Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 24, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october a5 its hangs up on bargain Hunting Lon distance callers by Wanda Chow staff reporter Manitoba Telephone systems Lon distance calling Sale was such a the last night in the october pro motion has been cancelled for safety the overwhelming response to the combined with the expected increase in calling resulting from province wide municipal elections could have jeopardized the com pants handling of emergency services in Rural said its Media relations Sherilyn the promotion allowed callers to Call anywhere in Canada for 10 cents a minute each wednesday in october from 8 to 8 the next a savings of approximately 80 per cent off regular daytime rates on a Call from Winnipeg to for she a similar Sale in the summer offering a 70 per cent saving off regular daytime produced a 10 per cent increase in car Horn proves godsend for victim of brutal beating by Doug Narne police reporter an employee at a City nursing Home was beaten and stabbed three times in the head and Back with a screw Driver by two Young women Sun Day after being unable to give her attackers any Barbara was treated in Hospital and released but the emotional injury from the attack will not heal As quickly As the Stab my wife is scared right now after what has happened to said Metasch she is feel ing very bad sunday was turning out like every other Day for Barbara As she drove into Winnipeg from the family Home in Andrews to report to she pulled into the parking lot at the Sharon nursing Home at 146 Magnus at turned off the lights and was about to get out of her car when two women appeared out of the predawn one of the women began bang ing on the Hood of the car and Yelling while the other demanded barbaras Money and the keys to her Pacak told the women she did it have any Metasch said the women pulled open the car door and punched Barbara in the face Sev eral they then grabbed her by the coat and tried to pull her from the when this didst one of the women got into the car and tried to push Barbara out while the other attacker continued to punch when Barbara continued to one of the women produced a screwdriver and stabbed Barbara twice in the head and once in the Back while the Sec Ond woman continued to try to push her out onto the in the Barbara Man aged to sound the car Horn Sev eral which scared the attackers Metasch said the loud Horn Likely saved his wife they Only left her alone after the car he Barbara spent much of yester Day Back at the and then resting at she said she feels shaken after the i still dont feel she police spokesman Carl Shier said the ferocity of the Vio Lence in the Case is difficult to it seems pretty Clear that they were just after her car and he Shier said Only after the girls Are arrested will police know if they Are connected to a youth police Are still searching for the girls involved in the they Are described As being 17 or 18 years 5foots and of medium the first girl has shoulder length hair and was wearing a dark the second girl has Short dark fatality charges Laid a Winnipeg Man has been charged with criminal negligence causing death after a pedestrian was struck walking across Henderson High at Brian James of Edison Avenue was walking across the Highway when he was hit by a he was taken to health sciences Centre where he died a Short time along with criminal negligence causing Kurt Lewis is charged with Dri ving with a Content Over driving while impaired causing death and leaving the scene of an officer arrested ramp in Selkirk have arrested another member of the Winnipeg police this time for impaired ramp say the whose name has not been was driving East on the perimeter Highway Friday night at about 11 when he turned off onto main Street and rolled the when the ramp arrived on the they found the Driver to be ramp said the Man will be identified when he is charged later this window shot out police Are investigating yet another Shotgun shooting in the and they think it might be police spokesman Carl Shier would not elaborate yesterday on sundays shooting at a House in East say ing it is still under police said a 37yearold woman and her who live at 208 Mclntosh heard a loud bang at about 7 Sun when the woman went into her Kitchen about an hour she discovered a window had been shot out by a Shotgun the shot struck the fridge and a Wall inside the no one was Hurt in the this is the fourth such shoot ing in less than a but Shier said people be panicking that their Homes will be i dont want the message out there that people Are just driving shooting at any House they he theres somewhere along the a motive even if its one of mistaken he on a Norbert Home was riddled with seven bullets during a drive by police believe is gang two Days two Winnipeg Homes were hit by Shotgun two men were later arrested in connection with the believed to be part of a Domestic and last a Winnipeg woman was shot through the front door of her apartment in what police suspect was a Case of mistaken guards Chase robber a 71yearold woman got some unexpected company sunday when a robber ran into her House with a posse of Security guards in hot the Crook had just held up the shoppers drug Mart at 1112 main he fled the store and ran to Boyd by this time the stores Security guards were chasing a 28yearold Man will appear in court charged with break and enter and teen abducted a 23yearold Man accused of abducting another male at gun Point last night has been arrested by police say the Man arrived at a Magnus Avenue Home at and had a dispute with an 18yearold he abducted the Young Man at gunpoint and released him a few blocks police arrested the Man at about in South win standoff ends a Man threatening suicide who claimed to be armed with weapons and explosives gave himself up after a standoff with police last the Man barricaded himself in his Home on Manitoba Avenue when he phoned police at advising them he intended to kill after lengthy talks with the Man gave himself up at about police found no weapons in the and charged the Man with Public mis furniture galler1a is closed forever Winnipeg Best furniture store just got better coming october 26 i it Neptune fisheries fresh fish seafood smoked fish fresh Pickerel in i 472jjufferin b Box i i arriving daily shrimp Psota an 5mu8kokea 316 bags Fol Iki 5862228 of 93 its mobility Thi ultimate network Maytag electric Rance super capacity oven free 5 years element replacement ask for details Schwartz Jiff Idt present smallest cell one very compact user Friendly featherweight Long life stores 50 names scratch pad with numbers 4call timers Keylock this is a limited time offers Purchase your be pocket Phon and ubert1 plan your from 29 95 month b Umili mixed weekend 4 evening calling annual system Access fee Lor Fol year j50 value Wiltes to new Adiva ions Mua be Jan alb on a Lima of minimum 12 Morth i its mobility 639 Portage at Sherbrook 78431 leading its to forecast a 20 per cent increase this time customers responded with a 400 to 500 per cent increase Over the Normal number of we certainly Learned a marketing Robertson referring to the Success of offer ing a Flat rate instead of percentage customers also made longer Calls which tied up phone lines for on october for from 8 to attempts were made to Call Lon distance in addition to the Calls that went she on a Normal its handles about Calls Over a 24hour on october even More peo ple took advantage of the special rate with Lon distance Calls made Between 8 and despite a decision by its to Stop advertising the pro motion after its added 20 operators to its operations Between 8 and 11 to handle the extra tax receipt loophole irks candidates by Paul Samyn and Kim Guttormson some voters Are crying foul Over a loophole that allows tax deductible receipts to be issued for contributions to Politi Cal parties that then go to civic election candidates for City councillor or school trustee cant Issue tax receipts for but political parties and they can also support the trustee candidate of their they cant donate to mayoral or Council Claire Toews became aware of the situation when a Friend donated to and packed Dee a candidate in Ward 2 of the Winnipeg one through the when the Friend received a receipt and a note that a tax deductible receipt would Toews Felt something was wrong and sent out a press its not right that an nip party member can do what Independent civic i vote party candidates can not she adding she believed it was nip provincial Secretary Pat Britton said there was nothing Ille Gal about the party receiving donations for school trustee candidates endorsed by the party or provid ing tax no Cheque received Britton said the party has yet to receive the Cheque in question or any other cheques earmarked for school Britton said while election Laws prevent political parties from donating to candidates for mayor or there is no such prohibition on funding to school it is completely outside of the she adding per haps it should be Robert a candidate in Ward says its circumventing the in paying out of my own pock he said of his campaigns fund the whole intent is a level playing he believes the intent of the rules is to keep school boards at a Community level and not involve political Gillies said Shes at least being tip front about who she is affiliated everyone knows in she she argued that people Arent More Likely to contribute to one Campaign Over another because they can get a tax Deduc i have to go begging just the same As they she Hope people support me either through ballot or through Wallet because they support the Princi not because of a tax Britton said Gilles is a party member in Good standing and her Campaign is endorsed by the mxv4 its science that goes beyond magic better in the curves better in the rain better in the snout better at the pump the Energy mxv4 is the luxury performance touring tire that combines performance tire handling with a quiet comfortable now 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