Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 26, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 2000 local a3 i Brief lettuce pay More expect your salads to Cost More than usual this killing frosts in regions of Cal High fuel costs and demand created by the thanksgiving Holiday Are driving up the Price of Leafy such As Romaine lettuce and Broc said Casa de Fruta owner de by next Romaine is expected to hit a up from said is expected to jump As much As a to As Cool weather in mexi co is expected to damage crops there As meaning peppers could also Cost Osato said the which often hit a High around could last Well into january this and beyond if the Cool weather its going to be a Long term flood fears Abate fears the red River will flood continue to everything looks very Larry provincial flood Liaison said it looks like were going to get through it All Whitney said because the frazil a rare slush ice is no longer blocking the locks at the River water is get Ting through now and the Abnor Mally High Levels for november Are going Whitney said while in the City the River appears to have stabilized and be near its in communities South of the City it has already dropped As much As eight the red River was recorded at feet above Normal Winter ice Levels at James Oil caused fire a pot of cooking Oil which ignited on a stove is being blamed for a fire that caused damage to a Campbell Street the fire broke out at 757 Camp Bell on Friday at win Nipe police said yesterday Job plan gets award a Job creation project in India that receives significant support from Canadian lutheran world Relief has received the Helen Keller the organizations head office is mesh maximizing employment to serve the handicapped is a project that enables four communities of handicapped people in India to earn their own living by weaving cloth and raising Chick Canadian lutheran world Relief provided working capital for mesh in 1989 and 1990 and since then has maintained support of the projects and markets mesh products in Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1880 and left Blind and deaf at the age of 18 months after contracting her life transformed the living conditions of deaf Blind people around the Hydro gets of to Burn Coal by Aldo Santon Manitoba Hydro has been Given permission to run its controversial Coa burning Plant in East Selkirk because of concerns that Coal stored indoors will spontaneously Larry director of Environ mental approvals for Manitoba Conser said Hydro recently requested that it be allowed to Start up the Plant after it was shut Down due to residents environmental Strachan said the late october shut Down was and As a a Large amount of Coal remained As the temperature inside the Plant spontaneous combustion fears Sway official there is a potential for the Coal stored in bunkers to spontaneously com Strachan said its a safety so i approved a limited but one resident wondered Why the Coal int transferred to a Large outdoor storage we dont want it burning again for any amount of Reinhardt Haerbig said theres got to be other ways of dealing with the Coal that left first built in the Plant was licensed in 1992 to operate Only on an backup basis until its shut Down in for the last three the free press Hydro has operated the Plant on a year round basis to take advantage of a lucrative Export Market to the United sometimes burning 10 times As much Coal and operating at Levels five times greater than what Hydro had originally Strachan said under Normal opera All the Coal stored inside is burned before the facility is shut Strachan said he authorized Hydro to operate the Plant for a maximum 20hour adding he sent letters to nearby residents to warn i thought it was the prudent thing to Strachan said of his decision to Noti Ken Vigliotti free press take a ride on the mild Side Winter took a Day off making room for sunny skies and mild temperatures that hovered near to take advantage of the Tom Dan Malcolmson and Dan Locke took a ride through Assiniboine air farce lampoons ousted Alliance candidate Granger by Kevin Rollason disgraced Canadian Alliance Candi Date Betty Granger had her 15 minutes of unwanted Fame extended Friday night on the Royal Canadian air farce television and the Manitoba association for rights and liberties is asking her to con Sider resigning As a school Granger withdrew last weekend As an Alliance candidate in Winnipeg South Centre after revelations that she had made inflammatory comments to University of Winnipeg students about immigration issues and cited an asian on the air a character says he has heard about an Alliance candidate making a comment about a Raisin inva the other corrects saying that not what was continuing that they must have been thinking of the size of her a school trustee with the Winnipeg school at first apologized for her comments and said she haunt considered quitting the Federal but then tendered her resignation the next Valerie Manitoba association for rights and liberties executive said the Marl Board came up with a position on the Granger Issue during its regular meeting earlier in the were not calling for her but we Are saying maybe she should reconsider her Price whats really troubling is that someone who holds these can make Deci Sions that affect those Marls president Harold in a said grangers comments reflect a misleading and simplistic View of while we support grangers right to express her views in a free and demo cratic it is indeed troubling to learn that someone who is a trustee with Winnipeg school division harbours such Granger herself did not return when told of Marls Alliance party National co president Clayton Man Ness said so apologies across Canada Arent enough i dont know what More people want from other Winni Eggers this in let emails and phone Calls to the free called for Granger to resign from the school Shes on a school Board in a District with Many races i dont see How she can carry Geraldine Morriss said in an and Loida a student at the University of said that Ever since she came to Canada from Asia As a she has never heard comments like grangers before she definitely should resign it Doest set a very Good she Brian a spokesman for the provinces department of said the Public schools act contains nothing that would enable either the school Board or the Public to Force Granger to resign her trustee the next school Board elections Are two years by i wanted to let them know so that when they see the Plant belching out smoke they would Strachan said he Doest know when the Plant will resume operation for the limited adding the inside temperature of the facility will determine when the stored Coal is at risk of spontaneously they have to notify us when there burning and when there Strachan Hydro officials did not return Calls to the free the conservation department is still collecting data that will be used to deter mine whether the facility will be subject to a formal Casino opponent infuriated about newspaper and by Bud Robertson the spokesman for a residents group opposed to a Casino in heading Ley is fighting mad Over a newspaper advertisement supporting the there trying to defame to Dis credit Rob Walger said of the full Page and that appears in this weeks heading Ley the paid for by an unnamed group of heading Ley questions Wal Gers motives in opposing the native run Casino proposal and suggests he is on the payroll of the Assiniboia Downs race that not at Walger adding he has never received Money from the Downs or the jockey in going to pursue this with a Walger this is totally uncalled the Downs has expressed opposition to the Casino in a brochure it distributed in the commune the organization asked residents where aboriginals working at the Casi no would noted that aboriginal staff wont pay taxes and that the band will provide tax free services that will drive heading Ley businesses to Swan Lake first which Hopes to build the Casino on land it owns along the Tran Canada Highway just West of has said it will build a 75lot Mobile Home if residents vote against the proposal in a 6 ref heading Ley residents rejected the pro posed Casino Complex in a referendum in april by an 85 per cent the vote was called into ques Tion because it was held before residents saw the plans for the multimillion Dol Lar earlier this provincial sources told the free press the nip government will ignore the results of the second ref shortly Steve minister responsible for reiterated the governments support of heading Leys first adding he was somewhat puzzled by the second but categorically reject in the pro Casino it is pointed out that the Casino would raise As much As in taxes a year for the Munici a Mobile Home it could increase school Walger said his group has used inde pendent research in its Brandon workers accept contract Brandon City workers have voted to accept a per cent raise Over three the 325 employees new contract is retroactive to according to a news release issued by the Cana Dian Union 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