Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba June 2001 in Peg free press 18007286440 readers invited to design a better Banner it Here we bombers newcomers get Chance to Shine in Montreal tonight c1 the mix of Sun and Light High 23 12 t garbage Day 1 school Day 2 inside riddles Rock tonight shrill screams will fill Winnipeg Arena tonight As four Canadian boy bands play for preteen audiences of family outraged relatives of a slain teen Are furious with the just Cesys tem after their attempt to Tell the court about their loss and grief thwarted yesterday net control lacking a new Federal Survey pro Vides More evidence that Many children Are wandering the internet without Neces sary supervision a11 mom charged a 36yearold Texas woman has been charged with Multi ple counts of capital murder in the drowning deaths of her five Young children 11 pot seller justified a Calgary jury decided last night that a medical marijuana crusader was right to break the Law and sell pot to the chronically ill 12 Sweet music after three Money losing the Winnipeg symphony orchestra has finally Bro Ken even 03 i business downtown Magnet the jazz Winnipeg festival and the Winnipeg fringe have probably done More to attract people to the cites Exchange District than any tax incentive could 17 6iu5 going downtown i Council approves Eaton s demolition i new Provencher Bridge gets of by David Obrien City Council set the stage yester Day for a series of major developments that will see roughly million spent in downtown Winnipeg Over the next few years and Lead to thousands of new jobs for trades people and Council voted to move ahead with plans to tear Down Eaton and build a entertainment and Arena Complex approved a con tract to begin work this fall on a new Provencher Bridge and endorsed an economic incentive package that will see can West global communications spend million on a new Call Centre and create up to new jobs with a payroll of the decisions do not include several other yet Tobe announced including a pedestrian Bridge Over the red a water front relocation of Pioneer Boule Vard to allow for expansion of can West global and million to expand the Centennial that on top of a series of recent Pri vate initiatives that have seen heritage buildings converted to loft style Condo new nightclubs and restau and new retailers making plans to open the magnitude of investment and jobs about to pour into Winnipeg was some what lost on councillors embroiled in a lengthy and often emotional debate about whether Eaton should be declared a heritage cont mud please see downtown a2 new sex ride a two screamer reporter free Falls from 25 metres she Falls through the with the greatest of testing the millennium Leong finds the new sex ride takes fear to an photos in Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press by Melissa Leong Ever wonder what it feels like to have your stomach lodged in your Throat that feeling comes Courtesy of a new ride at the red River called the millennium it lets you free fall from 40 metres in the air into a Blue the Cost to a the celebrating its 50th opens a custom made Crane took me Upin a Cage of the i knotted my arms around the bars of the Cage and tried to locate my House from up just i would have renounced my Favourite Midway including Cotton to have my feet firmly on the there was Only one Way to the ground and there we rent any i told myself i was a Tough cookie and i prayed not to toss any of my i was tied up in a special harness to make sure i fell straight and didst land on my head taking almost a fetal position facing the worst of i had worn a skirt to work and it was bunched around my legs thanks to the i was convinced it would Fly Over my head just As a free press photographer captured the after i was lowered just under the floor of the the ride operator counted to five As i decided that i had changed my for the seconds i i was too Busy screaming to see my life Flash before my i took a breath and screamed again before i hit the its a 25metre drop from the floor of the Cage to the the net is sus Pended 12 to 15 metres from the its the Only ride in the world that lets you drop completely unit Yves ride operator and informed suspended catch air device or Scad diving is the official name for the ride that was invented four years ago in continued please see fall a2 hard realities Cloud aboriginal Day Ottawa in the decade since Mohawk barricades at Oka refocused the country Atten Tion on aboriginal the Federal government has pumped More than billion into first yet despite these including the most expensive Royal commission in the country there is still plenty to Dampen today National aboriginal Day from Pikangikum suicide crisis in North Western Ontario to the Battle Over fishing rights in Burnt suffering and fru Stra special report Tion there is increasing bad blood Between the country aboriginal leaders and Indian affairs minister Bob financial problems rage in band offices from coast to prompting Federal intervention in 182 of Canadas 612 in a new report from the Canad an Centre for policy alternatives Capa shows aboriginal people Are becoming More dependent on Federal the situation has so frustrated native activists such As Leona they Are boy Cotting the Sunrise ceremonies and powwows which Mark National aboriginal Day Cerebra continued please see aboriginal Day a4 Reserve May lose doctor As on the iu4 born ;