Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 22, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A National Survey says More Consumers Are thinking about buy ing new rather than used 112 Tsivie Mumm i into movies country Singer Michelle Wright says Shes ready to add acting to her portfolio bombers Slot Back Gerald Wilcox is tired of talking about last years knee injury the weather 40 Chance of morning High Low details on Page d14 m m pm celebrating 125 years Winnipeg free press garbage Day 8 school Day 6 inside Quarry Oaks thinks big Steinbach Quarry Oaks Golf club is hoping to land a Canadian tour event by the year the club is expand ing its clubhouse and plans to put up to Host the event Greenfeld going for 10 talk about Winnipeg Sher Man Greenfeld is gunning for his 10th National racquetball Crown in 12 years this and Hes doing it about 300 players Are competing in the senior mens and women National championships aids vaccine debated a new vaccine protects monkeys against the virus which causes but theres no easy Way to find out its Lon term effect on As the need for such a vaccine becomes More the debate on human test ing heats upvb3 doll changing attitudes she has Blond Shes really and Shes in a barbies new share a smile is intended to change attitudes about people with the made by mat Tel is being sold exclusively in toys r us reduced to tears nearly everyone in the court was reduced to tears As the Crown attorney read a letter from Joseph Beeper spences Mother to a sentencing hear ing for the teens killers today in your City province shrine circus Winnipeg to and 7 to make get get paid fort Garry 8 racquetball Canadian senior mens and women supreme Racquet 8 Index Canada it world numbers on 5 pageb9 diversions crossword treader and Ann in sports to lotto Bonus May Katz Doest swing at Ballpark pitch up votes 41 in favour of Deal Worth million mayor opposed by Aldo Santon City Hall reporter hey thought it was a pitch baseball stadium promoter Sam Katz but Katz barely batted an Eye when executive policy committee members voted 41 yesterday to offer him a Deal it said is Worth million Over a 25 year Katz dismissed the saying the City wants him to subsidize its and it int giving him any thing to build his stadium North of the in another mayor Susan Thompson who chaired the meeting voted against the Deal because she said Shes not satisfied with katzes Busi Ness both the offer and the mayors rejection caught Katz by he said he was still waiting to hear from the cites administrative negotiating team on a proposal he submitted last id like to negotiate with the City but i dont know who to talk Katz the administration team want aware that this offer was going to be made and the chairman of the committee who made the mayor voted against continued please see flood Money Battle gets hot youre playing election Manitoba liberals Tell Filmon by Paul Samyn election reporter Andy Lussier stands up to his Chest in basement f floodwater Tust weeks after Man i it bans pulled together to Battle the flood of the Ottawa and the province Are fighting Over How to pay for the the province wants a detailed Aid which officials have announced provincial officials had expected prime minister Jean Chretien to do that last but the Federal govern ment is saying there is no need for an elaborate plan and that Money will be made available As the is an extraordinary Row which has Many political observers won Dering where the truth senior Manitoba my Lloyd Axworthy blames the province for playing politics with flood in a letter yesterday to the provinces government ser vices Frank Pitu Axworthy said it is inappropriate to be raising unrealistic expectations that final agreement and costs and programming has been Premier Gary Filmon fired right saying he is disappointed Axworthy failed to deliver on the much needed Aid package that had been agreed to by both Federal and provincial i am concerned that there does not appear to be the commitment at the fed eral Cabinet for this Deal to Filmon continued please see its were flood victims forgotten 7 dont know Why sandbags failed on Minerva says City official by rut Teichroeb staff reporter while the rest of the City mops up from the flood of the a handful of homeowners on the southernmost tip of Winnipeg Are still living As pumps spewed water yesterday from their Bungalow on Minerva Andy Lussier and his wife Rosemarie blamed their flooding on the cites efforts to protect nor i dont mind them saving nor Andy said As he pointed to water Marks just below Eye level on the main floor of his but we want full you cant even Start fixing every thing for flood cheques Small Comfort a6 despite erecting a Dike around their Home just West of Pembina their House was the basement is still half full of Muddy a Neighbours Home just South of them was also while three other houses had seepage into their weve been forgotten even though were in Rosemarie we were she pointed to the earthen Dike to the North and the Turnbull drive Dike on the East Side of Pembina the la Salle River flows to the they blocked everything its a postage stamp Rosemarie there was nowhere for the water to the Lussier insist the City should have extended the Turnbull drive or built that Dike behind their Cluster of they knew what was but we Andy shaking his head sadly As mud oozed from his dining room now when we Call the we cant get any like All flood the Lussier and their Neighbours will be eligible for up to in flood Bompensa subject to a 20 per cent they believe that since the dikes contributed to their flood they should be compensated fully for the damage but Doug a City planning said the including the Turnbull drive had Noth ing to do with the flooding on min certainly building the Earth Dike did not Impact negatively on Mcneil he also said that Minerva Avenue residents received the same help As other officials offered either sandbags or earthen dikes to residents whose Homes were at he but it want cos effective to extend the Turnbull Avenue Dike for five he it was cos effective to provide Mcneil i dont know Why the sandbags the City did the Best it Riis still 14 Omati Losia Sammy a oaf Hanson of Attonis Man Mutton Olao Maci Sava Odim various artists thimm vim Colour t ploy marching to my pm nowhere bleed on Garden live Between now 2 villain a floor ;