Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Carolin Vesely 6977292 Joe Briski Winnipeg free press wreck Rescue Rescue workers free two youths from a truck that led police on a High Speed Pursuit at about 8 police noticed the stolen jeep Cherokee at Sheppard Street and Burrows Avenue when it refused to chased it through City streets for about four at Cecil Street and Ross the jeep spun out of control and struck a parked two youths were injured and two others Are in natives aim to shake scandal special Assembly mulls healthcare troubles porn ends teaching career classroom Veteran retires after calling up sex Sites on school computer by Nick Martin a Veteran teacher with More than 30 years in Jame Assiniboia schools agreed to retire last Spring after being confronted with Evi Dence he was using his classroom com Puter to Access adult the divisions director of education con firmed a Junior High school student alerted the principal after she saw the teacher looking at a nude woman on the teachers computer screen after the end of the school George Buchholz technology specialists with the school division Wette Able to retrieve records from the teachers computer that showed he had logged onto half a dozen adult pornography Sites within the pre Vious Buchholz the who was about four months away from agreed to leave immediate he As part of the negotiated the division agreed not to publicize the Buchholz responded yesterday to questions following a tip to the free late last week another teacher at the same Jame Assiniboia school was charged with a variety of sex related offences involving alleged attempts to lure an 11yearold student into trading nude pictures with him Over the inter he has been suspended without the difference in the two said is that the teacher who resigned last year did not appear to have committed a criminal but he did violate division he was not Dis playing it to a he had contravened division policy by accessing web Sites he had no business the student who observed the teacher was disillusioned but has not suffered any lasting said the teacher was Able to bypass the divisions filtering system intended to Block Access to inappropriate Buchholz said the division has since Pur chased software that alerts the divisions technology department whenever any one uses a school computer to Access a banned the division subscribes to a service that lists inappropriate web Buchholz said investigators Are trying to determine who used a computer at Sturgeon Creek collegiate recently Dur ing a continuing adult education class to Call up school Board chairman Scott Johnston said trustees fully supported showing the teacher the door last we tend to act As aggressively As we Johnston it actually enrages the Board members when they have to Deal with these Johnston said the two incidents Are Iso lated problems that equally upset teach its not reflective of the professional and caring Way our staff members do their victims family has sled safety message relatives of Man killed in snowmobile mishap Hope tragedy will leave legacy of awareness by Bruce Owen she should be planning a wedding but Shes making her Hus bands funeral arrangements an emotional Annette Rist braved to cameras yesterday to talk briefly about the death other husband who was killed saturday when his snowmobile collided Headon with another Power sled at a Bend obscured by bulrushes on the Lee River near Lac do a Sec Ond George was also Ken will be greatly missed by his especially Annette breaking Down at a news conference at ramp Headquarters in he was my Best the couple would have celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary on March they did not have ramp blame Speed As the main fac Tor behind the alcohol has been ruled by the time each realized the other was it was too ramp spokesman Steve Saunders the spot where the Accident happened is on the Pinawa Channel just South of the Lee River res Cue including a responded but both men died at the lists brother Carson said his younger brother loved Ken enjoyed the thrill of Riding his but was always conscious of operating his machine he adding his brother always wore a helmet and never consumed alcohol prior to Ken Rist was the president of the fam ily construction Gateway construction and engineering in the Rist family added they hoped the Accident raises the awareness of snowmobiling and that riders use com Mon sense and slow Down when conditions they also said they didst believe touched regulations were family photo Metcalf with wife and needed because of the the Metcalf family also addressed the issuing a written George Mainard Metcalf was born and resided in Winnipeg since mourning his passing Are his wife son daughter nephews and Many the family wishes to thank Lac Dubonnet and Pinawa ambulance attendants and Hospital staff for their Assis also a big thanks to family Friend John Gibson of provincial helicopter for his kindness and George was a very caring and Loving family photo Annette and Ken Rist Best Friend Uncle and he will be greatly missed by everyone who knew the family wishes to Grieve in Pri vate and has no further Saunders said mounties Are continuing their investigation of another Acci Dent saturday that killed a 24yearold Jeremy Stephen Beyak died when a snowmobile he was Riding with two friends crashed into a parked pickup truck near English Lake East of Lake twelve people have died snowmobiling so far this eight were killed last year and four the year by Bill Redekop Sioux Valley first nation Manitoba first nations Hope to put the recent health spending scandal behind them and find ways to improve on Reserve health care at a special Assembly that started while chiefs agreed on the need for including boosting accountability for health they were less favourable to opening their talks to pub Lic news Media were asked to leave yesterday shortly after the con Ference got under despite invitations faxed to Media last chiefs refused to and later ruled news Media will not be Able to attend the we Klong conference at an Assembly of Manitoba chiefs offi Cial said the chiefs fear Media May stir up controversy and sidetrack discus one of the issues to be discussed was funding and Bureau most first nation theres a health programs barely have enough bureaucracy Money to operate and in place and Are hampered by to government Bureau la idlllll8 said Mathias our people colomb chief Shirley chairwoman chief shirt of the Assembly of cafe Manitoba chiefs health committee in an interview prior to the afternoon Castel experienced the bureaucratic problem firsthand As one of the Passen Gers aboard the Keystone airlines plane that crashed last november in win Nipges Assiniboine she suffered three broken ribs and a fractured spinal disc and spent a week in a Winnipeg but when she approached health Canada to pay for her return trip she was first nation patients have their transportation to see an of Reserve doctor paid but health Canada told Castel she want eligible for transportation coverage because she haunt been referred by an on Reserve theres a bureaucracy in place and its failing our As for Castel said recently reported funding agreements for two f first nation health the Sage eng treatment Centre and the Anish Naabe Minoa Yazwin were the Sage eng treatment Centre ran afoul of health Canada for funding a Caribbean boat cruise for about 70 the which administers health pro Grams for seven Interlake has invested in a downtown office and has earmarked another million for capital projects such As a Northern Castel said most first nation health programs Are Mathias for receives Only a year to contract a doctor to oversee the reserves medical which int right you know the funding level is going to you know the Bud get is going into a she she maintained More Community based equipment like xray and dialysis machines could save health Canada Money by reducing medical transportation Castel said she was As surprised As anyone when she Learned of funding lev Els to some Manitoba first nation health i agree with she but she said she also believes health Canada and its regional office in Mani Toba have to be made More from your partner flyi8 i0t with royals frequency and youll get there on time and on b o o l online at r o y a c a or Call of in w Efforn v it9 a fluff Royel Canada end fwd or Hawaii and earn one a Toplan mile to every n flown Miles other conditions ;