Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november 1987 appointment of aide circumvented hiring official says continued from Page 1 Rumi officer before he entered politics in the officers said court documents showed Valgier was an unemployed spokesman for Premier Howard said Vigier was let go be cause of his poor performance and inconsistencies in his claims about his past tasked How Cabinet appointed Vigier to the sensitive usually Given to top party workers and ministers Cramer said it was essentially Ruskis decision and Only he could answer Uruski is on a three week visit to Japan and China and could not be reached for Cramer said usual hiring procedures seemed to have been circumvented in i Giers the Cabinet order said Vigier was appointed for a period from 10 to 18 at an annual salary of at the according to court Docu Vigier was facing criminal charges of uttering forged false writing bad cheques and failing to appear in a provincial source said who had briefly worked for Marriock agencies a Winnipeg insurance had been work ing for Uruski since but Roger Ruskis special Assis Tant and Viviers insisted he had been there for a month prior to his 9 Cabinet Lowe said Vigier came to Ruskis office in August under awol experience pro Gram for University he received no Lowe asked which University Vigier had at tended and what course he Lowe said he had been advised not to talk about As charges against him Are before the Uruski became municipal affairs minis Ter following a september Cabinet Cramer and Lowe said Vigier left the Job in late Winnipeg police have charged Vigier with d cashing in april a family allow Ance Cheque issued to another person d obtaining under false pretences about in groceries from a Pembina Highway Safeway and the fort Richmond foods store d failing to comply with a court order to pay in restitution before a May deadline d stealing and cashing a Cheque issued in the name of another person in March 1986 d failing to appear before a provincial court Morris ramp have Laid two charges against Vigier for issuing a Cheque for about to the Brunold inn in August 1986 and failing to appear before a Morris court last july to answer that Marshall said All charges will be dealt with by a Winnipeg soviet muted official seeks solution in Gulf Bahrain spa so Viet Deputy foreign minister Yuli held talks in Kuwait Fri Day amid press reports that the soviet Union was prepared to Send army units to Iraq if it became necessary to defend the interests of Iraq and Moscow in the Middle Vorontsov flew in from the iraqi capital of where he had met thursday with iraqi president Saddam Hussein at the Start of a persian Gulf tour that took him to Tehran he went into intensive negotiations with leading kuwaiti officials including Deputy prime minister and foreign minister sheikh Sabah and Oil minister sheikh All kuwaiti press reports made it Clear that Vorontsova talks Cen tred on the future of the persian the newspaper Al Abas quoted a soviet Diplomat As bringing up the possibility of sending soviet army units to the Diplomat charged in Al Abas that the noncombatant Arab monarchies of the persian Gulf were using their financial Aid to Iraq in an Effort to create a schism Between Baghdad and those countries have warned Iraq that Moscow is using the fact that it remains Iraq main source of weapons and that the Day May come when soviet troops May stroll in Baghdad streets just like they do in Kabul the report other Means the unidentified soviet Diplomat was quoted As saying that his coun try could have sent troops to Iraq at one time but that there had been other Means of thwarting Iran at tempts to overrun the iraqi Iraq was and still is the Friendly country for which the Kremlin is completely ready to respond once there is a need for Field the Diplomat was quoted As and if the soviet army enters it will do so in a prefixed manner and under iraqi the Diplomat was further quoted As asserting that the United states was clandestinely supporting Irani an plans to overrun the Southern iraqi province of just next to kuwaiti in order to fur ther its quest for military bases on the territories of the noncombatant Gulf Many Gulf officials know this fact very the Diplomat who disclosed that Deputy foreign min ister Vladimir Petrovsky had trav Elled earlier this year by car from Kuwait to Basra to emphasize a soviet warning to Iran that the Terri tory was completely he maintained that the War could end if the noncombatant Gulf states joined hands with the soviet Union against policy designs in the Region but admitted the prospects for such cooperation were militants Battle at rallies in South Korea Seoul a protesters throw ing firebombs and rocks fought with riot police in at least five cities yesterday after the South korean government mobilized police and raided 36 colleges in a major crackdown on the troopers seized clubs and protest leaflets in the riot detachments outnumbered participants in Many of 22 militant rallies across the but the militants protests were dwarfed by huge turnouts at peace Ful Campaign rallies of the three main presidential the crackdown came after presi Dent Chun a retired army told the country he would not tolerate he said leftists Are trying to incite a violent the National coalition for a demo cratic an Alliance of dissident is demanding a Neutral interim government be formed to make sure the presiden tial elections Are free of the government Glenn murder mystery As the bloodied victim relaxes on the floor in his Tuxedo and a Friend tries to prevent undue publicity about the guests at a Manitoba kidney foundation fundraising party Trade conjectures on who could be the the pretend homicide was played out last night at the Manitoba v provincial priorities criticized in denial of crib Grant bid continued from Page 1 gently need to put Money into a building that run Wasyly Ciales we try to balance All kinds of needs with the for every thing from Day care to general recreation to sports Brandon conservative la Jim Mccrae criticized the government for rejecting the crib i just wonder what it is about the Community places programs Cri Teria that puts the in terms of behind soccer dog clubs and dance Cousens said the crib in Brandon urgently needs a permanent the cribs Manitoba division has rented property in the Brandon area since the and the organization has been forced to relocate according to the dictates of land Cousens the owner of the property we currently occupy indicated he wanted to sell and generously gave us a 60day option to buy the fund Man charged with murder after brother Dies the cites murder count hit 23 after a Man died Friday night from a Stab wound suffered earlier last Emile was stabbed in the Chest with a Large Hunting knife Early thursday morning at his Austin Street Home and had been in critical condition at health sciences Centre following emergency a police spokesman charged with murder is his brother Walter who appeared in court Friday on an attempted murder charge and was remanded in custody until next because its upgraded to i would assume hell appear in court monday Winnipeg police Ray Johns the police investigation was completed he the provincial department of Cul heritage and recreation has handed out More than million this year for projects funded under its Community places the funding was announced in two sets million for 255 projects in May and million for 238 projects in some of the projects include d to the Dauphin minor baseball association for baseball facilities d to develop the Wabowden museum for a dust collection system for the Cardale association for Community living d to build a weatherproof shelter and storage building for the Brandon retriever club d for the Western Mani Toba soccer associations develop ment plan in Brandon d for baseball facilities for the Dauphin minor baseball association d to the City of Brandon to put lights at the Curron Park fast Ball Diamond d for Brandon West bran baseball facility d to the Brandon minor baseball association to upgrade baseball diamonds d to the Raja yoga Centre to buy and renovate a new facility the Institute now occupies 111 Square metres of the 372square metre building and will lease the rest of the but the crib will gradually expand into the remaining area with an adaptive and technical aids he expanding youre looking at about to pay for the whole including the Cost of the building and crib is contributing and we hoped to raise the rest through a capital Campaign and the Community places he said the organization got word its application for was rejected one week before its option on the building we had to choose to buy the building or lose the we can reapply for a Grant in the but the renovations need to be completed before he said he plans to meet Community services representatives on thursday to discuss what options Are open to the million d for the Transcona Optimist Park and Field House d to build a basement and greenhouse for work and so Cial opportunities of Winnipeg d for a elks Lodge in the Pas d for the Selkirk Community arts centres restore Brick project d to enhance landscaping for the knights of Josaphat in Winnipeg d to redesign the Melrose Community centres club grounds d for an auditorium at the mennonite Brethren collegiate Institute in Winnipeg d for the National coun cil of jewish women of Canadas Golden age club d to pave the rink floor in the East end Community clubs Arena d to expand and up Grade the Winnipeg rowing club building d for the Manitoba Stam Pede expansion project in Morris d for the Thompson ski clubs Snow making the program contributes up to 50 per cent of the total project costs to a maximum of it is a four program to assist communities in setting up facile president claims tender request redundant continued from Page 1 Bruce Emberley said yesterday the Board was told in August 1986 that it is usual practice to hold an open tender for a project that uses government even though tendering was done in several months after the tenders were the province wrote us a letter saying it was Normal prac Tice to have an open Emberley i can find no earlier he Harapiak said yesterday he did not have the project file at Home and could not reach anyone to Check on this Emberley restated that an invitational tender is common for this Type of work and the museum limited the number of tenders to two to avoid delaying the renovation Prince Bernhard stands at a Monument honouring the Canadian War Emberley said he sup ports Board member Shirley Ren Ders claim that she was never told she was in a conflict interest position when general contracting firm Douglas Render and associates was chosen for the Shirley Render is one of two direct dutch Monument honors Canadian military sacrifices Netherlands a Prince Bernhard of the husband of former dutch Queen unveiled a Monument yesterday to 135 Cana Dian soldiers who died in the 1944 liberation of the Island of Wal Cheren from German Veteran affairs minister George who was wounded by a Ger Man sniper during the placed a Wreath at the a Plain Granite plaque near what was known to the troops As the Sloedad commander chief of the dutch armed forces at the time of the and Hees stood at attention As a dutch military band played solemn in elements of the 5th Cana Dian infantry division including men from Montreal Black watch and be regiment de As Well As the Calgary Highland unsuccessfully stormed the causeway As they forced their Way up from Belgium through the southwestern they suffered heavy casualties on the tors of the Emberley said the minutes of the Board meetings show the Issue of a potential conflict of interest was never raised by the and there was no pressure on Render to resign at the evidence from the april Board meeting shows then president George Chapman raising concerns Over renders potential conflict on the t5 he did not ask her to but he said she was in a conflict interest position and asked her to leave the meeting room while details of the project were the renovation project was to Ren Ovate Airport hangar which is owned by the museum and leased by the province for its air ambulance water bombers and govern ment six resigned six members of the museums Board of directors have resigned since most resignations were in protest of the firing of museum general manager Tom Wil several resignation letters also cited the appearance of a conflict of interest in the t5 project As reason for the director wanting to former director Neil Larsen said Wilson was a Strong opponent to the t5 project and alienated several Board members with his persistent Wilson remained silent on the controversy saying he can not speak publicly because he is still negotiating his settlement with the f ;