Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 13, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tuesday july 13, 2004 City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 family notices b8 City & District b1 Mosquito War on again fogging trucks get go ahead As West Nile virus carriers show up because of artificially Low overnight the province is looking at relaxing irritation of by Helen falling counts caused by rain. The strict rules to allow the City to Many City by not finishing the Job they be resume fogging programs that Are residents. M Mosquito fogging trucks wasted most of the fogging they did in interrupted As they were last week. In residents in were scheduled to hit win the other part of the City North Kildo those cases the province would allow Nipes streets again last night Nan resident Rollie Binner said As he fogging when counts in Mosquito traps for the first time in a week As the mos waited for his neighbourhood to be Are Over 25 for Only one night. That Way quinoes that carry West Nile virus Start fogged last night. Fogging can be completed when the City showing up in City traps. A pesticide use permit from the is in the Middle of a program said Julie the chemical malathion will be used province requires counts in Mosquito Scarpino the City a spokeswoman for to Knock Down Mosquito populations traps to be Over 25 three nights in a Row. The Mosquito program. Drawn into traps by Light bulbs at night. Which have bounced Back to an aver the City is currently awaiting word last week two High counts were Fol age of 135 per trap citywide since the that Manitoba conservation will Bend Lowed by a Low count attributed to rain continued City was forced to halt the program those rules. ? and fogging stayed on hold to the please see Mosquito b2 by Lindsey Wiebe Snow White is a Little lonely these Days. The statue that brought a touch of magic to Trudy and Dennis Richardson a backyard has been relegated to the garage after the couples treasured seven Dwarf statues were stolen Over the weekend. Four of the 10-Inch Ceramic statues were taken from the Richardson a Windsor Avenue Yard Friday night. The remaining three were left stacked up As if the thief had been interrupted said Dennis. When the couple noticed four were missing they moved the remaining three closer to their Patio and hid them among Flowers. But even that want enough to keep the 30-year-old statues Safe and the last three were taken saturday night. There a just no Way they can be replaced said Trudy. They were cute they were different and i think we re More furious that someone would have the audacity to come Back into our Yard and take them a second time to Dennis the statues were More than just Lawn Orna ments ? they were one of the few items he kept in remembrance of his first wife who died 10 years ago. You can to even a put a value on them because they re handcrafted hand painted he said. That a the Only thing we really kept of his first wife said Trudy. The rest it did to matter but that was the Richardson Arent sure Why a thief would take All seven Darves but leave behind Snow White an important member of the storybook family. I Don to think they realized that the set is useless without her said Trudy. To them they were just Yard the theft has been reported to the police but in the meantime Dennis said he in to taking any chances. I be got Snow White locked up in the garage he said. She a very lonesome at the ill keep moving her so that nobody gets her said Trudy. She a going to be babied.?. by Mike Mcintyre a convicted murderer accused of play ing a major role in recent violence at Stony Mountain Penitentiary is asking the courts to Stop his Transfer to another prison outside Manitoba. Brian Thomas Xavier Leblanc 33, claims he is being unlawfully detained in administrative segregation at the medium Security Federal prison just North of Winnipeg according to court documents obtained yesterday by the free press. His motion ? which will be on thurs Days court of Queens Bench docket ? demands Stony return him to the general population immediately. Leblanc who has been serving a life sentence since 1991 for the first degree contract killing of an Ottawa Man was one of More than a dozen rival gang Mem Bers targeted for blame by Stony officials in the aftermath of bloody violence two weeks ago. Continued please see killer b2 ;