Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba January paged Patrick City editor slaying suspect faces drug wife begs Egypt to let husbandleave712 local motorcycle gang member fined for role in prostitution ring by Terry Weber a los bravos caught at the Helm of a downtown prostitution ring through police was fined i would have agreed it was a group of amateurs stumbling around in the Middle of the except for one very obvious fac provincial court judge Philip Ashdown said before fining John Ernest that is the obvious connection to the los one can readily without specs what kind of income the gang re Ashdown calculating from a weekly in come received by Dew and his Tan Douglas Lightfoot estimated the ring brought in about a both Dew and Lightfoot pleaded guilty to conspiracy to live off the avails of pros Titu Lightfoot will be sentenced Crown attorney Bob Morrison told court police cracked the operation in november 1968 after intercepting a number or phone Calls Between the pair and a discus sing the performance of one of the prostitutes working on the in one of the read in court by Lightfoot said he would have to take one of the women off the Job if she continued to get drunk and fail to turn Over Money because he had to answer to the others in the los bravos they were in a Broad sense acting As agents for the Morrison although Dew and Lightfoot allegedly offered Protection to women on the Morrison said it appeared the prostitutes received Little help from the Feltey did nothing in return for their he they certainly didst find them its ludicrous to suggest these women were paying them part of their hard earned Cash because they liked the defence lawyer Tim Valgardson argued City warns summer jobs to be scarce by Janet Mcfarland the City expects to hire fewer people for summer jobs this year because of reorganizations in some employment officer Richard Cornwall said about 300 people lined up yesterday for the first Day of interviews for seasonal but they will be Only a fraction of the thousands expected to apply by March last about people applied for about 400 available Cornwell the number of jobs available this year is not known but he said the City expects to hire fewer people largely be cause of a reorganization in the Parks and recreation the department plans to Cut 35 full time temporary but the plan presented to Council last fall said Little about seasonal and Par time cutbacks forecast there will be cutbacks in some areas As a Cornwell warned although the number of new jobs has not yet been Cornwell said it will also depend on the number of but employees and former sum Mer employees who Are called there could be As Many As to people come he if More come therell be fewer he mayor Bill Norrie said yesterday morn ing he was disappointed not to see More members from visible minority groups standing in the Long lineup in the basement of City despite the cites promotional the City has also had difficulty attracting minority applicants for full time he Many individuals in Many groups in the City Are perhaps not interested in careers in the police department or the fire Depar Norrie i dont think you can Force you have to be open and encourage people to but you cant go and drag them Norrie said he expects a new speakers a fave Fulg Beffi hopefuls line up above for a Chance to fill in an application form right for summer employment with the Bureau to help organize Public speakers to Tell ethnic groups about Cornwell said the personnel department encourages minority applicants for the summer work and informs ethnic associations of the i dont know Why More people dont Cornwell we have a mail out list of 200 organizations they were certainly made aware there Are those statistics for the number who apply will not be available until next City staff Are still completing statistics about the number of minorities who applied in state of woman House shocks neighbors by Kim Guttormson Joanne Sinkevich went to work each morn ing in a fur coat and a but she lived a eccentric life in a House literally co Vered with empty wine bottles and three year old died 30 during a fire in the House shed lived in since her Mother died seven years the cause of the fire is under i Vestiga but the Blaze itself has provided some insight into a woman who pretty much kept to the floor of the woman House was cushioned by layers of old wine Pepsi and Coke cans and empty cigarette what a Lydia Bulawka said after viewing what was left of the woman the Bulawka have lived across from the Sinkevich Home on Lansdowne Avenue since both families moved to the neighbourhood 30 years people dont know much about she was she never talked to Bulawka John Bulawka said he saw smoke around the eaves rough of sinkevics House around but no i knocked on the door and kicked but there was no he he alerted the neighbors and asked one to Call the fire the fire and smoke caused an estimated he said Sinkevich never let anyone in her and now he understands you would have to build this up for five years probably since her Mother he kicking at a pile of in the the counters and stove were piled High with garbage and papers and More Mil to Start anti racism training the Manitoba federation of labor will begin anti racism training sessions for unionized workers next Mil president Susan har Kulbaba said yesterday the two year program will educate Union workers about what racism is and How to avoid we will educate workers about some of the myths about racism and hopefully it will reflect out in the Community also when people go the Mil will also act As an advocate for minority employees who Are having difficulty in their workplace or their she Union officials and managers will also be targeted and minority workers will been courage to get involved in Union Leader the anti racism Campaign will be aimed at All 377 affiliated locals representing Manitoban within the the program has received from the Federal Secretary of state department and the Mil has contributed another the Mil has asked for from the provincial government and from the but has not received a funding commit the Mil is using some of its program funding to cover the Cost of the project the first year of the program Cost and will end in the program began by training anti racism workshop by producing and distributing pamphlets and by conducting research on the second year of the program is expected to Cost about every room in the including the three had Green garbage bags shoved in the Corners and against the there were wine newspapers and pop cans Bulawka said other neighbors had mentioned to him they never saw her take garbage who worked for the Bank of Nova kept to none of her neighbors knew much about she moved to Thunder Bay for about 10 but returned to Winnipeg when her Mother according to Lydia an Only she lived alone in the Olga Memrick lived next door to Sinkevich and worked in the same building for a number of she kept to herself very she she talked to you if you spoke to but she didst encourage she was an excellent Rene who knew the sinkevics for 20 two pictures of her in dance poses still hang on a bedroom a 1957 Best dancer trophy sits by a bed in another his client had not actively gone out to recruit prostitutes for the he the situation arose from a social setting in which one of the women asked him for help because she was being bothered on the this was not a sophisticated he Ashdown said he would agree to Fine rather than Send him to jail because of the accused Lack of a serious criminal alarm pitch scary hard sell tactics upset pensioner by Paul Wiecek Winnipeg police Are investigating com plaints that a local burglar alarm company is using scare tactics and misleading sales techniques to sell its pricey acting staff Don Macdiarmid said police have received four complaints in the past including one from people contacted by representatives of ram tron reentry alarm a nation Al alarm company based in it appears there just picking people at random and giving them a very aggressive sales Macdiarmid but company officials deny there doing anything were just telling it like it people Are raped and killed every Day and our Job is to try and prevent that from said Gary ram tron who did not want her last name said a ram tron Salesman visited her Home even though she told a Telephone Salesman four Days earlier that she want interested in the company alarm which Cost Between and he showed up at my door and said it would Only take 20 minutes to give this so i let him in hoping they would Stop bothering but five hours the Salesman was still in her even though a says she repeatedly told the Man she could not afford an alarm talking and talking he just kept talking and telling me what a Beautiful House i have and How a robber would have a Field Day he had All these pictures that showed How everything gets smashed when someone Breaks in and he said he knew at least 50 houses on my Street that had been broken Elsie said from her Home Street Mcdonnell said the pictures Are cartoons and part of a Standard ram tron presenta we try and take people through what happens when a House gets broken Mcdonnell noting feelings of fear and violation As Well As acts of vandalism and violence Are discussed during the presenta i was getting really nervous the More he kept but he he wanted me to sign a Elsie adding she refused to sign anything before she had a Chance to talk it Over with her two Days the Salesman called Back and asked when he could install a i told him i never bought any she adding she contacted police the same after the Man told her he got her name from a neighbourhood watch Macdiarmid said the company has no affiliation with the police program and has been told to Stop making reference to it in their lockup unhealthy for recovering suspect Doug who underwent major heart bypass surgery a year ago and a Gall bladder operation last should be on a Low cholesterol diet and getting out each Day for a walk in the fresh but Hes been prevented from enjoying both for the last four months because the Winnipeg remand would you is unable to provide that i find totally in a totalitarian a banana Republic or a so called developing but Here in Manitoba in Canada in the 1990s i guess the Only redeeming feature is that Logan was free wrong Choice of words to Call me and but i dont think that going to do him much Good now i guess a Good Many of you might be wondering Why in writing about logans after Hes been remanded in custody and there must be a Good reason for right he be there if be haunt done anything so Why bother with his runaround another wrong Choice of Logan is regarded As something of a risk if Hes allowed his Freedom and the charge against him is that Why police have opposed his getting in Hes been accused of cocaine related Mike Ward offences and when he told me i kind of thought and then about bothering to Check out his but then i got to thinking Why should i anyone in jail least of All someone who has yet to be found guilty of a crime be denied a special diet and fresh air As Logan told me on the phone i dont expect any sympathy from the but if there going to hold me in surely in entitled to Safe Ive been on antibiotics for congestion and that has to be because i Haven had any fresh Ive been out twice to court since Ive been Here and that from the first week of september when i was my arms have started to which frightens the life out of and i figure this is because of me not getting a Low cholesterol diet along with having no fresh air and getting like in glad i did Check out his most of what he told me is no special no fresh not just for but everyone in the on top of i found out that on the Friday before new years there were 175 people detained at the there were the located on the third floor of the Public safety was designed for 130 of this kind of overcrowding int i its been like this for since and both the former nip administration and the current tory government have vowed to do something about but still no new remand the latest Date to Start work on the promised 226bed facility is june this before i get into Why no fresh air and no special Why Logan be transferred to heading Ley correctional where at least he would be Able to exercise daily in the open air i was trying to get there to get around he told there you can get better but Treyve closed Down the remand corrections officials decide to upgrade the remand Cage at heading Ley while awful overcrowding continues at the remand i cant believe that heading Ley cant take or anyone else whose medical condition warrants As a matter of he could at the very spent some time there Over Christmas when 119 heading Ley inmates went Home for the to find out Why remand Centre inmates cant get fresh air or be allowed a special i spoke with assistant superintendent Ron Coles and Ralph the physician for both heading Ley and the remand we have no facilities for fresh air that one of the problems we have in this particular Coles we cant take them out on to the streets for fresh theres just no Way for them to have fresh air i agree with that Coles said that after i spoke to he phoned one of logans Edward Pascoe of Boniface general about the need for a Low cholesterol Pascoe does recommend such a diet for All postoperative but said he didst View it As being an absolute necessity in terms of maintaining this mans Robertson said Logan could leave Trench Fries and other foods High in cholesterol on his plate without causing him any Logan saying while the food in the Centre is most of it is very High in fat its either eat or he the doctor then added something which made More in a we cant put a lot of people on special if youve been through the facilities you would understand to put him on a special i dont think i would get away with because i would have 50 Guys wanting special they would just simply demand certain things and then if they didst get it they would get out to the press and they would phone the ombudsman their usual if i could help i but theres very Little i can Ive got to operate within the we dont have a dietitian on we have room for one if a dietitian came like i victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont write Mike hell look into ;