Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg fire february 2001 local a9 nearly 300 vie for part works pot by Helen fall Dino almost 300 applicants Are vying for a share of the lion Federal provincial Infra Structure pot that has been set aside for officials Are sorting through million Worth of requests after the first application dead line announcements Are expected by april on which of those applications have been a second application deadline will be set in Early the program is scheduled to last six but a spokeswoman for the secretariat handling the applications said the Money will probably be distributed in the first few with the last years set aside for wrapping up Long term at least a third of the Money must be spent in Rural and North Ern where 235 applications have been mainly by Rural municipalities and North Ern Community veterans affairs minister Ron Manitoba top minis Ter in said he and Mani Toba intergovernmental affairs minister Jean Friesen will have to agree How to focus the theres a lot of demand for the amount of Money preliminary discussions have centred on downtown revitalization in Winnipeg clean water and waste disposal in Rural Manitoba and Access to the inter net in the that does not exclude other Duhamel the City of Winnipeg has submitted applications for seven major capital not All of which will be Duhamel another 30 applications have come in from Community groups or private companies in work Worth up to million on the cites flood Way has been endorsed in Duhamel but the major flood Way work needed to withstand another big flood will be addressed separate the Rural municipality of Ritchot is looking for help with a plan to bring fresh drinking water from Agathe to Adolphe and he Des residents of those communities have been forced to buy bottled water since last summer when local Wells were found to be contaminated with municipalities Are expected to provide up to a third of the Cost of each with Ottawa and the province splitting the con artist gets 2 years has to repay by Mike Mclntyre a Winnipeg judge yesterday called him morally bankrupt now Wayne Mcclin Tocks victims can Only Hope the fraud artists financial status int equally was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to defrauding 10 americans with a bogus lottery he was also ordered to repay his Vic Tims the Winnipeg resident was seeking a conditional sentence which would have allowed him to remain free in the com he took advantage of largely elderly even after he was told of their precarious financial said Queens Bench Justice Virenda he is not a stupid he is Intelli gent and he is also morally she rejected a bid to keep Mcclintock out of saying a Strong message of deterrence must be during the summer of Mcclin Tock randomly phoned citizens and claimed it was their Lucky from Hawaii to the victims were told they could collect their Cash by simply wiring a processing fee to Mcclintock collected about from his who never received a Penny in during his preliminary hearing last Manitoba Justice received Assis Tance from the which arranged for the victims to testify via close circuit television from their it was the first prosecution of its kind in following his release from Mcclintock will have three years to repay his City oks for capital projects by David Obrien turn on the flush the put out the head out to Dodge the pot the mundane things in life rely on a City infrastructure Worth nearly Bil lion the value of the cites water and sewer utilities and according to a 1998 Esti City Council approved a capital Bud get yesterday that will invest another billion Over the next five years in new infrastructure and in maintaining the existing the figure Doest include about million the City is seeking under a fed eral infrastructure including million to build a rail underpass on Kenaston its a lot of but it Doest come close to covering the work that needs to be John Angus told Council our infrastructure is our roads Are going Down the we Are doing very Little for our Back lanes and Angus said after councillors congratulated themselves for not Bor rowing any new Money for capital pro the third year in a Row the City has financed its capital projects inter we have to come to grips in a few years with the chair Man of the Public works our infrastructure is a the Veteran councillor said he wanted the City to develop a strategy Over the next few years that would see More Money invested in existing inf Astruc its not romantic it Doest have the sex Appeal of new but its absolutely Angus Over the next six the cites major capital investments will include i million for the cites water sys including million for a new water treatment Plant i million for Hydro infrastructure i million for regional including million for a new Provencher Bridge i million for land drainage and flood including million for per manent secondary dikes i million for Winnipeg including million for new 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