Summary
Yet Winnipeg's Central Park has become one of the most vibrant and popular meeting places and playgrounds in the city. It's also one of the safest places to be downtown, especially on hot, humid summer nights when the lack of air conditioned apartments causes good people -- moms and dads and their children -- to escape in numbers so great the criminal element wouldn't dare challenge them.
Not that long ago, New York City's Central Park was known more for muggings than its zoo. But now all you hear about are the joggers, rollerbladers and concerts in Sheeps Meadow. Winnipeg's Central Park is the same, except we don't hear about it.All of this comes with a warning. New Yorkers know not to venture into Central Park after dark and it's the same situation in Winnipeg. Come 9 o'clock, all the law-abiding families full of goodwill have left our Central Park and the area gets turned over to the "minorities" -- African Mafia, Mad Cowz and Indian Posse (and we know all about them because that's usually all we read about the park).See the full content of this document
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The Real Folklorama
Central Park shines nightly in all its ethnic glory
Don MarksNO matter how much positive spin our city fathers and downtown business leaders try to put on the area surrounding Central Park, the headlines every Monday morning contradict their claims. The core ...See the full content of this document
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