Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bill Stafford is the to Ltd in the pit d3 plan your outdoorroom1 with activities in mind c1 40 pages vol 1pno 1t pub i cation Mal registration no 0r6 Winnipeg free press i i Psi Mckirk May 1994 even behind today a Day for honouring moms by Tony Davit staff reporter its mothers Day and moms everywhere Are gathering with offspring to be feted for their thankless toil and unquestioning but some will be frisked for those mothers whose sons and daughters Are held in prison Moth ers Day is a bittersweet More than 50 Canadian War veterans Are in Italy Tor the next two weeks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the italian reporter Paul Wiecek is following them and retracing the Steps of his late who fought in Italy with the second polish this is the first in a series of proud vets set record straight we Are the Day out in always on the always on the troop rang during the italian Campaign took so years and a More peaceful Landing in but Canadian War veterans of the italian Campaign say they have shed the tag that has hounded them for half a we never were Day we fought just As hard and a lot longer than the troops in Northern Norm a platoon sergeant from Winnipeg who fought in Italy with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light said its about time people recognized inside Story memories of War a9 just Over so veterans of the italian including Mccowan and three other flew aboard a Canadian forces Airbus Friday to this Island of f the West coast of Italy to begin a two week pilgrimage that will Trace the bloody path Canadian troops Tore through this country in 1943 and it is a path that is dotted with Canadian cemeteries bearing solemn tribute to the canadians who fought and died in Italy in what was the first major Allied offensive of the second world War in Mainland yet despite All the dead canadians and the terrible casualty rates they suffered in Italy More than 25 per cent of the canadians who served were of the italian Campaign say their efforts their dead have been largely while Canadian troops were fighting gruelling Battles in Italy a full year before any Day troops set foot in veterans of the italian Campaign lament their efforts have been overshadowed by the hype surrounding the invasion of France the following most of the vets blame that Lack of respect on an of handed comment attributed to lady Nancy the first female British my and a confirmed visited the troops in Italy in late 1944 and was horrified to find what she Felt were scruffy officers with a High rate of venereal Day she is reported to have implying that the men were slackers who were avoiding the real War in the troops turned the term into a song which became a rallying cry in the gruelling months that followed a Celebration of mothers 08 its a common notion that few cons care a Whit about their mothers that one reason they turned to crime in the first but at Stony Mountain this is one Day that does not pass by i was Reading something about the experience of someone in the who sold mothers Day cards in a which they do Here As said Irv assistant Warden at the just about every inmate had bought a mothers Day when fathers Day came they had the same but they sold next to no a kind of mothers Day social has been planned for Stony it will take place from 10 until 4 in the exercise and the usual restriction of just 25 visitors per Day at Stony will be Hildebrand said the Penitentiary had More than 200 requests for vis its and he expects More than 100 mothers will drop in on the 527 men in there will be refreshments much As can be Wendell free press countryman winds up for a pitch during yesterdays Gold eyes tryouts at Winnipeg this boy of summer has ageless message by Randy Turner sports writer Satchel Page would have been when Young men took to the Field yesterday in a quest to earn a spot on the Winnipeg Gold eyes double a baseball Jack countryman made his but he made it with a 58yearold i dont believe in the Lethander i believe in staying in in a great fan of Satchel the greatest Pitcher added one of 64 hopefuls who attended yesterdays open he used to How old would you be if you didst know How old you were i spank Yand gang have b1 that Sticks with me every Leroy Satchel Paige pitched in the major leagues at the age of then barnstormer for Many years after with a touring Allstar who still runs 10 Kilometres a said he attended yesterdays tryout Camp simply because he cant get the game out of his Ever since his helped found a Bantam league in countryman has been in love with that How the influence he there was a Backstop beside the and 1 played catch with my dad every i got the excitement of baseball in those Early its part of added who retired three years ago from his Job As a Law office i love to so when the Gold eyes held an audition who plays fastball in a local the lefty took to the Mound like a gamer theres no questioning his Gold eyes general manager John kindle Hes in great in the countryman didst have the stuff to make the Cut of 25 players invited to return to tryouts like the other players on the of whom were Young enough to be his least he had along with steel bars and steel eyed guards there will be a festive but no such revelry is being planned for fathers and Why not when you have dysfunctional the in the highest percentage of Are usually with the and will slant to wards the mothers rather than the fathers Hildebrand a former inmate who is now on parole from the Rockwood a minimum Security facility Adja cent to said his Strong relationship with his Mother helped him survive the harshness of prison some mothers Are ashamed to come and see their sons in he i feel sorry for those in seniors give life to Core greying population fuels growth by Gerald flood staff reporter an apartment Tower for seniors is to Rise on the site of the former Winnipeg Tribune building this a sign that a greying population May be a Golden Opportunity for the Worth at least is the Only major construction project on the downtown it underscores a growing conviction seniors could be a Force in revitalizing the the with its indoor walkways and concentrations of cultural and retail is ideally suited to the cites growing seniors planners seniors housing is the Only growth area for the development said consultant Jim former general manager of the Core area its an area where investment has a real potential for the seniors who Are moving into the heart of Winnipeg Are the same people who started the exodus to 21 per cent of the population is 65 or compared with 13 per cent in the rest of and the greying of downtown is becoming More the new to be called the Lions Tribune is to be unveiled in two weeks by Lions housing the housing Arm of the Lions club of Developer Roy lev confirmed the Complex will be financed on the life whats wrong with the downtown what should be done about it Over the next the free press is extending an invitation to readers to answer those two stories will be published from time to time to stimulate and when its Over your ideas will be submitted to a panel of experts for Happy to the lease Model used to build Fred Douglas place and the kiwanis two projects that created More than 250 seniors apartments downtown in the past five under the residents pay the Cost of their ranging from to and Are refunded their Money when their leases the scheme makes it possible for seniors to convert equity in houses into lev said the to be linked to the cites sky walk system through the Post office will give residents direct indoor Access to the new transit mall being developed on Graham there is a tremendous demand for this Type of particularly in the downtown he its part of a trend Back to the and thank quote of the Day its True i have never been to but my family told me about every single Street it bin my i poem dram at Tut i replace to Lerari not even bom when took Taxa and the Weet m to Ambar sunny 39 of Filoni Ela task her Bunny High 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