Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Bruce Owen 6977292 trustees hike take off on Toronto junket by Nick Martin weeks after hiking taxes by per vital school division flew five trustees and five senior administrators to Toronto late last month to study Community involvement in Board chairman Bob Bruce said it was necessary to take that Many people so that everyone would be on the same he didst have specific but said it Likely Cost less than a person to attend the conference organized by the Ontario governments Edu cation improvement it was an excellent conference there looking at involving parents in decision making to a greater the tories believe the school boards out there Are not consulting As much As they should we were looking at More strongly involving the Community in the affairs of the school Bruce said his Board would soon con sult with the Community about becom ing More involved in vital teachers were not invited to accompany the he adding that trustees Haven travelled often using their boar allotted professional development a shining Star goes out Young woman Dies in wreck friends devastated by Tracy Tjaden to most Valerie Berg is just another statistic in the mounting pile of evidence show ing that car crashes Are killing teens at a frightening but to those who loved the Ponta outgoing 19yearold Burger King assistant she will be remembered As of the friendliest people Ive Ever that How Jill Voth describes her coworker and she spent yesterday sharing words of support and tears with a group of friends shattered by bergs the Windsor Park teen was killed tuesday morning when the Ford Tempo she was Riding i slapped into a Concrete Barrier near Cooks Creek on the jaws of life were needed to pull Berg and two other Winnipeg both from the battered the Man remains in critical condition in health sciences centres surgical intensive care the woman was released from ramp Steve Saunders said Alco hol and High Speed Likely caused the police Are waiting for the results of a blood test taken at the scene of Accident to determine if the woman driving the car will be bergs said she Doest want to think about caused the her daughter is gone and Noth ing will bring her she iwas making bargains with god the whole Way out to whats important is to remember the Joy her daughters life brought to Many she was my shining Nancy Berg said her daughter would bring her cof fee after her Little trinkets Jeff of fac Mem Chris a Friend of shows a Grad portrait of he took her to the graduation prom last and Flowers for no reason and never lash out at her mom when she was in a bad Nancy i would jump on her about her now i would take a Hundred Messy Burger King District manager Ken Flanagan said staff from other stores Are picking up the Slack at the Regent Avenue restaurant where Berg Many of her friends there Are taking some s cloyed her most of tie needs Day described Berg As their Best Friend she was up for basically As Long As it was with her said we All loved her so Berg enjoyed her Job As a night shift manager at Burger King and planned to work her Way into she liked the she liked everything about said Chris who took Berg to their High school prom last she would pretty much do said she was always up for something her group planned to go to the Minnesota fou Day concert called shake in the but some say there not going to go without i handle not without said Kelley who also worked at Burger s hours after the Accident that killed another Accident also involving a fordtempot3eff four teens in critical j police said car booze or High Likely to blame for a crash at Mcphillips Street and the Saunders said the car just turned North onto Mcphillips when it stalled in the passing not realizing the vehicle was a pickup truck rammed it from were not sure if it was mechanical or inexperience with a Standard Saunders the investigation two teenage 15 and Are in critical condition in the paediatric intensive care unit at health sciences Cen and two other 16yearolds Are in surgical intensive the was treated at seven Oaks general Hosp Laiad government intends to with plans to restrictions on new a report on graduated Drivers licences that will be Given to highways minister Steve Ashton in the coming Days will recommend a significant overhaul of How Manitoban earn the right to with files from Doug name 1 feds Arctic policy comes in from cold by Paul Samyn the Federal government will today announce a new foreign policy for what was once the front line in the cold i foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy will unveil a new dimension to the country diplomatic dealings in the Arctic that will guide everything from the rebuilding of Russia to Maxi Mizing opportunities for the port of the initiative will be kicked off Dur ing an event to be attended by officials from Yukon and Northwest territories As Well As members of the diplomatic corps from the United Russia and whereas the politics of the cold War dictated exclusion and now the politics of globalization and Power diffusion highlight the importance of the circumpolar world As an area of inclusion and says a copy of the newly designed foreign pol the which will be funded by million Over five will have four main objectives i enhance the Security and Prosperity of especially northerners and i assist and ensure the preservation of Canadas sovereignty in the i establish the circumpolar Region As a vibrant geopolitical entity integrated into a Rule based International i promote the human Security of North Erners and the sustainable development of the for this new policy is expected to help open doors for Churchill As Well As encourage the development of the so called Arctic Bridge trading route to deliver Manitoba goods across the North pole to nordic countries and among the priority areas for action under the new policy is a strengthening of the Arctic a forum for the eight Arctic states and aboriginals and the establishment of a University of the Winnipeg one trustee Liz Ambrose believed to be the Only other Manitoba representative at the conference told her Board she want very impressed by what she heard in what they were talking about was shared something weve already been doing for native Casino contracts slammed management fees May Swallow profits tories by Doug Narne and Dan Lett angry opposition critics slammed the doer government yesterday for failing to devise a plan to protect first nations Casino profits from exorbitant manage ment the opposition demanded to know whether the nip has any idea How Casi no profits would be tory gaming critic Darren Praznik said concerns have Arisen that Casino profits May be consumed by manage ment fees and Praznik said Hes heard the companies contracted to run the casinos All of which Are from out of the province will take up to 30 per cent of the every aboriginal person who is sup posed to Benefit from this Money should be he the govern ment must know what those numbers but they refuse to make the information but lotteries minister Ron Lemieux said he Doest know what the manage ment agreements agreements confidential i certainly dont know what they Are for each he we just received the report and i Haven had the Opportunity to read through All those i am sure the Public of Manitoba would understand that some of them Are a foot Lemieux said management agree ments Are so the Public May never know what is being he would not say whether he personally believes the information should be even to the residents of the first nations Praznik said the casinos will not deliver the economic Benefit aboriginal peo ple Are hoping of the five potential two list the Saskatchewan Indian gaming authority As while the other three have the spirit Lake tribe of North carnival resorts and casinos and Lake City casinos respect Praznik said the Manitoba lotteries corporation should run the 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