Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba beekeepers tear the onslaught of the Varrera a tiny parasite that can be death to their hives funny the movie men in Blaek is Good summer entertainment o to Jeff Juifen fuelled jays Roger Clemens yesterday at sky dome the weather heavy rain and High High Low details on Page 88 g celebrating years Winnipeg free press garbage Day 3 july inside flunking history Canada turned 130 years old yes but fewer than a third of Young canadians know 1867 was the year of con a sur vey on respondents scored Only 34 per cent on the a performance that one historian said diminishes the emotional Bond Canada worried about crime crime was the most frequently named concern of Winni Eggers in a new probe research poll done for the free but six out of 10 respondents named issues such As health care and taxes As their main worry actor Mitchum Dies Robert who brought a Power Ful presence to the Silver died yesterday at age the actor starred in More than 100 but never won an Academy award Tyson faces boxing ban Mike Tyson bit off a piece of evander holy Fields ear and boxing regulators Are looking for something in the controversial Boxer could be banned from the sport and fined million a shooting in Somalia on the eve of the release of the report on the ill starred Canadian military mis Sion to Somalia in the Toronto Star newspaper says that a previously secret Brief supports the belief a wounded somali civilian was dispatched by Canadian soldiers Hospital scrambles the emergency room at Brandon Gen eral Hospital was functioning yesterday on replacement staff As a dispute with hospitals family physicians dragged into its second the physicians Are angry Over a Deal they say gives them More Money but still leaves them Over worked today in your City province out to lunch los Chi Nese cultural noon cinematheque silencing the to Victory Lane Speedway featuring the outlaw sprints from grand just South of 7 to Index Canada world numbers on Page b4 in life we treader and Ann sports to wraps off Public pay Hsc president got in 96 by Alice Krueger and Bud Robertson staff reporters the Man who presided Over a shortfall at win Nipges health sciences Centre last year took Home salary and Bene fits totalling More than Docu ments Hsc president Rod Thorfinnson earned a salary of and received additional taxable benefits of the information is contained in compensation statements disclosing pub Lic sector salaries exceeding a it is the first time the salaries have been made Public under Filmon government legislation passed last the reports give a glimpse of what Manitoba most senior Public servants earn and How Many civil servants earn More than in lists collected by the free press show nearly Public ser vants earned More than the threshold in continued please see who earning what in Public service Here Are some 6fthe top salaries in the Public sector last year Rod health sciences Centre salary and Jack and ceo Boniface general Hospital retired before Derek liquor control commission let go last out of More than Only 27 earned More than Bill lotteries corp nine aut Opac Bosses earned in excess of including Jack and a Public More than Manitoba Hydro employees earned More than with 42 earning More than president Bob Brennan earned and if 6trw premiums and total More than of the full time and Par time teachers working for Winnipeg school division nov1 earned More than including 47 teachers who earned More than the top teacher earned two principals earned and chief superintendent Smyth earned Jeff of Booy Winnipeg fhe press across the canadians celebrated Canada Day in Dan Siemens of the group Mirage performs on Osborne Street while raft race 97 begins on the Assiniboine River fireworks were disappointed when weather forced cancellation of last nights in the watches an aboriginal dancer on parliament see stories on Page Axworthy makes history As British Rule ends in Blaze of fireworks chivas new face Sparks optimism by John Douglas City editor City junk mail Buster hails win Over flyers by Leah Janzen for the free press for the first time in three Rod Graham will find what Hes been looking for in his mail and nothing As of mail carriers will Stop delivering unaddressed junk mail to canadians who put a sticker on their Mailbox saying they dont want to receive the new policy is in response to a Canada Post mandate review last May that showed canadians want to have a Choice when it comes to receiving junk but Graham would like to think his crusade has also played a since the local taoist has campaigned tirelessly to Force Canada Post to respect no ers signs on Peoples mailboxes thousands of which he has personally distributed to Winnipeg now he can finally celebrate his continued please seecanaoava2 Phil free press Graham led local Campaign Lloyd Axworthy saw the new face of China yesterday and he thinks the world has reason to be after three Days of pomp and Cere Mony that saw 156 years of British Rule Over Hong Kong end in a Blaze of fire works and pounding chinese Canadas foreign minister watched yesterday As China took its first tentative Steps of leadership in the City state of that included a confirmation of chivas Promise to give the new Terri tory the Freedom to express itself and a pledge to uphold human its still too Early to give a final ver dict but the first impressions Are positive he said just minutes after the last guests left a Canadian party to celebrate our 130th birthday and the beginning of a new China seems determined to make its two system concept he said by phone from Hong just one Day into this new partnership and the leadership is explicit about its commitments and everyone seems Freer to express Axworthy marvelled at witnessing history Hong Kong Chris Patten lowering the British Flag for the last time in the rain and leaving on the Royal yacht Britannia Young children representing chivas Many provinces offering gifts to Hong the newest member of the there is a real sense Here that chivas missing piece has been he Axworthy made history him bringing together democratic party Leader Martin Lee and the states new chief Tung for the first time since the handover the two political attending a Canada Day Celebration at the Canadian were introduced to one another by continued please see 5 Purchase visit my store in Paton Plowe Lor ;