Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 6, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1987 frontage error creates Chance to Needle ombudsman s it it n Runft Lyl if a it at re to Al it still the frontage Story that last week announced my appointment Asom Busman of the free press contained an in the grammatical Blooper served a useful it provided a timely Needle for untold numbers of devoted readers who have silently suffered the misspellings and atrocious Gram mar that seem to pop up with annoying regularity these not Only in the free press but other about 50 readers resist the Opportunity to poke clean fun at my newly created Post As this news papers watchdog of fair Ness and How appropriate that the very article announcing your appointment should contain a glaring example of one of the free press major faults ignorance of wrote Transcona residents Henry and you cant blame the computers ombudsman Barry Mullin this said a caller who also spotted our she was the reporter who wrote the Story should have used the word peddle instead of several editors failed to catch the incorrect readers certainly had no such difficulty spotting our spelling errors and Sloppy Gram mar Are the of the newspaper Over time they often Irepa the Trust readers place in the accuracy of the they some editors and reporters often forget that readers can and do take newspapers As seriously As the people who produce one caller offered an interesting perhaps if the reporters and editors of the free press looked at the paper More from the perspective of the Reader than As newspaper there would be fewer errors and a More balanced approach to callers were eager to congratulate the free press Oil the appointment of an ombudsman for then they aired personal complaints about stories they said they had read in the free a Veteran of the second world War and Korea took exception to recent news stories that he claimed belittled the late Tommy Cana Das most decorated Indian War vet what i dont like is that they always seem to bring Tommy Prince up just before armistice Day they say things like he sold his medals and died in 1977 at age 62 a poor our Library files show columnist Gordon Sinclair devoted the better part of two columns in october 1986 to the grandson of Saulteaux Indian chief Sinclair suggested the Avenue be Hind Portage place be named after it the most recent Story and a column about who was decorated 10 times for including twice by King George i and once by the were published last month in the free press seven Oaks school trustee Mike Sawka wants the Board to name an elementary school after Tommy reporter Anthony Davis co Vered the school Board meeting where Sawka failed in his attempt to have a school named after the Indian Davis also wrote a column in which he mentioned Prince along with an other Manitoba War Pilot offi cer Andrew Mynarski posthumously received the Victoria the highest award for valor in the British common a school on Mcphillips Street is named in his Davis legitimately asked Why efforts to commemorate Prince have the callers complained that in almost every Story and was described As a destitute who died in the tiny room he occupied at the salvation army like it or those Are the none of the stories and columns mentioned what had happened to princes it didst sell his War a spokesman for the Princess Patricia Canadian Light infantry in Calgary said the medals Are in the military museum in that Alberta City there in a Case in his the spokesman in a perfect the Tommy princes would be appropriately Hon ored and newspapers would make no spelling atrocious grammar would disappear and every reporter and columnist would know the difference Between flout and rout and route and what follows either or and neither a perfect planet would silence newspaper critics whose critic More often than Are such perfection would ensure that newspapers never would have to d invade with camera and questions privacy of a grieving Mother who has just seen the lifeless body of her child carried by firefighters from their still soldering name the drunk Driver charged after he or she drove through a red Light and Cut Short the life of a University student walking Home from an evening help fuel the panic that occasionally grips Stock markets around the d produce relevant stories about acquired immune deficiency syn drome even though an Ever diminishing minority wants Little or no discussion about what constitutes Safe sex and continues to blame Gay communities everywhere for the creeping aids but this int a perfect that a Good enough reason to have a newspaper if you have a complaint or compliment regarding the free please Call ombudsman Barry Mullin at office hours arc 9 to 5 monday through mailing address is 300 Carlton r3c Parasiuk challenged to present reforms by Kathleen Engman health minister Wilson Parasiuk was challenged yesterday to table by january a Long awaited plan to change the provinces mental health care somebody has to take the Politi Cal that really where the Bottom line Annette a psychiatric said at a news conference sparked by the closing of 15 psychiatric Beds at Boniface general the among 249 such spaces in Winnipeg will be badly missed because they have such a High occupancy said Bruce spokesman for the local Cana Dian mental health association of which organized the news con in a system that has no Slack in Beds it is a Tefft it May not seem like a Large number of but for the person waiting for and his it is a dramatic he for every person who is Dis charged there is another ready to immediately take the he he said that two years former health minister Larry Desjardins promised a plan to Reform the sys tem and he urged Parasiuk to Millroy explains need for psychiatric Hospital care delay it no but a clinical said Parasiuk should not fall into the trap of simply putting More Money for psychiatric Beds in his he said Money should be put into Community based care for mentally ill people who do not need the level of care that a Hospital Tefft estimated that 50 per cent of psychiatric Beds Are being used by people who would be better at less in the he said that two to five depending upon the extent of their could be treated in the Community for the average Cost of a Hospital the current care system does not offer enough Community based alternatives to Hospital care for men Tal health said executive director of the registered psychiatric nurses Mary a Mani de told reporters she has benefited from Hospital if somebody is not hospitalized when they need to be and is left on their they May commit Sui said whose illness is controlled by but she said Hospital care is not the answer for All mentally ill peo at All stages of their weather Traci Pillion h High l Lew cold from warm front Winnipeg area forecast today sunny with occasional Cloudy periods and in creasing cloudiness toward High 3 to Low tonight 5 to tomorrow mostly Cloudy with scattered showers or High 4 to Southern Manitoba mostly with a 30 percent Chance of High Low monday High Low Normal High is Normal Low is tomorrow mostly Cloudy with scattered showers or High Low sunday mostly High Low monday mostly Cloudy with a 40percent Chance of High Low Normal High is Normal Low is Northwestern Ontario tomorrow mainly High Low sunday and monday mostly sunny with a 30percent Chance of highs lows 10 both Normal High is Normal Low is National Victoria 6 Vancouver 12 6 yellow knife 11 18 Edmonton 10 4 Calgary Saskatoon 4 Regina 0 5 Winnipeg 4 8 Brandon 0 Dauphin 6 5 Thompson 4 9 Churchill 11 Kenora 1 a Thunder Bay 2 3 Toronto 8 0 Ottawa 2 Montreal 11 2 Halifax is 10 International 9 3 b i new 18 14 18 13 9 10 10 20 15 13 Moscow 12 18 1 8 6 6 8 5 9 17 11 7 7 5 9 1 Tel 24 11 9 2 mean 5 last year Normal 47 he Mil my record in 1975 Lowed on in precipitation total from 1 to 5 Millimetres Normal yesterday resort spots los 19 14 Las Clouds 24 rain 26 15 5 31 24 27 22 Clouds 31 23 Cloudy 24 22 fair 31 22 32 26 fair 31 27 fair 31 23 gunman robs restaurant an pistol waving robber threatened a female clerk at a vital takeout restaurant last night before leaving on foot with an undisclosed amount of police police said the wearing a Bandana Over his entered the Chicken Delight of Canada at 280 Annes Road about and threatened the Lone attendant with a the suspect is described As being about 25 years of with Brown curly hair and wearing Blue wih Tario Toronto up six winning numbers were chosen yesterday in win Tario the winning number is Circle the winning number is other winning numbers 26185 4405 724 Winfall cars and Cash Bonus Circle Diamond Diamond 741634 death classified death husband of Polina Doreen of Matilda widow of Lisle Chris Alfred of formerly of husband of Rose husband of Erna widow of William of formerly of Lowe widow of Peter of widow of Dennis widower of Florence Evelyn of widow of Joseph of Moose formerly of husband of Annie James of husband of Erifily Michel of husband of Emilienne Walter husband of Anna Patrick of husband of Jean of of widow of Edward Scolie Alma of formerly of Winni Peg and Medicine wife of George of Charles of of formerly of widow of Abram Betty of wife of Joseph of Kenneth husband of Margaret Walter husband of Ann James judge rules nobody to blame in Northern shootout fatality by Bob Lowery special to the free press Moose Lake negligence or unlawful not involved in the death of a local Man in an Exchange of gunfire Here last sum an inquest decided some Moose Lake residents were upset judge Robert Trudel made his ruling immediately after the final session of the today Floyd Allan died of gunshot wounds in a shootout with the ramp june according to evidence at the my feeling is that there was nothing police or did that could in any Way have contributed to this tragic Trudel the judge said shots were fired and police were forced to take cover when they arrived on the evidence showed head was shot by ramp constables Randy Daly and Mic Cele Peters of the Pas Rural Daly testified that Peters and a summer student Constable were in a life threatening head had his Shotgun aimed at Peters when both officers fired almost is he people in Moose Lake Are angry and mad at what has been done Marguerite the dead mans said there was a lot of evidence Given at this some of it was quite contradictory to what wit Nesses said at the first hearing i think he should have taken More time to think Over Al the evidence before coming to his Deci like commandos i dont hate them the i feel sorry for Sanderson but they put Floyd in jeopardy with the Way they drove up to my fathers trailer like a lot of Comman Zacharias who suffered a severe heart attack the morning after his sons said police should have tried to talk his son into sitting in his still scarred with Bullet holes from the he said i worked at the Pas correctional Institute for 14 years and Ive seen How they police handle people Floyd was pretty Good at looking after his Mother and he was also looking and looking for a Job that he never could that made him get very depressed and he turned to head said the family is still considering Legal several witnesses testified that after the four men picked head up by the arms and legs and threw him into the Back of the police Paddy local residents disputed earlier testimony that Peters Rode in the Back of the vehicle administering first Aid for part of the Way to the nobody got in the Charlie Fossen Euve Louie who recalled seeing head bleeding from his said he was laying face up on the floor of the judge Trudel said he will be issuing a formal written report ;