Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Submarine Crew Battles Over release of missiles d1 52 pages vol 123 no 162 Canada Post sales 563595 Winnipeg free press 50 get Post get Post i May photos by Jeff Debooy Winnipeg free press students in grades 2 and 3 at Darwin school in vital show there ready to join provinces birthday party family celebrating in special Way Wypa Uleckie staff reporter miss Saigon becomes miss Canada today on Manitoba 125th and so do the other six members of her Mazanne the 21yearold Star of the Canadian production of the hit musical miss joins the rest of her family in becoming Canadian citizens in a special Manitoba 125 ceremony in the legislative Assembly at this including the Dionisio 125 Manitoban will be sworn in As new Canadian and the Golden voice that got the Young Winnipeg woman her starring role will proudly sing out Canadas National Anthem at today Mazanne and her Mother Erlinda will be joined by dad Nestor and mannes four Nancy Ruth and we wanted to do it All at the same Erlinda said of the Manitoba c3125 Happy birthday bringing the past to life b2 what makes us unique b3 family decision to become Canadian Well All be very its something to its something we will never that after five years this is were Happy to be part of Manitoba 125th the citizenship ceremony is Only one Small part of the festivities going on to celebrate the provinces birthday schoolchildren across the province Are a big ingredient in the party at Darwin school in with dad sister mom students will arrange cupcakes and candles in the shape of the numbers 125 today and enjoy speakers and at Cecil Rhodes school in the West Grade 3 students have created a natural history of the province and brought it into modern put it on the information Highway to be shared around the at Binscarth school in near the Saskatchewan 120 kindergarten to Grade 9 students Are keeping track of How far they walk in their daily and marking it on a map of the teacher Linda Baker said students learn about each town along the its history and they also learn whats produced especially about what food is made solvent abuse was killing her son Centre offers Hope hell get help by Aldo Santin and Bob Lowery t Hompson now theres the Mother of a chronic solvent abuser said yester the reason a Federal announce ment of funding for a treatment Cen tre in Northern our prayers Are never answered right but something great is said Linda whose 21yearold has been in and out of it looked like Gabriel was walking Down a one Way Street leading to and now theres not Long he narrowly sur Vived a suicide attempt Iii their four of his buddies committed suicide one after another about the same Bons Gabriel was treated at centres at the Kenora and twice he was sent to the Selkirk mental health none of these centres were equipped to treat solvent they were used to handling alcohol but there is a decided difference in the need and the Bons people dont understand what its like living with a person suffering from solvent it takes All you Day and youre con stantly on youre dealing not just with a bad habit but a minded stroking problem that can be really dangerous at any she welcomed construction of a new Centre but questioned whether a six month treatment program will be Long most she was the fact that the norths solvent abuse tragedy has been recognized in Jenny development coordinator of the solvent abuse program with Manitoba Keewatin now says Cross Lake has 27 kids waiting to be treated for solvent in 50 Young people have been sent to a treatment Centre outside the she wastes coot uses statistics like these to show what it Means for Manitoba North to get funding for a Centre of its Federal health minis Ter Diane Marleau announced fund ing for six new solvent abuse treat ment centres across Canada including one in Manitoba and one in Northwestern the for youths Ages eight to will be a joint operation of the Norway House and Cross Lake in Dian it will be located at whiskey Jack a strip of land on the Nelson River Midway Between the two Marleau said operational averaging million will be provided to whiskey Jack and four other the Centre in Northwestern on Tario will be a 24month facility for More chronic a site has yet to be it will be an inpatient facility much like a we need it said band councillor Harold keeper on the Sui Cid plagued Pikangikum Ottawa wont put out trash province stuck with Bill on hazardous waste Sites by Dan Lett National reporter Ottawa the Federal government has bailed out of a cleanup program and stuck Manitoba with the Bill for three orphan hazardous waste auditor general Denis Desautels re ported an orphan site is one where the polluter no longer exists or cannot be found and the full Cost of decontamination Falls to there Are 37 in Desautels including the three in Manitoba where the Sites pose significant threats to Public health and the envy Desautels noted the Sites had qualified for funding under the lion National contaminated Sites the program was terminated by the Liberal government in the last budget and funding for All but 13 of the approved projects has been the Manitoba Sites Are prime motor oils in Transcona a solvent disposal business abandoned by its the town of Fisher Branch and the Village of both of which have suffered groundwater contamination from a number of the Transcona site has received Only of a Federal al Ashern has received of a allotment and Fisher Branch has Only received of a Manitoba environment minister Glen Cummings called Ottawa move another offload on the prov we Are not real pleased that they Are backing away from Cummings said the province will now be forced to carry on with the cleanup of the three but Cummings said one of the real problems with Ottawa move to kill the program is that there is no continuity across Canada on How to Deal with the Issue of orphaned Cummings said he intends to raise the Issue with Federal environment minister Sheila Copps at a coming meeting of environment Copps said the orphan site pro Gram was discontinued because it was agreed by the Federal govern report highlights highlights of the Federal auditor generals report released yesterday cleanup of hazardous and radioactive wastes could Cost new ethics guidelines needed to bolster principle of Public Canada lags behind in finding disposal program for nuclear millions could be saved if More Public servants flew Federal watchdog failed to act fast enough on troubled financial firms farm transportation programs open to fraud and new medical devices allowed on the Market without adequate Nancy Gill up millions wasted on a3 ment and provinces that such a fund would Only encourage polluters to abandon contaminated she said the Federal government is moving to improve its response to the auditor generals concerns about a Lon term strategy for managing hazardous Desautels noted the Federal government has no plan and Little funding to Deal with thousands of contaminated Sites across Canada that pose significant threats to health and the environment and May Cost As much As billion to clean More than million tonnes of hazardous waste goes untreated each year and there is no Lon term plan on what to do with he worse there is no authoritative inventory of contaminated Sites which would help the Federal government better estimate the True Cost of he today quote of the Day the world is a safer place and we Are a finer Canadas in Christopher congratulates nations who agreed yesterday to extend indefinitely a treaty limiting the spread of nuclear details on Page d9 the weather today Cloudy with sunny Chance of showers or Thun High Low tonight tomorrow periods of High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on paged 5 inside diversions rubes and Ann in sports to ;