Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May 2000 local manslaughter conviction appealed to supreme court a Man convicted of manslaughter in the death of his infant daughter plans to take his Case to the supreme court of Canada after losing his Appeal in Jose Pimentel was convicted of manslaughter in 1999 and sentenced to two years less a on the Manitoba court of Appeal upheld the ruling court of Queens Bench Justice Deb Orah Mccawley acted appropriately when she concluded Pimentel intended to Hurt his tworan Dahal month old daughter Serena when he covered her face with a Blanket to quiet her Down on March ambulance attendants discovered Serena in extreme respiratory Dis Tress when they arrived at the House after receiving a 911 she was taken off life support 36 hours defence attorney mar tin Glazer said his client has decided to fight his conviction All the Way to the supreme Glazer said he plans to argue the trial judge erred in Law by convicting even though he had been subjected to illegal court of Appeal justices Alan Bonnie Helper and Michel Monnin concluded that at the time Pimentel i Brief was arrested it had not yet been deter mined that a crime had been commit As Glazer he will argue his client was convicted on pro Babil not proof beyond a reasonable closing arguments closing arguments Are expected to begin today in the first degree Mur Der trial of Douglas Allan Brown is charged in the death of Mary a Lac Dubonnet widow who was killed at her Home in september during the course of the which began april a three Man jury heard chilling testimony sur rounding the death of who was clubbed three times on the head and dragged into her laundry she was discovered a Day after she failed to attend a prayer defence lawyers Ken Mccaffrey and Alan Libman attempted to Point the Finger of blame on Browns for Mer Best Anthony who turned key evidence Over to bitter breakup costly a handshake Deal Between two old friends turned into a bitter lawsuit which Cost one of them Tom Matthews and Gary Rummery had been friends for nearly 30 they owned cottages opposite one another on Clearwater Bay and had Over the years talked about opening a lumber store in 1992 they did just opening a Mcdiarmid lumber Home Centre in Rummery gave up a Beaver Lum Ber franchise and became the stores new general less than three months their joint Busi Ness venture ended and so did their late last court of Queens Bench Justice Deborah Mccawley awarded Rummery and his wife lil Lian a total of million in Matthews maintained there was no legally enforceable agreement Between himself and Rummery and that the Oral agreement was simply an agreement to Mccawley ruling the two did have a binding and enforceable contract based on the fact their agree ment was Clear on the terms of the joint nursing shortage threatens future of Selkirk mental health facility by Alexandra Paul the shortage of nurses that forced the closing of an award winning mental health crisis unit last weekend in Selkirk threatens to do the same warns the director of the salvation army we could close today if we had one person Call in said David old executive director of Winnipeg Community and residential services for the salvation the eight bed Selkirk crisis stabilization unit was closed on the weekend and six patients were discharged because the unit is Short two of the five nurses it needs to stay the unit is Well known across the coun try for its Community mental health ser it was Given a Best practice National award in 1999 by the Clarke Institute of psychiatry in Here we Are Little More than a year later and we dont have the funds to keep the service Oldford the Selkirk unit has some of the Low est pay Scales for nurses outside Hospi the average hourly rate of an hour is two dollars less than nurses doing the same work in Oldford said he compares the rates to the an hour paid to a Hospital nurse with five years there is a an hour difference for a nurse with five years experience and that Why we have problems attracting and retaining he the unit acts As a Centre for people in emotional crisis who need professional supervision for up to one that includes people who Are stressed from losing a Job or a marital breakup or patients with schizophrenia or other conditions who need their medications advice for parents of video game this summer get your child making games instead of playing them direct x Java or visual Basic Camps very Small classes group discounts summer 2000 will be our 6th computer programming Camp download Sample games at to schedule a free trial Call real programming 4 at 2843456 extracurricular time lost in latest budget cuts teachers t May quit Volunteer activities by Nick Martin fort Garry school division teachers say be less willing to supervise activities now that Bud get cuts have chopped a Deal that used to give them time off for Good about two dozen High school teachers will no longer get a reduced teaching Load of on half credit per year for and beyond extracurricular the definition of which was left up to fort Garry teachers who addressed recent Board meetings said they might be less willing to Volunteer for extracurricular activities in the of budget cuts that will chop teaching positions from division schools this part of those positions was to cover off the volunteering teachers time in the trustees have directed superintendent Beaumont to find a Way to recognize the efforts of All from kindergarten to Grade who super Vise students activities before and after it was costing the school division about a he ours was a school based fort Garry has never had compensation built into the teachers Are normally expected to work seven periods out of Beau Mont a teacher with a heavy coach ing for might be assigned Only six periods out of eight every Sec Ond he but the latest cuts mean that such time off can no longer be covered by other fort Garry teachers association officials could not be sources said the which has not had a contract since will not comment for fear of jeopardizing arbitration Vincent Massey collegiate teacher Joanne Parker Gibson said in an interview that any withdrawal of extra curricular services would be a last and Only after teachers have die it with i would encourage any in these Tough to become she Parker Gibson said the school boards search for some Means of teacher recognition is a sign on their part they have there trying to give us some sense of our i Hope this is the beginning of a Healing Parker Gibson said grades 10 to 12 teachers Are pleased that Treyve been Tovi Ted to meet with trustees this thurs along with kindergarten to Grade 9 teachers on june several school including have contract provisions where teachers who work at least so hours of extracurricular supervision hav Beaumont declined to speculate on sweat form the Rico gation might but said it will not be negotiated with direction was for us w develop a Pomey its a placated Issue 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