Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Brian Cole 6977292 email my Ca we Migg Tot put local its not about winning or losing Ive never really understood Why so Many people become addicted to the attraction of booze and drugs i can even cigarette but rolling the Dice again and again unless there weighted Ive never been Able to figure that last i was by sitting in the Eaton place food when i looked up and saw him smiling at the was the Middle aged taxi Driver who used to pick me up occasionally when i called uni City got up and hurried Over to join How Are you i i had a heart Jim his Happy face suddenly contorting in when i asked with three weeks he then he surprised me he reached for a match and a Dumaurier i suggested that maybe he should give up the hardest thing to do is to i Jim that gambling is going to kill me before the he was trying to i he was taking counselling at the addiction where he had already been in a pathological Jim Given his heart the fact he was still wondered what kind of crisis had prompted him to seek help for his gambling he said it was a visit to the four three on the same night to Deposit and withdraw from an instant the fourth the next morning to explain that he had a gambling problem and to Promise he would make Good on the in psf cheques he had written to himself if they press the Bank then Jim made them an i or across the table Jim laughed like a kid who just told a dirty then he told me what he really i was begging them not to press i was in it was at this Point that Jim started talking about How he used to be Able to see his friends in the but now he cant go near them because his enemies Are waiting there for the video lottery in mad As hell that they put those machines in 1 think the conservatives knew exactly what they were but they didst a lot of people come into the addiction program angry at the then Jim tried to explain the Why of it was the High i the Buzz in it makes you feel like youre suddenly you dont feel like youre a loser any it was near the end of our Chat when a Young woman arrived at the next table and plunked Down her Brown hooded sweat shirt and sociology can you watch this for me she Jim i needed he said when she hurried someone said god tells you he loves you in Many a Childs a girl who trusts you with her it was Only then that i finally understood Why people become addicted to its not about its about out about you re on unlink for eternity Bysher Fox free press correspondent if your names in the Telephone someone will be praying for you part of a Gigantic National prayer More than people will congregate in seven major cities coast coast to Pray for every single family in the the the purpose of the event is to actually Pray for every Canadian family by said Ted the Manitoba chairman of the Why am i on this Earth encounter prayer its the biggest prayer meeting youll Ever its Between and Are expected to participate in As Well As hundreds who will View a satellite Dow link in of about 20 across the Lynda k administrator for Winnipeg Calvary said her Church alone has sold tickets for the event at each at the Grant memorial Baptist Church is also actively As is Kiliona Park Alliance organizers say the event is with revenues and donations used to defray As worshippers gather at Winnipeg Arena today at others will congregate in Montreal and prayers will go on in eight different and the whole shebang will be linked via Bradford Calls it unlink for volunteers have spent months photocopying columns of purportedly from every phone Book in the As parishioners enter the they will be handed a list of names from around the country to Pray the praying will go on for three with a smattering of hymns and sermons thrown but it Doest end this int just a on event we Are encouraging All parishioners to take their prayer list Home and Pray for those families for two Bradford adding the event is fuelled by an intense concern for the spiritual state of our Ken oks lion Winnipeg free press on the ran Hal Dunphy of the ramps heading Ley detachment was one of nine officers taking fit 2lfti ramp run for cancer the runners will travel Morl than 300 Kilometres in a nonstop 32hour More than was raised last year Man charged in Sarah Kellys death to appear before court wednesday nip Tui ice Mec gets of for Arena group of 44 Given the godhead despite coming Public hearing by Stevens wild City Hall reporter Robert Bliss the Man charged with the murder of 13yearold Sarah Kelly of the will appear wednesday in provincial judges court to set a Date for a the court appearance was scheduled yesterday during an ill Ham Bers hearing Between defence coun Sel and Crown prosecutors in front of Justice Jeffrey is being held in the Winnipeg remand he was arrested near Regina Sun four Days after a tip led to the discovery of sarahs body beside a gravel 40 Kilometres North of the Sarah went missing explosives net counts Winnipeg police charged a yesterday in connection with a Cache of explosives found in an Eastend storage locker police suspect the whose name Hast been stole More than 200 kilograms of Indus trial explosives from a drilling com Pany in Rosser two years he faces explosives and stolen Good Arthurston plea Date to be set mayor Susan Thompson and the cites executive pol icy committee met privately yesterday morning with Manitoba entertainment Complex and Thompson said in an interview later that Mec will control the de sign and marketing of any new Arena in that despite a Public meeting scheduled at City Hall next Friday afternoon to hear All Arena its the Manitoba entertainment Complex who have the option to buy the privately held shares of the Winnipeg Thompson said in an they have stuck their neck they have put their Money they can do the City Council ordered the Public meeting after Mec supporters on Council failed to Muster a majority to support a motion to guarantee million in funding for the group of 44 business people to design and Market a new Thompson said yesterdays Pri vate meeting was to debate the pro Cess for the hearings and to discuss Mecs increasingly tight marketing dissident councillors say next weeks meeting is a stalling tactic while Mec supporters look for More votes on As far Asim concerned its All in said Rick Boychuk who opposed the motion to hold the its a smokescreen until the mayor has the one or two votes she needs to pass even councillors who supported the motion to hold the meeting ques Tion the Point of having this is the said Terry Duguid North there can be no if there is a it will be the Duguid said the other proposals that will be heard were already on the there is nothing new under the Sun and most of the propos als that have come Forward in the last week have been out for two or three business group is facing tight schedule Here the tight Arena meeting to f executive policy committee meeting too older ration mowed Daw with Fon owed by snarf Cento to gym by me Tosel luxury at the new Arena Mec wante site selected by the end of Bybee Embt apart Mcnary new Arena Leviable turned on anew Arena Rewt be ready Brahe drop the province and since the consortium holds the option to buy the it is really the Only possible said Bill Clement Mec spokesman John Loewen agreed there was Little new to be heard from other groups at the hear i think it is going to prove what weve said there Arent any other options out Loewen its us and the three Levels of gov Rick Kos win of one of the alternative said he had been working for four years on his people wont Kos win lets face its a done the focus is on the group of Uichi Tupi 1947 crash snuffed Young Hopes by Bruce Owen staff reporter Andrew Vance was a Young Man going always Busy at where he managed a construction and at where he had two Young the Day he was supposed to catch a Tran Canada airlines night to he was scrambling to get his blueprints and paperwork to Gether before the plane took off from he didst even have enough time to get insurance and had to wait to buy it when the twin engine Lockheed lodestar touched Down in the Date was april Vance was supposed to land late monday night in it was raining and a Little when Pike last radioed the Tower before Landing at his voice was Calm and the flight never Vance and 14 other canadians it want until 47 years later their Fate was Andrew had a Lovely family and had everything going for his former Betty said then somehow he just dropped out of the wild Blue i nope his wife is still alive and finds out about it puts it to rest once and for As sad As the ending Back authorities searched several weeks for the wreckage in the mountains above along the coastline and the Strait of As Early As june it was determined there was no reason for the plane to crash and that All aboard had it was believed it had crashed into the on flight nearly half a Century hiker Mike Neal took of finals to the crash site in the Seymour demonstration Forest near North the wreckage lies virtually untouched since the Day of the crash in Steep Mountainside in the thick on Board the aircraft when it went Down were four other Winni Eggers Victor Walter Robson and newlyweds Cecil Nugent and mar Jorie Rose i lived next door to Marjorie Winnipeg Ger Ron Alex Ander the thing has really stuck with me All these one Day Shes married and the next Shes off on her honeymoon and then for friends and while the planes discovery closes a chapter in a loved ones it also comes As a it hit me like a Bolt out of the Blue when i saw it a the said Jean Robson Walter had Juat been released from toe Princess Patricia Canadian Light Bofanty and decided to take a Holiday that Tat last we heard of ;