Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside slicing the sugar pie locked out locals May be pawns in Price War Between giants 64 pages vol 12no 154 publications registration no 0r6 Winnipeg free press 50 May 1994 dynamite Deal blows up on Samaritan by Gordon free press columnist a former Street Tough turned Street worker got 11 Sticks of deteriorating dynamite out of the sweaty hands of a youth gang member and into the mitts of the police bomb 26yearolds cover name int looking for a All he wants is the he borrowed to make the but Rob the International Centre worker who acted As Dannys go Between with says crime stoppers int holding out much crime he was int in the business of paying people to commit its illegal to buy dynamite without a not Only no one was that was part of Dannys he wanted to defuse an explosive but he want prepared to rat on the i just wanted to get it off the crime Ron Dawson suggested yesterday Dannys Deal might Merit making an exception in the crime stoppers in Dannys there was no intent to commit a Danny said he first heard about the explosives last week when a youth gang member offered to sell him two he if you want to do some this will do More than a the gang member explained he stumbled on the dynamite while breaking into a at first he wanted for two Danny was but he managed to borrow after making the Deal in a Back Danny took the two Sticks to Bray at the International Centre Bray called crime stoppers and the bomb squad was when police saw the centimetre by 20 centimetre gel Sticks were literally sweating they suggested the dynamite dealer might want to surrender the rest of his stash before he had an after Danny relayed the message the dealer gladly gave up the other nine Sticks no Bray Learned that the youth gang member had More to be worried about than deteriorating apparently the truck he snatched the explosives from belonged to a member of the los bravos motorcycle gang Boris free press firefighters Battle Bridges tone tire Plant damages Are estimated at tire Plant set children take heat four children under the age of 10 have admitted to set Ting the cites second arson related fire in less than a City police Treyve been spoken to and re leased Back to their said duty Jack the Young offenders act prohibits police from charging children under the age of the at Bridges tone tires Northend left in damages and sent a Cloud Over the City As a stack of new tires went up in Greasy Black the flames were shooting re ally said John who first spotted the smoke in the sky from about eight blocks it was so visible it was fire Crews were called to the Bridges tone Plant at Redwood Avenue and Sheppard Street just after 6 it took them an hour to get the Blaze under we were actually Lucky we had High winds because they carried the smoke High up where it just said assistant Deputy fire chief Pat Beds said the smoke could have been dangerous for people living in the area if the wind haunt car ried it firefighters remained on the scene for several hours rolling the tires out and dousing hot this is really scary for people living in the said Christine Reuther standing with her son watching the we just had the big lumber Yard fire last week and now a fire Friday at a Dominion lumber store in the Weston area caused an estimated million in it also appeared to have been deliberately Reuther said she be surprised if children were in we see kids playing in there All the an employee of Bridges tone said the company had just received a Large shipment of tires several weeks City poor flood jobs program thousands scramble for 152 spots Sybil Redekop staff reporter the City has received a flood of applications from welfare recipients for 152 jobs re building sidewalks and sew close to people have applied and thousands More have asked about becoming part of the 20week experimental project to put people on social assistance to i think theres a lot of people who had Given up Hope of getting some work so maybe this will give people some said Harry Laza he said Over the last year Hes talked to a lot of people who didst want to go on welfare but had no some of them have been so ashamed Treyve been in workers will be paid the Standard labourer 1 City wage of an or that not a lot More than a family of four on welfare currently receives the equivalent of about an according to City Fig a family of five receives Wel fare payments amounting to More than an but for people like Craig who has a wife and two the Job is still Worth it would be it would be great just to get out of the said being on welfare drives you i could never get used to Samms found himself on welfare for the first time when his construction Job in Calgary disappeared a year the family returned to Only to find a Job Samms quote of the Day chairman our partner in a very difficult journey we a intr israeli foreign Mettr Shimon Peres caught the mood yesterday when to declared Success to Palatine liberation organization chairman Ymme Arafat after signing the Moshanti dated pact on palestinian detaheonpagea2 Ken free press Samms with wife son it drives you lotto to wages not High b2 was supposed to Start at Dom tar vanished when the firm was he said being on welfare was a difficult people with both construction experience and families will be Given first crack at the said Juergen senior program Man Ager with social about 100 people will be hired to rebuild streets and sidewalks and Back another 52 will be hired to work on other Lazarenko said he hoped the jobs inside Ann in sports to would last at least 20 weeks so those hired could qualify for unemployment we Hope they can get off welfare and this can be a the welfare recipients Are being hired under a Community services infrastructure pro Gram funded equally by the provincial and City another 100 to 200 welfare recipients May be hired by the or Pri vate contractors with the for other infrastructure the first wave of hiring for the project is expected 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