Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january hazardous waste site proposal pits neighbor against neighbor continued from Page 1 facility reached a fever people were arguing Back and the neighbors we rent talk Drull even in the Wake of the residents remained divided Over the consequences of the vote on the Community those in favor of the proposal put Forward by the Manitoba Haz ardous waste management say the no vote will Mark an eco nomic downturn for this Village of 500 it the proposed facility Means the survival of the to save it from being strictly a retirement said businessman Clem president of the Ross bum merchants with a no its going to be a descending retirement who owns a Home building Supply added that the vote will have an immediate effect on the towns business i had a Large investment coming up for its totally on hold he also said the site could have been a drawing card for other Busin esses and Ive Beard of other companies wanting to relocate right next to he wherever the Plant other chemical plants will because they need to dispose of their the referendum was called by the pm of Rossburn Council to quell growing animosity Between opposing forces in the yearlong although the vote is not Rossburn Reeve ten Sitko has said that Council would follow the wishes of the Council was to hold a special meeting today to discuss the Sitko could not be reached for comment last a spokesman for a local group opposed to the facility said Council has no Choice but to reject the waste site Council wanted to know our Opin Renske Kaastra now they and they should act on that what i expect Kaastra said she Hopes the vote brutal mob violence raging in Azerbaijan a photo continued from Page 1 picture is emerging of raging mob violence and incomprehensible the bruised and battered and still Tell with horror of seeing friends and family members raped and even burned alive by azerbaijanis in a storm of violence that erupted last More than 40 armenians have been killed in according to official and the death toll could Rise As More corpses Are found by Security forces attempting to re store the violence broke out after a rally Satur Day evening at which speakers reportedly called on azerbaijanis to avenge the death of an azerbaijani who was attacked when he tried to oust an armenian family from their apartment in Baku to make room for Home less refugees from moments before the azerbaijani mob came for he saw them douse two men with gasoline and set them on fire in the Street he was not he when the mob came for i had nowhere to he shutting his swollen eyes against the pain of the there was no we were Sofia a Silver haired grand Mother of recounted with anger How 12 azerbaijani brandishing knives and clubs and screaming curses at All arme burst into her apartment in Baku As she and her husband were watching Televik broken jaw they broke her put a knife to her Throat and tried to rape her husbands head was shoved through a win Dow All the furniture in the apartment was piece by they Are she for two years we have been living in knowing that some Day they would enter our Homes and kill they want to annihilate All the after the men Sofia Babakhanian Lay for two Days on the floor of her apartment with her half conscious on Mon the police came and took them away from where they had been born and lived All their Elvira another of the Refu gees brought to described How she had watched azerbaijanis Burn two armenians she said she saw the bodies of six others who had been knifed to death in a Baku railway she was so she that she Felt emptied of it was like i was or covered with she her face in still thick Bandage a 75yearold refugee in a blood stained his right Eye covered with a thick gave his name Only As Gre gory he told of 40 men breaking into the three room Flat where he lived with his wife and dragging the couple out into the they Flung my wife on the ground and six of them began to beat her he tears on his then my turn they hit me with a Metal and i blacked out hundreds of people were in the but nobody lifted a they watched As though it were a he and his wife were left for but azerbaijanis passing by carried them to a car and drove them to a police he said the police refused to give them medical just thank god you Are he quoted a policeman As Gregory and his wife were put on Board a ferry that took them across the Caspian sea to Kras Novosk i where they were Given medical care and then flown to Galia showed a reporter her bruised bosom and said she had been beaten in the Groin As they made me take off my clothes and then they hit me Over and she they called me an armenian victim of azerbaijani torture arrives by plane in Yerevan from other armenian refugees from Baku said anti armenian sentiment had been building there for Lucia lived alone in Baku and worked in a drugstore until last she the contempt and hatred shown by azerbaijani coworkers became so great that she after she stayed at and ventured out Only when the Street was a russian Friend brought food to i was always she All of we were depressed All the we Felt that something terrible would but she said she could not have imagined what happened saturday night in a mob of Young azerbaijanis broke into her neighbors she and when she saw them breaking windows and Furni Ture she ran past them into the in the Garden beside the she a mob was pouring gasoline on several tying them together and burning them she said she hid and watched the flames until the mob moved they Are she they were killing they were killing they were it is just to horrible to armenian officials estimate that armenians were living in Baku before the violence they virtually every armenian who survived is most of them going to will put an end to the Issue for it has Hurt a lot people in the town and the she for some it got very they dont talk to each that the sad Kaastra believes Resi dents will be Able to put their differences and the debate behind if the vote had been the other i would have accepted business fails despite rent Deal at downtown site continued from Page 1 Peg based multinational company trying to bail out the said last night that although he received no confirmation of Snippes plans to close the it came As no it come As a sur Thorsteinson theres Square feet of retail space there and Hes virtually the Only Thorsteinson said under a Standard agreement with Village at Portage place housing owners of the was paying no rent during his first year of the fact the store and restaurant failed even though the owner want paying rent is further indication of just How troubled businesses Are in the downtown Thorsteinson if he cant make it and Hes paying no then you can imagine How Tough times he shelter announced monday it would seek to save the financially troubled place which is saddled with a i million the project is expecting annual losses of at least Thorsteinson said there Are ongo ing attempts to secure retail tenants in the project and if someone can be found to reestablish the grocery and they will be Given the same oneyear rent free arrange the closing of the store left the almost 300 residents of place promenade apartments without any Gro store employee Gloria Ca said As stocks dwindled in the it was difficult to Tell tenants they would have to Start going somewhere else for their is screening system to be probed continued from Page 1 and for joining the gun Sobczyk has been charged with second degree murder in the slaying of Carole who was shot to death in the parking lot of her Portage Avenue apartment Block tuesday police sources confirmed that As part of their investigation they Are checking into the screening process for gun permit All firearms acquisition certificate applicants Are supposed to be screened for a history of criminal activity or mental illness and Are usually turned Down if there is police and firearms officials have complained in the past that the mental illness checks Are difficult and Only cursory since officials Are not allowed Access to a gun permit applicants medical the gun club who spoke on condition of said Sobczyk came to him in november wishing to apply for a membership because he wanted to buy a Libre the manager said he sold Sobczyk a oneyear membership and issued him the documentation he needed to victim called quiet person continued from Page 1 very people spoke very highly of Watson was shot several times at close Range tuesday night in parking lot of her Portage Avenue apartment she died in Hospi Tal shortly after a 25yearold her was arrested at the scene after he turned himself he has been charged with second degree Mur Winnipeg police said Watson had Only a passing acquaintance with the Man charged in the adding they yet have no motive for the a police department spokesman said Watson was just at the wrong spot at the wrong a City woman who has worked with abused women for several years said the slaying May typify an accepted attitude that it is permissible to Hurt women and Chil Sherry Dangerfield said time May reveal a motive for the but added the incident represents yet another attack on its fair to make the generalization that women and children Are targets of she the notice on the bulletin accompanied by a thumbnail photo graph taken from an id said that Watson had worked in the Hospi tals dietetics department since a coworker said that Watson had juggled a Job and school for several she worked her Friend she was on her support ing Watson was described As a pleas easygoing who was willing to listen to other Peoples problems but never burdened any one with her she was very not a wild said her show police before they would Issue him a conveyance which allowed Sobczyk to transport his gun from his Home to the but nowhere the manager said he does not recall seeing Sobczyk or the gun but he added that int unusual in a Large weve got members and i maybe know a couple Hundred of that he a local gun dealer said tougher legislation will not Stop Vio Lent wingnut you cant legislate against a hell either get the gun another Way or hell use a baseball Bat or an axe or a knife or whates ers said Ted who works at the gun shop at Winnipeg police chief Herb Stephen said the accused mental state will be one of the main elements reviewed in the Liberal Justice critic Paul Edwards St James said he too was interested in seeing Justice minister Jim Mccrae review gun but said its a Tough Issue because fire arms legislation is in Ottawa Juris in whose constituency the shooting took its virtually impossible to know if some body has mental problems that should prevent them from own ing a if someone has a problem that would make them we obviously dont want them to own a but How do you know i guess that where the system Breaks january clearance limited time Only Maytag 10year Washer get a Low Price tag on a Maytag dependable Maytag washers last need fewer repairs and Cost less to service 1 preferred on Canadian consumer slaying called totally senseless continued from Page 1 the death of his fellow wat a food services worker at Boniface general Hospital and a Par time social work student at the University of police said Sobczyk came to Canada in 1982 under a Federal program instituted after martial Law was imposed in Poland in he was but he had a lot of he was very Down and depressed and i tried to help Blazejak said Sobczyk started hanging around the Church last doing Odd jobs and telling the priest his he didst have Many so i offered to introduce him to the other newcomers to Blazejak noting his Parish has sponsored 230 polish refugees in the past year but he didst want he and so i left the priest Blazejak said Sobczyk chose to come to Winnipeg because he had a Friend he stopped coming to mass on sundays and got in some problems i Hope they have leniency on him because Hes really not healthy in the Blazejak Winnipeg police spokesman Eric Turner said there does not appear to be any motive for the slaying of it was totally totally As far As we can it was a Case of being in the wrong place at the wrong he Turner said it does not appear Sobczyk and Watson knew each although he said they must have seen each other in the past because they lived next door to one he said Watson was shot at in the parking lot of Capri Watson was shot at least five times at close Range As she climbed out of her car after returning Home from a shift at the he she was rushed to Grace general where she died one hour Sobczyk appeared in court yester Day and remains in the Case has been remanded until father Stan pastor of Johns Cantius said he first met Sobczyk last Winter when he was called by a counsellor at the salvation army and told that Sobczyk had requested admit Tance to the army psychiatric Facil he wanted to stay but they said they keep him because he didst fit the Jaworski adding he cannot recall what the specific problem the conversation left Jaworski it seemed he had lost All 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