Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 23, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba February 2001 Winnipeg free press festival of fumes festival of films Winnipeg will Host a giant motor sport event this summer c1 flyer in today follow our guide to the local heroes Canadian film festival d1 Winnipeg subscribers Only the weather 010 sunny with increasing afternoon a kinds 20 high13low19 t garbage Day 5 schooldays inside sex slavery declared a War crime a landmark ruling that sent three bosnian serbs to prison for raping and torturing mus Lim women has turned sex slavery into a crime against humanity b1 fans flock for Hull an overflow crowd flooded the cites main Post office yesterday Tosee the Golden former Winnipeg jets great Bobby Hull a3 photo radar backed i police released a Survey yes 87 per cent of City Drivers want to use tech radar to slow Down speeders a6 literate fingers a Pilot projects Ali 25 Manitoba families taught sign language to read stories to s their deaf children a11 a disastrous debut sur former Clinto Nare ment group plans to build a office Complex hear the it could Cost up to million and is slated for completion this Tim next year 85 stores in line for online 7eleven among those seeking government funded computers by Aldo Santin retail giants such As Walmart and 7eleven have asked the doer government to pay for computer networks in their stores As part of a National program to give the Public free Access to the these retailers and others have asked to become part of the provinces Community connections a lion program that will place 440 computer terminals across included in the list of applicants Are the Garden City shopping the Walmart at Empress Street and Ellice a hair a West end restau rant and a West end 7eleven Industry minister Mary Ann Mihaychuk said the retail operators stepped Forward at the suggestion of neighbourhood adding in some instances they might make better locations than Public facilities with limited a school might not be willing to stay open at night and on the weekend for Security Mihaychuk Mihaychuk said that while the province will pay for the computer equipment and cover the Cost of the internet connection for 18 All selected groups will be responsible for maintaining the making upgrades to the insuring the equipment and picking up the Cost of the internet connection after the initial continued please see internet a2 will the stars come Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson May come to a Frozen Lake near you by Dinah Clarkson entertainment reporter Harrison Ford better get some Long producers of his newest Bigaud get about a nuclear melt Down on a russian have picked Frozen Lake Winnipeg to shoot some of the and that could bring the Hollywood heavyweight to Manitoba inter Lake and he May bring costar and fellow heartthrob Liam Neeson with producers of k19 the widow a movie from inter Media films International the wedding want to shoot a few scenes on a Frozen Lake and naturally they thought of or at least Lake aha the blustery cold comes in Handy after All whether Ford and Neeson will be taking part has yet to be con but cast and Crew will spend a few Days shooting in the area in and for a town like a Likely base for the that could be Good weve worked on being ready for things like said Gimli mayor Bill adding the town has been a film location i think its part of a Long Range profile attracting something like this in Winter certainly Barlow said Hes been told the Crew will be in town March 9 and should Ford and Neeson blow they can rub Shoul Ders with the provinces who Are holding a convention there that week continued please see stars a2 Watermain break forces 180 out of Block Mike Afemui Winnipeg free press plumbers inspect blocks garage after water was pumped out by Paul Mckee and Kim Guttormson a huge Watermain break Early yesterday morning drove 180 people from their apartment submerged 40 vehicles in an underground garage and indefinitely closed a neighbourhood deep slush filled Grant Avenue for much of the Day after a pipe in the Park ing lot of the Grant Park shopping Centre water poured Over the Street and Down the ramp into the parking garage of Kent just like Niagara one resident the 180 residents of Kent Many of them were allowed Back in their apartments about after the City had checked the air Quality of the about 10 people had elected to stay in a a building employee and some had gone to stay with family earlier in the the located just behind Appleby burst at about 2 flood ing the which remained closed last night because of the water and Kent towers resident Joan Allard said police woke her up at to get Access to the building her name is first on the apartment intercom continued please see flooding a8 Friday million ;