Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press August Page 3 patient flown by rejects Max Public local disabled girl barred from school by Bob Cox a Lansdowne Avenue couple were barred Foffi enrolling their disabled daughter in kindergarten classes this morning at a Northend in Ive been instructed and cant allow you into the Inkster school principal marry Kreel told Faye and Marvin Svingen when they arrived at the school shortly before 9 the parents said they would con Sider Over the weekend what their next move would including pos sible Legal but Marvin Svingen said the couple still Hopes education minister Jerry Storie will intervene to allow the child into Inkster Winnipeg school Board has told the Svingen their adopted who has cerebral cannot attend regular classes at Inkster two blocks from their where kindergarten officially opens Amber must attend a special class with other Handi capped children at Norquay school some distance the Board said in a july 24 letter to the the letter came after months of lobbying by the Svingen to have their daughter attend regular school with Able bodied Faye Svingen said she want allowed into a meeting of parents whose children will at tend kindergarten at Inkster this she said the teacher stopped her going into the meeting and directed her to the school who said he was under instructions not to allow Amber to Svingen said it is her understand ing school officials will physically bar her daughter from going to the regular kindergarten but she wont give if they refuse us entry Well come again on Svingen school Board chairman Vince Bueti said trustees feel ambers needs cant be met at Inkster he said the program at Norquay is Superb and has facile Obi fret a fuss Amber Svingen cries in her Mother Fayes arms after being barred from ties and staff Best geared to meet ambers special Bueti said As a matter of the Board cant afford to Start Inte grating children with multiple handicaps into regular the costs of doing so would sky he were providing More services than any other school division in the City and in the province for handicapped but theres a we cant put that Type of support service in each and every local Bueti added that if Amber was in a regular the teacher would have to spend too much time assisting her and not enough time with other Svingen insisted the needs of her who attended a regu Lar daycare can be met at a regular kindergarten Amber would need an Aid in the classroom because limitations on her ability to speak and but she Doest have to attend a special school with a special Edu cation she cultural club ordered to tighten Security or risk socials licence Stu Phillips by Patrick Mckinley the City has ordered tougher Secu Rity and smaller crowds at a social Hall operated by the sponsors of Folk Oramas Maricana neighbors of the Hall at 595 Clifton Street told a civic committee yester Day socials Are causing including outdoor drinking and people urinating in the Back lanes Are being blocked by illegally parked and neighbors Are unable to residents the committee warned the carib bean Canadian association of Winni Peg the City May refuse to renew its licence to rent out the Hall for socials if the problems the City also ordered the group to shut Down its bar at Midnight after neighbors complained about noise and rowdiness after 2 but residents said the Caribbean Canadian group is not the Only prob the Irish association of Mani Toba and the scandinavian cultural Centre also operate clubs in the and together there putting a Strain on the they culture clubs Are becoming Al most the same As motherhood in our area you dont dare say anything against said Rheba Ander of 558 Clifton its just getting out of she adding there have been fights outside the Caribbean Canadian Hall and one of her neighbors narrowly missed running Over two women who were lying drunk on the neighbors said the noise is unbearable because one House is less than nine metres away from the Ken spokesman for the Caribbean Canadian said the which opened the Hall four years has already taken Steps to Deal with the he said the club has had no complaints from neighbors for about a and was surprised to find that some Are objecting to its continued use of the Hall for Manswell said the group has in stalled a sound Buffer to Lessen noise when the doors Are it has posted notices warning peo ple to Park in a lot at Erin Street and Portage Avenue instead of on the and has even called police to ticket illegally parked he Manswell said the group hired a Security guard for a recent event and will do so in its also trying to reduce the number of events held on Friday he added that income from rent ing the Hall for socials is crucial to maintain the the cites variance and conditional use committee ruled the group will have to restrict Atten dance to Down from it also must print parking restrictions on social keep doors and windows closed on the Side of the building nearest to Homes and keep a Security guard and a Doorman on duty when a social is the committee also ordered City officials to review the licence in 16 months to see if problems have emergency Relief Isabel is helped by ambulance attendants after she was in collision with a transit bus yesterday at Ellice Avenue and Smith she was listed in stable condition in health sciences Centre last Cost of car repairs taken to court by Murray Mcneill a Motorist has taken a Winnipeg used car Dealership to Small claims court in an Effort to recover about in repairs to a vehicle he Pur chased last self employed businessman Mur Ray Dobbs told court of Queens Bench Deputy registrar de Zelinsky his troubles began two Days after he bought the 1980 Audi from aaa Auto 333 Archibald Dobbs said he was assured the car was in excellent running condition when he purchased but to cover he he purchased a warranty through which he was led to believe would Coyer All necessary repair work within the first he said two Days later he took the car to a local service station for an Oil change and was told it was in need of major the Motorist said he took the vehicle Back to who referred him to a garage the Dealership dealt the garage kept the car for two and the repair work was supposedly he but two weeks later the alternator broke and had to be Between then and last Dobbs said he had to spend a further to repair faulty car he said aaa refused to reimburse him for any of the claiming it was the responsibility of the company which offered the warranty Amman Protection services Amman Only reimbursed him for about Worth of claiming the rest of the work was not covered under the Dobbs motor vehicle Branch inspector Don Young confirmed he found a number of major problems when he examined the vehicle on 15 and that the defects were probably there when Dobbs bought the John service manager for James Volkswagen said the Dealership also inspected the car in november and found it was in very rough he said although his company did some repair work for the Motorist had to pay for it himself because the Dealership refused to Deal with Herzberg said the Dealership had had trouble in the past collecting Money from Amman for repair work that was supposedly covered under its Consumers Bureau worker Gil Bert Fraser said Dobbs complained to them in and they contacted aaa and Fraser insisted the repairs were am cans responsibility and Amman said most of the faulty parts were not covered by the War Amman employee Reg Babcock testified that aaa was responsible for paying for the repair Babcock said although Amman paid for some of the the com Pany have done aaa was responsible from the word he its too because it gives everyone a bad name no one from aaa was present at yesterdays Zelinsky reserved police chief touts taped statements police departments should Start videotaping suspects statements and confessions to protect them selves and the Canadian police chiefs were told it is a More efficient and reliable record of what went on in the inter View chief James Harding of the Halton regional police Force it protects the police against unwarranted allegations of Misc on one of four panel Mem Bers addressing the Canadian association of chiefs of police convention in told the delegates his department is one of two that recently started taping suspects state ments As part of a Pilot its merely another step in our ongoing technical Harding Winnipeg police chief Herb Ste phen said his department investigated the possibility of instituting such a program two years but found it was too he statistics re leased during the panel discussion were but were going to wait until the pilots Are finished before making any Stephen the which consisted of metropolitan Toronto Dep Uty police chief Bill Manitoba director of prosecutions Wayne Moshkowsky and defence lawyer Hymie unanimously agreed that videotaping is the Way of the Harding said videotapes Are much More credible than police notes which often come under fire during fears that suspects would be less Likely to confess if they knew they were on camera were Usu Stan Harding said about 73 per cent of the state ments taped so far were he whose department also is involved in the said video tapes eliminate the question of whether a suspect was forced into giving a so defence lawyers cant have the confessions thrown out on those he adding he believes it will probably increase the number of guilty Weinstein said defence lawyers also would like to see videotaping become a Standard police Are currently not required to include in their court testimony any denials Given by suspects during the but it would be hard to exclude if its on Weinstein adding the Only drawback is juries and judges would see his client As he was the night he was judges and juries Are going to see my client in a muscle with obscene tattoos up and Down his arms and using four letter words when he answers the when he appears in talk ing like a Harvard graduate and wearing a rented there going to know Hes been through the Wein Stein finishing Moshkowsky said another draw Back is suspects Are less Likely to Tell on their associates if they know the tape is going to be seen by members of the theres a lot of valuable intelligence information we get that he Hydro posting criticized Linda Jolson has been named Vic president of corporate relations for Manitoba Hydro a promotion opposition Leader Gary Filmon says jumps her Over Many senior officers at the Crown it is effective but her salary has not been Jolson refused comment yester Manitoba Hydro spokesman Verne prior read from a statement which said the Hydro Board at an 20 meeting had approved an interim reorganization pending the appoint ment of a new president and chief executive officer to replace John the Hydro statement said there had been organization and title including Filmon said outside the legislature that Jolson is the wife of Doug whose consultants report to the government recommended the creation of the department she now she has been executive manager of the corporate affairs depart ment of the Utility since january four months after a former assistant Deputy labor minis submitted his Filmon said he had received com plaints from senior people at Mani Toba Hydro and employees who feared the politicization of the in the Premier Howard Pawley said he had not received any Energy minister Vic Schroeder told Filmon he did not know if a Competition to fill the Job had been but he praised Jolson Abili there Are very few people in this province or this country who work As hard and As capably As Linda Jolson he Art collector killers conviction upheld the killer of prominent Winnipeg Art collector Desmond Smith has failed to have his second degree murder conviction in a written decision released yes a three judge panel of the Manitoba court of Appeal unanimously dismissed the bid by Glen Michael Ryznar was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole eligibility for 10 years after a court of Queens Bench jury convicted him last octo ber of killing the badly burned body of a retired senior partner in the accounting firm of Price water House and former Vic president of the Winnipeg Art was found in his Roslyn Road he had been stabbed once in the Chest and twice in the Back and his suite had been set Rynars Greg contended during the trial that Smith had provoked Ryznar by a sexual assault or by insulting writing for the Appeal Justice Alan Philp said there was no evidence Ryznar was provoked into the Philp said Smiths tragic life had the of that of a character in a Thomas Hardy he had been a Leader in his profession and widely respected in the the judge but at the time of his death he followed a homosexual lifestyle and had a reputation in the Gay Community As a Chicken Hawk older Man who likes younger boys or younger peo he an orphan and former Ward of the childrens Aid society of had moved in with Smith about two weeks before the Mur on the night of the he had been drinking at a local club and later returned to Smiths apartment with a the Friend left after several hours and later that a sobbing Ryz Nar showed up at his Home saying Smith had been Cut and his apart ment was the following with his lawyer he turned himself in to police and was charged with Smiths Philp said that based in the trial there was no doubt it was Ryznar who stabbed taxi Driver faces charges a uni City cabbie involved in an Accident that killed one Man and injured three others was released from Hospital and taken into custody police Alfred Thomas who has been in Hospital since the 17 was released later on his own recognizance and was to appear in provincial court this Hoefer is charged with criminal negligence causing two counts of criminal negligence Caus ing bodily impaired driving causing impaired driving Over and operating a motor vehicle while failing to com ply with a restricted police said a taxi missed a turn before colliding Headon with a car on Logan Avenue near Weston Road at about 2 the Driver of the oncoming Ronald was pronounced dead on arrival at Hospi Sander sons passenger his 31 listed in Good condition in Hospital yester a cab Ronald was also in Good ;