Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Fitzhenry 6977292 email local caution the key with mugger on the prowl by Doug Nairne police reporter for the first 47 years of his escorted his wife Stella downtown to protect her from now its Stella who wont let Jim go out for the first time in my life in scared for said As she walked on Portage Avenue yesterday it used to be the ladies that had to be so careful but its like the tables have been changed around and the men Are in police think one a Power fully built is behind 13 Stro Garm mostly of Middle aged and elderly this said like Many of his thinks twice before leaving his vital Home and going Down i was a big lad in my and id whip anyone who gave me Trou he in getting a bit Long in the tooth to be worrying about putting up my fists and fending off a the Lees Are not alone in their staff at City Hall Are still feeling vulnerable As they walk to their cars after work after civic proper ties director Bud was beaten in a nearby Parade last one Man who works in City Hall said he looks Over his shoulder while he walks to and from watching for the i Hope they get him he the 13 attacks have left the Vic Tims who Range in age from Early 50s to 81 suffering from severe injuries including concus shattered broken noses and knocked out almost All the people attacked Are men and All but one of the Inci dents took place in the afternoon or Early staff Al Hyde said the Mas Sive Media attention to the Case will make potential victims of the drop firm told olympic logo use under fire by Paul Mckie business reporter a former olympic cyclist int handing out any Gold medals to the Canadian olympic which has demanded he Stop calling his company Olympia Cycle and Lindsay a member of Canadas 1972 cycling team in received a registered let Ter on behalf of the Canadian olympic association Coa last the letter stated that Gaulds company cannot use the word or the five olympic rings and that Gauld was profiting from the use of the Gauld said he was surprised the olympic people would come after his 12yearold business on Portage Avenue he also has three franchise operations in Winnipeg and one in British my feeling is the olympic committee should have better things to spend their Money said he also wondered Why the committee was coming after him but not other local businesses that use Olympia or olympic in their the Winnipeg phone Book lists 15 companies that use olympic or Olympia a 16th uses olym a manager at olympic Fine meats said the company had never been approached by the Canadian olympic Elaine co owner of olympic building said in his five years with the 20year old company he had no knowl Edge of the Coa coming after Arlene the director of marketing services with the Toronto based said Gauld had received the Standard cease Marc free press Lindsay Gauld has drawn the Wrath of the Canadian olympic and desist letter from the Coas we dont go after people Intel explained he infringed More than anyone else because he used the she said she didst know How Many letters were sent out Annu ally but that there were lots More during an olympic the five olympic rings Are the exclusive trademark of the inter National olympic committee said she said licensees pay for exclusive rights for use of the olympic name and ring logo and Arent Happy when they see unlicensed this has been brought to our attention by someone who went to Lebovic Gauld was Adamant he change the name of a business he has built up Over the you develop the name of the business Over he the time to Deal with this was when i registered Gauld explained that when they registered the Olympia Cycle and ski name in last year there was no he even did a National search and there was no problem with registering the though he opted not to because of the Gauld said his Legal advice was that he might have to give up the rings but he can keep his Lebovic said the rings were the Coas biggest Riel country opens a dialogue Between French students by Wanda Chow staff reporter when Cyril Boulanger was about 10 years he walked into Boniface to visit a Cousin and had a policeman Tell him to last at he returned As part of a National film Board documentary and was Happy to see things have i Learned my world want closed to he a Northend resident of Metis was one of about 200 people Winnipeg High school teachers and it Yvon Dumont who attended the premiere of the Riel at Russell High school yesterday the on hour film brought together students from the multiethnic school and francophone Stu dents from Ecol Precie Usang in Boni face for discussion of their lives in their communities against the backdrop of a school play on Metis history and last years festival do Montreal Martin the films said it was his response to the Call for a referendum in Quebec last Louis Riel has always been my said he had a vision of what the country could he believed in each cultural group being Given its place in the Sun All in the context of one single riels grand Niece and another of the films Augustine the film expressed riels belief that the coun try be made up of Little pockets of ethnic everyone should be neigh she said she was most surprised by the openness of the students in the film who were ready to talk about getting along and being scared if there going to be accepted by the other the students say the project came a Long Way in helping them break Down stereotypes about each i thought they were snobs and stuck up before i got to know said Russell student Willow Boulanger agreed i didst expect them to be so open or Precie Usang student Chantale said her Only images of the Northend kids were Media stories of natives being linked to she found Only a very Small percent age of native people live like a Grade 12 want sur prised with the reputation of her you walk into the school and people think there going to get she said with a were both living the same kind of thing Only to different said Chantal from were both Minori ties and were both working really hard to get appreciation and Boulanger the Only major difference is there Able to speak French and in Able to speak my own native Riel country will have its television pre Miere on radio Canada at 5 on thursday to Mark the International Day for the elimination of racial it will be shown on Csc Manitoba at on april mugger More but will not Likely scare off the if he is in need of hell keep doing it until we catch Hyde were just hoping the Public has picked up enough information to take precautionary Tom Legge said police have identified several possible suspects based on the descriptions of the attackers and Are searching for there Are All sorts of criminals out there who Are committing heinous crimes and it can be difficult to find them he Legge said a composite sketch of the mugger is still being put he said the artist has a difficult task because of the varied descriptions provided by the the suspect is described As 30 to clean shaven Short he was wearing a Waist length White jacket with Blue and red lettering on the Back at the time of several of the bloody knife a Salute gang member returned with Grin after Man dragged out witness by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter a gang member smiled and saluted with a blood soaked knife moments after he and three others dragged 19yearold Leonard Charles Walstrom out of a party in a West end a wit Ness told Walstrom body was later found in the Back Lane of the Winnipeg Avenue he died from a Stab wound to the Andrew Ward has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder in the at his trial Kathleen Spence testified Pau Vanekis held the knife in front of him about shoulder High so everyone could he was just standing there Smil said the dressed in Black Adidas sportswear with a heavy Gold Chain around her court was told she was one of roughly a dozen Young people at a drinking party during the Early morning hours of some of them belonged to the Indi an posse but its unclear How jurors have been told that some witnesses May not be willing to co operate because they Are associates of the Jason Starr was the first to stick to that wearing leg he was led into the courtroom by two sheriffs Starr is currently serving time in an Edmonton jail but jurors were not told what after refusing to be sworn Starr told Justice Sidney Schwartz he would not testify against my Schwartz told him that he could find him guilty of contempt of Starr indicating he was prepared to take whatever punish ment the judge was willing to Dole Schwartz is expected to Deal with the matter Spence testified earlier that she didst show up for a preliminary hearing people were telling me not to Schwartz told jurors the state ment was hearsay and should be the next witness was Eldon like he also was also Schwartz emphasized to the jury that the restraints were Normal procedure and they were not to let the sight of them color the Evi Hood is in heading Ley jail for a the who claimed to be a member of the Indian described Walstrom As a striker similar to a gang member in he said he never saw Pau Vanekis argue with anyone that but Spence testified that Pau Vanekis and Walstrom were involved in a shouting they were Yelling Back and Forth and said adding she did not know what it was shortly another whom she described As a posse smashed Walstrom in the head with a Beer Pau Vanekis and three other males then took Walstrom out she they were All holding him up by his it was like he Spence said the four then left the she said she found Walstrom lying in the Back there was a Bunch of blood coming from his she son beaten with Metal pipe two men jailed for vicious attack by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter two men involved in a vicious attack on a Mother and son outside a Mcphillips Street Gas station last August were sentenced to 15 months in jail the videotaped by a mounted on the roof of the attracted National David and Samuel pleaded guilty to two counts of assault causing bodily harm and one count of a third 20 year old Robert was sentenced to 4 years in jail last he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and court was told it was Char Trand who inflicted the most clubbing the woman and her 17yearold son Over the head with a Metal but before passing provincial court judge Manly Rusen noted that the two other accused have broken the Law i dont see in front of me two boys who have made their first said i see two people who were out looking for looking for the 17yearold who was attacked had been robbed of his Duffel bag by the three men ear Lier that after the teenager had gone Home to get his Mother and 16yearold brother to try to retrieve clothes that might have been discarded from the stolen along the one of the boys picked up the Metal they eventually came across Chartrand and the two other men at the station and began ;