Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba That property ment in the mail this week willbeusetft8setyour98 property the Appeal deadline is july festivals Manitoba is alive with unique and wonderful revelry the weather mix of Sun and High Low details on Page die mcelebratingmi25 years Man saturday free press inside Wanba hoops it up the women National basketball association is running a fast break onto the pro sports scene with National to cheap ticket enthusiastic fans and some exceptional a lot of people Are impressed beaches Are of tests on water Quality indicate that Lake Winnipeg beaches should be Safe for swimming for the entire summer Surprise youre Rich his wife Doest buy lottery tickets and he Hast got any wealthy relatives who Are Likely to die so Edmon ton truck Driver Denis who was expecting to find about when he checked his Bank account was More than a Little surprised when he found a Quarter of a million dollars Winni Eggers on list Rachel founder of the Winnipeg contemporary and director of cardiovascular sciences at Boniface general Hospital research Are among 70 canadians named or promoted the order of Canada a business Awakening f its not easy being but More businesses in Manitoba Are thinking about the environment and Are begin Ning to focus on sustainable develop today in your City Broadway backyard Boogie 185 noon to 9 latin0rama old Market 2 to 1 to Man sask league Rugby wasps Regina 5 Saracens Regina 7 both games at Index local Canada it world numbers on Page c5 in life net Reader and Ann july 1997 Rooming House chaos by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter hundreds of Winnipeg room in houses do not comply with zoning including 140 that were issued licences by the its a problem the inspections depart ment says will take up to five years to Given the Low staffing level it has City zoning bylaws licences wrongly issued manager Fred Nicholson said the problem has developed from a combi nation of the cites decision in 1995 to begin licensing Rooming houses and the numerous staff cuts in the depart ment since were trying to theres a lets get that problem out in the open and lets go Deal with Nicholson report to the cites plan Ning which is to meet Mon says seven More staff Are needed to resolve the backlog of licence reviews and complaints that have been piling up for two of the More than Rooming houses identified across Winnipeg there May be hundreds More officials dont know do not comply with bylaws and More than Soo must still be reviewed for continued please see and heres Mars Pathfinder makes dramatic Landing by Matt Crenson associated press after a ride across a cold and bar Ren nasal Pathfinder came to rest on a Flat Martian Plain inaugurating a new Era in the search for life on Mars and trans mitting the first photographs from the red planet in two slowed by a Parachute and Rock ets and cocooned in giant air Pathfinder slammed into the red planet in a controlled crash Landing yesterday the spacecraft bounced As High As 15 metres above the Martian surface on then tumbled for Ocean Dahal minutes before settling on the desolate pictures transmitted from where this is a video image of a Nasa mosaic image taken from Pathfinder after yesterdays Pathfinder sits show a Reddish Brown Plain extending to Low Hills on the strewn All about Are angular boulders that make the place look As Barren and Deso late As the most forbidding but to scientists it looked like Par today is a glorious said Peter who leads the team operating pathfinders Cam those Are the rocks that May hold clues to the history of soon after receiving a faint signal at flight con trollers declared the Mission off to a successful Start and scientists at nasal Jet propulsion Laboratory leaped to their feet and continued please buggy Chute with a View flutters into Gimli by Melanz Verhaeghe for the free press reporter Verhaeghe gets up and Gimli a common sight on the beaches of Mexico or the Caribbean has landed in one of Manitoba hottest summer Gimli is now the Home of one of Only five parasailing boats in for you can ride 120 to 180 metres off the ground above Lake getting now you dont have to go to Mexico to do said the boats sunburned Sheldon whose nose was covered in White Zinc the not for the faint of is usually one where the parachutist is pulled out of the water and into the but what makes this attraction different is the boats lome Frelong part of it is a Landing pad where the rider is hooked up in a harness and a machine slowly releases the sail into the after 10 minutes in the sky overlooking the Harbour and the rider is reeled in Back to the same pad without touching the Superior parasailing came to Gimli from Thunder Bay a week ago to tap the untouched Manitoba cheaper Gas prices and Docking fees also attracted the the attraction is the latest venture in Gimli since the towns Harbour was redeveloped into a major tourist area seven years it Doest Hurt to have other activities on the Beach As Long As there operating safely and within town said Richard who rents sailboats and wind surfers on the it attracts new people Here and the next time people Are thinking of going maybe think of Gimli instead of grand Beach or Clear Gimli harbormaster Al Johnson said he likes the i think its Good for tourism and i dont see any problem with he while the Job May be its not As stress free As it Saunders said its a huge responsibility to ensure Peoples but its still i like to see smiles on peo Ples faces when there finished doing some thing Treyve never done months unlimited ;