Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 28, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg anti prostitution proposals recall dark lawyers agree by Tom Goldstein flit Etaf Gioffi Justice crack Down an Prestito Tilott ate mile and soffit Winnipeg criminal lawyers its Feoli Sii to attempt wipe out this oldest profession in the wend and legislate Jay the kind of legislation there Iulg in the commons seems to be sounds like a return to the bark added John included among the Public hearings proposed residents complaining to the Peg police commission should be Able to some of their beefs there a City councillor who is also a commission member said Evelyn Reese said she Doest believe personal plaints against specific officers should be heard in she said she sees nothing wrong with residents who complain about Speed limits and other Laws being Able to state their Case at open Public police commission Harvey Smith Park said last week civic committees conduct far too much Public business behind closed Reese said she believes policy mat ters should be discussed in she also said if something is discussed in secret which she believes should have been in she will Tell anyone who asks what it was great anxiety Reese told a Manitoba association of rights and liberties workshop that residents who complain to the police commission about personnel matters also face great anxiety because they Are unfamiliar with the commission if they complain about an individual police the officer is represented by a Winnipeg police association should see them residents she Reese said she supports attorney general Roland Penners proposed legislation which would allow commission complainants to qualify for Legal the workshop centred on racial Dis Reese said she believes police officers need far More training in this Neil a University of Manitoba education told the workshop he ran a three Day program for Winnipeg police Academy students which dealt with attitudes toward ethnic Dis Crimi issues in the native Community and similar but Reese said she believes three Days in a police trainee course lasting several months just int a rights and liberties association Survey done last year found that Only 20 per cent of those who reported experiencing discrimination complained to a human rights Abe Marls executive said he believes Many victims Are reluctant because going to the commission Means sticking your neck including possible harassment from the Roger the Manitoba human rights commissions education agreed that complaining involves some takes courage dont deny the fact it takes Cour age to stand up for your said but think of How difficult it would be to stand up for your rights if there were no human rights commis Sion to help about 30 delegates to an association workshop Friday were told that Vic Tims of racial discrimination should always complain to the appropriate government we have to complain and complain in said Claudia associate Dean at the University of Wright said complaining about racist incidents can Lead to but also serve As a documentation of the larger problem we know trans by the if member parliamentary committee Are amendments which wild make both prostitutes and their clients liable to make anyone who offers or accepts an offer Gage in prostitution in a Public place liable to a Fine or 15 Days in jail and makes anyone offering or accept ing an offer to engage in prostitution with a person under 18 liable to up to two years in prostitution is Legal in although soliciting is Winnipeg criminal lawyers agreed prostitution will never be legislated out of existence and said the authorities should try to control the situation Ratic or than get fid of sex int going to Stop the Issue of pay is Greg he added that while he is not Iff favor of it is silly to think it can be wiped out the lawyers interviewed said they favored licensing hookers in order to control their what in in favor of is protecting my from venereal Brodsky a majority of members on the com Mons Justice committee say Tough new girl Mitial code amendments dealing with prostitution Are needed in an cities where open sexual Commerce has turned business and residential areas into congested and us Prober and Spurfield say ing the creation of red Light similar to those in Western would be a better the lawyers also said a minimum age should be established for licensing adding 18 would be r6n i Aust wuss Success Dallas Cowboy cheerleader Kaye Boone gets a hug from Joanne and Mark during 19hour variety club telethon on the the telethon raised for programs for handicapped and disadvantaged children in teachers seek More action from Hemphill on concerns by Glen Mackenzie the Manitoba teachers society is becoming disappointed in its relationship with education minister Maureen in a speech today opening the so Cletys annual general pres ident Rex virtue praised Hemphill for being accessible and willing to listen to society when there Are Long delays and no the waiting can become to our Only commitment from the minister is that she intends to introduce legislation on some of our virtue the society wants the government to pass its proposed Bill giving teachers professional status and to change the Manitoba Public schools act to give teachers the right to arbitration if fired at any time after Date of not just after a 20month in a questionnaire filled out by party leaders just before the 1981 provincial Premier Howard Pawsey said his nip government would support the two virtue said in an interview he is surprised we didst receive something by this she hem Phill says she will bring in some but there is no indication of wed at least like to know where we virtue also said that not Only has nothing happened butt has recently become difficult to arrange meetings with Lack of concern two years society president John Wiens told the annual meeting that the education minister Keith Cosens inconsistency and apparent Lack of concern had created a less than satisfactory relationship with the so virtue said the relationship with Hemphill Hast deteriorated to the level Wiens spoke of regarding and that the society Hopes it Hemphill is scheduled to address the society annual meeting virtue told delegates the society has also asked the government to set a 60day time limit on arbitration from Date of application to an he said in an interview teachers have had to wait Many often without interest on their Back for three member arbitration boards to meet and then make the society proposal would compel an arbitration Board chairman to make the award if none has been agreed on by the three in the Overall 60day virtue As the society wants any bar gaining proposal to be negotiable if included in an arbitration virtue said teachers want to prevent school boards from refusing to sign arbitration agreements containing clauses on such matters As preparation time and class which school boards regard As management Manitoba Public school teachers gave up the right to strike in 1956 in Exchange for legislation requiring school boards to bargain and for a guarantee that a contract would be achieved through arbitration if no agreement is praised the proposed harsher concerning Prasi itunes under saying 6ldef men who prey m lifts staid be Stoff pm in mat talking Abonit in talking Abonit and he Reberta chairman of the Manitoba action committeemen the status of said the tees recommendations to get Tion off the Street seems to be a Aid solution a broader she said legislators should perhaps be looking into Why women get Inte water As a Way to Eara a i certainly dont think answer is the get it off tote Ellis but site praised Taftt concerning saying anything that afters Mere Protection is valid and Newfield also acknowledged the need to protect younger but i cant understand How making them nals is going to protect he noted the recommendations might Force prostitution out of Public into private premises which then could be raided Bawdy Homeowner to finally get Grant Money by Glen Mackenzie a Winnipeg broke after waiting seven months for a mortgage and Ren ovation Grant under a provincial hous ing should get his Money within hours of Allan Blanchetter Story being published in saturdays free Manitoba housing and renewal officials met with the new Homeowner and promised he would have within two who bought a Home on Wardlaw said Marc officials assured him last september he Quali fied for renovation Grants under the Manitoba governments buy and Reno vate aimed at encouraging people to buy and repair inner City although a 28yearold air Canada flight was one of the first five people to file an application under the he has yet to receive a while waiting for the Howe he spent and owes his father about Blanchette said he had to sell his piano for a Low Price and plans to sell his lat Model sports car to raise More funds so he can stay afloat Saul marcs manager of planning and program said saturday his office contacted Blanchette who then met with Marc officials and straightened things Blanchette was not quite As positive about the but did say he is More optimistic about seeing some government funds he added the situation is still con fusing and Complex and he fears he has not seen the end of red i think they Are trying to be As helpful As they i Hope they Are True to their word and funds Are Schubert said Blanchette qualifies for about in Grants and will receive about of it in about two he said All but four or five of the 45 or so applicants approved thus far under the buy and renovate pro Gram sought a government mortgage As Well As government renovation assistance so in most cases All funding was arranged before a buyer took Possession of a but Blanchette borrowed the Pur Chase Money himself and moved leaving Marc to help Only with the renovations which haunt been approved in detail in he Schubert said Blanchette was sent a letter 22 telling him which Reno nations were approved and for How but that the Money want paid then because Blanchette planned to do a lot of the work himself called sweat and it was hard determining financial details for All Schubert also said Marc was trying to help Blanchette by applying for other Federal and provincial housing but that this takes suspect in disappearance arrested in Kansas a Man sought since the disappear Ance of a Steinbach youth almost five years ago is undergoing a psychiatric examination in Kansas where he is facing armed robbery Dale Goertzen is receiving the examination at his lawyers said de Loren Snell of the police after the evaluation is finished in 60 to 90 the 22yearold Man is to face trial for the 8 armed robbery of a he is also suspected of robbing convenience stores in two other Kansas commune ramp plan to launch extradition proceedings against Goertzen in a ninth or a spokesman he said Steinbach ramp Are still investigating the july disappearance of David Bruce the then was last seen that Day by his parents with update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free Goertzen dropped out of sight shortly after Wiebe disappeared but was found in Saskatoon in shortly after he vanished again after being questioned by police about the boys Snell said Goertzen came to Wichita in the fall of 1980 and lived under an assumed he also enlisted in the army under an alias but fled after military officials began probing his he was working As a dishwasher in Wichita at the time of his divisive Torch in use the controversial new roman Cath Olic Church in Pierr Jolys has begun celebrating mass for its Pari the new wooden Structure is located on the site of the old demolished two years ago after a bitter dispute Between parishioners who wanted a new building and those who wished to save the former 75yearold the new which seats 414 and features a Large Garden and statue of the apostle took 10 weeks to build and Cost about the official opening and consecration is set for june the old Church was closed in the fall of 1979 after a series of the first in outlined serious Struc Tural the dispute Over the Fate of the old Church was so bitter it Tore families Media Blitz fills Hostel a recent Media Blitz in Rural Manitoba has succeeded in filling a Winnipeg Hostel for out town cancer patients for the first time since it opened More than six months the 22bed Lennox Pell located at the health sciences Centre and operated by the Canadian cancer so Cletys Manitoba had never been More than Hal filled at any time since it opened but an Appeal through the Rural news Media has changed society executive director Murray Bater the Hostel was filled last week and will be again this Bater he said less use of the facility May Force the society to seek subsidies to operate it is now funded on a breakeven basis by daily user fundraising planned Johns Cathedral school for boys at Selkirk is planning a major construction fundraising Campaign which will determine the future of the build Mike chairman of Johns schools of said organizers Are talking to architects and Engi neers about the i6ryearold Structure now housing the from donations and other regular sources has been spent repairing and upgrading it this he Maunder said fun drive organizers want to have a firm proposal and Cost estimate before asking alumni and other wowi4be doors for help in the in the Story Blanchette said Bankers were reluctant to give him a mortgage because the Provin Cial government was involved and program want housing minister Jerry Storie said saturday the Banks have said there Are problems determining the value of inner City he said Marc has Bent Over Back wards to help bring Blanchette and other applicants within the government guidelines so they qualify for govern ment Storie also said he expects to receive a report and recommendations on the buy and renovate program within a couple of Warren column protested by Greg Bannister about 200 people picketed the Garry Street offices of the Winnipeg Sun waving chanting slogans and demanding an apology from columnist Peter the drawn from a Cross Sec Tion of ethnic and native was Demon Strating against a two part column by Warren which ran in the Sun last tuesday and the which dealt with the recent first ministers conference on native has been branded racist and irresponsible by several native and human rights some have urged attorney general Roland Penner to take Legal action against the paper and Warren under either the criminal code or the Provin Cial human rights the Sun printed an apology on its editorial it also announced it would not run a scheduled third column in the series saying we simply cannot Back the Content of the 4a big mistake the which ran under the headline we made a big mistake did not satisfy protesters yesterday and May not be enough to prevent the attorney generals department from dealing with the the apology Means protest organizer Wayne Courchene said against a background of Down with racism chants from protesters who picketed the papers offices for about an hour we still want a personal apology from Warren this the papers apology int Courchene said the tabloid should print a frontage apology to native people and offer free space equal to Warrens columns for positive articles about my Elijah Harper App Ruperts Jand the Only native member of the told protesters the columns constituted an attack on the first citizens of this several other speakers said the at tack against natives is Penner said yesterday he will meet today with officials in his department to discuss the column we the requests Legal those requests have pome from Pepis Indian band chief Joys Steven who said Friday the column was and from the Manitoba association for rights and at a weekend mar Mem Bers passed a Resolution condemning the columns As irresponsible Pic Pep table and urging Penner to prose cute Penner said yesterday he had not seen the newspapers i dont know what effect it will ;