Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rice i financial dynamics family of funds special no front or backed Load dynamic partners iranian your weekly Southwest Manitoba news digest for Home delivery 7270527 or 7272451 March b1 briefly Man arrested for alleged assaults Joseph Walter of 639 Van Home Avenue is being charged with assault causing Bod ily harm after police witnessed a person assaulting two females on the 200 Block of seventh Street Early yesterday bran Don police police say Nep Inak was arrested following a Short Chase on break and enters in abundance several break and enters were also reported by police Friday at Neelin High school a window was broken and a dual compact disc player was a Small amount of liquor and jewelry was stolen in a breaking on the 1200 Block of fourth a video cassette recorder and 12 compact discs were stolen from a residence on the 500 Block of 12th an attempted break in at Madd at 230 Princess was reported saturday a window was smashed but entry want police smoking policy works in Neepawa Neepawa an agreement to have smokers police themselves appears to be working Well at this Community this fall the Yellowhead Centre banned smoking after a petition had been signed by people opposed to smoking in the wait ing area where people gather Between periods of hockey some of the smokers were defying the ban by secret ively smoking in the Arena during about 100 people signed a petition asking the Cen tre to allow smoking somewhere within the because going outside to smoke was especially during bit Terly cold weather this Kevin chairman of the Yellowhead Centre said an agreement was reached last month where smokers could use the Community Hall which is connected to the a condition of the agreement was that smokers police them selves to ensure there was no smoking in the stands during if there were smoking privileges in the Hall would be Harris during the first the arrangement has worked he it has kind of made everybody so far so next year the arrangement May be considered the Yellowhead is being renovated and a special smoking area might be Harris said decision on Pellet factory delayed Hartney a decision on whether to proceed to the next stage of a proposal to build a feed Pelleting Plant has been pushed Back until late March or Early Fred chairman of the Hartney and area Pelleting Plant said a consultant working on the second phase of a feasibility is trying to con tact a broader Range of Compa Nies in an Effort to obtain equipment Cost estimates for the the local group Hopes to Manu facture livestock feed from the product left Over after Grain is cleaned at Eleva screenings can include everything from cracked kernels to weeds such As wild Oats and screenings can have a High nutritional Content and Are suitable for feeding horses and other the Plant would be established in the old United Grain growers Eleva Tor in which is being closed because of construction of a new High throughput Inland ter Minal 35 Kilometres away at the new which opened this would be a major source of screenings if the fee Plant project the committee will Likely decide in Early Spring whether plans for the project will proceed to the next fire remains under investigation the Brandon fire department reports a Hay fire at the North end of the Keystone Centre grounds is still under about 200 Bales burned in the fire that was extinguished by firefighters Friday Council studies Gas Issue at weekly meeting City Council sits at a variation Board prior to holding its regular meeting monday at on the second floor of 410 ninth Here is the Agenda in capsule Zed form variation Board hearing variation application Burton construction variation Forest Boule Vard variation application 236 Park Street communications Public hearings zoning amendment 2130 Currie rms residential Mobile Home District to c3 Highway com Mercial District Hall invest conditional use application mining of gravel in an Amr agricultural Indus trial Reserve District Burton construction reports committee of the whole unfinished business crosswalk request Victoria at eleventh 1997 Canada games request to conduct Mountain Bike events in Kirk Caldy Heights Council the Agenda tender 1996 read mix request for Speed limit increase Douglas Public utilities Board review delivery of natural Gas in Manitoba by Cen tra Gas Manitoba and other direct Purchase of natural bylaws zoning amendment for 2130 Currie Hall investments from rms residential Mobile Home District to c3 Highway commercial Dis second and third to provide a repayable Grant to the Brandon major Curling championships in the amount of second and third to augment the general Reserve fund re renovations to recreation three pumpkins pull in tourists by Lynden Behm the Brandon Sun t t that once appeared to a Small scale disaster has grown into a major event that draws people to Dave pearces pumpkin the North Dakota vegetable grower told a farm marketing conference that his pumpkin Enterprise began in 1982 with five acres of Green pumpkins that had no he had grown the pumpkins for a single but a change in plans left Pearce without a so he invited school children to pick them for the Endeavor didst produce any but the children were the next year even More Chil Dren became interested in his so he continued to grow first giving them later Selling them for a Small Over the years interest has grown and Pearce we created a phenomenal event in the months of september and october in Pur Pierce said of his operation near we have the elderly who come out in people in because it is the place to go who grew up in the 1950s in the age of Mickey mouse has never forgotten the importance of As an he has taken five courses at the Walt Disney my family Calls me the senior the pumpkin Patch opens each year at the end of Bismarck Folk which this year is 15 it continues until the pumpkin Patch features Hay scarecrow compete pumpkin painting a Jack lantern carved out of a round Straw a Bat Bayou which is full of ghost Gulch which is filled with and a great pumpkin which talks to there is also a Chil Drens carnival held with Optimist he the environment we create around the pumpkin Patch is just he each year we add a commitment to Excel Lence and putting in an extra Effort Are keys to marketing Suc said Pearce whose vanity licence plate is yes yes is on it because i dont say ats stands for and then he explaining motto is to always go beyond what is expect it is the concept of going the extra you give them All youve got and then you provide customer service and then Rural roots Urban people Are interested in Rural because of a desire to touch base with Rural roots which almost everyone has if they go Back a generation or Howe they also want fun and an enjoyable he Pearce said there want any thing unusual about his 40acre 16hectare but rather it was imagination and commitment to excellence that made a Success of the pumpkin Patch and a greenhouse that grows during the wrap up people said they believed a cheer Ful attitude and an emphasis on treating customers Well were the keys to conference organizer Mona Cormack said Manitoba has made less Progress than Many other areas in the development of Agri the which Drew 150 people from across the will Likely be repeated in future we have a lot of strengths that we can Cormack explaining that there Are opportunities ranging from tourism related ventures to such things Selling far grown the today conference at the agricultural Extension Centre ended it was organized by Manitoba just practising in a disaster simulation exercise at cab search Andrescu technician Bruce Best assesses a casualty shortly after parachuting to the scene Friday afternoon top Steve Cleveland is helped by a fellow member of 17 medical left Cleveland was feigning the Early stages of hypothermia before being trucked Back to and finally a Hercules c130 transport plane drops some of the supplies needed by the three members of the 435 Squadron search Andrescu abandoned lines May provide opportunities it is always bad news to hear about another rail line aban optimists will say that Ever Cloud has a Sil ver lining there Are indications that the line May be John saw of cons real estate manage ment recently meanwhile others Art certain closure of cons Rossburn subdivision is this is the Sec Tion of line Between Neepawa and at a recent municipal officials seminar in John Whitaker of approached the he had a question for the la officially rep Bill Stilwell the Region resenting our minister of Rural he asked Rural developments support for using the line for imagine a continuous stretch of equal to the distance from Brandon to turned into a recreational also included in the package Are the Sta Tion grounds and abandoned Sid Ings All along the if this stretch of rail line could remain intact and used for recce it would have phenomenal it would also have inestimable economic cyclists would be instead of bucking traffic along the Yellowhead they could move safely across the it would be Good business for communities at either end Neepawa and people would drive to one end of the unload their bicycles and pedal to the far the Small towns along the Way would be Happy to have cyclists Stop for and perhaps accommodation along the some enterprising business types would see the Opportunity to pick people up at the opposite end and return them to their snowmobiles could use such a route during instead of Dri ving Down ditches ducking under Guy wires and flying Over they could have an area of their it would increase tourism in the it is Likely that Busi Ness people would organize hospitality packages for packages would be provided to those spending a night or a week end Cross country hikers and other types of uses might also be feasible if the line is kept now those Are the most realistic uses for an abandoned rail Stop and look at the exist ing rail lines it passes through the most Beautiful scenery in the route runs along the Riding Mountain through rolling Hills and a variety of North of the line is within 14 Kilometres of rid ing Mountain National this opens other what about establishing a Short line imagine a tourist train running from Clear Lake to this would be a Welcome attraction for Park visitors during the tourist perhaps there would be enough business to haul canola or other products to Russell and neither of these suggestions would be a the rails to trails concept is a very successful tourist proposition in the United in the in rail is currently turning the Inwood line into a recreational the Short line Railroad concept has proven financially viable at both Canadian and american opportunities come in Many shapes and maybe rail lines abandonment can have an up Bill Stilwell is a Neepawa freelance ;