Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 26, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba U u Winnipeg free press april 1990 Page 3 Brian City editor victims family urges joint mine reviews Tott Gher gun pose charged in rash of Boniface fires by Paul Wiecek a Winnipeg Man appeared in court yester Day charged with setting More than a dozen fires in Boniface during the last six Winnipeg police crime Joe Gallagher said yesterday the Man was arrested after three fires were set within two hours Early tuesday morning in the basement of a room ing House at 277 Provencher damage was estimated at Kenneth Alexander a Resi Dent of the Rooming is charged with 10 counts of break and enter with intent and 13 counts of setting fire to a the suspect appeared in court yesterday and the Case was remanded until he remains in Gallagher said the charges Are in connection with the three fires tuesday As Well As nine garage fires and one apartment fire that kept firefighters hopping during the night of March nine garages and the laundry room of an apartment Block in the Boniface neigh boyhood near Coronation Park were set ablaze during a six hour period that causing an estimated Gallagher said police also Are talking to the Man about a fire at holy Cross roman Catholic Church in mid March As Well As two other garage fires March one on Provencher Boulevard and one on do Moulin were not ruling out anything at this Gallagher adding he expects More charges to be Laid Gallagher that the holy Cross fire does not appear to fit the pattern and police currently have nothing to link it to Gallagher said arson charges were not Laid against the Man because the charge requires that the accused person stands to gain financially from a fire and police believe the recent Boniface fires were acts of he want getting anything out of this in terms of goods or Gallagher Boniface residents contacted yesterday were relieved to hear of the i Hope its going to end it All said Roland whose garage at the rear of 221 Eugenie Street was burned to the ground and his 1978 Oldsmobile destroyed March native school concept pushed by George Nikides standing in front of a blackboard covered in scribbled Howard Green gives a Pep talk on native run a native school is an Experiment and a big Green tells about 120 mostly if you think youre going to Pray and sit around and smoke pipes All the time i dont think that will who has set up a native school in was in Winnipeg yesterday to help a group of North end students and parents take the first step in creating a survival a school run by exploratory although some Cor Earea schools in Winnipeg Are up to 90percent the City has no schools with native eight other Canadian cities have native the Malawi i Chi Itata Centre organized the Daylong meeting to find out How natives would organize their own the group plans to take the parents views to the trustees of Winnipeg school according to statistics supplied by the twice As Many Young natives As Whites drop out of school before Grade the survival school in Calgary graduated twice As Many natives As All the other schools in the Alberta City comma Maui figures also show that 83 per cent of Winnipeg Indian population lives within the Boun Daries of Winnipeg school Divi Wilbert a 15yearold native who says he wants to be either a businessman or a police said he would attend a school where natives speak their own languages and where academic standards Are Green filled a blackboard with a wis list of suggestions from parents about the including More participation from a daycare Centre and native an Guage one student said the name sur Vival school should be changed because its too Thelma a social worker in the Core said a native run school should teach Indian Cul Ture and it would teach our children the whole idea of what happened to she Sel Confidence i want our kids to be pushed so that they believe they can succeed and go on to if people know who they Are and Are proud of they can do any Larry an official with Malawi and one of the organizers of yesterdays meet said the school Cost taxpayers More it would use facilities already in he Jeff of free press s Blacksmith student Lawrence Henderson Cut Wood for sweat Lodge tradition arrives a native ceremony that been Practised for centuries across North America came to Winnipeg for the first time As part of an aboriginal youth natives built a sweat a heated wooden Tarp chamber where indians tradition ally sweat lodges cleanse mind and said David a Community development worker who is he organized the ceremony at Russell vocational Blacksmith said the ceremony was brought to Winnipeg for the first time to keep Urban indians in touch with their we live in the White world we cant go Back to Hunting Blacksmith but we have to remember that we Are these traditions will help us beat drugs and a sweat Lodge is constructed of 16 tree branches and two layers of no Light can for about two up to 20 people sit around red hot rocks and Tell stories and this is not a its a Way of Blacksmith he said the branches represent the ribs in a woman when a worshipper leaves the sweat its similar to being born he came to the sweat Lodge from a substance abuse treatment Centre in it was his second time participating in the i Felt like a new person the first he Charlene came to give me a better understanding of native organizers allow photo graphs of the sweat Lodge or of the steaming rocks and widowed mom lives with loss Driver imprisoned for three years in Street death of Young father by Terry Weber a Young widowed by a car Accident outside a Rock says its still hard to face the sudden loss of her 28yearold it has changed my life a Irka Menam said yesterday after Donald Casey the Man responsible for the death of her was sentenced to three years in Pris its still really hard most of the during the Brief provincial court judge Arnold Conner sentenced saying nothing will rectify the loss caused to the Vic Tims i recognize that any sentence 1 impose will not restore the life of Anthony Conner adding the sentence must deter legged propensity for irresponsible Legge was directly responsible for a horrible tragedy he must pay the Legge was convicted last week on charges of criminal negligence causing death and injury after the car he was driving on slowed into a group of spectators outside an Eric Clapton concert at the Winnipeg court had been told legged after leaving the Arena parking swerved around another car which had just turned North off maroons Road onto Empress jumped a curb and slammed into a crowd of a Thompson died two Days later in his two Michel Lapierre of Thompson and William Loftus of were treated and released from Hospital that All three had been walking Back to their hotel room after the witnesses testified who admitted to drinking two Beers that was driving at speeds of 7580 before the Irka Mcnabney was six months pregnant with the couples second child at the time of her husbands death and later went into labor prematurely because of the stress of the the widow found it difficult to express her feelings about the who had seven speeding infractions on his record at the time of the i dont feel 1 hate she her voice trailing off before noting that she didst think the three year sentence was Legge described by his family As As Well As hyper and easily frustrated had pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal negligence and impaired driving causing death and Conner acquitted Legge on the drink in related saying the Issue of the mans impairment haunt been Legge was also prohibited from driving a vehicle for five group Homes ruling Appeal unsupported by Radha Krishnan Thampi mayor Bill Norrie and the chair Man of civic planning committee Are at Odds Over whether to Appeal a court ruling striking Down Winni pegs zoning bylaws governing group i will not support an Christine Mckee River whose planning and Community services committee oversees zoning said but Norrie said he favors Appeal ing the strange Manitoba court of Appeal which he warned could have far reaching effects on zoning Norrie said he has asked the cites Law department for an opinion and will Reserve his final judgment until he gets that in striking Down the regulations the Appeal court said the cites bylaws governing the location of group Homes amount to people zoning and Are the court said restricting where rehabilitative and care Homes can set up by requiring them to get the approval of Community committees is contrary to the charter of rights and freedoms Equality a senior civic official said the administrations response to the court ruling will Likely be completed he said it would be presented to civic executive policy which is to meet at Shoal Lake today and tomorrow for a policy Norrie and eight policy committee members and a Battery of Bureau led by chief commissioner Rick Are in Shoal Lake for the today which will focus on civic budget noting she has not read the Appeal court said in Prin the ruling is consistent with the provincial human rights code and the she said she can live with the ruling and sees no reason to go to the supreme court of Canada for a review of the in the former chief jus Tice Alfred who heard the bylaw Appeal before urged the City to take the ruling to the High court for a Mckee said the City can Deal with zoning bylaw needed to accommodate the through channels other than an Appeal to the top we can Deal with the constitutional issues in other i am quite comfortable with the disadvantaged people have a right to be on their Mckee statement was applauded by Bill Manitoba director of the Canadian mental health Asso Martin said the Appeal courts decision is the Correct adding he agrees with Mckee that the City should not waste time and Money appealing the landmark the fear is about the he referring to opposition to locating group Homes in neighbor according to a provincial family services department there Are currently 203 group Homes in a Good portion located in the of 14 group Homes Are for 43 Are for the mentally 132 for the mentally disabled and 14 Are for the infirm and the the official Norrie said he found Mannins i decision a strange the whole process of zoning within the City could be seriously Norrie he voiced Strong support for the Manitoba human rights code and the charter of rights and free but said he cant allow a zoning bylaw crisis to he said the cites decision whether to Appeal will be based on the Poten tial for such a councillor fears ghettoisation of group Homes by Janet Mcfarland Donovan Timmers is Wor ried a court ruling tuesday will Lead to an Over concentration of group Homes in areas where housing prices Are Timmers Westminster said his Wolseley area Riding already has a Large number of group Homes run by social service a court ruling like this could result in Timmers referring to a Manitoba court of Appeal ruling that civic zoning bylaws governing group Homes Are you get an Over concentration of social problems and everything associated with people in whether it be alcohol or solvent criminal tendencies or behavioural who said he used to work in a group Home and with social service said he perceives no problem with concentrations of some categories of group such As those for the disabled and but he said he is concerned about Halfway houses for Homes for troubled youths and outpatient facilities for the mentally in the Long there starts to be a negative Impact on a neighbor Hood and a he where you have a ghetto there Are no role theres no peer pressure and no Community wide standards and values Preva Timmers said the court ruling removes the cites Power to control planning in neighbourhoods and said he feels citizens want councillors to have the 1 know in my its fairly tolerant and people Are willing to accept their share of social response but there not willing to be shouldering All the Bill Manitoba director of the Canadian mental health Asso argued the ruling will actually avoid ghettoisation of the mentally disabled and other disadvantaged people because it will let them move into communities of their this ruling will work the opposite Way to if we want to live in fort we Martin Greg Selinger tache said he Doest share Many of Timmers Selinger said the province can exert planning controls by encouraging the Purchase of group Homes in scattered areas throughout the i dont think we should be discriminating by the Type of people living in a Selinger the ruling May create problems for older areas where housing is but he said the cites restrictions were not the you dont discriminate against people to solve an economic prob Selinger John Prystanski Point Douglas said an extreme Over con cent ration of group Homes could be a but said he thinks group Home operators will Likely regulate a group Homes Success depends on the support it gets in the commune Prystanski if a majority of residents dont want it in the then i dont believe they will move Joseph Yuen another intercity disa Yuen said he is concerned group Homes will move into areas and lower property values if they Are too ;