Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 28, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Basements important part of House b1 meditating in Buddhist Retreat Centre chases away stress of hectic living d1 32 pages vol 123 no 177 Canada Post sales agreement 503595 Winnipeg free press get Post 90f get t Post outside Coly in or Ilario weekly Home delivery 25 wkly s3 05 20 Post in Winnipeg s3 30 wkly 09 t 21 Post outside City May serbs grab 8 More canadians spa Reuters Sarajevo eight More Ca Nadian peacekeepers have been disarmed and detained by bosnian serb soldiers amid rising tensions Between United nations forces and serbian defence minister David Collen Ette said late last night in Ottawa the soldiers were being held in the town of about 35 Kilometres North West of he said they were being treated serbs fury mixed with realism the government wishes to Regis Ter its revulsion at the tactics of intimidation being used against United nations peacekeepers in Collenette we find that this action is totally unacceptable and Canada will sup port All measures by the in and our nato allies to ensure that our peacekeepers Are the eight soldiers Are part of a 53 Man contingent of the Quebe based Royal 22nd regiment Van the seizure of the canadians comes As a new in policy of con fronting the bosnian serbs Esca lated into warfare As serbs and French peacekeepers battled for control of a in observation Post in and it follows the detain ing of two other Canadian soldiers earlier this two French peacekeepers and Thompson reaching for the stars by Stevens wild City Hall reporter theres a Chart on the Wall of the mayors office entitled her worship Susan Thomp sons there Are Gold stars beside the objectives Thompson feels she has a such As maintaining the current level of City there Are Silver stars beside objectives that have been partially a com such As freezing property there Are no stars beside the goals that have yet been improving City Purchas ing for there Are Gold change has been Thompson the people Are go ing to you promised change and delivered critics condemn what they see As her Lack of leadership and her inability to get things she takes the credit for All the Good things and she blames Council for All of the things that go said Terry Duguid North Kil a possible candidate for Thompson takes credit for the relatively Low property tax increases during her while her prom ised goal of a tax freeze has not been Thompson Points out that average increases in property taxes Over the last three years have been the lowest in More than a i maintain that we would not have achieved what we have achieved without the says Deputy mayor George somebody Tough had to be Thompson also Points to the Down sizing of the cites workforce and a 23 per cent reduction in the number of City departments All done without a significant Impact on the Quality of City inside Story planning to stay in office and she Points to a change in corporate culture at City when managers meet with me they dont give me excuses for Why we cant do she now they do you want it but some City Hall insiders say that on issues ranging from the City budget to Union the Lead has been taken by a Small group of City councillors and not by the she my Way or the High Duguid in our system this system that approach Doest youve got to get nine people a Council majority to stand up with she can Only come up with four or critics said that Thompson was Frozen out of the crucial labor negotiations with City employees and that she actually voted against one of the budgets approved during her leadership at that level is about Duguid and she Doest do and other list along with councillors John an Gus Bill Clement Garry some Glen Murray fort Rouge As the people to go you should always be Able to go to the said Al Golden but on some you quote of the Day they tried a drive by but it didst witness Darrin Romanoff describes efforts to recapture a Rodeo Bull that escaped and ran Loose for More than three hours in Grande details on Page a3 the weather today mainly sunny High Low tonight monday mainly i sunny Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on Page q7 inside diversions Ann Percy a6 in sports to lotteries lotto and Bonus four serbs were killed in the fight ing yesterday that followed nato air strikes and the detention of More than 200 in world leaders were faced with the Choice of getting tougher or backing nato said it supported a Stron Ger in Collenette said diplomatic efforts to secure the Canadian soldiers re lease were under Way in at in Headquarters in new York and in French president Jacques Chirac demanded a tougher mandate for in peacekeepers and instructed French troops to resist serb aggression on them by any in nato allies backed saying peacekeepers should have the ability to carry out a Clear specific Mea sures were to be discussed tuesday at a nato foreign ministers meet ing in the Canadian in ambassador Robert Fowler said earlier yesterday that Canada favored defensive air sup port to protect in but that wider air As nato carried out last were not Collenette said he had not seen fowlers but that Cana Das position in favor of the nato air strikes Hast we will not accept the present state of affairs at All and we will not be intimidated or Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press part of an estimated crowd of christians parades Down Portage Avenue yesterday in annual March for faithful flood Portage Avenue in exuberant March for Jesus by Tony Davis staff reporter a breakup with her a bout with a struggle with it was the trip along that dark Road that led 19yearold Tanya Enns Down a More enlightened route As she and thousands of others walked from the legislative building grounds to the flooding Portage Avenue with believers in a Gigantic March for the Winnipeg involving parishioners from More than 500 churches both in and outside the took place at the sometime millions of other christians marched in cities across North and South organizers did not attempt to inside Story churches pull together a5 estimate the size of the but traffic police said there were about some Independent observers concluded the March outdraw the save the jets rally on May where the crowd was estimated at said this March was about How Jesus can save cities and the people in until her life began to fray at the counted herself among the even though she grew up in a mennonite my Boyfriend had just dumped and i was really she recounting her Story of How she came to join in the like Many the Murdoch Mackay collegiate student began to flirt with but that didst there had been a group of i school missionaries called High Rock at Murdoch Mackay for a i just despised them said saying that in her High school religious types were not but one when she was at one of her lowest she recalled their words while alone in her called out to five minutes i was More secure with myself than Ive Ever Enns said it was hard for her friends to understand her sudden they understand Why i had so much Joy in i guess its hard for the darkness to understand the she adding she hoped yesterdays March might show bystanders that you dont have to be a Geek to be a one of More than 100 female tambourines dressed in Snowwhite dresses with red Nadine Practised her moves just before the March a merchandiser at Kraft foods who attends evangel a pentecostal Church on marys grew up in a religious Drysdale said for the Best thing about the March is that it brings together people from different whose contrasting views sometimes keep them one proclaim Jesus Christ As our a weather connection for one none Tyks with a forecaster will soon be just a 1 900 Call away by Linda Quattrin staff reporter its not just psychics and sex operators in the 1900 phone line business these Days now its the As of tomorrow it will Cost for the first three minutes to talk one none with a live weather person at environment and when you phone for recorded weather information that much is still free youll now be greeted with advertisements before the menu of its All part of the move at Environ ment Canada and across the Board in government to find new ways to pay the Bills in an age of shrinking Public advertising on the recorded weather lines has sprung up at environment Canada centres across the country in the past but it began in Winnipeg this said Pat my coordinator of commercial services for the Winnipeg weather As soon As we started advertising it on the right away people were calling wanting to sponsor said the idea is to make Money and get More phone lines but with shrinking budgets How do we do that the Way Treyve done it is by Mak ing full use of the sophisticated Voicemail system that logs about Calls to their weather lines on an average Day in the system records the exact number of Calls to each specialized menu the Kenora area for the advertiser on that menu is charged two cents per Call for the first Calls to that that wont mean huge profits for the government about per month for Calls but it will help pay for a few More phone Mccarthy companies from agricultural sup pliers and realtors to car dealers have shown interest in paying for the recorded air he weather office staff will also get into the business of marketing consultations for companies they used to advise for construction Law yers anyone who needs to know what the weather was on a certain Day or will be tomorrow will soon have to pay for ;