Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 28, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Section a4 John Douglas 69 associate Gerald food email King remorseless police warn women sex offender to be watched by Doug Nairne police reporter a sex offender recently released from prison and now living in Winnipeg will wait up to a year before undergoing mandatory therapy for assaulting women and Young in the Brian James has taken up residence in Grant close to the area where he sexually assaulted one of his victims in provincial probation officials confirmed yesterday it will be More than nine months before King who police say is a remorseless repeat offender can be admitted to a specialized group treatment Greg acting Assis Tant Deputy minister of Correl said King missed the current treatment program that began earlier this he said probation staff will closely Monitor King during weekly meet Ings until he goes into adding he will be charged if he violates his conditions of Proba which include an order to stay away from abstain from drinking alcohol and undergo psychiatric no conditions King was not admitted to the current program because he took too Long to decide where he would reside after his he has no conditions placed on where he can who issued a warning yesterday about Kings presence in say he has refused treatment for his sexual Dys function and King was released from provincial jail in Dauphin on after being convicted in 1995 of sexually assaulting a three Earold at the time of the he was already on probation from a 1992 conviction for sexually assaulting a 29 year old woman in Grant court documents show King has also been charged with two other incidents involving Young girls in the past five but was not police confirmed King has a lengthy involvement with other criminal activities As his identity was released to the Media As part of the controversial Community notification pro Gram initiated 18 months under the the identity of offenders who Are released from prison and Are considered a High risk to re offend is publicized in communities they decide to some residents of the area where King now lives said they Are outraged he is in their neigh Are schools and a shopping mall full of potential victims just waiting for this Type of said peruse the Justice sys tem keeps looking put for the rights of the what about my right to one who would not give his said he would take Steps to protect his children Whin told of Kings i suppose in angry that i am afraid but my children Are my treasure and ill keep them close to borne for he Winnipeg free press local november 1996 club West lounge 7 Days a week 8853330 cabbies get propane Shock Price up almost 150 in two months for the free press the Price of propane has increased by almost Iso per cent in the last two months and Winnipeg cab Drivers Are beginning to feel the it cant jump from to cents a litre in two that just too much said Ricky a Driver for Duffy i made about and paid out about i said Balli a Driver for uni City it is just too he said Many cabbies have converted their vehicles to propane fuel because its generally who made the change himself a month is now wondering whether it was a Good at that it propane was cheap and now it is More what is going on Gill blames the rising Cost of propane on ice propane the sole distributor in he said the company has a monopoly on propane in the and that results in higher but Peco spokesman for ice propane said the Price increase is due to Low whats happening now is the sup ply is very Low while demand is very Ciancio this eventually ends up being passed on at the retail Ciancio agreed the Price increase from last year to this year has been quite a 50 per cent increase at a wholesale propane usage usually goes up Dur ing the he and that was when the problem Ciancio said inventories usually get built up during the but since last Winter was so Long and this win Ter began stocks Haven risen to their Normal he said a few other events also caused the propane shortage due to a particularly wet Farmers increased their consumption of propane for crop drying 1 the petrochemical Industry turned to propane to help make products after prices of crude Oil and natural Gas j06 Yafee press who converted cab to has second thoughts a fire in a major propane Plant in Mexico Cut the Overall All of these severe constraints on Supply just seemed to converge at one time in the last few Ciancio Craig general manager of Keystone agricultural said who use a lot of will also be affected by the Price a Mohawk Oil who declined to be said the Ken free press Korniat shows off Fossil it could be like the cabbage Patch craze for our local firm to ride tails of Jurassic Park sequel by Paul Mckee business reporter the movie sequel to the Dinosaur epic Jurassic Park is about to make a Winnipeg toy company anything but Earth lore will begin production in december of a line of Dinosaur merchandise tied to the lost director Steven Spielberg multimillion Dollar sequel to the blockbuster Jurassic one of the biggest movies of All the toys Are authorized by Universal studios and Spielberg dream works having a toy with the lost world logo emblazoned on the packaging will mean a huge increase in sales for a company that last year was working out of a garage and had Only in Ive had people Tell me that it could be like the cabbage Patch craze for our said Earth lore president Mike ear Blore Vic president Rob Black conservatively projects that 1997 sales will be both Korniat and Black said theres just no telling How huge an Impact the lost world will have on their the paperback version of the lost world by Michael Crichton is at the top of the Best Sellers the movie version will be out May said he said their product will be on the shelves two weeks before the films the lost world kits will Cost us a Canadian Price Hast been the lost world merchandise will be an offshoot of Earth ores cur rent Ceramic Dinosaur skeletons that kids dig out like palaeontologists of Sandstone Korniat said Treyve developed a whole new line of Dinosaur fossils for the lost tied to the creatures in the new Universal studios ranted and raved about our product to Korniat said the lost world kits will be distributed throughout North Ameri Ca by Korniat noted merchandise sales for Jurassic Park topped Korniat said that when exploratory approached Earth lore in March about pitching to univer the company had four employees and was working out of a Treyve since moved twice and now Are in the Boniface Industrial Korniat said they have 23 employees now and will probably have 35 by the end of next week sales of Earth ores i dig dinosaurs kits have really started to move this said As of sales for the year were he said there now up to and orders Are Well beyond current currently the company runs production 16 hours a Day but exploratory has warned them to be ready to run 24 we finally got our right Market ing and right said Korni but its going to he scary with lost propane Price Rise would not affect people filling their Gas Barbecue tanks this he said Barbecue tank Gas is sold by the Pound and is not affected by the Price Lenn Secretary of the Manitoba taxi cab said even though propane for cabs has increased in people dont have to worry about a cab fare he said cab companies cant raise fares unless the Board gives its Ball Park risk seen in dome dream by Aldo Santon City Hall reporter City loses bid to limit property tax appeals by Nick Martin staff reporter the cites two universities could save big Bucks on their 1996 property tax Bius alter court of Queens Beach ruled this week that City Hall cannot deny prop erty owners an annual Appeal of their its a great Victory for the univer that big tax lawyer Michael Mercury said Mercury represented the Marlborough which joined the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg in fighting the cites bid to limit appeals to once each assess ment Cycle every three officials at the two universities could not estimate How much is at stake when they Appeal their 1986 u of m has a Bill and u of w has a million acting City assessor Cliff Jeffers said the decision Means his staff will continue to spend time preparing for and fighting appeals that they could better spend assessing theres a Cost to the tax Jeffers said pave u of is vice pres ident for administration and said his school will argue its older downtown buildings Are considerably the City assesses u of w at Market Fie yet Wesley Hall is 100 yes old and needs of Umoja Worth of it should probably be valued at keeping the dream of a domed stadium North of the Forks alive is Only jeopardizing construction of a new Ball says Al Golden vital said businessman Paul Sveinson has been unable to attract any financing for his lion Sveinson appeared at an i camera meeting of the executive policy com Mittee yesterday where he presented the business plan and for Mally asked for an Extension on his option on Cit owned land adjacent to the can West to play finance chairman Garth Steek said the executive policy committee deferred the matter until Steek River Heights said that if the com Mittee were to recommend Sveinson receive an it would have to be approved by Council at its Decem ber now is not the time for a domed Sta Golden if we give Svein son More it will jeopardize other Sveinson said he has asked for his option on the Forks site to be extended until 30 so he can raise the Money needed to do the the original six month option was to expire feasible Sveinson said the business plan proves the concept of a Multi use sports and entertainment facility is both feasible and adding All he has to do now is attract investors so it can be the private sector will build it or it wont get Sveinson said of the project he has been promoting for almost 10 Sveinson said he plans to get approval from the Manitoba Securi ties commission for a limited partnership offering units to the Public valued at somewhere Between Mil lion and million per the feasibility plan shows the project will not require any government dollars to build or operate the Sveinson said it would Post City about million for necessary Road and sewer but added that Money would be the plan does state that it will require the City to refund All amusement and property taxes at the Svenson said Council wants him to raise about 60 per pent million of the projects total Post before it would consider giving him a so year lease on the he said he has Ted up financial support Tor the project but would not disclose How but Golden said Sveinson has been unable to attract any investment in the past six admits he Hast raised a Nickel Golden the Money was wed still Haw the g ;