Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg press sports arts grand designs bosons Clinch title Cash strapped Manitoba opera to open season with ambitious staging of Verdis Aida d1 All 3 locations evenings saturdays the weather a8 Many 60 Chance of High 8 Low 5 the University of Manitoba bosons football team has captured the Canada West University athletic association regular season title c1 Back from the Brink of ruin Curling clubs Roar to rebound from financial ills by Bruce Owen aggressive membership drives and Confidence in Winnipeg econ omy have brought some of the cites Curling clubs Back from the Brink of financial what has also helped is the cites stable Job Market and a willingness by Many people to Fork Over membership fees instead of sticking it in the were getting Back Guys we Haven seen for five or six says Mitch club Secretary for the Victoria Curling club on William Money int As tight As it once a few years their jobs we rent As but now things have whats also changed is that membership is up at the where 18 months ago that want the in the free press reported then the intercity club pay its specifically its after six consecutive years of Tarapacky says that int the Case by going after new including More and More internal fundraising the club is in better shape than it has been for membership is also we dont owe Money to he he added the local scene is quite competitive to attract curlers per haps too competitive when it comes to ice rentals and membership ice rentals vary from rink to rink and membership rate average about to a its not just the Vic that turned the mostly Volunteer based Winnipeg Curling like Elmwood and Assiniboine memory have seen marked upswing in at the mens league is full and the women league has seen increased member continued please see membership growing a2 Granit Curling club Sage eng workers next Stop Phoenix Ken Vigliotti Winnipeg free press the storied Granite club continues to draw membership is ask As Curling clubs in the City enjoy a Many of them rebounding from the Brink of Finan Cial staff help plan conference feds to pay Tab by Bill Redekop the Sage eng treat ment under fire for taking staff on a Caribbean cruise this is receiving an additional in Federal funds to help organize a conference in the free press has the Virginia Fontaine memorial treatment Centre in Sag Keery has been Given per year for the next three years to help prepare for a conference in the event is called the heal ing our spirit worldwide con which is held every four health Canada awarded the Money for the Healing our spirit the Money is in addition to the Mil lion health Canada gives the Centre annually to Paul an assistant Deputy minister for health is the bureaucrat closest to the Sage eng Cen Cochrane and his wife were part of last weeks Caribbean he was called Back to Ottawa mid trip when the controversy erupted at Home Over the Cochrane is on leave with the his son has worked at the Sage eng treat ment Centre in recent sum Cochrane Aline is coordinating the Healing our spirit Confer she and her husband were also on last weeks Jeff a health Canada said Canada has traditionally supported the which began in Edmonton in the con Ference targets youth solvent a fair bit of trav Elling is involved in hosting one of these Pender representative the Sage eng treatment Centre has been chosen As representative at the the treatment centres main responsibility is to coordinate Canadas involvement at the Confer along with a depart mental working new zealand hosted the last the conference is to address the devastation of chemical abuse among indigenous people around the elders and healthcare professionals Are among those continued please see Sage eng a2 Day picks up Speed on Rocky Road by Paul Samyn and Helen falling Penticton it was an Odd Way to begin a political when prime minister Jean Chretien finally fired the election starters pistol last Stockwell Day want even in the starting while every other political Leader was off and the Canadian Alliance Leader was nowhere to be seen As not even an election Call would interfere with his commitment to honour the Sabbath with his Faith and and on when he finally got into the Day had trouble hitting his the first stumble came when the president of an Ottawa High tech company told reporters he returned North from the United states to Start the firm because of Canadas Strong business it was a sound bite that seemed to undermine everything Day had just said about the brain Drain while standing next to him in his first scrum of the Day had a brain cramp at Niagara stating that the great lakes flowed South As he tried to make a Point about canadians being forced to the United states because of High in there were signs that Day and his Campaign team didst entirely have their act it was almost As if they were obsessed about lining up backdrops for his photo Ops but putting Little Effort into the message he was delivering to the Liberal reality Check team was having a heyday at the expense of Days continued please see Day a5 r the election inside pm avoids stumblesa4 i a defaces dilemma a4 i Clark keeps smiling a4 i Dueppe slams Al cuts a5 Battle just begun in Burnt Church a tiny Mikmak Reserve of peo ple on a forgotten Shore of Canadas East coast was catapulted into the National spotlight this it started when the Burnt Church first nation in new Brunswick voted to manage its own fishery following two court rulings on native com Merce the first a year ago in sep saw the supreme court of Canada uphold a 1760 treaty allow ing East coast natives to earn a mod Erate living from year round Hunting a second Rul ing from the supreme court limited the right by granting Ottawa Regula tory Ottawa responded to the reserves Paul actions with weekly fisheries department seizing thousands of lobster but behind the headlines lies a bigger Story of How Burnt Church became a lightning Rod and Why the Battle has Only just in our sunday reporter Alexandra Paul who was raised in the maritime and accepted into traditional native circles brings you the View from inside an from the land she still Calls see Page the 5th annual Manitoba Art expo featuring the Art of Over so of Manitoba of Liast i 7 no Assi Nikoui Downs winning Manitoba admission 12 under few acres fimm parking m watch for the Art expo show guide in the Winnipeg free press on 4 or available at the Art expo on 3 ;