Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba b2 Winnipeg free press tuesday August 1, 2006 City Sinclair continued from Page b1 511 hotline to give canadians weather info o Ottawa ? after 911 for emergencies and 411 for directory assistance canadians could soon have the three digit 511 hotline to give them local weather or travel information at their fingertips. Environment Canada is hoping to have the toll free system up and run Ning by 2007 so canadians will no longer have to Fumble around to find complicated numbers for weather traffic or travel hotlines. Obviously this will be much easier from the user Point of View to dial one three digit number and then get Access to what we Hope is a whole wealth of information regarding weather and traveller information said Tony Chir a project manager at environment Canada. So instead of having to remember Many different numbers a person will have to remember one number officials originally planned to turn More than we were open. We had 16 in once bumper crop Hopes shrivel with dry the 511 service into a user pays hot August alone ? it was one of those the Lack of rain. Line when it applied to the crts for continued from Page b1 years. This has been a great summer this dry weather has affected our authorization in january 2005. But for swimming and kids Are out having yields significantly. We had a perfect following some debate inside the Cartman said the last time he has Start in the Spring and perfect Germi department they decided to modify seen numbers this great was the sum the City a municipal Golf courses Are nation in our crops but then in june i their request in april 2006 to make Mer of 2003, before the last two wet also teeing up a lot More golfers than stopped it a toll free service that was Summers. Last year. Overall course numbers Are Doug Ross of the Assiniboine Par approved by the crts last week what helps too is there a a lot of up by 24 per cent from last year with zoo said zoo staff Haven to done that Chir added. Humidity and when its humid and hot Crescent drives numbers leading the much different this summer except although there have been no Esti that a when you pack the people Way with a 58.1 per cent jump followed make sure the animals have a read mates on the Cost of implementing its not just water slides that Are Cool by Windsor Parks 25.2 per cent. Kildo Supply of drinking water. The new service Chir said Environ ing off Winni Eggers. Nan Park is seeing 5.8 per cent More Ross said both the zoos Polar Beament Canada officials Are anticipate Carol Cox the City a aquatics admin golfers than last year. And grizzly bears have a fire Hose put ining a significant increase in the 33 Istratov said while they Don to have the but the biggest losers for weeks with the Spray Mode to Cool the surround million Calls per year that now go into numbers yet they know the Public Are no rain Are Many of the provinces ing air during the warmest part of the their existing weather information flooding into swimming pools. Farmers. Day. Hotlines across the country. We Haven to had a closure Day yet Doug Chorney who farms in East Cox said. Selkirk said he has been watching his. ? can West news service last year it seemed we were closed in St. Vital two planters in full Bloom vanished overnight from in front of cutting Loose hair design in St. Vital. In Linden Woods Rose Sawatzky had a hanging Basket and a potted Plant swiped from her front porch. What really disturbed Rose was the brazenness of the burglary and How Practised the thieves must have been. There was no sign of a struggle Rose wrote Ever so whimsically. Not even a Petal to dust for prints. Then she reported her brother just had his shrubs dug up in front of his business on St. James Street. And for the past three weeks out in West Kildonan Jeff Smiths immaculately cared for front Yard has been the target of marauding Garden thieves who have been cart ing off ornamental Cedars that sell for from $125 to $200 each. By now you re probably wondering what kind of person steals shrubs and hanging baskets and planters full of Flowers that a the even More disturbing part. If the troll with the trowel is any indication at least some of the people Are doing this Are probably other Wise honest Law abiding citizen who would be outraged if someone broke into her House or stole her getaway car. Or think of it this Way. Its one thing for Winnipeg to be known As the nations capital of stolen vehicles but now people who should know better Are out there stealing other Peoples Flowers. Winnipeg the City where they even steal Beauty. How ugly is that. movies prime time to ;