Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Easy to read format Complete listings anybody guess Oscar picks As sound As a Coin h museums virtual fun irresistible 1 Dion uses voice to stunning effect 1 Diab Olique remake lacks zip s exhibit offers mix of books jets Bounce beat flyers 41 Ducky to room with Philly Captain paddock going to Phoenix skater on Streak for Gold Naftal concerns critics warn of Competition in Home care Plant workers fired for sex harassment charges tossed in neighbourhood fight Angel of mercy rescues family tales of insurance woes invited Vlassi Riecl comics diversions Horo b3 c7 in memorials births c11 Jumble 05 sports record the weather Snow beginning in late High Low details on Page d6 saturday free press plus taxes higher in outlying areas March grits gut renowned Centre Lake research sunk As 50 Freshwater jobs axed by Dan Lett National reporter Ottawa Winnipeg is about to lose dozens of High paying scientific jobs with the gutting of its renowned fresh water Federal fisheries minister Fred Mifflin confirmed this week that 50 full time jobs at the Institute will be Cut this from a total of most of those eliminated Are High level scientific of greater is the institutes award winning experimental lakes area which will see its staff Cut by More than Mifflin noted that of the 49 jobs connected to this 27 will be eliminated through direct Layoff or Earl departure another research project involving Lake and its 10 will be eliminated com do regional director Bur ton Ayles said the biggest loss from the staff cuts will be in Lake which has produced sub Stantial results in the Ayles said a diminished Ela project will still collect water and atmospheric samples and maintain a data base that is nearly three decades specific research into other unknown environmental factors will probably he groundbreaking work in the area of Mercury contamination in hydroelectric which was pioneered at the will not be part of the More tightly focused mandate at the Ayles you cant just reduce a program of this size and do the same things but less of said what we have to do Over the next three years is refocus what we continued please see work Dunblane primary school Pupil Amy Hutchinson is recovering Well from her injuries since the shooting at the scottish school on March her classmates resumed lessons Matthew Birnie in his Hospital room with his should be going Home rebel Farmers face the Law producers plead not guilty to evading customs by Nelle Oosterom Canadian press Virden it looked like a farm Farmers and truckers in rumpled overalls stood with Caps in hand As they indicated yester Day they would plead not guilty to charges stemming from their lat est push for a free Grain the charges against 37 of them relate to a Border demonstration March 12 during which they stole their trucks after they were impounded by Canada they admit to taking Grain into the United states without a Canadian wheat Board but say they did nothing i dont know if its the right but it seems to be the Only Way were going to get said Jolene a Grain trucker from the Farmers want to sell their Grain without going through the which holds a monopoly on Barley and wheat they each were originally charged with theft Over for refusing to pay fines and driving off in their vehicles after they were the Crown stayed those charges and instead reduced them to Evad ing the customs a conviction carries a possible jail it is a Little said in a single mom so i dont want to be too much of a All the demonstrators were Fin Farmers Are Ger printed before their court it was an experience a second world Wai Veteran found the last time i was fingerprinted was when i was in the said Stewart of i fought for i feel that Freedom has been taken away when our own government has taken away the right to sell my own product at the Best the Farmers say they can get More for their wheat and Barley by Selling directly to the most of those charged Are members of Farmers for which has held several demonstrations in recent the March 12 protest was a show of support for Andrew he is one of three Manitoba farm ers who have stood trial for moving Grain the cases were remanded for six weeks and will Likely not go to trial until late a decision in the Case of Mcmechan and fellow Farmer Bill Cairns is expected in Virden provincial court they Are charged with failing to produce a wheat Board permit when they attempted to ship Grain to the Hyak take As seen at Comet million times better than Halley by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter Scott Young has been setting his alarm every night for the last week at 3 hoping for Clear his Mission a glimpse of the most spectacular Comet to come along in decades a Comet that will be progressively More visible to the naked Eye in Manitoba this yesterday Young an astronomer at win Nipges planetarium got his he saw Comet Haku take above 10 Kilometres South of the its much better than Kohoutek and a million times better than he referring to the comets that appeared in the 1970s and then in its so Bright you almost cant miss Hyak take is expected to have thousands of Manitoban out tomorrow and monday night of its Clos est approach to discovered in january by an Amateur it is zooming through the Northeast heading almost straight for the North it almost whacks you in the Young its quite a spectacular he said the Best viewing for Hyak takes show will be from an dark preferably in the Northeast outside the City in a place such As Birds Hill one enthusiast who phoned the planetarium said he was planning a hot tub party in his Young across the Royal astronomical society of Canada is staging organized View ing Arenas in at Kildonan Park tonight and tomorrow night from 7 to continued please see Best Friend bewildered after store cleaned out by Doug Nairne police reporter Bian Variani says his boy Hood chum came to Stein Bach last month with nothing but the clothes on his Back and the Promise of a it seems that he left with a lot More than he arrived with nothing but his suitcase and his Variani he left with my suitcase and my said he still Hast come to grips with the arrest of his Best Friend after someone Hung a closed for renovations sign on his store in the Clear Spring mall and then pillaged it of in Variani said he was in Vancouver attending a fashion show with his Fiancee when he called Home on monday to Check he expected to talk to his the new manager of Variani cloth but there was no he called the business next continued please see is visiting Eaton place april 13 info line 9891817 enter to win a dinner with Batman for you a Friend at Eaton place on april12 see participating stores my Eaton place Eaton place for contest forms starting March 25 March 30 see cub Lomer service for Complete list Starling March 25 wow ;