Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vii Fhi to knife attack drives Man from local a by Bud Robertson a brutal attack by a knife wielding maniac didst take Rick Blanch but it killed his desire to Ever get behind the wheel of a big Rig in the Manitoba trucker said from his Hospital bed in where he is recovering from 11 Stab wounds he received from a Man he believed was a fellow trucker in my heart made a bad decision for said who was attacked in his track last in not going to Hamiota resident Lucky to be alive after multiple stabbing let it make another decision like i May end up dead next who returned to trucking last was travelling in the United states when he heard on the radio that a fellow Driver needed to get Home to his who had just Given birth to a pre mature the Man claimed his trucking company let him take the Rig to return were a pretty tight knit commune said we help each other for two Blancher and his Pas Senger travelled without any when they arrived in Blancher went to sleep in his bunk while his passenger slept in a front seat of the i woke up to him stabbing me in the he i rolled Over and he was stabbing me in the holding me up against the Wall with his one hand by the Throat and stabbing me Blancher said he somehow managed to fend off the Man and escaped from the he called Calgary police on his cell phone while his Cov ered in fled into the police and paramedics found Blancher lying inside the Southeast Calgary truck Stop in critical who has had trouble sleep ing since the has been receiving counselling in in pretty messed he Ive had some pretty close Calls in life ill Tell its been the his alleged Timothy Michael of red was arrested and charged with assault with a weapon and aggravated returned to trucking to try to make a better living for his Fame he and his Bev have six children Between the Ages of eight and but after being Blancher said Hes going to take a seasonal Job with his who run a resort in his family plans to stay in blanches decision to quit trucking for Good suits his wife just Hes All Over the place and you never know when things like this could Hap she nip sidesteps questions about private wine stores by Helen fall Dunn Manitoba new liquor minis ter will not say whether the nip intends to allow private wine stores to remain open once their current licences consideration has not been Given As to whether the Exten Sion would be positive or Nega Tive for theres lots of information to be considered before a decision is Scott Smith said in an interview yesterday after a standing committee of Las reviewed the Manitoba liquor control commissions annual Smith had earlier sidestepped a question from Emerson la Jack Penner about whether the nip intended to decrease the number of private wine stores in the the min ister made it Clear to the com Mittee that the doer government is not prepared to allow More Pri vate wine stores to open even in his Home town of this government has no intention of expanding private wine said who was appointed to Cabinet in Jan the former tory government approved the provinces first four private wine stores in 1994 and another four opened in All Are in but the Manitoba liquor control commission was open to proposals from to Razik of Fen tons wine Ken Gigotti free press archives Razik says he expects his stores contract will be merchants said Public support will ensure the Macc Renews his stores contract when it expires in four i cant see the government going entirely against the will of the people who elected the Manitoba government employees which has always opposed the private has asked the liquor com Mission to eventually phase them out by refusing to Issue a new contract whenever a private store moneys generated through the distribution of liquor should Benefit All Ngeu spokesman Ken Hildahl said the which represents workers at the Macc run liquor outlets com Peting with private wine has not called for the closure of any existing private Razik said he is More worried about the government trying to squeeze private stores out of incentives for restau rants that buy directly from the Macc and new fees for the Pri vate stores have kicked in since the labour Friendly nip came to he Smith said the doer govern ment has no intention of squeezing anyone out of meanwhile six of the private wine stores Are suing the liquor commission Over what they allege is illegal no hearing Date has been rail lines focus of struggle a Saskatchewan based Farmers group trying to take control of some Short haul rail lines has found itself up against a successful company that wants to do the same the Prairie Alliance for the future Paff recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian National railway to lease a network of Saskatchewan based Short haul some of which run into but in based which oper ates the line from the Pas to applied to the Canad an transport Agency to operate several Short lines including those Paff is Kyle Paff chair Farmer Alliance faces Omni trax Man and a Farmer said the Paff proposal will make Sav Ings for producers while Omni trax will ship profits to the my position As a producer is its going to be inefficient to have two said he argued that Only Paff should have Access to the Omni trax is asking that the Short haul operators have Access to those same Omni trax spokeswoman Genevieve Young said Competition on the lines will be Good for producers because rates will be she said puffs proposal is just to run the lines with in personnel and the same Way things work Korneychuk said hed like to talk with Omni trax and come up with a solution that will Bene fit he said he want picking a fight with the Young said Omni trax is available to but Paff has yet to approach them she also said that since Omni trax applied directly to they believe they will get Access to the she called puffs memorandum with in instead of a cat application Korneychuk said Paff was also in discussion with Canadian Pacific to operate on their Short haul brakes put on mining exploration projects Low Mineral prices have put the brakes on mining exploration projects in Manitoba and a spokesman for Hudson Bay mining and smelting in flin flon said yesterday it wont put a Stop to the company plans to spend million on new mine development in the one of the very reasons Why were doing is that with Metal prices and business conditions As they Are were Tak ing some pretty hard decisions in the Short term and trying to restructure some of our expenditures so can ensure that those major projects go said Wayne Hudson Bay exploration nor Mally spends up to million a year around the flin flon on the Manitoba Saskatchewan Fraser said they dont know when exploration might resume although they Hope the program May restart in you dont want to be out of the exploration work very he the company int laying off any of its permanent exploration staff and instead will use them on projects in other parts of one mine was 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