Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 10, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 3 mothers and children Pound the outside James Assiniboia Board crowd protests school closing children descend on Board in bid to spare Columbus from axe by Glen Mackenzie about 100 Columbus school parents and children demonstrated outside the James Assiniboia school division office yesterday to protest a Board decision to close the school in Shona Davidson of Kilmer Avenue said residents were reluctant to pull children from school for half a but weve tried everything else we want the school Board to listen to rented buses who rented two buses to transport have repeatedly taken their Case to the school but you May As Well have presented it to the Davidson the Board voted in july to close Columbus next despite the recommendation of of parents and school division representatives that it should not be closed until about 10 students held up a sign yesterday which read parents for better education want total area Columbus is to be consolidated with Robert Browning but parents want a review of the entire Westwood not just these two current enrolment at Columbus is 151 but this is projected to drop to about 80 within the next five division superintendent George Buchholz said maintaining the two schools As they Are would Cost an extra a year by 1985 unless the division combines grades in the same reducing education Quali requiring students to walk an extra half mile to Robert Browning pre serves Quality education without in creasing Buchholz he said if the division maintained classes of 15 or less students at equity would demand the same student teacher ratio throughout the this would boost tax Bills by 10 to 20 he student teacher ratio the divisions Overall student teach or ratio is to counting Princi pals As but the Columbus ratio is to Buchholz Ron Benson of Connor place said parents accept that enrolment is de but believe the Board should have looked for alternatives to closing the Wendell a Columbus Parent who resigned from the area review committee after the boards said six months int Long enough to look at accused of urging witness to drop accusations by Pamela Fayerman an 18yearold Man testified yester Day that a Winnipeg police Constable offered to buy him a motorcycle if he withdrew accusations of sexual relations before the officers trial on charges of Gross indecency i have to admit it was sort of Hans John Taenzer Testi fied at the trial of James Norman an officer for 17 years and former president of the Winnipeg police two counts was suspended from the Force without pay after he was arrested March 11 and charged with two counts of Gross the charges Stem from events Between and March 11 of this Taenzer who was 17 when the alleged Occure nees took said that wife Gas credit cards on excursions with the officers Taenzer said he had asked to borrow Money from Hanson at numerous meetings with him last but the Constable repeatedly demanded that he withdraw his police Taenzer said he agreed to this on some but refused on Taenzer said he finally decided last week to stick to his statement because i didst want to go to jail for some thing he Hanson Taenzer said he met Hanson in through a he said Hanson later found out he had tried to commit suicide and phoned to invite him out for a hamburger to discuss his after instead of taking Taenzer to his fathers Hanson took him to the flood Way where he masturbated him and performed Fella Taenzer under Taenzer conceded that his memory is foggy on some of the details of his encounters with he said it is possible his memory has been affected by Mari Juana Taenzer denied telling a Dur ing a discussion about his aspirations to become a police that he had a perfect in with the police depart ment As a result of his accusations against Taenzer said he didst Tell his psychiatrist about his encounters with Hanson because he was scared and but Mcgregor scoffed at Here you were scared and but not too scared to ask for i suggest because Money was More important than your Mcgregor the trial before county court judge George Lockwood continues we were starting to ask intelligent but needed More time to find he Buchholz said an area review com Mittee is considering the conversion of James collegiate to handle grades 9 to 12 or grades 7 to 12 because academic enrolment now at is projected to drop below 300 by he said another area review com Mittee is looking at consolidating Charles school with Buchanan school because Charles is old and enrol ment at two blocks is falling the division has 22 elementary schools with an enrolment of about this compares with in 1972 and a projected enrolment of by school Board chairman George Eakin said no action will be taken against parents or children for the missed half but i think there using the children As pawns in the he the Board faces a prob Lem with parents on another Trudy chairman of the Allard school parents said parental pressure delayed a Board motion which would have created a French immersion program at their school without consulting at a meeting last the Board apologized to Allard school parents for failing to consult with them before the education committee recommended an immersion program be established Sac vie said the majority of parents Arent but wanted to know what the Board intended to she said trustees rejected Columbus As a possible immersion school be cause it is open area and a regular school is needed for Eakin said the matter was left with the Parent if the Council opposes the program being established the Board will look for an alter Nate he she said parents dont to but want information about How the program will be implemented and a guarantee that the English pro Gram will food chains deny reports of Price War by Alice Krueger Winnipeg major supermarket deny there on the verge of a food Price War like the one being waged in some Ontario but a Battle of words appears to be heating up among certain local com As evidenced by this weeks flurry of food advertisements by Canada Dominion stores and super so there is Little evidence of actual Price slashing dominions full Page newspaper advertisement this week of reduced meat prices not As super Valu had five pages of ads in yesterdays newspaper Outlin ing its pricing policy and comparing its everyday Low prices with those of unnamed for its Safeway was offering double value on coupons earlier this Safeway Public relations manager Larry Mclennan said while there Are reports the Price War May be spread ing to he sees Little evidence of it so there is no Price War at the to he attributing the current competitive atmosphere to the trans formation of lob Laws stores to super competitive firm the situation in Winnipeg is very competitive with the changeover of to super Val they Are very part of super Valus aggressive new stance has been its refusal to go along with a longstanding practice of allow ing competitors Price checkers into the store to see what there charge super Valu has posted signs at the front door of its stating that Price checkers Are not the change has reportedly led to some unpleasant scenes in which competitors undercover Price checkers were spotted and asked to leave the officials of super Valu have refused to comment on the current state of the Winnipeg contacted a company representative without even asking about the nature of the inquiry said there was no comment and the company would Issue a press release if and when it had something to the Safeway said while Dominion is advertising a Price reduction on its if you compare them to our regular there is no indication that they have Cut i dont think there is a Price Jim merchandising manager for Dominion were just being competitive with whats in the marketplace at the pres ent he said of his stores Deci Sion to Cut some meat prices by As much As 70 cents a Grade a fresh frying for dropped 53 cents a Pound to sirloin Steak to a Pound from the lower Dominion prices on occasions right up until Jast Hanson pleaded with him to change his statement to police because he was afraid of losing his family and who admitted failing an employment examination with the police department last said he was going to Bow to Hanson request until his Mother convinced him to hold Taenzer said Hanson arranged a meeting with the Law firm of and so that he could talk to a lawyer about changing his police state he said Hanson wanted him to say that rags containing semen found underneath the officers car were actually from an encounter Taenzer had with a female while using Hanson but he said he didst change his statement because his Mother disco Vered the letters and warned him he would be charged with perjury if he changed his 10 to 15 encounters the witness said the Law firm didst Bill him for the sessions because Hanson had arranged to pay for Taenzer said that during the period when he had Between 10 and 15 sexual encounters he was Al Lowed to use the officers car to go to parties and borrowed about from under Cross examination by defence lawyer Al Taenzer said he had taken Hanson police association membership card from the car and kept it in his Wallet until his Mother discovered windblown look he also admitted using wind plays havoc yesterday with plastic tarps on Bridge Unser construction at Sturgeon Creek on Portage those items represent no real bargain for the consumer in that there still higher than at Many other grocery stores in the Grade a fresh fryers Are Selling for 99 cents a Pound at cantors and a Pound at pay fair this week sirloin is a Pound at super Valu and As Low As at a Price War among major Ontario chains has been under Way for several weeks now and follows a move by Steinberg Miracle food Mart to reduce prices on items by an average per skirmish in As a minor skirmish is being waged Between supermarkets in be although one Industry offi Cial said the situation there is simply a Case of too Many stores in too Small an it could spill Over to but i dont think so a different mar the Dominion merchandising manager unlike in Steinbergs pres ence in Winnipeg i limited to Valdi discount which Are not consid ered serious Competition for the three major chains because they dont sell fresh meat or but raw sons Doug Mon was less definite in denying a Price it was monaster who talked about super Valus decision to prohibit competitors Price checkers and of How some Dominion checkers had been asked to leave super Valu i feel super Valu has started it by not letting Price checkers he false alarms worry police by Gregg Shilliday Winnipeg police Are worried about the High incidence of false Holdup alarms in the especially in Light 01 a serious Accident involving two police officers responding to a false alarm constables Bruce Thorndycraft and Chris Riddell were injured when their Cruiser collided witha gravel truck on Pembina Highway Friday an employee at thunderbird billiards on Osborne Street apparently had set off an alarm Winnipeg police association presi Dent Cal Varey said yesterday he hoped an unfinished internal police study on false alarms would be completed soon and significant recommendations these alarms can be a real firemen As Well As for he we have to do something about this Varey said that while the association is obviously concerned about its Mem Bers he Felt possible solutions were the responsibility of the 95 false 1 am planning to ask the chief about this and see if we can Speed up the Deputy chief John Urchenko said yesterday details of report could not be released because it was income a 1978 Survey indicated that 95 per cent of Tio Dup and burglar alarms handled each week were costing the City about a its a damned if you damned if you dont said you get a series of false alarms from a but How can you Stop respond ing one of them might be he said the department is consider ing recommending a users where by an owner would be charged a certain amount for each false he said this May encourage owners to be More careful opening doors and More cautious around alarm its a question of people just have to be More he an increasing number of North american cities have established some kind of penalty system for false alarms during the last few false alarms Are caused by two factors human error and mechanical Stu Dies have shown that these factors Are usually evenly ;