Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Their Mark Manitoba Amateur rivals get creative in marking their Golf the tragically hips travelling Rock show Rolls into Assiniboia Downs you new High tech equipment links trucking Drivers on Road ibb the weather increasing afternoon High Low details on Page b1 2 Al g Tabb 125 years Winnipeg free press garbage Day 3 inside on the fringe miss of the Mapa Dis plays her talents at the fringe festival pick shows to attend from reviews in the daily festival pullout Section coordinator hired gang prevention coordinator Glenn Cochrane says he knows How it feels to be on the when funding for the new position was announced at a meet ing in he was rudely turned girls suffering a Unicof report says discrimination and violence against women Are the most pervasive human rights violations in the world yet this mistreatment is accepted As the Way things Are Salmon deadline emboldened by their three Day blockade of an alaskan have Given the Federal government a week to Settle the Salmon dispute with the United there May be More blockades if the deadline int they say mounties take Over the ramp have replaced Saskatoon police in the investigation of the 1969 slaying of Gail the mounties we rent saying anything yesterday about convicted serial rapist Larry the new suspect in the Case Council votes on Eaton business people worried about the deterioration of the cites downtown Are on pins and Needles today As Council votes on a subsidy package for the Eaton building today in your City another Roadside attraction Assiniboia noon out to lunch june Pepper Harris Centennial Library noon a tribute to women piano Eckhard Gramatte u of Index local Canada world numbers on Page b6 in life net Reader and Ann sports to july Panama delegates converge of City about it 300 delegates from 42 countries converge on Winnipeg today for the fou Day general Assembly of the pan american sports the governing body for the pan am their arrival comes amid news that the 1999 Panama games society has gone hat in hand to the Federal and Provin financing the games a10 Cial asking for More Money to cover the pro posed Cost of Stag ing the since the bid proposal was first the society has added six additional More athletes and 500 this brings the total to 41 athletes and paso will also be hearing presentations from cities vying to Host the 2003 panamas Well As the 2004 summer olympic the viability of the games will be examined not Only by paso delegates Over the next four but also in a series of free press stories that Start Jeff free press How about that Clara Winnipeg double Bronze medallist in cycling at the 1996 reads the inscription on a plaque at a Park renamed for her yester the former Matheson playground at Powers Street and Matheson Avenue is now Clara Hughes Park and childrens see Story on Page disease control lab has trouble hiring scientists candidates turn Down transfers to Winnipeg by Manfred Jager science reporter Winnipeg new Federal disease control Laboratory is having Trou ble getting enough qualified scientists to staff the building when it opens this the problem is that More than half the scientists working in labs in Ottawa and Hull have turned Down transfers to everyone was presented with an offer to come out to this site and they had a Choice whether to accept it or said Norman executive director of the labs animal Dis eases Willis said 20 of the 25 principal investigators and senior support staff at the current animal disease testing lab in Hull decided against mov ing to As about half of the 35 scientists in the labs human disease Section in Ottawa have turned Down similar Transfer the lab opens this but wont be fully operational until the new the Lack of enthusiasm to move to Winnipeg prompted Willis to seek permission to recruit outside the Public by offering proof that there Are no qualified staff within the system who Are willing to fill the until particularly for sup port has been limited to people already working in the Public service in the restriction was then lifted and the lab could recruit from the Public service in agriculture and agr food agencies across despite a Cross country Willis said he has received very Little response for the can Tell you we advertised for a particular technician recently and we did not get a lot of Willis continued please see lab Ball Park plan in peril City fiddles with Katz hints he May balk by Aldo City Hall reporter a s t m i n u t e changes to the cites terms of the lease for a baseball stadium North of the Forks have placed the entire project in while Council is expected to approve the lease agree ment baseball promoter Sam Katz said last night the changes were done with out his knowledge and Are enough to halt the Are they trying to kill this Katz said when told that the City plans to lease him a smaller parcel of land than he had Are they trying to take away All my sources of Rev Enue terms of the lease agree ment were drawn up Over the weekend by a team of lawyers from the firm of Taylor Mccaffrey and presented to mayor Susan Thompson and her executive committee late yester Day afternoon during a closed door Katz was meeting his lawyer across town at the same time to get his first look at the but a key Page was miss ing from the draft received by Katz the map that out lined the areas the City is prepared to lease to a copy of the confidential draft lease agreement obtained by the free press reveals that the City is no longer willing to include in the Deal two Small parcels of land at the Southeast Corner of the continued please see Hopper explosion devastating crops by Bud Robertson staff reporter Grande Clairie re Gaston Boulanger Knelt Down in a Field and pulled a once healthy head of Rye out of the arid its top decimated by swarms of hungry its the worst weve Ever said the 49yearold Hartne area whose southwestern Manitoba Home is the scene of the worst infestation of Grasshoppers to hit the province in More than a if it keeps it could rival the terrible infestations of the when Farmers Fields were literally eaten Bare by he theres literally millions of he adding that spraying Hast deterred the pests from eating much of his crop and leaving his cattle with Little Pas Ture on which to theres not too Many things that discourage said whose pioneering family established the farm in but this continued please see rawa2 ;