Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 2, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Princess compared to Munroe dianas immortality assured by Glenda Cooper 1997 the London the untimely death of Princess of lifts her to the status of other icons such As John Marilyn Mon Roe and James Dean whose immortality was assured by the tragic circumstances of their soon after her death people were making comparisons to the Shock of the assassination of president Kennedy in when such was the Impact that it is said everyone can remember where they were at the time they heard the but to invade the Public consciousness in such a an icon must have been a dazzling and controversial who was thought to enhance others lives in some Way and then has their life Cut Short with much left after that myths grow sur rounding both their lives and the Way they in her hold on Public conscious Ness perhaps the figures that Diana most closely resembles Are two women Marilyn Monroe and Princess Grace of like Marilyn Monroe was just 36 when she in she too was much Pho controversial at intensely she had a difficult resented publicity and yet often craved her like was Marilyn Munroe a constant search for love although while Diana made one unhappy Monroe made and like Marilyn stirred up deep no one remained Neutral about she was both much loved and Princess Grace was another fairytale Princess who also died in a car crash fifteen years As Grace she had been a world famous Beauty before she married Prince Rainier of Monaco and she continued to hold the worlds Media John Kennedy in but like the marriage Between Royalty and commoner was not a Happy while Diana battled depression and Grace was often portrayed As a heavy Drinker in her final sought Comfort in the arms of younger on Princess Grace and her daughter Stephanie were five Kilometres from the French Border with Monaco when their Grace Kelly metallic Green Rover plunged off the Mountainside at a the driven by Princess shot Over the Low Barrier at the Side of the turning Over and Over before coming to rest on a Nursery slope 40 metres Princess Stephanie had slight bruising but Princess Grace later died of her injuries in Many icons have been seen As out siders when the 1950s film Star James Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955 he had captured the Princess Diana imagination of a Host of Young peo ple with films such As rebel without a cause Only for his life to end at the age of fifteen years later another generation was shocked by the death of Rock Star Jimi Hendrix from a drugs he was just in the former beatle John Lennon was murdered in new York at the age of 40 by Mark three years the King of Rock n Elvis had died at the age of letters to the editor build new but downtown is it significant that of the two proponents of the new income tax break consulted for a recent Arti Cle in the free one happens to be a developers representative and the other a City employee who nearly failed to address the question of inner City decay at All in his comments it would seem to even the casual observer that developers have had their Way with us these last 20 but Ned development Man Ager for Cairns explains that the continuing problem of inner City decay is really twofold Young Cou Ples want new and the Core area int expensive City official Gord courage at least found time in his comments to address Kosteniuk absolutely silly opinion that intercity fortunes would improve when commuter time becomes a fac at our present rate of somewhere around the year by my own no one can fault Kosteniuk for expressing opinions that Are in Many ways self serving he was after i believe that examining the relationship Between successive City councils of recent history and property developers would reveal a Litany of foolish not made in the interest of Winnipeg citizens Young couples who May desire new Homes among them but Only Benefit ing said developers in the Short the construction even allowing Kosteniuk Asser Tion that some people will always be looking for new Homes is no reason to accept that they therefore or even new id like to see Council go Forward by issuing developers such As Kosteniuk company a Promise and a the Promise build As Many Whyte ridges in one lifetime As you the Challenge build them Grant Arr Winnipeg so much for integrity Well so much for academic integrity pursuant to Shoog we endeavours in supplication i feel compelled to convey Ray whole hearted disappointment disappoint not Surprise in such a revelation and your not so Subtle advocacy there of of the contemporary Campus Sta qua is the premise of a Scholastic meritocracy so unheard of so repulsive v jute shall Saskatoon Ball Park plan ignores Neighbour i live downtown in a big Rise apart ment Bijj Udjang just West of Mam Street the Public events held at the the four of five functions a year Are special celebrations and open for everyone in the whole so 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 Tor 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 letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone its my is the proposed open air entertainment building and Home for the baseball team Means much More evening events in addition to the ongoing Forks events sounds like Way too much invasion into my privacy and enjoyment of my personal Council in its haste to waste More of my did not take the noise pollution and annoyance into Why cant our Community think past the end of their noses the building should be enclosed so noise is controlled and it could be used All year round things for my taxes will go and Winter will As i remain very Dis appointed that no Public meetings or Community committee discussions were giving land and tax concessions appears very excessive for something very few peo ple really Morrison Winnipeg Oak Hammock was to be free the clean environment commission dealing with ducks unlimited and Manitoba natural resources re Oak Hammock Marsh july 1990 stated the following Page u3 item 2 the applicant and the department of Nat ural resources shall ensure there is no charge for admission to the Oak Hammock Marsh wildlife manage ment including interpretive pro Lias this recommendation been changed or circumvented somehow i feel some questions have to David Burnett drugs used for social control As a new Canadian the More i read the newspapers about the War on the More i feel confused there is plenty of evidence to prove that this War is a farce coordinated by the new Home construction is a Good but it should be moved to the inner City from the for in the last years the government provided funds to military and paramilitary groups in Colombia to fight the narcotics this military Force tortured and exterminated members of the left resistance movements that were ask ing for social reforms and this was not an error by the govern As it continues sending Aid and providing training for repressive forces in i have the feeling that for the lords of the multinational it is convenient to keep the flow of drugs into the cities so the poor youth Are Busy shooting themselves with the Needles instead of spending their ener Gies in Community organization and a future in the drugs Are instruments of social control and Francisco Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ;