Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 09, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday april 9, 2005 2.85% daily savings City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 1-877 958-7333 business b10 City & District b1 school Brawl injures 4 Hurt after machetes bats wielded at Windsor Park collegiate Gordon Sinclair or. Passport Canada passes test t his is not a test this is not a test. Tuesday was passport Day in Canada at least it was when it came to news. On the same Day that Washington announced that As of the end of 2007, canadians will require passports to enter the United states by Road Audi Tor general Sheila Fraser reported that passport Canada has shoddy Secu Rity controls. For instance checks with some guarantors she suggested were not always made monitored or recorded. So it was that ? purely by Chance ? i happened to be applying for a new passport on the Day All that passport news was breaking. The whole process was relatively painless except for the Cost. The pass port was $87 ? plus a $30 Rush fee because i wanted it within three Days ? and the passport photos were $13.67. I supplied a birth certificate two references and a guarantor. Well As it turned out ? again purely by Chance ? i was having lunch that same Day with lawyer Ian Restall who graciously agreed to be my guarantor. Why am i telling you All this Well the next Day ? wednesday ? a surprised Restall called me at the office. The passport office actually phoned him to Check. Restall was surprised because he a signed oodles of passport applications and ? As Sheila Fraser suggested ? passport Canada rarely actually Calls to Check on guarantors. Maybe one time in 100,? in Restall a experience. So be assured Madame auditor general. Passport Canada is vigilantly doing its in Winnipeg. Either that or someone saw journalist on my application ? heard the news from Washington and Ottawa ? and thought my passport application was a test they weren to going to fail. It want. And they did to. Listen up. Old time radio is Mak ing a comeback on an old time Favourite station. Next month is the 60th anniversary of be Day and a Bunch of local radio old timers have decided to carry on where radio Ckon left off after its commercialized format Char 100.7, was bought by Breeze 100.7. They be created another two weeks Worth of mostly music radio from the second world War. It will run in the old sky 580 am spot from May 1 through 14, 7 . Till 10 . Daily. Roger Currie and Lesley Hughes Are being reunited in the morning Slot they once occupied at the Csc. Of just for the record the stations Call letters will be cml. Come Jour Ney Down memory Lane. The last word. Further to the column about the Middle aged Man and his son who have made a business out of standing at Busy intersections with signs that read unemployed. Would rather beg than go hungry. ? there is another report of the older Man who once worked building houses turning Down an offer of work. It seems to be that beggar & son owe the kind hearted Public an apology if not a refund. I beg your Pardon seems a propos. by Kevin Rollason f our students were taken to hos Pital after a Brawl broke out involving machetes and Metal baseball bats outside Windsor Park collegiate yesterday. Winnipeg police spokesman sgt. Kelly Dennison said the four youths were in stable condition. Two of the victims were taken to hos Pital by ambulance he said. Dennison said he did to have details of any of their injuries and he had Only sketchy information about the incident itself because police Are still investigating and interviewing witnesses. A father of one of the victims taken to Hospital said he was shocked to hear his son had been injured in what appears to be a random incident. I a actually quite horrified at this attack the boys father said. It came very close to being very very serious. We re just not sure of All the details right Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press Martha Epstein collects mementos at site. Crews demolish historic school a historic school came Down in the West end this week despite bids to save it by the Community. Somerset school also known As Sacre Coeur no. 2, on Sherbrook Street was taken off the heritage list by councillors last year so it could be bulldozed in favour of new office buildings. The schools new owner was expected to be a pharmaceutical company which councillors said fits in with the concept of turning the area into a Bio med zone. The three Storey school the second oldest in the City was built in 1901, to service the growing residential area and a Large icelandic population. It Fea tured two Interior halves divided by a Central corridor and a four Storey Central Tower. The school was named for . Somerset the provinces superintendent of education for protestant schools. The building had to been used As a school for two decades. The West Central women a resource Centre had unsuccessfully argued that the school should be turned into a women a housing Coop and transition Centre. About 50 people signed a petition. Dennison said police responded to a Call about a Brawl involving a Large num Ber of students outside the High school on Cottonwood Road at about 11 30 . It was the third time students at a High school in or near Winnipeg have been involved in a violent incident in recent weeks. On March 18, the principal and a teachers assistant from lord Selkirk regional comprehensive secondary school were injured trying to break up a Brawl involving five youths. On feb. 11, 16 students at West Kildo Nan collegiate were injured when they were sprayed with Bear repellent. Teenage witnesses to the Windsor Park incident All of whom asked not to be identified said the incident began when a couple of cars pulled up in front of the High school and a student ran across and began jumping on the Hood of one of the cars. Continued please see Brawl b2 Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press demolition Crews this week brought Down the former Somerset school on Sherbrook Street. City gets ready for Battle with mosquitoes new Bug Boss eyes Environ Friendly tactic by Patti Edgar Landing in Winnipeg after a Vancou ver conference on mosquitoes earlier this week the City a new Bug Boss got an Aerial View of the ahead of him. Flying in the glistening off the ground was something to see said Taz Stuart. It should make for an interest ing Winnipeg got a metre of Snow Over the Winter and almost half of that was still on the ground before a rapid melt began two weeks ago. That Means pools of warm still water so City insect experts were in Northeast Winnipeg yesterday Hunting for larvae. Although a few adult mosquitoes have emerged from Winter hibernation ready to mate Crews Haven to yet found any Lar vae ? wingless juvenile mosquitoes ? when they dip plastic cups into the water. If the High temperatures hold out win nip Eggers would Start noticing mosquitoes and their larvae earlier than usual Stuart said. But he doubts the warm spell will stick. Continued please see mosquitoes b2 Winnipeg insect control employee Gary Swarbrick checks Snow melt for Mosquito larvae at an Industrial Park in St. Boniface yesterday. Ryan Pfeiffer / Winnipeg free press ;