Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 31, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Call the retune 958renl Apex realty Winnipeg free press local july 1995 Gordon Sinclair this kid be the Scapegoat i dont want to sound alarmist after Winnipeg is a Long Way from East but the distance is and for All the same Rea there was another drive by shooting yesterday a week to the hour after 13yearold Joseph Beeper Spence was shot the second like the was probably probably retaliatory and Proba Bly involved aboriginal kids on both ends of the gun theres Only one Way to Deal with All of of As it associate chief provincial judge Murray Sinclair was sitting last week when the 15 year old accused of first degree murder in Joseph spences slay ing made his first appearance in youth the Crown immediately asked that the boy be raised to adult where the maximum sen tence for a Young offender is 10 versus five years if Hes convicted in youth Sinclair hit the the criminal code Section that deals with transferring children to the adult system Calls for a social history to be that includes matters the judge must such As the boys maturity and As Well As any past criminal there Are other of course the seriousness of the alleged offence and the circumstances in which it was com and then theres the inter est of which refers to both the Protection of the Public and rehabilitation of the the More important of according to the criminal is the Protection of the theres one More area judges can take into any other factors that the court considers heres where the court of pub Lic opinion comes and i think most of you know where kids stand even kids accused of lesser but if the drive by shootings continue even if they dont the most important consideration could be sending a it wont really be sending a message to the because consequences rarely matter to people who commit be they kids or the message that matters is that the Public perceives the jus Tice system is trying to do some thing to Stop the gangs before there out of As if there not Murray Sinclair happens to be both aboriginal and an excellent judge wont be making the with the greatest of As they say in i have a suggestion for the judge asked to make the read what Murray Sinclair and Al Hamilton wrote four years ago in the aboriginal Justice inquiry if you Haven got ill give it to you in Brief we believe the answer to Deal ing with the problems of Young offenders is to provide services that take into account the background and needs of an aboriginal Young the ser vices must be rather than in our opinion there is no need to Transfer prosecutions under the Young offend ers act to the adult judges of the youth court Are perfectly capable of trying any Type of i Hope i also Hope that a 15yearold from what i has never had a Chance at wont end up being sentenced to life in a Federal one neglected child be made the Scapegoat for a government that refused to listen to the aboriginal Justice inquiry and a society that Only cares about the poor and disadvantaged when the break the v Marc free press Wal mans new Patent will also help reset internal Winnipeg inventor has it made in Shade new Rose coloured glasses help folks beat Jet lag by Wanda Chow staff reporter slip on a pair of these Rose coloured glasses and not Only will the world look better it should feel better Murray a River Heights recently patented sunglasses and con tact lenses that he says gives some people shift workers and those who suffer from Jet lag greater control Over their internal the glasses he has developed have a Rosamber tint that blocks certain wavelengths of he says that allows wearers to venture outdoors without affecting their internal clocks and causing the sleeplessness that can plague Jet lagged trav Ellers and graveyard shift workers when they most need to get their studies have shown that exposing Nightshirt workers to Bright Light during working hours can help set their inter Nal clocks to that but a persons biological clock is also regulated by out door so every time a shift worker goes out in the he or she gets out of sync with her work conducted experiments at the Boniface general Hospital research Centre in measuring the hormonal effects of different wavelengths in the Light spec Trum As they enter the his partially funded by the National research coun led him to isolate the Green wavelengths As the portion that affects the human biological Waldman completed a Mas ters degree in biophysics at the University of Manitoba in the late 1960s before entering the family garment two decades his inter est in the biological effect of Light led him to take up his research about five years As a Hobby to get my mind off the garment Busi says a fashion his research also led to the development of lamps using the isolated Blu Green wave lengths to help set internal he expects to receive a Patent on the lamps people would use the lamps to avoid the eyestrain and premature sight degeneration associated with overexposure to Waldman Ontario Hydro recently began a Pilot project to deter mine if using the lamps and Eye Wear can enhance the performance of night tests that should take three to four he Hes looking for companies willing to help him manufacture and Market the Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email b1 pipeline firm says stress corrosion blamed for massive Gas blast by Aldo Santin staff reporter Tran Canada pipelines will be stepping up maintenance checks of All pipelines and compressor stations following saturdays explosion near Brandon that stopped the flow of All natural Gas to Eastern Canada for 18 Bill regional manager for the said its believed the blast at rapid City about 25 kilo metres North of Brandon was caused when the Walls of the pipeline were weakened by stress there was no indication of a Bates the pipe just blew Bates said stress corrosion causes the Walls of the pipe carrying natural Gas to weaken to a Point where the internal pressure blows the pipe natural Gas is moved along the pipelines under pressure of 880 pounds per Square he natural Gas from Alberta is transported across the West to East Ern Canada in six Laid about nine metres and buried 120 centimetres below the Bates said a company employee shut off the flow of Gas in the pipelines after the but he said Eastern customers were still served by the Gas remaining in the the blast was the first in the Manitoba Saskatchewan Region since the company began moving natural Gas in he it occurred at about in the Middle of a wheat the blast site is 200 metres Down Stream from a natural Gas com Pressor the Force of the blast Felt As far away As Brandon and heat from the subsequent fire was so severe it caused a second pipeline to rupture about 30 minutes area roads were cordoned off and nearby Homes no one was injured in the explosions and there was no other dam the fires were extinguished saturday a Lone compressor station employee fled the scene following the first Bates adding he had the presence of mind to shut off All six pipelines before he said the company has had problems with stress corrosion explosions in Northern investigators from the Federal transportation safety Board will try to determine the cause of the blast and identify any other contributing the Tab chief of pipeline refused to say whether stress corrosion caused the he said a Defini Tive explanation should be known this gales said the two damaged pipelines Are being Bates said Tran Canada pipelines has four other compres Sor stations in Manitoba a larger facility near lie Des Chenes a smaller station near Portage la Prairie and two similar sized stations at Falcon Lake and gales said he thought it was just coincidence that saturdays explosion occurred near a compressor a blast can occur anywhere along a he gales said that after consulting Tran Canada pipelines officials at the a decision was made to reopen two of the remaining four naked Man arrested following crime spree trolice arrested a naked Man yesterday morning after a Man broke into four apart ment buildings by scaling the bal fondled a Niney Earold girl and beat up a Man who found him in bed with his the crime spree began at when a Man broke into an apartment at 475 Sargent the Man who lived there con fronted him and was assaulted for his shortly after 5 the Man climbed another Balcony at 401 Kennedy was again confronted by the tenant and he moved on to a building at 355 Kennedy entered through a window and climbed into bed with a Niney Earold he fondled the child and stole leather jacket before his last around saw him break into an apartment at 393 Kennedy he took off All his clothes and climbed into bed with the female he was discovered by her assaulted him and then police found him behind a build ing across the still an 18yearold suspect has been charged with two counts of sexual assault causing bodily four counts of break and enter with intent and one count of break Andente and Shell Park at aut Opac by Kim Guttormson free press correspondent Jeff free press Mercedes shows injury claim v Tricia Mercedes is tired of getting the runaround from aut Opac and Shes not going to stand for it any longer Shes going to the 41yearold social worker plans to go to the Manitoba Public insurance offices in Eaton place today and refuse to leave until her Case is dealt her trouble began seven years ago when a car she was a passenger in hit a fish tailed and hit another resulting in a Sidet Oside head since her condition has worsened to the Point where she had to leave her Job with Winnipeg child and family services last Mercedes said her whole right Side is working properly and her face is distort she said her right Eye is closed a lot of the she gets terrible headaches and has had one and Winnipeg doctors cant pinpoint exactly whats wrong with advising her to go to the Mayo but aut Opac wont pay for her to her Marc said Hes advised her not to Settle until they know exactly whats wrong with her and if and How she can be Shes got something strange and it does it get any Levine if she stays the Way she Shell never go Back to its a weird Levine said aut Opac was having Mercedes followed last fall almost giving her a Ner Vous breakdown when they con firm it was All color she asked Levine to Settle with them because of although he advised her not when aut Opac offered she changed her deciding to fight for the Money to go to the Mayo theres something wrong with me and i want to said a single Mother of a 12yearold i want a diagnosis at the Mayo theres something its not in my its in my Levine said he has letters from four Winnipeg including a say ing they cant determine whats wrong with aut Opac spokeswoman Nancy reached at Home said she want aware of Mercedes but wed be Happy to look into she v ;