Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free May 3 serve ruling angers meeting 1w police accused of Campaign to Block crime project takeover Patrick Mckinley police have been accused of participating in a phone Campaign to Block a citizens group front taking Over a crime prevention Evelyne Reese Gevin said yesterday she will file a complaint with the Winnipeg police commission Over phone Calls made to volunteers in the vital neighbourhood watch the group has been running its Hospital opening set Back the new childrens Hospital ing has been set Back again As engineers try to fix the building by year administrator John Heath said the Hospital was to have opened a year Heath refused to be specific about the saying Only that physical problems have led to cold air getting into the he said he didst want to blame anyone for the the engineering War drop and has found Why the building is so cold and will ways to fix the he the health sciences Centre and Trident construction Are suing each other Over delays in Trident is suing the Hsc for claiming the Hospital is to blame for delays in completing the buildings Trident claims the delay Cost it an additional it is also seeking in Holdback Trident claims work was delayed because Hsc gave it inaccurate dimensions for the Hsc has filed a saying Trident didst work Accord ing to its the five Storey Hospital is to House 130 Beds and expanded outpatient Heath said improved accommodations for services such As physiotherapy and occupational therapy Are to be Hsc president Peter swerhon said the Cost of the delay wont be known until the work is a subcontractor who worked on the building is suing the health sciences Centre and Tri Dent for failing to pay for the in a statement of claim filed in Manitoba court of Queens Warren Matheson says it was hired by Trident to install curtains and screens in the new although Trident agreed to pay the firm and the work has been Complete since both Trident and the Hsc have refused or neglected to the statement of claim the Hsc and Trident have not filed statements of closing of schools endorsed the Jame Assiniboia school Board has agreed with a Westwood residents and educators committee to close Allard and Bedson Board chairman Iva Yeo said yes both schools offer English instruction at the kindergarten Grade 6 the 39member committee made the recommendation saying parents preferred closing the schools to pay ing higher taxes and having More than one Grade per the trustees agreed to the recommendation in committee last night and will formally consider the proposal at a Board meeting Yeo trustees also decided last night to make Westwood collegiate a grades 9to12 Yeo the collegiate houses grades joto12 Stu the committee had also recommended that sansome Junior High and Lincoln school become Kinder garment Grade 8 Yeo said the trustees accepted that recon it will approve the necessary renovations for which offers grades 7 to she Browning an English French kindergarten Grade 6 will become French Only under the Yeo said that part of the proposal was the Only one that brought con Cern from parents at a special meet ing last some of the people wanted it to remain dual she said the proposals will Consoli Date Westwood elementary the school Board will he holding a Public meeting tonight at Phoenix school in Yeo said the Hoard will recommend the school stay open until three grades have to be housed in one own program using paid staff since last july and recently made a bid to take Over administration of All other neighbourhood watch pro farts from City the police which fun five other neighbourhood watch pro Grams in other parts of the has opposed the takeover George chairman of the vital said police called neighbourhood Volun Teers and warned them not to Coop Erate with the Independent he said who have been called in by the outside group to provide told the Volun Teers that police would drop any involvement with neighbourhood watch in their area if the volunteers cooperated with the i take objection to that our own employees would Start getting involved and instigating no support for a Community Reese civic finance committee yester Day rejected the vital groups attempt to take Over the program for the the Community group had sought a City Grant to go toward the estimated annual Cost of running the programs Banjavich said the committee decision could jeopardize the groups attempts to line up other to has been operating since july on a Federal but that Wayne free press traffic Holdup a City police officer throws up his arms to direct traffic at Portage Avenue and memorial Boulevard Road work has played havoc with the traffic Stony guard played dead angry slaying witness refuses to answer questions by David Obrien a Stony Mountain prison guard said he recited prayers after two of his comrades were slain last sum Mer because he believed he was the next to i had resigned myself to Harold Rampersad testified yester adding he began saying the lords and the psalm the lord is my Rampersad broke Down several times As he told a murder trial jury How he saw one of the guards die in front of him and How he was certain he would not escape he said he had not returned to work since the incident because of severe trauma he guards Joseph and Werner were stabbed to death july while attempting to lock up prisoners for the Walter Daryle Frank and Donald have pleaded not guilty to two counts of first degree Rampersad emotionalism turned to anger under questioning by defence counsel Greg Rampersad refused to answer some of Brodsky Caus ing Justice Patrick Ferg of court of Queens Bench to order him to v Rampersad said he saw the four defendants leave their cell Range and attack Wendl and code and Hoard grabbed while Friesen came to his ram Persad Wendl broke but then Kent grabbed Friesen from he he said Wendl was bleeding from his Back and head when he fled Down a flight of where he bleeding Rampersad said he retreated to an pushed an emergency Button and called the control he said there was no answer and he had to Call Friesen then arrived in the bleeding from his upper left and locked the he he said Friesen asked him to Call for then picked up the phone and said i think in going to pass video operators sue Over new City bylaw video game operators Are suing the charging a new City bylaw is an illegal interference on their right to carry on in a statement of claim filed in court of Queens members of the Manitoba amusement operators association an injunction blocking licensing controls on new video the bylaw would require owners to ask permission from a City Council committee to install one machine on their premises that was not there when the bylaw goes into store owners and amusement operators in most parts of the City had needed permission for five or More amusement the exception was West where owners needed permission for one machine under an old by enacting Tough new Sions earlier this the City was attempting to assert a jurisdiction Over the morals and Coad wet of the the statement of claim alleging the City had to jurisdiction to to the plaintiffs the said proposed bylaw is an unlawful use of a licensing for the purpose of subverting the right of citizens to conduct perfectly lawful activities in their society and to place the con duct of such at the Sufferance of City the claim the bylaw would destroy or seriously impair operators right conduct a lawful it Sid lawyer for the video game said he will be in court of Queens Bench tomorrow morning seeking an interim injunction to Block the new licensing provi Sions from going into he said another lawsuit the opera tors have launched against the City will be heard next fall or in that Manitoba court of Appeal recently ruled the video operators will be allowed to take the City to court to Block licence fees introduced last the changes took the licence fees to from 130 for individual a and to fam a from 100 for operators of amusement he said Friesen collapsed and knocked him Down in the Friesen was now bleeding pro i could see his Chest rising and in there were no signs of Rampersad i reached Over and undid his shoe laces and Felt for a there was none that could be Rampersad said he was terrified and Lay motionless on the while inmates outside yelled lets kill the we got two of come lets he said someone attempted to break the window on the office door and smashed the office window by throwing an object through inmates were peering into the office at him and Friesen through a rear office Rampersad said he gestured to them not to say and they he said he had lost track of time and did not attempt to move until he heard gun shots and saw guards in an upper level gun hoards asked Rampersad several questions about prison conditions which the witness refused to the accused lived in a cell Range where double bunking was in prac Brodsky asking ram Persad if that would Lessen inmate privacy and Lead to rising Rampersad refused to saying it might jeopardize prison Brodsky then asked him to con firm prisoners had fewer Privi Leges on the cell Rampersad said it was a question of Federal Brodsky became frustrated and said i dont care if its your mothers and demanded he answer the Rampersad was outraged with the comment and pointed his Finger at accusing him of maligning his recently deceased Rampersad gave evidence that dramatically conflicted with Ous testimony by two he said guards Roger Allec and Patrick Meyler pulled two of the used off their Allec and Meyler both said they never touched any of the while Rampersad identified the defendants As the men he saw attack Wendl and he didst identify them by name in two statements he gave to Brodsky the lawyer also noted that Hoard had a Beard at the time of the which Rampersad the trial Money has run he adding that if to funding is found the project May have to be the group had argued that paid civilian staff could run the program More cheaply than highly paid police officers and would have More Suc Cess getting the Trust of in a report to the finance committee police chief Herb Stephen said information about crime prevention methods can be More accurately disseminated if police retain Stephen said having neighbourhood groups control the program was tried in and 18 separate groups ended up trying to do the same finance committee members said yesterday that rather than turn the program Over to an outside they would prefer spending More Money on the police program so police could hire resource people to work under police nip backing surprised official testifies by Paul Moloney the Manitoba government sur prised the president of la society Francomano Toraine by proposing a constitutional amendment to enshrine French language a court heard Gilberte Proteau said the society goal was limited to obtaining More government services in French when she met Premier Howard Pawley in january Proteau said she had mentioned that the organizations dream was for Manitoba to be officially Bilin but told Pawley she realized the time was not right and May not be for five to 10 she expected the idea would be discarded and was flabbergasted when attorney general Roland pen Ner indicated to the society in june 1982 that he had drafted a proposed constitutional she said she almost fell off her chair when told Penners office had called to say he wanted to meet society officials to discuss the Penners initiative led to an Accord Between the government and the made Public in May it came under heavy attack by Public opponents and conservative Las and was ultimately aban who was succeeded As president by Leo Robert in March said society executive director Lucille Roch and Board member Remi Smith were appointed to negotiate the Proteau was testifying in a court Case in which Smith and his Law Guay Smith and Are suing the society for fees they claim Are owed for services provided from june 1982 to april of last the Law firm headed by Renald Guay was paid but claims it is owed another including interest to Volunteer status Proteau told the court she believed Smith was providing Legal and Politi Cal services As a Volunteer and would not submit Bills to the organi she noted the society had retained Joseph a University of Ottawa constitutional As its Legal adviser on French language who provided written opinions and represented the society in court hearings on the was paid a total of for work done Between late 1981 and february Proteau said she recalls Robert telling Smith the organization was fortunate to have a lawyer on its Board who was prepared to help out on a Volunteer already we had to pay one Law yer and that was All financially we could she my understanding always was that he Smith was working As a Board Proteau said she was not involved with the society from March 1983 to March during which time the Guay Smith firm was paid the after being reelected president in March she said she was distressed to learn the society was in including unpaid Bills that had been submitted by the Law she said Robert told her the society had an agreement with Guay Smith that it would be paid Only if sufficient funds were provided by the Federal Secretary of state de the society applied for a special Grant of to cover its but the Secretary of state was pre pared to provide no More than 000 and issued a Cheque for that amount in mid August of last she Guay has testified he was upset when he Learned on 21 that none of the would go to pay off his Law firms Bills and he began court trustee slams Law on voting the nip chairman of the Winni Peg school Board has slammed the provincial government for refusing to let immigrants vote in local elections and says he May trustee Mario who wants landed immigrants to vote in local said the local authorities elections act unfairly lets non Ana Dian subjects of British common wealth countries and nonresident property owners cast ballots in civic and school Board but Santos said resident Immi Grants who pay property taxes to a school Board and plan to make can Ada their permanent Home Are denied the he said citizens of Commonwealth countries soon will lose the right to vote in provincial but that he believes All landed immigrants should be Able to vote for trustees because it is a local this has nothing to do with Alle Giance to the Santos it is allegiance to the neighbor attorney general Roland Penner said yesterday the provincial elections act deprives Commonwealth subjects of the right to vote effective july Penner said the government has no plans to change the local elections act this year but that it could be changed next Santos predicted British subjects would be angry at losing a privilege and other immigrants would be angry they never got the he said if no change is made he May launch a court action under the Federal charter of rights and freedoms Equality he said he doubts the nip Provin Cial government will change the local act soon because they dont have the guts to do it just before a provincial Santos said All immigrants should be allowed to vote because the new democratic party has traditionally supported human Deputy fire chiefs fail Drivers licence medical three City Deputy fire chiefs have failed a medical examination Neces sary to get their emergency vehicle Drivers the examination was required after they lost their the cites finance commissioner said Mai Anderson said the whom he would not will be replaced by captains until they have appealed the results of an Examina Tion by their family physicians to a panel of the motor vehicle the chiefs will have until 4 to obtain their class in Drivers lir required to operate emergency vehicles such As fire department taxis and Ander son told finance commission Mem Bers at a meeting if they do get Anderson noting the captains would have to attend fires in their place the chauffeurs who used to drive the cites 36 chiefs who Range in age from 56 to 64 years old were told in March their jobs would be eliminated As of today in a 000 cos cutting the 24 Drivers will not he Laid off As originally feared by Union Anderson he said the budget cuts would he made by the end of july through attrition and equipment Anderson said he was disappointed after receiving a letter yesterday from the United firefighters of we Nipes saying the Union May Grieve the removal of the ;