Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mexico agricultural reforms Bode Well for Manitoba 44 pages vol 122 no 296 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post 60t get Post oils id t m Ontario weekly Home deliver 25 wkly 05 20 Post in win inn 21 Post outside Civ a zone of child poverty Manitoba record Canadas worst by Karina Byrne and Treena Khan Thomson news press staff Ottawa one child in three under age seven in Manitoba lives below the poverty line highest rate in a National report on child health showed the nonprofit Canadian Institute of child health released an exhaustive compendium of available Statis tics on childrens physical and men Tal painting a Bleak picture with few Bright Manitoba status on child Pov erty has shifted in the last six to eight and 1 hate to say but its been under conservative pre Mier Gary said Greg Sel a social policy professor at the University of Selinger pointed to provincial Cut backs in social assistance benefits for families and Job losses As main factors in child this is the year of the lets give Young families a Good crack at he parents on welfare Are Given Only two weeks of child care while they look for a Down from eight weeks Selinger pointed the government also reduced child care subsidies to a Day from a said Dorothy executive director of the Manitoba child care Selinger said Federal human re sources minister Lloyd Axworthy review of social programs must integrate Job creation into its goals if mental health a3 focusing on a6 the child poverty situation is to the report also said Manitoba preschoolers Are far More Likely to die from an injury than other Cana Dian Manitoba in jury death rate for children under five was 60 per cent higher than the National Cich representatives said adults must respond immediately to the alarm Bells the report has continued failure to respond to the needs of the Young will Lead to the collapse of our society As we know said Graham Cich poorer children Are far More Likely to be underweight at face lifetime health die of injuries and have psychiatric prob the report the Good news in the report is that childrens deaths from injuries have dropped 50 per cent Over the last 20 years and youth in jury deaths Are Down 33 per but in the injury death rate for children aged one to four bucked that injury death rates for children of other Ages were close to National the infant death rate in Manitoba decreased by 19 per cent Between 1985 and but was still slightly higher than the National rate of infant deaths per live Manitoba rate was deaths per live More than 800 feared dead As ferry sinks off finnish coast route rap Helsinki finnish television news said More than 800 people were feared dead when a passenger ferry Sank in a storm off South West Finland Early Mikko a finnish sea Rescue said Only a hand Ful of people had been rescued since the Estonia Sank on its Way from the estonian Capi to there were 679 passengers and 188 Crew on Montonen said about 30 people had been rescued so he said there were Strong winds in the adding there Are Many lifeboats that have turned Over and people Are hanging on to the sinking occurred some time after Midnight 5 one survivor said the ship listed and Sank within five High winds and Waves were hampering Rescue officials finnish naval vessels were on the but Only Heli copters were Able to get close to the quote of the Day we have to say to adult the mental health of their children is obviously not Graham chairman of the Canadian Institute of child comments on a report on child health released details on Page a3 Howo Iliof today sunny Kwh sunny High 16 inside diversions of a site and Ann in sports september 1994 Rush to Rescue stabbed grocer Marc free press Shirley Mclean watches As ambulance workers take her husband to Hospital after she has a knife store owner yells by slanders jump into fray to foil robbery attempt by Treena Khan staff reporter a female robber armed with a knife found herself on the ground yesterday when a group of neighbors rescued a Corydon Avenue grocery store owner and the woman accosted cashier Dallas grabbed a handful of Bills from the Register and demanded the rest of its three men wrestled the woman to the floor of mcleans food 1115 Corydon just after 5 and held her until police store owner Bob Mclean was taken to Hospital and treated for a knife wound to his right Ernest Sutchuk was on his Way to the Canada Trust Bank across the Street when he noticed a commotion in the doorway of the i ran in and the owner was she has a knife i saw someone up against the there were two other Guys in front of so i pushed them away and grabbed her wrist and twisted it behind her said a Salesman with Western food i drop the knife and she i took her Over to the and got her spread Eagle on her you just dont Stop to think in these Mike and Jacqueline Schmidt ran across the Street from their Home minutes earlier when they also noticed Mclean fighting with someone in the doorway of the i ran up behind the didst know it was a grabbed her i didst know she had a Mike Schmidt said still wearing a shirt soaked with blood from the woman it gave Mclean a Chance to get he had a deep Cut Down his right forearm from the Small Hunting knife the woman i knew i was so if i was Ever going to help now would be the said who handles freight for Puro Lator 1 know Bob you you care about people in the it was the first attempted robbery at the Mclean police officers take suspect into family store since it opened in said mcleans son the assistant who worked in the store for 12 said she want scared by the i was More angry about said who want but in really glad those Guys sped Down Here the Way they she said she and Mclean fought the woman for several pulling her hair and kicking Lisa Louise of 929 Garwood has been charged with Possession of a weapon dangerous to Public peace and she was also charged in connection with an 21 robbery of a Robins donuts store at 401 Stafford Arena plan langs on one vote Golden lays out his conditions by Stevens wild staff reporter Al Golden will cast the key vote at today crucial City Council meeting to guarantee a Deal to finance the development and marketing of a new the vital councillor says he will vote for the motion Only if he receives guarantees that City taxpayers will not have to spend any Money on the Deal and that the the Federal government and the private sector will finance the new an informal poll indicates eight members of Council will support the motion and seven Are adamantly of the wild card is inside Story new bidders in shadows b3 Council will vote today on a Mea sure passed monday by executive policy committee that would allow Manitoba entertainment Complex Access to million from a Pri vate capital the Money would be guaranteed jointly by the City and nine of the 16 votes Are required to pass the motion an 88 tie Means the motion will be sober second thought my understanding is that they have eight excluding Golden said last i can use the Opportunity to Force some sober second i Haven made up my but if i vote in it will Only be with Golden not five cents of Winnipeg tax payers Money will go to support the jets or finance a new As he wants a guarantee that if the Mec determines a new Arena is the Federal government will pay 50 per cent of the Arenas the province 25 per cent and the private sector 25 per he said getting guarantees from Ottawa and the province should Only delay the Deal by a theres Little Point spending million to determine if an Arena is viable unless a funding formula is in Golden other councillors agreed that Golden is the Pivotal Al Golden is the said Rick Boychuk Public opinion he knows that Public opinion is totally opposed to spending Money for the jets and a new he Fol lows Public Evelyne Reese Boni face said she will vote against the motion because Council has not received sufficient information on if the boy scouts would ask for they would be scrutinized Reese but John Prystanski Point Douglas said voting for the Deal would not extend the cites we Are just allowing them to de Termine whether an Arena is viable either at the Forks or at the Conven Tion Prystanski John Mec says his group prefers that a new Arena be built on a site near the but that he is prepared to see one located on York Avenue across from the Winnipeg convention Cen tre if he absolutely has better than Bank foreign Exchange rates guaranteed corporate custom House c 9876ooq ;