Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free january 1985 James free press the Nick sons savor huge Cheque couple reaps big lottery payoff a 10year investment in lottery tickets paid off for an elderly Campbell couple who won More than one million dollars in lotto Donald and Edna both went to the Western Canada lottery foundation head office in Winnipeg yesterday to pick up a Cheque for they won one of seven Bonus prizes for the same amount in the 12 draw by picking out five winning numbers plus the Bonus the Jackpot of million went to a Toronto couple who picked six out of six Donald a retired said he spends about each week on several types of lottery taking a Nickason he said Hes been buying tickets Ever since lotteries started about 10 years and has perfected a system to pick his the overnight millionaire said he keeps track of numbers he plays that come up often in winning tickets and then plays those numbers Nickason said he used the same five numbers last september without he said he and his wife Are not planning on any wild spending but look Forward to travel Ling when they want and buying a few who was born in said the Money will go to their three married sons to help them with mortgages and Busi Ness most is going straight into a Bank account and other she Well hang on to it a Little she we want to play it she said they probably will buy a new trailer or motor Home and might take a trip to the resort of Palm the Nick sons Are the Only second place win ners from Western Canada in the recent lotto four of the seven Bonus prizes went to winners in Quebec and two to Ontario vacationers undeterred by Bob Cox recent rioting in Jamaica Hast affected travellers local travel agents people with bookings for Jamaica have asked about safety there in the past few but have been reassured by reports the islands tourist areas Are unaffected by the Winnipeg travel agents and air line representatives said weve had people phoning in to but weve not had any air Canada spokesman Joyce Krentz protests fuel Price increases in Jamaica Early last week triggered violent demonstrations that left at least seven peo ple most of the protests were reported in and around the Capi Tal City of Kingston and Distant from the main tourist spots of Monte go Bay and Ocho Jinette of Thomas Cook travel said she had about 40 Calls last Fri Day from worried trav the Public has been absolutely Turenne i wish somebody would say something about the situation not being As bad As it hundreds of people each week Fly from Winnipeg either direct or through Toronto to Jamaica during the Winter travel agents Turenne said the Only report of problems she has heard was from one fort c uple who were Riding a train on the Island when it encountered a the couple reported the train rammed through the Barrier and didst Turenne Krentz said air can Ada has had none of its flights disrupted and there have been no schedule she said All indications Are that unrest on the Island is occurring some distance from the main tourist Louise Man Ager of Lawson said she was surprised people didst cancel plans to travel to interestingly people didst seem to be very Watson it really was quite interesting that we didst get Cancella More people inquired last year after the american invasion of Grenada than after last weeks problems in a Watson Bunting rectal itch relieved in minutes exclusive substance also relieves promotes Healing want Relief from rectal itching Hemor heres Good clinical evidence shows that a special Healing sub stance helps relieve eases burning rectal itch in actually shrinks haemorrhoids in this special substance Bodyne helps Speed Healing of injured stimulates growth of new whats in Case after Case very striking improvement was maintained for Only preparation h contains in ointment and suppose satisfaction or your Money overbooking ruined couple says a Winnipeg couple says their winter1 vacation in the dominican Republic was ruined because of an Industry practice of double booking resort hotel Cheryl Eklund and Chuck Morgan say they blame the Toronto based tour Compa Regent for botching the Christmas vacation they booked last july Eklund said they arrived at their tourist resort 29 to be told they had no hotel accommodation and should to a insensitive she said a company representative abruptly informed five couples their holi Days were Over Halfway through the pre paid he just said i have bad news for you youre going Home to she he was so cold and the couple paid about for the two week which included one week on an Ocean cruise and one week at the Holiday inn in puerto dominican she said they had just completed the cruise portion of their tout through a City Hurricane and were gathering their be longings when they were Given the she said the explanation Given was that the available hotel space was Over most of the couples returned to Canada As she but Eklund said another couple with the tour offered to share a room with them until the matter was straightened after two Days of nagging the hotel Eklund said they were Given their own Phil Vic president of the Toronto based Regent confirmed there were serious overbooking at resort hotels in the dominican Republic during the week of new years he said it was a unique Situa Tion and not the fault of tour opera the hotels habitually overbook just like scheduled airlines he generally they dont get but this year puerto Plata has become the 1 destination Point out of it was just that particular weekend we had a weve been going in there for years and Haven had the problem before or Eklund said the explanation Doest make we booked that trip july Eklund youd think a month or six weeks before the trip they would have i have a gut feeling it was regents fault because they Book what they need and the hotel she said the hotel manager told her that the tour companies Book blocks of fights in lobby he said he also told her Regent booked Only 45 rooms that week and knew Well beforehand that some of the tourists they were sending would be out of she said there were fights among desperate tourists in the hotel lobby because the available rooms were handed out on a first first serve it was unreal All these canadians were brawling in the she Regent has agreed to reimburse Eklund and Morgan for the night they didst have their own to the was the least of it s just that the whole thing was she the Only attempt at an apology from Regent was by a representative at the Eklund on our last Day a bottle of rum was sent to the wrong room in our name the rum was Worth and it said sorry for the Eklund Egan said the people forced to Cut Short their Holiday would have been offered another weeks Holiday by if they had been returned Early we most certainly would have offered them another weeks Holiday a cruise or a week on any of our other he said if the bumped travellers we rent informed of compensation at the time it was because there were More 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