Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Summer hours All Winnipeg branches win he closed saturdays until september Winnipeg free press local july John Douglas 6977292 features Jim Garf email a3 Apo Tex pulls plug on drug Patent Law cited As plans scrapped by aide Santon Gity Hill generic drug manufacturer Apo Tex fermentation is for Mally closing the door on its Plant in confidential documents obtained by the free pass reveal Apo Tex wants to return the 30acre parcel of land in the Boniface Industrial Park that the City gave to the company for nothing in company president David Cox con firmed the firm is walking away from the adding that the excitement that surrounded the projects announcement s years ago was an administration report says Apo Tex will return the estimated to be Worth to the City on condition that it be excused from pay ing any outstanding taxes and accepting the property will Cost the City the documents states that Apo Tex has not paid its 1996 taxes with Are Worth almost the company has also not paid its 1997 valued at in it will Cost the City to remove a the Only work done on the site before Apo Tex sus Pended the the report goes to a meeting of the cites finance committee tomorrow for a Apo Tex manufacturers copies of bran name pharmaceutical which Are commercially sold for much less than their popular the St Boniface Plant was to have become the largest pharmaceutical fermentation facility in the manufacturing copies of the anti reject Tion transplant drug cyclosporine and the ant cholesterol drug Cox said the decision by the Mill Roney government to extend Patent Protection to drug manufacturers to 20 years from 10 years doomed the project shortly after it was Cox also said the firm decided to give the land Back because it find a buyer for the project was announced with much fanfare in late in addition to the City the provincial and Federal governments were ready to give Apo Tex million in inter est free despite the Apo Tex was Able to manufacture Lovas latin at its fort Garry Plant on Scur Field one of two facilities summer storm drops 60 Millimetres of water on Windy Winnipeg Wall of rain raises the red by Manfred Jager science reporter yesterdays heavy Rains will close Winnipeg River Walkway for another three weeks and will raise the red River another says provincial flood forecaster Larry the Southern Manitoba storm added to last weeks heavy Rains in the Dakotas will bring the red to More than three metres above its Normal summer Whitney that not posing any danger to any the River will stay within its Banks Whitney it will be a bit of a people May have to move their docks out of the some Farmers Fields could be flooded for a while and there May even be some crop the walk along the Assiniboine and red Rivers at the Forks was under 50 Millimetres of water by noon it was expected to be covered by More than a metre of water within 36 it will Likely riot reopen until about july Whitney the a week was about metres above Winter ice level at the James Avenue pumping Sta its now at about he we expect it to be at 11 to 13 feet around july by july till be Down environment Canada Meteorol Ogist Steve Smith described the summer storm a very unusual event for this time of its More typical for Spring or a solid Wall of rain Clouds extending from feet to above the ground brought rainfalls of up to 124 Millimetres to parts of Southern water and waste Engineer Dave Wardrop said the cites storm sewer system was Able to Cope with the Runoff from the there were no sewer backups or flooded basements As a result of the by the time it had passed through the area yesterday after the intense Low pressure sys tem had delivered about 60 Millimetres of rain to Joe Bryksa photos a Man chases his Cap above blowing away at memorial Boulevard and Portage Avenue a fights rain and traffic at the Corner of Portage and main fireworks saturday if its not too Windy disappointed fans who didst get to see the Canada Day fireworks show at the Forks will have another crack at it this Marilyn communications manager for the Forks North Portage said the program has been postponed to saturday weather Williams estimated people showed up in the rain hoping to see the spectacle on and said As Many As More May have been waiting in cars in the High not prevented the show from going she Plant it operates in the Cox added Apo Tex is meeting rent demands for but said a new facility will be needed somewhere he said Apo Tex purchased land cent to its Scurfield Boulevard As a possible replacement for the Boniface location but he said Federal regulations Are still too restrictive to make a stand alone facility currently we Are supplying interim needs from our existing facility but this int going to last us into the next Cox we have to have a Large scale is it going to be in Canada i dont restaurant owners pay Protection Money asians fear wont report Racket police by Nick Martin staff reporter owners of some intercity vietnamese and chinese restau rants pay Protection Money As a Basic Cost of doing Busi Community activists the alternative is a Rock through the window in the Middle of the or a fire at the Back of the a source in the vietnamese Community there afraid to go to the police for fear of retribution and because of a fear of authority in sym Bolic of repression in their nor will they talk to the Phil Vic president of the chinese culture and Community Centre of win said his Community cleaned up the Protection Racket in the 1980s with police but it has Resur i suspect it could be a younger generation Lee we used to co ordinate a crime prevention we have to do the same thing Lee said he is trying to find out How extensive the problems and to con Vince victims to confide in him before he seeks the help of police chief David the people demanding the Protection Rooney Arent Well Orga Lee threats the sole member of the Winnipeg police services asian criminal investigation unit confirmed the claims made by the vietnamese everything he said is said Sean there fearful of the Justice there fearful of Ive gone to certain Busi Nesses where its a Protection or Basic its threats against the owner for it ranges its been a percentage of or a free the who asked to be Anonymous to protect his Job and his personal said when gangs walk out after a big meal without the restaurant own ers Are afraid to do any the owner Doest have the guts to ask for pay that is some form of bribery or the police come then who will protect us frustrating he convinced one owner to go to the he the owner reversed his Black agreed its virtually impossible to get victims to he hears about incidents he is unable to its we want to let them know were on their its the fear of the gang members Are not Overly sophisticated or the source we have a lot of younger ones living no sup they want a fast Black said its difficult to get a handle on How wide spread the problem a professional in the cites vietnamese 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