Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Women predisposed to breast cancer could live longer without new study suggests own words Winnipeg North Centre candidates speak out in our first of 14 Riding broadband networks is taking its High tech equipment around the world the weather q mainly High Low details on Page d14 g celebrating 225 years Winnipeg free press garbage Day 1 school Day 2 inside flood watch for flood information see the Manitoba flood watch web site lava Jolt coming As the wholesale Price of Coffee sky supermarkets and specially shops Are getting set to pass it on to the but at least one retailer Doest think the markup will affect sales bodies on the line this years Stanley cup semifinals give new York rangers Wayne Gretzky what he likes speedy lineups that can if you want to you have to put your bodies on the the great one says then discord nato and Russia reached a landmark agreement yesterday that is supposed to ease russian fears of the alliances coming expansion into Eastern but within hours of the Deal which still needs ratification by nato members officials on each Side were giving differ ing interpretations taxi fares to jump taxi fares will jump by 14 per cent in Winnipeg next making a 10kilo metre cab ride in the City among the most expensive of All major Canadian cities today in your City province dessert theatre u of m school of music Trinity 1111 Chevrier rumours comedy Relief flood Benefit hosted by Brad featuring Tim 8 Book launch two headed by Sandra Mcnally Grant Park shopping 8 Index Canada world numbers on paged16 diversions crossword net Reader and Ann in sports to lotto Bonus May flood leaves huge Tab in Wake s the murky red River floodwaters slowly one fact emerges Crystal Clear the Price tag to restore Southern Manitoba is going to be the total Bill to repair and clean up and rebuild hundreds of Homes and farm opera could reach As High As officials said initial estimates have identified close to 800 flood damaged Homes and and at least 500 Sites on Rural roads that will need in Winnipeg City officials estimated yester Day it will Cost about million just to repair Infra Structure such As Bridges and sewer sys and to Shore up sagging the officials also Esti mated that by the time the last sandbag has been the City will have spent More than million on flood prevention measures and for a Complete area by of flood damage please see Story on top of the world team Canada Captain Dean Evason who was born in flin and his Crew whoop it up after winning the deciding third game of the world hockey championship final in see Story on Page panel probes flood fight did province help create a manmade disaster by Alice Krueger legislature reporter extra shifts mean More Money for convicts crime Doest he at inmates get of crime Doest just pay these at Stony Moun Tain it pays Over some of the 450 convicts at the medium Security Penitentiary North of Winnipeg Are racking up overtime wages while there serving their according to documents obtained under the Access to information Stony Mountain inmates were paid in overtime pay Dur ing the 199596 fiscal so How does someone serving court ordered time for committing a criminal offence qualify for overtime pay apparently the same Way As the rest of us who Haven been there supposed to have five shifts a explained assistant Warden Gunar once they go beyond they get Paul Wiecek Ivans said production sched Ules at the various industries the prison runs a Woodwork ing for instance some times require inmates to work double shifts or extra and that when the overtime kicks inmate pay normally ranges from a to a and that after prisoners have the Cost of their Telephone Cable television and inmate welfare committee contributions deducted from their but they dont pay any income tax because they dont make Ivans and while a couple of Bucks a Day might not sound like it added up to in inmate wages during continued please see the Manitoba government says it will investigate its flood fighting actions in Light of allegations it turned the red River flood into a manmade disaster in Agathe and Grande the review will try to determine if any of the Mea sures the provincial govern ment such As breaching of plugging culverts and the construction of the Brunild in any Way contributed to flooding in the two in floods Premier Gary Filmon refused yesterday to speculate whether the if found response would provide any additional compensation to he said the no dormant Manitoba water commission will be reconstituted within the next few weeks to look into the it will also look at How the red River Portage diversion and Shell Mouth Reservoir were operated during the flood and what if they had on flows a second review will be Manitoba emergency management some residents of Agathe Are convinced the water Levels that swamped their Homes were a direct result of the province cutting the Avonlea West of their for that they maintain they have to pay the 20percent deductible on damage continued please see Good follow flood by Martin Cash and Catherine Mitchell reporter on a Normal the Calgary boutique brokerage firs Energy might do several million dollars Worth of trading on the International Stock but last the Oil and Gas specialists sent out a fax to their customers telling them that on May they would donate their commissions to the Manitoba red Cross for its red River flood Relief by Days end May the firm accounted for the second highest Market share of trades on the Toronto Stock earning More than in it is this kind of generosity that has organizers of flood Relief funds shaking their Heads and waxing poetic about the overwhelming Goodwill from to Manitoba red Cross has tallied Mil lion from individuals and corporations towards its goal of raising continued please see Goodwill a2 mind computer products 386 systems 486 systems Ulsa made in Manitoba y is w monitors while quantities monitors optional starting at reconditioned Colour 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