Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 19, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winni december 2000 papuan Jewarld Hoover Funare with Low Days inside be a Good sport i santas l some athletes have been Nice this Jotso behave Al Ilsi naughty which Are x which paper bag writers students Alt Isaac Brock school turned authors and artists liquor bags with Softie very grownup messages a3 Niall tax hike looms is a 24percent boost in school Tara next year to spending increases a4 yuletide youth scores of Stu Lensi Are looking commercial Side of Christmas and giving their time and labour to Charity As Netanyahu quits race Tanyail puked race Arieff Sharona the Mai ii challenger to prime vhf t i business be careful where you Send that sexy email a couples erotic email Exchange is being snickered Over by millions b1 the the Christmas party seen5 take a look at who was spotted at some of the cites hottest Yule tests d1 code red Joe free press a real traffic stopper this traffic Light became yet another casualty of the cites icy streets it was knocked Over when a vehicle Slid into the pole at Ellice Avenue and Wall Street at about 11 one of almost 100 motor vehicle accidents reported to police in a 24hour do gangs have City under siege outbreak of Street violence will pass expert says by Leah Janzen is Winnipeg really under siege by the perpetrators of Street shootings not according to the they predict the Gan related violence that has struck fear into Many in the City and made headlines for most of Decem Ber will soon fade from Public i think this will pass fairly said Doug criminology professor at the University of these things usually have a fairly Short life but a decline in Street Vio Lence would not mean the gang problem has youve basically got 16to 21yearold men with testosterone pouring out of its exciting for them to get together with their buddies in a car at night and go looking for so and so to put a few rounds in their the attraction is but they do tend to eventually work themselves Robert a criminology expert from Simon Eraser University in said while Winnipeg Public gang dispute is fright ening for it Doest compare to the bloodshed and violence experienced in other cities in the for Between december 1999 and february of this at least eight peo ple with links to asian gangs were killed in the Vancouver in Montreal Home of the deadly Rock machine and Hells Angels motorcycle gang feud police estimate there have been 150 Gan related deaths since including the death of 11yearold Daniel Desrochers in a car bomb continued please see gangs a2 four films Worth to Roll in Manitoba by Dinah Clarkson at least four Manitoba based films with a total budget of More than million have been Given the Green Light from fed eral government funding Agency telefilm Canada to go into production next among them is an adaptation of Carol Shields the Republic of a co production Between Toronto triptych Media the hanging Garden and Winnipeg symphony orchestra director Bruce dug the comic set in will be directed by Deepa Mehta its looking said Manitoba motion picture Indus tries association Mopia director Richard it looks like Well easily surpass the production figures for and i think its time we did Well in terms of recognition at the Federal continued please see films a2 a gift for the Core to fix houses by Sean Oconnor and Bruce Owen intercity neighbourhoods Are get Ting an Early Christmas pre sent to convert rundown housing into 50 liable Homes and to develop further plans for Community the gift to the Over the Long will be a More rejuvenated Cen the announced is from Winnipeg housing and homeless Ness a partnership forged this summer Between the Federal govern province and the described As a single window is unique because it allows Community groups to apply in one place for programs involving three lev Els of Community groups have been lobby ing for years for such a simplified removing a bureaucratic Maze Between the groups and the the West Broadway development is receiving for a million project to renovate 25 housing the North end housing project will receive toward its million plan to renovate 25 the housing will be targeted to lower income its a Good Way of using existing hous ing that is out there and converting them to liable said Brian of Winnipeg housing and homelessness the idea with this is that the entire area will be said mayor Glen Paul program director of the West Broadway development said boarded up houses give the impression of a neighbourhood in continued please see houses a2 custom built systems sales service networking onsite repairs internet services computers 17 marys Road 9589400 128mb pc133 ram 15gb hard drive 7200 rpm 15 Samsung Monitor 8mb Ati age video card 3d stereo sound 56k Modem or Nic 52x carom drive Epson 580 us Printer acer 640 us spanner windows cd manuals keyboard mouse word perfect office 2000 1 year internet service Intel Celoron 700 Mhz Intel pentium Iii 0 3 months no interest no payments Mac 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