Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Indy Back Indiana Jones is Back for a last kick at adventure human Torch Man is the suspected cause of the majority of Manitoba Forest fires House doctors a Winnipeg team will i show you How to make your House More scalable 747 Sunshine fund Silver lining an unusually Large contribution of brightens an otherwise disappointing week for Sunshine fund donations weather Cloudy today 17 Cloudy tonight 6 sunny tomorrow 19 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 756 Index Ann Bridge Jumble Jumble news and stocks 37 65 25 14 38 54 25 25 20 27 71 47 36 58 58 21 33 65 21 65 73 15 3 the provincial 8379599 by Ruth Teichroeb a Winnipeg Man says Hes bitter about being forced to use a private investigator to locate two of his three children who he says were seized unfairly by the province 25 years the government didst help they hindered Mel Wonitowy said yester what they did to me want right to Start with and then they made it when family services formerly Community and social services officials offered Little the 52yearold Painter says he paid a private investigator to find his two oldest now living in Hes still looking for his youngest Daugh who was adopted in 1967 and May live in but Wonitowy said Hes thrilled to be getting reacquainted with his oldest Daugh Ter and whom he spoke to for the first time in i cant describe what the first phone Call was he it was just just talking about it shakes me finding them ended years of heartache and frustration which began for Wonitowy in 1964 when the childrens Aid society of Dauphin seized his three children then aged three and one after his wife left the officials told him the children would be put up for adoption because he care for them even though he had tried to regain but last Wonitowy discovered that childrens Aid allowed his a wife to remove Bradley and Donna from their Foster Home in 1970 without contacting children it it want it was certainly Dis courteous in the extreme not to involve Liberal la Paul who has worked on Wonitowy the government Hast done anything to recognize the mistakes that were if they had any desire to find the kids they could when the free press contacted family ser vices officials last february they said they locate the children because their maternal relatives in Manitoba refused to divulge their see children Page 4 May 1989 m free press final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Fyfee press vol 117 n0169 Michael free press r 11 r x bag toting residents of Seymo Urville return Honie after evacuation order was lifted yesterday damage greets evacuees resident Joy of going Home turns to despair upon arrival by Zena Olijnyk Winnipeg free press Manigotagan As the bus sped along a Road bordered by charred the people inside became increasingly torn be tween the Joy of going Home and despair about the devastation around i cant believe How depressing this said Judy one of 900 residents from the Manigotagan area who were allowed to return Home yesterday after being forced to flee when a volatile Forest fire broke out last after being away for a i wanted to come Home so but now that in it makes me sad to see whats happened to the the Seymo Urville resident said As free Trade Sparks tax Battle by John Douglas Winnipeg free press that poured millions of dollars into support for free Trade Are trying to get tax but a Winnipeg firm that spent fighting the Deal has been denied its expense claim officials at Large companies such As Royal Bank of Noranda Texaco Canada and Ford motor of Canada confirmed yesterday they will try to claim contributions of up to to pro free Trade groups As business officials say More than three Manitoba companies also Are trying to write off donations to the Manitoba committee for free the companies Are claiming that funds Given to organizations such As the Canadian Alliance for Trade and Job opportunities Are membership fees to a lobby such business expenses can be claimed As a deduction on Federal income a spokesman for the Alliance said yesterday the group has received More than million in donations in the last More than million of that was spent during the election Campaign to promote the free Trade Deal with the United Gary an executive member of the Manitoba committee for free said he expects a number of companies that Contri buted Between and to the groups prof Estrade War Chest of More than see companies Page 4 she sat quietly on the bus that was bringing her Back while the majority of the residents stayed with friends and relatives about 230 residents of Seymo Urville and hollow water Reserve were taken to they were put up in local hotels and the v salvation army Baldwin the evacuation order was lifted thanks mainly to steady rain showers wednes Day and yesterday that reduced the danger to the All but 140 of the evacuees across the province were allowed Back to their Homes while saddened by the most residents returning to the communities were just thankful they still have the fire destroyed about 15 cottages at nearby English Lake and came within 500 metres of the hollow water but thanks to rain and firefighting efforts by 350 people and seven water property damage was miraculously when we left last i never thought id see my Home said 10yearold Rosita and i hated to leave my dog be Leonard one of the last people in the area to leave his Home last also said he was anxious to come though see residents Page 4 China declares martial Law human barricades keep troops at Bay by Lewis Simons Knight Ridder newspapers Beijing chivas government declared martial Law and banned Public demonstrations this morning after millions of residents set up human barricades to keep troops from enter ing the heart of the capital to oust University students and their supporters occupying Tiana men the stunning and unprecedented move was intended to crush an uprising by the nations Long revered by the communist party As the very source of chivas ruling news blackout imposed hundreds of thousands of Beijing residents had blocked troop transport vehicles on highways and major boulevards on the outskirts of the some soldiers and their officers had refused to saying they sided with the who for the last month have been leading demonstrations calling for communist party chief Zhao who opposed a reportedly offered to there was no official confirmation that the party had acted on his the ban on protests was announced by prime minister i Peng and Beijing Chen Xintong 15 minutes before it went into effect at 10 the officials used the chinese word for curfew in referring to the but did not bar Normal Public All dem Public speeches and rum Ormon Gering were a virtual news blackout was imposed on the foreign journalists were ordered con fined to their offices or living Cable news which had covered the demonstrations in Tiana men Square during the fou Day Summit with soviet leader1 Mikhail was forced off the air by govern ment officials at after refusing to Stop broadcasting until it received a written five districts the demonstration ban was imposed on five Large districts in Central including the Square acid most of the cites colleges and foreign journalists were forbidden to enter any government department or factory without the ban also applied to interviews by either chinese or foreign journalists which have the intention to disturb the peace and spread pro Pagan the order directing the army to take control of Beijing came nine hours before the martial Law declaration was broadcast Over govern ment see full scale Page 4 civic officials cited for building flaws Boniface Community Centre erected above Watermain Savoie typically overreacting by Radha Krishnan Thampi poor control by Parks and civic prop erties officials has led to construction flaws in several Community a confidential memo from the cites Law department in the event that the procedures Are not tightened up we Are going to have a real disaster one of these City solicitor Linda Kerr wrote to Jim general Man Ager of Parks and in the March Kerr said one such flaw led to the construction of a Community Centre building on top of a experts say its not Wise to erect build Ings on top of water and Gas lines because if they break it could create untold damage and human Kerr and senior civic officials involved in the project refused to identify the area councillors Al Golden Gle Lawn and Guy Savoie also chairman of executive policy said the building on the Watermain was the arc Wood Community at Guilbault Avenue and Evans Street in it opened in Savoie said Only a Corner of the arc Wood building sits on top of a its no big said whose Ward the Centre is could have warned he said Kerr was overreacting in her typical Claude former president of Arch Wood Community said the Watermain was rerouted in Early Rivard said the foul up occurred because no officials from Parks and recreation or civic properties were present when private surveyors came to establish the site of the we told the surveyors where the building should be located we didst know there was a if City employees were they could have warned Golden said councillors and taxpayers would have never known about the foul up if the Media had not obtained a copy of kerrs in the three Page the lawyer said civic officials didst exercise direct care and control Over several taxpayer funded projects on Cit owned one Only has to look at the Community Centre in vital where one of the Community Centre people gave the contractor instructions to relocate the building and the con tractor complied with the request with the result that the building was constructed on top of a Kerr this commentary on the flaws in the procedure is illustrative its by no Means an exhaustive she listing several instances without naming the see policy Page 4 ;