Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rustic Retreat Western style inn offers an Oasis for City slickers Brandon weather o mainly High near details on Page c9 More than battling blazes fire fighters respond to Community needs Brandon to Host elks convention Veteran Rural trustee wooing voters in City arrogance kills major pro sports Brandon sunday classified ads dealing up Dinger wheat Kings Winger ready to answer the hornets swarm top who goalies on display family in Curling hardware business Massey in school hockey in diversions sports d5 to 619156 6 sunday free press 65 tax included West Man Region october Bare news Hurt needy attendance drop forces churches to Cut programs by Bruce Owen staff reporter people in the pews is w making it tougher for Many Al churches to break bread and feed the poor in Winnipeg inner local Church spokesmen All churches Are suffering a Lack of attendance and that where the Money comes said salvation army Neil to run our we need people in the pews putting Money in collection Lewis said the Cash crunch Means some of the Church social programs like soup kitchens and counselling services get Cut because available Money must go to pay property taxes and Utility Bills to keep the Church we have to keep the heat and lights so the first thing that gets nicked is the soup line and other social aspects of what we programs Cut the most recent example of this trend is a decision last week by the United Church to Cut two programs that serve the cites Kathryn chairwoman of the Church Winnipeg said the decision saw in funding Cut to Augustine United Church Oak a program for abused youth and the and the Volunteer a pro Gram to train volunteers to work at the Oak two other programs were also while Hofley stressed that the decisions were not final they have yet to be approved by the Church Manitoba Northwest Ontario conference they were the Only ones possible because the Church has less than last year for its outreach shortfall other programs also suffered cuts because of the budget Short it was not As if a vote was taken to abandon the poor and marginalized in the she you have to make choices when youre Only Given x amount of Dol she said the programs that were Cut May still obtain but from other sources within the United even with the the Church added a new pro Gram called the Rainbow ministry to offer outreach services for Gays and lesbians and their Fame the funding crunch comes As society becomes More secular and fewer people attend As Many congregation members Are unemployed or have seen wages Cut or they do not have Money to the work will still get but in a Hofley econ accused of rape release from jail Public warning came two months before assault Marc free press grizzly attack Antonio Harvey of the Vancouver grizzlies top pounces As Toronto raptors Alvin Robertson drives for the hoop yesterday during preseason Aba action at the the which Toronto won Drew please see Story on Page by Alexandra Paul and Bruce Owen staff reporters victim rights advocates and politicians Are calling for stiffer jail sentences and parole restrictions after the arrest of a High risk sex offender two months out of Dennis Roy faces numerous charges after a 33year old Selkirk woman was abducted at knife Point and raped Early Fri Frank is the same Man a Provin Cial committee considered enough of a Public risk to be the first sex con to have his name and photo graph distributed to the that was prior to his release from a Saskatchewan prison last lawyer Jennifer who Heads the provinces Community notification advisory said the committee did All it there comes a Point when even if the committee informs the pub you have to wonder if the Community is Ever adequately Cooper said yesterday from maybe the Crown attorney will want to consider dangerous offender status after repeated a person convicted can be judged a danger Ous offender and held in prison for an indeterminate if they thought he was a High risk they should have never released him in the first said Tracey a Vic Tims rights Frank had served his full Lightyear sentence for sex continued please see crime rate drops As we get older by Manfred Jager Urban life reporter As experts struggle to explain a sudden decrease in Canadas crime the simplest of Likely answers is staring us in the were getting too old to be Crim Rick a University of Manitoba sociology said in an interview most crimes against people and property Are commit ted by people Between the Ages of 15 and and there Are a lot fewer people in that age group than there used to the baby Boomers now Are Between 30 and 50 and i dont see a lot of 48yearolds doing break and Linden Linden expects a decrease in Street crime and Home burglaries As the baby Boom generation moves further away from that age last the National crime rate dropped for the third straight year and violent crime took its biggest drop since data collection began in according to statistics Cana the nations homicide rate dropped to a 25year continued please see Thompson to capitalize on cold by Bud Robertson staff reporter Bon chilling Winters where Block Bat teries and engines Are pushed to the limit could prove a Boon for the City of the City is talking to at least 10 manufacturers in the clothing and build ing materials industries to set up testing Sites in the Northern one of the big three Auto Mak ers is considering a million to million investment that would provide about 70 permanent v j f vote More election coverage a7 its this kind of economic Promise that has helped mayor Bill Comaskey get acclaimed to the municipal office for the Sec Ond term in a in the last few the City has taken Steps to revitalize its downtown and to attract new businesses and Industry to the Northern located 740 Kilometres North of its a far cry from the Early when the Nickel mine was the cites sole named for Inco chairman John was created in the mid1950s to serve those who worked at incas Nickel during the towns population swelled to about As new mines and it was incorporated As a City in july but reduced demand for Nickel in the 1970s forced the company to Cut Back and the population the City has about residents about 40 per cent of whom Are serving the Northern half of the Thompson is a Centre for health and Inco is still one of the cites biggest along with the government and the and while the Cost of living Here is High gasoline is currently Selling for 62 cents a litre Thompsons Mill rate is the third lowest in the province com pared to communities of similar education Are among the Comaskey acknowledges the next Council faces some difficult not the least of which is the Job of taking Over responsibility for the Manitoba second after it is seven of the eight incumbents on Council Are running for re Only Deputy mayor Janet has decided not to run four new challengers Are also hoping to win a Council ;