Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba R us w v v v u Winnipeg free september 3 lawyer drops lawsuit after real estate manager apologizes by Pamela Fayert Nan a Winnipeg lawyer has discontinued a suit against a Block realty Branch manager after receiving an apology Tor a memo that listed him As one offous uncooperative rude Law yers that salesmen should Stan Udow filed a statement of claim last week in Manitoba court of Queens Bench against Joel manager of Block Leila Avenue alleging that he was defamed in a memo Korsunsky had circulated to salesmen working out of the Douglas the lawyer who filed the statement of claim on behalf of said the matter was resolved after Korsunsky agreed to make a verbal and written apology to the agents who received the two of the four lawyers named in the memo had not received similar apologies by yesterday after the two said they were not aware of Dows suit or that they been named in the memo until contacted by the free according to Dows statement of memo said i am keeping a list of uncooperative rude lawyers always late in com Mission payments so make sure your client does not use them if you have More let me the memo went on to name As Well As lawyers Maria Michael Skremetta and Dave the statement of claim to also alleged that the memo was delivered to 45 realty agents in their Dows statement of claim dismissed the memos allegations As untrue and Likely to lower the estimation of the plaintiff Udow in the eyes of the the plaintiff has devoted his youths family considers suit against police by Kevin Prokosh and Murray Mcneill the parents 6f a Stonewall youth recovering in Hospital from a police gunshot wound Are considering a Law suit against the Winnipeg police depart ment and the City after the findings of an internal police investigation Are the condition of Tom shot in the Back saturday As he drove from an Arlington Street hotel parking has improved and he is expected to be released later this said Hymie a lawyer representing the there Are no plans to have the embedded fairly deeply in Sander sons removed at this he Weinstein said there could be Legal action taken As a result of the shooting because an innocent person got Winnipeg Deputy police chief de Igelski said yesterday that an internal investigation has been launched to de Termine if the two officers involved in the shooting were justified in drawing and firing their Igelski said a fou member composed of two police superintendents and a sergeant from the departments firearms is expect sleeping burglar arrested breaking into a Redwood Avenue Home proved to be such an exhausting experience for a weekend burglar that he curled up and went to sleep in the Kitchen police said yesterday that at about sunday a Man Cut the screen on a window of the climbed and proceeded to ransack the the owner of the Home was awakened by the and called the when police arrived they searched the Kitchen and found a Man curled up sleeping in the although Noth ing appeared to have been the officers woke up the sleeping took him into custody and gave him a free bed in the Public safety building for the remainder of the yesterday a appeared in court charged with break and enter with intent As a result of the he was remanded into custody without plea to de to announce its findings sometime Early next he added that such an investigation is held whenever a police officer fires his police released Only sketchy details of the shooting during the and yesterday Igelski and crime Herb Stephen refused to discuss the Case pending the outcome of the inter Nal theres no question the person shot was not doing anything Weinstein perhaps its a Case of the police firing when they a Grade 11 was wounded at about 11 saturday after police fired on his family car As he drove from the Stock Exchange hotel parking the boys said yesterday his son and were sitting in the car waiting for their Dennis to re turn from the hotel with some he said that when the Uncle spotted a Man with a gun at the Beer Vendor outlet he quickly left the jumped into the car and told his lets get out of As Tom Sanderson began to drive out the parking his father the Uncle saw two men dressed in jeans and shirts with their guns pointed in their the who were later identified As plainclothes police offi opened fire on the car when it failed to he the police fired several shots at the car As it pulled including one that shattered a window before striking the Lawrence Sanderson after the Driver was hit he slumped into his uncles Lap and the car went out of control and hit a police said they were called to the hotel after a Man tried to sell a gun to a member of the hotel a was arrested in the Vicinity saturday night and appeared in court yesterday charged with pos session of a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the Public he was remanded in custody without plea to next police said yesterday that when a Man walked into the Vendor with a gun and asked to see the the staff thought the Man was planning to Rob the a staff member notified police said the suspects 25yearold common Law wife was also taken into custody As a material witness in the she was released on bail during the weekend and was remanded for one week when she appeared in court working life to building up a reputation professionally and a substantial portion of his Legal practice is based on refer rals from real estate agent salesmen and others and As a result of the defamatory words the plaintiffs reputation has suffered irreparable Korsunsky said in an interview yesterday that the memo was typed by a newly hired Secretary who pretend his intentions and revised the wording without his final Korsunsky said the Secretary was not fired and he took most of the blame for the saying its actually my should have read it before the realtor said his original memo was too vague and the Secretary took it upon herself to resolve the vague the wrong Korsunsky said he has Learned a Good lesson from the incident and promised it would never happen lawyers file statements of claim if they didst think they had a he one thing is you really have to watch your is and is with they dont fool lawyer Skremetta was shocked to see his name on a copy of the statement of claim and said in a interview that he will consider launching his own suit against Block Ive never been late in commission payments and Ive never received any correspondence to that effect from Skremetta in blabber Kovnats said he contacted Korsunsky immediately after hearing about the memo and found out that his name was put on the list by Dave free press uneasy rider hot came before a fall for this female motorcyclist she lost control of her machine on wet pavement on yesterday a passerby comforts the fallen rider after Portage Avenue Between Garry and Smith traffic report fingers danger zones Broadway and Portage and main have most collisions in 1980 by Joe Rubin if there is anything to be Learned from the cites 1980 traffic collisions report its to keep away from the intersection of Broadway and Osborne Street on fridays in january Between 4 and 5 in the if the weather is Clear and the Street is chances Are excellent you will have a car most a released the streets and transportation departments 100page summary of 1980 collision statistics once again fingers Broadway and Osborne As the most collision prone inter Section in the last there were 54 traffic Acci dents at the which accommodates about vehicles an thirty three per cent of these were re renders and 26 per cent were the Corner of Portage Avenue and main Street ran a close second with 53 Adamar Road and Pembina Highway which is controlled by a pedestrian corridor placed third with 45 Portage and which Maccomo dates about 25million vehicles a is the cites nine year Collison Leader 632 compared to 568 for Broadway and there were traffic collisions on Winnipeg streets in resulting in an estimated million in the number of collisions last year rep resents a significant drop from the nine year average of per in 42 collisions resulted in the death of 15 pedestrians and 27 vehicle including 12 motorcyclists and one of injury collisions last 529 were pedestrians and were vehicle of 153 were Bicy Cle injuries and 219 were motorcycle thirty six per cent of All collisions occurred on Friday and when 28 per cent of weekly traffic is on the in Winnipeg experienced an average of 57 collisions on summer fridays and 96 collisions on Winter it was estimated that if last april to october driving conditions were experienced All year the number of collisions would be reduced by 24 per cent and the property damage would drop by fort seven per cent of All pedestrian fatalities were aged 65 or six per cent of All fatalities were 15 to and 88 per cent of these were vehicle fifteen per cent of All pedestrian collisions were five to nine years old the group with the highest collision rate collisions per Popula pedestrians age 75 and Over had a collision rate of per Popula More than accidents occurred on dry took place on icy ones and occurred on wet Twenty nine per cent of All fatal collisions occurred at traffic controlled More than half of All pedestrian fatalities were at mid lock locations and 28 per cent were at tray fic controlled committee rejects residents bid to Block Retar dates group Home by Joe Rubin a City committee yesterday rejected an application by 15 residents opposing the establishment of a group Home for mentally handicapped adults on Ennis Killen Avenue in West the variance and conditional use committee had been asked by the Resi dents to overturn a decision by the lord Selkirk West Kildonan Community committee allowing shalom Resi Dences to set up a Home at 281 the committee issued a two year order allowing up to six Modera Tel retarded people to occupy the Home with a liven Donald spokesman for 15 of 21 residents on the Block where the Home is to be said his group opposed using the residence As a Seminin Stith tonal Home because of a possible drop in real estate we wish it to be known that our objections Are not that we Are against retarded or the efforts being made by the society to provide a help ing hand the Lang told the our concern is that if this property acquires approval to operate As Semi what would Stop other organizations or property owners on the Block from requesting and achieving the same thing they would have every he in support of the Mickey to a lawyer representing Sha Lom cited a study by the Lepage realty company which appraised the Sale Price of houses around the Amant Home on Tracy with the exception of one All resales on the Street either equalled or exceeded the general Market trend for the Rosenberg Gareth who lives near an existing shalom Home on Cathedral said his experience with the residents had been delightful and variance committee members also opposed langs Helen Promislow pointed out that the group Home residents would not screech their throw Beer bottles on neighbouring lawns or play loud music at these people Are More the victims in our world rather than the Daggres she Ottawa official gives moral support to invasion plan by Gregg Shilliday a Canadian external affairs official yesterday expressed moral support for a group of vietnamese refugee soldiers in Canada planning to retake their Homeland from communist their intentions Are obviously said director of the departments Southeast Asia id hate to see someone try to Dis courage As Long As there not breaking any Laws of the free press reported yesterday that More than a Hundred former South vietnamese soldiers had formed a Manitoba Branch of a group called vietnamese military its local leaders said thousands of other exiles have joined branches of the society in to Quebec and the spokesmen for both the Security ser vices and criminal investigation branches of the ramp in As Well As City said yesterday they had not monitored the groups activities and had no knowledge of its exis Burton said hed also never heard of the but added that he was not surprised it had been the vietnamese went through a lot of hard he its hard for them to forget those sorts of the external affairs official said he expected the russian embassy would Register some kind of complaint when they learn of the society but he said he want ill just Tell them that this is a free country and people can say whatever they Manitoba director general of in Jack said he first Learned of the groups existence in the free press and added that he was disturbed by its but he said it didst appear the secretly operated society had broken any Canadian Vanderloo said he plans to keep an Eye on the military but maintained that until they do something the refugees Are Welcome there Are certain terms and conditions that immigrants have to follow when they come to this he As Long As they do whatever they do Here is their he added that if charges of some kind were Ever Laid against the so his department would be in a difficult Vanderloo said he was concerned about the group More because of possible negative reaction from Long term Canadian there is the potential for racial he i would hate to see people reacting racially to their the society a former caretaker for the Warwick apartments at 366 Quappelle where the vietnamese military Over seas group has its said racial problems Are already the who didst wish to be said the 120suite Block is turn ing into a Battleground Between vietnamese and native they fight All the the and the he its mainly indians upstairs and the Viets downstairs and they cant stand each he said he was awakened several weeks ago by the sound of breaking Glass outside the Block on Quap Over in Central Park there was All these vietnamese in uniforms fucking bottles at the indians drinking on the balconies it was a bizarre pretty soon the indians were heaving whole cases of Beer bottles at these i mean the whole Street was covered in some vietnamese in Winnipeg have have also expressed fears about the army men and their methods of raising although most denied knowledge of the group or said they had no complaints about but members of vietnamese Mili tary overseas insist there is no basis for the saying their critics Are communists from our country who have snuck in society Vic president due Van Vul said the group gets its funds from donations and has never demanded Money from the immigration departments chief of settlement Glen said some tensions within the Viet namese refugee Community Are Nevi you have to understand there Are political and racial divisions amongst the he some of the refugees Are of Viet namese Smith while others Are of chinese As some Are from the North Vietnam and others from the Many of them dont Trust each other and i think it will take some time for these divisions to work themselves Smith an official of the Viet namese association of Toronto said yesterday that a local chapter of exiles has been operating in that Ontario City for about two years with the goal of overthrowing the communist regime in their John an association coordinator of refugee resettlement and Community said in an inter View that although he is not a member of the Luc Luong Quan nhan Viet Nam Hai Ngoai or vietnamese military it is very i know they want to get Chu they lost i think the International political situation is very favourable for Chu said he knows a few members who dont want people in their Home land suffering under a communist they chapter members feel theres no Freedom and no Chu Are now waking they dont know what a communist regime is unless they live under group wants to keep the Chu said he did not know of any training with weapons by the Toronto however members meet re ;