Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 27, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sports what a wrong with the bombers c1. Opinion View from the West b6-7 sunday june 27, 2004 founded in 1872 ? Happy mortgage rates 5 or Hawk hot Winnipeg scam Barker 5.45 chosen no. 3 Overall Mac. Rate subject to change. At the nil entry draft c1 204 925-2600 a b minister ascends to new Heights rides tallest Bike for guinness record by David Obrien a mennonite minister Rode the worlds tallest Bike for about 300 metres in a Church parking lot yesterday Guaran teeing him a spot in the guinness Book of world records. i a a Little jittery pastor Terry Goertzen said after pedalling his 5.5?metre-tall Bike before an excited crowd of More than 200 at Jubilee mennonite Church located at the Corner of Gateway and Springfield roads. after an Uncertain Start Goertzen pushed off from a Light Standard and began circling the parking lot amid loud applause and cheers returning to the same pole where he started. it was All Over in a couple of minutes but Many in the crowd looked like they had just witnessed an historic event which As it turns out they had. after climbing Down from his Bike Goertzen was swarmed by Well wish ers including strangers caught up in the carnival like atmosphere. i a just glad i did to fall he said noting stiff winds made his Short Jour Ney a Little nerve wracking. It Felt a Little wobbly up he had fallen during a training ride on Friday. He was Only slightly injured but he spent the rest of the Day fixing his Bike which he made with welding equipment his wife gave him for Christmas. Marc Gallant / Winnipeg free press piece together How the group is intercom continued nested and How some arrived in Canada. Please see guinness a2 pastor Terry Goertzen Breaks world record for tallest Bike yesterday. The cases in Winnipeg and other major final push for votes As polls show dead heat Martins whirlwind tour stops in Winnipeg tonight 2004 Federal election your vote counts inside. Selkirk Interlake Riding profile /a6. Gay voters face dilemma /b3. Samyn minority rules /b3 Tom Hanson / Canadian press Martin has some fun with Gabriel Mcgraw 8, in St. Stephen . Bush courts nato inside . President George w. Bush looks to Seal an agreement for nato to help stabilize Iraq at Summit in Turkey a11 literary Lookout Index province political uncertainty few sure things plenty of unknowns in provincial Ridings on eve of election b1 pot houses linked to asian mob Over 70 indoor marijuana crops discovered in Manitoba this year by Bruce Owen c Ity police and ramp believe the provinces explosive jump in Large scale hydroponic marijuana grow operations is connected to an asian based organized crime network that extends across the country and around the world. More than 70 Large indoor grow operations have been found in Manitoba this year a sign the group appears to be Well organized in buying and financing newer residential Homes and quickly convert ing them into Clandestine grow houses. There Are also indications some of the Low level suspects arrested at several of these grow houses were recruited in Western Europe and came to Winnipeg solely to grow pot. Winnipeg police chief Jack Swatski said the Rise in grow houses allegedly backed by asian crime is putting a Strain on police resources As they now have to catch up to identify ringleaders and How entrenched they Are in Winnipeg and other Canadian cities. The ramp a recently formed City police asian organized crime unit and immigration Canada officials Are trying to by Anne Dawson and Sean Gordon prime minister Paul Martin was in the midst of a furious Cross country tour this weekend in a final push to win votes As the 2004 Campaign neared an end. In contrast conservative Leader Stephen Harper was campaigning in More tory Friendly areas of . Yesterday As polls showed his party and the Martin led liberals in a dead heat. Martin will now travel past the crack of Dawn on election Day with visits to Nova Scotia the Ottawa area Winnipeg and British Columbia before getting to his Montreal hotel at about 7 . Tomorrow where he will cast a vote in his own Riding just hours later. Martins Winnipeg appearance is scheduled for the Winnipeg International Airport at 7 35 . Martin will bring today a final Appeal to West Ern canadians that he is serious about ending Western alienation while warning that a conservative government will undermine the coun try a Basic democratic principles. Western Canada is very important to me. We ask British columbian and Western canadians to come East All the time and i think that its important that we. Be prepared to go out there. The whole Issue of. Western alienation is some thing that i intend to Deal with Martin said yesterday. Harper has a Light campaigning schedule planned compared to the frenzied Pace being kept by Martin. This is just panic when you Start pulling up your travel schedule and flying All Over the coun try he said when asked Why he a spending the last crucial Days preaching to the converted at scripted rallies. Continued please see election a2 Andris task ans founding Edi Canada / world a9,11,12 diversions b4 Cloudy periods. Tor of Prairie fire thrives on perspective b1-3 sports c1 turning Manitoba writers into books b8 entertainment d1 Success stories d1 the View to d4 High 24 from the West b6,7 Low 10 family notices a10 the weather / a12 classified d6 a5,6,8 comics c11 sunny with Canadian cities also raise questions about Canadas efforts to tighten immigration controls since the terrorist attacks in the United states on sept. 11, 2001. To Date More than a dozen people ? All claim to have a vietnamese Back ground ? have been arrested by ramp and City police in connection with the spread of these sophisticated marijuana grow operations. Nam Vul spokesman for the City a vietnamese Community ? about 7,000 people ? stressed the alleged behaviour of a few is not representative of the entire Community. He also said the suspects do not have any Contact with the local Community. Police have said they want to prose cute the accused on charges of involve ment in a criminal Enterprise but to do that the Crown must demonstrate How each is related to the other. The same charge was being used to prosecute five alleged Hells Angels associates in Winnipeg. Police have said that taken together the marijuana they have seized is Worth millions on the Street. They also believe it is being grown not for local con Sumers but to be smuggled into the Northern United states. Continued please see pot houses a4 on june 28th elect Glen Murray Glen Murray. Charleswood St. James authorized by the Charleswood ? St. James agent for Glen Murray i will get to improve healthcare childcare and to a our ;