Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 22, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba One month free offer visto350 visual Call waiting Vii your its phone Fontic 01 Roll Nils free press local May 1997 John Douglas 6977292 features Jim Carr email a3 moms letter tells of agony created by sons death by Melanie Verhaeghe for the free press tears streamed Down Nancy la Fortes face yesterday As a let Ter she describing the agony caused by the shooting death of her 13yearold was read into the court nearly everyone in the Winnipeg courtroom was reduced to tears As friends and family of Joseph Beeper Spence listened to the mothers let originally charged with first degree Conrad pleaded guilty to second degree murder on april while Kami and Fabian pleaded guilty to god will bless us once again with his presents sic when we All to see his Beautiful Brown to feel his to hear his voice and most of All to hear him laugh once Crown attorney Cathy Everett read to the sentencing emotion build ing on her As she tried to read the last she had to sip water and Clear her tax hike for culture wont Fly City Hall review of report mixed but thumbs Down on tax increase by Aldo Santin property taxes wont be increased to give More Money to Winnipeg cultural City councillors said that was the Only answer that Drew widespread agreement at City Hall yesterday As councillors considered the recommendations of a Blu ribbon panel that examined funding of the cites cultural there was no consensus among councillors on adopting any of the panels which could mean the panel members 10 months of work will be for its my View that their report wont get political said Bill the panel Mem Bers did a very Good Job but that Doest mean we accept every word of the the report of the cites seven Mem ber cultural review panel recommended that the 10 per cent imposed on All performances and entertainment with a ticket Price of or be scrapped and that the cites support to cultural groups be increased 72 per cent Over a fou year from million to Mil the report offered no suggestion As to where the increased Revenue would come from if the tax is but All councillors polled said they would not pass it on to the property the report suggested that if the tax is to be it should be charged on All tickets costing or in the report said the ticket tax should be expanded to include video i hotel Cable and nonprofit performances should be exempt from the six of 14 members of inter viewed by the free press said cultural groups should pay the tax like everyone Only three councillors Amaro Mark Lubosch and Lillian Thomas agreed with the reports mayor Susan who has had the report for several said she Hast read it and want willing to comment on the broadening the tax base to include other forms of entertainment Drew the support of six who agreed the additional Revenue could be realized simply by ending the habit of extending tax including to the nonprofit everyone should be treated equally and everyone should have to said John whose opinion was shared by councillors Harry Mike Shaugh Glen Al and Garth Clement said he int convinced the arts Community deserves increased the Only alternative to eliminating the amusement tax would be to find the funding from vat he Dan Vandal said the tax should be kept in its present form but the City should eliminate the exemption to the Winnipeg enterprises which amounts to million a Jae Eadie said he Doest think its possible to find a viable alternative to the existing tax John Angus suggested an alternative to the panels recommendation the tax with a seat charge on All entertainment councillors Shirley Tim Rudolph and Pat Phillips could not be reached for officer charged with assaulting wife a Constable with the Winnipeg police service has been charged with four counts of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a the charges came after the offi cers wife complained that she had been assaulted during a series of Domestic disputes that took place Between 1996 and May the who has been on the Force for five was arrested tuesday night and released on a during a suspension hearing held yesterday he was relegated to a desk Job until the Case is dealt with in shaking my son rests now at Brookside cemetery with a Black Headstone to Mark his resting May my Loving baby boy rest in head singly sic who fired the shot was allowed to make his own Over the past two Ive been locked up in the remand Ive realized what Ive done and How much pain i caused to this he in truly sorry that night Ever Hap it should never have but its too late and i cant change the past and in not Only did i Hurt this i Hurt people around me and people who cared about me and i regret and have lots of remorse for what Ive for a life i have Token sic from this family and in that All i can he buried his face under his Black shirt and wiped his tears also welled in the eyes of his two accomplices sitting in the prisoners Box beside the Crown is asking the court to extend Johnsons parole eligibility to seven he is subject to a life sen tence but because of his age at the time of the he can be eligible for parole in five to seven Hes extremely dangerous and wont be rehabilitated in five years or in six Everett told the Public deserves the length est Protection from in Johnsons lawyer Greg Brodsky said his client was abandoned As a child and by the age of he called Central Park in downtown Winnipeg Home and other gang members Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press is this going to be on the exam its but Likely More fun than sitting in a Stuffy Sturgeon Creek collegiate teacher Jim Morgan second from right supervises yesterday As students enrolled in the employment skills program at the school build a garage at 323 Winchester librarians prepare to defend Freedom to read City police Clamp Down after obscenity complaint by Doug Nairne police reporter single complaint made to Sta police on a Winnipeg radio talk has resulted in the effective Banning of a widely read Book in Canada and left the cites Public librarians facing charges of peddling obscene material if they dont Nancy fridays Book women on top How real life has changed women sexual fantasies became the Centre of a National debate on censorship this month after a local Crown attorney decided the Book Vio lates Canadas obscenity although the opinion has not been tested in it allowed the police to proceed with laying charges against anyone who distributes the while trying to steer Clear of a debate on police say they will Lay charges against anyone they catch distributing the Book be it a store owner or a were not the censor police but we have to uphold the said vice Divi Sion Gary were not looking at prosecuting anyone at this time but we will if they dont police have seized one copy of the Book and Are demanding that the Library permanently Shelve the three or four others that Are currently signed a meeting has been set up next week Between the police and Library officials to discuss the Walker said the company that Dis tributes women on top has also been contacted and been told anyone sell ing the Book Here May face women on top was published in 1991 by Simon and Shuster and details the graphic sexual fantasies of dozens of the firs person narratives include taboo subjects such As bestiality and sex with Chil along with fridays interpretations of the fantasies the Book has been in Winnipeg libraries and Book stores for five and an earlier Book with similar entitled my secret has been on the shelves since Betty acquisitions librarian for Winnipeg Public said Library staff were shocked when police vice officers told them the Book is weve been challenged by a lot of people Over the years about a lot of books but this is the first time the police have got she to the Best of my we still Haven even been told what the exact problem is with the Parry said the Issue will be raised with the Manitoba and Canadian Library associations to create a plan of action to protest the this is an Issue of Freedom of expression and the Freedom to she police spokesman Carl Shier said the investigation began in february when a caller to an open line radio show complained to two offi cers who were guests that the Library was distributing the in vice officers signed out a copy of women on top and sent it to Crown attorney Mike Mahon for an opinion on whether or not it violated obscenity Mahon sent a memo Back to the investigators saying in his the Library was breaking the obscenity Mahon declined to talk to the free press yesterday about his the Crown opinion has already had ramifications beyond on ramp in entered three libraries around the province and demanded that staff remove copies of the but ramp Peter Montague said police in Are dropping the Man faces drug charge vice officers entered a Home at 16 Bromley place this week and found a grow operation consisting of 103 hydroponic grow equipment and Grams of Loose police said the total value of the seized drugs is estimated at a 33yearold nude was taken into custody and charged with producing and possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking under tile new controlled drugs and sub stances crack cocaine found the police vice division has a new package in its lost and found but whoever claims it better bring along a acting on a police went to the area of Austin Street and Avenue and found a slush of so Grams of crack the drugs Are Worth 1996 Oldsmobile Ciera 7543 litre v6 4speed automatic Abs Driver Side till cruise air Power Power Power Remote keyless split front Bench stereo cassette and much balance olfactory 1996 Lumina Sedan 8550 litre v6 4speed automatic Abs dual till cruise air Power Power Power trunk cargo stereo and much balance olfactory 1996 Cavalier Sedan i Lau Iury toll free direct 45241 13 local 3263466 1995 Silverado ext cab 2wd 5 Irviv cd tint Uii Liy am pm Ananiy i Chevrolet Penner Oldsmobile s i Einbach 1996 Chev Cheyenne work truck s12481 Votuc shed engine Abs Bench an Coridi Gionini and 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