Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 4, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Youth ambassador finds place in Community d1 44 pages vol 123 no 243 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press f get Post 80 get Post of Tsitle my in on Atio weekly Home delivery j3 05 t 20 Post in we nips s3 30 09 t 2 Post Oul Sirio City August farm Cash on its Way by Bill Redekop staff reporter Ottawa promised Mani Toba Farmers yesterday an shot in the Arm this crop year to compensate for the demise of a great lakes freight cos sharing the provinces Farmers will get the Money from a transportation provincial farm ministers were told in agriculture minister Ralph Goodale assured us Manitoba would get full compensation in the first Manitoba agriculture minis Ter Harry Enns said in a conference Call from Wacky b3 the transition payment is in Addi Tion to about million Manitoba banners will receive from the billion Crow payment Ottawa is making in lieu of ending the cent Ryvold Crow rate subsidy this the Money is to help offset Mani Toba Farmers having to shoulder the full Cost of shipping wheat and bar Ley through the great but some Manitoba Farmers have mixed feelings about a package that will leave them Richer in the Short run but with higher costs in the fun that Nice compensation for one and i appreciate but i really dont think weve looked at the Lon term implications of Chang ing our transportation said Grain Farmer Wilf who farms near Lowe 80 Kilometres South of harder said his freight costs have shot up to this year from the they were just four Days when the Crow transportation subsidy officially Ottawa Lucky Ottawa is Lucky commodity prices have increased in recent months or Manitoba Farmers would be much More upset about great lakes costs and losing the Crow rate he its As Good a timing for the change As they could ask harder All Prairie Farmers shared great lakes shipping costs through a pooling but in re cent the Cost to Alberta farm for has increased to about or million a even though Albertas Grain is shipped via Ken free press outraged by the hateful Koh and Tony Zedda paint Over homophobic Scenic stroll turns ugly when Graffiti pops up Bald Santin staff reporter Glenda Koh is not your typical in town for a the Whitehorse resident took a leisurely stroll along the Assiniboine River yesterday afternoon and came across the worst example of offensive Graffiti she had Ever Koh and a Friend then spent the next couple of hours whitewashing an entire Wall of the Granite Curling located on Mostyn place near the Osborne in not Gay but i am a visible minority and when i see that kind of thing it Koh it was very offensive and it covered an entire i dont think Ive Ever seen anything like Koh said the Graffiti was there were and phrases like death to queers and your time will Well kill instead of taking and walking Koh and her companion decided to do something about we went to a paint bought some brushes and a couple of cans of paint and painted it she a couple of kids Rode by and said we were wasting our that they just do it but some people were very supportive of what we were Koh said she called City Hall to inform them of what they had done and was told that officials had planned to paint Over the same Wall in the next couple of spirit wants time Council keeps Deal but deadline wont be met by Stevens wild City Hall reporter they want two More spirit of the Pri vat sector group out to save the said yesterday that City councils delay in allowing Charita ble donations to an Arena endow ment has left the group unable to meet its original 15 deadline to close the there is no significance to 15 in any meaningful spirit chairman Allan Sweatman its the Date that was picked when they drafted this option agree what difference does it make except for contracting the construction that was before Council approved a motion yesterday that will allow the City to accept charitable donations for a endowment fund for the proposed new last a similar proposal was shot Down in an 88 but councillors say this motion is the City voted itself full control of the endowment fund and councillors passed another motion that will Al Low the City to determine How that Money is Council took those Steps after Revenue Canada informed the City yesterday morning that the endow ment fund As proposed was unacceptable because of the joint owner ship arrangement Between the City and i think it simplified it a Sweatman said now it comes directly under the cites con maybe we would have been better to try that in the first he said the vote at Council would help spirit get the favourable tax Rul ing it has been waiting for from Rev Enue we need at least a smile from Revenue Canada next week that this looks he mayor Susan Thompson said councils decision would allow spirit to get a massive fundraising drive in High gear for the endowment but when it comes to a possible deadline Extension for the some councillors were unit we found out we have another has few twists left confused by the seemingly endless twists in the jets heres a rundown of some key dates coming up today spirit continues its drive to solicit donations for the endowment fund and sell limited partnership tuesday a civic tax lawyer and a spirit lawyer will meet with Revenue Canada a final ruling from the department is expected soon wednesday spirit has promised to have a Complete business plan before City Council will vote to approve or reject the 15 original deadline agreed to for closing the 31 Date spirit Hopes to have approved As the new deadline for the inside Story City takes control of fund Mickey mouse said Glen Murray fort who has consistently opposed the current Terry Duguid North Kil Donan was also dissatisfied at the Prospect of yet another our deadlines Are hard and fast but their deadlines Are very flex he Sweatman said jets majority owner Barry Shenkarow will be approached about an i dont know what hell Sweatman Shenkarow last night refused to comment on the possibility of extending the while the group must have league approval before closing the Sweatman said a deadline Extension Hurt its it Doest mean anything to the he they will go when we give the material to them and when we have our Money lined quote of the Day in confident the right decision will be James Liberal my John Harvard says Hes optimistic the government will heed a military recommendation to locate the new air combat mobility group in the details on Page 81 the weather today mainly High Low tonight tomorrow mainly High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets on Page p1q inside diversions rubes and Ann Landers d2 in c8 sports to Northern Frontier spirit made Little mining town a Gem by Bud Robertson staff reporter youve just gotta love the at that the Case for former Lynn Lake residents meeting in Winnipeg this weekend to reminisce and celebrate the lives they once had in the tiny Northern Manitoba mining theres something very special about that mused reunion organizer Rose she left Lynn Lake As a teen after her a Lampman John re tired from the mine in i still dream about the said who now lives in Francois the which sprang up with Gold mining in the 1940s about Kilometres Northwest of has about 500 residents but in its heyday in the Early it was Home to More than since then Tye town has had its share of a but one of its Gold mines have closed and Many residents have moved to find then there is the perennial plague of Forest fires and but for Bogoslowski and the oth ers theres a certain Frontier spirit and camaraderie among people who carved out a living in the its the Type of town that if you lived it made an impression on she described it As a close Community where families did things to where parents didst have to worry about their kids coming Home safely at night and where the North Ern lights supplied a spectacular backdrop to summer Lynn Lake mayor Audie Dulewich said no other town is so of it helps that they didst get to until the late nor a Road out of town until without to and a Road out i guess you kind of had to get Dulewich Lynn Lake has also been Home to some Well known like syndicated cartoonist Lynn who moved to Ontario a few years the creator of for better or worse is expected to be among the former residents who Are travelling from As far away As Africa and Australia to mingle once Bogoslowski noted that while there have been other Lynn Lake re unions Over the this is by far the organizers have planned a bus excursion to the town after the re which starts today at the Dakota Community ;