Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january pro gambling mohawks blast police station Ottawa up heavily armed Mohawk warriors stormed the Canadian Side of the Akwesasne Reserve yesterday and blasted hundreds of rounds of automatic gunfire at a Reserve police Regis police said no one was injured during the shootout Between the anti Gam bling police and the pro gambling police chief Ernest King said two truck loads of warriors fired ak47 assault rifles and automatic shotguns at More than 30 men outside the police station on three separate occasions late saturday night and Early mothers needs spurred invention up a Neces sity for her Mother led to Adele wards invention that helps save the elderly from serious it started five years when wards Mother became a resident of an extend care nursing Home in this Northern Ontario for her own safety she had to be restrained sometimes because it want Safe for her to walk on her said who now lives in but she would Only have about 15 to 20 minutes of rehabilitation each because that All there was time and it just didst seem enough to mobility promotes and improves spatial and body aware strengthens Bones and pro motes said so what she Ward was a special chair that could help her Mother be Mobile but Ward find a Light weight chair that was impossible to tip and her search covered North America and she i kept Why Hast a Large company addressed this need then i ill have to do something if i want this for my so Ward designed the chair her the outcome is the with a patented six wheel the chair features a reversible pivoting Catheter bag Pivotal easily operated brakes and movable users can operate the chair by shuffling their or because the chair is so wards design caught the Eye of people who helped her test the de vice and got government approval for its extend care offered its facilities and for Ward tested the chair in Sudbury Queen Sway Gen eral As Well As at extend care where her Mother stayed until her death in yesterday we returned but they had twice As Many bullets coming at us As we had at he he said the the unofficial police Force of the american retreated after each outburst of spokesman John boots said the police sparked the gun he said police and deputies opened fire on several warriors supporters driving across the Frozen River near the police he also denied the warriors invaded the Canadian Side of the they May have just been trying to get on to the Ether Side of the some of them might have been coming Back from police fired about 30 rounds on to the he they were firing Low on to the boots said the warriors supporters May have returned about three shots or what else could they do he people were shooting at he said the warriors supporters restrained their fire out of fear that a stray Bullet could miss the police station and hit a nearby King said he heard sporadic gunfire throughout saturday night and Early yester Day morning from various parts of we thought it was a tactic to draw us away from the police he the gun Battle came several hours after an ant gambling gunman burst into a Casino on the Side of the which straddles the Border near the Man reportedly fired about 30 Shotgun blasts into the no one was a photo Gerald of was arrested by new York state police after the boots said Regis police intentionally sparked yesterdays gun Battle so they could blame increasing violence on the tempers on the Reserve have frequently exploded amid controversy Over the illegal multimillion Dollar Gam bling Industry on the and disputes Over the natives sovereignty have forced american and Canadian police off the whooping Crane population up for seventh year Warrior to Rescue an unidentified Greenpeace diver rescues a giant Sunfish in the fish was caught in a taiwanese driftnet in the Tasman about 800 Kilometres Southeast of below the Sunfish is a the target of driftnet Edmonton up the Popula Tion of the endangered whooping Crane in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canadas North has increased for the seventh straight says a scientist for environment Canadas Canadian wildlife Ernie who spent 25 years bringing the Bird Back from the verge o has Good reason to whoop it up Over the latest Statis tics that show an increase last year of eight Birds to 146 Over dry weather in the summer could have been disastrous for the the resulting lower water Levels in marshy nesting areas make them easier prey for wolves and Force them to travel farther for but the weather was not a and at least one of the Breeding which usually nest North of the Parks Northwest territories Alber to made a nest last year in said id love to see them expanding farther South Down into the province where the Days Are a Little longer in summer and the prospects Are better for he the whooping named for its Bugle Call that can be heard for five can grow As tall As adults have a wingspan of up to metres and weigh up to Majestic in the Birds Are Pristine White with Black Wing tips and a Bright red the North american Bird is the rarest of the worlds cranes and Wood Buffalo about 500 kilo metres North of is one of a and the nesting Sites for wild whooping another flock is being established in Idaho and there is a smaller captive flock in the flock migrates kilo metres to the Arkansas National wildlife Refuge in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico every the Crane population began to decline at the turn of the Century with the destruction of their nesting grounds and reached an Al time Low in 1941 when As few As 16 there were just 43 whooping cranes in the world in 1966 when Kuyt started working on a management program for the Birds Kuyt credits a commitment from scientific volunteers and the Canadian and United states governments for the dramatic come he also gives credit to a bold Experiment launched in 1966 in which eggs Are taken from the nests each Spring for hatching by the plentiful and smaller Sandhill cranes at a Refuge in Idaho to establish a second a female Whooper normally lays two eggs and one of the Chicks often starves to the Experiment involved relocating the second but the program was controversial at the the problem was ensuring egg left behind was Kuyt jokingly explained the High tech involving a Wool sock and bucket of warm floats eggs to see if the eggs Are Kuyt floats them in the if there is a slight rocking it indicates life inside the Kuyt puts the second egg into a Wool sock and transfers it to a padded suitcase filled with hot water bottles in a waiting if a nest contains two bad Kuyt can Transfer one of the Good ones Hes already collected to the Kuyt said the practice has resulted in a 20percent increase in the hatching Success of the cranes in Wood Buffalo while things look Good for the Whooper in steady erosion of the Gulf coastline in Texas be cause of heavy boat traffic has Des troyed some important and there is the eve present spectre of an Oil spill that could virtually wipe out the waste recycling about to experts predict Quebec says Quebec up the baby Bon uses Quebec has been paying for about a year and a half appear to have encouraged More families to have a third child in govern ment statistics there were 13 per cent More third children born to Quebec families than in for a total of Jeanclaude an official with the Quebec pensions said it would be hard to attribute the Rise in third children solely to the but the increase was Large enough to indicate that these bonuses have had a positive in he a total of Quebec babies were born last an increase of six per cent Over there was a four percent increase in first Chil five per cent More and eight per cent More fourth Chil Quebec families now get a Premium for the birth of a first for a and for a third and subsequent the program Cost about Mil lion in Quebec has one of the lowest birthrates in the industrialized the total annual number of births would have to increase to to halt the decline in the Menard Ottawa up despite temporary problems caused by a glut of old Canadas recycling programs Are headed for Boom say key theres a great will to do said Peter president of the recycling and litter control made up of soft drink their suppliers and major Ontario Blue Box program is on the verge of a major Quebec is committed to a lion curbside recycling system and several other provinces Are either considering programs or testing the much reported demise of the Blue Box program is greatly exam says Robert president of Ontario Multi materials recycling a nonprofit group set up by Industry to promote Recy rapid growth not Only is it alive and Well but its growing at a rapid under Ontario about households collect alumni newspapers and plastic bottles in boxes for curbside Public support has been much greater than last year the program collected tonnes of roughly 14 per cent of the waste produced in participating a worldwide glut of used newsprint has caused prices for the material to Tumble and led to fears that the Blue Box program could but Flemington said these fears Are not he said the surplus of newsprint will be absorbed As More paper companies install drinking which allow them use waste news print in their several Canadian companies have announced they intend to build such estimated to Cost about million were going to have an overcapacity in drinking said fleas soon As that the Price of newsprint jumps up because they paper manufacturers All have to feed in that municipalities who now Are saying there getting beaten up on the Price of newsprint will have a Windfall he said there Are steady markets for aluminium and plastic Bot there have been some prob lems with contaminated Glass that Are being Quebec recycling program will be funded entirely by the private says Michel chair Man of collected selective a coalition of government and citizens groups which is Organ izing the Primeau said 400 companies have so far indicated support for the plan which Calls for million in initial weve got support from major industries and were going full tilt he said the new program would be similar to getting the sys tem in place province wide will take seven years but parts of it will be ready several municipalities in the Mon Treal area plan to begin curbside recycling this recycling trends in the 1990s will continue to be set by negotiations Are under Way with six Industry groups to expand the funding of the Blue Box the number of households covered and the Range of materials the aim is to Recycle corrugated boxboard used in pack aging such As Cereal mixed plastic and organic waste from kit Chen and vital its phone Centre staff ;