Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, May 11, 1985

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 11, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Issues hate literature is the Law a threat to free speech sunday no cure for Sarah life and death struggle against cystic fibrosis sports Golf an easy game its not so simple on the Tough City courses sunny weather stirs childrens dreams of Camp renewal putting on a new face theres More to main than drunks asleep on the Street Uphill Battle modern dance in Winnipeg is fighting a Battle for survival because nobody seems to care weather rain today 18 Cloudy tonight 10 rain tomorrow 17 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Index Ann Landers Jumble Puzzle Jumble saturday to 27 37 43 11 38 28 43 43 28 6 17 45 43 32 33 7 24 37 61 37 81 12 67 37 the the leaves Are out and the Days Are getting signalling another glorious Manitoba summer and time to kick off the 1985 Sunshine now in its seventh the fund is cosponsored by the free press and the Manitoba camping association to give needy children the Chance for a summer camping fund coordinator Bette Heindl said this years goal is to raise at least to allow More than 400 children to be sent to 15 accredited Camps across the Heindl said that although donations already Are pouring in from an Early mail Campaign begun a couple of weeks so Are requests from disadvantaged families who Hope to Send their children to Ive already got More requests than i have Money she the coordinator said 42 children have been placed from about 60 applications summer Camp is More popular with Manitoba families this year than with paying parents Book ing spots for their children earlier than she last she said generous Manitoban donated a record amount of and sent 338 children to Camp who might never have had the Chance each will receive an eight week training course this along with fun and kids learn the value of teamwork and getting along with their fellow Camp As Well As nature they Are taught numerous outdoor skills such As canoeing or and indoor activities such As arts and organizers say Camp is where children can form lasting Friend ships and lifelong memories of a campfire singalong during warm summer the Sunshine fund was created during the summer of in its first it raised about and sent 137 kids to 18 different steadily increasing each year to Al most triple the number of children last since its the Sunshine fund has sent children to Camp and raised about donations Are tax deductible and can be sent to the Sunshine Manitoba camping 1700 Ellice r3h for information by Call May 1985 free Winnipeg free press vol 113 no 149 final Homo 9570550 classified 9562330 Hemphill wants peace taught in Manitoba schools by Julia Necheff education minister Maureen Hemphill wants to bring the effects of nuclear the arms disarmament and the peace movement into Manitoba classrooms Hemphill said there might be opposition to the Given the controversial nature of peace and disarmament its reasonable that people would see it As a sensitive she it has to be handled with discussion with Par the minister said there will be consultation with parents and children before the education department goes ahead with the Hemphill told a peace conference in Winni Peg yesterday that research Here and in other Canadian cities shows Young people feel highly anxious and helpless about the tial for nuclear she said Media hype and popular culture helps create and reinforce their youth Are constantly being inundated with the horror of nuclear War on to and in popular Hemphill we cant put our Heads in the Sand and ignore an Issue that has such a major Impact on their daily schools have a responsibility to provide students with factual knowledge about the consequences of nuclear War and alternatives to she the minister told an audience of about 90 people by confronting their peace education would help Young people come to grips with she said in a later interview the education see Hemphill Page 4 Glenn free press indoor Park Hub of plans for new mall Miles to go Kevin Lusignan foreground and Bill Cartlidge paint the pedestrian corridor at Cumberland and they Are one of five City Crews in the next four to six will freshen up the White lines on Miles of City streets and 950 tory payment demanded liberals Call showcase Ottawa up the conserva Tive party should foot the Bill of More than for a gala that was televised nationwide during the que Bec City Summit in March Between prime minister Mulroney and presi Dent Ronald the Liber Al opposition demanded calling the extravaganza a waste of taxpayers Money spent to show Case Mulroney and feed his the liberals said the show was a Politi Cal affair on behalf of the tories and they should pay for but who headlined the Patricks Day gala by lining up with Reagan and the wives of both leaders to sing when Irish eyes Are defended the expenditure and said it is Normal to stage performances of Canadian Talent for visit ing the prime minister used jokes and references to jobs created under the tories since september to deflect criticism about the affair by Liberal House Leader Herb Gray in the that television extravaganza was put on principally for politically showcasing the prime minister and feeding his Gray i would like to ask the prime minister to make a commitment now to have the conservative party pay the Cost of that extravaganza rather than the Canadian but whose office is locked in a dispute with Over the brushed off Grays you have offended two million irishmen in this Mulroney prompting a round of laughs from his commons tory and you will pay a handsome Price for he As Gray pressed Mulroney about earlier demands for All the costs of the March 17 Summit and suggested the government is trying to hide the Cost of imported wine and Mulroney retorted by challenging Liberal one can see the priorities of the Liberal party and one can see the line of questioning because this statistics Canada announced that since we came to of see Csc Page 4 by Patrick Mckinley free 1985 a Glass enclosed indoor Park at the Corner of Portage Avenue and Edmonton Street is to become the focal Point for redevelopment North of Portage under a plan to be announced by the North Portage development next the Public gather ing area would be the Centrepiece of a shopping mall stretching from Carlton Street to Vaughan Street along the North Side of sources said the two Storey mall design is to extend to three storeys in some and much of the front age along Portage Avenue is to be glassed in to give pedestrians a View of shops and Public areas from Street the mall design is to include heavy use of fashion stores it would include a concentration of fashion stores on its West end near Vaughan and restaurants concentrated in the Block Between Edmonton and Kennedy the sources said plans also Call for Edmonton North of to be turned into a major pedestrian earlier plans for an apartment building on the East Side of Edmon ton Between Portage and Ellice ave Nues have been Edmonton is now slated to be Rede signed As a commercial Fea Turing Small boutiques and entertainment to draw people into the area at other plans Call for apartment construction North of a combined Union Centre and office Tower on the North Side of Portage at and an expanded Myca building with Access to the second floor of the viewing area the Myca to be built just East of the existing Central y on Vaughan would be partly visible from a glassed in viewing area on the mall and would include expanded exercise an indoor running fitness and weight training the is existing Mai floor Pool would be expanded and a smaller training Pool could be the changes would give the Myca a Cess both to the Union Centre build ing and to the mall near the planned fashion in the development corporation is expected to announce plans to Block off Edmonton and Kennedy just North of the mall so the streets could no longer be used to Cross under that proposal two new East West avenues would be built Between Portage and Isadore chief executive of the North Portage development said plans Are proceeding on schedule and demolition of existing buildings should begin in see developers Page 4 fasting afghans get into Canada Tokyo up six afghan Refu one of whom had sewn his Mouth shut to dramatize his determination to die if Canada would not admit were granted permission yesterday to enter five of them were taking food and water today for the first time in several they agreed to leave the new Tokyo International Airport and enter Hospital after Canadian officials agreed to process their applications to enter Birru migration department spokes Man Len Westerberg said in Ottawa the six people five of whom had been engaged in a hunger strike at the Airport were granted Permis Sion to enter Canada As word of the Ottawa Deci Sion had not reached the refugees Here their applications to enter Canada will be processed As quickly As pos see hunger Page 4 54 Are killed by sikh bombs by Sanjoy Haz Arika times news service new India at least 54 people were killed and about 150 others wounded in a series of attacks and bomb explosions set off by sikh extremists late last night in a and crowded neighbourhoods in the Indian capital and three North Ern officials the police said it was the worst violence in connection with the Pun Jab situation since the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi last october led to anti sikh in which an estimated people were the new attacks marked what a see sikh Page 4 main Street Aid ends up going Down the Drain by Gary Hunter two of eight businesses Given Core area initiative Money to locate on main Street have closed their doors within a year of receiving the three other businessmen who got location incentive Grants say they had already decided to move onto main Between Bannatyne and Selkirk avenues before their Grants were a among those to be Given the maximum location Grant of for an already planned move was former City councillor Ken he moved his insurance and real estate Agency to the merchants building at Alexander Avenue and main 60 metres from his former location in the Marigold putting on a new Doug manager of the Small Busi Ness assistance program for the Core said Money Mart Cheque cashing Centre closed its 891 main Street Branch on May less than a year after last save shoes closed after six months in a storefront space on main close to City we do take some i guess we will have a few who dont make so far i dont think were out of Pearson Money Mart which caused the Core office some embarrassment last Winter after reports that it had charged welfare recipients up to 16 per cent to Cash government cheques had received of its Grant Pearson save shoes had received about of its in approved location and renovation Grants before Wong said the he received to locate his insurance and real estate Agency on the main floor of the merchants building meant he undertook More extensive heating and air conditioning work in the new from a business Point of View the Grants have had some but not a great Deal of Wong we had to get out of the other place and this was one of the Only suitable spaces we made the plunge and it was easier with the in addition to the location Wong see main Page 4 i ;