Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 11, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 u of m soars to kudos at Mode plane meet the University of Manitoba was the top Canadian team and third Overall at an International Model plane building Competition in the California desert Over the teams from around the world Gath ered on the Western part of the Mojave desert to Fly their Model planes Accord ing to their own designs and Points were Given for Oral presentation and flying extra Points were awarded for the increased Load car ried by the near the end of the planes carried As much weight As they could for extra much like trac Tor pull and horse pull Manitoba team members Grant David Mathew Joyce and Don Hatch bombarded their fuse Lage with electrons to fuse the elements of their plane they confidently loaded their plane up with extra weight yesterday and their final flight proved steady and Strong despite the desert we were first off the runway last year and first off this said Mathew Manitoba team the Manitoba team beat last years the Ecol pol technique of and were third Overall after teams from Ohio and almost half of the 37 teams competing in the 2001 Aero design West com petition at hosted by aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin were from Canadian uni the Model planes carried loads heavier than any witnessed in any previous year More than about the weight of a healthy Oney Earold Tod team members from the University of Western Ontario watched dumb founded As their plane crashed in a spectacular display of flying Metal during the very first it completely said team Leader Jason it was the Crosswind that actually flipped us press getting wet never Felt so Good Muriel cools off during the childrens festival which wrapped up yesterday at the the youngster was one of Many who took turns hosing them selves Down As the temperature soared into the High it will be just a bit cooler with temperatures expected to reach a High of 23 with a mix of Sun and Jeff de body Winnipeg free press double killer seeks Early prison release hearing to determine i Bleich eligible under faint Hope clause by Mike Mclntyre Canada deeply Pallister says by Paul Samyn Ottawa after three months taking Stock of regional Manitoba my Brian Pallister has diagnosed the coun try As deeply As regional equity critic for the Cana Dian Pallister has concluded that the two solitudes Model of Canada has been rendered obsolete by a growing sense of alienation in the West and Atlantic the growth of regional discontent is a Pallister Portage Lisgar said in a recent there May be As Many As four or five solitudes in this who met with a number of provincial research and Busi Ness blamed the Chretien government for fostering alienation from coast to veterans affairs minister Ron Duhamel denied the government is adding to the country the government has no intention of being unfair to various said Manitoba Lead Federal who is also Secretary of state of Western eco nomic Duhamel said governing a country As Large As Canada can at times be we try to do it and for the most part we get it Duhamel said he is prepared to look at pal listers report and its recommend among the reports findings Are i there is a general feeling that the West Ern provinces Are net losers in inter provincial i it is widely Felt the Federal govern ment has abandoned Farmers in their time of greatest need while at the same time offering huge subsidies to other i there is a Strong sense the Federal government exploits the economic weak Nesses of the Atlantic Region for political purposes but does Little to improve the i there is deep mistrust of the Federal government in Many native communities based on the governments insistence on dealing Only with chiefs and band 0 a convicted double murderer begins an Uphill Legal climb in a Winnipeg court today when he seeks Early release from prison under the so called faint Hope Frederick Roy will have to persuade a jury that he is no longer a threat to despite committing two separate coldblooded killings in the late the Case is one of Only a handful Ever to be heard in the monthlong hearing will probe All aspects of Bleich both before and after through a series of witnesses called to give if jurors conclude that Bleich is a candidate for Early his Case would go to the National parole Board for the final under the rarely used but controversial clause of the criminal people serving life sentences with no parole for 25 years May apply for Early consideration after Only 15 Bleich has served just More than 18 years for his most recent murder con for strangling a Thompson Miner and dumping his body in a Frozen Jerome John was killed in but Bleich want charged for Sev eral police never found the Vic Tims body and suspect it May have been eaten by bears and attacked victim a jury convicted Bleich of first degree murder in May 1983 after hearing that Bleich attacked the victim while trying to Rob him of his car Bleich had planned to take the mans vehicle to the United but strangled Plett when he awoke in his Dormi tory room at the Inco housing with help from a second wrapped pletts body in blankets and Dis posed of it just outside of he was Given the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no Chance of parole for 25 at the time of his Bleich was already five years into his initial life sentence for first degree murder in december 1978 for killing his former Joseph George during a botched robbery attempt at his Winnipeg a jury heard How Bleich went to the 73yearold mans Nassau Street Home planning to steal Worth of family including silverware and testified against a co accused pleaded guilty to second degree then testified against he said Bleich Felt the senior owed him Money for work he had done the previous Bleich lured Redmond into a storage trunk in the Home by threatening to harm his Cocker Spaniel if he didst com once Redmond was Bleich closed the trunk and left it in the mans Redmond Bleich told court he allowed the Vic Tim to suffocate because he thought it was More humane than his 1983 life sentence was concurrent to the 1978 conviction but essentially reset Bleich parole meaning he be considered for release until recent changes to the faint Hope clause prohibit multiple killers from but Bleich is eligible because his Legal paperwork was filed before the the hearing is expected to last until july d archivists putting colourful Manitoba history online by Nick Martin Manitoba archives will Start going online within a month part of a million National project to make Cana Das documented history the most accessible of our heritage the Canadian archival information funded by governments and has set out to offer online descriptions of archival collections across the it should contain descriptions of files when it boots up next within two but despite that vast amount of historical Canadas archivists Are struggling to maintain a tiny fraction of the stories of Canadas history Only one to two per cent of government Doc for Are archived on paltry archival budgets Are said Tom the University of Manito Bas associate Dean of Manitoba spends Only million a year on its provincial and on third of that covers this is just laugh said who teaches in u of is masters program in archival stud members of the association of Cana Dian archivists held their annual con Ference in Winnipeg and met with the free press late last Nesmith said theres a myth that archivists try to keep the dust off old documents read Only by a handful of the scholarly he made the Point that archives play a Central role in deciding what has a place in our history with out governments cannot be held accountable for their actions Over the Long its the Basic record of who we Are As a said Ian Canadas National there Are 800 archives across Cana some extremely oth ers Little More than a filing Cabinet in a Back they maintain Canadas Wilson someday they May be needed to prove Canadian sovereignty in the arc there used right now in residential schools half our use is prob ably by people interested in their Nesmith said legislation now being considered in Manitoba would impose heavy fines for anyone destroying pub Lic records without author and archivist Laura Millar cautioned against expecting too much of on line in this Star trek people think it can All be available at the push of a online archives will instead largely contain descriptions of what is available in traditional not the material itself As transferring material is an enor Mous one photograph takes about an hour to prepare for for text takes at that it would take about 71 years for one per son to Transfer the entire visual collection from the Hudson Bay company to a web Millar As University of British Colum Bia professor Luciana Duranti cautioned that online records become obsolete every five years and need to be transferred to updated with the ability to alter computer authenticity becomes a major she 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