Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 28, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 local i games continued from Page a1 the games were a mess of olympian corporate sponsors were and in this deeply religious dominated by the mormon the taint stuck to slow employees such As it was a Dicey eight months after the bribery scandal she it was a we had to keep perspective and keep focused on what we needed to when i got there were More than 35 she not More than a handful of them i think it affected for Priestner Allinger said her attending the varsity of British was taunted How Are you paying for it so there was a that it was a was this some thing you wanted to be identified with Priestner Allinger but the former facility manager of the Calgary olympic who Silver for Canada in the women 500 metres at the Innsbruck Winter olympic games in Priestner Allinger is a after and the notion of abandon ing an imperfect games want an with the 2002 games less than a year it appears that the worst of the troubles Are behind who have seen their projected debt slashed from Mil lion to an estimated largely due to the financial Mastery of an expatriate Canuck named Fraser in canadians seem to be about As hard to locate As Mountain tops in Utah these there Are no less than 15 slow Many of them Cal Arians with experience forged in the games of who have been recruited for tasks rang ing from micromanaging billion Dol Lar budgets to Nebbling the ice surface at Odgen olympic Curling for Dan born and raised in Thunder is plotting the olympic hockey widely anticipated to be the greatest Competition in the history of the Cal Garian Craig a Veteran manager of the Canadian olympic now oversees the Utah olympic Home of major venues such As the luge and bobsled they definitely make fun of us that theres too Many canadians around and we cause joked slow Media relations manager Vania who was raised in Banff along with brother a current member of the Canadian National ski but its in Good i have to say it makes me they slow officials dont look at our passports before hiring they just want to find the Best people they Priestner Allinger Doest apolo Gize for the Canadian Content in Salt they definitely make fun of us that theres too Many canadians around and we cause trouble slow Media relations manager Vania Grandi this is a huge she and if no one has Ever experienced youre taking on a big and if you have a few people whole done it it benefits the this int a Winter sport comm she so they did it have a lot of local people to draw at first reluctant to come was persuaded by slow president and ceo Mitt Romney the games third in two years to assume the financial reins of the which were leaking Bullock had left Calgary in 1972 to Atten utahs Brigham Young uni then spent the last two decades crisscrossing the amassing a Small Fortune in venture capital consulting and devel Oping a High tech company that he eventually sold to when Romney now was Semi retired after returning to Salt Lake City in 1996 to mind my own after Romney made his Bullocks exact quote was youre looking for somebody because it was a Bullock in an the there was a huge budget i was going to turn them but i had a conversation with my father and he said its a great Opportunity to be of and that really resonated with and in so because its been an absolute its been a great weve made a big differ weve been Able to turn things around and its a wonderful while Romney concentrated on raising Revenue Bullock combed through the games lion shaving it want easy and it want but organizers Are now confident the games will suffer Only minor losses or break the bribery scandal int a dead since both Welch and Johnson face trial this but Bullock believes the worst is theres been a change in manage a change in a change in he so its a new enabling us once again to focus on the the almost for but if you ask Priestner the games themselves will be enough of a regardless of the problems preceding i think its a learning curve the whole Way she its a different kind of were less than a year out of the were feeling Good about where were but we still have a ways to go to make everything Bullocks wish is that Salt Lake ultimately be remembered for the olympic moments the ath letes will not the disgrace created by original committee Mem we Hope we can put behind As much As the stigma of the where people can you know what they really started in a but they really dug themselves out and did themselves just remember this More than a few canadians Are now holding the Urban poors lot truly alarming Quality of life report details disturbing trends by Bud Robertson w inn pegs poor can see the Well of Prosperity overflow ing they just cant drink from while the country basks in a period of sustained economic the Gap Between the Rich and the poor continues to concludes a new study by the federation of Canadian the Quality of life in Canadian communities 2001 released yester found that poverty and income inequality has continued to expand in Large Urban communities since the first Urban Quality of life report was issued two years the report also pointed to a number of disturbing trends occurring in Prairie cities such As including higher rates of teenagers giving Sui infant work hours lost for illness or crime rates and higher than average drop out rates in eighteen Urban municipalities participated in the these findings Are truly said federation of Canadian municipalities president Joanne they show that Canadas economic Boom has not benefited too Many people have been left the report also found while poverty is becoming a bigger problem in Urban Low income families living in Large cities Are less Likely to receive government assistance than peo ple living elsewhere in the Mark Winnipeg acting Deputy says something needs to be done to address the needs of the poor in a City that holds the dubious title of the family poverty capital of instead of trying so hard to Lessen its dependence on property the City should be spending Money to help ease that said we cant continue to pare away at ser vice Levels and responsibilities and Hope that some of our challenges go he there not going Michael chairman of the Quality of life task Force and an Edmonton City said Winnipeg has made inroads in narrowing the Gap Between Rich and but he said finding the resources to improve the Quality of life for Canadas poor is still a cities dont have enough Money to Deal with social such As affordable on their own and need cooperation from other Levels of said o swampy new chief at Sage eng Sage eng first nation is starting the Day with a new Only one band Hector was with 284 votes cast in an election voting results were made available last Garry swampy is the new with a total of 500 the new Council members Are Joseph Daniels 425 Donovan Fontaine 401 and Paul Guimond 359 a total of people voted in the which was administered by the Federal department of Northern and Indian Sage eng has a registered population of with about members Liv ing on this was the first time band members who live of Reserve were Able to thanks to a supreme court decision last of Reserve members of the band who registered to vote received Mailin bal 111 Harry Rosen ;