Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tuesday a gust 29, 2006 b1 thinking big Small firms Emu late bigger competitors to improve City business customer service. City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 i i family notices c7 business b4 incoming there a flak in my inbox i usually Check my email from Home on the weekend. Not last weekend. Sensing the reaction to saturdays column on the hidden meaning of the support our troops yellow ribbon bumper stickers i treated my Home like a Bunker. After All one does to write that sup port our troops is really code for support the War without expecting a barrage of but yesterday i had to face the flak. And flak there was. I spent hours Reading and replying to emails. Actually the volume of letters and some of the tone surprised me. There was one from a foul mouthed critic who called me a left Wing nazi. Very thought provoking. Then there was this stinger from the father of a serving member congratulations Gordon. You have insulted All of those military families who have a loved one serving overseas. You just Don to get it. The yellow ribbon provides a very Small expression of Hope for their Safe of i got it. And yesterday i kept getting it. Another Reader made a common mis take. He confused my implied criticism of the american govern ment As a criticism of America and Ameri cans. But what i found most fascinating ? once the message got beyond the How dare you ? was How balanced some of the letters were and How Many of those who responded made sure to mention my yellow that they were not in favour of the War. Ribbon is not a one from a woman secret code to who signed herself support the Becky opened by alluding to her fear to me it that Canadian troops Means ? our will be treated the Way returning american citizens Are soldiers were after the dying Over Vietnam War. There and for my husband is in Afghanistan Becky what continued and do you think it was at All his Choice to go do you think he wants to be in a place con stantly being shot at instead of at Home no when you see my support our troops Magnet on my car or the one hanging in my living room window i want people to think about the troops Over there. It Means support them Pray for them to come Home Safe. It does not mean at All support the t Hen there was this one my Yel Low ribbon is not a secret code to support the to me it Means ? our citizens Are dying Over there and for what maybe if we think about them Well do something about it what really surprised me though was there were readers who took the time to write and say they agreed with me. Some even did it with a sense of Humour. Excellent column wrote one. I a sure you la get a lot of flak so Wear your Vest. What the free press does tissue them obviously he wryly concluded its not just our troops who Are under equipped. pet detectives save Day owner friends sniff out alleged thief after dogs lifted in snatch and grab Elijah Harper big part of movie shooting has begun at the legislature by Randall King and Martin Cash the Manitoba politician whose sym Bolic raising of an Eagle Feather derailed the Meech Lake Accord is being immortalized on the Small screen. Shooting started yesterday at the Manitoba legislative building on the ctr movie Elijah the Story of aboriginal politician Elijah Harper. Harper was the first treaty Indian to be elected to the Manitoba legislature and his raising of an Eagle Feather to vote against the Meech Lake Accord in 1990 gave him infamous status in one of Canadas most controversial constitutional debates. His vote ultimately led to the accords demise. His colourful career included a stint in the Manitoba Cabinet under former nip Premier Howard Pawley and As a Liberal my for Churchill. Harper was briefly removed from Pawley a Cabinet in 1987 after Harper left the scene of a car Accident. Billy Merasty a Brochet actor who appeared in the Robin Williams comedy the big White will handle the bulk of the Harper role. Hell play opposite Canadian actors Maury Chakin As provincial nip Leader Howard Pawley and Currie Gra Ham As Gary Filmon. However Harper will be a big part of the production according to Eagle vision producer Lisa leeches include by Jen Skerritt t free local pet detectives have solved the bold heist of two adorable puppies returning the Lhasa Apsis to their lawful owner. Barbara Rowson said she was stunned when a woman interested in buying two of her seven week old pups suddenly took off with the four legged fur balls on sunday. Rowson said the woman had phoned her throughout the week about Pur chasing the wee lapdogs and visited doubled As a number of other famous buildings in the past including Chica go City Hall and Westminster Abbey. Elijah commenced shooting Friday at the Palomino Plains motor inn on Pem Bina Highway and will mostly be shot in Winnipeg for the next five weeks. Some shooting has been earmarked for More Rural locations in Manitoba. Shooting is scheduled to continue at the legislature through thursday. Yesterday some scenes were shot in the foyer and the Rotunda at the leg Rowson a Home to Seal the Deal around noon. I turned around and she ran out the door into a vehicle that was waiting she said noting the woman took Pup pies Razz and Barkley. However Rowson had a clue. She remembered the woman a Home number was stored in her cellphones caller id. Rowson dialled the woman a digits and pretended to be an interested dog buyer. Continued please see Puppy heist b2 Isla Tive building featuring two Young aboriginal actors playing Harper in his earlier years. The Hamilton born Graham has appeared on episodic shows such As Sci and was in the Manitoba lenses movie Edge of madness. Also in the cast according to Industry sources Are Corner Gas cast mates Lorne Cardinal and Gabrielle Miller. . ing making a Brief appearance in the film As himself. He a very much a part of it Meech essays. He a been great. He a been Reading the script and making sure that the changes in the script Are accurate. Hell walk on set every now and again and he a been in and out of the production office and he a been working with the the legislature ? a popular movie locale for films shot in Winnipeg ? will also finally get to play itself having City Man angry at . Customs agents denied entry escorted from Airport they were married in Winnipeg on aug. 17 and were headed for Missouri to spend time in Diane a town. They hauled me off asking me Why i Only had a one Way ticket he said. They wanted me to convince them i was coming Back. I told them id buy a return ticket and showed How i had an important doctors appointment in Winnipeg in october but they Finger printed me took my picture and escorted me out of the Airport. At one Point they accused me of being an Ille Gal Browns new wife was just As incensed. As an american citizen she believes the agents stepped Over the Bounds of appropriate behaviour. Continued please see newlyweds b2 by Martin Cash a Winnipeg Ger whose family roots in the area go Back to the 1800s is furious after . Customs agents in Winnipeg accused him of being an illegal alien and denied him entry into the . For his honeymoon. Bill Brown 50, a former member of the Canadian forces whose father was a decorated bomber Pilot in the Royal Canadian air Force was escorted out of the Winnipeg International Airport aug. 19 by . Customs and Border Protection agents. Brown was about to Board a flight to St. Louis to. With his new wife Diane Brown 51, a resident of Salem to. The two met via an online Chat room two years ago fell in love and Are keen to Start their lives together ;