Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg press sports Dedo and 3 locations the free press Community classic basketball tournament at the University of Winnipeg this week has a lot of Young players excited c1 world going to the people israels beleaguered prime minister Ehud Barak says hell resign and there will be a new vote for prime minister a referendum on peace a8 the weather is o mainly sunny High 26 Low 31 Gores Hopes fade after High court halts recount by Robert Russo Washington a sharply divided supreme court dealt a sudden and devastating blow to Al Gores presiden tial halting the Florida recount and signalling it could effectively declare George Bush president after a hearing a on paragraph statement accompanying the High court order stopped just Short of saying Gores candidacy is the issuance of the stay suggests that a majority of the while not deciding the issues believe that the Petitioner has a substantial probability of wrote Justice after the court voted 54 in favour of Bush Gores formidable Challenge now is to persuade a single Justice in the majority to change his or her if his lawyers the recounts that began yesterday will be Bush will be declared the Winner of Florida 25 electoral College votes and the next even if the supreme court eventually rules in Gores the Victory could come too with the clock ticking toward a 12 deadline for certifying each passing hour represents a lost Opportunity for continued please see recount a2 a passion for Christmas lights makes a country Yard Bright glowing snowmen Welcome visitors to the Biales which student Matthew Bialek loves to Light up each he strings along with season students obsession grows to bulbs and a site on the web by Paul Mckie Beausejour the competitive More than the Christmas has motivated Matthew Bialek to step into the spotlight the Glare of Christmas while the rest of us May be Content to string up a few icicle lights or maybe not even take Down the faded bulbs from Many years Biales quest to be Best has thrust him to the forefront of the festive Light continued please see Bright a4 where to see the lights a4 Phil Houck Winnipeg flee press Bialek with Girlfriend Erin Winnicki and brother Ryan has Christmas lights web retailers forced to absorb flood hit 1999 panel urged for merchants by Bradley Bird and Helen falling Melita merchants across the Southwest have not seen a cent of the million in disaster Aid recommended by a tory task Force in the Wake of record rainfall in and it seems unlikely they Ever Melita mayor Ken Carels blames the nip noting that a month after the report was forwarded to the province in August of the nip won there was a change in government and i think it just got lost in the but agriculture minister Rosann Wowchuk said the Rea son is not provincial politics its she said Ottawa has refused to cos share any pro Gram for Rural businesses that suffered when Farmers unable to seed their Fields ran out of Money to buy local unless the Federal govern ment puts up 50 per cent As it did in 1997 for businesses affected by the red River Val Ley she the province will not release any Wowchuk blames Ottawa the Federal government has refused to recognize this As a she adding that the province handed out More than million to farm ers hit by the some of the Federal governments share of that Money is still she last Federal Cost Shar ing was ruled out by a com Mittee that included Liberal my Ron Duhamel Boni at the the reason Given was that new farm Aid programs should be Suffi continued please see disaster Relief a2 qty seeks Federal tax credit to preserve historic Exchange by Kevin Rollason the City of Winnipeg is seeking a fed eral tax credit to preserve its historic Exchange a proposed world heritage Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray said the City has been lobbying for the tax cred which has proved a huge asset in some cities in the it allows people to write off a portion of their investments in heritage or historic Murray it would bring us up to the kind of invest ment programs that Many other coun tries Giles the cites historical buildings said the City is also hoping the Federal government agrees to a cos sharing program to help Reno vate the were looking at the Federal govern ment to make a major investment in the Exchange Bugaliskis the City created its own heritage tax credit in 1998 to encourage revitalizing downtown that program pro Vides up to a 50 per cent property tax credit for renovation work to bring older buildings Back into tax credits May prove the salvation of the even More than the More High profile Campaign to get a in world heritage site experts that simply because such a designation Doest guarantee bags of Money from the Federal Lawrence the mayor of said his towns 1995 world heritage designation by Enesco some Money to hire a heritage project and a Quarter of the Cost of erecting a Monument commemorating the but Little there Are no magic wands to the Enesco designation comes with a lot of but no he Mawhinney said if Winnipeg can per Suade Ottawa to give tax credits to help preserve heritage buildings in the such credits would also be Welcome in his 200yearold fishing Winnipeg proposal to Enesco is still in the Early City Council passed a motion last year to have the already listed As a National historic site by designated a world heritage there Are 10 Une Scodes ignited Sites in including the historic District of Quebec City and Lanse Aux Meadows in site of the first Viking settlement in the Western last ones standing b1 ;