Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian readers forum saturday free press july people with who can act can save City procrastination a real threat teacher and artist Arnold who is the Volunteer curator of the piano Mobile gallery in Centennial concert is concerned that procrastination and posturing by polite dans is getting in the Way of action to save the Ross remembers North Portage when his fathers clothing store thrived in the Curry building and wonders Why Steps Aren f being taken to bring Consumers Back to Portage and he also has a few ideas about How the City could better treat its Winnipeg is a great unique with its four Central location on the International Large Green spaces and for a City of our it is a stronghold in symphony and stage theatre one cannot fail to that we Are lacking a proper and sufficient rapid transit we never did get a multiuse sports Complex and there is an extremely urgent need for the revitalization of the Down which brings us to the real administratively we Are pro Crasti look at any recent major decision that needed attention and see where it we lost our hockey team due in part to the squabbling Over where to put a new Arena and How to fund it and for whom and it was one delay following pass the you you that no of Well All but who will be in charge and lets give the Capi Tal and pantages to we cannot do who will pay for when and baseball stadium Over Over yes no when Arnold Ross not yet intellectual exercises that Deal with goal guiding objectives and strategies often result in nothing but thousands of words on these Are the tools of those who fear Winnipeg City Council and the provincial government often fit this on the other there Are innovators whose imagination and reasoning skills will get the Job decision making involving All three Levels of government should never be a matter of favouritism or turf planning committees should set deadlines and stick by they should be laced with Busy risk takers known to get jobs Jim Carr wrote in the free press of the need to revamp Portage the debate got going with Many ideas brought was there a com Mittee established somewhere to look Over these select Good ones and form a plan of action for change it is already late As evidenced by the Many vacancy signs in a two Block area from fort Street to Smith the idea to recess business entrances along Portage to set them Back three metres and there by provide an enclosed Walkway which could extend All the Way to Portage place has a glassed in Walkway with plants and Good lighting would be attractive to vendors and businesses would return and provide tax Money once simplistic but if this tax Money is used to extend the Green space and provide some it will the problem certainly wont go the Curry building and those bordering the Paris building Are a natural for this concept but lets not make this a contest its not a Power the City and province need to get their act together and two years should be enough time before new ground is will anyone look at this idea Curry would have and will this team look at the idea of turning the empty garbage incinerator building along the tracks behind the animal shelter at 1057 Logan into a major tourist attraction for the City the building is perfectly suited for an arts Centre Akin to what Toronto has on its waterfront and los Angeles has in an old Railroad the artist studios have one Glass Wall enabling visitors to see artists in the act of creating their it is truly amazing How Many empty buildings the government has taken they Hope to take Over All the vacant spaces along Portage Avenue can they the concept for the Art studio build ing off Logan would see the artists incinerator is touted As an artists studio where Public could doing much of the renovations them besides the More than 100 there would be a communal restaurant and Supply the two Large smoke stacks would serve to ventilate the potters a pipe dream but it is so difficult for artists to earn a living in this this would certainly it would be a year round facility that families would want to visit Over and procrastination is an ugly serious problems require serious imaginative every citizen of Winnipeg needs to give input into resolving our particularly the vacancy problem along Portage there should be a Job creation pro Gram established with government incentives to help fill these does anyone really care Portage and main is a column that features the views of free press read to Contact Gerald letters to the editor Somalia Mission misunderstood As a member of the Canadian airborne regiment who served in Somalia Between december 1992 and june am As outraged As the next Man at the events that but i am even More out raged by years of Blanket accusations and allegations of wrong doings that my comrades and i have had to it is unfortunate that the Somalia inquiry report and the Media does not address the enormous Impact the Canadian forces had in that Region of lives medical clinics and police forces roads and Bridges there were a thousand Good deeds for every bad one but the constant Media of the Mission Only dwells on the it is no wonder that most canadians have a slanted opinion of when will the Media under stand that there was no Canadian peacekeeping Mission in Somalia members of the Canadian forces were sent to Somalia not As peacekeepers but As semantics the Canadian forces were deployed to Somalia not under chapter 6 of the United nations charter Resolution of disputes a no fighting role As Are most Canadian overseas but under chapter 7 against threats to by virtue of our mandate we were placed in a proactive role to make peace Between the conflicting factions within Somalia by whatever Means peacekeeping is where elements of the military Are placed near Between those conflicting factions and by their very cause a cessation of there is no question that the truth needs to be told the entire truth sensationalized reporting will not achieve that master Eric Adkins Edmonton accept people for what they Are i Hope pias from Carman adoption Law violates Winnipeg free july 2 int a Foster being raised by him would surely stifle the intellectual and emotions development of an innocent and trusting child and perpetuate coated by a thin veneer of pseudo Tol to another he must understand that the Bible is in no position to condemn the mod Ern idea of a homosexual relationship where two consenting men or women form a relationship out of the love Felt for each where they How to reach us the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at ,Ca. Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone care for each respect and sup port each this is a very comfortable atmosphere in which to raise a child that in sure this is what the government is looking for when they place in the Bio logical and psychological realm there is a majority of evidence to support homosexuality As being but we dont really need scientists to Tell us the struggle is not anymore for Mere tolerance but is now pushing for outright it is what Victor Hugo called an idea who time has indeed the time has i urge and people like to accept his fellow Sisters and As they into his heart and into his com i know a god of love Colin Murray Winnipeg Gonna go i believe its time to mourn the pass ing of going this of used moribund for some is now almost it has been replaced by Gonna in even the otherwise most precise and articulate Haven noticed Start listening i have been monitoring this literary demise for eight not a single news Reader or pontificating pundit Ive audited has said going with the exception of one bbl yet the remainder of their speech has been having concluded my Experiment with abcs coverage of the Federal i can Tell you that Peter mans Bridge used the Central Canadian Gonna 7 times per haps in a Bow to National the Western Canadian version Gunna the torture and death of Scidane Arone marked somali four in a four hour the cosmic significance escapes but if Sloppy speech in Lead to Sloppy were in real Trou Gonna run Laurie Johnston Winnipeg paper promotes Filmon it appears to me that it is the free press that is promoting Premier Gary Filmon As the spokesman for Manitoba and Western interest by denigrating Preston now the Leader of the this is made Clear by the following quote along with other Western he will have to speak up lest others mistake Reform Leader Preston Manning As the leading spokesman for this this displays a blatant vendetta against the Reform party and Man the article also suggests that the opposition will be Able to say any thing that seems popular without the Burden of carrying out what was promised and bearing the Conse Manning is a Man of integrity and to suggest that he would follow in the footsteps of the members of the other political parties is it is obviously a Way of putting a Burr under Hilmons Saddle to take up the Cudgel so subtly for giving que Bee its distinct society that Manito bans did not the word distinct Means different things to both the English and equal Means the same thing to both of if the United states makes it Why cant we i am really disappointed that the free press continues its policy of bad mouthing both the Reform party and Winnipeg attack on Reform narrow your Hal Page article by Michael Richards particularly angered i happen to belong to the Reform party and i consider Richards views biased and Reform Leader Preston Manning wants Equality of All provinces in what is divisive about or does it have i a new meaning today if Quebec gets special and Alberta two of our richest provinces May very Well is that what Canada wants in order to pacify Quebec you speak of reforms Small victims in Saskatchewan and Why not mention that conservative Leader Jean Cha rests Only base is the mar times and Prinie minister Jean Chretien is i am not some wild eyed i am a retired history teacher and probably know As much about this country As i find mannings View the old idea about two founding nations has gone out with the you Call yourself a free Why not use the real Marie Jameson Winnipeg dome Bury flashbacks by Garry Trudeau ;