Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 4, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fat fight j j144hh 91 Casino smokers targeted medical officer wants puffing crackdown b1 32 pages vol 123 no 34 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post get Post Ouide City 75c in weekly Home Deli by a Akly 53 m 20 Post in Winnipeg 09 l Post outside City january City still trying to rub out Tough Youville Street termite gang by Nick Martin City halt reporter seven years and hundreds of thousands of dollars the resilient termites of Youville Street Are still and there starting to for the first termites were found 9 on a Youville Boule inside Story there bugged on Youville b3 warns a report to be tabled at civic planning and Community ser vices committee the potential is there for them to its nothing to fool plan Ning and Community services com missioner Tom Yauk said termites were discovered in nine Homes on Youville in experts said they last a single they in the City and province spent on and a series of chemical barriers was supposed to contain the bugs until they starved to they in they were discovered still surviving in a Home at 349 prompting a pretreatment at that and and last in City Bug traps on the came More evidence of the insects its a Surprise for us there still out there doing so Yauk and he wants the committee to Joe free press dog Days of Winter two Sundog flank the afternoon Sun Over a Farmers Field very cold Days As Light passes through ice crystals in the near heading Ley Sundog which form Only on lower be seen in the City As bitter fighting divides Russia associated press Grozny russian driven from the heart of the chechen Capi Tal by a spirited rained rockets and artillery shells on the City bodies and burned out tanks dotted streets filled with the de Bris of fighting and air a Lone doctor tended moaning chechen soldiers and russian prisoners in the basement of the presidential the humiliated by setbacks in four Days of seemed to be gearing up for a fresh Twenty trucks loaded with weapons and ammunition headed into Grozny and Soukhoi fighter jets and helicopter gunships buzzed fighting Over Chechnya bid to secede from the russian federation has killed or wounded hundreds of people since russian legislator Anatoly Sha bad said More than 100 people were killed last night when rus Sian planes bombed 32 kilo metres Southeast of Moscow Echo radio Shabad said the shall Hospital was destroyed and bombs hit the towns the report in president Boris Yeltsin closest Viktor ily said Russia would go All the to the end to defeat the a group of Antiwar russian legislators just returned from Grozny renewed their plea to Call a photo chechen woman Waits in a Bunker in civilians targeted a4 its Tough to go it a7 off the the assault has claimed thousands of their Handwritten letter a new can result in even More tragic former prime minister Yegor once one of Yeltsin Clos est said at a news Confer ence yesterday in Moscow there is a great danger of a Mili tary russian he has never been shakier since the breakup of the soviet who broke with the president Over the Chechnya pol called events there a Mas Sive military he urged Yeltsin to get rid of those who pushed him to this Washington yesterday signalled its support for but White House spokesman Michael Mccurry said the War has led to Many More deaths than we think should have in several Hundred people demonstrated against the carrying placards Reading Stop the bloodshed and shame on the main Street millions bound for car station aboriginal Centre is big Winner in stakes to revitalize inner City by Paul Samyn legislature reporter about half of main streets share of the Winnipeg development agree ment Ida is already earmarked for the aboriginal Centre in the for Mer car the Higgins Avenue Pur chased and partly renovated with Grants from the three Levels of gov is in line for million in direct Aid and million Worth of leasing the arrangement has been agreed to by the province and with approval yet to come from City the million for social and economic revitalization of North main Street is part of the a landmark Trievel the chief executive officer of the aboriginal Centre said the funding and lease commitments will let the nonprofit corporation continue its restoration and office retrofitting of the train station As part of its plan to become a self supporting Centre of activities for aboriginal develop this project is for the Benefit of All not just the aboriginal Bill Shead the which has already received More than million in Assis Tance from is still operating in the recording a deficit of last Shead said the Centre was always budgeted As a project and it was always anticipated that Addi inside Story chugging into Prosperity b3 tonal funding would be required to finish nothing really has changed i he the Road to the payout from the Ida began last Spring when the Centre applied for funding under the Canad Manitoba infrastructure that led to a viability study undertaken by the Western diversification that prepared by Komg peat found the Centre needed million to meet its of the report offered government two options it could give the Centre the million or it could give it million and commit to lease Square feet of while the report said the opera Tion and the management of the Cen tre has been of High it recommended that three people with Board experience be named As Board it hire a professional property 1 renovation projects be monitored by outside professional realty marketing be Shead said All recommendations have been acted the centres request for a operating Grant from the City to cover its utilities for 1994 and 1995 was rejected yesterday by the civic finance authorize still undetermined Mea sures to finally eradicate the Ter mite Colony this but some of the nine property owners Are sick of the intrusion and no longer Grant the City Yauk adding the City May seek court orders to inspect and treat the a Toronto termite expert the City ignored three years ago claimed yesterday he could wipe out the Ter mites for professor Timothy director of the University of Toronto Urban entomology said it would require a parched Earth policy of removing firewood and soil from a wider area around the Kenaston project is dead councillor says hell advise redirecting underpass Cash by Stevens wild and Paul Samyn staff reporters City Hall is about to pull the plug on the Kenaston Boule Vard Terry Duguid said chairman of civic works and operations said he will advise the committee next week to reallocate the City share million of the funds for the Iso million the City had not been Able to reach an agreement with in rail to Clear the Way for the Duguid that meant there was no possibility of the project being Complete by the March 1997 deadline under the fed eral infrastructure out of time Ive heard from Federal and provincial officials that they Are not go ing to Grant an Duguid weve simply run out of time physically to allow us to do the pro the funding formula for the project was million each from the Federal and provincial govern million from in and million from the a in official confirmed the rail Way was not willing to Grant the Money because the City would not consider closing Shaftesbury Boule Vard North of Wilkes Jim Feeny said in needed the Street closed so it could expand its inter modal terminal South of Wilkes just West of the proposed he said that although the underpass would have helped the the Benefit want Worth Premier Gary Filmon said a three level infrastructure commit tee will determine How to use the few mourning at City b2 Money that was earmarked for the but he said Winnipeg Bank on having it spent on projects within the under the infrastructure million was allocated for projects in Winnipeg and million for Rural with million in a Pool for strategic Ini the underpass was part of the in afraid this Money will be spent for a new Harry Lazarenko Mynarski Laza like a number of his col said the Money should be spent on streets and while Filmon said the City could apply to use Infra Structure Money from the underpass to fund a new the province wont commit More than the million it has already ear marked for the its unfortunate that the project is not working said Gord a spokesman for human resources minister Lloyd Vidal said it is premature to say whether any of the funds will go to an noting Axworthy and Manitoba finance minister Eric Stefan son wont be meeting to discuss any new projects until nip Leader Gary doer said he was delighted the underpass was be ing it was totally wrong to have made it the largest Structure project in the doer he said the nip would still favor moving the funding to an provided it want located at the Forks and if there is significant private sector t o d a quote of the Day just because you pursue one vice does t mean you can pursue another Richard Winnipeg chief medical wants the City to crack Down on smoking in details on Page i1 the weather today 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