Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba 80 pages vol 123 no 163 Canada Post agreement 563595 easy thread format Complete listings Dudley Moore mixes humor roles b1 w w w w Wei outpouring of affection received in picturesque Papua new Guinea c1 Winnipeg free press t get i Post weekly Homo Drlik s3 k my is i Post in May Arco costus million Cash Drain closes shop by Martin Cash business reporter a Winnipeg medical product development company that generated in reve nue after consuming million in government funding Over the last six years is to be the Board of directors of Cana Dian aging and rehabilitation product development Alcor announced yesterday it has recommended that the company should wind up its Reg acors chair said yearned results for the year just completed were significantly lower than the estimates that were available a month when we put All the figures to we found that next years projections were lower than we thought they Noseworthy combined with the dismal results of the previous he we cant justify spending any More elderly Over those six Alcor was Able to generate less than in Revenue from products it devel oped to assist the handicapped and the announcement comes less than two weeks after the free press published stories detailing poor persistent marketing failures and several consecutive years of missed budget projections at James the provinces Industry minister who was responsible for said the Indica Tion from the Board was that Alcor cant meet its targets and wont be self sufficient and would need fur ther Public weve accepted the boards its time to make the an official from the office of Lloyd the Federal minis Ter responsible for said a worthy will review the boards recommendations and respond to them in the near mandate the company mandate called for a total of million of Public Money to be invested in the com Pany up until March at that the company was to be operationally Noseworthy said the Board will Start making Windup plans next he it will probably take about six we own a building and we have to make sure the ten ants dont get and we have to make sure employees Are treated we have a couple of products in development and we have to see if we can get them to Sally communications officer at said the staff of 14 got the news yesterday after Jeff Debooy Winnipeg free press Walter Richard Barret Bunting from working a Community in crisis refuses to let Hope die by Kim Guttormson free press correspondent Whitedog the slightly intoxicated woman approaches a Complete begins to sob uncontrollably in disjointed pours out the pieces of her life How she was abused As a How her 14yearold daughter started sniffing solvents and then hanged herself from a How her oldest son has said he too wants to she details her relationship with each of the most recent suicides on her even today in still she looking off to one wiping away sometimes i is it my fault multiply this one woman raw pain and you begin to get a picture of the emotional state on the Whitedog first a Community where suicide has claimed four Young men in six weeks a Community of 800 that has lost 47 people to unnatural deaths since its a Community with severe alcohol and solvent abuse few jobs and a sense of hopelessness among the Many of its children were taken no Way to my Liv an immense tragedy continues to unfold in first nations communities where youth suicides Are exacting an appalling at near four lives were lost in the last six free press correspondent Kim Guttormson travelled there to find out Why some find theres no Way to live at inside Story drugs fuel despair a17 away and placed in White Foster Only to return As teenagers unsure of their place in the from the time we Are we Are always says crisis coordinator Louie on thursday in the mourning came close to causing another a 21yearold Man from was distraught Over the suicides of two cousins on the Reserve and tried to hang himself in his Winnipeg two police officers saved his Arnold who came to the Reserve with Nodin counselling services to offer resource said the Community pain is just under its Whitedog band Constable Larry Henry a cry for help for a number of years has been built he High suicide rates Are a tragic reality on Many at Oxford House in Northern five Young people have killed themselves since in the Remote Northwestern Ontario Community of there were two suicides and 12 attempts in two weeks last while Whitedog is a Community in its also a place of i personally never saw a Community so anxious to do something for said the Community has set up a Volunteer team that patrols and answers crisis Calls 24 hours a on the Day shift gathered at a Small waiting for the phone to it had been 12 Days since the last but the Calls kept quote of the Day anything you can do with Cash today youll be Able to do with Monde Tim co inventor of the Monde Cash card is confident it will catch details on Page a3 the weather today Cloudy with a 60 Chance of High Low tonight sunday 40 Chance of High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on paged8 inside diversions rubes and Ann Landers b2 in sports six Days to save the jets noon thursday deadline for Las ditch Rescue Effort and John Douglas staff reporters written off As dead just a week the jets May Fly again in fuelled by an outpouring of Public support Over the last two Manitoba political and business leaders yesterday put Forward a Las ditch Effort to keep the National hockey league franchise alive in Winnipeg and build a new but they will Only have until noon thurs Day to cobble together a lion plan to build a new Arena and Purchase the our emotions Are just skyrocket said Zorianna a 27 year old were so scared to feel hopeful because we dont know whats going to jets president Barry Shenkarow was so moved by the Effort and the possibility it might he put aside a Cash Deal with a group in Minneapolis to give Winnipeg six More if a Concrete offer is not made by the team will almost certainly play in Minneapolis next Premier Gary Filmon said the Las minute plan has taxpayers pay ing for a Deb free Facil Ity and a private sector group Matching the Public investment Dollar for we Are still working to put to Gether a package that makes eco nomic sense and does not expose the Public to unreasonable he the original Manitoba entertain ment Complex group has been bolstered by More than million in new Cash commitments from people like Ross president of Robinson and Mark president of Birchwood automotive group Phil president of Tel International and Cannes global to head Israel this could be a great Day for Robinson Imen courage by what in sources say Asper has agreed to Purchase the new Arenas naming rights for up to million Over a period of in the Arena would be called the can West Colos the latest Effort is built on the original plan put Forward by a group of local business owners look ing to keep nil hockey in the that Effort crashed nearly two weeks ago in a sea of doubt Over whether Winnipeg had what it took to be a major league last Satur More than fans crammed into the Arena to bid the hockey franchise a tearful but when jets fans Congre Gate outside the they will have something to cheer 38 members of the Mec will get a detailed the sector a group of private investors would put up More than million to Purchase All privately How shares of the hockey with the exception of those owned by Barry the new group would include As president of the and other investors such As Israel Albert Ross Mark Gerald Gray and corporate investors such As investors group and the Richardson the group would also pay off about 15 million in existing Jet debts and establish a Pool of about million to cover the ongoing opera Tion of the hockey team and future team the Public sector the three Levels of government would commit million each towards construction of a new Facil most Likely near the Forks As outlined by the facility will be owned by the Public but leased Back to the team for More than 10 the of Deal Here is a synopsis of the old Deal that fell apart last week the private sector a group of private investors would put up million to Purchase All privately held shares of the hockey including those owned by the group would also guarantee about million in shorthand Lon term debt on the new the Public sector the Federal and provincial govern ments offered a Grant for the building of a new the three Levels of government offered an additional million in Public debentures and Lon term for Complete please see Barkman Concrete Ltd changing thu Way you think about conc 909 Gateway Road or Call the bark ;