Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 31, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Seeing is believing surgeries create Rose coloured glasses be a Boon 32 pages vol 123 no 239 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press 50 get Post outside Oil 756 in Ontario Home Cle Ivory my Post in Winnipeg wkly Post outside City july 1995 Marc free press hit the dirt Neil Fraser gets Down Low and makes himself As Small As he trial storm Early yesterday morning outside Lily Field can to avoid getting hit by lightning during a powerful ele United Church in the Rural municipality of wound 15 violence believed Gan related Weed by Tony Davis staff reporter Farmers must change their ways or face an epidemic of crop destroying and Herbi Cid resistant wild according to the provincial agriculture de the warning comes on the heels of new research that shows the spread of the herbicide resistant Weed is far worse than once agricultural experts have known since 1990 that wild Oats resistant to group 1 herbicides which include quote of the Day i dont want to live in this City no ill live anywhere this City is getting Point Douglas resident Lisa who lost her teenage brother in a gang related shooting last is concerned about her seven year old daughters details on Page b3 inside Story farming free of herbicides b3 the most widely used brands in the popping up in Manitoba we thought it was in just a couple of Hundred Fields across the prov said Dave a Weed specialist at Manitoba agriculture soils and crops Branch in but now we know its not just a spot Here or Kelner said last summer re searchers with the University of Manitoba Plant sciences depart ment surveyed Fields in High risk a lab testing showed 75 per cent of Fields in some areas contained the in Many Farmers and crop specialists didst spot the patches of Oats that remained healthy even after applications of such usually potent group 1 herbicides As Triumph select and those patches Are ticking time bombs that can seed new Weed across the depending on the wild which sprout in a variety of can choke off anywhere from 25 to 45 per cent of this problem is not in the Bud any its blossoming into full said Ian head of the u of is Plant sciences depart ment and Survey Morrison said the highest risk areas Are around Swan Dau Dame and South of there Are still other groups of chemicals that can be used to control this said who estimates that half the cultivated acre age in Manitoba is at by Kim Guttormson free press correspondent a 15yearold boy was shot Early yesterday in another in Newcity drive by leaving him with More than 20 shot gun pellets embedded in his head and but unlike 13yearold Joseph died on the spot after a drive by shooting last sunday Eugene Greene was treated and re leased from Hospital about four hours after the Winnipeg police duty Erik Gruter said the incident May be re lated to spences shooting last Sun was not in a was shot in the Back near the inter Section of Flora Avenue and Robin son Street by someone in a Van As he was walking to his aunts Home at a 15yearold boy has been charged with first degree Greene and a group of other including his 12yearold were hanging out in front of Mossbrook a 24hoiir youth drop in Centre on Ross Avenue near Sherbrook Street at about duty Roy Smith said a car with As Many As four people in it pulled two of the passengers got one with a the other with a and opened fire on the when they saw two people with weapons they started Smith Greene was hit in the Back of the head and the shots ripped at least two holes in the drop in centres Metal kid be Scapegoat b1 frightened mom ready to flee Smith said police dont have Good descriptions of the suspects who were wearing according to a the the boys Are riot terribly cooperative with Smith adding the kids were Able to identify the kinds of guns it shows How exposed they Are to All this Gruter Greene is not known to have gang according to police Smith the boys Mother also denied Hes in a but the Street gang unit is assist ing with the he buildings along the Street Are decorated with gang Lisa Sanderson said residents had been worried that something might happen after spences funeral Fri i have two kids and it scares the hell out of said who lost her teenage to gang violence last Greene was Back at Mossbrook House yesterday with his but a worker said he didst want to talk about what Mossbrook House officials issued a written statement Mossbrook House is an alternative to the destructive life of the it is a place where All youth there Are no gangs at we just thank god that no life was let the violence Stop people told me its Lucky Eugene didst his Edna said lakes fifth drowning horrifies onlookers by Liana Simon free press correspondent the weather today mainly 8unnywlthsome i Cloud this tomorrow mainly High Sun rises sets 3 Moon sets details on Page c8 inside classified b6 diversions and Ann c2 doctor c2 in movies Lake Winnipeg claimed the life of a 67yearold Winnipeg Man yesterday As horrified on lookers including his son were powerless to take on the current that swept him Sam was Drifting on a rubber raft around at Winnipeg Beach when he was pushed by heavy winds to deep Waters where he fell off his he is the fifth person to drown in surfer saves b2 Lake Winnipeg this including the double drowning of a swim Mer and his would be rescuer at Winnipeg Beach two weeks his life was a series of Trage said Honigmann grief stricken son Archie he lived through the holocaust and now said who watched the tragedy unfold from the Beach he was an average the wind took him out and the current got i just cant believe this is the third drowning trag Edy a lifeguard could have saved Money cant buy Peoples Richard was sitting on the Beach when he saw Honig Man on his raft Drift towards the he then noticed an object at the surface of the which he thought were the mans swimming five or six of us approached the but it was too the cur rents were too said Malu adding he want a Strong enough swimmer to save Gimli ramp will Teunion said he could not recall a summer with so Many this is the fifth drowning in the area this Winnipeg Beach mayor elect Jerry Roshick said the level of safety service at Winnipeg Beach will be looked at by the new elected july we should consider signs warn ing against using flotation whats Here now definitely must be he Council recently sent a letter to the province asking that Beach patrols be rein Roshick said Beach safety is critically important to the image of the Archie Honigman said his family built a cottage at the Beach three years but Sam Honigman had been vacationing in the area his whole police divers recovered his body late last a generation sees its dreams set aside legislature reporter Chuck and John Stewart Are the faces behind a statistical fatherland san Story Desper ate for a Happy when Chuck went looking for work with Only a Grade 9 education in he landed a Job with the Ca Nadian Pacific railway that would Lead to a 44year career and a decent when i the War was on and if you could they would hire said it was a different Ball game and chucks son is painfully aware of just How different that Ball game has even though the 31yearold has a science determination and wage Gap b2 lots of experience in environmental the work world has yet to Roll out the Welcome for the last two years Hes been barely getting travelling a 500 Kilometre route through Southern Manitoba delivering the Auto trader for a my generation believes we were born during the wrong John said with More than a hint of fru Stra a statistics Canada report re leased last week outlines the extent of stewarts while inflation has helped shrink pay cheques across the the damage done to the t4 slips for those of the so called generation x is the most since the real earnings for males aged 1724 has fallen by 20 per for the drop has been about 15 per and males aged 2534 have seen their earning Power shrink by about eight per cent while the drop for female workers is about one percent age by the earnings for males aged 5565 Are up by 15 per theres been no recovery in the wages for Young workers since the 1982 said Rene Moris author of the Sta scan Morissette said the Lon term trend since 1969 shows an Ever widening Gap in real earnings Between Young male workers and their older counterparts that int Likely to Phil free i John with Newborn son born during wrong period Phil Hossack Winnipeg John Hopes there will be a rever Sal in his but Hes not Overly the dreams he had coming out of High school have been pushed aside by the reality of today work environment and the arrival of his first even though he wanted to be the provider for his its Likely John will be the one in charge of his son when his 28yearold wife re turns from maternity leave to her secretarial Shell go Back to work and now ill be a full time ;