Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free june 1997 born on june 18 then join the club by Leah Janzen for the free press if the Viscount Gort gave a free meal to people on their june 18th could be an expensive for the last 15 a group of virtual strangers born on the 18th has met at the hotel to share breakfast and celebrate their common we meet at 7 wish each other a Happy introduce eat and say goodbye until the next said father Anthony who has attended for 14 most of the peo ple i dont even who will turn 57 this said the group got its Start when a local businessman and a Friend with the same birthday celebrated together Over the breakfasts founder no Marc free press father Edwards from Brad Helfrick and Murray Lam pert All share a common birthday june longer attends the annual but other june 18ers have carried on the every year different people said some years weve had up to 30 or 40 and at others we have Only a couple of for a group with such a Long tra the june 18ers do Little in the Way of organizing or Advertis Edwards said they dont main Tain a list of celebrants and no one is notified about the meeting ahead of we just keep showing up same same he were wonderful and All maybe that has some thing to do with sex offender releases often made Public Manitoba High notification rate could desensitize says critic staff merchant wants councillor ousted by Bud Robertson staff reporter a Rural Manitoba councillor could be forced to resign if a court upholds a conflict of interest charge Laid against her by a rival business charges such As this Are considered Gabriel who operates a Gro Cery store in filed a state ment of claim late last month against Heather a councillor in the pm of tache who also owns a Busi Ness in the town Southeast of win despite being warned of a possible conflict of Arbez Johnson voted against a motion to sell municipality owned property to who wanted to expand Park the pm had already signed a con tract to sell him the once a fire Hall located there was no longer in the motion was a formality and was Winnipeg lawyer Marcel who represents said his client has applied to the courts to find John son guilty under the municipal coun cil conflict of interest act and order her to vacate her Roger a municipal services called the charge adding he is aware of Only a handful of cases in the last 15 including a councillor in the pm of Ritchot ousted two years Johnson could not be reached for comment problems began to surface about two years said when Arbez installed a lottery ticket Ter Minal in his grocery Johnsons store had been the Only one in town with a Ter at about the same Arbez decided to build an addition onto the which took up some of his Park ing shortly after the Jodoin Johnson brought a motion to Council which passed to move a crosswalk to the front of arbes she said it would facilitate Street crossing by elementary and High school students but it eliminated nine metres of parking in front of the you have a chronic parking said at her John sons there Are no parking police have warned Manito bans three out of every four times a High risk sex offender has been released into the Community since that one of the highest Public notification rates in Canada although Law enforcement officials attending a National conference on Community notification strategies say Public notification programs Are being used sparingly and Only As a last since a strategy was implemented in Saskatchewan last there have been just two Public warnings in Hamilto Wentworth there have been Only four notices issued in the three years a notification program has been in place in the Ontario we Only use it As a last resort if an offender refuses to work with said superintendent Bruce Elm Wood of the Hamilto Wentworth if we feel that All the information we have is that he is then we will put out a Community not Ifica in just Over two Manitoba officials have publicly identified High risk sex offenders 37 of the 50 cases there have been 11 recommendations for full pub Lic disclosure and 26 cases of targeted disclosures to specific groups or said Ray acting chairman of the provinces Community notification advisory we dont want to stigmatize every Wyant there were the cases that were at High this is not a rubber delegates attending the Winnipeg conference on Community notification and other techniques for managing High risk and dangerous offenders said yesterday they try to work with High hurry in to take advantage of the Best Harry Kusen i a i i a r r v r n l r i r v i t what Ivi k you factory direct res Mofle bedding custom made bunk Beds waterbed replacement Sola Beds Xing size mattresses rollaway cols pillows blankets mattress pads foam mattresses bed frames bed sheets Best duality Low prices 2 locations to serve you 9424701 7837574 risk offenders about to reenter the it is Only one said Laura Bourassa of the Saskatchewan Justice it should Only be used in the most extreme it causes communities and the pub Lic to take Steps to insure that they Are Bourassa said the policy was used discreetly for a variety of including concern about driving the offender possible pub Lic and potential desensitization to the Issue on the part of the Federal privacy commissioner Bruce Phillips said Community notification of dangerous offenders was primarily a judicial Issue and not a Pri Vacy i dont think we can turn a Blind Eye to the fact that violent crime is a prob Lem and the Public Are Phillips he said that while privacy rights were there were other rights involved including Public con Cern about violent but i think we have to recognize that there is More than one right he if i would say that the Manitoba commit tee has been proceeding and with an understanding that there is a definite balancing act detective Robert shilling of the Seattle police department said there had been 87 Community notifications of High risk sex offenders in Seattle in the past delegates spent much of yesterday debating the merits of Community notification critics charge the programs Are doomed to failure because the Public does not pay Atten Tion to the delegates were told yesterday that a study of a Washington state Law on which has been in effect since concluded that the policy had no effect on the rate of but it also concluded that the policy seeded police apprehension of repeat sex offenders because Community members knew where they sociologist Steve Brickey of the University of Manitoba said the ton state study was not enough to make conclusions about the effective Ness of Public the truth is this program could be the greatest thing since sliced bread or on the other hand its not Worth a Brickey i suspect the truth is somewhere in our newest look for the convenient childrens guide in your new Winnipeg yellow pages take a closer mis advanced reconditioned discontinued 20th annual tent Sale factory overruns closeouts great savings dining tents camping tents trailer 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