Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus Vinn Pixi Jinp 2001 politicians can grasp Speed Saskatoon in a nine year old boy was hit by a car and killed while crossing a Busy Street on his Way to he want crossing at the and police determined the car that struck him was going below the 50 Speed residents on that Street say it was Only a matter of time before such an Accident they Point to the High volume of traffic on the due in part to the two High schools and one elementary school located on this stretch of they say Drivers do not always observe the Speed nor Are they particularly vigilant about Young pedestrians on their Way to the Community quickly mobilized its concern into Public marches and demonstrations were held in remembrance of the boy who was a Public meeting brought together citizens to discuss the Best Way to push for 500 names residents gathered More than 500 names on a petition calling for Mea sures to slow traffic along the stretch of Road that concerned them the first petition was presented to Council last one City councillor told the petitioners Hes taken More Calls on reduced Speed zones around schools than on the cites implementation of a new tax assessment plan earlier this while most councillors were inclined to support the immediate implementation of Speed zones around schools and some also thought it use Ful to take time to study the Issue to find the safest suggesting a 40 Speed limit for the entire Council did decide to study the matter rather than simply implement reduced Speed the report is expected to be Back in a it want the answer the Community petitioners wanted to however it didst weaken their another petition is now circulating asking Council for traffic slowing devices such As Stop signs and and school and playground Speed limit de zones for the entire the Campaign for a new intercity is achieving less Suc Cess with the Urban renewal City where i is one of the cites oldest residential Neighbour it Borders the and Many people who live in our area work and shop so from the begin the Issue of returning an Elemen tary school to the Community has been one that involves Urban renewal As much As it involves seven years the Public school Board closed the neighbourhood elementary school because of declining there were still at least 200 preschool children in the neighbourhood enough to support a once a school is it almost never people move and it becomes difficult to attract Young City Park District is still attracting Young the numbers of preschool children Are virtually the same As 10 years ago when we had a but once children reach school families to Stop this continual and strengthen the neighbourhood so that in can help strengthen the downtown members of the City Park Community association brought Forward a plan to return an elementary school program to the one possible location of this pro Gram is in a Public collegiate now being used for an alternative work education High school to find out if this is and if parents want a school the Community association proposed a study that would have included support from the school the City and the comm Speed limits after asking the school Board for the association also went to Council asking for Money for the if the collegiate were to be renovated for an elementary it might also be possible to add much needed civic meeting Council quickly rejected the idea of being part of the most Council lors Felt that committing Money to the study would commit the City to funding the school supports the trustees have said there impressed with a proposal that asks to use an existing the was More impressed with the Campaign for reduced traffic More voters Are calling about and lower Speed limits Cost the Council Bush to come face to face with More Independent Europe president George Rush begins his first trip to Europe an president today in then flies to Brussels tomorrow to meet nato he Heads to on thurs Day for talks with european Union he will speak on Pean ties Friday in Warsaw and hold his first Summit with russian president Vladimir Putin on saturday in Ljubo by Jonathan Power the visit to Europe of this apparently most ignorant of contemporary american presi dents will show whether George Bush has inherited sufficient com Mon sense to dig himself out of the Hole he dug for himself in his first 100 Days or whether he will ignore the first Law of holes when you Are in Stop Bush is discovering in William Pfaffs telling Europe is not a use Dup Pfaff wrote for 400 european civilization has dominated the world for better or it is convenient and flatter ing for americans to assume that this is All Over but it is very rash to do there have been All number of Good reasons for the to regard Europe As washed not just the two world shattering wars of the last not going the political corruption that led to the founding of the in the first nor the ending of the great empires of France and nor the economic sclerosis and eur pessimism of the 1970s and Early but the inability of the contemporary europeans to pull together when up against the sin Gle mindedness and determination of at that has come to an this Europe is a Europe that has not been so confident since the rout of Napoleon and the concert of it now through the european the institutional strength to weather the kind of eco nomic and political upheavals that so unexpectedly destroyed its Tranquillity in 1914 and that took the Best part of 40 years to put with the development of the euro currency hard on its the european defence initiative and with Tony Kenneth Lambert associated press Waves after finishing remarks on global warming at the White House Blair reelected in both will now get a powerful shot in the Europe has discovered a new Confidence and sense of one that was already Well under Way once Mikhail Gorbachev made it Clear the cold War was Over and that Russia saw its future Home in Europe clearly the new Bush administration has been taken Aback by the strength of european resistance to its first efforts at having thrown Down the Gauntlet on a Range of issues from global warming to mis Sile it now has shown indications that it has stopped digging fridays statement by George Bush was a remarkable Volt Eface Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we be locked into a cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other in my that that that As a Candi Bush had Given hints that he believed that Sharp reductions in nuclear armaments which Bill Clin ton never seriously addressed were a corollary of missile he never spelt it neither did he when he made his big pitch for missile defence last one could say he still nevertheless this state ment of last if it has any meaning at is saying in effect that the no longer needs to maintain nuclear deterrence with in which yes the Anibal Listic missile treaty is redundant and missile if still regarded As can be done As a collective Enterprise with Europe and the administrations announcement that it is going to renew negotiations with North Korea is another somersault of great signify the Clinton administrations patient foot slogging negotiations with the stalinist regime paid not Only did it win a freeze on nuclear weapons it made some Progress on persuading Pyongyang to slow Down its sales of rockets abroad most important of it helped break Down the ice Wall that divided it from South now it is possible once again to think of seeing presi Dent Kim Dae jungs Sunshine policy taking another step with Kim ii Sung making a state visit to the South and even some further Steps Forward on developing More transparency in its rocket program and nuclear one can now conceive As the Clinton administration began of a More Normal relationship in which antimissile defences aimed against North Korea would be of would beg the difficult ques Tion Are they being developed just to contain which is something the indians would like and some a in Taiwan and but which makes no sense to the rest of the the Are going to keep pushing hard on these issues All at the the new policies of the Bush administration Are at Best at worst con Secretary of state Colin Powell appears to be conducting a nuanced foreign policy that allows Bridges to be built with Secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld appears still intent on constructing a As if the Berlin Wall had never come Down and if China had never parted company from Mao Tseung and his concept of permanent Bush will find All along the Road he travels this week a different Europe from the one his father dealt with even a different one from the Early Clinton its opposition is not going to melt away if anything it is going to become More severe and More independently minded As time goes the question that Bush is coming face to face with this week is How much of an antagonist does he want to make of Europe letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email Farmers Welcome valid reviews the animal factories irk Farmers May represented a limited View of current farming practices and was in Many ways inaccurate and i raise pigs to be but while in my i follow animal Wel fare Laws and codes of practice developed by researchers and the Canadian federa Tion of humane societies to ensure that pigs Are Well taken care and this Means staying current with the science of animal husbandry through our producer Spon Soring scientifically valid As the article does accurately Point the Manitoba pork Council takes research into alternate housing sys tems we commit significant funds to scientific research at a num Ber of including the Prairie Swine Centre and the univer sity of stalls were introduced to eliminate aggressive behaviour among the idea that pigs were somehow better off 500 years ago is something that most hog Farmers would seriously lets not forget that pigs exposed to harsh and we get a lot of that in this get sick and pigs ranging the Back 40 Are exposed to diseases that have been virtually eliminated by modern hous ing at one time we had to worry about trichinosis that is Why my Mother and her Mother before her cooked pork Well today pork is free of the it is leaner and healthier can be cooked to a hint of generations of Farmers can also make a Strong Case on the humane front for using farrowing these birthing crates Are designed to protect the piglets from being crushed by the obviously this is both a welfare and economic con the extra Piglet i can save and take to Market can be my profit margin for that farming is a business and a Way of if i cant earn a my Way of life Digap on my sows Are in birthing crates with piglets for 21 these piglets Are then ready for solid food and the sow is ready to be mated five Days after the Quality of our pork is of Para mount importance to our As we must be Able to assure both Domestic and International Sumers that our product is con Sumers expect no it is for this reason that Canadas pork producers launched the Canadian Quality Assur Ance Cha it is a program that encourages the adoption of Best management practices and responsible use of approved with an emphasis on food each farm is validated by cd trained vet the Manitoba pork Council is not opposed to the Winnipeg humane society farm certification any initiative that offers Farmers a new marketing Opportunity and pro Vides Consumers with an increased Choice in food selection is a Good any new system must be designed properly and not Compro Mise either food safety or animal Wel ultimately it is Consumers who will with their food what is Marcel Hacault Manitoba pork Council Winnipeg sunglasses do protect eyes i am writing you in regard to the Arti Cle dont scrimp on Eye Protection May the information in this article was incorrect and damaging to Many reputable suppliers and retailers of the company i Sun tech is one of those companies and has 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not a thin coating Carla Dangelo marketing product procurement Sun tech optics Vancouver nows the time to expand flood Way thank you Gerald flood for your column count All the costs offload defence May what you Are promoting needs to be we Are in a time of government and a prudent capital investment in a super flood Way today will almost certainly minimize the costs of the inevitable future super floods floods that May Well coincide with in my a super flood Way for Winnipeg should not take a Back seat to tax cuts and refunds As a government Rand Boehm City streets look like Pigsty a few coworkers and i took a Day trip Down to grand Forks and while driving around in their i commented to one of the girls How clean and neat their City she could not understand what i so when i got Back to i looked for lots of examples to demonstrate what i i did not have to look too All one has to do is drive Down any Street in Winnipeg and you will see what i the boulevards Are covered in which have gone to seed standing up to two feet and in the areas where the City has Cut the there has been no trimming done around Street posts or fire it is an unsightly i am embarrassed that any visitors coming to the City this year will see this totally neglected grand Forks is a City newly rebuilt after being but that does not justify our City becoming a Kardener Campbell Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Anix Ake just us feb you come it was to Prink ;