Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 22, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Section a4 John Douglas 6977292 associate Gerald flood email Winnipeg free press local november Lindor Reynolds dont like the Snow you might be a turnip whats the Deal Winnipeg cant be entirely popu lated by people who have just fallen off a turnip truck that originated in but youd never know it from the Way folks have been carrying its november in it sometimes a at it snows so much that you gaze out the sip a cup of Tea and think it be so bad being a bag lady in but then you give your head a bundle the kid up tight and toss her out the front door to you ask her to keep an Eye on the Guy shovelling the then you turn Back to your your trashy Magazine and your prayers that school wont be can which it because those of us who Arent Root vegetables recently arrived from the Sun Shine state Are we know Winter lasts approximately six months and that if you Start Whin ing in youll be weeping and drooling by we know its a dry which is Small Comfort when you reach out for the morning paper and freeze your delicate not that in not like some Winni Eggers apparently misunderstanding the importance of their lives ver sus everyone filled voice mail systems All Over town sunday and monday demanding to know Why their supermarket closed Early Why their Street haunt been cleaned Why the cab they ordered 20 minutes ago haunt arrived and Why their lost dogs haunt been just one answer there is Only one relatively polite answer heres 50 buy a clue and look out your win most of the people who have to Deal with these Calls Are much nicer than i which int really saying some people see All the Snow and go i have sympathy for people who had to get to work travellers stuck at the Airport and anyone with a legitimate reason to be on the running out of milk or having to return toy Story to the video store were not legitimate i have no sympathy for people who parked on Snow routes and were surprised to find they had been ticketed or sometimes there were 811 tickets presented on monday 884 Sun what do you people need a personal Call from the mayor theres lots of everyone wants it slowed off the you figure your Little Toyota Doest take up that much room guess i have some Small sympathy for the people arrested for snowmobiling up and Down the Snow packed especially if they were scottish tourists who had read the mayors sunday Post there is no truth to the Rumour making the rounds that Susan Thompson and i were busted for using our motorized sledges to get to i have great admiration for the 35 women who battled their Way to the Hsc to have babies delivered sur Day and not that they hid much once it was show but they didst sit around whining Hsc or Guy Jim Rodger said All the mom Stobe arrived by traditional there were no stories about women arriving on the backs of snowmobiles or any thing Cool like no Cross coun try i have nothing but Praise for the City Sno Clearing especially after the Nice Job they did on Ray Street tuesday my Neighbours dont Park on the and for the rest of that gang who Are cursing City Hall and your general bad heres a wee bit of the old Farmers almanac claims that the Snow win Stop sometime in May you can Start Casino machines capped after flurry of Stefanson restricts them to electronic Bingo games by Alice Krueger legislature reporter the f1lmon government has reined in Manitoba lotteries plans for 500 new betting machines at its two Winnipeg casinos by ordering they be used for electronic Bingo the directive went out yesterday morning from lotteries minister Eric Stefanson after the government was accused of saying one thing and doing another when it comes to hoteliers Are losing 6so volts As the government makes Good on a Promise to reduce its Reliance on what the Des Jar dirty commission referred to As the crack cocaine of the new Multi gaming video Termi which Are scheduled for installation at club Regent and Mcphillips Street station before years Are programmed for Keno and break open tickets As Well As but after a flurry of criticism from hoteliers and opposition Stefanson said All other games on the video Kings will be blocked insisting the intention was never to use them for anything other than elec tronic Stefanson said he met with Mac officials yesterday morning to make sure they wont be used to play the other those machines will not be permit Ted to function with any other Cap Abil Plain and will Only be functioning As electronic end of Stefanson he stressed they will simply be a replacement for traditional paper they Are not they Are not a gaming machine in any other that was Clari fied this the intention All along was to allow them to convert some of the paper Bingo to electronic Stefanson said a customer Survey conducted by the corporation earlier this year showed patrons favoured the electronic so the Mac was simply responding to that he said the partial switchover will be virtually there still will be paper Bilgo for those that want to play the paper but it just changes the that How it was always conveyed to that How its been conveyed to others and what were doing is making sure that what ends up being the Stefanson also promised to Monitor the Impact on the hotel Industry of pulling the 650 the Manitoba hotel association has warned that some Small Rural hotels could be pushed to the Brink of bankruptcy because of the loss of commissions from Ken free press raising the roof Shawn Schaeffer top and Nick Piper try to Seal a rip in the 370by270foot inflated Structure collapsed in sundays Bliz Vinyl cover of the Golf dome on Wilkes Avenue the the owners expect to reopen later this joins crusade to derail Low track plight of Young Street prostitutes upsets Dumont by Alice Krueger legislature reporter t Dumont took a tour i the cites Low track pros Titu area and says what he saw would tear the hearts out of the fam Ilies of the teens on the he called on the provinces business elite to join him in finding a solution to Winnipeg growing prostitution earlier this the Queens representative spent a night cruising the cites Seamer Side with Winnipeg police Vic squad officers to see for himself what goes it really saddens me to see a waste of Young people like especially the ones that i saw who were about 16 years old about the age of my oldest Dumont Dumont said his 5 tour tues Day of the Low track was a real Eye opener for j was surprised to see so much activity going on at that time of the morning at that kind of temperatures Young ladies trembling in freezing cold i am quite he i just cant help but think of the desperate situation that there in in order to participate in that kind of Dumont said he had hoped to keep his fac finding Mission a but quickly realized that in his that want he said he did it speak to any of the prostitutes or anyone else he just observed from the Back seat of the police the windows were smoked up they didst realize who i was i dont even know if they saw he explaining hed planned the North end Tow after talking to Winnipeg police chief David Cassels about three weeks ago about some of the social problems facing today youth he sympathized with the Prostic fotes and condemned their pimps Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Dumont on Selkirk Avenue where Young hookers Are and those to me Are the real criminals and i think we have to find ways of dealing with them As he Dumont said his next step will be to meet with neighbourhood students at Norquay and Russell schools next As Well As older residents of the area to find out How the prob Lem affects in not just sure what the lieu tenant governor can do because its not part of my and i dont have much in the Way of resources through the office to get involved in any great Way Dumont hopefully i can get together with people who have and other people who Are interested in especially people in the Pri vate sector and in looking to business leaders i sense by talking to Many of them unofficially that theres really a lot of concern in the business Carolann first Vic chair woman of the Winnipeg chamber of said Shes confident Industry leaders will be More than willing to pitch in where they can to Deal with what is really a social prob Lem affecting the health of the Community in general is a real important Issue to business if we Are a healthy comm then we thrive in a lot of she but she said any assistance would have to be in a Way that is relevant to i believe that the business Community is very has a very wecan4o so As Long As it used those positive thinking and creative in sure wed be pre pared to look at whatever he has to approach us Borody admits beating baby son by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter a 24yearold Man pleaded guilty yesterday to battering his 19dayold but Only after failing to keep his confession out of the baby had seven broken ribs and two broken at the Start of his trial this the who is not being identified to protect the baby claimed he was he told the court he admitted to shaking the baby and pulling his legs Only because social workers told him his son would be placed in a Foster Home if he didst the mans Roxroy also accused police of being Overly aggressive with their he said offi cers yelled at the father at one slammed a West said his client was under the impression that he had no Choice but to Complete the but Madam Justice Holly Beard of court of Queens Bench said there was no evidence to support the she said she believed the Man fabricated parts of his Crown attorney Janice Lemaistre said the child appears to have recovered the father pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing bodily a charge of aggravated assault was the father will he sentenced in he is not in custody and is allowed to visit his son As Long As another adult is ;