Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Fitzhenry 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local Gordon Sinclair another reason for an inquiry whats the difference Between an inquest and a Public inquiry some one asked me the other i told an inquiry can have More scope and could assess but theres another difference Between an inquest and a pub Lic one i didst think of until yes a q q they gather at the Back of the narrow makeshift courtroom at 373 the same Hal dozen parents and they have become such regulars at the paediatric cardiac surgery inquest that they have taken to giving nicknames to the legion of they come to listen to the testimony and look for the answers to How and Why their children died at the Vari Ety heart Centre in and sometimes they look at and listen to each they had to adjust the Micro phone when Danica Terziski sat Down to testify her voice was too the Day before she was scheduled to would have been Little Daniels second he was born with a severely Mal formed the newly arrived Jonah told the then 33yearold Mother that her third son would die without Danica and her husband Karl grabbed at a Long shot at life for their baby Daniel was one month old when he a few months in an attempt to Cope with her Danica called Lois head nurse at the variety heart Danica wanted to know if there were other parents who had lost babies after heart she wanted to talk with she Felt alone in her she needed their sup but Lois Hawkins didst think that was a Good no two cases Are she told a year on Valentines Day the health sciences Centre announced it was sus pending paediatric surgery because of a High mortality that when Danica Learned there were others she saw one of the parents names in the free voice she phoned Linde some of the other parents saw each other being interviewed on with in Days Danica was at Lindes North Kildonan talking to her and two other Sarah Capili and Laurie four women who had been so alone with their feel Ings had finally found each and a Lindes Margaret would become the driving Force of the family demand for an inquiry into what happened to their not an q a q there Are another Hal dozen people who Are there every sitting among the parents at the Back of the Long narrow we Media Mem we Are supposed to be Cal objective observers of the but i can Tell you that Manicas testimony touched us in ways words cant convey at least not words i can summon in sentences that make you had to be there when she finally broke Down remember ing How Odim told her he was he had done everything he you had to be there when Danica was asked for her i wish there would have been More honesty in the sys which brings me to the other difference Between an inquest and a Public inquiry a Public in mry can be you cots be f District regains future Rookie councillor claims Victory in Battle against Park plan by Treena Khan City Hall reporter former Boxer Dan Vandal has won his first round at City saving a North Boniface neighbourhood from being turned into lobbying by the new councillor has brought a motion to City Council today to rescind a 1995 decision to designate the Pointe Hebert neighbourhood for future expansion of Whittier now that the Guillotine of rezoning can be we can look at turning this into a viable City said Vandal yesterday of the area bounded by the in rail Whittier Park and the red today endorsed by the mayor and her executive policy adds a new chapter to a Saga of political flip flopping on the Fate of the neighbourhood that began with the creation of uni City in successive area councillors had the area rezoned from Park to residential to Park again Over the leaving residents unable to sell their Homes or even As the City would not Issue building said former area councillor Greg the old Boniface residents association fought it every step of the Vandal was the association Vic president before he joined Council last and lives just two blocks the City slowly acquired at least 13 prop erties Over the leaving 20 homeowners in the area but in a november 1995 report from the cites Parks and recreation depart it was pointed out the City could bring in by Selling off its and that theres no Money to actually develop the Park in the next 20 another administration report says it would Cost the City million to acquire 30 properties remaining in other the outcome satisfies Juliette whose family has called the area Home for six in still walking the same places i walked when i was six years and ill live Here till in she vowed and ill keep fighting if i have and she May have Al Golden vital said he will speak against the motion today and will Back the Park he favors putting hous ing units in the Industrial area now occupied by modern dairies and Scott screen and demolishing the la Pointe Homes for the this is not just a local this is a City lets do whats Best for the whole said with an expanded Whittier there could be More Toboggan dog and a larger festival do said Gold the in tracks that form the highline would serve As a noise Barrier to keep those activities from disturbing residents South of the and without the two lock the City will be left with Only a thin strip of land along the Riverbank on which to develop its River Bank Parkway linking Whittier Park and promenade he once today motion is a commit tee of residents and City administrators will examine the Cost of sewer and Road renew the Community is eligible for Money from the Manitoba Winnipeg Community revitalization Vandal the roads Are Asphalt Over gravel with storm he the North Boniface area was granted government Money in the 1970s for neigh boyhood but the Pointe Hebert neighbourhood was exempt from that because of its Park designation at the Vandal motion going to Council chinchillas his pension plan quiet Kennel raises ruckus by Bruce Owen staff reporter t i hey dont make noise and they dont but neighbors on one quiet Island lakes Street still dont like the idea of 60 chinchillas living in a heated Kennel in Kelly Sorrells Treyve circulated a petition and yesterday got the Winnipeg humane society to descend on Sorrells de la Seigneurie Boule Vard Home in a bid to shut Down his Chinchilla trouble Sorrell Doest know who these people not one of these people approached me for a frustrated Sorrell said yester its just scare tactics and someone who got some when you think about its rather a humane society cruelty invest who did not want to give her said she suspects the hubbub Over the rabbi like creatures is More Likely bad blood Jeff free press Sorrells Chinchilla Kennel in his garage got a clean Bill of health from the Winnipeg humane Between i believe its a waste of every organizations time when it comes Down to a she after giving Sorrells Kennel a clean Bill of the animals Are kept in Sepa rate each with its own water bottle and food the Kennel itself is heated in the win Ter and cooled in the summer so extreme temperatures dont harm the after the initial complaint yes the humane society had difficulty tracing the complainants True As Sorrells immediate neighbors appeared unfazed by the Chin one neighbor drove away from a reporter saying she did not want to comment while the other said Sorrells business is his own not Nosy neighbors or animal rights its a free country As far As i George Kertai its Fine with the feud has forced Sorrell to get the proper civic approval so he can keep his Hutch of chinchillas he appears before a City zoning committee today to apply for a Hobby Breed ers plus he also has to get a Home occupation licence and a Slaughter House Sorrell said if the City turns him hell move his chinchillas out of the City where he wont be its a serious he in not going to neglect there my pension the Burns employee in not into rasps or gics and with five kids to put through this is an who been raising Chin Chillas for several said he Hopes to Breed his animals until he gets 50 top Quality females a genesis chinchillas Are native to South America and bred primarily for their which fetch Between to us the soft pelts Are used to make stoles or used As trim on there Are about a dozen ranch ers in the Sorrell but i just describe myself As an want exactly murder trial witness testifies by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter an 18yearold woman said in court yesterday that much of what she told police following the death of Leonard Charles Walstrom was i want exactly honest in the Kathleen Spence told defence lawyer Greg when asked she said because i didst know what to because i was she later told Brodsky that when she spoke to officers she was tired and wanted to go but they police kept interrogating me and asking me the same questions Over and Over Spence was one of roughly a dozen people at a drinking party at a West end Home in january Walstrom was also jurors have been told that the 19yearold died from a Stab wound to the his body was found in an Alley behind the Winnipeg Avenue Andrew Ward has pleaded not guilty to second degree Spence testified previously that Pau Vanekis showed part goers a bloody knife and smiled moments after he and three other males dragged Walstrom out the Back but Brodsky said her police statement indicates Pau Vanekis displayed the knife while Walstrom was still in the that when he Pau Vanekis held up the Brodsky told but the Young woman said that want despite asked the same question several she denied allegations by Brod sky that she had been offered some kind of Deal by prosecutors in return for favourable spences version As to How Wal Strom came to be struck in the head with a Beer bottle also contradicted her police she told police it was self inflict but she told jurors another male did it after Pau Vanekis and Walstrom became involved in an Spence has said she did it know what the disagreement was the alleged murder weapon is a Blac handled Blade about 13 centimetres Spence said she saw a knife in the accused Back pocket at the however a 17yearold youth who was at the party testified yes r Day the knife belonged to the youth who cannot be named under the Young offenders act said he traded another male a half pack of cigarettes for it that he said he had the knife with him until he passed out in a Back room at the the youth had initially refused to be sworn telling the court he did not want to testify against a he had a change of heart after speaking with his court has been told by another witness that everybody at the except for belonged to Tolje Indian the witness said Walstrom was trying to get into the Street the trial inquest called into suicide of prison inmate the chief provincial medical examiner has called an inquest into the death of a prisoner who hanged himself at Stony Mountain institution last Peter Markesteyn has yet to set a Date for the which is mandatory under the fatalities inquiries Jeffrey of Thunder was serving three years and nine months for robbery and property the 34yearold hanged himself on his death marked the fifth suicide at Stony Mountain institution since f ;