Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 5, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Bruce Owen 6977292 Glowacki Winnipeg free press Cadet Robert Morrissette is congratulated by his aunt Darlene Laliberty after yesterdays greening of a neighbourhood youngsters proudly strut military colours by Aldo Santon they Are not the colours one expects to see Young teens from the inner City wearing military but 18 Young kids wore their colours proudly yesterday afternoon As they participated in the first Annu Al review Parade of the 553 sergeant Tommy Royal Canadian army Cadet this has turned my life said Waylon honoured during the ceremonies As the corps top male Cadet at the freight House Community this is one of the toughest neighbourhoods in the most of the area residents dont even believe its Safe to walk out after Mousseau has spent his Brief life growing up in this i used to hang around the but not any Mousseau i dont care what anyone thinks about what in this is its i like those Are the words Don Mackey has been waiting to hear for the past two a former military police officer and now an area he helped organize this Cadet group and gave it its i live on Elgin Avenue and i wanted to Start the cadets right Here As an alternative to the Street Mack Umyn Wolowacki free press Cadet Shawn Morrissette salutes Captain Keith Mclean at by Mackey said he had a Brief meeting with Winnipeg War hero Tommy Prince almost 50 years i never thought Tommy Prince got the name he so i thought it would be a Good idea to name the cadets after Mackey went door to door in the talking to teachers and students at area schools and drop in centres about the merits of being a last 51 kids turned out for the first the numbers Are Down to 23 a lot handle Mousseau adding pressure and ridicule from other neighbourhood teens prob ably forced the others to i dont listen to what anyone else has to said who added that his great Grandfather had served in the Canadian Ive got a whole new set of it want the Prince name that attracted Levon and his buddy Alister they liked the badges and the we get to do a lot of neat Sanderson like tying knots and talk Violet said she never regretted Ive always been interested in i like the kind of things they Baptiste said she continues to get ridiculed by other teens in her neigh they told us to expect that its mostly because of the uniform we just ignore it and i unlike those other Baptiste and her fellow cadets get a special treat this Well be spending a week at Cadet Camp in Baptiste we get to go camping and More marching and More intense stuff than what weve been Street gang unit a slated to close study says fewer kids recruited but Money running out in summer by Leah Janzen for three the Street gang prevention program has Laboured to keep Young kids out of and some statistics show the program slated to be closed later this summer has the first year the pro Gram hit the gang recruitment dropped by 66 per according to an Independent review of the program con ducted by two University of Winnipeg professors in it is the stated goal of the supp to reduce gang recruitment by 25 per cent Over three wrote Doug Skoog and Michael our tentative results suggest that has been Street gang recruits from 19961997 totalled from 1997 to 1998 first year of operation of supp new recruits totalled the differ ence Between the two years being 66 per the firs year evaluation also praised the program for its work in bringing information about the Issue of Street gangs and violence to social agencies and a particularly effective Job has been done in raising Public awareness they have contacted virtually every Agency in the City that deals with crime and inner City when the three year program was initiated in funded by the Winnipeg development its mandate was to reduce Street gang membership by 25 per cent and to coordinate social Agency strategies designed to impede gang recruitment and encourage cur rent members to current gang membership numbers have remained steady from in 1997 to in 1999 but Glenn coordinator of the said the numbers dont Tell the whole How Many May have joined had we not been Here he How Many have we gotten to that impossible for us to but Cochrane said in the three years since his programs inception the num ber of gang members on the inactive list meaning they have stayed out of gang activity for two years has in the inactive topped out at its highest level Dan chairman of the Protection and Community services com said a final decision is still Pend ing on the program which is funnelled through the during his Cochrane made numerous presentations at youth groups and parents he was often booked up months in Advance and usually took an Ergang member along to talk to the audience about the evils of Cochrane also created a gang Preven Tion coalition which now has 80 Community members who share information about gang prevention among them selves and with other social since learning Cochrane program is on the chopping City councillors and the police service have praised the Street gang prevention program and called for it to be City to Host world on children and War by Paul Samyn Winnipeg will be the site of an inter National conference this fall on the devastating effect of War on the worlds the conference Aims to duplicate the Success Canada had in forging an inter National treaty Banning foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy Hopes the gathering of As Many As 600 politicians and people from around the world will Lead to a new Diplo Matic blueprint to help protect children from the ravages of which have killed or maimed an estimated six Mil lion in the last 10 the time is the time is now for us As a Community to mobilize and come together on one of the most serious and crucial violations of rights of people which is the circumstances and Situa Tion of War affected the United nations Agency for and Ottawa will cohost the meeting in Axworthy said the conference will work with a six Point plan that includes the Call for a truce in War zones so War affected children can receive humanitarian International cooperation minister Maria Minna said the release of child soldiers should be part of any peace and demanded that the conference be More than just global fathers d4y others Day show the Guy who filling that role for you Learned his Job at the we have Oil kinds t him know How value in today with Canon ;