Vor has been elected president of the Manitoba Metis federation to replace retiring John emf executive director Maureen Mcmillan said Milvor was chosen Over four other candidates at the organizations annual meeting which was held at Rorketon Centennial about 40 Kilometres North of Rose do in recent Milvor has been Best known for his attempts to Salvage Gold from a tractor train wreck on Island before his election he served As Vic president of the emf to Morrisseau resigned last month for personal been involved for a Long time in this judge Wilson granted a motion by businessman at Christie last month quashing a 4 City Council Resolution directing the Board of commission ers to take the necessary Steps to terminate the Myers noted the hearing into Chris ties motion was heard without notice to Mossbrook which has been a opponent of the they believe that out of fairness they should have had an Opportunity of participating to the court proceedings before the court made up its Mossbrook House is alleging it was denied natural Myers adding if its motion is the hear ing would be reopened to the extent that we would be Able to articulate a position before the Veres that himself had been the product of deprived and violent family Back ground1 in which his Stepfather often beat him with in beef he said an had been drinking heavily the night of the offence and when the boy Stop wailing he flew into a fit of he thought beating the fell in Tine with How he had been disciplined As a Vertex since the Gauthier has been subjected to much Public embarrassment and Yerex Hes he has committed a immersion classes meet test a study commissioned by the Mani Toba government has concluded that anglophone children in French Immer Sion classes function As Well by Grade 6 As francophone students learning in the conducted by the private Centre for research and con said tests show students from no francophone families immersed in French during their ear Lier school years achieve equal proficiency by Grade 6 with students who first Learned French at Donald principal investigator for the also indicated that while about 85 per cent of students in grades 3 and 6 want to continue in the French immersion Only about half of those in Grade 9 feel the Foidart said immersion programs cannot provide As Many High school options As an English program and school divisions will have to face the problem in social class basis the parents were asked in a Survey for their educational occupation and but had to be guaranteed anonymity so they would he John vital school division Deputy assistant said he believes the great popularity of French immersion in his River Heights neighbourhood indicates a social class basis for immersion in that but vital immersion students come from All parts of the Divi Sion and the enrolment fluctuation from year to year indicates the Situa Tion can change on the basis of who talks it up on the the study said parents Are definitely enthusiastic about the immersion pro Foidart conceded that a Parent who Speaks Only English cannot evaluate a Childs performance in but argued parents know from such factors As the students reaction to the pro Gram How Well the student is the study also concluded that French immersion students do at least As Well in English As students in English Only schools have most other studies on the police Board queries role the Winnipeg police commission will ask City Council to clarify whether the commission will have any future role to play in the administration of the cites police the five member commission unanimously passed a motion yesterday they Hope will get the commission out of the limbo it has been mired in since it was stripped of its authority Over the police Force three years since the commission has had the authority Only to Deal with disciplinary matters and offer advice to the police chief on such topics As Community relations and crime authority Over the police Force was turned Over to the cites finance com but it has not provided the department with any policy Alf Skowron charged at last months commission he said that although the cites n Nance committee currently has administrative authority Over the police de it Hast been exercising it except on budgetary a consultants report on the Winnipeg police department recommended last year that the police commission be restructured and its Powers beefed yesterdays motion Calls on City Council to decide whether it intends to adopt the consultants recommend and if bogies real name to remain secret the boy found on a downtown Street july 30 and for whom Public Appeal tuesday brought Forward s Mother int really but neither the childrens Aid society of Winnipeg nor police were releasing his True name he cannot be Cas Public information officer Gill Pur deny sold last because the matter May go to a Famy court information the Cas gathers on the boy and Bis family coi4d be used to court and prior revelation of it could cause Legg Burdeyna the identity of juveniles appearing to family court cannot be revealed by Law Pur deny could not say whether the boy is from Winnipeg or from outside the there May not be a need to go to family court for disposition of the boys be but evidence must fee protected against that the Case is being investigated by Cas Field workers and the process could take some Bur deny said at the end of their the Field workers will discuss the Best plan for the Burdeyna police up the boy at july wandering Barefoot on Young Street Between Portage and place ave he was unidentified until Bis having seen her sons picture on television tuesday went to the Cas yesterday morning and identified the Burdeyna said the boy was apparently lost to the shuffle Between parents and other the parents left him with the rela who then went on vacation with out do Gie is now being cared for to a receiving a Ca staffed Home prove socially licensed for use by the Cas As an temporary place he will live at that location until disposition of his Burdeyna my 41 4h 1h Phi in Villim terrible the lawyer and f assault causing bodily had dont believe a titter is Likely to Ous criminal convictions for property repeat this Type of this was the first time he had court was told although convicted of a violent offence who pleaded guilty to a charge of against a Jim of Ftp Merlin Shoesmith left and Ken Rebizant Monitor Herd of Elk thrives despite War poachers by Ritchie Gage Winnipeg free press Spruce Woods a scattered Herd of about 700 Elk is thriving in this bus dotted landscape de spite almost constant military War Hunting seasons and poach at Elk have been spotted sleeping in the trajectory zone be tween tanks and according to a provincial wildlife in completed last biologist Tom Strong said current military activities do not appear detrimental to the Elk in the Elk Herd has increased from 125 in 1969 to about 700 this summer in a Square Kilometre area which is made up of provincial Forest land and Federal land used for North Atlantic treaty organization military exer the major part of the Herd growth came after a period which also brought increased military activity in the area with West German troop and tank Strong said the Hunting season for Elk started in j979 will Likely have a greater effect on the Herd than the War the Herd has been in the area since the but diminished with the Rush of agricultural settlement in the area in the the Canadian military started manoeuvres in the area in 1943 with Aerial artillery practise and troop German troops joined them through nato agreements to 1974 with tank distribution studied the areas Are scattered through the military re with the bulk of the Reserve land touched Only occasionally by military a biologist with toe Provin Cial wildlife studied the distribution and movements of the Elk they related to military activity or Bis misters degree to he the majority of the Ani about frequent the Mili tary Reserve area where the artillery practise shakes the Veseen Elk with Newborn within one Kilometre from a Tan training i feel the Elk have adapted to the noise because Over a period of time they know it wont Hurt Strong said one cow Elk was sleep ing so soundly he was Able to approach and touch the in Strong the animals were seen in Fields and Bush adjacent to the Tow site of Shilo and along roads in the showed no during a military exercise in Strong he observed about 60 Elk from a helicopter near a military they were grazing and bedded Down on the Edge of an Aspen they showed no Merlin head of Bio logical services for the department of said the increase to the Herd is a prime example of animal Man has the Power to exterminate wildlife in the fight for land theres a great satisfaction in knowing there there and increase he that there is an ongoing concern about the her the Lack of males to the herds population is of As is the East West Divi Sion to the Herd As Well As recording Chance sight wildlife officials Are tricking 16 Elk which have been tagged with Sola powered radio the is from Hill tops by triangulation and the exact location of sightings and gender Are All the idea behind the tracking is to find out the movements of the Ani Mals Over a period of said Ken a student in this Way we can determine what kind of habitat is necessary for the Elk by preserving ensure their ;