Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 11, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press local october 1997 John Douglas 6977292 features Buzz Currie email a3 flood compensation beefed up by Keith Mcarthur staff reporter the Federal fld provincial governments came together yesterday with a beefed up flood compensation package Worth Mil lion in assistance for Farmers and Small business to addition to Topping up the funds available for those already eligible for this Long awaited new spending will be for those who fell Between the cracks in earlier reimbursement including part time rental landlords and owners of vacant flood affected businesses and have some additional Hope today that they didst have before Ottawa and Manitoba providing package today said Ron the Secretary of state for Western diversification and for each government will kick in million to the new jobs and economic restoration initiative which will pro vide financial assistance of up to to Over the Cost of Lishing farm or the Money will replace buildings and physical assets at depreciated and will also cover economic losses due to the replacement of invent including but it wont cover the Cost of income lost As a result of the up to another in interest free Loans will be available to cover additional such As the difference Between the depreciation and replace ment values of damaged residents with a farm prop erty and a far based business could be eligible for up to in disaster said government ser vices minister Frank the Aid is in addition to the restart which has already distributed about in Federal funds to close to Garry who runs a hauling business in Grande was sur prised to hear that the two Levels of government had finally come together with a compensation if what youre telling me is its great Petryk said the flood did about Worth of damage to his shop and but All Hes seen so far is in everything relating to assistance has just been very just keep hearing horror stories All Over the Pitura said the Hope is that claims will be processed within six so those Manitoban who Are affected by the flood can get on with the business of getting on with their that Good news for Doug and Byron Brothers who farm Grain South of because Doug earns less than half of his income froth he want eligible for any assistance before yesterdays and a full time said the assistance is especially meaningful after such a poor wheat when you have a business and you Deal with the sometimes you just throw your arms up and who knows1 Farmers o business owners who have already registered under the pre piously announced restart program should receive a letter next pro Viding them with details on the new compensation those who have not yet registered for compensation can Call 9844533 beginning a very Good life for nun at 100 by Manfred Jager staff reporter for decades her Lemon pie As the talk of the but the 200 friends and Well wishers who came to Tea with sister Eusebia gustites on her 100th birthday at the Benedic Tine monastery in West Paul yesterday did not get a Chance to Sample her famous she was the Centre of attention and the Only one decked out in the traditional veil and habit she has been used to wearing since entering the Benedictine order 76 years those who came to celebrate her Centenary listened to messages from friends and including the governor general of the prime minister and the whose traditional Telegram was but had not yet arrived when the Sisters started pouring Eusebia gustites was born in Iowa on but within six months of her birth the family emigrated to when Eusebia was she became a through the decades she has crisscrossed the province working for the Church and her for she spent most of her years cooking and baking at at the orders former Mother House on Pritchard at Russell general Hospi marys Cathedral at Oakes Hospital in North Dakota and at Benedict the orders Mother House since today she is the oldest in the Community whose size has shrunk from Ken free press with Friend Jackie and sister 135 nuns at one time to Ages 36 to most of them Are based at the West Paul Convent which is also the orders Canadian in a Way were All says Prioress sister those who Are no longer with us Are buried in the cemetery right outside the Centre when Benedict Centre opened Here in we had All the earlier Graves moved As for sister who spent much of her working life As a homemaker support worker in the she did not expect to live to be 100 years blessed to this Day with Good she is Able to walk unaided and attend daily hearing has become a sister Eusebia her name is lithuanian and she is proud of her ethnic heritage has a Clear but sometimes needs questions in not afraid to she said we All have to die sooner or later and i had a very Good its getting a Little hard to read the eyes Are television Doest interest its always Over before you can catch on much too i spend a lot of time praying and Helen bettys killer freed on parole Johnstons release called sad by Holly Moner Leff for the free press the family and friends of Helen Betty Osborne were saddened yesterday by the full parole of her Dwayne Archie maybe we prayed too hard with Rupert land la Eric Robin son this Guy has been really he should count his Lucky stars Hes gotten As Many Breaks As he this is a sad Day for aboriginal Johnston spent 10 years in an prison for the Mur Der of and was already on Day parole when he was granted full parole who was 19 at the was snatched off the Street in the Pas in 1971 by four White sixteen years Only Johnston was convicted in her James who was also charged with first degree was Lee Colgan was granted immunity for his testimony and nor Man Manger was never after speaking with Johnston by phone yesterday Robinson said Hes confident hell continue to co operate with the Osborne he is committed to helping bring closure to and he said he realizes theres still a lot of Hurt he understands the pain of her the Osborne family main concern was that help with the continuing Robinson i have to talk to the family and assure them that All Hope is not he Hes changed dramatically and is committed to ongoing traditional Robinson Johnston is Lucky Johnstons statement that he i dolt kill but stabbed her when she was already has convinced the ramp to reopen the Johnston told me he will come through and but if there Ever Are new charges we May have a Hurricane because so Many aboriginal people will be so Robinson Johnston has to continue psychological and substance abuse counselling throughout his he will remain in City poised to hand out Art to those who turn in guns by Kim Guttormson staff reporter talk about an Exchange of bring in your grandfathers Rifle that been gathering dust in the basement and the Winnipeg police ser vice will hand you a piece of modern made from a melted Down next police chief David Cas Sels is expected to announce a City wide firearms amnesty in an Effort to get guns off the Cassels said yesterday police Are still working 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