Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba August 22 1m11 ight few j i Etic receives sister s pancreas in rare transplant a huh Tafi to Arlt Canadian to undergo a gift Tkai Plant Tram a Dia Betic to a no diabetic overnight Sherry received cent of her Stetes pancreas during a 414 hour operation in the largest of a handful of centres around the world performing the rare procedure David the Mann expo us surgeon who performed the said kidds transplant is expected to hold because her tissue is perfectly matched with that of her Terrie Sutherland and Michael kidds Winnipeg general Pratti say her diabetes symptoms should now school closure criticized spokesmen for Columbus school ends say they resent having been Guinea pigs in a school division Experiment in parental involvement an area review Carl a Columbus said yesterday an area review commit tee study presented to Kamesas Sini Boia school Board last Spring re commended a further study be done on the Impact of declining enrolment throughout the Westwood it also said Columbus and Robert Browning schools should be Consoli dated in because of projected declining the need to preserve Quality education and but the school Board voted last month to consolidate them and close Colum bus in after discussing the matter enrolment last year was 155 at co Lumbus and 205 at Robert but Board projections say that by this would drop to 80 at Columbus and 110 at a total of 190 less than the number who last year attended Board chairman George Eakin said yesterday an area review committee will be set up this fall to look at consolidating Charles 139 students and Buchanan 450 and he expects a similar committee will be set up to look at some Silver Heights area schools next enrolment levelled off enrolment has levelled off in the East end King Edward but an area review committee will probably be set up in a few years to look at that Eakin the review committee for Columbus and Browning schools included two parents from one from one no Parent adult from each school principals of both one teacher from each three school trustees and two division the two Columbus parents and the Columbus teacher wrote a dissenting saying the two schools should both operate until a study of the entire Westwood area says one should be Kummen said he want on the area review but had helped organize a steering committee at the school before the study the credibility of the area review process in our neighbourhood is Kummen he and Mike one of the Columbus parents on the area review said parents feel like Guinea pigs for the area review when the system should have been used on a much broader trustee George who voted against the gave notice tuesday that he will introduce a motion at the 1 meeting to rescind the Fraser be reached for Kummen also said keeping both co Lumbus and Browning open would Cost taxpayers an extra or to a in a division with a 1981 budget of Eakin said Many division such As already have Trou ble affording their school but regardless of the the primary Issue is the Quality of education and a Small school Means few options for he Eakin also said no Columbus student will have to walk More than about Kilometres to Browning and none will have to Cross a major three irishmen buy the Nia Kwa three Irish businessmen have bought the Nia Kwa trave Lodge Motel for More than Colin Madden of who has moved to Winnipeg to act As general manager of the said the new owners plan to upgrade the building and will keep their eyes open for fur ther investments in Madden said he and his two other who Are both from Northern have been looking at hotels in North America for some time with an Eye to buying although Madden said he has had hotel experience in Many parts of the die Nia Kwa is the Only one in which he now has a financial he and his Colin Noble and Mima have had other hotel and restaurant interests in the he site will almost literally be a diabetic one Day and not the Farns Worth said in a Telephone interview from her Minneapolis Hospital bed Kidd said she Feu Weil and is in Little path As a result of the her blood sugar is Back to Sutherland said the pancreas began to work almost i Media of the Iso transplants that have been performed worldwide since the proce Dure was Only is Are still the Success rate is cur retitle about 25 per diabetics cannot make enough tin or effectively use the pancreas pro diced hormone which Breaks Down sugar and other As a the bloods sugar level is High while the body to tues an diabetics Are prone to several com plications such As heart kidney failure in kidds loss of Farnsworth began treating Kidd for her ailment in january at the he she was classed As a Brittle a patient whose disease was hard to control because her blood sugar Levels fluctuated one kidds Mother showed Farnsworth a press clipping detailing a newly developed pancreas operation being on the physician tracked the work Down to head the University of Minnesota pancreatic transplant unit Farnsworth spoke with Sutherland and eventually travelled to Minneapolis to examine his ease results and discuss Kidd As a possible time was kidds sight was failing without she would Nave been Blind in ii Farnsworth when the time came to choose a kidds parents and two Sisters were tested in Winnipeg for tissue Kidd and her sister yielded a perfect by we got the most exciting Farnsworth were As close As possible without being the same drilling for Cool a Crew sets up a drilling Rig yesterday on landside Street South of Portage Avenue to search for water for the air conditioning system of the new Lions place senior citizens the test drilling will determine whether there is enough water in the area and if it is cold enough about Engineer Jim Whimster if test results Are he several Wells will be built to Supply the required litres per if the Complex will have to use More costly conventional air construction of the senior citizens Home will begin next sex crimes suspect held after West end incidents at Kidd was reluctant to let her sister undergo the Terri knew what her chances were she was told she might become a diabetic 1 didst want her to risk but she said she wanted to go through with Kidd further tests were carried out in surgery which was slated for Midway was preempted by an emergency Case and had to be Kidd developed a diabetic complication her Retina detached itself from the Back of her right corrective surgery was performed in Minneapolis and she was told to wait a As she was the same a suspect has been arrested following an indecent assault and two incidents of indecent exposure in the Wolseley Avenue Home Street area of the police said yesterday the first Inci Dent occurred at about thurs Day when a aged was indecently assaulted by a pedestrian while Riding her bicycle Down Palmer Ston Avenue Between Arlington and Home hours at 5 a Man con fronted a As she was walk ing in the 800 Block of Wolseley and exposed police the third incident occurred at about when a Man Matching the description of the Man involved in the two other incidents indecently exposed himself to a in the 100 Block of Home after an police arrested a later thursday night and charged him with one count of indecent assault and two of indecent the suspect appeared in court yesterday and was released on bail and remanded without plea to next Fri in another unrelated police also arrested a suspect in connection with a series of indecent assaults in the last few weeks on a Young convenience store police said yesterday that on about seven occasions Between mid july and a teenage clerk in the 7ele Ven food store at Maryland Street and Ellice Avenue was indecently assaulted by a male the incidents finally came to the attention of the girls who notified the was arrested thurs Day and appeared in court yesterday on one charge of indecent he was granted bail and remanded without plea to impaired driving alleged a Winnipeg Man has been charged with impaired driving following an Accident Early yesterday in which a cyclist was police said that at about a was Riding his bicycle Down Battery Street when he came in Colli Sion with a Van at the intersection of Battery and Burrows the later identified As Thomas Archibald Choken of 243 Bat Tery was pronounced dead in cation occurred in her left eve and the transplant was again on Kidd and Anderson were finally wheeled into adjacent operating doctors removed 40 per cent of Andersons pancreas and nestled it in kidds mooring it to an artery and vein so insulin could pour into the it went very Sutherland said of the 30th such operation performed by the Minneapolis group since although it is doubtful the surgery will Correct the damage that has been done to kidds Sutherland said it will Avert kidney failure and nerve two common problems for Lon term new fogging of nuisance mosquitoes set Hospital a Short time the Driver of the Van was taken into custody and later yesterday morning was charged with impaired driving and driving with a blood alcohol level in excess of the Legal the aged was granted bail and remanded without plea to next a Crown attorney told the court that More charges May be Laid against the Man before his next court appear the mishap was the 25th fatal Acci Dent recorded in the City so far this year and the 26th during the same period last the City recorded 34 fatal accidents involving 35 traffic department spokes Man said by Mary Ann Fitzgerald health minister Bud Sher Man said yesterday the numbers of encephalitis carrying mosquitoes Are declining but another round of ground fogging began in Winnipeg last night to attack no viral mosquitoes which have hatched in Large numbers since recent heavy Sherman said had advised him ground fogging was to continue tonight on City Parks and Golf residential fogging in progressive stages will begin tomorrow Sher Man told a press the City is taking this step because of the increase in the past few Days of so called nuisance mosquitoes non disease carrying Sher Man within hours after announcing the cites fogging Sherman was informed that a third Case of Equine encephalitis had been diagnosed in an adult male living in a Rural area near a spokesman for the government information services said the Man took ill in Early August and a positive diag Nosis has been the spokesman said the mans doctor Hast been Noti fied of the provincial lab Roy superintendent of the cites insect control said the ground fogging in residential areas will begin tomorrow night in fort Garry and Large the ground fogging program will continue next week in residential areas in the City in a counterclockwise said he said this latest round of Mosquito fogging had been made necessary by heavy Rains in the first week of August have spawned Large numbers of nuisance Burkett said a Large emergence of insects was reported tuesday the City official said traps set showed an average of 40 mosquitoes each on wednesday night and an average of 120 each he said the Toler Ance level is judged to be 25 mosquitoes per the new Mosquito generation Hast time to become infected and to trans Mit encephalitis to Accord ing to health Burkett while the threat from the dangerous mosquitoes Sherman said it is a steadily lowering threat and he Hopes the health emergency called july 30 will be Over by some time next the provinces Bayogo spraying pro which has so far Cost Mil has resulted in an average kill of about 90 per but Sherman said Small numbers of infected mosquitoes survived and those in no sprayed areas Are still for this he precautions against being bit ten should still be As of the government haunt extended its spraying program to other but Warner picket charged under noise bylaw one of about a dozen shouting pick ets advocating Boycott of a downtown Portage Avenue restaurant was charged last night with violating the cites anti noise bylaw and police threatened to charge the whole police charged Mamie of Winnipeg with the violation during a protest by supporters of the Industrial service technicians and Al lied workers Union after officers threatened the whole group with the same the pick ets stopped shouting their the Union has been urging Boycott of pantages 339 Portage and victors Osborne Street at River both under the same the Union maintains that former Vic tors waiter Jim Willows was fired in june because of his attempts to Orga Nize an Isth unit at the but management says he was dismissed because he refused to work the Day of his High school graduation his application for Job reinstatement was denied without comment this week by the Manitoba labor but Wil lows says he will Appeal the ruling to court of Queens Frain will appear in Winnipeg bylaw court 14 on the anti noise bylaw she said in an interview that the picketing continued after she was charged until 7 when hordes of police she said a Man who identified him self As a sergeant told the group they would be charged with mischief if they continued Frain said she told him it was a Legal informational picket line and asked to see his super soon a Man identifying himself As the sergeants supervisor assured her he didst think there was much of a Case for a mischief charge if the group was she former mayoral candidate Al Gold who owns the building in which pantages is said he called police after tenants complained about the noise of the the Isth group will picket Vic tors this Frain minister responsible for the emergency measures said monitoring will continue and additional communities will be sprayed if sixteen communities had been sprayed by which be sprayed yesterday morning because of weather Condi was to be sprayed either last night or today if if it would be sprayed next Jorgenson Public hearings planned by Greg Bannister Public hearings on the cites pro posed 20year development plan titled plan Winnipeg will begin in late sep Bob Ward of the City planning department said yesterday the hearings might continue in october and no the a Broa spectrum develop ment scheme dealing with suburban eco nomic development and several other is the product of More than two years of research by Ward and others in the cites planning its purpose is to provide a set of almost 100 policies to guide the City through the next two the bylaw enacting the plan received first Reading by Council wednes under the City of Winnipeg it now must receive second and third readings before becoming following Public Council will decide whether or not to Amend the proposed plan before giving it Sec Ond and final Ward said a Public awareness Campaign involving advertisements and a display rotating through regional shop Ping malls will precede the Public hearings held by the various Community older neighbourhoods plan Winnipeg was prepared in and Vance of the recently announced million Core area but the two Are Ward plan like the Core area stresses the need to revitalize older neighbourhoods in the City and establish a Large residential population in the downtown another major policy Accord ing to is suburban growth management and the establishment of an Urban limit in the policies Call for the City to approve Only new suburban residential developments which it feels can be economically the Urban limit also established in the proposed describes the physical limits outside which applications will not be approved for develop ments requiring service by the cites sewer or water according to the plan also contains important new policies for the cites sewer and water in order of the plan Calls for the City to maintain the existing Quality of resolve existing difficulties in the system and finally to accommodate growth of the this represents a reversal of policy priorities a decade ago when the cites top priority in the area was to accommodate growths Ward said the reason for the reversal was the slow or moderate population growth rate the City and the province Are expected to show Over the next 20 ;