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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 11, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Nick Martin students know broadly that were facing an environmental crisis and they know vaguely that there Are solutions but they too often Lack specific knowledge Vincent Massey collegiate student Adriana Krawchenko Stawarsky said recently. So the Grade 12 world issues students at Vic organized a special seminar on alternative Energy sources and invited Sisler High school students to join them and half a dozen experts. People have a Broad knowledge but they need hard facts said Krawchenko Stawarsky. Everybody yes aware were somehow polluting the world but nobody knows where to Start agreed student Jordanna Lang. It needs to happen because theress so Many greenhouse effects and so much Carbon dioxide. Keynote speaker Shaun Loney director of Energy policy for the provinces Energy development initiative told the students that he had to pump More scientific detail into the talk that he usually presents to municipal officials. I know you understand these things better than my generation and your parents Loney said. Loney said it was students who really pushed their parents into supporting recycling programs and it will be Young people who push their elders into serious consideration of wind Power solar Energy ethanol fuel and other alternatives to Oil and Coal. Change almost always starts with folks who Are your age he said. By 2050, Manitoba ass average temperature could be four degrees warmer causing huge environmental damage unless changes Are made he warned. You can be very proud your Premier was the Only Premier in Canada to support the Federal government on the Kyoto agreement Loney said. He told the students that work is underway on building 63 wind turbines at a Cost of $ 173 million in St. Leon Man. To produce electricity cleanly. Well be looking for people to work in the wind Industry he said. We have a vast wind resource. Teacher Ken Corley said students organized the conference after discussing Energy issues in his world issues class. The eyed like to see what they can do on a daily level Corley said. Students Are not Only aware of the High Gas prices and the environmental costs of using Oil and Gas but they also see other impacts of the need to find Fossil fuel sources such As the link Between the wests appetite for Oil and the War in Iraq Corley said. They re realizing the extraction of Oil carries a human toll he said. Nick. Martin free press. My. Ca students organize seminar on alternative Energy sources by Nick Martin the Fate of the Morden collegiate mohawks goes to a controversial vote of five Western school division trustees this evening. A coalition of alumni and Community members will launch a last Appeal to the school Board tonight to Back trustee Brian Hildebrands motion to keep the name mohawks for the High schools teams. But Morden collegiate has concluded after almost a year of consultation that the name should be changed to Thunder. Morden collegiate has been the mohawks for More than 40 years. Three years ago a handful of students who argued that the name is culturally insensitive began lobbying to change the name. The collegiate is teachers and administration were solidly behind the change but Many students parents and residents demanded that the name mohawks remain. A delegation of native leaders and human rights activists went to the school 13 months ago to urge students to change the name and drop the mohawks logos. The logos depicted a screaming Man with a painted face and a dancing Man with a Tomahawk. The controversy Drew National Media attention but when the Issue went to the Western school trustees last May they instead dumped it Back in the Lap of Morden collegiate for More consultation. The logos have been dropped and the school has recommended the teams be named Thunder. Trustees have refused to say if they will support Hildebrands motion though trustee Kurt Guenther has predicted trustees to vote on keeping mohawks name t he free press questioned All eight candidates running in the april 14 election to fill St. Norbertus vacant City Council seat. Their responses will be printed two per Day until wednesday. 1. The City is facing at least a $ 16 million shortfall next year Money from the new Deal for cities has been slow in coming and there is a $ 2 billion infrastructure deficit. How would you balance the Cit yes budget next year Marcel Laurendeau i would take a very close look at the budgetary process with my colleagues. We must find Cost savings wherever possible in non essential services. I also want to work with senior Levels of government to address the huge infrastructure deficit that the City cannot afford single hand edly. Rick Lowey having participated in the financial turnaround that took the Winnipeg Blue bombers from dire financial Straits to a solid financial position i am familiar and comfortable with the tremendous Effort needed to overcome a significant deficit. It involves making Tough Well reasoned decisions and a commitment to accountability from All parties involved. We should set our goal and make the necessary adjustments through creative approaches to raise the funds to balance the Cit yes budget. 2. What kind of suburb would you like to see in Waverley West Marcel Laurendeau it is important As a City councillor to listen to the residents developers and other planning professionals As the process moves ahead. I look Forward to studying All proposals that Are submitted but i will not make an Early assessment until All options have been brought Forward. Rick Lowey i understand the preliminary planning incorporates new urbanism design and i support those ideas pedestrian Friendly streets a reduced Reliance on the automobile and an intention to Foster a greater sense of neighbourliness. My priority is to ensure this proposed development complements the existing communities of the South. The Waverley West subdivision will have affordable and higher value properties which provide the tax dollars the City needs. 3. Mayor Sam Katz says he is committed to some form of rapid transit and a task Force is now pondering options. What is your vision for the Cit yes transit system Marcel Laurendeau i look Forward to seeing the report of the task Force. I believe we must make our existing transit system As user Friendly As possible in order to increase ridership. We need to base future development on the needs of the users of our system and not those systems of other cities. Rick Lowey the system has to be reliable timely and affordable to deserve ridership. It needs to be economically self sufficient and ecologically advantageous to deserve the support of Public investment. I believe the facilities and roadways located in the St. Norbert Ward make it the Best location in the City to implement a mass transit system. Having said that the City should first improve the existing infrastructures Quality As Well As capacity to move traffic quickly. 4. What Are the challenges if any facing Community centres in St. Norbert and what would you do to address those Marcel Laurendeau the obvious challenges facing Community centres Are aging infrastructure Lack of adequate space for programs and the Challenge of recruiting new volunteers. I want to see funding allocated in such a Way to ensure that All families have easy Access to a local Centre that offers a wide Range of activities for the Community. Rick Lowey our Community centres Are integral to the recreational lives of our children. They offer social and educational opportunities for adults. These demands outstrip their financial resources. We need to stabilize Public funding Levels and develop further fundraising methods such As Community club naming rights so the terrific volunteers that operate these Community centres can achieve their programming goals. Laurendeau Lowey offer visions for City St. Norbert Ward candidates quizzed submitted photo Laurendeau submitted photo Lowey Ryan Pfeiffer / Winnipeg free press Lang left and Krawchenko Stawarsky helped organize last thursdays alternative Energy seminar. Ryan Pfeiffer / Winnipeg free press Phil Saurette manager at Power smart Energy Speaks to students. Plus freight taxes and administration Call now 661 8391 operators Are standing by wow. Vickar. Com Over 25 in Stock now 964 Regent ave. W. Brand new 2005 Blazer 2 or. 4x4 $ 17,939 00 dlr. # 9714 payments As Low As $ 349 Mth. Plus taxes by Carol Sanders a window on the world has opened in Winnipeg. A new Art exhibit at the mennonite heritage Centre gallery focuses on the lives of Ordinary people in 17 countries showing contemporary Art from their Patch of the Globe and chronicling their lives in stories and photos. All most people see is what is extraordinarily awful or romantic said Ray Dirks curator of the exhibit. The Ordinary people get lost in that. Dirks stayed with families in 17 countries to get to know the people and their Art. He lived in a mud hut with subsistence Farmers in Zambia. Hers met indigenous Wood Carvers in Taiwan who were devastated by a typhoon and Are trying to restore Pride in their aboriginal culture and heritage. I Hope through an exhibit like this. Just to get to know Normal people and How they live. The poverty War drought corruption hopelessness and spread of his and aids in Africa Are the Only images from that continent most people Ever see he said. I find Hope in the individuals and their families said Dirks who spent three years travelling and putting together the exhibit funded through donations. In Congo where the government has abandoned the people one woman is taking in aids orphans said Dirks. Local businesses with Little to spare help her out when they can he said. He wanted to show people in a Light that did not Shade them As victims. The name of the exhibit in gods image Means that All people of All races and genders Are created equal said Dirks who visited mennonite Church members from Japan to India to Cuba. The exhibit first opened at the National gallery of Zimbabwe in july 2003. After the exhibit ends in Winnipeg on june 4, it moves to Charlotte n. C. Carol. Sanders free press. My. Ca Art exhibit opens window on the world the educated Choice 84% of Winnipeg Gas University graduates read the Winnipeg free press. By Paul Samyn w Ashington d. C. Back in the Early 1980s, a Young labour Leader travelled from Manitoba to the u. S. Capital for a Senate hearing on a controversial North Dakota water diversion. At the same time a key Liberal organizer was working hard in Manitoba on the Campaign to Stop what was then known As the Garrison diversion. A Quarter Century later Gary doer and Reg Alcock Are at it again trying to beat Back a u. S. Plan to flow polluted water into Manitoba but this time from far More powerful perches. As Manitoba ass Premier the former head of the provinces government employees Union has made stopping the devils Lake diversion a personal crusade since coming to office in 1999. Doer has travelled repeatedly to the Washington and u. S. State capitals in a bid to build the political support needed to secure an International joint commission review of the outlet. The idea of taking water from the Missouri water system and unilaterally shifting it to Canada was wrong doer recalls of his stance against Garrison. So the request came in and i was with a Bunch of volunteers who went Down to Washington. As Treasury Board president Reg Alcock is Manitoba ass Federal Point Man on devils Lake helping ensure it was on prime minister Paul Martins radar screen when he met with u. S. President George w. Bush and lending his considerable weight to a crucial two Day political Blitz Here this week in Hopes of getting the americans to refer the dispute to the inc. What is interesting is How this Issue keeps coming Back Alcock Winnipeg South said of the intersection involving North Dakota water himself and doer his former classmate at St. Paulus High school. The Garrison diversion was a massive irrigation flooding control proposal which would have involved moving water from the Missouri Basin across the Continental Divide and then flowing it into devils Lake and then through an outlet ultimately into Manitoba through the red River. The current devils Lake project which is just 90 Days from completion is in effect a Cousin of Garrison. The North Dakota government has already spent about $ 25 million on the outlet which will flow 100 cubic feet of water per second from devils Lake first into the Sheyenne River which runs into the red River which runs into Lake Winnipeg. Devils Lake has no natural outlet and completion of the project to alleviate chronic flooding causing hundreds of millions of dollars damage to surrounding properties and infrastructure has Long been a top state priority. However environment Canada says the potential chemical and Pathogen threats that water from devils Lake pose could irreparably harm the multimillion Dollar fishery in Lake Winnipeg. When they were last mounting a water fight with North Dakota doer and Alcock were both working independently of each other. But in this round the provincial new Democrat and Federal Liberal Are All part of team Manitoba which is hoping to score another win for the provinces water when u. S. Secretary of state con Delpezza Rice delivers her verdict on Canadas inc request within the next few weeks. Paul. Samyn free press. My. Ca doer Alcock crusaders again politicians United in 1980s and today against North Dakota water diversion plans the idea of taking water from the Missouri water system and unilaterally shifting it to Canada was wrong Premier Gary doer by Nick Martin provincial flood forecasters Are keeping a wary Eye on a huge snowstorm thatus blasting Colorado. It could bring rain to Western Manitoba and dump even More water into the Assiniboine River Alf Warkentin senior River forecaster with the provincial water Branch said yesterday. Its a Little bit of a dangerous weather situation Warkentin said. Were on the warm Side of that system. That Snow Isnit coming Here thatus almost certain. Its not a classical Colorado Low. It looks like most of the rain is in Western Manitoba. If its 30 Millimetres wed be looking at rises on All the main tributaries. If the rain ends up being a lot heavier that could be a different Story. Warkentin expected that there could be flooding Between Miniota and Brandon for up to two More weeks. The Assiniboine Between Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg has been falling but it will Rise again he said. Elsewhere Warkentin said the red River crested in Winnipeg on saturday and River Levels fell half a foot yesterday Between St. Adolphe and Winnipeg. In the City Levels should be close to 18 feet All week. Had the red River flood Way not been used the red would be at 24 feet and close to the top of primary Dykes within Winnipeg he said. Nick. Martin free press. My. Ca flood watchers keep an Eye on Colorado storm Alcock doer strength in numbers the Winnipeg free press is read by 48% of Winnipeg adults every weekday. Thatus # 1 in Canada among major newspapers. Ryan Pfeiffer / Winnipeg free press a Ceramic sculpture by Annelies Boomers of the Netherlands is among exhibit artwork. Ryan Pfeiffer / Winnipeg free press Dirks displays woodcarving from Taiwan. T heres an easier Way to save. Choose any its to service and any its Del internet service and youll save $ 10 every month off your Bill. And theress no equipment to buy. 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