Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 23, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation Winnipeg free press a o september one dreary season follows another Summers but How to Tell by Brian Mckenna Canadian press Toronto the season that traditionally brings the Start of dreary help but arrive unnoticed this Large parts of Canada were under Clou filled skies yester but that want much of a change from the miserable summer Many canadians had to endure weather Wise this it was probably the worst summer of the environment Canada climatologist Brian Smith said of the unusual mix of Cloud and rain that trashed vacations just about everywhere in Canada except British fall arrived at Central when the orbit of the Earth put the Sun directly Over the celestial dividing night and Day into equal although yesterday broke Bright and sunny in Newfoundland and in parts of the Southern Prairies and elsewhere it was generally an other Day of Cloud or rain or some Northern locales even reported Snow and in parts of Northern including the bad sledding ended really Early this year As 11 centimetres of sn6w More than four inches fell monday the last Day of it was a fitting end to a season that began june 21 with some record Low Frost warnings and even Snow in parts of Northern Ottar after that the wet weather blamed partly on the effects of a Mas Sive volcanic eruption in the Philip Pines lingered like an unwelcome visitor from the Rockies to the East in it was the coolest sum Mer since 1927 As the mean tempera social life disappearing in Rural study says by Kevin Bell Thomson news service Ottawa higher costs and the loss of Post offices and grocery stores Are wiping out social life in Rural Ca Nadian a statistics can Ada study Many canadians Are willing to put up with the higher costs and sacrifices associated with Rural but the weeding out of traditional ser vices is taking its writes Sta scan researcher Craig Mckie in a study called does Rural matter rationalization of services in Rural areas appears to threaten the very basis of social Mckie services such As passenger the Rural Post office or the grocery store forces not Only a change of transportation and communication patterns but May also Force a social Milieu to grow Mckines analysis lends support to Rural which is fighting can Ada posts policy of closing Rural Post offices and franchising postal Rural dignity argues that closure of the Post offices is contributing to the destruction of Rural centres sense of the Sta scan which is included in a recently published Book called Rural and Small town found that Rural families income is generally smaller than earnings in Urban Rural residents also spend a higher proportion of their in comes on recce per Sonal alcohol and household lower costs Are found Only for per Sonal taxes and Rural Canada is also plagued by an exodus of Young an aging pop lower wages and fewer Job of the study who also wrote a study on Rural life 20 years said he is dismayed by the changes he has theres not much to be enthusiastic he said in an in a general it has changed com when i go Back to places in familiar there is nothing really left of social life in Rural when he was studying Rural life 20 years it was common to see coun try picnics or reunions that attracted 100 to 150 he i suspect that those dont even take place any there just Arent any although the trappings of Community life Are disappearing in Rural can some canadians Are making a personal decision to accept the sacrifices that come with Rural Mckie despite the disadvantages facing Rural country life offers attractive and enhanced Community attachment for contemporary canadians in some limited the study at All oldies weve put our Money where our Mouth is Melvin the magnificent Money machine is All oldies ky58s personal talking Bank machine and Hes giving away More than in free Money listen for your Chance to win your share daily on All oldies for selection of Hunting accessories in Western Canada Over 3000 guns to choose from i i i i i american Eagle shot shells by Federal Box of 20 Copper plated shot 12 a 2v411v 410ga 3 20 a 2v4 1 49 Clay targets coloured 90s or 79 Case 1 free 32 Page fall flyer now available tute sagged to about two degrees below said adding the City was fairly typical of Southern Ontario As a rain fell on 42 Days in the july Aust compared with 29 Days formally and rainfall amounts to led 247 Millimetres compared with 11 in a Normal Toronto and it was with just 206 hours of Sunshine in both july and a ust compared with 281 and 252 hours Smith said the july figure was the cloudies on record and the records go Back to besides the Smith said it is unusual to have a summer that is Headquarters i challenger Hunting 112ga 2h 20 per Box 3 challenger super m Canum Hunting licenses and Duck Stamps now has All licenses Duck Stamps we Are your Complete licensing Headquarters x 3 blocks North of Polo Park 1385 Eluce at Empress 7668966 personal shopping Only Sale prices in effect while quantities last Sale ends to to to saturday to both Cool and wet As the same Vancouver did better than usual with the mean daily temperature in july and August at about degrees above said Bruce Findlay of the Canadian Cli mate Centre in moving temperatures and Sun Shine Levels went Down and precipitation went Winnipeg averaged degrees be Low Normal at degrees while rain fall amounts were eight per cent above average and the about of Sun Shine was 19 per cent below Normal at an average of 237 hours a Mills says she was quite relieved to get Back her thief with heart returns prosthesis Canadian press Vancouver thief had a change of heart and now Wendy Mills has her artificial leg of suburban new West had suffered through two weeks of pain using a standby then a new replacement leg after her regular prosthesis was stolen while it was in a sports bag on a by ferries baggage the standby leg had been de signed to be used primarily with High not regular but last a cleaner found the stolen leg in the handicapped washroom aboard the ferry Queen attached was an unsigned Type written note saying this was found at the Victoria ferry Termi please return it to the rightful in quite relieved knowing there is out there a thief but at least one with a Mills her prosthetic St had worked overtime to provide her with a new but its like breaking in a new pair of shoes and in getting she the 38yearold lost her right leg below the knee in a 1979 shooting she is still missing a Blue sports bag containing personal ferry representative Erin Cald Well said ferry passengers can put Luggage on Racks at each terminal for the Crew to carry on tags Arent used but thefts Arent a she digital music plans Send out Shock Waves Canadian press i i Ottawa an application by Shaw Cable systems to pipe cd Quality music into Homes has can Adas music Industry and radio Broad casters up in the to be heard by the Canadian radio television and Tele communications commission this is for a licence to operate a sat Elliget Cable service offering 35 commercial free digital music Chan Nels 24 hours a Day for a its totally theres no and no spoken says Shaws Heather the system would allow Consumers to hear music they might not hear any where she a lot of these like chamber dont even make it to the which would be Avail Able nationally from Shaw and from other Cable company would Range from contemporary to classical to the music Industry says Shaws application threatens the livelihood of producers and record companies because under current copyright they be adequately compensated for the works they they the cd Quality sound would fur ther encourage Consumers to make their own tapes rather than buying the Canadian association of Broad representing private television and radio says the pro posed new service would lure listen ers away when almost two thirds of private radio stations Are losing Mon that in turn would Hurt the music Industry whose composers and publishers earn million a year in copyright payments from the music associations and broadcast ers want the crts to delay dealing with Shaws request until new copy right currently being drawn is passed and until after two planned crts hearings Are held one on the restructuring of Canadian broadcasting and one on the future of private while some amendments to the copyright act Are expected to be passed by the commons this oth ers Are years Shaw and the Ca Nadian Cable television association Are asking that the licence be granted before the technology for Consumers to pick up the service from the United states is introduced late next Shaw has offered to pay two per cent of its Revenue towards perform ing this amount is absurdly Low Given the importance of music to the apply the society of authors and music publishers of Canada Canada at a glance Auto worker crushed to death from the Canadian press a general motors worker was crushed on the Assembly line a Day after two con tract workers plunged to their deaths at another pm Plant in this Niagara Peninsula police William caught his clothing in a piece of machinery at an engine police he was pronounced dead at a was at his Normal work station on the v8 engine line when he Acci dentally turned on a bore Ream ing police his coveralls became caught and As he was being twisted around he accidentally turned on another switch that began to move the equipment he then became pinned up against an engine aerosol Justice Ottawa ramp detach ments in British Columbia and the Northwest territories will soon carry aerosol cans in their holsters for a new Brand of Law starting next about 400 mounties in Nan port Alberni and Prince George in British Columbia and Yellowknife and Iqaluit in the will carry cans of Pep per Spray to subdue Law break crowds and the aerosol which can incapacitate a person for up to 45 will be carried in a Holster on the officers no deportation a woman who says her husband will chop her to pieces if she is returned to Trinidad will not be deported to the Caribbean immigration minister Bernard Valcourt said but Dularie will be deported to the United states and immediately returned to Canada to apply for landed immigrant said an Immi Gration Bood Lal fled Trinidad and came to Toronto to escape 17 years of beatings by her Hus but the violence continued when he followed her Here in her husband was convicted 11 times in Canada of either assaulting or threatening to kill he voluntarily re turned to Trinidad last year rather than serve a jail sen tence but the threats con the Case angered Wom ens groups because immigration officials denied refugee status on the grounds Bood Lal fled to Canada to escape domes tic violence instead of political nuclear pot bust a worker at Ontario Hydro Dar Lington nuclear Power Plant turned himself in to police yesterday and was charged with growing marijuana at the facile police two other workers have also been charged after Security guards at the Plant found two tiny marijuana plants both Only five centimetres High growing in a Remote part of the sprawling facility in this Lake Ontario Community East of Tor the seedlings were found growing under fluorescent a Durham Region police spokesman natives arrested Prince three members of the git an gawk band were arrested yesterday when ramp enforced an injunction against natives who were blocking the main in rail line in Northwestern Brit ish the indians maintain that on the entire in line from Prince George to Prince Only the sections in the two cities downtown areas have been legally transferred to there where the rail line crosses the they Are in tres ;