Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 15, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local october John Douglas 6977292 features Buzz Currie email a3 three million canadians have seen ufos Survey Buti re Bertien i e was sitting in his Brand Oft area talking to his dad on the when he looked out the window and saw a Bright object moving quickly in the night sky above a nearby it was just an object with a Light on but it didst look like an said who didst want his last name it had the brilliance of a Rob int alone in his according to a Survey by a group of Independent nearly three million canadians believe they have seen a the numbers Are consistent with similar surveys conducted among americans Over the past so like Many who claim to have spotted we1 Rob int convinced the object he saw earlier this year was a Craft containing alien life As far As Hes it could have come from a nearby military he the idea of aliens alien to my theory when you think of All the planets and the of the solar it would be pretty naive to think there be some life form on another the 34yearold to the group of ufos researchers interviewed 200 people in five canadians cities in British Columbia and nearly 80 per cent of those inter viewed said they believe in the exis tence of life elsewhere in the Jeff free press go Forth and multiply graduate student Chris Hannibal Paci releases Sturgeon into the Assiniboine River near the Tran Canada Highway yesterday As part of a project by Terry Dick of the University of Manitoba zoology department to reintroduce the fish into the cottage country tax revolt school officials a tilth Mcarthur and Nick Martin staff reporters k potential tax revolt brewing among Victoria Beach cottagers some Rural school officials fearing for the future of their nonpermanent residents of Victo Ria Beach Hope to convince the Little known provincial Board of reference o remove their Rural municipality from lord Selkirk school cottagers would then establish their Jown school paying a neighbouring division to educate the Chil Wilren of permanent s its a tactic which could also potentially Rock cottage heavy Lakeshore and Evergreen school Divi officials of the Manitoba association of school trustees the tax thing is the said president Roy Jim assistant Deputy minister Abs education for administration and said the province adamantly opposes the cottagers i tube Overall government policy is to loin not split them he we want to make larger riot smaller ones i the cottagers of Victoria Beach a tax Glen we could end up with one at Winnipeg one at one at Vic Toria one at this is a cottage taxation not an Educa Tion Glen said the permanent residents of Victoria Beach have told the depart ment they Are not Happy with their childrens Board of refer ence Secretary David Yeo said improving area childrens education not crimping on the key ratio Nale for the boards decisions As spelled out under the Public schools if the applicants Only goal is to reduce the chances Are pretty slim that a request would be Yeo the seven member Board sits about is times annually around the generally hearing from individual prop erty owners who want to be switched to a neighbouring division to obtain bus ing for their children or to enter a particular schools catchment but already this the Board allowed Crystal Hutt Erite Cottony to switch from red River school division to Hanover school which has lower the Colony cited Superior Steinbach based distance education pro Grams in Hanover for its desire to shift Victoria Beach cottagers Are finding lord Selkirk school taxes increasingly on top of the taxes they pay on their permanent said Ron a councillor with the Rural every summer resident pays tax on a primary residence somewhere its getting to the Point where some people cant afford to keep cottages that have been in the families for generations because of huge tax increase Pratt said More than cottage owners want to set up a new school Board and negotiate a Deal with a neighbouring Board for the education of Victoria Beach we would collect our own school tax and Send our students to schools seasonal residents have offered to invest some of the tax savings in scholarships so children in the area can attend University or lord Selkirk superintendent Gail Bagnall said the nonpermanent cottagers who can Only vote for school Board members in the division of their permanent residence pay about a year in if they Are successful in pulling it might Force the closure of Walter Why the school in grand she theres a very Strong belief out there that to Jos Are the said project Crof Dif Latof Chris a member of to ufology research of 1 think this is a very deep seated Kutkowski noted that one in to peo ple surveyed said they had seen a its a lot More common than a lot of people he the group also found that More than 52 per cent believe some Wos Are alien spacecraft As opposed to a More Earth based Only 12 per cent of those who have seen ufos actually report their sight while those who do usually tend to Contact government of military offi More than 5 per cent believe theres a military of government coverup regarding the existence of younger Canadian adults Are More Likely to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial Rutkowski noted that because the Survey was conducted As a Pilot pro there is no margin of Village agog As Chretien opens store Lac Dubonnet turns out in Force for a very special political visitor by Keith Mcarthur and David Kuxhaus staff reporters Lac Dubonnet almost half the town turned out yesterday for a Uncein lifetime Opportunity to see the prime in this Village of where Jean Chretien opened the furniture Section of a hardware store people tried to remember if anything so important had Ever happened probably they some remembered that John Turner visited the town but that was when he was just a Cabinet its once in a lifetime for our Little said Arnold a self employed electrician who gave him self the Day off to see although most of the approximately people who turned out were some questioned Chretien reasons for its Urban for a prime minister to attend the opening of a hardware but Chretien said theres nothing wrong with visiting a just like he visits big he said 80 per cent of the jobs that have been created in Canada since he was first elected have been in either Small or medium size i thought this was a Good Opportunity to come and pay tribute to the entrepreneurs who Are making this country great for the he Liberal my David who helped persuade Chretien to attend the open also defended the whats wrong with coming to Rural Manitoba to open a Home hardware for a Rural Manitoban who been trying to get him to come for Over a year Chretien made a Quick tour of the greeting employees and sitting Down for a moment in a Liberal red its a big Chretien rented to owner Diane when did you build it a Chretien had to the entrepreneurs who Are making this country great for the future prime minister Jean Chretien written several letters to the prime ministers asking him to visit her her husband Al said her persistence finally paid in still in he i honestly didst think he would but my wife thought he would and Shes proven us All Home hardware president Walter who came in from for the said he didst think the company would use Chretien visit in its i dont think wed want to take advantage of he then cer the press coverage Doest Hurt in his Brief Chretien resist bringing up one of his Favourite topics National i knew that Lac Dubonnet would be a place where there would be francophone Are proud to be and fran co phones who Are proud to be Manito and francophone who Are proud to be he said in later on in Chretien touted his governments fiscal performance in particular the Prospect of the first balanced budget in 30 a lib eral for canadians were Down in the dumps and were not there any Chretien not Only has the Economy he but inflation has remained in that except if you want to she ooh with the about supporters turned up at the dinner at the Winnipeg convention in they paid to break bread with and Only a head in 1992 when he was Leader of the last the Well heeled crowd dined on Cream of Broccoli butter roast and for chocolate Manitoba about 100 members of Union and Antipoverty groups protested at the pricey wheres our supper they chant r Itsal Lonsdale Falls acid orders including Bob Timberlake Drexel Sherrill Lexington floor samples All reduced e ins Teek company r of y love i 0r it Temal t9 match Alai Lalii b sofa a Jiow ii Jiji with enl rating in a it Tabu vim i Wreis Flat Iron sail others in tills series specify priced Bakers 8ack ply Ufi 3fld Tell full Tutt our w my Rustle Sodec Tiore sail my ;