Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Land of Green Gables Prince Edward Island lures Over visitors a Many of those fans of Anne f49 saturday Tough k out Bright spots in a Tough year for local business 031 couple Rescue crumbling House on Fitzgerald walk c3 top athlete rower Silken Lauryann has been selected As Canadas female athlete of the year 057 vol 120 no 22 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press saturday Only Home delivery weekly Home delivery in outside City upfront the spirit of children learning to care Christmas is for children and that age old saying be More True in Winnipeg this Holiday the cites children Are learning to take care of each other this As Many schools Are showing their students How to help others who Are less Dieppe school teachers Kat Hydes Maria Lysenko and Roger Perreaux the hundreds of others in the City who helped their students put together hampers for the Christmas cheer have taught their students a lesson that int on any its the True spirit of g59 de Mandela clash on history in the making bitter Public Exchange Between South Africa two most important president de Klerk and african National Congress Leader Nelson nearly obscured the historic Concession of White minority Power de Klerks government voluntarily sur rendered some of its authority to a new National constitutional forum dominated by ia4 oddities taken to the cleaners your apartment clean can be just ask Luc was issued a ticket last March by Montreal police for making too much noise with his vacuum cleaner As he was cleaning his apartment at in the after Hes spent the last two months Challenge the he missed his Chance to do it earlier be cause police failed to deliver a and because he Hast paid his Fine he now owes the courts a total of checks with police and Montreal sound control division yesterday produced chuckles but no definitive answer on whether Matte is the Only person Ever to have been Given a ticket for running a vacuum Matte himself says its bizarre to get a ticket for vacuuming in the Middle of the quote of the Day were married whats it to you its Steven Beckwith to his stepdaughter after brutally beating his Bride on their wedding Day Ann sports to lotteries the winning number in yesterdays provincial lottery draw was the winning number was Datl Tetaz today mainly wind increasing to surest 30 ousting to 50 in the High us tonight tomorrow a few Cloudy Sun Salt Moon Riff fete december 1991 Mayer tells Farmers he overpaid by Larry Kusch agriculture reporter even while announcing yesterday that wheat prices were going grains minister Charlie Mayer had More bad news for beleaguered Prairie the Federal government gave them too much Money last and it May ask for some of it in an announcement that caught Many grab growers by Mayer said Ottawa overpaid Farmers a total of million last Spring under the soon Obede Munct Western Grain stabilization in the government made an interim payment of million under the program to compensate Western Grain Farmers for Low crop it had anticipated that a final payment would be made this fall before the Wasp was wound Down in favor of two new government safety net but Federal officials underestimated How much Grain Farmers would sell Between March and the end of the official crop year july and farm another Factor in determining program were lower than the overpayment has created a dilemma for the which is still under pres sure to boost farm we have not decided what to do Mayer told a Winnipeg news its possible we might try to recover it the the thought that Ottawa might Bill Strug gling Grain producers for the Money out raged some members of the farm Community see Marc free press Hospital threat police arrest a 31yearold suspect at 25 Cornish the Man was followed to the Cornish Avenue nue yesterday after Security staff at Misericordia address after an incident at the Hospital and police general Hospital were threatened by a Man with a were then called to the cocaine no longer confined to Rich by Randy Turner staff reporter smart dummies chose break by Stephen Ostick pop music writer if Paul the shuttle bus Driver had his Winnipeg rockers the crash test dummies would be stars by they were really he guiding his Van in and out of californian notorious rus hour and they seem like a regular there Good tippers and you can Tell from their vocabulary they seem to have id say they deserve to make if Only it were that with copies of their debut the ghosts that haunt in about Canadian the dummies Are the Success Story of the year in their own but when it comes to making it in the there fighting Odds that for years have said Canadian bands cant Cut it Down for every Bryan Adams and Alannah Sellers in America and around the Are others that sell hundreds of thousands of albums in Canada but find the Market virtually impossible to see dummies on the c21 it is no longer the Champagne of to on the streets of it is becom ing the hard drug of Choice among users from pimps to Middle class it is cocaine thanks to falling prices and rising it is now a keying redi ent in the Cycle of violent a Rome in this and its also taking a heavy toll on those who smoke and inject t alcoholism foundation of Manitoba officials expect to handle 549 cocaine related admissions by the year ending april com pared with the 328 admissions Between april 1988 and according to a jus completed internal report provided to the free nearly one in every five abusers who ends up at the afm addiction treatment Centre is a primary cocaine Ive probably seen More cocaine clients in the last two years than Ive seen in the pre Vious is said Art a clinical psychologist with the i have a client who told its a blizzard out in the people didst talk so about Herscovitch its obviously More people cant use what they cant they think its the Champagne of but its a highly addictive that the last police seized a 10kilogram stash of cocaine a record bust for the it hardly created a Ripple on the the average person would be freaked a recovering said in an in people in Winnipeg dont have any idea of How much Coke is going its like the bust of 10 Kees by City police and ramp last what about the other 100 Kees that Are circulating around Winnipeg the bad news is police believe the situation with cocaine and crack will get worse before it gets not Only Are they Putnum but they Are facing resource cutbacks and manpower freezes while traffickers reap the lucrative profits of their burgeoning were but were not getting them vice inspector Ray Johns in not saying we were the least funded of All vice squads in the country for Johns its not even that one of the frustrations of this you know what they drug dealers Are doing out but you cant do everything you want to because theres not enough funding or a blizzard of b15 cinders Only reminder of family Christmas staff reporter a charred tree in a blackened apartment is All that remains of the Christmas that Char Lene Houle was trying to build for her three the 26yearold single a parable bring herself to look at her three bedroom apartment yesterday evening after a fire gutted the she said she would stay with friends last then decide what to do in the i dont know about Christmas she who has been raising her children on provincial disabled welfare said she Doest know How she will replace her she has Only the clothes on her her daughter didst even have time to save her Snow boots and Winter coat As they Houle said her Niney Earold and her Fivey Earold were at school at the her three Earold Daugh was no one was injured in the which sent a dozen residents of the 46unit housing com owned by Winnipeg rehab housing out to the the fire started in her daughters but fire officials said yesterday they Are still trying to determine the building caretaker Leonard Mitchell said some residents of the building will try to help the he said Houle would be Given an other apartment in the but he said he hoped others would come Forward with assistance in furnishing she has absolutely he Marc free pass i dont know about Christmas says Mother of in sunday s free press a closeup look at Holiday games and p ;