Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press August City interests need review a recent editorial and com ments by others reported in your newspaper have established the wrong environment in which to debate How Best to pro vide civic your recent editorial on the operation of Golf courses suggested that the City should be in the Golf course business because Winni Eggers want the relatively Low Cost recreation that City courses we that the question that mayor Susan Thompson was really posing was whether opera Tion of Golf courses by the City necessarily provides the lowest Cost or the Best the debate on the ownership of Winnipeg Hydro has been skewed by asking the wrong ques no one disputes that Winnipeg Hydro Good service at Good the questions to be addressed Are whether the service would be better or cheaper if provided by the private sector and whether the City might not achieve a better return on capital by paying Down its enormous debt rather than investing in a the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce does not believe the answers to these questions Are self nor do we believe that the debate on them is progressing As it As vested interests divert the focus away from economic analysis to emotional Thompson is asking the right its time we debated the Winnipeg Cut funding to fort Garry i cannot believe the recent events in our cites since when did renovating one of the most expensive hotels in win hotels plea free june i might can Only be afforded by a Small percentage of our cites take precedence Over keeping our Public libraries Strong How is it that Winnipeg has plenty of Money to offer a hockey team whose future in Winnipeg is yet serious such As the fact that Winnipeg has the highest child poverty level in All of Are overlooked because there just too darned expensive to our City seems to come up with Brilliant building an expensive Arena Over Beautiful Forks yet it turns Down movie revenues because a few Trees Are far too from the looks of Winnipeg values Are taking a if this is How our current City councillors plan on getting there going about it the wrong Condo Winnipeg Kuchma article draws Praise Bravo on your newspapers stand on Ukraine and its relations with Russia and the Kuchmas first year free july maybe you could Send a copy of your editorial to the so called National the Toronto Globe and Scha Lyvo Bohdan Suprun Vancouver Canadian Aid appreciated i wish to commend Dan Lett for his column Philippines welcomes Canadas focused Aid free july his writeup is factual and i am an Canada has cultivated tremendous Good not Only in the but because of its unobtrusive manner of establishing rela particularly with developing if i May Canada has not merely Given the Philippines my old Homeland million in Aid to the country noteworthy Community livelihood projects As Canada was the first Sovereign nation to recognize the Manila government under Corazon Aquino after the overthrow of a tyrant my kudos to the free press and to Dan Bob Gabuna Winnipeg in defence of Garza shame on you that is the refrain from some Yahoo up in the West Side stands after almost every bad bomber it is most often directed at Sammy but it should be directed at All the so called fans that spent the night booing angry Garza Points Finger free to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number 6977344 letters May be submitted through the internet at letters letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone july while it is True that Garza is not the second coming of Tom Clements or Joe he is a talented he is trying his Best to help Winnipeg win foot Ball he has had no support from the Media and if support from his receivers and he does not deserve the treatment he has received from the people of in closing i would like to apolo Gize to Sam Garza on behalf of the knowledgeable bomber fans and wish him every Brian Paterson Winnipeg a letter to Sam dear Sam i can appreciate that you were upset on wednesday night and you had something you needed to get off your if you Are going to say something dont look stupid while you do you were quoted As saying Winnipeg fans Are just looking for me to do bad so somebody else can go in angry Garza Points Finger free july the word is not i doubt anyone at the game wants to see you commit an immoral act the fans Are instead hoping you will play would you please make a note of that so that in the future As you blow up at the fans you can be assured you Are using proper Rick Olin Winnipeg Bird killers must be stopped i was horrified by the Slaughter of cormorants and ring billed gulls by poachers on Gull poachers free july a senseless Slaughter such As this once again illustrates the Cru Elty and insensitivity of Man towards is it possible that greed motivated such an atrocious act surely nature has provided enough fish for both Bird and fish Erman Birds and animals were placed on Earth for us to love and it is tragic that the White Man kills for greed and not for need As did the the Indian used skill in shooting his prey with a Bow and Arrow whereas wildlife is helpless against the technology of if people continue to be insensitive to issues such As we wont need anyone to destroy us we will destroy the ecology around us As Well As ourselves by our own actions or every Effort should be made to locate the perpetrators of this crime and once the punishment should be Only with accountability and restitution will there be a curbing of violence such As this against our wildlife Birds and Winnipeg profitable analysis i am no Stock Market but i know when someone is trying to hoodwink i heard the new jets shares were Selling for a minimum investment of of this the investor would get in tax deductions and a 10 per cent annual of sure and i want to buy some swamp land in figure it if the major Banks that made billions of dollars in profits last year Are Only offering six per cent or seven per cent on their How can a shaky operation like the Winnipeg jets that has been losing millions for years offer these kind of returns these statements typify the fan Tasy that exists around the whole jets Wake up and smell the Coffee and Kevin Vessey Winnipeg Ernesto far faces a daily struggle to eke out a living from the dry Earth on the Northern coast of the Philippines Farmers critical to country future Philippines struggles farming dilemma Wiki Bagayan de Philip an itinerant Farmer who works a one hectare plot of mountainous has Many challenges fac ing the the rav Ages of insects and the constant threat he will be thrown off the land that he and his family have although farming in this Region is a simple the issues surrounding Macal Agu Ings farm have become much More in he is the embodiment of the modern dilemma facing the Philippines and its mostly agrarian based Macala Guing and some 20 other families in an Uplands area just North of Bagayan de a City on the Northern coast of Mindanao struggle daily to scrape subsistence from the dry the work is very hard and the rewards for the most modest to future but a Calaguing future and the future of the millions of farming families across the islands in the Philippines have become critical to the future of the Philippines econ like Many countries whose economies Are agrarian the Philippines continues its struggle to find a realistic Way to allow millions of Farmers and fishermen to both support them selves and play a role in modernizing a backward it is estimated that at least 60 per cent of the country 65 Mil lion people rely on agriculture for their livelihood and 70 per cent live in a Lack of accessible markets and farming expertise have left Many living in third world conditions and made the country dependent on agricultural president Fidel desperately seeking a launched the medium term agriculture development an aggressive 18billion pesos can government support program that seeks to nudge the agrarian Economy in a More modern Gloria a ing figure in the development of the medium term said continuing expansion of global markets and devices such As the world Trade organization require the Philippines to put aside protectionist manage ment techniques and look towards ways to the medium term plan focuses on four major areas commercial and fishing in the Hopes of increasing production and the wealth that would come from Macapagal key projects within the plan include development of farm to Market irrigation sys Micro credit to help Small Farmers expand and develop ment of certified she concerned that top much of the country is growing Rice and that yields per hectare Are too the Ramos administration has begun to encourage Farmers to abandon Rice in Loyield directing government Aid to diversified the result has been that the country Rice production area has fallen to two million hectares from five million support Macapagal said Farmers Are free to grow whatever they but government support is Only available in most areas for government recommended too Many Farmers have grown Rice in mountainous areas that have poor leading to lower yields and a waste of government she we believe that by the end of the medium term Many More Farmers should have become More self Macapagal several fundamental problems lie Between the Ramos government and a More modern agricultural first and a land Short age continues to leave most of the country without enough Hec garage to support a severe shortage of expertise in making the most out of the land leaves Many farms Well below their in the Uplands regions of min Danao the largest southernmost Island in the millions of Farmers work Small plots of land less than two hectares in total Many of the farms Are Mono crop operations focusing on Rice or Corn and thus have very Low farming families earn Little More than subsistence incomes that do not allow them to invest Back in their squatters Lustines a staff worker for the Centre for alter native Rural technology an environmental and agrarian activist group based in the City of Bagayan de said Many of the farming families on the Island Are scrap ing out a living on land they have never been Given the Opportunity to promises of land Reform made by Ramos and former president Corazon Aquino for the most failed to leaving Many Resi dents of Rural communities in exactly the same predicament they faced before the Peoples revolution 10 years he in an Effort to change the face of which receives funding from the Cana Dian International development has taken support from foreign governments to develop an extensive network of sub Sta cooperatives and credit unions that organize and Edu Cate Farmers and fishermen All Over the North coast of min in some the Assis Tance takes the form of Edu cation on organic farming while in other cases it might be providing a pair of cooperative owned oxen to mate and provide a farm with a working Small Micro credit Many with Start up funds from foreign lend Money to Farmers to help diversify their critical to Many of these projects succeeding is the desperate need for Magal lanes said Many of the Farmers refuse to employ More modern farming the diversification of because they Are afraid they will be kicked off the land at any the result is that Farmers concentrate too heavily on Rice and which do not provide enough income to support a nor the commodities needed to feed Magallanes cart was recently successful in convincing the government to turn Over nearly 500 hectares of for distribution to itinerant Farmers on the sem Mountain Ous much of it Farmed by is being surveyed now and will be distributed to Farmers in packages of Between three and five the availability of land Means that organic farm ing techniques can finally be fully he a diversified farm that uses organic As opposed to chemical fertilizers and Pes often has lower production costs and higher yields than farms that rely on he organic farming is also seen As critical because of Environ mental Large com Mercial such As the massive Del Monte pineapple Plantation near Bagayan de the largest contiguous pineapple farm in the use Mas Sive Levels of chemicals to tend its crops and this is believed to be the source of pollution that has been found in the water Magallanes said the fight to promote organic farming is an Uphill especially since the ramps government heavily publicizes the benefits of chem ical fertilizers and this May be in no Small part due to the fact the government owns one of the largest chemical fertilizer companies in the Dan Lett is the free press National he recently returned from assignment in the doonesbury by Garry Trudeau to gut safety 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