Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 14, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba Stoppel continued from Page b 1 Swatski said yesterday he a snot prepared to comment on Leggens accusations. Ism not going to get into a debate with a retired police officer on this matter in the Media he said. Swatski also noted Mikolajow skins allegations were investigated twice and found to have no Merit. Mikolajewski wrote a report to Swatski in october 2002 in which he criticized Swatski and others for undue interference in the Stoppel Case. Mikolajow skins report is available for download on Stoppels website wow. Rick Stoppel. Com. Mikolajewski is still with the police service working patrol duties in St. James. Legge said hers speaking out in defence of Mikolajewski who he believes is being unfairly punished. I owe this to Mikolajewski and the Stoppel family Legge said. Hers had a punitive Transfer that still hangs Over him to this Day. Legge said the Arnold investigation led to Swatski publicly exonerating soph now for Stoppels murder in june 2000. Soph now was tried three times for the strangulation of the 16 year old waitress before his final conviction was overturned. Legge said he Mikolajewski sgt. Blair Vogen and later sgt. Paul Brown and const. Murray Allan wanted to quickly interview Arnold who at the time was serving a life sentence in British Columbia for the 1991 beating death of Christine Browne. But Legge said eat skins office took five months until March 2001, to approve the interview. By that time Arnold had an Appeal in the works on the Browne murder and he knew it was possible head get a new trial. Legge said that delay essentially sucked the wind out of any possibility Arnold would confess under interrogation. Legge said when police did eventually speak with Arnold he denied killing Stoppel. Arnold was eventually released from jail on March 28, 2002, after the b. C. Crown determined it could not successfully retry him for Brownes killing. Legge was also critical of Swatski for delaying a search warrant that would help determine if missing evidence collected in the Stoppel Case was destroyed. That evidence included a used tissue believed to be the killers and Stoppels clothing. Its thought that evidence if preserved could have been tested for Dan comparison to Arnold. Legge who retired last october after 27 years said he believes the Stoppel reinvestigation was Micro managed by the police executive. At the time the police service was also dealing with the fallout of the feb. 2000 911 incident in which two Sisters were killed after making repeated emergency Calls to police and the november 2000 inquiry into Sopho nows wrongful conviction. Bruce. Owen free press. . Ca b2 City / District w Winnipeg f ree p Resst thursday pril 14, 2005 legals your headlights have two equally important life saving jobs. 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Why go for a Basic Corvette when you can go fully loaded for a few dollars More Manitoba schizophrenia society offers free Public presentations on schizophrenia and psychosis in Winnipeg Call 786 1616 notice of bankruptcy and first meeting of creditors Section 102 4 in the matter of the bankruptcy of Mike Jurcevic notice is hereby Given that the bankruptcy of Mike Jurcevic occurred on the 11th Day of january 2005 and that the first meeting of creditors will be held on the 26th Day of april 2005 at 10 00 a. M., at 2300 one Lombard place in the City of Winnipeg in the province of Manitoba. Dated at Winnipeg this 11th Day of april 2005. 2300 one Lombard place Winnipeg my r3b 0x6 Mega museum continued from Page b 1 instead of visiting galleries in one Large museum visitors could learn about the history of the City by visiting museums in different neighbourhoods. Creating yet another museum in Winnipeg would Only make it harder for existing ones to find funding he added. Coun. Jenny Gerbasi said the Meg museum was the idea of former mayor Glen Murray. There would be no Community support for that notion she said. Lets focus our Energy on supporting our neighbourhood Community museums. Yesterday City councillors created a committee of City staff a councillor and Community members who will talk with Winnipeg Gas museums about creating a new museums policy at City Hall. Right now there Are 15 museums getting Money from the City with Little accountability. Most Are struggling and Volunteer driven without full time staff. The volunteers dont regularly talk with each other nor does the City have an expert to co ordinate the funding. If the museums worked together they could apply for Grants co ordinate advertising campaigns and reduce operating costs by sharing staff and resources according to the new City report. The City has a direct relationship with eight Small museums giving them $ 719,000 in operating Money. Another three museums Are Given Money indirectly through City departments and four More get Grants from the City through the Winnipeg arts Council. Despite All that Money and the fact that most of the buildings Are owned by the City the museums dont have to have audited financial statements. When the Board of the seven Oaks House museum resigned in Masse in 2002, a $ 70,000 Trust fund a snot discovered until after an audit by the City the next year. According to the new report the volunteers behind these museums All feel As though there Isnit enough Money to do the Job. Last year four museums asked the City for funding increases and the St. Boniface museum has been allowed to Over spend its budget four years in a Row. Meanwhile the City is slowly cutting Back on help with issues such As human recourse and planning which is leaving a void and confusing volunteers As to just what the Cit yes role is in the museums the report says. Patti. Edgar free press. . Ca Winnipeg museums supported by the City Barber House 99 Euclid ave. Not open to the Public dal Navert museum 61 Carlton St. 943 2835 fire fighters museum of Winnipeg 56 Maple St. 942 4817 Grants old Mill Portage Avenue and Booth drive 837 1775 historical museum of St. James Assiniboia 3180 Portage ave. Living Prairie museum 2795 Ness ave. 832 0167 Manitoba childrens museum 45 Forks Market re. 924 4000 Manitoba museum 190 Rupert ave. At main Street 956 2830 or 943 3139 recorded info Ross House museum Joe Zuken heritage Park 140 Meade St. N 943 3958 or 943 2835 seven Oaks House museum 15 Rupert land blvd. 339 7429 St. Boniface museum 494 Avenue Tach 237 4500 Transcona historical museum 141 Regent ave. West 222 0423 Western Canada aviation museum 958 ferry re. 786 5503 Winnipeg police museum 130 Allard ave. 986 3976 Winnipeg archives 380 William ave. 986 5325 renewal continued from Page b 1 Sherman Kreiner former president and chief executive officer of the Crocus investment fund and a current member of u of was Board of regents will serve As Volunteer executive director but that could become a paid position Axworthy said. It will depend on How much funding we attract. Were ready to put offers in for existing housing Axworthy said. We want to develop 500 housing units. U of w has done a feasibility study on the Bay. If space becomes available were still available and ready he said. The plans to close Spence Street go before City councils executive policy committee at the end of the month he said. The renewal corporation will Deal with How to mix in retail. We can have one of the first new downtown Parks in Many years when Spence closes Axworthy said. U of w also plans to develop an aboriginal education facility open More daycare space establish a fitness and Well being Complex and operate summer Camps for inner City youth. This is a fairly big undertaking he said but it will be lean and tight with a staff of three. He emphasized that the corporation will operate separately from the University. Theress no assets being transferred from the University said Axworthy. We have $ 78 million of annual spending Power and 10,000 students and staff in the downtown he said. The University has moved into a strategy of Active growth. We can really initiate major downtown redevelopment. Nick. Martin free press. . Ca Sinclair continued from Page b 1 based on the Telephone Calls i have received i perceive that the passport office frequently checks applications where the applicants purpose in travelling outside Canada is suspect that such suspicion is arbitrary and May be based on the applicants ethnic origin physical appearance travel destination or a combination of one or More of these factors. Perhaps it took pressure from Washington to make our passport office Check the applications of persons who would ordinarily be least subject to suspicion that is to say White males Over a certain age who appear respectable some of whom May be journalists. Impartial i agree with Sheila Fraser that passport Canada should improve its Security controls. Ensuring that such controls Are exercised in a fair and impartial manner would be a Good place to Start. The message being that i should not be so sensitive about my sensitive areas when they want to do a body putdown at the Airport. Which brings us to the rest of the Story about Security and sensitivity on the Post 9/ 11 world of travel. Having passed the putdown upper body Only by the Way i was waiting in the secure pre boarding holding area when i heard my name being paged. Now what do they want to do to me the polite and pleasant air Canada ground agent quickly assured me they had no intention of doing anything to me. It was my suitcase they were concerned about. She said Security personnel had discovered it left behind unattended in the waiting area Between the ticket counter and customs. They were going to blow it up she said. Sensitive areas who me. Gordon. Sinclair free press. . Ca Cit yes history on display at museums i owe this to Mikolajewski and the Stoppel family det. Sgt. Bob Legge Darcy Finley / Winnipeg free press archives Abel Kashani left and Andrew Loney tour the Western Canada aviation museum at 958 ferry re ;