Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba The woman behind the goalie mask 03 40 pages Voi 1 no 164 pub cation Maii no 0flfi Winnipeg free press 50 May 1994 Arena in Core faces big chill by Gerald flood staff reporter anew downtown Arena is a Low priority for preliminary results of a sur vey in a new Arena ranked near the Bottom of changes to the Down town recommended by Winni Eggers in the Survey conducted by criterion research for the cites Centre plan planning Initia a new Arena was recommended by Only seven per cent of 502 people inside Story greying cites needs unique a9 surveyed this the Survey found most people have More mundane ideas on what the downtown starting with improved recommended by 32 per cent of people a new Arena ranked Lith on a list of far behind such issues As Green panhandlers improved nightlife in kind of i must and after All the said Harry executive director of the downtown business improve ment Finnigan said he believes a new being examined by the Burns would go a Long Way to Ward revitalizing the he Winnipeg Down town is relatively healthy compared to some centres that look at such projects As a Silver Bullet to turn things its not a situation where were in such dire Straits that we need some thing he the accurate to within percentage Points 19 times out of was commissioned by Centre plan to help it create a plan to guide future development preliminary released Fri include q More than 80 per cent of Winni Eggers believe the downtown is very important to the q the Forks is far and away the most loved feature of the cited by 40 per cent of people sur the Forks was followed by shops and department stores 27 per interconnecting tunnels and walkways 14 per and Portage place 12 per q culture arid arts considered one of the Hallmarks of the were cited by 10 per cent and ranked q parking costs and availability Are the most disliked feature of the a tiffs of pleasant padding Jeff free press members of the big Lake kayak touring club made Good use of yesterdays Beautiful weather and travelled from Bronx place and Kildonan drive in East Kildonan to the legislative building via the red and Assiniboine a 20kilometre round they lost the won the Battle from purest loyalty they stuck it to the even after it became apparent that they had been that their strike had been headlong and the method of handling Una actionable and from its nature foreordained to arouse that Public antagonism against which no strike can press 1919 by Bruce Owen stall reporter seventy five years ago this newspaper didst there was plenty of news to fill the just no one to print the Pressman had walked off the May was the museum of men and nature is holding bus Lour today of the various my of the Winnipeg general seals Are he if you want to meet at the Munmum 1 Coet la the tour two the Manitoba federation of la Bor Nous Tours awry sat urday in May and june except the Long coat is can 9471400 for More angry voice faded away d8 first Day of the Winnipeg general it was uncommonly quiet As other Winni Eggers walked off the Job in support of striking Metal workers and within hours a City of fewer than came to a phones didst streetcars didst piped water didst then the Manitoba free press started publishing it branded the general strike As a bolshevik plot to overthrow the leading the fight was the papers Dafoe was the most vocal opponent of the retired York University labor history professor Norman Penner he opposed it because he saw it As a threat to the Freedom of the says Dafoe grandson Christopher it was a difficult situation for he thought it was important to keep the Means of communication Dafoe adds it want his grandfathers finest he misread the implications of the there was a general fear the events of Europe would be repeated the Canadian government hastily passed new immigration Laws to Deport strike organizers without in the regular police Force was replaced by a private it came to a head june 21 when both sides clashed outside City Hall and two strike sympathizers were people went Back to work and the City started functioning strikers had lost their bid to win the right to collective it achieved said University of Manitoba historian Jack the strike was an Experiment that a Royal commission later commended the strikers for their discipline and peaceful one of the interesting features of the strike was How the High ground was captured by the Bumstead they lost the strike in but won the Battle of history because the opposition acted in such a repressive and Sleazy the irony of All because the government behaved so is that what weve done is deny that anything revolutionary was going but what is revolution but social change of Sunshine fund turns kids into Happy campers by David Kuxhause staff reporter summer Camp gave Edsel Martinez More than just fond memories of singing songs around the Camp that where i met my Best says the that was three years when Martinez was one of the Lucky kids who got a trip to Camp through the Winnipeg free press Sunshine theres no Way 1 could have gone without the says theres no Way my parents could have paid for this summer the Pauls High school student will head Back to his favorite summer but not As a camper i instead Martinez will be leading the Way As a counsellor hoping to pass along the Good times he experienced to in looking Forward to it big he and swim Ming in the Lake will be a part of the he Sunshine fund director Bettie Lees says so far the fund has taken in in donations and placed 220 kids for the upcoming another 27 Are on the waiting list but Lees expects that number to weve sent out applications so which is a lot More than usual for this time of she those applications should Start pouring in As people Start thinking about anyone who would like an application or knows of a youngster who would like to spend part of their summer at can Contact the Sunshine fund at those wishing to make a taxed ductile donation can Send their gift to the Winnipeg free press Sun Shine 194a Sherbrook k3c2b6 quote of the Day rope is not permitted in saudi youll be Helen precedent of an Agency thet re Oruma Medice Pera Mel to work in saudi Daime to Arab country a Safe for detail on Page a2 w Cloudy in the boo mind Tunny in i Leb Jniya Ann in Boom Bonus 39 cited by 43 per cent in the parking was followed by concern about Street people 25 per derelict buildings 25 per Overall Lack of cleanliness 17 per cent and safety 15 per Gerry Centre plan project said the parking con Cerns Are studies indicate there Are about parking spaces compared to a combined total of about at the cites seven sub Urban to me its a couture its a More than 50 Canadian War veterans Are in Italy for the next two weeks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the italian reporter Paul Stecek is following them and retracing the Steps of his late who fought in Italy with the second polish fight play hard staff reporter Italy they fought hard and to the but the Canadian sol Diers in the italian Campaign also played As hard As they take Shilo resident Sam for theres a lot of wine in this a gunner with the 7th antitank regiment during the second world explained the other red White wine it didst really but we never drank the that stuff could kill a 6ws inside Story fashioning a fitting resting place the pc hero Witt is one of about so Canadian veterans touring Italy As part an official delegation sent Here by the department of veterans affairs to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the italian and while much of the time they have been occupied with paying tribute to fallen comrades at Ceme Tery after the veterans have also taken time to remember some of the Good and there were More than a few of wed get a pass and wed All go into town and wed get drinking and wed run into another regiment and they been of course and there be a Little Witt but while Witt views the bar brawls Between Canadian units As Little More than a Friendly he said the ones with British troops were a Little More Witt said it Seldom took much More than an offhand comment about a member of the Royal family to bait them into a and if the canadians we rent let Ting off steam then they were doing it other during the current stories have circulated of wild wartime Par ties in italian brothels and there have even been rumours of brothels run by some of the Canadian but none of the veterans on the current trip Are talking about that on the were All respectable grandpas now and in not going to say anything about that at this stage of the Witt after those respectable grand Pas return Home to their respectable families next ;