Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba L00 a Whiz kid off to school Board rethinks kindergarten admission rules 13 52 pages vol 122 no 297 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get 4 per 60c get Post Coj Sirte of 75c in Ontario by Home Olivey 25 wkly 05 20 Post in wily 09 1 Post outside div september 1994 kids9 pact was path to crime pledge of Friendship launched Indian posse police reporter it All started so innocently one night five years ago in the basement of a 14yearold boys Home on Beverley there were five of them that close friends who Felt More like a family with each other than with their own flesh and that meeting was the genesis of Winnipeg youth a multimillion Dollar crime problem involving 300 the five boys had a lot of history in they were poor Urban aboriginals from broken families with abusive backgrounds and substance abuse family Bond they wanted to formalize their someone suggested they entrench the Heartfelt family Bond with a a few suggestions went Back and scammers they stumbled on what they Felt was the most obvious we chose Indian because we Are All indians and posse because it Means said Richard who helped found the Indian posse youth gang in the basement of his mothers Home in it was an appropriately childlike beginning to a gang made up of but those Street smart youngsters quickly got into some very adult like crime and the Indian the cites Winnipeg youth gangs have become a not just for but for in this six part police reporter Paul Wiecek and photographer Joe Bryksa look behind the headlines at the origins of the gangs and their Impact on our bitter kids flex Muscles a guide to the b1 oldest and largest youth grew until today there Are 132 known who was just released on Day parole from heading Ley is downright sentimental about the gang with the trademark red calling members his Brothers and i Hen you see you see a proud Indian stand tall for what he or she believes he once wrote in an attempt to describe his feelings about the Indian we dont mean to disrespect our but we All have something to prove for one of the police believe local youth gang behind the skyrocketing rates of assault and theft Over robberies of City for Are up 46 per cent in All have to remember were All in it together and will die together and sometime Down the Road we will be remembered As proud the Indian posse quickly caught and other gangs followed their before Winnipeg residents were wringing their hands As several Hundred underprivileged kids turned the tables on a City that had turned its Back on them for so the Downtrodden in like the will always look for a place in said Winnipeg police Gary who Heads the departments youth gang and for these that place has turned out to be it has Given them Power and it has Given them when youre As Down As they anything else is Public furore the youth gang phenomenon has spawned a Public reflected in the news and a revamping of the provinces youth correction what started As a Bunch of troublemakers stealing cars out of driveways and jackets off other kids backs has now become a Factor in the skyrocketing violent crime rate in the same time the rate in the rest of the country has gone Winnipeg Overall crime rate Rose four per cent last year while the the National rate dropped five per teachers want the gang members out of their residents want them out of their parents want them out of their hair and politicians just want them to go and the Are being pressured to solve the have All but Given Shewchuk says he Doest like the Way things appear to be shaping up with local youth gangs and int sure theres anything police can do about Ive accepted the fact that i cant see it getting any better until the conditions these kids Are being raised in he the youth gang problem Mountain or Molehill tomorrow gang members Tell All from saturday what Price Justice police under inside an american Boot monday a Manitoban tackles youth crime in the Tum Day the search for youth Par cent o 10 989 Polisei Rowe violence Ai gang grow older estimated Cost in police manpower and resources of arresting one youth gang number of youth Crown attorneys has risen in the past two years from three to five to House a Young offender in the Manitoba youth Cense Tot Tho rate represent the centres total budget divided by its 150 Hope dims at finding survivors ferry capsizes More than 800 die Preu Tersip Finland frigid Waters and raging winds turned the Baltic into a sea of death for More than 800 people when a ferry suddenly listed and Sank in a storm Early authorities said 141 others in one of the worst maritime disasters in recent helicopters and ships searched for survivors and bodies off Fin lands southwestern they checked dozens of Blacka Dorange rafts from the 160metre ferry Estonia Bobbing in the surging but Many were there was no time to i just one of the deck hand Silver said from his Hospital Raimo the finnish coast guard Commodore coordinating the said four ships would remain in the area last night but he held out no Hope More survivors would be Rescue officials broke off a huge air and sea search for More Surv screams haunt a12 Vors last night As darkness the search was to resume this finnish police counted 141 survivors of the 964 people an other 42 bodies were meaning 823 people were missing and presumed one Canadian woman was among the said foreign affairs spokeswoman Jennifer she would not release further information except to say that the woman had not been More than half the passengers came from officials said it was too Early to say what caused the German made ferry to sink shortly after Midnight about 40 Kilometres from Uto a surviving Crew member said water started pouring through the Estonia front cargo door and the ship rolled Over and Sank swedish safety inspectors had criticized the seals on the door be fore the ferry left on tuesday Council vote fails Arena clock ticks by Stevens wild and Nick Martin City Hall reporters time May be running out on plans to build a new Arena after City Council refused yesterday to release funds for design and the cites executive policy com Mittee had recommended letting Manitoba entertainment spend million on an Arena but after it became obvious in a therean Dahal hour debate that the motion would not sent the recommendation Back to pc for further it would have been disastrous for us if the proposal had been defeat said Jae Eadie if the motion had been de it would have been difficult for the City to Call on the private Sec Tor for other Mec spokesman John Loewen said we told Council very clearly what the time lines we Are working toward a time gaming nixed to fund Arena b2 councils motion also called for Mec to submit a detailed business plan and for a Public meeting on the Issue to be held within two that meeting is scheduled for but Loewen said further delays would eat into valuable time needed to sell the luxury boxes required to make a new Arena a group of 44 business people charged with finding a Way to finance a new has said there has to be significant Box and seat sales by Decem Ber for a new Arena to be commercially it delays the Start of a marketing Loewen we wanted marketing starting by the end of a with Little possibility of Council approval for another two the consortium will Only have two months for its marketing Mec wanted a guarantee that if it spent million on the proposal but no Arena was it would be reimbursed from the cites share of the Sale of the Winnipeg quote of the Day one thing you really heard were the screams of women out in the the screams of survivor Hannu Seppanen describes the horror As an Estoni an ferry Sank in the Baltic sea Early leaving More than 800 oewlaonpagea12 iwo to inside diversions far Side and Ann in sports stocks lotto Bonus 6p5 ;