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No charges were laid. Story, concert reviewC1 Province may cut charities' take from casinos JIM FARRELL Journal Staff Writer Edmonton Ten-year-old Aly Virani knew something awful was happening when the cows started to fly. "Until then, I thought it was just a big windstorm," Virani says of the scene he glimpsed July 31, 1987 through the back window of his parents' Mill Woods home. July 31 is the 10th anniversary of the Edmonton tornado, one of the worst disasters in Canadian history. Today in Insight, The Journal reprints some of our best photos of the twister and its aftermath, including an aerial shot of its swath of destruction.

We also bring you a fresh description of 70 minutes of terror and a summary of the damage. InsightFf "A tornado had picked up some of the animals from a field behind i our house and was carrying them An exhibit to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Edmonton tornado will open today at city hall. "Exhibition of Legacies" will be available for viewing from noon to 5 p.m. with the official ceremony from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. A public commemoration service will be held Thursday from 1 :30 to 2:30 p.m.

at the site of the tornado memorial in Hermitage Park. The park is at the east end of Hermitage Road, next to the river. The County of Strathcona will hold its own remembrance ceremony Thursday at 2 p.m. at County Hall's Conference Centre 1, 2001 Sherwood Sherwood Park. Tornado survivors at Evergreen Mobile Home Park have scheduled a private ceremony Thursday to share their grief.

through the air, then slamming them back onto the ground. A lot of them died. Light poles were also flying." On the 10th anniversary of the tornado that killed 27 people, thousands of city residents i n.V- 1 Aly Virani, at age 10 in 1987 JIM CUNNINGHAM Calgary Herald Calgary The Alberta government is considering cutting both the share of money non-profit groups can make from charity casinos and the number of volunteers the groups must provide to run the games. And some community groups in the province say that could be the "death knell" for many neighbourhood projects. Copies of letters from the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission sent to casino operators obtained by the Herald show that changes in the so-called split of revenues between the operators and the charities were discussed at a meeting June 23.

The commission denies the discussions may be a prelude to privatization of casinos. However, minutes of the meeting show that a review of the split 4-currently giving charities half of the net proceeds of casinos and requiring operators to pay all expenses from their half of the take will be completed by Sept. 30. A separate letter sent to some casino operators June 30 by Roy Bricker, the acting chief executive officer of the commission, indicates a committee has been struck to study the use of volunteers in the casinos. "We need to look at each volunteer role to determine whether it is still required or whether we need the number specified," says the letter, adding that any recommendations from the panel will be sent to the casino operators for review.

If the split in revenues is altered, it would represent the latest move in a long struggle between the charities and casino owners over how to divide the take from casinos. Just last year, the government changed the system to divide revenues equally between the two parties. But, in response to charity group complaints, it required the operators to cover expenses in running the events. Prior to last July, operators could establish a pre-set fee for offering their halls, a practice the non-profit groups claimed often meant they lost money on their gambling licenses. But since the change was made, some operators have said they are the ones suffering losses.

The possibility of another change to the division of spoils from the casinos and the volunteer arrangements for running them have angered some charities. Please see CASINOA9 --r--Tn- --1 a have their own lurid stories to tell about the big storm. Only last week, someone casually reminded Virani the recent hot spell is the kind of weather that breeds tornadoes. So Virani repeated the story of the day the cows flew and he yelled at his aunt Gulshan and uncle Abdul Bandali to head for the basement. "When my aunt and I got downstairs, we had to go back up and get my uncle unstuck.

The wind was tearing our house apart and a plastic carpet runner had wrapped itself around his foot." Within seconds of everyone getting safely to the basement, the tornado blew off the back wall of the Viranis' house. "It took four or five years, but I slowly got over it," says Virani, who's now in the third year of a bachelor of commerce program at the University of Alberta. "During that time, whenever it thundered or rained, I couldn't stand to be alone in a room." Most Edmontonians still remember exactly where they were and what they were doing during the 70 minutes it took for the tornado to grind its way from Beaumont to a farmer's field northeast of the city. Many who storms that day as they moved in from the southwest Shortly before noon, the local office issued a severe weather warning. At 2:55 p.m., the winds inside one of those thunderclouds began to spin wildly and a funnel cloud dropped to earth, two km south of Beaumont.

As the tornado drifted north, it ripped the roofs off houses in Mill Woods but killed no one. Its size and fury built as it drifted through the industrial zones of east Edmonton and Strathcona County until wind speeds reached 417 km-h. Thirteen people died as winds flattened large industrial buildings and blew semi-trailers around like cardboard boxes. The tornado weakened slightly as it knifed through Clareview, where it damaged 463 homes and destroyed 37 others. Because most people took shelter in their houses, no one died.

That wasn't the case at Evergreen. The tornado destroyed 126 of the park's 723 lightweight mobile homes. Please see TORNADOA9 mm, lived in the five per cent of Edmonton that was in the path of the tornado would prefer to forget. "We're getting tired of the phone calls and the media," says Wendy Chrisp, whose son, now 10, became paralysed below the waist when the tornado fractured his skull and shattered his spine. "Some say the 10th anniversary is needed; others say, 'just leave us says Teresa Young, president of the Evergreen Community League.

The tornado killed 14 people when it ripped through Evergreen Mobile Home Park in northeast Edmonton. Some Evergreen survivors still weep when they talk about the death and destruction. "We just hope the 10th anniversary will put closure on it," says Young. Marin Athanasopoulos still scans the skies on muggy summer Aly, 20, with his uncle Salim Thaver, who is seen above cleaning up the debris at the Virani home in Mill Woods in 1987 days, looking for another funnel cloud. "We're all cloud watchers now," says Athanasopoulos, a former president of the Tornado Survivors Association.

Environment Canada was tracking several violent thunder Journal Staff It, sews, Opinion 'City, Careers CShow Ann Landers G2 Births E1 Bridge E9 Careers B6 EClassrfied Flnsight GLife Classified Comics Crossword Dr. Donohue -E4 A twist of fate because they're so common in Texas and Oklahoma's "tornado alley," U.S. meteorologists often broadcast tornado warnings when their Doppler radars detect the circular wind patterns in clouds which precede the formation of a tornado. During an average year, Canada experiences 80 tornadoes which cause two deaths and 20 injuries. Most only bend TV antennas or break windows.

The big ones, with winds of 300 km-h and paths 15 km long by 200 metres wide, cause 97 per cent of all tornado deaths. Harold Brook. Most potential victims will get only a few minutes warning. Those warnings probably won't help the occupants of mobile homes. "Mobile homes can be made surviv-able in winds of FO on the Fujita scale (up to 116 km-h).

In F2 winds (181 to 252 km-h), they'll be unrecognizable." The Edmonton tornado was an F4 when it ripped through the industrial east side with winds of 331 to 417 km-h. It dropped to F3 levels (253 to 330 km-h) as it went through Evergreen Mobile Home Park. Since twisters can form quickly and Edmonton Could Edmonton experience another disaster like the 1987 tornado? Local meteorologists say it's a possibility. In 1991, they installed a new Doppler radar system that will let them know if a tornado is building. Also, they can now interrupt local TV and radio broadcasts with advance warnings of up to 30 minutes.

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