Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local private wine store owners Are upset at a coalition that opposes additional private outlets /a3 Canada Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard will walk out of social Union talks if his opt out demands Arentt met newspaper says /a6 world two planes nearly collided in mid air Over new York last week /d8this girls a lifetimes Worth of sorrow packed into one childhood life hard times and tragedy have stalked Diane first taking her older sister and then her Little Randy inset who died last month. 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A a we re not breaking any Laws. We re trying to be Good Fontaine is one of the leaders of a religious commune that he Calls the 12 tribes Community. In the six years that the group has been in the City ifs also been known As common ground and the Community. A we believe in the death and resurrection of the lord Jesus Christ and we practise our Faith by living in a communal Way a Fontaine said. A we Lead a simple life. We read the the commune has been drawing the attention of some of its Neighbours alarmed by their growth. The Neighbours have called politicians bureaucrats and the Media wanting to know if something can be done about this new presence in Armstrong Point. A there Are a visible number of people living there a said Leigh Taylor a spokesman for the Armstrong Point residents association who lives about a Block away from the three Homes. A continued on Page a3 by Lindor Reynolds free press columnist if there was a Point of no return for Diane Grisdale it was the fire that killed her sister. Before oct. 30,1994, before Tammy Grisdale died in the Home Street House fire before the moment plummeted a fragile family into a despair so deep they would never recover there had always been a Small elusive Hope that the hard times might get better. That Hope died with Tammy 16. Her younger sister Diane was shattered. She would never forgive herself for having been estranged from Tammy in the months before the fatal fire. Four years later when her toddler son Randy was kidnapped and left to freeze to death on a bitter november morning Diane would think of her big sister. She would Hope Tammy was holding her Little boy in heaven that the dead were taking care of the dead. A after my sister passed i shut everyone out a Diane said during a series of interviews last week. A i did no to want to care about anyone. I was so Hurt. Parties drugs drinking. That a Santa was always Good to the Grisdale girls a continued on Page a2 Hie weather of partly Cloudy skies. High -6. Low-14. Details on Page b8 Magazine left out Vancouver a hearings to probe ramp clashes with protesters at last years spec Summit will proceed despite a Messy resignation Friday says the head of the mountie watchdog Agency. Shirley Heafey chairwoman of the ramp Public complaints commission said she will need time to consider options to continue the highest profile hearings in the body a 10-year history. The future of the spec inquiry already in turmoil Over allegations of Bias was clouded further Friday when Gerald Morin chairman of the three member panel resigned. He accused Heafey of interference. A a in a very sorry about this setback but i have a mandate a Heafey an Ottawa lawyer said in an interview with the Canadian press. A i started an investigation. I instituted a hearing and my intention is to go Forward and Deal with this problem. In a not certain How i will Deal with it but i will Deal with it. We will go options include allowing the hearing to go ahead with the remaining two panellists who Heafey said remain committed to the ongoing hearings a the most expensive in the commissions history. In a stunning development in a process already bogged Down in Legal wrangling Morin quit the commission and pointed a Finger at Heafey. A i feel very strongly that there was improper interference a the lawyer from Prince Albert sask., told a hastily called news conference Here. The inquiry was looking into actions of the ramp when they clashed with protesters mostly students As 18 Pacific leaders met at the University of British Columbia a year ago. Morin alleges interference Morin said he was alarmed when the commission appointed a lawyer to handle allegations of Bias filed against him describing the move As part of the a a improper interference. Morin was reported to have told a companion at a Prince Albert Casino he Felt the ramp reacted excessively at the spec Summit in Vancouver. His remarks were overheard by ramp const. Russell Black who eventually reported them. Heafey said she was a alarmed and distressed by Morin a apparent attempts to discredit Black 33, through the work of a private investigator. She claimed Morin improperly billed the commission after he hired an investigator to probe the Bias allegations As Well As break ins to his car and the panels office. A i got invoices to pay for an investigation carried out by or. Morin a representatives that was aimed at discrediting const. Black a Heafey said. A i pay for an $8,000 invoice meant to discredit a member of the nothing was taken in the break ins. However Heafey said she was concerned that Morin did no to go to the police about them. When it All she was 14. Diane makes a Quick reflexive nod to her mothers parenting abilities a my mom was Good to us. It did no to turn sour until my sister died. After she died the family tried really hard to stick together but we were kind of having a hard time. I just. I just . I did no to want to believe she was dead. When they came and told me i thought they were lying to me. I thought they were just trying to get me out of Diane is tiny. She looks More like a Little girl than a woman who has buried her own child. She has Home dyed her Platinum Blond hair a Dull Brown trying to regain the anonymity she lost when her baby boy died. Then she found herself in the Middle of a Media firestorm her parenting abilities and her lifestyle carved up by people who did no to know her and still entered their damning judgments. She smokes fiercely spits out her words with an anger that twists her delicate features. When a conversation ends and she leans in for a hug she is As fragile As a Sparrow. 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