Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 22, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday a Holiday package of games and puzzles for everyone boxing Day deals shoppers can find Good deals on boxing Day but youre better off to stay at Home if the budget is tight Holiday burnout if the bags under your eyes could hold santas its time to slowdown the Crescent Parkway for the Homes of cites Rich and famous 115 vol 120 no 23 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press Doc weekly Home delivery in outside City december 1991 upfront Smallwood is carried from Church favorite son Laid to rest would have a the Well heeled and those of modest Means gathered yesterday to Honor newfoundlands bes known Man who led the province into Mer Premier Joey Joey Smallwood loved a crowd and this one would have warmed his prime minister Mulroney told the gathering of about in a roman Catholic Basilica towering Over the City and his Delight in seeing Friend and foe join in genuine tribute to the great Story of his life would As the Irish brought a smile to his lips and a tear to his As homeless Man to report san radio station has scrapped plans to have two reporters dress in shabby clothes and spend two weeks on the streets and has instead hired a real Street Dweller to cover the plight of the Harry who lost both hands in an Accident and sleeps in a Church says he gave up a firewood business to find out what life on the streets was go news director John Mcconnell said of the stations decision we wanted to get the perspective of what its really official estimates Peg the number of san Francisco homeless at but advocacy groups say there Are Many a12 oddities space rescued stray dog ran around the City for three Days with a Gold fish bowl stuck on his eluding animal control officers who tried to Rescue the Twoy Earold retrieve Shepherd mix was saved by employees of an automobile who caught pulled the bowl off his head and Are nursing him Back to he did look like a space Cadet running around out said animal control officer mar Jorie but can you imagine starving to death because of that bowl and not even being Able to get a drink quote of the Day i have no doubt show for their next court and in betting seven grand that they millionaire Daniel who turned into a real life Santa for five prisoners in the Nassau county jail outside new York City by posting bail for them so they can spend Christmas with their ib22 Ann sports to lotteries lotto and Bonus number the plus the plus winning number is weather today mainly High Low tonight tomorrow mainly Sun Moon rim at Alma Ata Gorbachev Given notice to quit by pen montaigne Knight rudder newspapers Moscow nearly three quarters of a Century after its birth in Petersburg Dur ing the russian the soviet Union was Laid to rest yesterday in a Cowkey Cere Mony in the Central asian City of Alma the worlds first communist state died As leaders of 11 of its 15 former republics signed a document creating a common wealth of Independent the formation of the new bloc of states also brings to an end the historic seven year reign of soviet presi Dent Mikhail who is being swept from Power by the democratic and nationalist forces he began to unleash in the 11 unofficially headed by rus Sian president Boris said last night they were giving Gorbachev formal notice that the soviet its had ceased to Gorbachev spokesman said the soviet president would step Down in a matter of probably in a televised address to his former the creation of the Commonwealth Caps a breathtaking series of events that have unfolded since the August coup that failed to oust the communist hardliners who deposed Gorbachev for three Days had sought to pre serve the crumbling soviet but their a photo Yeltsin Kazakhstan Naza Bayev shake hands after signing botched attempt led in just four months to the Complete collapse of the communist party and the communist nation created by Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin in novem republics rebuild see i career fades to Black a4 i Commonwealth heralds trouble a5 i ukrainians nervous As Home Sweet Home Ken free press three months after getting a double lung transplant just in time for he quickly headed in 17yearold Cory Connell came Home yes outside for a game of Street hockey b14 tragic Story of family devastated by fire unleashes a flood of Goodwill free press correspondent Maggie gently placed miss Piggy on a Hal open bag filled with boxes of Kraft bedding and a this is for she referring to the three Earold daughter of Charlene Maggie and her parents Are among scores of people who have rushed to donate anything they can to a paraplegic Mother of three who lost virtually everything she owns in an apartment fire i want expecting anything like said who still seemed a Little dazed by the events of the previous 24 this is boxes and bags filled with everything from Cash dishes and towels to two three a stereo and wrapping bows i appreciate what they Winni Eggers have done so Houle Treyve really helped the 26yearolds neck was broken in an automobile Accident three years and she is now paralysed from the Chest Houle was separated from her common Law husband years and takes care of her children with the help of homemakers provided through her disabled welfare it gets hard but i love my kids so its not that much trouble to take care of them by she said i managed Well in my i like looking after my kids More than in the Houle said she had a Wall filled with pictures of her pictures that she can never never be babies she the which destroyed the three bedroom started in three Earold Shayleen but officials Haven determined tie cause Houle lived in the Block fonts i think in still in it just Hast sunk in she right now just thinking of getting the kids things i want to keep everything As stable As possible for them so that its not too much of a Houles plight has touched off a wave of free press telephones rang throughout the Day with readers offering Money and other Shes in a with three kids and Shes lost said George who donated some clothes for the kids and some its christmastime and if we dont help it wont be Christmas any theres a lot of bad news out said Lawrence who also called the free press to offer and people want to feel As though they can do id like to feel like i can bus Driver Ray Stoetzel said Winnipeg transit has started a collection for were part of the Community and we want to help there really in a rough hotel to recoup millions in taxes by Radha Krishnan Thampi City Hall reporter Santa Glaus is coming to hotel Delta Winnipeg this year with a Lackful of Cool million for sure and another million later Courtesy of mistakes by the cites assessment under a private settlement hammered out by chief assessor Bob Brown and the hotels Michael the City will nearly halve the hotels tax assessment Between 1985 and the result is a million re according to one the hotel stands to get another million once other appeals Are the Manitoba municipal Board agreed last week to the terms of the million Settle Brown said the actual refund under that Deal would be about but inter est will bring it to there Are about 100 other commercial re Alty assessment appeals still Brown who took Over the problem Ridden department last pointed to changed rules and new interpretations by the courts As some of the reasons for current the City is estimated to have paid out about million in reassessment Appeal refunds since the according to Allan Golden Greg Selinger finance agreed with Brown that changed reassessment rules Are to blame for the huge the province changed to Market value based assessment in replacing a decade old system based on building its going to take several years for the Market value based system to shake Down through the Selinger we Are paying the Price for going from an old system to a new but Golden Gle Lawn said its a sad commentary that taxpayers Are forced to pay hefty refunds for mistakes by officials and civic politicians who failed to Flag the Blun Ders of the assessment i want to know what do Bud Ike Nick Frank Steele and Marvin Samphire have to say about All Golden referring to former and current senior civic and assessment they should have flagged the problems before it got out of we Are Likely to pay out about million in refunds for their past Golden asked when the refund judgments will Steele they would end one Day when the assessment developed by the chief assessor will be i am not Happy that City assess ments Are but you dont Point Fin Gers at talks give Blacks Hope for change by Howard Witt Chicago Tribune South Africa like a lot of Black South africans living in the violent township of 58 year old Louisa Rivers was glued to her to set Friday afternoon As the nations historic constitutional negotiations got under inside the tiny living room of her Dilapi dated Concrete Rivers was keen to Dis cover whether the Long awaited talks held any Prospect for improving her difficult apartheid had made her a widow her Hus a political was hanged in 1983 after being convicted of and chronic discrimination had made her poor her four children and six grandchildren must All live together with her because they cannot find houses or the face of a White government min ister filled her to he started talking about it was not our intention to deprive other people of their rights and to contribute to their but eventually it led to just Dawie de the Cabinet was saying during a insofar As that we deeply regret the words filled the and Rivers listened de Villiers speech was the first time that the ruling White minority National party has Ever formally apologized for the cruelties inflicted As a result of its discriminatory perhaps South Africa could really Rivers mused the thing this Man says with his Mouth is what is in his at is what most Ordinary Citi Zens of this Lon divided country Are dearly hoping now that real negotiations about South Africa future have finally in mondays free press a few romantic men still pop the big question with 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