Warman City Cancels YAS Basketball Camp Previously Linked to Convicted Sex Offenders

Warman Citywas previously convicted ofsex offenders Dennis Robert Hall, the city After the camp representative said he couldn't show his ID.

A city spokesman told Global News that the city had signed a contract withBrian Northto camp at the city's facility, the Legends Center. ..

Global news could not confirm that Hall was still involved in the camp, but former YAS board members believe that Brian North is the fake name used by Hall. said. He was sentenced to 1981 for having sex with two girls between the ages of 14 and 16 and for rudely assaulting two other adolescent girls.

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Multiple media reports that Hall was pardoned by the federal government for his crimes in 1994. Did. Global news could not confirm that he was amnesty.

According to a year-long global news survey on Hall and YAS, two former employees, 18 and 16 years old, who worked in Hall at their home office in 2002, both had sexual harassment. Claims.

One of the employees says he heard Hall using what she said was her fake name while communicating with her parents.

Global News sent questions to all Warman city council members and mayors last Friday.

Warman spokesman Eric Busse said in an email Tuesday that the city was unaware of prison conditions, accusations and allegations against Hall.

"The information you emailed — Brian North, the signer of the rental agreement, was a potential alias for Dennis Hall, not a real person — is new to the city of Warman. "Busse wrote.

"If Brian North does not provide identification to verify that it exists by the determined deadline, this will invalidate the signed contract and the program will be Warman. Prevent it from happening inside the city's facilities. "

The deadline was 10 am on Tuesday.

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"The contract signed by Brian North is currently invalid and staff are currently in the process of canceling it," Busse wrote. increase.

Busse stated that Warman was in contact with North and Rob Hall. Former directors claim that Rob Hall is another pseudonym.

Marcia Neault said she joined the board in 2007. According to the latest corporate filing, she is still listed on the board, but she resigned about a week before her interview with Global News. member.

In her interview, she said she hadn't seen Brian North for 15 years.

"As far as I know, Brian North doesn't exist," she said.

"(Brian North) is someone made up of Dennis," she claimed. "He seems to be calling from the same phone as Dennis."

In a 2021 email exchange with the father of a former YAS employee who claims Hall had sexually harassed, Dennis Hall Denied that it was Brian North. The email that Hall signed "Denis Hall" was from a "Hall Comm" account. The Hall Comm website says "YAS Versary Program". All links on sparse pages are either links to YAS or YAS email addresses.

The phone numbers listed under the "Denis Hall" signature in the HallComm email are the phone numbers on the YAS website. Matches one of.

(Hall sometimes spells his name "Dennis".)

Global News is a hall communication email and a YAS email address and a phone number displayed on the YAS site. I tried to contact the hall via the number.

Global News did not receive a response.

Global News has never received an email response from Hall or anyone else in YAS. When Global News contacted about the previous article, someone answered calls to numbers related to YAS and Dennis Hall a total of four times. A man hung up after saying they weren't Dennis Hall. Another time, a man said he couldn't hear the global news and he hung up immediately. On the other two occasions, someone hung up shortly after Global News identified itself.

Neault also said that when he visited the camp in 2019, Hall told him to call him Robert instead of Dennis.

"When I asked him, he said. Robert, and sometimes I'm Dennis," she said.

And she told Global News that she had never met Linda Smith.

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Smith, Robhall, and Brian North all appear in Global News' YAS emails to parents and recent YAS promotional materials. Is the name you have.

The 2018 YAS board change notice indicates that Brian North and Rob Hall have an apartment at the same address, 9th Street East in Saskatoon.

Rob Hall is not mentioned in the 2022 financial report, but shows that Smith and North have the same address in the same apartment building. The 2022 application does not show the apartment number.

All directors have the same mailing address, a PO Box at a strip mall on 8th Street East in Saskatoon.

Recent corporate documents do not mention Dennis Hall.

An email sent from the camp account to parents in 2020 shows that Dennis Hall has not been involved in YAS for years, but a photo of the camp website shows that Hall It seems to indicate that he was there in 2020.

In November 2020, Dennis Hall's Facebook page showed his name as Dennis. Since then, the photo is the same and the URL says "Dennis Hall", but it says "Rob Hall".

Global News contacted Smith, Rob Hall and Brian North and asked if they were different and if they were Dennis Hall. Global News did not receive a response.

Neault and Robert when Dennis Hall was in the camp to hand out medals in 2019. I said I told you to call.

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She said it was one of the few opportunities she attended the camp.

Neault estimated that he had visited YAS only five times in 15 years on the board.

Once she gave a presentation on nutrition.

She told Global News she had no nutrition or basketball expertise. But she said Hall wrote a presentation and asked No, a First Nations woman, to present information as if it were traditional First Nations knowledge.

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Shows her Also, Hall is alleged to have signed her name on legal documents and YAS communications.

Her name may appear as "Marcie Chatsis-Neault" in some YAS documents. She is the name Chatsis got married to and says she is currently divorced.

She said she had signed some documents.

During her interview, she showed Global News a YAS letter with her name and signature from June 2021, she signed but she signed before she signed. She said she hadn't read.

In the letter, she said, "As YAS basketball camp director, Dennis Hall and Robert" Rob "in their respective positions. We worked closely with Hall. "

"To perform their duties requires year-round contact and consultation between me and the Board," the letter said.

This document contains Neault's phone number. Neault said she didn't recognize it and called while Global News was present. According to the recording, the number was not used.

Neault also told Global News that he knew some of Hall's criminal record. She was unaware of the conviction of vulgar assault on minors, but she said she told her about his conviction of having sex with a girl between the ages of 14 and 16.

"Children. These are basically children," she said.

"But the fact that he went to jail and was allowed to do that, I don't react to it."

She was also a teenager passing by a hall in the mall. He said he saw the girl and saw him saying, "If I'm young, I want it."

Global News contacted Neault several times before publishing her previous article. She said she received global calls and emails, but she didn't respond because she didn't want to answer anything.

She said she quit the board twice in 2011 and 2019, but Hall asked her. So, and he's her friend.

"My priority was that he was a friend. He took care of me when I was ill. When I was crying, he was there for me I was there, "she said, but added that she no longer considers him a friend.

And I heard him improperly talking about a teenage girl, even though he knew that Hall was using a fake name to communicate with his parents. , And she said he signed her name in legal documents and letters to her parents. t – and don't – do nothing.

She said she did not have contact information for her parents. It is the police's responsibility to track down suspicious or criminal activity, such as complaints from former employees or the use of fake names.

"I'm not so passionate about (camping). I really don't care," she said.

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"At a deeper level, I don't really care what happens at YAS."

After saying that my son pulled his grandson out of the camp But she remained on the board.

She says she agreed to her interview because her work in her hall was over I did. She said she signed a $ 120 check a week before her interview to cover the travel expenses for distributing leaflets from Saskatoon to Regina.

She said she couldn't deposit it because Hall deliberately put the wrong name and date on the check. When she asked him to fix it, she said he wrote the wrong name and date again.

Global News has confirmed that Neault says it is the second payment. She said Hall wrote it last week, which was dated 2020 and she signed the "Marcie Neault".

She said she quit YAS shortly after receiving her second check and called Global News.

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Knowing that Warman has canceled the YAS contract is identified by Global News as Sylvia.

She worked in the YAS hall at the camp and his home office in 2002.

She told Global News earlier that the hall only wore towels and answered the door. She also claims that he said she and her friends could move, but she said Hall told her, "What I have to do to pay you back is just a light cleaning. I wouldn't. " Sylvia says he understood that this meant he wanted sexual favor from her.

At the time of the incident, she was 18 and he was 56.

She also claims that he called and emailed frequently for a year.

She submitted a police report to the Saskatoon police.

A report obtained by Sylvia through access to an information request and submitted to Global News states: Hall is said to have told her that she should give birth to her baby and that he can help her with it. He reached out for her and rubbed her belly. The report also states that "at this time, there is nothing that seems to be suspected of pursuing further investigation or being prosecuted."

When I saw YAS booked Warman's Legends Center, she said, "I was anxious and excited."

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She told Global News that she was pleased that Warman had canceled her contract with the camp, but was worried that another municipality could book YAS in the future. ing.

She said, "I don't want to see a child in a bad situation, and I don't want to see anything happen to my family or students who just enjoy the summer."

She tells Global News that the state regulates who can run a private sports camp through a governing body or by requesting a criminal record check and a vulnerable sector check for the camp to apply for rental space. He said he thinks he needs to.

In February 2021, Global News asked the Saskatchewan Department of Parks, Culture and Sports about regulations governing who can run camps.

In an email reply, a provincial spokesperson said state sports organizations could sanction and / or approve camps.

The camp is not obliged to seek approval or establish a relationship with a state sports organization.

Basketball Saskatchewan previously told Global News that it is not affiliated with YAS.

A spokesperson for the ministry also said that the ministry "usually responds to the needs / problems expressed by the sector's stakeholders or the groups / individuals who use the services of that sector."

"The government is unaware of the issue that requires state regulation of sports camps."

Busse, a spokesman for the city of Warman, told Global News that YAS had contacted the city to rent facility space.

Busse said the city has not investigated individuals or organizations renting facility space.

He said Global News Warman does not screen criminal record applicants, but staff will investigate how to add criminal record checks to the rental process. He also said staff would investigate what best practices in other municipalities are regarding applicant investigations and requests for harassment prevention training.

Global News will contact the state government again on this story, asking if the municipality will investigate applicants and request harassment prevention training and criminal record checks and vulnerable sector checks. I did.

The state government did not respond by the deadline.

Sylvia said she was concerned that Hall would hold camps and continue to try to be around the children in the absence of certain restrictions.

"I'm worried that the reach in the state will expand. The northern community, where (YAS) may not know that such a problem ... I often talk about it. I'm thinking. He's still finding space and trying to host these camps. "

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