Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba E is t e i in Ivi e in t easy to read format Complete listings the weather a mixture of Sun and High Low details on Page d14 jets Deal Emerson to Dallas stars visit Arena for season opener Downs wraps up thoroughbred Deblonde scores eight Ender up close and alone Burton cum mings talks about the worst of Days and the Best of times great artists turn to childrens books i base is Bass album 1 cinematheque offers dose of corrupt despair Wendy Mesley probes shoppers evacuated a chemical spill in bran Don forced people to evacuate a4 judicial appoint ments lauded Laura Secord school thankful despite Quality wheat crop fetches High 16 b15 in memorials classified d10 diversions sports d6 a10 saturday free press plus taxes outlying areas october my baby can rest in peace by David Kuxhaus staff reporter it May have been circumstantial Evi Dence but it was enough for a court of Queens Bench jury last night to con vict Stanley Pomfret of second degree murder in the 1993 slaying of Tena the four woman jury returned with a guilty verdict just before 10 after deliberating for eight dressed in jeans and a Blue Only the memories Are left a3 sports sat Stone faced As the decision was no Date has been set for a second degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no Chance of parole for 10 the jury also recommended that Pomfret parole eligibility be the courts have the authority to bump it up to 25 outside the Tenas Georgina sobbed my baby can finally rest in Keil Lor she had sat through every Day of the four week trial and heard the gruesome Story of How her daughters scattered remains were found in a wooded area East of had been missing for six Crown attorney George Dangerfield had told the jury there was no direct Evi Dence in the but he argued evidence gathered by investigators when pieced together clearly pointed to Pomfret As the the jury was told about several eyewitnesses who placed Franks with Pomfret on june the Day she there was the red paint Chip that matched Pomfret Van found at the Mur Der perhaps most an earring with Franks blood on it that was found in Pomfret Pomfret Sheldon would not say whether the decision will be but Pinx argued the one key ingredient missing was Pinx continually painted the 34yearold Pomfret As a big brother figure to what the jury was never told was that big brother brutally raped two teenage girls and tried to strangle a 19yearold Man during a drinking they All were friends of to protect Pomfret right to a fair the jury hear anything other than evidence directly relating to Agency lets some kids stay Home new policy partly due to costs by Gordon Sinclair free press columnist Winnipeg child and family services has begun leaving Lowrick children with their families rather than apprehending them a move prompted partly by the Cost of a 25 per cent jump in the number of children in permanent per Manitoba has the highest number of children in care in according to a report by the child health strategy com the province spends nearly million a year on child the strategic shift in govern ment policy does not directly affect the High number of children in permanent but is seen As a Way to free Foster Home resources and help Lowe risk Chil Dren at the new under Way since is an attempt to make child Protection More cos efficient and said Jim assistant Deputy minister of family permanent wards make up 40 per cent of the children in their numbers have gone up 25 per cent since from 873 then to in March this the average Cost is per child per last Spring there were More than kids in care throughout 36 per cent of whom were treaty under the new the government has shifted nearly Mil lion budgeted for children in and hired staff to counsel families and look after kids in the since Winnipeg cos has added 40 social workers and about a dozen Home care workers to enable some children to stay at Home and still protect through counselling and Monitor from the risk of its a shift in values toward fam ily preservation and family per Bakken but the problem int just the numbers of children its the length of time they have to stay in Keith executive director of Winnipeg said the policy change is exciting but also poses its More cos effective to pro vide services that keep children in their Homes rather than bringing them into care for a lengthy Peri he its also better ser vice to respond and get things fixed before they become a major but Cooper is also because the move to leave More children in their Homes increases the risk of judgment errors when social workers Are assessing whether children should be App re feeling his Oats Marc free press plenty Chilly gives Groom David Cormack a playful nip As he gets his rub but the former Manitoba Derby Winner looks merely bored inset As he awaits the threese Arandus Gold cup stakes race please see end of season racing Story on Page news of child molester panics trans Conan Higgins avenues changing aboriginal Centre makes Good Waves by Aldo Santin education reporter radio reports that a child molester had moved into Transcona set off a wave of panic among parents in that Community and the furore centred on a single Man who has apparently set up a trampoline in his backyard in an attempt to lure children has raised questions about the whole process of Public notification concerning convicted sex the incident began when a social worker from child and family services telephoned a school Prin Cipal in the area to Alert him that the Man had moved into the com the principal told the school Divi which held a meeting of principals and directed them to inform teachers and Send a circular to Par continued please see by Tony Davis staff reporter Helgason a positive effect More than one person will Tell you these Days that the food at the Korona restaurant in the mount Royal hotel on Higgins Avenue a rundown establishment where hookers openly ply their Trade got a Heck of a lot better a few months a better Burger Platter at a skid Row restaurant May mean Little to most but to the people from the aboriginal Centre across the the same people who now dare to frequent the its a meal Juicy with that restaurant used to be kind of a tired says Wayne trying to be but adds the chair Man of the aboriginal Centre of its been spruced up a we even hold some meet Ings at the what Helgason and others believe is that the aboriginal Cen housed in the commodious and once again ornate car Sta Tion on is starting to Cre ate a positive Ripple albeit a slow on the main Street some restaurants and other kinds of recognizing that a sobered and far less shabby clientele is being drawn to the strip by the aboriginal Cen Are beginning to clean up their act a when a building is empty it just brings Down a neighbor said Mike executive director of the Manitoba restaurant and food services Hes convinced now that the aboriginal Centre is becoming a focal Point of native culture and it will spawn improvements in the area like a seed planted in the continued please see million see your Dent Urist for your annual ears Dot acrid of Manitoba ;