Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba As local pm 2001 undercover techniques Send Holdup numbers downwards new police strategies halt robberies by Bruce Owen armed robberies appear to be on the downswing in Winnipeg As City police use new undercover techniques to keep bad Guys off the staff Bill Vandergraaf said yesterday there have been about 60 fewer armed robberies in the City Over the first five months of the year compared to the same period last this might sound but keeping Guys in jail is always a deter he when we put people in jail for this Type of it has an Impact on the while armed robberies have shown a drop including Gasbar and Cove Niece store holdups Bank robberies Are up Over the same period this year compared to to there have been 23 Bank robberies compared to 19 for All of last the numbers Are preliminary and do not take into account false reports or duplication of a trend that concerns police is masked gunmen storming bars and restaurants to steal the Days the latest incident of this kind happened monday when two men burst into the beverage room at the Lincoln motor hotel at 1030 Mcphillips just before one had a Shotgun and both were wearing police say the culprits ordered More than a dozen patrons to hit the floor and told the waitress to open two Cash Reg when she open one of them fast they took the entire hotel assistant manager Bill glad Stone said no was mostly because staff and patrons we Tell to staff to cooperate so no one is put in he Gladstone said monday nights Are Usu ally so there were no More than 18 people in the Vandergraaf said police consider the robbery a serious crime because a weapon was seen and because there were a number of people in the the chances of something going bad is he you never know if someone is going to play a police do not want to talk about their new undercover techniques because they dont want to tip off weve banged off a number of individuals and i think that made the statistics go but it can change at any a similar armed robbery occurred june when two males armed with a handgun and a Shotgun held up a pizza hut on Pembina they forced five employees into a washroom and took the managers night police have arrested a 17yearold and an police categorize armed robbery As any Holdup where a weapon is used and a threat of violence is incidents where the robber says he has a gun or but none is Are also consid ered armed robberies because the threat of violence is still Vandergraaf said Street muggings Are also Down in the first five months of 2001 compared to last there have been about 50 fewer such robberies this Safeway food drug Reward Miles spend get 100 air Miles Reward Miles spend get 350 air Miles Reward Miles valid wednesday thru saturday june 13 june 2oo1 100 Bonus is air Milfs Reward Miles valid wednesday thru saturday june 13 june 2oo1 Safeway 350 Safeway food drug with Coupon and a minimum grocery Purchase limit of one Bonus offer per Coupon must be 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provided mainly by the Are the school remains closed after some teachers left the the first 300 Kilometres North East of has refused to allow a third party manager appointed by Indi an affairs onto the calling him a modern Day Indian agent who has no Legal right to run their last the Pikangikum restaurant offered children free hot dogs and milk As band members ran out of Money to buy Bonniejean who is Man aging the has asked the Kenora salvation army to help out when the emergency funds run Assembly of first nations National chief Matthew Coon come has agreed to try to get Pikangikum a meeting with Indian affairs minister Robert were going to try to meet with the minister this week Quill although no Date has been Quill have an Impromptu meeting with prime minister Jean Chretien at a Liberal fundraiser in Winnipeg on May he asked me what i Quill said i told him i wanted the Indian agent removed from my Community because my people did it want he told me he would look into Quill accuses Nault of taking control of the socially troubled band to get around his Community objections to a proposed Al weather Road designed to open up Northwestern Ontario to forestry and mining Indian affairs commissioned a recent study on infrastructure development in the Region without consulting Quill but John Ontario regional director for Indian said an All weather Road is a Long Way Indian affairs appointed a third party manager after the bands audit revealed major liabilities to he the depart ment is also concerned about delays in extending a hydroelectric Power Grid to the Community required before a new school can be built or the water treat ment Plant Doug Pikangikum said the first nation has asked Federal court to Rule that Indian affairs acted illegally in appointing a third party Man no court Date has been 0 files from up items and prices effective june 13 thru june 2001 Chicken breasts individually Quick sold in a 4 pkg Box Only for umit1wo Saveat least Safeway club Price red 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saying he is the hered itary chief of the historic yellow Quill band and has rights to the weve returned to our Homeland after 130 years and were getting resistance from the Long Plain band Council and Indian he said chief of Long Plain from 1990 to yellow Quill claims the current Leader ship did not get consent from band Mem Bers to close the College last year and change the buildings the College courses were moved to yellow Quill is asking the new first nations governance currently setting up offices in the to find another i think people Are kind of just ignoring said Long Plain chief Dennis noting that Only yellow quills immediate family appear to support his claim that he is a hereditary he just came out of left the yellow Quill band signed a treaty in but later divided into several including Long leeches wrote yellow Quill a warning letter on june ordering the former chief off the land and demanding that he Stop cutting Trees to build a but leeches said yesterday he will not take any Legal action unless yellow Quill inter feres with tenants use of the the Rufus Prince building will be the site of a memorial ceremony saturday to honour former residential school Stu the building was originally the Portage Indian residential z ;