Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Duchess rises above cruelties to show she a made of Royal stuff /b4 old soldiers return a Virden honours the veterans of a disbanded regiment hard lessons a Young flood evacuees experience fear and learn the value of co operation /b7 Brandon weather train ending in the morning. High 6. Low 0 details on Page by 3 inside celebrating in 125 years a a a sunday free press just Detroit evens the score Steve Yzerman and Darren Mccarty scored goals in the final four minutes rallying the Detroit red wings to a 4-2 win Over the Colorado Avalanche last night squaring their nil Western conference finals 1-1 /a9 rebels claim Victory Laurent a Abilay a rebel army marched triumphantly into Zaire s capital yesterday and quickly moved to take control of the City and the country effectively ending a seven month civil War in the african nation by 5 flood Aid on the Way As evacuees move Back to Homes in the red River Valley the salvation army will be there to help. Aid centres Are setting up in Morris and other towns this week /a4 no paper tomorrow the free press will not publish tomorrow Victoria Day. The circulation and display advertising departments will be closed. Classified advertising will be closed today but will be open tomorrow from 1 . To 3 30 . For obituary notices Only at 697-7384. The circulation departments phone service hours today will be 6 30 . To 1 . Regular office hours in All departments resume tuesday. The free press and its employees wish you a Safe and Happy Holiday. Today in your City province a comic showcase comics toys and movies ramada inn noon to 5 . Free. A the sandbag social convention Centre 8 . $19.97. A die trying voices of life theatre group Thunder Bear dance club 575 Portage ave., 5 . $3. Index local /a3,4,5,8 Canada amp world /a3 by 5,16 numbers on Page Bio classified.b13 comics.b6 deaths.a2.b12 diversions Horoscope crossword net Reader and Ann Landers .b8 editorials.b2 in ,births.b13 movies.b9 sports record.a11,12 to lotto 6/49 11,21,25,27,28,37 Bonus 9 0 619156 6brandon, May 18,1997 Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press Welcome Home Burton Cummings arrives at Winnipeg International Airport last night with Friend Dave Perich. The flood Benefit at the Forks reunites Cummings with fellow sex guess who member Randy Bachman. Winnipeg a two famous musical sons will perform together at tonight a concert. City assessors suffer new blow Board orders Wellington Crescent valuations redone by Aldo Santin City Hall reporter the City a troubled assessment department Reeed we another Black Eye. Veek when the municipal Board concluded its work is faulty and ordered a reassessment of an 11-Block stretch of Wellington Crescent. The ruling affects 39 of the City a most prestigious properties along the North Side of Wellington Crescent Between Academy Road and Niagara Street. A this is one big mess a said lawyer Michael Mercury who represented eight property owners who had challenged their 1994 assessments. A this is an acknowledgement that the assessment department did an inadequate assessment on these properties and they could not justify what they had done a Mercury had argued that the assessment department ignored proper procedures and arbitrarily set the properties land value extraordinarily High. In Many cases Mercury argued the land values should have been reduced by As much As 50 per cent which would have resulted in a significant drop in property taxes. According to the ruling the assessment department could not explain How the land values were determined in each of the eight cases under Appeal and was unable to justify the values. Board chairman Don Pratt singled out the Case of the property of Morley and Joy Lertzman at 681 Wellington cres., As a a classic example of the boards inability to determine property values. The Lertzman property had been assessed at $283,600, with the Home assessed at $7,600 and the land at $276,000. Its a 2,400-Square-foot Home with an outdoor Pool 120-foot frontage and backs on to the Assiniboine River. A to suggest that the Home has a value of $7,600 is beyond the realm of belief a said Pratt in his written ruling released thursday. A it May be that the total value for the Lertzman property is Correct at $283,600 but we have no Way of knowing that considering that we know that the value of the Home is in error. Continued please see department/a2 harpers gun stance costs native leaders support by David Kuxhaus election reporter Thompson a the largest native organization in Northern Manitoba wont be endorsing Liberal incumbent Elijah Harper in next months Federal election. Harpers backing of the liberals gun control Bill has angered some chiefs of the Manitoba Keewatin now Okima kanak which Speaks for 26 reserves. Most of the reserves Are in the Churchill Riding where Harper seeks re election. Some native leaders Are also disgruntled about proposed changes to the Indian act announced by the liberals last december. Asked about the rift Moo grand chief George mus Waggon chooses his words carefully. A i guess the Best Way to describe it is As a group we re divided a he says. Because of the dispute mus Waggon said it will be polls put pressure on the leaders/a3 a Winnipeg South Centre candidates speak/a8 a Manning delivers the unexpected/b1 left to individual chiefs to make their own Choice in the election. In 1993, Moo publicly endorsed Harper and was part of a concerted Effort to get the native vote out to the polls. At that time the Moo believed harpers High profile would give them a Strong voice in Ottawa. One of their own Harper would take a Tough stand on native issues. Almost half of the 75,000 people living in the Riding Are aboriginal. Continued please see my defends/a2 97 cd a p 17 rav 4 9\ Illa so 1997 4 2 door incl a a runner limited lease illegal aliens in . Find Freedom Here pipeline carries refugees to City by Nick Martin staff reporter Crookston Minn. A its 4 30 . And Ruth Rojo is waking her two kids to Start a Day that will take them a huge step closer to Freedom. After 18 years on the run Rojo Hopes to get into Canada if officials will accept the three As refugees. On this wednesday As rising flood Waters threaten their journey to the Emerson Border Rojo is tense. The skilled seamstress and Cook fears that at any moment american immigration authorities will apprehend her and ship her Back to Guatemala. Rojo fled Guatemala a civil War 18 years ago living first in Mexico then illegally in los Angeles where her kids were born and her husband ditched her for another family. For Steven 6. And Behlen 8, the journey to Canada is a big adventure. They re gobbling juice and Toast oblivious to their mothers anxieties. Rojo and her family Are the latest cargo for an underground Railroad that has helped 71 people to Freedom through Emerson to Winnipeg in the last year. The chief Engineer is sister Justina Violette a feisty 79-year-old Benedictine nun in this Northern Minnesota town East of grand Forks. Sister Justina has turned a shelter for the homeless into the Crookston care and share Centre a apparently the Only facility in the . Helping refugees seek Asylum in Canada. For the past decade care and share has brought hundreds of people to Canadian immigration in Emerson where Winnipeg a International Centre picks them up and houses them while they apply for refugee status. A a it a the contemporary underground railway a said Marty Dolin executive director of the Manitoba interfaith immigration Council. Continued. 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