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"MllT-ii -j 1 8 3 NE O11 CmZEN TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1988 C3 tea! Jl'' Vandals hit graveyard in Orleans i ssst- PDlfD By Tonda MacCharles Citizen staff writer 1 A group that just finished an inspection of 13 public institutions in the area has questioned the role of such panels. Members wonder what exactly the province expected of them. The panel of seven spent a week visiting jails, police stations, hospitals and children's homes throughout Ottawa-Carleton. It even toured the Green Creek sewage treatment plant in Gloucester. In a report on their findings to senior district court Judge Keith Flanigan, the four women and three men said it was "at least an educational experience," but they were uncertain of the purpose and scope of the panel's job.

As mandated by the province, seven-member panels are chosen at random from jury lists twice yearly to check public buildings. This group didn't feel able to adequately judge whether detention centres were properly run, or whether the finances and administration of facilities were in order although they were concerned about certain budget practices. "We felt we were somewhat hostage of the system itself," said one "There were so many checks and balances within the system itself, we questioned what our role was." The report said "other regulatory bodies undoubtedly perform regular inspection (of courts and corrections facilities) and the panel should receive some guidance" on what was expected of it. Normally, the reports presented by such panels skim through physical flaws in facilities or problems such as understaffing, and are later forwarded to the provincial minister responsible. This group went a step further.

"The panel was concerned with the wastage of taxpayer funds Da If eft Rita Cardinal, whose family Suicidal teens compared with user jtr i Paul Latour, Citizen paint on cemetery statue The therapist, the family and the patient should then work together to set goals and compromises. In that way, patients are able to trade suicidal weapons for hope. According to a 1987 report by Health and Welfare Canada, suicides by males between 15 and 19 years old increased from 5.3 per 100,000 in 1960 to 18.4 in 1985. Suicides by females in the same age group increased from 1.2 per 100,000 to 3.6. In 1986, there were 3,670 suicides in Canada, according to Statistics Canada.

Males between the ages of 15 and 19 accounted for 199 of the deaths while females in the same age group accounted for 42. that the item be recalled. Coun. Franois Leclerc said council is required by law to go to public tenders for expenditures above $25,000, but asked the city's lawyer to verify the question and asked that the item be withdrawn. Vaive said the Gatineau PR company was too small and would be forced to sub-contract the television production, while Imagem would "do it all." Councillors also recalled a resolution on the production rights for products and souvenirs carrying the city-owned logos for the balloon festival and municipal pride week.

Vaive had recommended that council turn over the logo rights to Marc Sports of Gatineau for a five-per-cent royalty on each item sold. No tender had been called for the logo contract, but Vaive said the city's entire line of promotional products had been handed to the company by council in a resolution earlier this year. Wf.1 By Warren Kinsella Citizen staff writer Vandals smashed, toppled and defaced dozens of tombstones at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Orleans early Sunday, causing more than $20,000 in damage. Gloucester police Sgt.

George Savage said 43 stones were pushed over. About five were broken and would need to be replaced. The vandals also sprayed blue paint on a number of stones and. -smashed small statues of Christ, Savage said. "Our officers have checked with people in the area, and we have no information about who did this," he said.

St. Joseph's parish priest, Rev. Michel Pommainville, said the 60-year-old cemetery has been the target of vandals before, but not on such a large scale. I. "It's happened twice in the past few years, but only to four or five cornerstones," Pommainville said.

Pommainville said families could expect to pay up to $2,000 to replace a tombstone, and up to $100 to have it hoisted back into place. By Monday afternoon, many of the families who own plots in the cemetery had been contacted, Pommainville said. Rudolph Champagne found the stone marking his brother's gravesite had been toppled. "I feel bad. It's terrible to see something like that," Champagne said.

"What did they do it for?" His wife, Evelyn, said she did not understand what motivated the vandals. "If they steal something, they get something, at least. But they don't get anything." One family plot was splattered with blue paint. Figures painted on nearby stones included an inverted cross, and a pentagram a symbol used in witchcraft. Savage said he doubted any oc-.

cult-linked group was involved. terrorists Turgay's lecture was part of a two-day conference at the Royal Ottawa Hospital attended by doctors, teachers, nurses and mental health care workers from Canada, the United States and England. This is the second year the conference has been held, to discuss new techniques in the mental health treatment of children and teenagers. I Turgay said it is important to get an attempted suicide's often reluctant family involved in the therapy immediately. "The use of the family as a therapeutic agent in the care pf the suicidal patient on a here-and-now basis in the emergency room seems to be very efficient." Hull police seek suspect in break-ins Citizen staff Hull police have released a photograph of an 18-year-old-man wanted in connection-with a series of break-and-en-l tries.

He is considered violent. i Police spokesman Const. An--, dre" Llgault said Monday the: courts have issued two war-; rants for Denis Bou-l let, of no; fixed ad-' dress. He is 5-feet, 11-? inches with brown hair and arav evea Boulet ioulet Considered violent wejghs 145 pounds and has tattoos. Llgault was unable to say where or when he was last seen, although police believe Boulet is still in Hull.

veiling the building and roof repairs. Once renovated, half of the building will be used as an interpretation centre, promoting the forest industry. The municipal lif brary will occupy the rest of the building. Built in 1887, the private resii dence of Charles L. Logue has.

been vacant since it was pur chased by a provincial corporation in 1971. The town bought the5 building in 1987. Lefebvre said the building should be in ise by September. 1 'i rvl. fir sMcH? By Lynn Douris Citizen staff writer Suicidal behavior in children and teenagers is similar to the behavior of terrorists and must be dealt with through negotiation, says an Ottawa psychiatrist.

"With the threat of taking their own lives (combined) with an important request for change, suicidal patients behave quite similarly to terrorists," Dr. Atilla Turgay, chief of psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, told a group of mental health professionals Monday. Recognizing that patients want to change their environment and beginning negotiations with them due to poor financial management practices. It was also concerned with the possible duplication of services. The panel noted that at fiscal year-end, funds often were spent on activities not originally planned for." Flanigan was surprised by the way the panel took what he called a "traditional role" to heart.

"You've gone further than any other panel has ever gone, but I'm not sure it's wrong. You've got the authority to do inspections. The act says look at administration, but it's obviously difficult to do with the time at your disposal." Flanigan agreed the panel's duties should be clarified and expanded. The group visited the courthouse, area police stations, the Green Creek Pollution Control Centre, the Perley Hospital, the Royal Ottawa Hospital, and homes run by the Children's Aid Society. Here are some of its findings: A study should be done to determine how many inmates of Ontario detention centres become repeat offenders, as the last one was conducted in 1973.

An impartial economic analysis study should be done of the Green Creek plant to determine the environmental and financial costs of proposed expansion. The current backlog of court cases and the length of time accused persons must await trial is "unreasonable." The Ottawa courthouse holding cells are understaffed with security guards during peak A padded cell should be built and cells should be washed down regularly. Security at Ottawa, Nepean, Gloucester police and Kanata OPP stations was generally good. The Royal Ottawa Hospital is overcrowded. wall behind the granite side-, walk and hillocks behind the short wall.

The National Capital Commission's plans have. been lauded by one-time critics such as Heritage Ottawa President Marc Denhez and Lowertown community activist Richard Cannings. Cannings in particular is impressed with the plan to enhance a poorly designed, little-used stairway between Mackenzie and Sussex at the foot of York Street. At the Mackenzie end, it will lead directly to the park's new main entrance. At the other, it will be a natural gate to Byward Market.

At the north end of the park, the corner of Mackenzie and St. Patrick is meant to be an oasis. The landscaping for a nearby fountain at Sussex and St. Patrick is complete, but the actual $1.1 million fountain, with a six-metre jet of water, will not be built this year while the commission seeks private sector funding. Reconstruction of the Ontario approaches to the Interprovinci-al Bridge, at the foot of St.

Patrick Street, will not be complete until the end of the year. The result will be four lanes of traffic, a separate bike path, and another pedestrian esplanade leading to dramatic views' of the Ottawa River and Parliament Hill from a lookout tower. The walkway will also open out to the east edge of the Rideau Canal, now an ignored field. In future years it will be linked to Confederation Square- Gatineau's inaction on commercials threatens civic pride campaign: Vaive John Major, Citizen Cold spring delayed work at Major's Hill Park Renovated park to form part of ceremonial route 4 plot was examines may provide for a stronger relationship between the patients and therapists and will help patients deal with their problems, said Turgay. "There are also some similarities with the kind of negotiations that the peace forces use in taking the arms away from the terrorists," said Turgay.

The idea is to trade fear for hope, he said. Experts must negotiate with terrorists to arrive at compromise so that they don't go through with their threats. Likewise, when dealing with suicidal children, Turgay said therapists should discuss the problems that are causing suicidal behavior with the patient and the family. It was all orchestrated to make a public scene. Claire Vaive Gatineau councillor the manoeuvering on the vote to try to make the city's contract awarding system look bad.

CouncUlors voted to return for discussion a resolution to spend $34,000 for the production of three 15-second television ads on the grounds that public tenders were not issued for the job. Vaive had recommended that Imagem of Hull be hired to produce the TV ads because it is the only in-house advertising production company in the Outaouais. But after hearing Normand Coulombe, of Commix, a Gatineau public relations company, say he wished his company had a chance to make a bid to produce the ads, some councillors decided to ask contractor was accepted in February, at which time municipal council requested additional funding from the government. Maniwaki Mayor Gabriel Le-febvre said renovations will begin next week and, once the work is under way, the subsidy will be forwarded to the town. "Naturally we requested an $88,000 additional grant to cover the difference of the renovations.

Even though we did not get the requested amount we are extremely pleased with the government's decision," he said. 7 I 1 By David Gamble Citizen staff writer Gatineau Council's decision not to vote on a resolution hiring a Hull advertising firm to produce commercials for September's municipal pride campaign may have scuttled the project, says Coun. Claire Vaive. The campaign is scheduled to begin Labor Day weekend with a hot-air balloon festival at La Baie park. Vaive, who headed a citizens' volunteer committee for the campaign, said council's vote has left her discouraged and will also upset other committee members.

She said committee members may quit. She accused some councillors of politicking, adding the item was given preliminary approval by council before the official council meeting. "It was all orchestrated to make a public scene," she said of the decision to delay the vote. Vaive said some councillors, backing certain candidates for mayor in the June 5 election, used By Doug Yonson Citizen staff writer Ihe new National Gallery will likely be a stunning experience for most visitors. But the $8-million transformation of Major's Hill Park across the street may also be mightily impressive.

But not this weekend, as the National Gallery opens. The park is full of ripped-up sidewalks and good intentions, delayed by cold spring weather and the need to complete major gallery landscaping first. But if you return for Canada Day, says designer John Abel, the park's edges will be transformed into the first stretch of Confederation Boulevard, an eventual eight-kilometre pedestrian streetscape looping around the centre of Ottawa and Hull. The interior of the park will be little affected. But beginning with a pink granite esplanade Mackenzie Avenue that will average eight metres in width, and aided by dozens of maple and oak trees, the roadside will be.

Abel says the end result will be a "dignified, tree-lined avenue" that will offer an enduring, unifying image for the events and institutions related to the street, overlooking the Sussex Drive Mile of History. "This is the route of the Queen, the Pope, the Governor General," Abel said during in a recent tour of the work, "a ceremonial route and a major collector of crowds." The design accommodates crowds by including a short Quebec paying more for Chateau Logue repairs The original provincial government criteria remains the same. The town of Maniwaki must put up $50,000 and a local cultural society, which initiated the project, must collect another $20,000 in addition to $30,000 already raised in the community to match the town's contribution. An annual provincial grant of $25,000 will be given over a four-year period to cover operational expenses. Work will include installing new drainage, water and sewage systems, pouring a concrete floor.

By Darlene Lannigan Citizen correspondent MANIWAKI A provincial government decision to increase a subsidy will permit renovations to begin next week on the century-old Chateau Logue at the northern end of Comeau Street. Friday, the Cultural Affairs Ministry added $61,400 to the original subsidy of $200,000, approved in 1985. Initially, restoration of the building was estimated at $250,000. A $38,000 bid from a local.