Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Missing links cyclists and other Street beasts must discover a Way to coexist 21 farm report warming to Plant breeders need research funding for Manitoba varieties 13 learning to read different children learn in different ways Winnipeg free press 8 showers today 23 Cloudy tonight 8 second class mail registration number 0286 Winnipeg free press Man Loii april of in Voi 11ftnt 14 Sun Pises fico a m rets fl34 n m Moon rises sets outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery i Winnipeg outside Winnipeg k main switchboard 9499331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 april 1990 vol 118 n0142 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets freed hostage says anger kept him alive from a Reuters Damascus a Pale educator was freed yesterday by pro iranian shiite Muslim militants in Beirut after Days As a and he said his anger kept him Robert Polhill was the first hostage to be released in nearly 314 in a newspaper close to iranian president Hashemi a Sfanjani said today that the lebanese kidnappers should release another hostage immediately without of new York was freed near the Seaside Summerland hotel in Muslim West Beirut at cd and driven immediately to the syrian capital of where he was turned Over to ambassador Edward i want to Tell you in a very Happy Man Polhill told reporters in looking dazed but he left Damascus on military plane to West see freed Page 4 Jeff de free press a Large crowd gathers at the Forks s amphitheatre for an Sunrise ecumenical Earth Day worship Earth Day thrills organizers by Ruth Teichroeb from Sunrise to Sunset yester thousands of Winni Eggers flocked to Earth Day festivities held in Celebration of the burgeon ing worldwide environmental hundreds of worshippers began the Day at an ecumenical Sunrise service at the Forks amphitheatre to Mark the 20th anniversary of the Californi abased Earth by Days an estimated people had taken in the Earth Day fair at Assiniboia Downs and about attended an evening concert at the organizers said they were thrilled by the tremendous turnout for Winnipeg first Earth Day 200 million in 136 countries take part in save our planet which coincided with celebrations in about 140 other coun its absolutely Trina who organized the the response has been Karen Earth Day Orga Nizer in said last night she was ecstatic at How successful the Day turned it showed people what we have available Here in Winnipeg for re cycling and showed places for them to Johnson but it was also Good for environmentalists who were encouraged by such a Large re the crowds prove that preserving the environment has evolved from a fringe Issue to a main Stream Gartner people of All Ages strolled through the fair collecting tips about everything from recycling garbage to growing Alfalfa sprouts at the 50 display in surprised at the number of Robert a Winni Peg said As he held one of see Earth Page 4 Jennifer Klooss glasses Are Ottawa initiates study of Hydro project Bridge Likely to face review cf18 Pilot missing Vancouver up a Canadian forces cf18 Jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 30 Kilometres off the West coast of Vancouver Island yesterday the Fate of the the sole is Jan Martinsen of Canadian forces base cold Lake in Alberta identified the Pilot As Hollis Tucker of is not mar Tinsen he has been flying of 18s for four the aircraft was participating in a routine training Mission with a Sec Ond she Contact was lost shortly after 2 Martinsen the Pilot of the second aircraft spotted debris in the the crash site is about 220 kilo metres due West of Comox or about 30 Kilometres West of the coast of Vancouver search and Rescue aircraft from cab Comox on Vancouver Island see second Page 4 Index Ann 26 26 13 7 38 23 6 Horoscope 26 Jumble 28 Law 24 Legate 26 22 33 sports record to by Donald Campbell the Federal government will conduct an environmental review of Manitoba Hydro Conaw Apa the Federal fisheries department will initiate the review As a result of a Federal court ruling in March regarding the Oldman River dam project in department officials it will be conducted in conjunction with a Provin Cial government Environ mental assessment of the project required under the Manitoba environment the Conaw Apa which will allow Manitoba to sell of Hydro electricity to must receive environmental licences by the end of next Hydro chair Man Brian Ransom if the deadline is not the Crown Corpora Tion will have to pay on Tario Hydro penalties for every three months the project is if the Deal fails to win Environ mental Manitoba Hydro faces a Maxi mum penalty of i think this review throws that deadline out the environmental lawyer Brian who represented a coalition of groups opposed to the Recap Manitoba proposal to build a pulp Mill at the the Oldman River dam decision sets a far reaching he it messes up Hydro the Oldman River Rul ing found a Federal review was necessary because the project affects several areas of Federal response Ransom said he was not Overly worried about the additional scrutiny be cause there is enough time for the two governments to carry out their assess weve been conducting see Tell Page 5 a Federal court ruling on the Oldman River dam in Alberta could trigger environmental reviews on a number of including the planned Charleswood Federal fisheries department personnel in Winnipeg and Ottawa say the court which halted work on the old Man River dam project in will Force them to assess everything from minor farm drainage projects to multimillion Dollar pulp screened not Only will Mega pro sects like the Conaw Apa Hydro development project have to be screened for its Environ mental but so will other projects such As Recap Manitoba plans for a pulp Mill in the Pas and the proposed Charleswood Law yer Brian Pannell he said the City of Winnipeg could also finally be forced to clean up its sew age treatment system to prevent spillage of effluent into the red but there is uncertainty about whether the Federal government currently see officials Page 5 native inmate feels Shes done double time by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Ottawa for More than a Susie Courchene has Felt As if she has been serving double time in Kingston prison for the courts put the 26yearold Brandon woman behind bars for robbery in but More punishing has been the exile from her native lifestyle and six children in Northern Manitoba who she Hast seen since she was arrested 18 months you Are boxed in Here with a Bunch of women of different Cul she said from the there is so much wrong with the they tried to beat the in Dian out of us and now we Are fighting to get our native culture Back because when we follow our traditional we do not get into erase faults she said Ottawa can erase Many of the systems faults by accepting a Federal task forces findings and reforming the Way women Are incarcerated in the wide ranging released Calls for the Federal govern ment to close the 60yearold King Ston jail and replace it with five including one solely for natives in Western each regional Centre would be located on a Large area of land dotted with cottages housing six to 10 Security would be minimal and children would be Al Lowed to live with their the report says women suffer because they do not have enough Contact with their in the most detailed study since when the first Federal review suggested the Kingston women prison be fridays report said All but six of the 150 inmates Are not a threat to see Healing Page 4 exhaustive studies fail to find solution to parole problems women in jail suffer loss of family report says by Paul Wiecek Canadas parole system should be beefed up or abolished altogether depending on whom you speak despite exhaustive studies by Sev eral Royal commissions during the last two the most recent in no one seems to be Able to agree on what should be done with a system police say is routinely abused sometimes with tragic re sults by inmates granted release after serving As Little As on sixth of their victim services groups say the cheating Justice last in series parole system should be abolished and inmates forced to serve their time no ands or were against parole the sentence should fit the life should be life and 10 years see police Page 4 ;