Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free june local tactless Doorman spoils 18th birthday i realize doormen a gentle term for bouncers Are not selected for their never mind their having said i have a Story for on june which happened to be a tuesday a Winnipeg teenager and some friends decided to go to the Windsor Park inn for a special the boys 18th birthday had been in but he had been Tak ing chemotherapy since and it had Only recently there was an even better Rea son to party this doctors had Given him the All Clear sign with the so off they went to the Windsor Park inn and club when they the boys mood suddenly the bouncer wanted him to remove his the one he had worn throughout the chemo treat ments to cover his loss of there was a club dress the bouncer told and toques were banned because of their association with gang the boy tried to explain about the chemo treatments and what they had done to his the bouncer the boy had been to other on other and chosen to leave rather than be but this was his birthday and he was with his he removed his it was at this Point in her Story i asked the woman who had called the boys aunt How he Felt about what he was quite she he int one who usually says he Doest want people to make a big Deal because he gets and if he gave his aunt permission to take this fur ther he must have been pretty upset about the Day after the the boys Mother called club euphoria and spoke to Jeff the demarche remembered the conversation this Way i told his make sure he gets hold of me next time when he comes in and Well buy him a few for the has because i told her i wanted to apologize to him for the Inco Nve Gordon Sinclair a week after the his aunt called the general manager of the Windsor Park Chris i said i think he deserves an apology first and and he had the bouncer was very that this should never have i i think someone needs to make this up to and he maybe Well throw him a party with balloons and give him free drinks and stuff like he was quite Nice about it and he sounded quite but i Haven heard from the incident has left the for angry and it angers me because i know How proud my Nephew is and i know How much he been through and that somebody could make him do something like its you cant control the she but this is a situation you should be Able to on nearly a month after the i called the Windsor Park the general manager was on holidays but Jeff the club took my i talked to the Doorman right demarche and i we have a dress code policy but theres exceptions to every then demarche said that he had been waiting for the boy to come Back for a few but he Hast announced him self i suggested there might be a reason for did you i asked the bar that in the it looks like the cancer has come Back demarche has it i asked if the Doorman expressed any regret knowing that the boy really had been through cancer he Jeff free press the Osborn Corydon intersection had the most Rig tangle collisions of any City Corner in police put brakes on camera rumours by Doug Nairne police reporter stolen truck leads to speedy Chase a Man was taken into City police were taken on a Brief but speedy Chase yester Day morning after spotting a stolen police said the trucks plate numbers were noted during a routine Check near Portage Avenue and Smith Street around a four minute Pursuit with speeds reaching 90 kilo metres an the reported stolen from eventually developed engine problems and was stopped by Man Falls into traffic a 45yearold Man is in Hospital with broken Bones and possible internal injuries after falling into traffic on main Street saturday Winnipeg police said the who was stopped on the Centre median while crossing Over main Street near Lombard the Man then fell into the North bound where he was struck by a car driven by a 19yearold for a piece of equipment that Hast even been added to the Winnipeg police service inventory the relight camera has already made a lot of Ever since the provincial govern ment introduced legislation allowing the cameras to be there has been a Public letters to the editor and Calls to radio talk shows have condemned the raising concerns about Pri Vacy and calling them a Means to grab More Cash through traffic but police traffic division Rick Brereton said most of the complaints Are based on a misunderstanding of How the cameras will the Rumour Mill is really going out there about the and people Are getting angry about what amounts to he Brereton said the most common con Cerns about the cameras include whether people already in the inter Section when the Light turns red will be they will who gets the Fine the registered owner just As with a parking tick will the owner of the vehicle get demerits on their licence Are Peoples rights to privacy being violated the provincial Justice department says and the Driver is not photographed in the Only the licence the legislation enabling police to use the cameras was passed last Winnipeg police anticipate sending out tickets a year once the cameras Are installed this each ticket car Ries a although the relight cameras use dangerous intersections the following intersections had the highest number of Rig tangle collisions in and Are Likely candidates for the installation of relight cameras number location of accidents Corydon Avenue and Osborne Street 22 Ness Avenue and James Street 11 main Street and York Avenue 10 Century Street and Ness Avenue Broadway and Osborne Street Bishop Grandin Boulevard and Pembina Highway main Street and Stra Brook Avenue Jefferson Avenue and Mcphillips Street Grant Avenue and Stafford Street Arlington Street and Sargent Avenue 10 technology similar to photo police say the new legislation will not allow them to set up the controversial Speed traps in the cameras Cost about each and Winnipeg police plan to buy the cameras will be rotated through a dozen locations in the City where the traffic problems Are now the and signs will be put up to warn Dri vers that the devices Are in the cameras work on a Remote con tool system in which a sensor is embedded in the Road at an intersection and then linked to the traffic the camera is mounted in a bulletproof housing on top of a when the Light turns the sensor is if a vehicle crosses the sensor and enters the intersection on a the camera takes two pictures from the rear one of the car enter ing the intersection and one of the car passing through the including the licence the photos Are examined to ensure an offence did occur and the tickets Are mailed out to the registered owner of the who is stuck with the ticket regardless of who was police say the new licence plates being issued in August Are easier to photograph than the cur rent despite their potential for about million in Brereton said the cameras will not be a Revenue Genera he said they Are expensive to main Tain and have a High operating Over any extra Money that is made will be put Back into traffic enforce Brereton said that in 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