Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Support group helps kids Cope when cancer devastates family life clip wings Colorado defeats Detroit taking first game in Nils Western final Rogers Cantel becomes first to offer pcs phone service across Canada the weather sunny with a few Cloudy High Low details on paged 4 g g celebrating j25 years Winnipeg free press garbage Day 2 school Day 3 inside flood watch for flood information see the Manitoba flood watch web site High school winners there simply the Best 16 student basketball stars in the four Manitoba High school athletic association Divi each received a scholar ship yesterday from Mcdonalds restaurants under the a Hasa Basket Ball education scholarship team Best program Flushing used to be easy super High tech toilets with control panels that look like plane with japanese characters its enough to make some foreigners lose the rather than risk damaging themselves or their hosts bathrooms with Spray jets and other luxuries Melody sour note a red Heifer born in Northern is seen by some As a sign the Messiah is while others View her As a threat to Mideast peace prelude to disaster doctors Are warning that the blood shortage crisis this Spring May have just been a Warmup for summer discs As provincial health ministers pre pare to meet in Montreal to Hammer out a Way to Deal with the looming shortages today in your City key con 14 science fiction and fantasy to holi Day in crowne Plaza hotel with change of heart and monoxide West end cultural 8 provincial music and speech finals Canadian mennonite Bible col 9 to Index Canada world numbers on Page 04 diversions crossword net Reader and Ann in sports to 5 May Asper donating millions for Winnipeg by Martin Cash business reporter television Mogul Izzy Asper yester Day made the first of what he said will be a summer of million Dollar donations that will make Winnipeg a better chairman and ceo of can West global communications used a Winnipeg chamber of Commerce luncheon speech to launch a million charitable foundation in his company he also used the speech to urge the rest of win Nipges corporate Community to be More government is receding rapidly from fund ing All but the most essential elements of the he the Baton has not been its been we must pick it Asper got a standing that the first standing ovation Ive Ever seen at a chamber said former chamber president Trevor last Asper donated million in his parents name to the Asper jewish Community yesterdays announcement of the can West global foundation is the first of other Mil lion Dollar announcements the company will make As it Marks its 20th anniversary this a can West spokesman said details of the administration of the fund have not yet been Asper admonished More Winnipeg Compa Nies to become caring that designation is defined by the Canadian Cen tre for philanthropy As companies that donate one per cent or More of pretax prof its to charitable and philanthropic Asper Challenge dividing up the Aid advisory panel feds plan How to give out flood Relief by Leah Janzen for the free press the Federal govern ment and a Community based Relief committee will announce separate Aid packages today aimed at quickly getting Money into the hands of Manitoba flood the 16member Manitoba flood Relief advisory com Mittee met last night to determine How thousands of displaced Manitoban will Access a multimillion Dollar Pool of donations from across the provinces senior Liberal my was preparing to go to Cabinet with a sep Arate Relief sources say foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy will take a comprehensive Aid package to Cabinet today in Miracle of Agathe compensation Ottawa for the will include medium and longer term measures will also include an immediate Cash payout to companies and individuals Hurt by Manitoba flood of the i would say its a substantial amount of but the numbers Haven been a source prime minister Jean Chretien was to announce the package in Winnipeg this but the trip has been cancelled because he will participate in a rescheduled French language leaders debate that Day in continued please see Joe free press Gerard Levesque Peers into flooded basement of Agathe will Morissette be at concert c Ould alanis Morissette be a Surprise guest at Tom Jacksons red River Relief concert the Canadian Singer has been in India for several but Rumour has it she May perform at Jack sons giant fundraising Benefit at the Forks on Sun Day at 7 alanis is in India but that Doest necessarily mean Shell be in India on Jackson said yes Morissette has expressed interest in helping Mani Toba flood she contacted the cd radio pro Gram Morningside to appear on its red River Relief telethon May the grammy and Jun winning Singer called from new but was too late to be included on the Morningside producer Gloria Bishop sundays outdoor fundraiser will feature Burton Cummings and Randy who will perform Celine Dion has assembled a video for the other artists include the Fred Chantal Susan George Wyrd Sisters and Hart please see Story on Page women gaining ground in vote by rut Teichroeb social affairs reporter a record number of Manitoba women Are running in the Federal including one Riding where three of the four major parties have fielded female the number of female candidates for the four major parties jumped to 16 this year or just under 30 per cent from 13 in in the 1988 Only four women Judy who is running for the nip in the female dominated Duel in French to resume a9 Winnipeg North Centre said Shes delighted that both her tory and Liberal opponents Are Ive never run against so Many women said a former provincial Cabinet minister who ran unsuccessfully in the last fed eral i guess that a sign of she credits her party affirmative action policy for encouraging More women than Ever to we put on a real concerted push and its really paid said who is one of eight women running for the nip in the nip adopted a policy where rid ing associations were required to seek out and encourage potential female candidates prior to the nomination she but the nip rejected the Liberal party More aggressive strategy of allowing the Leader to appoint women As candidates in certain continued please see per hour git one free year on the internet when you bring Down clean canned goods or anything that a flood victim can the salvation army is in very Short Supply of these Intel pentium 200 and Rai 33 32 Meg Edo ram 60 is Tow smartsuiti97 it Arr acc capable Intel to Meg 64 bit Access Triton Motherboard mpg video i512k pipeline 13d sound card 1st Cache High Speed Tower Case Ball bearing fan 95 17 marys Btry downtown 958 940o sch floor ;