Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 Winnipeg free August Camp kids Send thanks for summer Jun by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter the free press Sunshine fund coordinator has issued a Heartfelt thanks to the Many donors who came through again this were sure glad they didst forget Bettie Lees some people have been with us All along and we get a lot of donations from the Rural area As Well As Winnipeg and from we appreciate everything we regardless of the of its kids who get the Benefit of Lees also expressed appreciation to the Many parents who have come up with suggestions for the like promoting stories about children who have gone to a Camp so donors and other free press readers can appreciate what the pro Gram really does for Young she also said Many children write letters thanking the the most frequent com ment in those letters this year has been about the new Friend ships they made at a total of 838 children got a camping experience through the fund this year and Lees said that for More than it was their first time at Jeremiah was pleased with his experience at the it was a great Allaround said who spent a week last month at Lake Nuti Mik Baptist i think everybody who wants to should be Able to go to i Hope enough Money is raised so everybody who wants can go this Lees said this week saw come boosting the year Odate total to there Are still 22 children on the waiting but Lees said she is confident donors will come through with about in the next couple of weeks so they will All see their dreams of a camping ence come anyone wishing to make a tax deductible donation should Send it to the Sunshine 194a Sherbrook win r3c donations this week were Gladys Anderson Alison Arm Strong Dorothy Armstrong Anonymous Anonymous Gerald Barker Muriel Barker and Mary Kenyon Mabel Behrends Katherine Bender Patrick Bennett Olive Bere Bill Bowles Mary Carstens Anonymous Yvonne Day Beatrice Dunstone Anonymous in memory of a Mother Susan Fon seaking in memory of grandmother Thelma Edgeworth who just passed away Joe and Bea Fraser Corinne Halparin Harrison Anonymous Dory and Allan Katz Audrey Kerr Leslie Klass Emma Lamb Anonymous Shirley Lysack Phyllis Mastin Jane Mcewan Mcgowan Susan Mic lash in memory of Mike Skolyk Blair Morrison Dorothy Muller Anonymous in memory of Anonymous Bev Rolston in memory of Joe and Anne Pronyk Evelyn Sawyer mar Garet Smee mama Temple Maureen Thompson Laurel Vanlandeghem Anonymous Kathy Walker Anonymous Adeline wicklow Elsie Winchell Anonymous Phil free press spirit of Manitoba officials kick off fundraising Campaign yesterday after getting councils Blessing spirit wants to delay construction Start Date by Stevens wild City Hall reporter Man fleeing police broadsides cabbie spirit of Manitoba will ask City Council for a two week delay in the construction Start Date of the new the groups chairman said the Arena is currently scheduled to begin construction on provided the Deal to sell the Winnipeg jets is jets majority owner Barry Shenkarow said that he had not yet received a request for an Extension of the 15 deadline to close the he said yesterday he could not comment until he received such a request and until he had discussed the proposal with his spirit chairman Allan Sweatman doing the flip Flop said his group had been unable to reach Shenkarow he said the request would be conditional on a favourable Revenue Canada ruling on the tax status of donations to the endowment raising million for the fund and closing the Sweatman said he did not expect the delay to have any Impact on the Cost of the construction of the a fixed Price guarantee for the construction also expires on but City Hall officials said late yesterday that they haunt received a request to extend the chief commissioner Rick Frost said the cites financial contribution was conditional on the Deal closing on he said Council would have to approve any request for an Exten Sion or the cites contribution would be Council is scheduled to meet on a close door seminar on the Arena Issue will be held on tuesday said Deputy mayor George Fraser Terry Duguid North Kil Dunan said he was concerned that City Council would be pushed into giving a Green Light for Arena construction without the financing in nil approval or a favourable Revenue Canada tax i think taxpayers will be on the Hook for Cost overruns caused by the Duguid i think that asking for the Extension puts taxpayers at risk because of the possibility of paying for an Arena that May have no hockey team or carrying Cost Amaro Silva Daniel Mclntyre said Council had made it Clear that construction would not Start until the Deal was that is something we will have to Silva a lot of us Are getting fed up with reporters and spirit officials outnumbered spectators yesterday As the group kicked off its fundraising drive at old mar Ket spirit accepted million in pledges collected during the May fundraising it has commit Ted to raising million for the endowment fund by 15 and a total of million by a35yearold uni City cab Driver was recovering yesterday from injuries suffered when a Man fleeing police in a stolen car struck the cabbie police spokesman Eric Turner said the stolen car was travelling Between 80 and 100 Kwh when the Driver ran a Stop sign at Furby Street and Broadway and slammed into the Side of the taxi just after Turner said emergency person Nel had to use the jaws of life to pull the taxi Driver from the twisted wreckage of the he was taken to Misericordia general hos where he was admitted in Sta ble he was released yesterday around Turner said the Driver of the stolen car was also taken to Misericordia but he refused treatment for his the 36yearold Man is facing charges of impaired driving causing bodily refusing a blood Dri ving while driving while suspended and dangerous Turner said officers attempted to pull the Man Over after they saw him driving erratically in the area of Furby Street and Westminster squealing his tires and stopping at Green Turner said the Man pulled into the parking lot of the Sherbrook inn but when officers got out to talk to he sped off again Leav ing them in his Turner said the officers climbed Back into the Cruiser car and tried to give Chaae but the Man got into the Accident a couple of blocks away before officers got endowment fund will live on for Robson says by Bruce Owen staff reporter the endowment fund being set up by spirit of Manitoba will never go a spirit spokesman said some might consider it a leap of but that the premise were operating Board member Paul Robson Robson said while the fund will initially be used to finance the operations of the Winnipeg it will eventually be used to bankroll other events once a new Arena is built North of the the Assumption is that Manito bans will continue to fund he its an ongoing the private sectors target is to raise As much As possible toward the fund by the fund will be administered by the City of Robson said the Success of the fund depends on the willingness of people to not Only because of professional but because they believe a new entertainment Complex is a worthwhile civic pro As once a new Arena is events other than hockey will Gen Erate Revenue that will go towards the the interest generated by the fund will also help ensure its Sta Robson these Are the he and were going Forward on these killed in Highway Accident Selkirk Rural ramp were having difficulties yesterday identifying a woman killed in an Early morning Accident on High Way ramp spokesman Wyman Sangster said the woman had no identification on her when police by last police had determined she was 41 years old but were not releasing her Sangster said police were pursuing a theory the woman was the Driver of a car found parked near by and was struck while attempt ing to get help for engine aut Opac renew your aut Opac Early from the 1st to the 15th of the month youre automatically entered to win when you renew no Las minute lineups 49 More time 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the Winnipeg based president of the said its urgent Canada moves quickly because of the escalating threat of an fallout War in the the situation on the ground has changed dramatically with these Safe zones Matas the sooner that the government responds the better for the people and for the United the in appealed to countries around the world a week ago to resettle victims of War in the bosnian it also told governments to prepare contingency plans for an additional refugees fleeing the a Federal immigration spokes woman said yesterday Canada will respond to the plea on 11 at a meeting in part of solution we will be part of the solution As a responsible member of the International Ann Lawlor the government is committed to helping the people of the former she added the in has asked 30 countries to accept Many of these countries Are in Croatia launches a1 Matas also called on Community and Church groups to sponsor refugee families into Canada families that Are trying to escape ethnic he added Canadas Pri vate sponsorship program is currently a bureaucratic mess that could hinder groups from Spon Soring desperate move quickly Lawlor said Ottawa is attempt ing to move people More quickly through the sponsorship process to Cut Down on delays and red Canada is currently resettling 90 refugees in addition to its 1995 quota of for the these people Are in mixed marriages or children of mixed marriages who have no Homeland due to violent ethnic tensions in Bosnia and its feared More people will be displaced if the croatian military Steps up operations against serb Croatia itself has refugees seeking the United nations has so far placed More than people in 25 mostly in North american and in about people from the for Mer Yugoslavia have relocated on their own in ;