Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba March 2001 free watch ran due Respre rum rime tuna ten Flutie bolts to chargers excl Star signs six year nil Deal with san Diego d1 survivor sucks wildly popular web site mocks Over hyped reality to show b1 the q mainly sunny wind new 3050 High 6 Low 12 t inside we Are Rockin Check out our Curling spread Burtnyk is in the Brier Semi i Hemmings says a Revoir to and Duguid May be playing the roaring game in sunny California d3 live Curling webcast get your password for a live Brier talk webcast this morn ing with Manitoba Curling greats Vic Peters and Don Duguid d4 600 left jobless Tolko largest employer in the is shut Ting Down its Sawmill and log Ging throwing 600 people out of company officials say its Only temporary a3 senator sounds off Manitoba senator Sharon Carstairs says women have been her most frequent critics Over her 17year political career a6 bloodshed in Ukraine a tribute yesterday to Ukraine most famed poet turned into the bloodiest protest in a three month Campaign against president Leonid Kuchma a14 i business future vision Manitoba business expects big things from Winnipeg million virtual reality research and innovation Cen announced yesterday by Federal and provincial Politi the state theart imaging Only the second such Public facility in will be up and run Ning within four months b12 dads killing no crime teen justified in slaying abusive Stepfather with jurors decide by Mike Mclntyre a heartrending Case of Domestic abuse ended with applause and tears yesterday when a jury found a teenage boy was justified when he clubbed his Stepfather to death with a baseball the 17yearold cracked a wide smile while his Mother and several aunts embraced As the jury returned the not guilty verdict after two Days of deliver the second degree murder trial was the first in Manitoba history in which an alleged Young offender has been tried by a University of Manitoba Law professor David Deutscher said the defence used to explain the teens actions is but compared it to that of battered wife they both use the defence of self and i suspect the sympathies were certainly on the teens and that May have said adding he Hast heard of Many similar cases in during the two week jurors were told the Stepfather had repeat edly terrorized his wife and stepchildren while they lived on the Little Saskatchewan first nation the Man abused his drank smoked cheated on his repeatedly assaulted her and threatened to kill her if she court was continued please see no crime a2 Swayze is just crazy for us honorary citizens Laud City at Lovein by Bartley Kives entertainment reporter mayor Glen Murray has come up with a novel Way to increase the cites tax base turn a couple of Hollywood people into yesterday at City a beaming Murray made ghost and dirty danc ing Star Patrick Swayze and his actress director wife Lisa Niemi honorary citizens of unlike har Rison who spent less than 24 hours in Gimli earlier this the celebrity duo is spending six weeks Here filming a movie tentatively entitled without a i knew i would be Canadian some cracked sitting with Niemi and executive producer Kevin Dewalt at a Jam packed press Confer ence across from the mayors All three received commemorative plaques from the were Only still seated because were so the dance weary Swayze thank god Winnipeg has Good Massage Phil Hossack Winnipeg me press 1 knew i would be Canadian some Day movie Star Patrick Swayze Sang Winnipeg praises for about 45 minutes yesterday at a Jam packed City Hall news conference from monday until april Winnipeg will double for new York with downtown Exchange filling in for manhattans Soho based on a play co written by the who have been married 25 without a word is All about dancing at least 30 minutes of the film is straight up Niemi the celebrity couple was turned on to Winnipeg by Dewalt production minds Eye which is based in both Swayze and Niemi showered Praise on Winnipeg yesterday for almost 45 com mending the Quality and enthusiasm of the cites the professionalism of the Young local film Industry and the willingness of mayor Murray and film Czar Kenny Boyce to accommodate their were talking about a nothings too hard for anybody and nothings beneath its about getting the Job said who later joked about cutting Down a Blue continued please see Swayze a2 poem on the Range Brandon festival celebrates Riding and rhyming Mike Aporius Winnipeg free press Cowboy bards Doug Keith Doc for Dale Hayes led a Dou ble by he was the Dean of Brandon a respected Aca by he was Doc closet Cowboy i didst even want people to says the resident of if word had gotten out that the Dean of Brandon University was writing Cowboy they would have tarred and Feath ered Hayes grew up in Arizona and spent 40 years collecting Cowboy poetry and still an English professor in he also earns his spurs running a Small grazing Hes the real Deal and his poetry proves heres an excerpt from blowing Snow on the lesser slave i in Here to Tell you How i you just can not believe How cold the wind 45 below and the moaning of the wind is such a living Mournful Elizabeth Anne left me and she took the continued please see poetry a2 saturday z million ;