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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 2020, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A2 A 2 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2020 ? WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COMNEWS The Free Press receives support from the Local Journalism Initiative funded by the Government of Canada WINNIPEG FREE PRESS SUNDAY 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2X 3B6 PHOTO REPRINTS 204-697-7064 SWITCHBOARD 204-697-7000 ADVERTISING 204-697-7122 FP.Advertising@freepress.mb.ca EDITORIAL NEWSROOM 204-697-7301 HOW TO REACH US Winnipeg Free Press est 1872 / Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 VOL. 150 NO. 35 INSIDE Local news A3 Canada A4 World A4-7 Entertainment, Life A8-9 Miss Lonelyhearts A9 Sunday Special A10 Sports A12 Comics A14 Diversions A15 Horoscope A16 Television A16 2020 Winnipeg Free Press, a division of FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership. Published seven days a week at 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2X 3B6, PH: 204-697-7000 The people in these photos are of interest to police and may be able to provide investigators with information about the offences. These images are released for identification purposes only. The people pictured may or may not be responsible for the crimes indicated. If you are able to identify anyone pictured, call Winnipeg Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (204-786-8477), text TIP170 and your mes- sage to CRIMES (274637) or send a secure tip online at winnipegcrimestoppers.org. CLICK ? WINNIPEG CRIME STOPPERS Incident 1064 WHEN: July 12, 2020 WHERE: 1300 block of Welling- ton Crescent A man riding a bicycle rode onto a drive- way of a residence on Wellington Crescent and stole another bike, riding away with both. Incident 1063 WHEN: June 26, 2020 WHERE: First block of Sherbrook Street A man and woman were shoplifting inside a convenience store on Sherbrook Street. When con- fronted, the male suspect attacked the store employee and fled with the female suspect stealing the store product. WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER WINNIPEG police have charged Skyelyn Dawn Marie Ross, 22, in the death of Delaney Lee Sinclair. Sinclair, 20, was found with life- threatening injuries by police officers on Dec. 10 in the 1600 block of Burrows Avenue. He had been assaulted in the 100 block of Gilbert Avenue. Sinclair was taken to hospital, where he died of his injuries. Ross was arrested on Dec. 10 and detained in custody. She has been charged with second-degree murder. TWO ARRESTS IN NIGHT-HUNTING STOP RCMP took two people into custody Friday evening after Manitoba Conservation officers stopped a vehicle that had been shining a light across fields in the RM of Grahamdale. Conservation officers observed the vehicle travelling along a decommissioned rail bed. It then stopped and a light from the vehicle swept across the fields. The Conservation officers arrested a 43-year-old man from the Fairford area and a 48-year-old woman from Pinaymootang First Nation and issued them appearance notices for hunting at night when not permitted. The officers seized two loaded rifles, a spot- light and other hunting equipment. One of the rifles was found to be stolen, and RCMP were called. Mounties took them into custody. IN BRIEF AARON CHOWN / POOL VIA AP ROYALS THANK FRONT-LINE WORKERS Prince William and Kate, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children, Prince Louis (from left), Princess Charlotte and Prince George arrive for a Christmas pantomime show Friday night at the Palladium Theatre in London. The per- formance was organized to thank essential workers and their families for their efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. William paid tribute to health service staff, teachers, emergency services workers, and researchers, among others. "You have given your absolute all this year, and made remarkable sacrifices," he said before the show began. N EW YORK - Charley Pride, country music's first Black star whose rich baritone on such hits as Kiss an Angel Good Morning helped sell millions of re- cords and made him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 86. Pride died Saturday in Dallas of complications from COVID-19, ac- cording to Jeremy Westby of the pub- lic relations firm 2911 Media. "I'm so heartbroken that one of my dearest and oldest friends, Char- ley Pride, has passed away. It's even worse to know that he passed away from COVID-19. What a horrible, hor- rible virus. Charley, we will always love you," Dolly Parton tweeted. Pride released dozens of albums and sold more than 25 million re- cords during a career that began in the mid-1960s. Hits besides Kiss an Angel Good Morning in 1971 includ- ed Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone, Burgers and Fries, Mountain of Love, and Someone Loves You Honey. He had three Grammy Awards, more than 30 No. 1 hits between 1969 and 1984, won the Country Music As- sociation's Top Male Vocalist and En- tertainer of the Year awards in 1972 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. The Smithsonian in Washington ac- quired memorabilia from Pride, in- cluding a pair of boots and one of his guitars, for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Ronnie Milsap called him a "pion- eer" and said that without his encour- agement, Milsap might never gone to Nashville. "To hear this news tears out a piece of my heart," he said in a state- ment. Until the early 1990s, when Cleve Francis came along, Pride was the only Black country singer signed to a major label. In 1993, he joined the Grand Ole Opry cast in Nashville. "They used to ask me how it feels to be the 'first coloured country singer," he told The Dallas Morning News in 1992. "Then it was 'first Negro country singer;' then 'first Black country sing- er.' Now I'm the 'first African-Amer- ican country singer.' That's about the only thing that's changed. This country is so race-conscious, so ate-up with col- ours and pigments. I call it 'skin hang- ups' - it's a disease." Pride was raised in Sledge, Miss., the son of a sharecropper. He had seven brothers and three sisters. In 2008 while accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Mis- sissippi Governor's Awards for Excel- lence in the Arts, Pride said he never focused on race. "My older sister one time said, 'Why are you singing THEIR music?'" Pride said. "But we all understand what the y'all-and-us-syndrome has been. See, I never as an individual accepted that, and I truly believe that's why I am where I am today." As a young man before launching his singing career, he was a pitcher and outfielder in the Negro American League with the Memphis Red Sox and in the Pioneer League in Montana. After playing minor league baseball a couple of years, he ended up in Helena, Mont., where he worked in a zinc smelt- ing plant by day and played country music in nightclubs at night. After a tryout with the New York Mets, he visited Nashville and broke into country music when Chet Atkins, head of RCA Records, heard two of his demo tapes and signed him. To ensure that Pride was judged on his music and not his race, his first few singles were sent to radio stations without a publicity photo. After his identity became known, a few coun- try radio stations refused to play his music. For the most part, though, Pride said he was well received. Early in his ca- reer, he would put white audiences at ease when he joked about his "perma- nent tan." "Music is the greatest communica- tor on the planet Earth," he said in 1992. "Once people heard the sincerity in my voice and heard me project and watched my delivery, it just dissipated any apprehension or bad feeling they might have had." Throughout his career, he sang posi- tive songs instead of sad ones often as- sociated with country music. "Music is a beautiful way of express- ing oneself and I truly believe music should not be taken as a protest," he said in 1985. "You can go too far in anything - singing, acting, whatever - and be- come politicized to the point you cease to be an entertainer." In 1994, he wrote his autobiography, Pride: The Charley Pride Story, in which he disclosed he was mildly manic depressive. He had surgery in 1997 to remove a tumour from his right vocal cord. He received the Living Legend award from The Nashville Network/Music City News, recognizing 30 years of achievement, in 1997. "I'd like to be remembered as a good person who tried to be a good entertain- er and made people happy, was a good American who paid his taxes and made a good living," he said in 1985. "I tried to do my best and contribute my part." He is survived by his wife, Rozene, whom he married in 1956; three chil- dren, Kraig, Dion and Angela; and sev- eral grandchildren. - The Associated Press Country music's first Black star dead at 86 CHARLEY PRIDE OBITUARY MARK KENNEDY TERRY WYATT / GETTY IMAGES FOR CMA / TNS FILES Groundbreaking country music star Charley Pride died Saturday from COVID-19. A_02_Dec-13-20_FP_01.indd A2 2020-12-12 10:02 PM ;