Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba V so i in Ivi e in t a 68 pages Irr pupi ath j to Winnipeg free press May 1994 Young car thieves sentences Cut police say Appeal court out of touch new Arena viable Only with teamwork top judges go easy on youths computer enhanced photo by Jon free press by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter any Deal to keep jets from disappearing must include restructured panel Deal is marginal notes warn by Paul Scott Taylor and John Douglas staff reporters the Winnipeg jets could be viable in a new downtown sporting Complex with restructured team ownership and a show of support from the Community and private according to the Long awaited Burns committee but the committee also warns any potential Deal to keep the jets and build a new Arena is marginal and should be abandoned unless a number of factors fall into details of the Burns committee which has yet to be were outlined in briefing notes obtained by the free but any discussion about saving the jets could be academic unless team president Barry Shenkarow agrees to extend a june 30 deadline for resolving details concerning team ownership and construction of a new according to an agreement signed by the jets private the inside Story i skating into the future a11 bums report will look familiar the province and Winnipeg enterprises in october the interim steering committee has until june 30 to find an approved owner for the hockey club for a Price of after that the private owners can sell their shares to any that is expected to drive the Price into the million to million us Shenkarow is committed to remaining in Winnipeg through the 199495 season and will have his losses assumed by the provincial and civic governments if he wishes to keep the team Here until Shenkarow is in Europe and is not due Back in Winnipeg until he has already twice refused to extend the the committee is waiting for his response before making Public its according to the briefing the report will emphasize that an nil team and a sports entertainment Complex Are extremely important to the future of the if we lose the we also lose a sports entertainment the briefing notes looking a Community without one will be second or third tier in North but our financial Model indicates that this is an extremely marginal Deal and that unless All factors fall into place the transaction should not move although the briefing notes do not detail How much Public Money will be required to make the Deal sources have suggested the taxpayer May have to Ante up As much As it is not Clear whether that figure includes the previously reported million to help finance the Arena and Purchase the privately owned jets or whether it is a new figure representing the Cost of financing the sports Complex rigs Jess Tsal he Jet reproach and non int Tom into tyrant it Wamah mrs Jimj jul in the ment there is not adequate the currant private owners must be Given the right to sell the players contracts and the franchise for the most they can gel the jets and the proposed sports entertainment Complex need each other to me jets cannot continue in the existing the Mauro report should be used As a starting Point for discussion about location and Type of the Mauro report preferred a new Arena downtown the committee suggests it should be located adjacent to the convention for the second time in a the provinces highest court has ordered lower court judges to go easier on Young car youve got a group of judges who Are oblivious to what s going on in that cars Are being stolen and people Are being killed Winni Peg police youth Lou Spado said the Manitoba court of Appeal overturned a 15yearolds 15month secure custody sentence for car theft and substituted a term of the Appeal court also recommended a lower court judge reduce the teens other 15month term for dangerous secure custody Means the youth is locked up at the Manitoba youth a Milder open allows the offender free Dom during the Spado said youth court judges have been lenient in the but it didst Stop the rising crime now Spado says Hes worried the Appeal court judges Are sending the wrong message to Young maybe one of these judges should have their cars he i guess you get a Freebie for the first car that a Nice Mes Sage to Send to the Spado said the toll so far from youth car thefts is two bystanders 28 people injured including 16 police officers As Well As last weeks death of Allan Corbett Mel one of the Young car but the 15yearolds Mike said the Appeal court was this decision shows you cant give sentences higher for youth than Walker in a nine Page decision Justice Kerr twaddle of the Manitoba court of Appeal said it want right to imprison a teenager with a previously unblemished rec Ord for stealing a justices Sterling Lyon and Guy Kroft last the same court Over turned a 14yearold car thief s sen ousted by Ottawa Dur tips parole chief Ottawa promised new i i measures for the Way it handles dangerous offenders yesterday and under scored the Point by string Michel chairman of the National parole the firing Caps a growing controversy Over convicts who rape or commit other violent crimes while on the Goa its credibility has been undermined by several High profile including the release of five convicts who killed seven a pattern of violence a3 jail no solution tence of six months open restitution and a years Proba it substituted two months of probation and 200 hours of Community court was told the who cannot be identified under the Young offenders stole a 1989 Buick from a Furby Street Resi Dence on May and raced past police on Ellice police caught up when the boy lost control and wrecked the car at Arlington Street and Sargent the weather today sunny with afternoon Cloudy High Low tonight tomorrow variable Doud High Tun Blees sets noon Ralea Seta on paged2 inside quote of the Dey he had a not hate for women a major Santa Crown attorney Rob fwd yarn describes a Man who my Whie on parole Ann Horoscope b2 in sports their anniversary of pain by Theresa Boyle staff reporter Meaghan Mcconnell pulled herself out of bed yesterday morning and forced herself to go to Strug gling to restore some normalcy to a life that has been turned upside Down in the last on the first anniversary of the shooting deaths of her Mother and the 14yearold flin Ron teen spent a sleepless she sleep because she was affected by the memory of it Shes very its been traumatic for said Meaghann Sherry she wanted to go to school be cause she Doest want to dwell on nothing con replace their Mother or but you do what you can Kim Meaghan and shannons Uncle the she has to carry on with her Sherry it was exactly a year ago that mar Jorie and her son were shot dead by a Man with a Meaghann sister was shot twice Between the eyes and in the she lost her left Eye and an estimated 50 per cent of the hear ing in her right neighbors saw a Man dragging Meaghan from the Home by the Scruff of her police launched a manhunt and found Meaghan in a Cement mixer with a Man five Days Meaghann former James is charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted lawyer Richard Wolson will apply to the courts monday for a change of venue from the Sherry Mcconnell and her Hus Are now Meaghann and shannons Legal nothing can replace their Mother or but you do what you Kim Meaghan has moved in with but because the Home int big Shannon lives with her paternal grandparents less than two Kilometres their who was divorced from mar lives in Atha and phones his Daugh ters once a the older sister is trying to re build her having undergone three including one to rebuild her Eye socket and insert a Glass she had therapy during her 11week stay in Hospital to learn to talk and Swallow Sherry said both women have occasional nightmares and see grief counsellors twice a watch for our grand opening at the Pembina Village shopping May 19th or if you cant were already at the Corner of Rougeau ;