Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Complete livings fit con i vim Iii penalty d20 64 pages vol 123 no 237 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 free press get Post Post of Islda cily weekly Home delivery wkly in Winnipeg wkly 21 Post outside cily july 1995 teen victim Laid to rest someday Well be dad whispers by David Kuxhaus staff reporter White haired women wrapped in shawls dabbed their tears with other mourners simply Hung their Heads in silence As a half hour service yesterday Laid to rest Joseph a 13yearold win nip Egger slain in a Gan related let him grow in stature and Wisdom and May your Blessing be upon father Dominique Ker brat told the More than 100 mourn ers who crowded the dimly lit aboriginal funeral Chapel on Selkirk they stood three deep at the spilled Over into an adjacent room and flooded the main with a Long an attendant swept the smoke of burning Sweet grass Over them in a Spence was felled by a single Shotgun blast last a 15 year old Young offender has been charged with first degree the Small White coffin carrying the boy known As Beeper was adorned with Blue and yellow it was wrapped in a sacred aboriginal Blanket used to Welcome a special guest into the a Blue Buffalo Bills Cap rested on top and at the Side of the a Grade 7 graduation picture of the slain next to two card Board placards bore the signatures and wishes of dressed in Black and hidden be Hind his Mother Nancy Laforte sat a few metres Stanley the boys spoke shaking and Strug gling to be heard above a noisy air a Young girl cries after the funeral of Joseph i politics of guns a6 he stood behind the searching for someday Well be together he whispered As his voice trailed spences killing has been linked to bad blood Between two rival Street Kerbrat issued a plea for we must build one big family out of the four races White and yellow so we might live As Brothers and Ker brat let us help one another to show love and do that message was echoed in the songs of four singers accompanied by two acoustic father give me strength father give me at the end of the Ker brat asked mourners to hold hands and join him in the lords they then one by past the open some sobbing a Row of to cameras rolled As six Young pall bearers lowered the casket into the this didst have to said a family Friend standing this is Spence was buried at Brookside Spence gang victim i really see no future Federal civil servants jump at Earl retirement incentive program by Dan Lett National reporter Ottawa after 35 years toiling for the Federal govern Marilyn Russell saw the writing on the Wall and decided to get while the getting was an employee of the human re sources department in Russell knew that with a wholesale review of unemployment insurance and other programs on the things did not look rather than wait for the Russell became one of an estimated v Federal employees to Volun Teer for Early retirement incentives now offered by the government to Aid in eliminating jobs across inside Story grits working without a net a12 the one of the largest Ever is so massive there Are concerns it will cause an economic slowdown across in Ottawa Hopes to reduce spending by billion Over the next three billion of which will come from Job of the roughly workers affected in some 200 have volunteered for Early at age Russell decided to take the offer of a full pension without penalty and leave her As she had already contributed to the plan for 35 the maximum contribution her pension should produce an annual income of about a 70 per cent of her salary at the time of my original plan was to stay an other three years and leave at she but i really see no fun the Federal government is in the earliest stages of identifying which employees will be Pink slips began trickling out after the budget Bill was passed july in addition to Early Ottawa is offering an Early departure incentive that provides enhanced Severance benefits to Federal employees whose jobs have been declared surplus and who Volunteer to some workers Are expected to take the government up on this although the prospects of finding another Job Are Treasury Board officials say Uptake for both programs is brisk possibly be cause of the generous programs combined with the inevitability of my Ron parliamentary Secretary to Treasury Board president Arthur said it appears the target of Early retirements was met in one Duhamel Boniface said the government is confident it will not overshoot its budget for the two the Public service Alliance of which represents of Canadas Public said it is trying to find out Why so Many Are opting for nil lays Down the Law spirits plan league Boss says in letter by John Douglas and Stevens wild staff reporters the spirit of Manitoba went before Council this week knowing it was already in trouble with the National hockey the nil has questioned key aspects of the spirit of Manitoba business plan and demanded the group come up with the full million by the is closing in a faxed letter to spirit chairman Alan Sweatman dated july 25 the Day before the City refused to Grant the group charitable tax status nil commissioner Gary Bettman said spirit has significantly Over stated league generated revenues and suggested the private sector groups operating costs Are Bettman also sets put five areas where spirits plan is tax issues must be along with environmental re views and pending court As a lease must be sighed that guarantees the jets All Revenue including naming rights and scoreboard after hearing City Council May revisit the Issue next spirit decided to continue Selling million in limited partnerships and raising the million needed for the endowment its full throttle spirit Board member Charlie Spring but mayor Susan Thompson says she will Call a special meeting of City Council to reconsider this weeks decision Only if at least two councillors change their two soft no coun Culores Al Golden and Sandy Hyman said there was Little Chance they re verse their several spirit Board members contacted last night were not aware of the nil a league official in new York con firmed its main there was no letter brought to the Board and we cleared the table of everything Spring said last league officials say spirit has overestimated revenues by Mil lion and has underestimated play ers salaries by As much As million a year Over the next three the league also says that without a handle on a endowment fund May not be Large again it called for personal or Cor Porat guarantors who will cover shortfalls in the but the most damaging news could be the leagues position on the amount of Money spirit needs to get until the group has said it needs about million in Cash to close the the group has upped its target but the letter says the nil wants to see the full million in Cash or its meaning promissory not just Spring remains confident spirit can get nil approval based on the plan they i firmly believe the nil is going to be there if we can have the mini mum million in he so spirit does not have the tax the environmental review is still pending and two lawsuits Are spirit said last week that monies raised from naming rights and scoreboard advertising would go toward building the not the o d a quote of the Day this Young woman is we a Lake of that her David Susan Smiths says yesterday that the moms guilt and memories of her two slain sons would be torment enough for her a jury it tall on Page d20 today sunny wind Southeast 0 sunday increasing 40 tharice of showers High 27 7v Sun rms Moon Rosw sett inside diversions flutes and Ann in sports j t a i j i u every Day Cash that minion is a keeps Dollar grand Day growing grand prize Pho Neunes open today 7741995 Toff free isoo6672964 ;