Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Net How Call 1888go Star i i i i i r Winnipeg free press local june 1997 John Douglas 6977292 features Jim Carr email a3 Culvert delay riles father children lives Arent a priority by Melanie Verhaeghe for the free press almost two months after Adam Young was sucked into a Culvert and the City has not identified every open ditch or come up with a permanent solution to the its been almost two months since the nobody seems to want to provide any said Adams father Rob All i asked for when they found him was to make sure it Doest happen on april Adam was swallowed by water flowing into a Culvert that drains into the cites sewer system in front of his Leila Avenue he was found May 2 in a catch Basin near main Street and Armstrong after the the City said it wanted to make sure All open culverts about 100 of them were weve been asking people to identify those Sites and weve Only had one come said City sewer and water Engineer Dan we dont have people out looking for the we have other programs that were behind weve just come out of fighting the Young cant believe finding the culverts is not a i was under the impression that was Hap Young i guess Chil Drens lives Arent a Young said he told the City of at least two other open people living near where Adam disappeared said the City has been told for the past two years about the Culvert and now has a responsibility to ensure every Culvert is Jeff free press schoolmates Jessey Mattis from left Mark Jesse mor Gan at Culvert on Leila Avenue where Young i dont care if there Are of were talking about childrens said Wayne Benedet also sent the City ideas about How to cover the but nothing has been if there just sitting Back and saying this is a problem but were waiting for people to scream about that just not Good Paul were Schuss basement flooded by sewer backup across the Street from the he also warned the City the Day before Adams death that someone would get a lawsuit against the City is still in the Young Harry Lazarenko said he will raise the Issue of open culverts at the next works and operations committee meeting in three in not looking at but every time i look at a 1 see that he the provinces inquest review committee meets on Friday to decide which deaths warrant a closer look by calling an Adams death is one of i will strongly suggest that an inquest should be there Are certain questions left said Jim director of the chief medical examiners were not trying to find fault with individuals or what were try ing to do is to ensure it Doest happen sports Camps to help tackle gang problem program is designed to help youths in the inner City by Paul Samyn legislature reporter the province will unveil a new weapon today in Winnipeg War on youth one that relies on fun and games to prevent kids from turning to sources say the Urban sports Camp program for intercity youth is designed to provide a healthy alternative to youth the first of four Camps will run at Turtle Island Community Centre and provide children aged 1217 with supervised games and sports activities throughout the summer and year Justice minister Vic Toews said the which was a provincial prior Ity under the Trievel Winnipeg development is targeted at helping prevent children from joining this is an answer to the specific part of the greater problem of youth Toews this is not a Panacea but it can help certain Toews said the sports Camps take a unique approach of building Community partnerships which he Hopes will help it the Community connection has to be there in order to sustain the Active he you cant hire a few social workers and expect them to go in there and change the the first Urban sports Camp will be run by the Winnipeg native Bill chief executive officer of the aboriginal Centre of said the sports Camps will be welcomed by a lot of Urban sports Camps will be just Ideal for some of the youngsters who cant get he Shead stressed the Urban sports Camps will not end the cites gang he the Camps Are an important piece in a complicated Puzzle that still needs lots of work from the Community before it can be com the Ida has provided three years of funding for the sports after government funding runs the rotary club has agreed to provide the financing needed to keep the Camps new endowment honours Hilmons tremier Gary Filmon and his Janice Filmon will be Hon tonight by Manitoba ukrainian Community with a new endowment fund in their the Gary and Janice Filmon endow ment fund will help finance programs and research at University of Manito Bas Centre for ukrainian said the centres Natalia Apo she said Filmon has been instrumental in developing economic links Between Ukraine and including bringing the 1994 g7 sum Mit to we periodically honour someone of ukrainian Aponiuk but honouring someone while he is still in office is Likely a she Filmon traces his ukrainian heritage through his mothers Aponiuk expected the dinner this evening at the Lombard hotel would raise in proceeds and donations to establish the the Centre has about in a variety of endowment tickets can be obtained by calling trash no longer goes into orbits by Paul Samyn legislature reporter after 30 years of collecting trash along Manitoba High the orbits Are about to be put into the highways department will announce today the satellite shaped White garbage cans that were unique to Manitoba roads Are being replaced with a More contemporary in the Manitoba orbits were a victim of the space one of the reasons we went to the new system is that they Are smaller and highways spokesman Vic Weselak said yes we would get All sorts of things dumped in there from sewage to animal carcasses to you name and it was becoming a safety the new containers Arent As big and the staff can simply pick them up and dump it without hav ing to touch with the you had to do it All by the 48 orbits in Manitoba also we rent costing about by the new Blue boxes Only run about but what will happen to the signs telling travellers it was Only 10 More seconds before they could put their trash into orbit those will also be replaced with new signs befitting the new garbage judge upholds Gator ruling Anima rights group loses Appeal against exp reptile wrestling by Andrew Maxwell for the free press an appeals court judge has upheld a ruling against a local Ani Mal rights group accusing the red River exhibition of breaking the Law with an Alligator wrestling people acting for animal liberation had appealed a 1996 ruling against their private prosecution of the exhibition for a show of a Trainer purport ing to wrestle with Kac Hunga the we Are said red River exhibition ceo Paul in the 1996 the charges were angrily dismissed by provincial judge Susan Devine after she reviewed a tape of the Devine chastised the prosecutor say ing the Trainer did not appear to physically harm the reptile in the 1995 show and that she saw no evidence that any actual fighting had Devine also 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