Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1982 3 Gravedigger quits after snaring Bone while digging plot Al by Larry Mill and Doug Speirs a Winnipeg Gravedigger says he quit his Job a Day after starting at marys cemetery because he found a human Bone in the first plot he Norman said he had dug about one metre three feet into a grave tuesday when the bucket of his Backhoe surfaced with a 45centi metre 18inch leg Bone stuck be tween its i was so sick to my stomach that i left the same Paterson its supposed to be fresh ground with nobody buried these people pay a fair sum of Money for a place to Bury their rela Tives so that they can remember he adding that cemetery visitors could end up praying Over the wrong even if it was a its got to be you cant have this going on All the who is hiding the Bone in the seven acre Cem said he wants to have it put Back in its proper cemetery business manager Wil Liam Kowalski have be come dislodged from decaying tombs in the past but it was absolutely not True grave workers frequently dig up the Osborne Street cemetery in a restoration in 1953 that involved a realignment of old of course youre going to get some Bones moving about during a restoration but theres nothing irreverent about finding them in a he there May be one Bone or on part of a Skeleton unearthed but that what a cemetery is All int it Kowalski said Paterson May have mistaken a stick for a Bone while digging in the Backhoe shovels sometimes Nick neighbouring Wood coffins when they dig new he when the graveyard Foreman completed the grave Paterson had he found a piece of Wood but no Trace of said the marys and Assumption both managed by Are operated by the roman Catholic Parish of decent Paterson said he complained to Winnipeg police about the Bone disco very but was told they could do nothing because the cemetery be longed to a the provincial cemeteries act does not cover Church or municipal a owned burial said Jack chairman of the Manitoba Public utilities the act says burials must take place in a decent manner but it says nothing about the uncovering of said utilities Board Secretary Gerald certainly the Board is concerned to hear such Barron said its accidental and its unfortunate but i dont know if its anything More than the Public health act bars people from removing buried bodies without the consent of the health but it says nothing about digging into the ground and finding a Bone said Crown attorney Murray in the attorney generals department decided it had insufficient evidence to Lay charges in connection with two incidents this year in which human Bones were disturbed in Elmwood former Gravedigger Paterson with Bone he Coroner to probe Cas wards death runaway Falls from Balcony while questioned by Vancouver police by Christie Mclaren the Vancouver Coroner has called an inquest into the death of a runaway Ward of the Winnipeg childrens Aid society who fell from an apartment Balcony two weeks ago while being questioned by Vancouver Sharon fell from the fourth floor Balcony of an apartment in West end Vancouver on moments after two officers spoke to a Vancouver police department spokesman confirmed she died four Days later in Hospital from head Larry District Coroner for said the British Columbia coroners act demands an inquest for anyone who is in custody of police when they Backus became a permanent Ward of the Cas last Agency spokes Man Bill Burden said in september she disappeared from the seven Oaks Centre for youth in Winnipeg and the Cas heard Noth ing More about her until told by Vancouver police an Accident had taken he Backus died by said Doug the Van Couver police asked Why the two constables did not Stop Backus from going off the bal Hydro Boss promoted to top Post by Ingeborg Boyens the provincial government has hired two of its own senior managers to replace outgoing Manitoba Hydro pres ident and chief executive officer Laurie John general manager of corporate will assume Blachford Job Arnason will be backed up by Mur Ray general manager of corporate who will fill the newly created Post of the appointments were ratified yesterday by the provincial it was announced in october that Blachford whose salary is a year to leave his Post on 21 when his three year contract neither Blachford nor Hydro officials have Given reasons for his Hydro chairman Saul Cherniack said he was pleased the two positions were filled from Hydro in the judgment of the they Are the Best qualified to carry Forward the Hydro traditions that will allow the Utility to meet the challenges of the he Hydro spokesmen were unable to say How Arnason and Fraser were selected or what they will be Energy minister Wilson Parasiuk had said the province hoped to find a suitable candidate within Mckay Dunn said it happened in a matter of he said two patrol whose names were went to the one room suite on the fifth floor after receiving a tip Backus was she identified herself by another name and she said she was one officer called the police station to get More information about the he hands were not Laid upon no arrests were being made at that Backus walked out on to the bal Mckay Dunn and then she climbed from the fifth floor to the fourth floor she made that then she tried to go from the fourth to the third at which time she lost her and fell 40 feet to the parking she fell on her Mckay Dunn said the girl was not under the influence of drugs or she was Lucky the first she was not so Lucky the second he responded to other questions by saying the exact details will come out in the the police department has made a routine investigation of the he and is now writing a you wont be Able to find the results of it until the former Fol Lorama chairman loses bid to avoid repaying to arts Council by Paul Moloney Manitoba court of Appeal has unanimously upheld a lower court decision ordering former Foyd Orama chairman Julius Koteles to pay Back to the Folk arts Council of the delivered orally after a hearing rejected Koteles argument that he was entitled to the Money because of the Long hours he spent working for the the defendant Koteles could not on his own convert his status from that of a Volunteer to that of a manage Rem said chief Justice Samuel speaking for the Threeman panel of the ruling upholds a decision last november by Justice Louis Deni set of Manitoba court of Queens which ordered Koteles to repay the plus five percent interest from Koteles must also pay the Council in Legal costs incurred in the 14day trial before judge As Well As the costs of yesterdays a the Case concerns of Fol Lorama funds Koteles placed into his Law firms Trust account in of this Koteles took for his personal use and paid to lawyer Paul Walsh without Council in Koteles was acquit Ted by a jury on a charge of stealing More than from the Council be tween july and april when he was Council president and a the jury apparently accepted the defence argument that Koteles was entitled to the Money or at least Hon Estly believed this was the the Folk arts which ran Fol Lorama from 1972 to then pursued a civil court action which led to yesterdays the Council was dissolved in and the Community Folk arts Council of Winnipeg was created to stage an annual summer multicultural Legal action contemplated before death by Tom Goldstein Legal action was being considered against construction for failing to provide adequate safety at a downtown construction site even before an employee fell to his death last an inquest was told yester Ron a provincial work place safety and health Branch offi said he intended to recommend prosecution of the company after warning it four times in a two month period to install guard rails at the Lions place construction project at Portage Avenue and Furby the last order was issued july six Days before Kenneth fell six storeys to his later pleaded guilty to one count of violating a june 30 order to install guard rails and was fined Humeniuk said he planned to gather material to prosecute the company because he Felt it was treating his safety orders in a frivolous the orders dated May june june 30 and july 20 were in the form of Stop work each required the company to install protective guard rails on All floor Levels where a worker May fall metres eight feet or the installation of the railings was to be done i Media the warnings Are preliminary to actual Stop work orders in which a site is shut Down until the requirements of the order Are despite issuing four Humeniuk said he was reluctant to shut Down the senior construction project because of workplace health and safety Branch other alternatives there is a reluctance to Issue a Stop work sending 100 people putting them out of he the division tries to pursue other alternatives before closing a construction he As he workplace safety and health officers must have Stop work orders approved by their superiors before they Are the Only exceptions Are excessive cases in which danger is such As workers working in an excavation pit which is ready to Humeniuk testified always tried to comply with his Stop work the company was slow in installing the safety railings at Levels constructed after an order was he he also said that prior to Kleme skis workplace safety and health policy did not require guard rails to be installed on the top deck of a workers were supposed to Wear safety belts with lifelines properly anchored to the he said he discussed this with site supervisor Art Buller on a number of Glenn free press t faces for Christmas Micheline Larose models one of the Many papier mache convention Centre As part of the third annual Manitoba masks she and Georges Gamache Are displaying at the Christmas Craft which runs until the guard rails and safety belts and lifelines which Are to be Long enough Only to allow a worker to fall metres four feet Are minimum Humeniuk Klemenski was wearing a Belt but no lifeline when he fell about 20 metres 66 feet from the eighth floor of the building to a second floor suffering massive head the division now requires guard rails to be installed on top decks and has using a special Lyde signed Type which has never been used in Manitoba Humeniuk said the new equipment is pretty rigid and is something i have Faith who conducted an investigation after Kleme skis Attri buted the fatal Accident to a number of factors including the company failure to provide adequate safety devices and the workers own inexperience in working on High Rise provincial court judge Winston nor who presided Over the said he would submit his report in due Bass blames Economy by Kevin Prokosh former lawyer Jack Bass testified yesterday he May have provided his clients with poor financial but blamed the recession for losses he and his investors i was an investment counsellor and i gave what turned out to be bad and he i thought they were tremendous deals for the i put together the Best deals i Bass took the stand yesterday and spent the entire Day explaining to the court his involvement in Syndicate Pur chases of City apartment the Crown alleges he misappropriated More than from 14 clients Between 1977 and he is charged along with two of his companies with 32 counts of theft and criminal breach of he has pleaded not guilty to All real estate deals the defendant testified he was involved in Many real estate deals and believed if individual investors wanted out of his deals he could pay them but interest rates took off and Mort Gage rates on apartment blocks Fol he Bass testified rents on the suites were Only allowed to Rise eight per cent annually while utilities increased at a higher no one could said that mortgage rates would remain so High for so attempted unsuccessfully to Salvage the syndicates and repay investors by refinancing the apartment court was the defendant was subsequently Dis barred by the Law society of Manitoba in during Cross examination by Crown attorney Phillip Bass said he purchased the apartments and then sold shares in them to Syndicate Mem but he admitted he didst Tell investors they were buying the apart ments from him or that his Sale Price included a the trial Coffi aiming for the Manitoba Branch of the Canad an National Institute for the Blind has launched a Campaign to raise needed to Complete construction of its new Centre at 1080 Portage speaking at a news conference yes Manitoba crib chairman Don Ross said has already been contributed by a number of Winnipeg service clubs and private eight five per cent of the construction Cost raised by the Sale of cribs old build Ings at 10311041 Ross Ross said the Institute decided to move when it was left with More space than it needed in its old buildings after dropping a number of in its new two Storey administration rehabilitation the Institute will save an estimated on its annual operating budget because of the smaller Ross ;