Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 local Folk 2000 Winni Eggers shocked by rockers death love boys bassist grew up in Tuxedo by Carol Sanders Winni Eggers who remember the teen who dropped out of University three times then struck it Rich with the band love boy were shocked and saddened to hear about Scotty Smith being swept Over Board off the coast of California last the former who played Bass for grew up in Tuxedo and his parents both worked at the University of his father now was a professor in the history his worked in the faculty of said u of m history Oleh he remembers Scotty Smith hang ing out with his friends at the Smith family two Side beside cottages they owned on Lake of the it was kind of difficult to say what he would amount said Gerus of Smith As a he loved music and to play the Bass he at their old House in Tuxedo i remember some noise coming out of the Gerus in not a great fan of that kind of he Smiths father who established the Smith scholarship at the u of m history was a renowned Canadian historian who died five or six years said Smiths who now lives in was the u of is Dean of women at one he Smith had three months left to finish a a when he left the u of m in 1979 to join love boy in in an interview with the free press in Smith said he was reluctant to join the band because he had dropped out of University twice before to join two other bands that haunt worked but within two love boy was opening for major acts including cheap trick and top and performing on american Winnipeg Gerus was floored when he read about Smith in sundays free it was just a then said the wave hit Smiths 11metre boat the sea major As he was sailing from Van Couver to a Marina just South of los where he wanted to spend love boys break from the Vancouver province yesterday Smith swept overboard said Smith swapped his life in the fast Lane that included a Lamborghini and Domestic servants for a slower life it was a rogue wave that killed in the late after the band broke up but before love boys revival the took a night Job As a do on the Vancouver hard Rook station Fox in a recent interview with the Van Couver Smith reflected on the conspicuous consumption that Fol Lowed love boys overnight Success with its self titled debut i look Back on that and i think it was said in the 80s we had a lot of Smith enjoyed the More intimate reunion shows the group played when they rejoined in the what surprised Smith most was the effect the bands Bighair Days hits had on its millions of love boy has sold More than 23 Mil lion who lived in Maple had two sons with Donna the coast guard spent two Days searching a 350squarekilometre area for Smith with no Petty officer Christian Allain said there is no Hope of finding Smith he family and friends of the Rocker were planning to continue the Allain said Smiths Girlfriend Yvonne Mayotte and Friend William Ellis were below deck when the Accident they we rent Hurt and called for help when they discovered Smith and the boats steering wheel with files from Cap psychiatric assessment of Man sought Federal prosecutors Are seeking a psychiatric assessment for a Winnipeg Man charged with threatening prime minister Jean Chretien and Hillary and Chelsea Crown attorney Chris Mainella said yesterday he has reasonable grounds to suspect Colin Mcmahon was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the was arrested on a Tran sit bus last Friday and charged with five counts of uttering he made a Brief court appearance yesterday but was remanded into Cus the Crown will formally request the mental health assessment when he returns to court on ramp allege he mailed a letter in August threatening to harm he is also accused of sending two e mails to a White House web site in which he said hed kill the first now a and her Mainella plans to subpoena a Psychia Trist who has previously treated mama and View his psychiatric the Crown will also Call an ramp Crim Inal profile As a he Ruth Bonneville Winnipeg flee press son of chief Jack on his first Day of training with 32 other recruits at the police police chiefs son among trainees following in their family footsteps Academy welcomes recruits by Leah Janzen like like More than 27 years chief Jack Swatski donned a Winnipeg police service uniform and began training to become a Ewa skis 23yearold followed in his fathers Large footsteps by joining the newest class of recruits at the Winnipeg police the Junior Swatski was one of 33 new recruits in class 132 who began their first Day of training yesterday morning at the patrol Gordon Hudson a train ing officer at the said the newest Swatski to join the Force was subjected to the same strict Entrance criteria As his classmates and can expect to be treated like any new nobody gets any special treat ment Hudson adding chief Swatski wont be commenting on his sons recruitment or Progress in an Effort to remain we have 33 officers in this class and although one happens to come from Ewa skis they All get treated the Over the next 25 the newest members of the service will undergo rigorous physical tests and will be required to absorb a Mountain of information before they hit the the new class is made up of 27 males and four females who Range in age from 21 to two of the new recruits were police officers one comes from the Morden police service and another from the win Kler police Many come armed with experience in the Justice having worked As Security guards or correctional employees before signing most 87 per cent Are bringing a pos secondary five of the new recruits Are related to the new class has a wife and a Hus band of Active a brother and two sons one being victims blood on murder trial told by Mike Mclntyre the Man accused of killing Kimberley Clarke under the Redwood Bridge ran into a House the same morning with bloody hands and looked like he had been in a a witness told a jury trial Roderick also fell asleep in a room Days a bloodstained watch was found stuffed inside the the witness i saw something sparkling in the front of the i found the which looked like it had Burgundy paint on said Patricia a former Friend of whom she knew Only As she said he ran into her Cathedral Avenue Home about 4 and went straight to the where her Washer and dryer were she was asleep at the but her Sis who was staying woke her up to Tell what had Mason went Back to but woke up several hours later to find Murhike Kanape asleep in the Sun where she later found the the blood on the watch belonged to whose badly beaten body was found floating in the red River two Days after she went missing while walking Home from a House party in the North Murhike Kanape is accused of Fol lowing her from the party and attacking her with a Blunt the killer was either raping or attempting to rape when she according to the he has been charged with first degree the trial fad he while most people her age were in a 16yearold girl spent her Day in court yesterday testifying against a Man she claims fed her a steady diet of crack the teen broke Down in tears at one Point while being Cross examined on her evidence by defence lawyer Allan Baker in the opening Day of a Manitoba court of Queens Bench she said Hernan Perez gave her Rock on at least 20 begin Ning in the Spring 1998 when she was Only she Only recently kicked her Addic she makes you feel i guess in a Good it makes you want said the during some visits to Perezs Selkirk Avenue he would simply give her cocaine for other he demanded she Perez was one of 14 men charged in March 1999 in a Wexford rugs ring that police say targeted underprivileged teenage the witness yesterday said that unlike some of the other Perez never demanded sex from his Girlfriend suspected they were intimate and assaulted her one after Perez was arrested and released on the witness said she ran into him while walking Home through the North end in May she said he thanked her for not saying anything bad about me to the theres Only one sure Way to stay out of the business data n t e r n e t wireless voice convergent solutions ;