Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 29, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus education Reform report on schools Only serves the vested interests business sounds of silence five stores close in Winnipeg wifi shakeout 13 Tempo entertaining Challenge test your knowledge of entertainment trivia in 1989 23 Cloud tonight16 Cloudy tomorrow 3 second class Mai registration number 086 december free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 part 2 nobody is guaranteed a free meal in where hundreds of the adults and seniors must rely on kindness for in a three part reporter Nick Martin looks at problems facing the cites massive daily Effort feeds poor by Nick Martin eating in Winnipeg can be so the cites hungry poor depend on a massive daily Effort in which virtually every participant is a Volunteer and every morsel is wholesale food grocery marketing Farmers and individuals donate food that carries no guarantee its Quality and Quantity will be sufficient on any Given thousands Volunteer to Cook and serve the food in an informal coalition of Community churches and individuals that carries no guarantee there will be enough people to do the Winnipeg hungry poor Are hungry Yearin and for the cliched the equally cliched traditional Christmas hamper or Turkey dinner at the local shelter or Church is but a Blip in 52 weeks of Knock the system at All and popular Wrath will fall upon warns Doug executive director of the North end Community ministry any griping is taken As a Knock on the Christmas cheer Board or Winnipeg a major problem with food Banks is they become and Peoples attitudes become institutionalized so they think its of to take a can of pork and Beans to the football game or hockey game or leave a few cans in the bin at the grocery said he said intercity Community workers oppose food Banks As a poor substitute for adequate social run out of they run out of there not nutritionally they dont allow recipients any dig he Winnipeg Harvest scratches for food where it the Gro Warow Campaign is entering its fourth year of asking Winni Eggers to donate vegetables from their backyard this years Bounty worked out to about 10 kilograms per family of beets one weeks shopping for the average but a Winter Long supplement for the in the past patrons at a Rod Stewart and a nightclub have donated food As part of the Price of businesses competed to raise food a hair stylist clipped customers for food simply by being its a powerful statement something is said David executive director of the Winnipeg tucked away in an old brewery on a Side Street in Winnipeg Harvest is a cold bedlam of organized stuffed with Cartons and crates of vegetables and the food May be surplus to a company some a Day or two past its some flawed yet restaurants have offered their but the dangers in Cooling and reheating cooked food Are too Winnipeg Harvest cart give balanced see food Page 5 ammonia leak forces 130 to flee James Arena Index Ann 24 13 6 27 Jumble 16 sports to 24 26 by Paul Wiecek an ammonia leak at the James civic Centre last night forced the removal of about 130 including two Wingette teams that were on the ice at the time of the Winnipeg fire and hazardous materials workers were called to the Arena at after a compressor used for ice making sprang a leak and began spewing raw ammonia into the a fan noticed the smell and i traced it Back to the Jeff an Arena the compressor sprang a Hole and it was a straight discharge of High pressure Sopko the stuffs really heavy and it was creeping along the it was quite a Sopko said he immediately ordered everyone from the Arena and cancelled the which was tied Midway through the second at the rate it was filling the compres Sor it would have knocked you out in a it want so bad in the but it the Arena was filling up pretty he players and Arena workers were sent to another room that has a separate ventilation Sopko firefighters managed to shut Down the compressor and electric fans were used to air out the City of Winnipeg and provincial environment department officials were also called to the scene to a second compressor was turned on late last Sopko and the Arena was to operate As usual court orders dam review a photo residents in the romanian town of sight Sara decorate their Community Christmas elite guards fight for lives from the news services supporters of the executed Hartline ruler Nicolae Ceausescu ignored the new romanian governments ultimatum to surrender or die and staged More shootouts in the Capi authorities arrested More members of the Ceausescu family yesterday and one of his Brothers was found hanged in Vienna in an apparent the fighting broke out at night and during the Day romanians began clean ing up where Many buildings were destroyed in the heaviest Battles of the revolt that toppled the East blocs last Hartline communist romanians pack women swept up and work ers replaced hundreds of Glass panes blown out of candlelit shrines have been set up along Bucharest streets to Mark where students were gunned Down by Security forces during demonstrations on the pavement shrines were adorned with Christmas fir their branches entwined with wreaths of Flowers and hoops of freshly baked bread a traditional gift to the dead in the romanian orthodox As they have for Long lines circled food but instead of shelves emptied by food exports under Ceausescu harsh economic shoppers found cheese even Coffee and the revolutionary government had Given members of Ceausescu Security police until yesterday to surrender or see fighting Page 4 Bouchard told to strike panel within 30 Days by Aldo Santin the future of the controversial Raf fert Alameda dam project was placed in doubt yesterday when the Federal court of Canada ruled that it must be subject to review by an Independent Justice Francis Muldoon yesterday ordered the Federal government to strike a panel within 30 Days to conduct a full environmental review of the project or its licence would be the court decision was seen As a Victory for environmental legislation by the parties that initiated the court a its a Martin a lawyer representing the Canad an wildlife resignation urged the federations position has never been to Stop any but to ensure every project is subject to a full Examina Mason said Muldoon ordered Ottawa to appoint a panel to investigate aspects of the project which the Federal environment department had deter mined would have significant or Moder ate environmental Mason said Muldoon was critical of the actions of the environment department and environment minister Lucien Bou Chard for issuing a licence for the project in apparent contravention of an earlier court order and Federal a Brandon University pro Fessor said last night that Bouchard should resign because of his Joe who was a co applicant with the federation in the court said it is Clear that Bouchard broke the Law when he issued the its quite Clear from the decision that Bouchard erred in not order ing a panel Dolecki it is an error that he should not have and for that reason it is appropriate that he resign or the Federal govern ment should Force him to spokesmen for the Federal government could not be reached for see construction Page 4 tycoon waxes philosophical by David Roberts Winnipeg free press Montreal Charles billionaire baseball club Tennis tycoon Friend of prime ministers and fierce Canadian is Philosophi Cal about the Day he lost in a recent described his philosophy of life and How it feels to have people constantly asking him for favors and from a family that controls assets estimated to be in the Range of Bronfman stands among Kenneth Galen Conrad Black and the Richardson and Eaton As one of this country fabulously As co chairman of the Seagram com Pany the worlds largest liquor Bronfman sits on a dozen corporate including Power the Bank of and Dupont de Nemours and he is a member of the most luxurious clubs and associations in Canada and the has been the recipient of the order of Canada the Golda Meir leadership award by the Israel Bond organization and was named great Mon Trealer Hes on his second marriage and has three adult from his rented office in Montre Ivee press reporter David Roberts f parlayed a Book into a on hour interview with a business tycoon who haunt talked at length with the Media since the late 1970s Charles in Roberts bought a used copy of Emil ludwigs definitive biography of Napoleon Bonaparte a Good condition first it Cost him when he finally opened the Book last he noticed the signature of its previous scratched elegantly in Black inside the front cover he wondered if it was Sam Bronfman the late liquor or his Saidye Rosner Bronfman both Manitoban from Humble beginnings who Rose to and what if it was Roberts decided to Send a private query to Charles Bronfman in dear in the religion reporter at the Winnipeg free i an hour with Bronfman first of a series own this and l was wondering about this but i must warn you i drive a hard i bought the Book in Ottawa for and in advised by an expert its now Worth in excess of id be willing to forgive the in Exchange for an interview on the following subjects economics and to his Bronfman was gracious enough to Send him a typed he the signature was unmistakably that of his Saidye the family would like the Book for either the or the he Roberts chose the Here is the first of three als former Windsor hotel the building is owned by the Laurentian insurance Bronfman directs a business Empire and philanthropic endeavours that Span the on a Rosewood Coffee table in the Vestibule of his office tasteful but not opulent a 1941 limited Goldleaf hardcover by Stephen Leacock foundations of its published by the House of the coloured photo plates in the Book Are by the office floors Are on one see Market Page 4 ;