Lethbridge Herald, The (Newspaper) - October 30, 1998, Lethbridge, Alberta COMMUNITY EVENTS Readymade Community Association Turkey Supper Saturday Nov 7 Old Readymade School f LIVING Serious business See IN TODAY'S CLASSIFIEDS 1997 Ford Escort LX 4 door air auto cassette all highway kms very clean obo See page Online f Friday October YOUR LIFE YOUR COMMUNITY YOUR NEWSPAPER plus GST Home delivery weekly Green Acres whiz kid penitentiary bound By JOANNE HELMER Herald A highly skilled manager and computer whiz was sentenced to two three-year terms in a eral penitentiary Thursday after pleading guilty to theft of almost from two Lethbridge concerns But even before Bryan Clements was locked up Lethbridge provincial court heard yet another wrinkle in the long-running saga involving him his wife Dorothy Ann and the Green Acres foundation Green Acres a senior citizens housing agency partly funded by taxpayers in and surrounding area is involved in a series of suits and over an alleged loss earlier this decade Clements and Dorothy Ann a former Green Acres employee admit o stealing some of those funds Dorothy Ann will be sentenced today for theft Crown Prosecutor Gordon Falconer told Provincial Court Judge Gerald DeBow in hindsight Clements might have been loo skilled Clements used his own creations a computerized business system for a private company called Green Prairie Products Ltd and for the quasi-public Green Acres Foundation to sleal the funds and hide the losses for several years The court ordered he father of three young children lo repay Green Prairie slightly more than He's also ordered lo repay lo the Green Acres Foundation a much lower figure than Green Acres claims is missing Bui the agreed upon by Clements and the was complicated by unpaid work Clements is said lo have performed for Green Acres Don former Green Acres director told a preliminary inquiry into the charges that Clements saved foundation thousands of dollars on construction of Lethbridge's Garden View Lodge Garden View opened in 1992 LeBaron says Clements showed the foundation it would save huge dollars by borrowing the money itself rather than a turn-key operation with a landlord Falconer says Clements completed the work without a formal contract for payment He worked almost as a in Falconer's words It was very noble In an informal way he put a lot of work into that says Falconer See GREEN ACRES Page AS Bizarre crash on Mayor Magrath PHOTO BY CLAWON GROSE ON THE Police work to extricate Robyne from her 1990 Chev Corsica alter an accident on Mayor Magrath Drive about noon Thursday Police say southbound car abruptly veered off Mayor Magrath Drive and crossed both grass median and the service road before striking a fence a car and a pick-up in the parking lot of Bridge Town House Motel The Corsica also struck pedestrian Patricia Passey 34 Both and Passey were taken to Lethbridge Regional Hospital The of their injuries was unknown at press time Mountain View struggling with child's brutal murder Death of Rebecca Bluff leaves hamlet's spirit sombre Herald Stuff Reform members far from keen on fusing with Clark's Tories By DELON SHURTZ Herald Reform Party Leader Preston Manning may be pushing a united alternative with his party and Joe Clark's Progressive Conservatives but not all Reformers support the move at least not in Lethbridge They're part of the says George Pittman Pittman was one of more than 100 Reformers who attended the party's eighth annual fundraising dinner Thursday Party faithful paid to help raise money for election battle chest and to hear Red Deer MP and foreign affairs critic Bob Mills speak on his recent Asian tour with Manning Pittman shared the views of several others who don't believe setting up a single force com- bining Tories and other political parties will benefit Reform or Canada MOUNTAIN It's a picturesque hamlet tled quietly in foothills a gas slop between ston and And like the com- munity of which she was pan Bluff formerly of Mountain View and now of the Salt Lake City county jail was quiet and some here say a hit reclusive stands charged along with two with murdering and ally abusing her old daughter The death of young Rebecca possibly whipped with a cat-o'-nine-tails says an sy report over must of her liny body as she lay face down has shaken normally tranquil Highway 5 community The close-knit predominantly Mormon community named for its view of the majestic Rockies has taken news of Rebecca healing death very hard Bluff 2B known here as Arian Bluff has been charged with aggravated murder by Salt Lake County sheriffs office Former Mountain View residents Andrew Fedorowicz 45 and his wife Suzanne Fedorowicz 45 were also charged with murder The two lived in the same Salt Lake City apartment complex as Bluff and her daughter There wore injuries lo the girl's bullocks back legs genitals face and neck according to a police affidavit The dead child's two-year-old sister Sarah has been placed in state protective custody Arian and husband Todd Bluff moved to Mountain View only months after the arrived in this small community from Ontario about The Fedorowiczs left a few months after they arrived but the Bluffs stayed on in the house the two couples rented from an area farmer After about two years living in Garth Nelson's rental home Bluffs moved into a bed and breakfast and later into a large grey homo on the eastern edge of town The Bluffs lived across Highway 5 from Brent Nielson and his family for almost two years Nielson said Thursday it was hard to get close to couple We knew them but to me they were private and reserved type of people When they came to church they would bring the whole family Everyone would make a fuss over Rebecca and her little sister Nielson and his wife Barbara are having a tough lime reconciling what could have gone so wrong that a little girl could meet such a harsh end It's a real blow though they were private we still deemed them good said Nielson still doesn't seem to me to have that type of temper or given to that type of action See MOUNTAIN VIEW Page AS Utah won't ask for death for girl's accused mother Set REFORM Page AS Inside vour For a few briel will be back on weekend See page Comics Deaths Tonight A2 Teachers honor Herald with provincial award Education has long been a commitment of The hridge Herald That commitment was rewarded Thursday when Peter Scott assistant managing editor and Janine Ecklund cation reporter accepted the provincial Citizen of the Year award from Council on School Administrators an arm of the Alberta Teacher's Association Lee Koran principal at St Patrick's Fine Arts Elementary School presented the award The Herald's Newspapers in Education program along with education coverage were key motivators for the nation he said Carol Steen Winston Churchill I ligh School principal made the suggestion to the southwest region's council which forwarded the nomination It's the first time an organization or business has won and not a said Steen earlier this year Barb Cavers principal at Senator Buchanan and bridge School District 51 deputy superintendent Mai Clewes were also honored Thursday Clowes was named school administrators of the year al level and Cavers school level Southwest region council president Helen Virginillo said last June when suggestion was made to honor The I ald it seemed obvious SALT LAKH CITY Prosecutors won't seek death alty against the mother ol a old Alberta girl and two friends accused of sexually abusing and torturing the child to death Bluff of Mountain View Alia along with Andrew and his wife Suzanna both 45 were charged laic Thursday with murder sexual abuse of a child and child abuse in the death daughter ca who died in hospital in Salt Lake City Oct 21 During a news conference deputy district attorney James Cope said the child's slaying did not rise to the level of a cap- offence punishable by death He would not elaborate If convicted accused would be sentenced to prison for five years to life The trio remain in Salt Lake County Jail on bail They likely will he arraigned on the charges Monday They were booked into jail Oct 23 two days after Rebecca died at Primary Children's ical Centre The three suspects told police toddler was injured when she fell down a flight of 14 stairs three days earlier I an autopsy showed the little girl had been severely beaten perhaps for iwo days and sexually abused She died from BLUFF internal injuries Evidence gathered during a search of the suspects apartments included whips chains and other restraining devices Welts on the child's body could have been caused by a cat or nine tails whip found by officers court documents said Other injuries were consistent with physical restraints Detectives have opened an investigation into alleged physical abuse suffered by two-year-old Sarah Bluff Rebecca's sister She's been taken into slate custody The Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office said Bluff is believed to have arrived in Utah sometime last month along with Rebecca and Sara who has since been taken into protective custody by state officials Bluffs husband Todd who a police spokesman said was in Canada at the time of Rebecca's death has since arrived in Salt Lake City The Fedorowiczs lived in same apartment complex as Bluff and were originally from the same part of Alberta police said Our information is that they the had left Alberta about eight years Capt Larry Marx of the country sheriffs office said 1 CHEVY 2 General Motors just gave your Chevy dealer additional dealer incentives Remaining must Make your best i deal now I Canur of ltd PHONE
