Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent Apex realty Winnipeg free press local Section Brian Cole 6977292 email b1 april 1994 Gord Sinclair whose face was in the Mirror she wanted to remove the mask of anonymity from youth without naming names of the woman on the phone had read last weeks column about Angela the 16yearold native girl who had been beaten and slashed across the Cheek last fall by a gang of apparently they thought she was a police in the angelas Rhonda said she was tired of people using difficult backgrounds As an excuse for criminal it was that comment that had prompted the woman on the phone to 16yearold girl who slashed the tiny woman in the Black hooded sweatshirt and Matching born to ride shirt was sitting in the Corner of the downtown restaurant where we agreed to tattooed tentacles oozed from a rolled up sleeve and a Rollo Crown cigarette shouldered from Between nicotine stained she began by Reading something she had my daughter has been having problems since she was later she explained the daughter was raped at so was the she also got married on 22 to her Boyfriend so she could give her baby a Good the daughter had her first baby at so did the on 4 her husband was rushed to the Hospital where he was Given a 10 per cent Chance of he was under a lot of stress when she got involved with some people that she thought were her she also got Back on booze and drugs to ease the pain and the daughter was a Street so was the she thought i was too the Mother explained when she finished she thought the Street was More of a Home than my Home in not saying in the perfect Ive raised six kids and Ive been a recovering alcoholic for nine last month her daughter wrote her a poem about those growing up she gave it to her Mother in the youth where Shes serving 19 the spelling and punctuation have been left As Token its toll the years have past and so much youve my own Way decide so Many years ago and yet you feel As if All the wrong that been is your i look at you and see the years have worn on you and Defeated you As they have you cry just so tired of it All and still you say the blame is yours but Mother Ive sunned the nightmares in which i lived and none was Ever times i fought with you in a Drunken rage and blamed you for not being a but you Haven been giving the Creadith you truly a Little bit a Mother and wife myself and i just Hope Imas Strong As youve been in my life As i can be in my own sons Mother dry your eyes and lets Start anew for ill always look up to you and always love you As Ive loved you through out the As for Why she did one 16yearold girl would slash another 16yearold girls in reminded of something i read in the new York the writer was explaining Why Young Black men shoot other Young Black the answer seems applicable to 16yearold Street there looking into a when the girl slashed angelas i wonder who she really herself or her Mirror image Mother victim spent Winters in Summers on the neighbors say party ends in slaying staff reporter the cites latest slaying Tim who died of head injuries in a landside Street Rooming House Early yesterday was last seen running Down the Street after being beaten at another residence several hours before his neighbors say they saw Douglas Warren leaving a House on Furby Street holding a bloody Towel to his nose saturday an autopsy yesterday revealed he died of head his face was All said a woman named who identified herself As a Friend of the de ceased police were called to 130 landside Street at yesterday where Sinclair was found said police duty Jack Sinclair is the cites fifth slaying victim this Swatski said Sinclair sustained his injuries at suite 111 Furby and then made his Way to the Lang Side Home of a where he he was said a Man who lives on the second floor at 111 i dont know if it was from the drinking or the he who according to area had a reputation for drinking Lysol and was said by neighbors to have spent his Winters in jail and Summers on the police arrested a Man in connection with the slaying shortly after Sinclair body was charges Are expected to be Laid to Geena said she knew Sinclair As a she said he had been at the Furby Street residence for a neighbors said parties were quite frequent at the landside Rooming House where Sinclair sometimes it started at eight or nine in the a neighbor other neighbors reported they heard loud noises saturday we heard hollering and scream ing last said who lives across the my boy Friend came out and told them to shut other neighbors reported hearing shouting coming from the Rooming House saturday apparently a fight Between a Man and a woman Over Swatski said another incident sat urday in which two men repeat edly beat and kicked a third Man was unrelated to the other residents of the Cor Earea Wayne Glowacky Winnipeg free press traditional aboriginal dancer Arthur big Hetty of Winnipeg joins others in celebrating Earth Day at the Forks sharing the culture aboriginal perspective adds to lessons of Earth Day by Nancy Westaway free press correspondent a first nation teaching Lodge brought an aboriginal perspective to Winnipeg fifth annual Earth Day celebrations the steady beat of a drum echoed outside the Lodge at the Forks to symbolize the relationship aboriginals have with the rhythm of the traditional tools and cultural symbols were displayed inside the i think a lot of people can learn from aboriginal said Lisa whose aboriginal name is redlightning aboriginal people use what is on the Earth As tools to relay our teepees surrounded the Lodge As the Thunderbear drummers pounded out traditional there is special significance to the said a 24yearold this is the very first time traditional people have danced Here on this historic it is a new we Are mostly sharing teachings about the said teacher Kathy sharing our connection to Mother showing the meaning of objects we use in connection to the Windy weather did not impede Birds enthusiasm for the no matter what the there Are no negatives whether its Cloudy or said wherever we we Are on Mother Bret Nickels came to visit the Lodge with his parents and his Young i think there is a big correlation Between Earth Day and aboriginal said adding he has had a longstanding interest in aboriginal Earth Day events included workshops and a Trade show of environmentally Friendly processes and services that emphasized this years theme of putting awareness into we want to do More than said Kristin development coordinator for Earth a 7 e want to motivate people to make a f hopefully people will take something Home today that will have a positive effect on the Handson activities like composting and organic gardening were featured at the Celebration which also included a special focus on the year of the we really wanted to encourage family said kids through schools have become very environmentally Tannis Ward came with her family from Falcon Lake to watch the weve been recycling for said the kids at school Are also very environmentally they spent their schools Earth Day picking up it was Gaylene Hunters second time celebrating Earth Day at the i came last said i wanted to see what was going on this Hunter said her family has been recycling for a while and doing a Little unhappy inmates trash cells during remand Centre Melee by Stevens wild staff reporter frustration coupled with complaints about bad food and detention Centre rules sparked a Melee at the Winni Peg remand Centre Over the week end that left four cells trashed and four inmates facing the remand Centre called in extra staff and reinforcements from the City police after a tense weekend in which four male inmates took out their frustrations on the jails Furni Ture and visiting hours were cancelled yesterday As a result of the incident and All inmates were forced to remain in their remand Centre superintendent Ron Coles said the lock Down ended yesterday of except on the eighth floor where the incidents we Are taking a very cautious a Coles three inmates trashed their cells saturday causing about Worth of a fourth inmate vandalized his cell yesterday causing All four inmates were taken to the segregation Coles said in some cases the inmates had to be forcibly removed from their damaged we feel that All of the people who have acted out have been placed in Coles Coles said trouble began Friday night with verbal confrontations be tween staff and some of it is frustration on the part of some of the inmates Over their situation with respect to their Coles some of the gentlemen Are facing significant they chose to act out their fru Stra As Coles said some of the in mates were complaining about rules and the Coles said the tension spread to other when some inmates act other inmates act the eighth floor is the location of the cells of longer term he two of the inmates were frustrated with their Legal while the other two caught the he so three inmates have been charged with mischief As a result of the they Are Robert Dean Danny James and Larry James Street said they would move As a re sult of the a Mother of two Young girls said she plans to leave the we Are getting out of she its not a Good area for the kids to grow up other neighbors said they were not bothered by the if you mind your own business and dont cause any you wont find a woman whenever theres a murder on the press blow it Cor Alie Darse Malloy she said there Are murders in other parts of the City As we live Here if we didst want she forum extols family values ties called key to social health by Nancy Westaway free press correspondent the face of the family is changing but Basic family values Are not on the Way a divergent group of religious representatives agreed there Are voices in society Call ing us to go Back to the time of so Dom and said Mostapha Secretary of outreach for the a Madinya Muslim these voices consider them selves to be More cultured but to me they Are any society that is built on Sodom and gomorrah values has no Chance but to end in he Sabet said traditional family values Are essential to the Well being of Sabet and representatives of Vari Ous including sikhs and took part in the discus Sion on the family yesterday sponsored by the a Madinya Muslim association of association president Ijaz Qamar said he wanted people to leave with an understanding of How various communities emphasize the Core values of the islam describes the relationship Between husband and wife that they Are to each other like a said to protect us from the to provide to hide our weaknesses and dignify Sabet said the discussion should make people aware that despite religious there is one com Mon All religions have family values based on divine said the in can declare every year to be the year of the but if we break these divine Laws then we cant have a Happy family the Call for a return to traditional values is not a rejection of progressive beliefs about according to the role of marriage in a family was also stressed by Dan chek a sociology professor at the University of Winnipeg who spoke from the hindu marriage is a social duty to the family and the he it is a profound experience and from it grows sharing and Sac traditional hindu values emphasize family Unity and he said studies show that the main determinant of happiness is Satis faction with family which he said is challenged in modern the family is under pressure to work longer and said chek adding dysfunction in families re lated to abuse and alcoholism can be solved by All George Desnomie of the Manitoba Indian education association said its his View that the family is the place to learn we learn the value of life As a the mind and its important to take in the whole per f ;