Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Opportunity cyberspace is the next Frontier for the invest ment Community Start the new look Blue bombers failed their first regular season test last losing 3823 to Toronto Hong China May change each other the weather o mainly sunny High Low details on Page d20 m celebratingml25 years saturday free press inside dream conies True the Asper jewish Community Campus is up and running after nearly a decade of plan fundraising and theres a restau a private a museum and a recreation Centre Rural ads Settle the province has reached an agree ment with the Manitoba medical association that will ensure continued emergency services in Rural and North Ern health minister Darren Praznik announced last night Somalia report on time the Federal court has rejected attempts by two Somalia inquiry wit Nesses to delay or delete portions of the new new York 150 Winnipeg singers Jet to new York City for a Canada Day con Cert at Carnegie the Winnipeg philharmonic choir and the Assini Pine South youth choir Are part of an eight group contingent of 300 to sing in new Royal Empire to grow Royal Bank wants to take Over Lon Don insurance group and gain Access to a Fleet of life insurance agents who could sell financial services outside the confines of Bank branches today in your City province two for a song Bill Quinn and Kate Mcnally Grant 8 Bajan night Columbus Centennial 5 International invitational Polo tournament games begin at 1 Fargeas sheep pasture Hillside West of Highway Index local Canada world a8 9 12 d24 numbers on Page c5 in life net Reader and Ann june crime stats faulty computer not police behind decrease in cites numbers by Doug Nairne police reporter a computer glitch and not Community policing is responsible for a dramatic decrease in win Nipges crime rate last police sources the embarrassing discovery has forced the police service to launch an internal review of its records after some fear one in three crimes went unreported on the police the problem has forced City police to delay the release of their 1996 statistical report for several months while every incident is reviewed to see if it has been recorded As a some say the True crime rate May be 30 per cent higher than what police statistics now that would mean the crime rate last year actually bucking a National when contacted in Edmonton yes chief David Cassels admitted there was an under reporting of crime in but he estimates it was Only by three per he denied suggestions by other officers that the num Ber of crimes that slipped through the cracks in the reporting system is really much i think this is a figment of some body Cassels we believe there was a Small under report but it int anywhere near the num Bers that Are being thrown continued please see v i Joe free press the last nurses to graduate from Misericordia general Hospital school of nursing Cross Maryland Bridge class of 97 marches into history Misericordia closes its program nurses Grieve loss offamily9 by Melanie Verhaeghe for the free press a sea of White uniforms marching across the Mary land Bridge Mark the end of an 81yearold tradition of teaching nurses at the Misericordia Hospi the last class of 48 students were piped across to their graduation ceremony at marys Academy yesterday the walk to the bagpipers skill has been part of the schools graduation ceremony every but no one is sure the Misericordia general Hospi Tal school of nursing is closing because nurses graduating after the year 2000 have to obtain a four year University degree to qualify As a registered nurse in the Misericordia school offered a two year diploma the school was steeped in tradition and emotions about its closure Are its exciting to be part of the his said graduating student Cheryl Well always be remembered As the last its a very emotional in its 81 More than nurses have completed the pro students were excited about but sad to see the place they called Home for the past two years shut some of is Are grieving the loss of a said award winning student Jean a Happy Bunch posing for Pic Tures tried not to mix the two its a but were not thinking about that right Rob Simpson its a very Happy said Ruth whole worked together for eight to 30 will have to find other at this were emotional because were feeling a said teacher Marilyn who will continue teaching at u of Well miss these kind of with our successes up there on the till hit us harder after today i because then we go our separate said teacher Mary Hospital president Ted Bartman said the closure was i certainly have mixed in sorry to see it go because its been a tradition at the but you cant impede so its bittersweet for about half the graduates have jobs lined up for at least the sum Winnipeg not so cheap to live Survey finds 1997 Cost of living values in selected Canadian locations location annual coat of living Index by David Kuxhaus staff reporter the Winters Are cold and the Summers but Winni Eggers could always counter that life in River City was easy on the that an Urban according to a new study by the Toronto based consulting firm Runzheimer Canada in when the company compared the Cost of living in a dozen major cities in Winnipeg ranked residents in cities such As Edmonton and Halifax Are getting More bang for their Buck than even those living in our nations capital Arent having to dig As deep to pay the the analysis was based on a family of four with an annual income of it measured four areas trans taxes and a Market Basket of goods and the fictitious Standard City was used As the Media Cost the study found that a Winnipeg family would pay per cent More to maintain the same lifestyle As a family in Stan Dard Vancouver topped the list at which translates into a 15 per cent the cheapest City was Saint which was per cent below the median at looking at it another for every the Winnipeg family would spend to maintain the Standard City the Saint John family would have to 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