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iTTrTrrTTrTTTrTTTTTTTTrrTTtTrrt rr 1 Tr rrr rr I Vl I I MtQnf aygMa y20JJ 995 Leader Post Page A3 City Editor: Andy Cooper Phone: 565-8300 Fax: 565-2588 ClTV Beat V.SX TFbwCs Quote Me Were giving her full rights that would be given to a veteran who passed on. Moose Jaw Legion official Smoky Hoover on the Legions plans to honor Legion employee Nola Belisle, who was killed by a hit and run driver while on a fundraising walk See story on this page. Holiday Hours ror and parking light found at the scene, RCMP have narrowed the search to a 1987 to 1991 blue Ford half-ton truck. The pickup is believed to have Alberta licence plates. Witnesses said three people were in the truck at the time of the hit-and-run accident.

After receiving tips Friday morning, RCMP examined three pickup trucks, but none of the vehicles were involved in the accident, Cpl. Dan Smith said. Anyone with information about the accident or the suspect vehicle is asked to contact RCMP or local police. A memorial service for Belisle will be held at St. Andrews United Church, 60 Athabasca St.

Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. Hoover said the Moose Jaw Legion will be present with a Legion Honor Guard members dressed in Legion uniform, berets, gloves and medals. Were giving her full rights that would be given to a veteran who passed on, he said. The Regina Legion is also donating money from this weekends raffles to the walk-a-thon that Belisle organized, Legion president Doreen Turner said. By BRIAN FODEN of The Leader-Post As police searched for a blue Ford pickup truck suspected of being the vehicle that fatally injured Nola Belisle while she walked on the shoulder of the Trans-Canada Highway on Thursday, friends mourned her death.

Smoky Hoover, first vice-president of the Moose Jaw Legion, Branch 59, said the 37-year-old mother of one was extremely well-liked. Belisle started working at the Moose Jaw Legion when she was 19, and most recently was hostess of the lounge, Hoover said. He described her as a woman who was very involved in organizing and participating in activities. It was Belisles idea to raise money to help buy a bus for disabled passengers by walking to Regina, he said. Shortly after 5 p.m.

Thursday, when Belisle and friend Laurie Acott were a few kilometres west of Pense, Belisle was struck from behind by an eastbound vehicle. She was taken to the Plains Health Centre, where she was pronounced dead. Based on pieces of a side mir Judges ruling draws reaction CpI. Scott Barber keeps police dog Magic busy DON HEAIYThe Leader-Post at news conference holding festival RCMP The 1995 Mounted Police Festival, a demonstration of past and current RCMP activities, will be held Aug. 26 on the Regina exhibition grounds.

Commissioner Philip Murray says the festival is an effort to start recognizing the 125th anniversary of the RCMP and celebrate Saskatchewans 90th birthday. The festival is a test run for what we hope to see as a crosscountry show during our 125 City offices will be closed on Victoria Day (Monday) and there will be no bus service. But the paratransit bus service bus will be operating from noon to 10 p.m. The Regina Sportplex, the North West Leisure Centre and the South East Leisure Centre will all be open from 1 to 4 p.m. The City of Regina Greenhouse will be open from 1 to 4 30 p.m.

and the gates of the Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery will be open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Lawson Aquatic Centre will be open for adult laps from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and there will be a leisure swim from 1 to 4 p.m.

Wascana Events Live entertainment will be available at the bandstand in a Wascana Park on Sun- day- The sea-sons first band is 4 FX, a four-member a capella group from Moose Jaw. They will be performing from 2 to 4 p.m. In Wascana Centre, the joe moran gallery is presenting Layers, an exhibition by artist Linda Rea, until May 24. Another event in the park will be the Last Mountain Lake Spring Sailing Regatta, which starts today and ends Sunday. Regular features like the Diefenbaker homestead and the waterfowl display ponds are open, and all the picnic sites, drinking fountains and washrooms are ready for public use.

Honor for Wadey The war in Europe was not long over, and fighting in the Pacific still raged on when Father W'alter Wadey was ordained on May 20, 1945. In celebration of Wadeys five decades of service to God, a reception and tea is being held at the Holy Rosary Cathedral from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Born and raised in Montreal, Wadeys first assignment was Holy Rosary in Regina. Appointed Rector in 1954, he was previously involved in the decision to buy stained glass windows for the cathedral.

His efforts also included establishing Regina's Marian Centre. Wadey Drive in east Regina is named after him. Broad Street Work 1 On Monday, sewer construction will leave Broad Street closed in the 1400 block. Northbound lanes will be detoured east on Dewdney, north on Toronto Street, and then west on 8th Avenue back to Broad Street Southbound traffic will go west on 8th Avenue, south on Rose Street, then east on Dewdnesy to Broad Street Broad Street will reopen on Tuesday, but only one lane of traffic in either direction will be open until mid-July. Take Off Bands 4UUJ' 1 It's time to take the canker-worm bands ofTyour trees If they aren't removed, bark may rot and water may not be able to reach leaves.

Save the insulation and reapply bands in mid-September to stop the next batch of female cankerworrws. Private schools strapped While their purpose is to educate children based on a variety of philosophies and religious beliefs, Saskatchewans 48 independent schools have one common problem money. The common theme at Spectrum '95 a forum for independent schools in Saskatchewan held Friday in Regina was the lack of financial resources and the perceived inequity in this The Lawyers Weekly quoted University of Western Ontario law professor Bruce Feldthusen as describing the comparison between whiplash and sexual abuse as outrageous. While Wasylyshen said he questioned the judges comparison between sexual assault and whiplash on a moral level, he felt it did make sense from a purely legal standpoint. The comparison to whiplash may be insensitive, but hes talking about pain and suffering that lasts for a long, long time.

Hes saying in a whiplash case you suffer for a long time, for years, and the same suffering happens in a case like (sexual abuse). As for the award itself, Wasylyshen who did not seek punitive damages in the case said he had no argument whatsoever with the outcome. We got exactly what we asked for from the judge, The judge found it to be justifiable and reasonable, Wasylyshen said. The whole point of this decision, the rationale of Judge Mathesons, was to deal with the plaintiffs pain and suffering, he said. The stepfather was sentenced to 10 months in prison reduced to six months on appeal in February 1987 when he pleaded guilty to sexual assault The assaults began in 1983 and continued until September 1986, when the victim spoke to a social worker about the abuse.

In 1994, the victim launched a civil suit seeking damages as a result of the assaults. Never, ever, let anybody tell you that a punch in the nose doesnt smart It does hurt It hurts a lot. I guess what I'm trying to say is that were living in some aw fully twisted times when Victoria Day has degenerated into nothing more than a long weekend to launch the summer. And it especially saddens me to think that here, in Regina, a city that took its very name from Queen Victoria, few if any residents pay one tittle of the respect owed to the holiday and its attendant ceremonies and traditions. I guess hat I'm trying to say is to heck ith you all.

Really. And to heck with Regina, too. And to heck with Canada, for that matter. Me and the wife, were off to Montana. Now, if only I could find my little cowboy outfit It's simply the most darling get-up you've ever seen, and will surely be a hit south of the border.

Ron Petrie's column appears each Tuesday, Thursday. Friday and Saturday. 9 By WAYNE WARK for The Leader-Post YORKTON A $65,000 compensation package and a judges finding that the sufferings resulting from sexual assault are similar to whiplash injuries are both creating controversy in a rare civil court case stemming from a sexual assault. Court of Queens Bench Justice William Matheson recently awarded $65,000 to a 20-year-old woman who sued her stepfather for sexually abusing her between the ages of eight and 11. According to a May 5 article in the national publication The Lawyers Weekly, Mathesons finding contradicts recent rulings in Alberta and B.C., where awards have been worth several hundred thousand dollars.

But civil settlements for hundreds of thousands of dollars often have no real value for the people who win them, said Ken Wasylyshen, the Yorkton lawyer who negotiated the case. In the majority of cases where a lofty settlement is awarded, the defendant ends up claiming bankruptcy and the victim ends up with nothing but bills from lawyers and expert witnesses, Wasylyshen said. In his decision, Matheson said the victims pain, suffering and loss of amenities are not dissimilar to those experienced by a whiplash victim. The source of pain cannot be readily traced to an identifiable physical injury such as a fracture or a damaged organ. Yet the pain is real.

Honestly, Ron? Of course. Like the leading lady in some transvestite remake of Frankensteins Bride. Fine, Joan, be like that. OK, OK. If I didnt know better, Id swear I was staring at Queen Victoria in the flesh and blood.

Happy now? Jolly happy. And youre positively sure this is the way its done? I mean, even the part about going door to door for treats, right? Joan, Joan, Joan poor ethnically limited Joan. The British are my people. I know their holiday customs. Look, let me show you.

Its only three sleeps until Victoria Day, so I'm sure most folks are ready for visitors. With that I fetched my treat bag, hitched up my skirt and ambled across the street to the house of a neighbor, a fellow descendant of the Brits. After a quick touch-up of my rouge, I rang the doorbell and broke into song: God save our gracious queen! Long live our no $7 for children 12 and under. Funds raised will go towards the RCMP Museum. Malcolm Wake, director of the museum, says a major revitalization project was started three years ago and efforts are still being made to upgrade displays.

A major expansion is also being planned for the future. There are so many interesting stories to tell but we just dont have the space to do it. would provide a unified voice for independent schools. Joe Harrison, principal of the Queen City Church Christian Academy, said independent schools need to have a strong united voice when communicating with other provincial educational organizations and when lobbying the provincial government for funding of their students education. wig? Right beside you.

Here, let me tighten up the bun before you put it on. I'm thinking Montana. Huh? Montana. We haven't been down to the States in ages. Why don't we hop in the car and head down to Montana? Montana? I couldnt believe my ears.

Montana? Honestly, for one day out of the year, the Commonwealth pauses to express its undying reverence for the long reigning queen who, more than any of her predecessors or successors, personified the stout spirit of Britannia, and now my ife tells me she wants to spend that single day, that most venerable of all occasions, in Montana?" Well, seeing as you put it that way, I suppose not Turn around and let me straighten that bustle. Thanks And don't forget your tiara and cameo brooch. Oops! How embarrassing would that have been? There. So, how do I look? thanniversary year in 1998, Murray said. The show will consist of self-defence and fitness demonstrations, musical presentations by the city police and RCMP, emergency response team demonstrations, and a showing of the RCMP dog team.

A featured part of the show will be the Musical Ride, a tradition that goes back to 1887. Tickets for the show cost $12 for adults, $10 for students, and province's education system. While independent schools, which are regulated by the provincial Education Department, largely have to rely on tuition fees and donations to operate, their public counterparts use taxpayers money. The independent schools administrators and board members voted in principle to establish a provincial coalition that Ron Petrie Column balloon, I mean, much less a trial balloon, hatever that is. Even so, Joans utter disregard for the ways of my people was downright hurtful.

What do you mean how are we going to spend the weekend? It's Victoria Day on Monday, for goodness sake. Well spend the weekend in proper commemoration of the most beloved monarch in British history. Now. ill you please do up my back? Sure. Its just that it's finally spring and I was thinking that maybe ah.

dang these 19th-century hook-and-eye fasteners. Hold still, Ror. OK, there you go Anyway, I was thinking that maybe this eekend we could go aw ay somew here. Have you seen my powdered I Hey, this isn just another long weekend Ethnic holidays, and the proper celebrations thereof, can be a real poser in any mixed marriage. If anybody should know, it would be me.

Every year at this time our household finds itself divided by the Victoria Day quandary. See, Joan is a Norwegian-Canadian, with assorted other hyphens and bloods thrown in, including Swedish-Canadian and Polish-Canadian, whereas I happen to be a half Norwegian-Canadian who traces his paternal ancestry to the Scots, Scottish being as British as a fellow can get without the operation wherein they remove your passioa Frankly, it's a wonder our marriage has lasted this long If we weren't both born and raised in Saskatchewan, the deal likely would have been kaput years ago. So. how are we going to spend the long weekend? Joan asked. The question as a trial balloon if I'd ever heard a trial balloon, hich, come to think of it I never have heard a I W'.