Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 20, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba J t j i t y 1 b i Winnipeg free press february 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Margo Goodhand 6977292 More help for cites homeless by Aldo Santon Ottawa is about to open the financial tap for a series of projects tackling Winnipeg Home less Claudette Federal minister responsible for told the free press yesterday that funding totalling for 11 new proposals has been agencies to receive funding include a local Church group which will use the Money to set up a clothing and food an emergency shelter and coun Selling and referral services an exist ing which will use the funds to develop transitional and other okd for 11 Federal minister says agencies that will develop housing registries for adults and with yesterdays Ottawa has provided million to Winnipeg agencies since october to help the the problem has been getting worse across the country and we have to do something to Stop Bradshaw said homelessness is pre she was in Winnipeg yesterday to meet with several social she had earned Praise from Agency officials for her commitment since taking on the homelessness portfolio two years but there were critics who wondered what took her so Long to Start spending Bradshaw was appointed to the Post in March 1998 and announced a National homelessness fund one year an additional million was slated for youth and Urban aboriginal pro Canada mortgage and housing also kicked in million for Shel Ter but until not a dime had been Bradshaw said the delays were in part bureaucratic and partly due to the time it took for local agencies to develop their from the very beginning i wanted to hear from the Community groups As to what they Bradshaw now we local Federal officials said the new Winnipeg housing and homelessness office had received 35 proposals for funding since twelve of those have now been approved and the others Are still under the funding approved to Date has been drawn from the homelessness and youth the first Agency to receive funding was Macdonald youth which got in october to hire 10 youth interns who will operate a resource Centre to provide programs to youth at in coming Bradshaw said other announcements will be made i for an existing shelter to help it develop programs to end Peoples dependence on i an existing Agency will identify resources and gaps in the Community regarding the a housing registry will be developed that can be used by homeless i More than for a housing project for Young to include shelter and skill and personal development pro Bradshaw said she will return to Winnipeg in june to meet with the cites charitable organizations and get their opinion on what the Federal program has accomplished to Boris free press Dumont gets order of Manitoba Peter Liba right talks with former Manitoba lieutenant governor Yvon Dumont yesterday at the legislative Dumont received the order of the provinces highest from Liba at a special the order recognizes individuals who have demonstrated excellence in any Field that has provided outstanding benefits to the cultural or economic Well being of Manitoba and its he loses he loses with fake quarters worker at Winnipeg mint facing charges after allegedly Selling bogus coins by Leah Janzen i Brief taxes top Agenda taxes Are at the top of the Agenda for nine candidates running in today Winnipeg school division Ward 1 two candidates Robert who lives outside the and David who has no children Are running to Cut even if it Means closing laying off staff or dumping Les Barclay wants a huge committee struck to develop a fou year plan to overhaul education Barb airman and Lawrence Marmel say its up to each schools parents to talk corporations into donating computers now bought with tax and endorsed Patricia Mctaggart is a strict disciplinarian who would hold parents accountable directly to trustees for kids Kerry Cazzorla opposes anti homophobia Edu cation and favours More Power for environmentalist Steve Rauh is will ing to increase taxes for innovative and intercity Joyce Bate Man promises unspecified but says she has no Only ques polls Are open from 8 to 8 in the Southend which has about voters from Riverview to the Edge of the who will succeed Liberal my Anita will join the Board in time to vote next month on a million police officer charged a Veteran Winnipeg police officer has been charged after being accused of assaulting his wife in a parking lot Sun Day the assault allegedly occurred in the parking lot of the Maples multiplex Arena sunday morning before the woman and her son boarded a chartered bus to a hockey according to Selkirk who Are investigating because the complaint was lodged from outside the after returning Home from the hockey the victim and her son were met in the parking lot by the Man and on their Way to their Home in Lockport he allegedly became angry again and he and the victim began to fearing for her the woman pulled into a Lockport convenience store and called she saw things were escalating and she was said ramp spokesperson Steve Saunders said the woman told offi cers who responded to her Call that she had been assaulted by her a 47yearold sergeant with the arrest processing unit of the Winnipeg police earlier in the Bob Johnson of the Winnipeg police service said the accused officer who has been a police officer for 25 years has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending the completion of the ramp the 47yearold sergeant is slated to appear in court on March despite the fact the alleged incident occurred in the ramp Are investigating because the victim lives in ramp jurisdiction and the com plaint was lodged outside three Hundred years ago he might have been hanged or Given a promotion and a on the Quality of his Hes facing the possibility of a lengthy prison a 43yearold City Man faces numer Ous charges including the rarely used charge of taking Coin from her majesty mint after he allegedly made and sold bogus collector coins while working at the Winnipeg Between March and May 2000 the mint employee allegedly stole a number of defective Blank cop per coins and used a mint Coin press to turn the discs into Copper coloured police say on the Man sold the altered coins to a Winnipeg Coin dealer As error error coins Are made at the mint for the design for a Nickel is inadvertently pressed onto disks intended to be quarters or pen Kelly assistant manager of Gate West Coin said error coins Are valuable collectors items because they Are extremely there is a Good Market for he they can be Worth up to Winnipeg police were notified of the existence of the bogus error coins and an investigation into their origin was on february police executed search warrants at several including a Winnipeg Coin dealers several coins were but Bob Johnson of the Winnipeg police service said More May still be in circus we know one of these error coins was sold for he we believe less than 20 were but were not sure if More Are out the unidentified Man faces charges of making counterfeit possess ing counterfeit uttering counterfeit Money and Tak ing Coin from her majesty he was released pending a court according to current the Man faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison if Hes found Wionzek said 300 years ago the same charge would have meant certain death or a there is a Good Market for they can be Worth up to Kelly assistant manager of Gate West Coin refers to Copper coloured error coins he if the counterfeit Job was bad the Guy would have been executed on the if the counterfeit Job was hed be hired to make More Pierre spokesman for the Royal Canadian mint in said its been 21 years since an employee has been caught trying to sneak Money out of the Winnipeg in 1979 an employee tried to take minted coins out of the Plant in a Hole in his was charged with taking Coin from her majesty that and the latest incident were the Only two Security breaches at the Winnipeg Plant since its opening in Morin Man falsely accused daughter to get her out of House by Mike Mclntyre frustrated by his daughters lengthy House a Winnipeg Man admitted yesterday that he lied when he turned the girl in after forcing her to break i had no Way of dealing with a teenager trapped at Home for 24 hours a seven Days a the Over a Long course of reached a boiling Eric Blanchet told a provincial court i had come to the feeling that we live together any More under those his Shawna was Given a nine month conditional sentence last summer for vandalizing a jewish cemetery in the one of her conditions was to remain inside her Home at All except for work or medical Lehr was charged last fall with breaching her conditions after Blanchet called her probation saying she had left the Home to stay with a he also claimed Lehr had repeatedly thumbed her nose at the Justice system by drinking alcohol and breaching cur fews on a regular but Blanchet claiming he made up the Story following a heated argument with his he said he kicked her out of the Home and that Lehr has followed every Condi Tion of her associate chief judge Bruce Miller agreed that Lehr had a reasonable excuse to be out of the Home the night in question and acquitted her of the breach he lashed out at Blanchet for his he most regrettably and inexplicably exacerbated the situation by making up false allegations against his Daugh said if Lehr had been found guilty of the she Likely would have been sent to jail to serve the remainder of her sen she and her father have resumed Liv ing and Blanchet said the ten Sion has eased now that he has separated from a woman he was living with at the who didst get along with Lehr was one of four people convicted of the August 1999 desecration of the hebrew sick Benefit More than 300 headstones were some smashed to causing dam All four offenders were Given conditional at Lehr sentencing last Miller said he agonized Over his Deci Given the Public outcry which Fol Lowed the horrific defence lawyer Stan Nozick said 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