Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba 32 pages vol 123 no 240 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post Tot get t 75c in Ontario weekly Homo delivery s3 5 wkly 20 Post in Winnipeg wkly Post outside oily August Jeff Debooy free press like Moths to a flame neighbourhood children just stay lured to the ment yesterday for training the located on scene by a fire deliberately set by the Winnipeg fire depart Almey was donated to the loan rules put parents on Hook Bald Santin education reporter Ottawa is hoping to end its accumulating debt of unpaid student Loans through a series of changes to the Canada student loan program that will be announced the free press has with More than billion in unpaid student Loans Over the last 25 human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy will announce today that the Federal government will no longer guar Antee student Banks will be responsible for collect ing All student which have had a default rate of 35 per parents will be financially tied to their Childs education for four years after High Ottawa will require parents to devote almost half of their discretionary spending Money for children attending Federal bureaucrats have devised a formula to determine the discretionary spending net in come minus the estimated income of a moderate Standard of which varies from Region to re Gion and by size of students can Only get a waiver from parental support if they can prove they have been phys sexually or psychologically abused by one or both the changes will also give pos secondary school graduates greater flexibility in making loan by giving them up to 18 months of interest Relief during the first five years Fol lowing most of the changes Drew Praise from the pres ident of the provinces largest University student these changes have been Well thought out and Are desperately David presi Dent of the University of Manitoba student said last i think Axworthy de serves he is listening to the concerns of Gratzer said some of the changes will make it too hard for students forced to take a Job during the school year or for those who own a car the cars value will be deducted from the its not unusual for Many University and College students to find a Par time Job after a period of time when loan funds Are drying up and under the new students who take a Job will be penalized the following year when an appropriate deduction will be made for their next student Gratzer said Ottawa should develop an appeals process so students caught in a financial bind wont be penalized for taking on a Par time Gratzer said that Axworthy will also announce today that a special loan fund is being set aside for students attending school for those who Are disabled and for female Doc toral o d a quote of the Day 7 said to some of my friends it was a National and we did t even have to Box in mud and skimpy Liz who won Bronze in the National sums up the fight women have had to endure in Amateur details on Page d3 the weather today mainly sunny with increasing Clouds this High Low tomorrow scattered High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details 00 Page d7 inside business b4 diversions rubes and Ann c2 a6 in c7 sports to Charity offers Refuge from gang violence police reporter the salvation army wants to turn its Harbour Light mis Sion on Logan Avenue into a Safe Haven for intercity youths fleeing gangs and gang while the term Safe Haven is More commonly associated with War salvation army Neil Lewis said yesterday there can be no doubting the urgent need for such a facility in the Wake of the drive by shootings of two intercity youths in the past there is no Safe place for kids to go right Lewis we want our building to be that under Lewiss the salvation army would open the doors of har inside Story Sanctuary under attack b3 Bour Light located in the heart of gang territory every Day from 8 to 8 Lewis said intercity youths would be invited to use the facility to play a concept modelled on the Midnight basketball leagues which have sprung up throughout the United states As a Way to give in Newcity kids something productive to do during the wee hours when most crimes both drive by shootings in the past week occurred at Lewis said the army would also run a Street patrol out of the facility which would see selected youths spirit May end its run future hinges on Call for second tax status vote by John Douglas business reporter failing a change in City councils political the spirit of Manitoba could be dead unless two councillors Call for a second vote on special tax status for a endowment fund to business leaders will admit vote to Stop raising Money and spirit chairman Alan Sweatman the group is trying to keep the Winnipeg jets in the City and build a new the frustration we All feel is that we think the Deal is there but we need this political decision and without it int he said last is not a but we have no rabbits to pull out of our weve this is a quest and they can make up their minds but if nobody wants to move have no option but to its the end of the with the clock running on the 15 deadline to close the Sale on the and spirits Fate hanging in the behind Hestenes lobbying efforts intensified last the prime targets Jae Eadie James and Sandy Hyman River Heights because they Are the most Likely to be swayed by arguments in favor of the Deal mayor Susan Thompson spent most of yesterday working the no Means no b2 phones trying to give people a Rea son to change their Thomson also said the Media has not helped by calling the status its not charitable its tax its nothing to do with Char if you wish to give a gift to the if you give us land we give you a tax if you give up Sculp we give you a tax if you give us Trees we give you a tax its a business Thompsons Job is made that much tougher by the fact that a key sup Porter of the Bill Clem ent Charle Woodfort Garry is away for the next two i need two Back at the she meanwhile Israel who gave the initiative life with the Promise of creating a fund to cover losses and no hockey events at the new issued a statement last it confirmed he cannot support the current Deal but offered to help raise the final million needed to make the fund Complete if spirit can reach its interim goal of Asper said the million he would raise would be used to sponsor and promote no hockey events at the new Given red berets and put on the Street to keep Contact with gang members and quell Lewis said hed also like to see the facility become a place where gangs could stage summits with one an where families of gang Mem Bers could go for help and where kids being recruited by gangs could seek Lewis said a full time gang coordinator the first of its kind in the salvation army would run the programs if he can get approval from army officials this Mark a youth counsellor at the is in line for the Lewis Young said the two recent shoot Ings were tragic but also predict its Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Lewis and Young right want to help frightened you could see it Young he said the plan needs More support referring to an ongoing turf War Between rival gangs Indian posse and nine Lewis said the salvation army Al ready has tentative support from a prorate Community if it Chain of fast food outlets to support the Midnight basketball but from the Cor going to Wor Lewis said he would like to see local companies step Forward with sporting equipment and clothing As enticements to get kids in the Mother fears Shell lose her son again by Gordon Sinclair free press columnist on the Bottom Steps of a main Street hotel fire hid Den from Rush hour two strangers stand hugging and one is the Mother of the 15year old boy charged with first degree murder in the drive by shooting of 13yearold Joseph the other is the boys former the sensitive with the dark circles under her has come to skid Row because child and family services wont let the Mother visit her son at the youth in they wont let him see any body but his Greg he phones the teenager tells the ill give him your what starts them both crying and clutching each Are these spoken by the teenage Hes really Hes really re Hes such a Sweet i Hope you see the former Girlfriend is describing the boy to the even Tell ing him How tall he because she knows the family we dont really know each the Mother when he was she was a 16 year old aboriginal eighteen months according to the the boys a 27year old White snatched the boy from i looked for she i backtracked him with his fathers but every time she got the father main Street offered so did another and and and seven in All seven were lost to the last both were taken at birth by she five Are with family and a is living with a native at least i knew where everyone except for her i didst know where he the boy thought he knew where his Mother his father had told him i was she she finally found him last the same counsellor she had As a teenager happened to meet her Lon lost son in the course of his by that the boy was a 14yearold Ward of Mother and son embraced and held in her scratching voice she told him that she loved the boy asked about his Brothers and he wanted to see so the Mother was granted a second she Hast seen him i lost him she weep ing and i dont want to lose him ;