Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 27, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 1995 a3 you let others play their cards continued from a1 people called me and they were not talking much at Council meetings was not the weakness it was portrayed to but a she you let others play their a True Leader Ive seen everybody cards by the Thompson expects to have interviewed every member of Council and picked out her new executive policy commit there will be some important expectations on my there will have to be certain things peo ple will have to agree to support me chief among them will be a prop erty tax freeze and therell be precious Little leeway for How that its All the and what flexibilities youre prepared to work with me the mayor the process of disagreement will be made up to Speed Thompson Hopes to pass the 1996 budget by mid december if the five new councillors can get up to Speed quickly but Shes already asked Premier Gary Filmon to consider changing the next municipal election to May so new councillors will have a few months in office before tack Ling the Susan Thompson right now has a Harry Lazarenko Mynarski said yester Susan Thompson will be Able to accomplish what she wants to its a righting Council a major priority is finding a new police chief by february to replace Dale who is there is no guarantee that new chief will be a police Thompson nor any guarantee it will be the traditional White Shell place a Strong emphasis on management and people tradition is not the key word she Thompson and Campaign press Secretary Jim Ingebrigtsen Are trying to interest Winnipeg radio stations in a Good news Winnipeg to tout positive things the City is Thompson mulls Over her Cabinet win members Likely out in cold by Nick Martin City Hall reporter Marc free press Thompson meets chief commissioner Rick Frost at her Home City freezes spending to head off a deficit by John Douglas business editor hours after winning a second term As Winnipeg Susan Thompson imposed a freeze on municipal spending yesterday aimed at Sav ing million by the end of the the decision came after City commissioner Rick Frost informed her overspending this year could result in a under Provin Cial cities and municipalities Are not allowed to run annual everything just got Frozen for the rest of the Thompson said in an the culture at City Hall is spend your budget before the end of the year and now Frost is afraid a spending spree will result in a this deficit avoidance plan should ensure that is not the the five Point plan suggested by Frost will not mean any layoffs or reduction in services offered by the this is just Good Thompson the plan Calls for filling Only absolutely essential vacant positions for an engineers position at Winnipeg Hydro would be filled but a clerks Post would hiring freeze effective there is a hiring freeze on external Candi dates for vacant positions with the exception of police officers being funded by the overtime expenditures Are to be All materials and services Are to be restricted to absolute minimum officials Are to avoid expenditures from the purchases and Ren Pomfret nonchalant As rapes recounted continued from a1 As Lawlor read out the state ments of the deeply traumatized assault the bearded Pom fret leaned Back one Arm draped Over the Side of the prisoners dressed in prison the former delivery Man remained calmly detached throughout the As he had during his much of the evidence Lawlor presented had been ruled inadmissible during Pomfret Mur Der has pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual the Crown has asked for the maximum life earlier this month he received a life sentence for the second degree murder of Tena the hearing will also decide whether to deny Pomfret parole for 25 in most second degree murder application for parole can be made after 10 the crimes All occurred in before the Public was barred from the courtroom Lawlor recounted the night two aged 14 and were sadistically raped for almost 10 Lawlor said Pomfret can be heard Barking out commands to the two girls in a Clear at onlookers in the gallery Hung their the Savage attacks occurred in the Back of Pomfret which was parked in a heavily wooded area off the trans Ana a 20 Kilometres East of its the same location where Pomfret merciless police found Franks skeletal her Skull was fractured in two court was told of a Blue Duffel bag that Lawlor referred to As Pomfret rape it contained strips of towels and ropes used to bind and gag the two an electric Shaver and five disposable police found two baggies in the truck filled with Brown and Black pubic trophies from the two Lawlor when asked by one of the girls Why he was shaving Pomfret allegedly because in bored and theres nothing else to on occasions he put wooden clothespins on their nipples and one girls vaginal court was told both girls were raped vaginally and anally at least five they were ordered to perform sex acts with each other while Pomfret snapped Polaroid Pic you like dont you Pom fret according to a police statement from one of the Vic she said their pleas for mercy were if you ill Cut your Tongue out and leave you to die in the Pomfret told the two girls knew All three were wards of the family services department and two of them knew Pomfret the two girls had gone with Pomfret and Adrian 19 at the to the isolated area to drink Beer and smoke before the Pomfret had clubbed Boyd on the strangled him and left him for Pomfret has pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault and one count of overcoming hours Boyd regained con staggered to the High Way and summoned but because the area was so officers were unable to locate Pomfret and the two girls until Dawn the next the Crown also submitted a scrapbook made up of pictures clipped from magazines and videotapes of hardcore porno they were seized from Pomfret they show graphic pictures of women being whipped and sliced with when the hearing resumes its expected court will hear testimony from Pom frets former common Law Lawlor said she will Tell of the bizarre sexual behaviour Pom fret Canada to upgrade minivan rear door standards Canadian press Toronto transport Canada plans to upgrade the standards for the rear doors of minivans for the 1998 Model there is virtually no Standard at the moment that applies to the real Harvey direct t Tor of motor vehicle standards and said Canadian regulations will be pretty Well identical to those announced last month by the National Highway traffic safety Layden the new regulations extend testing now done on the Side doors of cars to the rear doors of mini vans and adds an additional test for the latches and hinges on rear the moves by the two regulators come As Chrysler gears up what it Calls a service action to replace the rear door latches on All its 19841995 Model which have been among the bestselling vehicles in North ovations account except in the Case of an Thompson used the Quick action to show the City bureaucracy is stepping into line after years of trying to instil some sense of Finan Cial but councillor Glen Murray fort Rouge shrugged off the action As nothing he said throughout City managers and commissioners Are reviewing budgets to ensure politicians dont overspend in the last few months of the this has been done he every couple of years a mayor suddenly realizes that peo ple spend budgets at the end of the year and moves to Stop its a Normal management Deci Sion but in this Case Thompson might be trying to Send a message and score some political mayor Susan Thompson expects to have her five member the executive policy picked by the end of the unlikely to be in it Are Council lors Glen Murray fort lil Lian Thomas Al Golden vital and John Prystanski Point Murray and members of Winnipeg in the clashed frequently with Thompson in her first three year Golden and Prystanski both sup ported Peter Kaufmannn mayoral Thompson noted yesterday with Thomas was Shes not a Shes one of 16 said in quite annoyed with what happened the last three she Hast Learned has she Thomas said she has no intention of meeting with Thompson before the mayor picks her in not keen on going for a Job inter that a waste of my Thompson fired Murray from executive policy committee two years i had to eat everything that was thrown at going behind my Thompson Mur Ray employed some tactics last time that were unacceptable to perhaps weve both Murray could not be reached Thompson also fired Bill Clement Charle Woodfort Garry two years but says he was never in her bad Thompson refused to say Wholl be in or out of her but should have the decision made by the end of the next week theres an pc although the mayor says she wants to end the feeling of other councillors that there excluded from the inner councillors officially take office pc members Jae Eadie Amaro Silva Daniel and Mike Oshaughnessy old Kildonan were Deputy mayor George Fraser Charles and Terry Duguid North Kildonan ran third in the mayoral Thompson said her Public Squab Bles with Harry Lazarenko Mynarski Over his openly releasing confidential information be misinterpreted she values Lazarenko and his i look Forward to working with Lazarenko has never lied to Hes been and True to his Council speaker John Angus Norbert won in a land Angus will do what Angus wants to and work it so he gets what he Thompson said with a Hearty As for councils Thompson went to University with lawyer merchant Garth newly elected in River she Doest know Pat elected in and has Only talked on the phone to North Kil Donnas Mark although Shes neither has she met win Mem ber Daniel elected in its whether he gets spun by Glen Thompson Glen will be trying to build his Power Shirley a former unseated wins Rick Boychuk in Thompson refused to say if Tim Rudolph would become the first woman in her our motto is simple we sell for less More often 95 escort la 3 air cd 3 onlys Low As 12 995 1 ajl Lisl 95 explorer 4x4 Auto overdrive tilt much More 95 grand Marquis is 4 pm air 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