Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free press wednesday june newest lottery proves hottest ticket in town Derby free press by Kevin Prokosh the hottest ticket in town these Days won t get you admitted to a show or a sporting event but it could make you Richer. Winni Eggers Are slapping Down their Dollar Bills for chances at be coming instant winners at tic tac toe the province s newest lottery game. Lottery ticket Sellers on Portage Avenue report a brisk business with the scratch and win tickets. The new tickets have been Selling fantastically since we got them Mon said Eva Hinchliffe from her Booth in front of the Northside Centre yesterday. This morning one Man bought 100 tickets at Hinchliffe said people began ask ing for the tickets last week and in Only Days she had sold More than 800, including some winners. Playing the tic tac toe game can be habit forming said Hinchliffe. Great demand once you Start it s hard to Stop. Everyone figures the next one will be the big she added. There s been a great demand for the tickets so said Georgina Burnett who Sells lottery tickets out of her Kiosk located near Portage Avenue and Carlton Street. I be sold approximately 500 Many of them to tourists who like them because they Don t have to wait around for draws to see if they Are to win one of the Cash prizes ranging Between and you rub the nine spots on the ticket with a Coin. Any three x s or three o s in any vertical horizontal or Diagonal straight line makes the ticket bearer a Winner. The tickets have better than a one in eight Chance to win a prize. There were winners included in the initial distribution of tickets. The tic tac toe lottery game is a project of the Western Canada lot Tery foundation. It is being tested Only i Manitoba to see How Well it is accepted and what effect it will have on the other lottery games. Similar games were introduced earlier in Eastern Canada. Manitoba was chosen primarily because the foundation s head office is Here and it will be easier to Monitor Public said Garth manness of the Manitoba lotteries and gaming control commission. Long overdue All the lottery ticket Sellers contacted were unanimous in stating the introduction of an instant lottery in Manitoba is Long overdue. I think Manitoba is three years behind in the lottery said Rodney a ticket seller at the Corner of Smith Street and Portage Avenue who asked that his last name not be used. Quebec has had nine instant lot Tery games and Ontario seven while Manitoba has t had one until Mon Day. The Western express and the provincial lotteries Are outdated. Every one wants to win instantly. They Don t want to wait around. I think instant lotteries Are hear to Rodney said. Rodney said he had sold 500 tickets in less than two Days. It appears said manness the spending habits of the people of Manitoba can sustain a game like tic tac toe. Spending habits statistically Manitoban spend per capita on lotteries while Eastern canadians pay out approximately As with other lotteries 45 per cent of the Price of a ticket will go for the Cash prizes. Approximately 10 per cent will go for administration printing and advertising while an additional 14 per cent will be designated for wholesale and retail sales expenses. The rest of the revenues will go for sports cultural and recreation projects As Well As numerous social services in the province. Portage Avenue Vendor displays tic tac toe lottery ticket introduced to Winnipeg on monday. Cultures can mesh limit says by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Chesterfield Inlet . The inuit want the animals and the land and the developers the Oil and minerals but according to Lucien tar Parte 56, the two opposing interests can make it Good from the age of 10, tar Parte was taught Hunting and trapping skills needed in the harsh Arctic terrain by his father. It was his life for the next 19 years. However in 1947, tar Parte moved to Rankin Inlet where a new Nickle mine was opening. He worked underground until the mine closed in 1962 and then set out for Yellowknife with his family to seek a Job in the Gold mines. He spent the next years working in Gold mines in the area and finally left when he was unable to buy a House. However it was t Long before tar Parte was Back underground at the Sherritt Gordon mines Ltd. Operation at Lynn Lake Man. He was there for years. What got me at Lynn Lake was not being Able to Hunt on weekends wherever i wanted he said. There were too Many conservation officers around the joined Rescue team at each mine he worked in tar Parte joined the mine Rescue team. He is proud that he was part of a team flown from Yellowknife to the Keno mine in the Yukon in 1966 when four miners were trapped underground. Another Crew managed to bring out one Miner but tar Parte and his group brought out the remaining three who been trapped for 17 hours. I was the Only inuit on the he recalls proudly. Since returning from Lynn Lake he has worked at plumbing carpentry and guiding out on the Tundra. He also holds an exploration licence but says he has tas yet found anything that could be developed into a mine. For the future in the territories tar Parte feels mining can mesh into the Arctic lifestyle especially if inuit get More control and responsibility in the enterprises. One thing that will always be the drawback he said is the heat under ground which is hard for inuit to take. But he feels that if enough leeway is Given for miners to get out on the Tundra Hunting on the weekends a Jot of men will take up the Trade on a Long term basis. City Calendar lecture theme creativity under pressure Dorothy Kerin Dean of nursing at the University of Victoria will creativity under pressure at the Jubilee memorial lecture of the alumnae association of the Winnipeg general Hospital and health sciences Centre school of nursing. The lecture will begin at tonight in theatre a of the Basic sciences building health sciences Centre. Church of the Way will present psalm Cycle the life of David in music and drama at 8 . Friday to sunday at the Church 450 Lilac Street. Composition and lyrics Are by Bev and Graeme Davidson with the music directed by Gordon Wright. Weather temperature comparisons t Low cold Fork worm front the Slid society of Manitoba will celebrate the martyrdom of its guru Arjan Dev sunday at the society 221 Cathcart Street. The service is from . To 1 . Sikhs will remember the teachings of the guru and recite hymns composed by him. East Parks and recreation Branch will operate summer drop in locations for teenagers 13 to 17 july 2 to aug. 14. Furniture donations Are required to furnish the lounge areas and drop in Sites including Munroe Morse place and cheif Perquis Junior High schools and Roland Michener Arena. Bob Ward development plan officer department of environmental planning will speak on plan Winnipeg at a meeting of Wolseley residents association to be held at . Tuesday at Westminster Church Westminster Avenue and Maryland Street or. Eric Ellis will speak on reflections on the obstacles to the treatment of troubled adolescents in Manitoba at 8 . Tuesday in the Carleton club 280 fort Street. The 52nd annual meeting is held by the Board of directors of the sir Hugh John Macdonald memorial Hostel. Mar Mound school and former staff and students of St. Agnes school will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the sister of the Good Shepherd in Manitoba with a reunion beginning at . June 21 at the school 442 Scotia Street. The school is a treatment Centre for girls aged 10 to 17. The Owca will offer Ballet and jazz at the beginner and advanced level beginning july 6 and aug. 4 at the Centre 447 Webb place. Winnipeg area forecast sunny today with a High near 27. Low tonight near 8. Occasional Cloudy periods tomorrow with the Chance of an isolated thundershowers and a High near 25. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba sunny Friday and saturday. Showers and thundershowers sunday. Temperatures near Normal readings of 22 and 8. Northern Manitoba mostly sunny with temperatures above Normal Friday. Returning to near Normal sunday and mostly Cloudy and Cool. Northwestern Ontario sunny Friday and saturday. Showers and thundershowers sunday. Temperatures near Normal readings of 19 and 8. Temperatures Canada and the world our mistake National Victoria. Vancouver. Calgary. Relone. Winnipeg. Thompson. Kenora. Brandon. Dauphin. Thunder Bay. Toronto. Ottawa. Montreal. 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