NEWS A2 The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, September 23, 1989 it-k-kit "Second-aim mail, registration numbar 0129" MMARY- I sum release for Idler ore fell 4 Lw.iiitorfiNYri fnw GREATER VANCOUVER A COMPLEX TALE of attempted murder, bribery and the RCMP hunting a "mole" within police ranks thought to be feeding Information to criminals, was unveiled in B.C. Supreme Court. AS WESTERN CANADA Steel withheld an offer that its negotiator felt might have been accepted by the firm's 360 employees, deciding Instead to close B.C.'s only steel mill, the former manager of the WCS fastener division says. C16 BUSINESS THE B.C. regulator Identified as the first to recognize serious financial problems at two Principal Group companies says there Is little he could have done to prevent the 1987 collapse of the two firms.
B8 SPORTS IT WASN'T PRETTY but the Blue Jays will take the 7-3 win over Milwaukee Brewers, which restored their two-game lead atop the AL East. 01 By LARRY STILL Sun Legal Affairs Reporter Sex-killer Jeffrey Ewert, a gold cross dangling from his left ear, showed no emotion Friday as a judge sentenced him to a second life term for attempted murder. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Allan Stewart, his icy tone revealing his feelings, delivered a powerful judgment in which he expressed the view that Ewert, 27, should never be released from prison. "You are a cold, callous individual, a hollow man incapable of recognizing that other people have rights, including the right to live," the judge told Ewert.
"You are a sure and certain, unremitting, life-threatening danger to the community." Referring to Ewert as a psychopath, the judge said the term describes individuals who, behind a "mask of sanity," are nothing more than "empty, hollow shells." Ewert attempted in June 1984 to kill Kimberley Rendall, 15, because he feared she might help police tie him to the killing of Corrina Makiev, 19, whom he raped and murdered six weeks earlier. murder of Makiev. Although he is eligible to apply for parole in the year 201 1, the second offence will be a consideration in any application he makes. Prosecutor Rick Miller said in an interview the two cases were solved because of "superb police work" by RCMP Const. Greg Johnson and Cpl.
James Moore. He recalled that when Makiev's body was recovered in May 1984 from the Fraser River in Surrey, police had few clues and Ewert certainly wasn't among the possible suspects. Six weeks later, when Rendall was choked to near-death in the basem*nt of a Surrey home, Ewert came under suspicion because the attack occurred at the home of his adoptive parents. Miller said Johnson wasn't satisfied with the initial statement given by Ewert, who said he was at a Lang-ley nightclub called Sneakers the night Rendall was attacked. The constable became even more suspicious when the files indicated Makiev had been at the same club the night she disappeared while hitchhiking home along the Fraser Highway.
When police showed a picture of Ewert to patrons at the club, one remembered seeing Ewert speaking to Makiev the night she disappeared. Although the officers had no hard evidence against Ewert, merely the "Sneakers" connection, after a series of intense interrogations over a three-month period, Ewert confessed to both offences. Miller, during his submission to the court on sentencing, filed a victim-impact statement in which Ren-dall's mother, Marilyn Dorland, described how the attack on her daughter affected the family. "The attack had a totally devastating effect on the primary victim, Kimberley Rendall," Miller told the judge. "It had an equally devastating effect on the family, as secondary victims." The prosecutor advised the court Rendall was rendered a quadriplegic, blind, profoundly mentally retarded and spastic as a result of Ewert's unprovoked attack.
"His actions and the impact of his actions on Kimberley and her family were at least the equivalent to a completed murder," Miller said. BRIAN MULRONEY: selling Meech Lake CANADA JEFFREY EWERT; tried to kill girl "You were motivated by a desire to save your own skin by taking the life of another human being," the judge told Ewert, who wore leg shackles in the prisoner's box. Although he commended lawyer Michael Tammen for providing Ewert with an "excellent defence," Justice Stewart rejected his suggestion the sentence should be something less than life. Ewert will serve the sentence concurrently with the life term he received in 1986 for the first-degree Mother says she'll never forgive or forget PRIME MINISTER Brian Mulroney and top federal officials appealed lor greater understanding as the federal government appears to have begun a final drive to get the Meech Lake constitutional accord ratified. A4 CHRISTIAN Brothers spanked bare buttocks and punched boys in the head to keep discipline at the Mount Cashel orphanage, a former resident tells an inquiry in Newfoundland.
A4 WORLD SUPPORT FOR the first non-Marxist government In postwar Eastern Europe Is causing Poland's new leaders to scramble to sort out and make use of an avalanche of goodwill from the capitalist powers. A3 BRITISH COLUMBIA IY30EJI5AY Vtif wv 0 4 47 -jyirir By LARRY STILL Sun Legal Affairs Reporter The mother of Kimberley Rendall, who suffered irreversible brain damage when she was attacked and choked in 1984 by Jeffrey Ewert, says she is unable to forgive her daughter's attacker. In a victim-impact statement filed Friday in B.C. Supreme Court, when Ewert was sentenced to life in prison, Marilyn Dorland wrote: "My life has drastically changed over the past five years. I am now a totally different person.
At this time, I can't say which is greater my anger or my grief. "The question I continually ask myself is, why? But I never get a satisfactory answer from myself, nor from anyone else for that matter. What happened was just so senseless. "I have no pictures of Kim displayed in my home as I can't look at her the way she was. I want to strike out at the person who did this, or at people close to him, so he knows what it feels like." Earlier in her nine-page, handwritten statement, Dorland said her daughter, prior to the June 17, 1984, attack, "was a 15-year-old teenager, well-liked, a quiet, shy young lady with a flair for music." After describing her daughter as a bright student, a child who was never a problem at home or at school, she added: "At 15, she had everything going for her 'til that day which changed her life forever everything was taken away from her." Saying her daughter has made a slight recovery from her initial comatose state, Dorland said: "In the last year and a half, she fully understands what is going on in her life, she actually started to laugh.
"It's heart-breaking to see her cry and become depressed as Kim knows she is in hospital with old people. She wants desperately to come home, which is impossible without the necessary help." Dorland said doctors have told her Kimberley could very possibly have a normal life-span. "The best way to describe Kim is that her mind is trapped inside her useless body for the rest of her life," the mother wrote. She added: "I have a very hard time sleeping at night, sometimes I get up and wander around the house, sometimes I just cry myself to sleep. It doesn't matter if I go to bed at 3 a.m., I'm still up at 5:30 a.m.
or 6 a.m. "It bothers me so much that I'll never see Kim grow up normally, never see her married, have a family or perhaps a career." WHAT'S THE In a world where speed and convenience are prized, some people do things the old way. To find out what motivates craftsmen, the Life section's Wendy Stueck spoke with three people, including quitter Julia Chen. VIABLE AGRICULTURAL industries in Richmond and the Fraser Valley will die out In 18 years and SO years, respectively, if urban expansion and black-topping fertile soil Is not reversed, the chairman of the Senate agricultural committee says. A6 VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HAIDA Continued from page one SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES in imMuywLtmoRM Beginning October 5th, the stars will come out.
Join us for our 10-concert series, Masterworks or Symphonic Traditions. A. ji uiuuac uciwccn iwu -tuiitcu acnes, 4j Mozart Plus and Great Romantics. NADJA SALERNO-SONNENBERG Violinist LIBOR PESEK, Conductor Renowned European conductor, in demand on four continents. Vancouver debut of one of the premier exponants of the new generation of violin virtuosos.
RICHARD STOLTZMAN Clarinet CHOW UN, Violinist "An artist of indescribable genius. The Washington Post. an astonishing a strong personality. power to fascinate an audience." (StuttgarterZeitung) up. The gallery was jammed for two weeks.
The French press raved, with one Paris art paper writing a four-page review. The show a hurried, incomplete collection of random pieces had gone off like a small bomb in the City of Light, where great art is as commonplace as indifference to the work of foreigners. After that stunning start, Reid decided to go back to France one day for a full exhibit of what he considers the most powerful art in the world: The mythology-based images of Northwest Coastal Indians. He didn't know how he'd do it, but as he strolled along the Seine, he dreamed of bringing his favorite piece Lootaas, a 16-metre canoe carved from a huge cedar in the Queen Charlotte Islands. On Monday, Reid's canoe will leave the dirty industrial port of Rouen.
On Oct. 2 it will join a major exhibit of native art at the Musee de l'Homme. Reid's work will dominate a whole corner in the prestigious museum, with his canoe cutting the room diagonally. To one side will be his big carved bear, on loan from the University of B.C.'s Museum of Anthropology, and in between will be pedestals displaying his jewelry and masks. There will be other material, also on loan from UBC, representing the work of long-dead artists, and Kwa-giutl, Nuu-chah-nulth, Coast Salish, Nootka and Haida masks with names that seem to come from another world: Sxwayxxw, Dzunqwlh, The Paris show is being held to honor eminent French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, 80, who credits Reid with having "brought Northwest Coast art to the world scene, into dialogue with the whole of mankind." Levi-Strauss studied the mythologies of North and South American Indians, including the Haida.
His books celebrate the richness of those cultures. The museum, which has never before exhibited a living artist, was told the show must feature Reid. Levi-Strauss wanted to show that the art of the Northwest is alive, and he specifically asked for the art of Reid. "The exhibit is to show it is not prehistoric art, but art of a living people we wish to show people the Indians are not just something in picture books, but are a living culture," said Jean Guiart, director ol the Musee de l'Homme. if When the museum contacted Reid, he raised the topic of Lootaas.
They wanted it. "You can have it," Reid said, "but you have to take the paddlers, too." Moving a 16-metre canoe to France, as well as a contingent of 18 paddlers, strained the organizational powers of the museum. "They create a lot of problems," an exasperated Guiart said as he frantically tried to figure out where to house the Haida delegation, not only in Paris, but during the river voyage. "We are not trained to look after situations such as this. We are having to improvise as we go." Guiart also had to figure out how to pay all the bills.
Ottawa helped by chipping in $12,000, while B.C. contributed $5,000. It is a triumph for any artist to have his work brought to Paris for exhibition, but Reid's trip is more significant than that. It symbolizes how important the renaissance of native art has become. There are other artists who are playing major roles in the movement, but Reid's contribution came at a pivotal moment and was infused with social importance.
He didn't just carve, he carved a totem for his mother's village, Skidegate, giving the Haida their first pole in a century. Reid was famous and well paid because of his art but he sidetracked his career for a year to learn the uncommercial art of canoe making, a skill that made the ocean-going Haida who they were. He then built a canoe in the traditional way among his people in the Queen Charlotte Islands. It was the first canoe built there in 100 years and was such an emotional event that its launching left many elders weeping. He was among the first to delve back Into the old art forms, to unlock the mysteries of style and meaning.
A big-framed man with an intense gaze, Reid believes Northwest Coast art will put Canada on the cultural map in a way that traditional art has failed to do. "Canadian art has largely been ignored in Europe, and by France in particular, because in the past it has been imitating European art or imitating American art." The art of the Northwest, which recent archeological findings date back at least 4,000 years, seems to embrace naturalism, modernism and primitivism all at the same time. Reid describes it as art that, rather than having one striking feature, in the European tradition, rains visual hammer blows down on you. "It's very strange the way we (society) display icons in little caves at home. Native art is right out there where you can see it.
It's living and breathing and doing things." VLADIMIR FELTSMAN, "ANGELA HEWITT Pianist A recent import from' Russia who has brought the house the brought disciplined audience was on its artistic brilliance to the Canadian music scene. feet, crying for more." Thp Mnnfrpl Gazette. NIGEL KENNED vioinisi Last year he thrilled VSO audiences with Elgar's Violin Concerto. This year he returns to, as he says, 'do some damage" with Sibelius' Violin Concerto. Vancouver debut of one of America's new generation of conductors.
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