Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada at a glance Winnipeg free press december meningitis kills warning Given a 2 girl died thursday of bacterial prompting medical officials to warn parents of 58 children attending the same daycare Centre As the victim to seek medical Atten the girls death conies in the Wake of the meningitis deaths of three Ottawa High school students this to a 14yearold girl from nearby Abbotsford is in Hospital with Menjiv a health official described the Case As isolated and sporadic with no link to the Ottawa British Columbia health officials say the disease is usually a local Jean assistant nursing administrator in said yesterday its very unlikely the toddlers death can be linked to the Ottawa we have not been Able to speak to the parents of the child Groves added the girls death was being regarded As an isolated its not an out or this infection is potentially contagious for people who Are within a very Short said Nadine medical director of the sout Central health what the health unit is doing at this moment is contacting each of the parents who had a child who May have been attending the daycare Centre within the last 10 our instructions will be to ask them to take the child to see the doctor and to be Given a medication which the child will need to take for two Days to prevent this bacterial meningitis is a very serious ill Ness and this is Why were recommending very strongly that parents take their children into the physician and take the cell Check finds too Many Heads Prince a routine Check of cells at Saskatchewan Penitentiary in this Northern City turned up three More Heads than clues to an apparent planned a face mask and two crude paper mache Heads were found hidden in prisoners cells said Warden Jim the two nearly completed Dummy Heads were very Well he adding they were apparently made with toilet paper and flour Adwater paste with moustaches and eyebrows made from human it shows what can be done with simple once the bedsheets were drawn up around they could have been checked and identified As allowing the conspirators extra time to make their the Warden the prisoners could then have hidden elsewhere in the with daughter and says husband got what he i feel Good about wife eaters 10year term a record Canadian Man who beat his wife on their wedding Day and later were married now its has been sent to prison for 10 years and two the sentence is the longest for spousal abuse in Canadian said judge David Cole of the provincial division of on Tario Cole said thursday he would have sentenced Steven Beckwith to 11 years in prison but decided to deduct the 10 months he spent in custody since he attacked Leti Tia Mckenzie just six hours after their wed he got what he Mckenzie said after Cole read the i feel Good about died twice after the May 25 assault but her heart was restarted first by paramedics and then by staff at Scarborough Centenary she later underwent 13 consecutive hours of neurological and facial reconstructive it was the second marriage for the native of her first a police of deserted her and their three Small children when they arrived in Canada in she met at a singles dance two years ago and they began to live to Gether on and off until they were married in a civil she says Beckwith was violent with her Only once before the in Gebru he had gone crazy after an argument with Mckenzie who was living with them at the Mckenzie decided to ask police to Lay charges against Beckwith because she thought the lesson of being dragged through the court would end the but Beckwith became violent again on their wedding Mckenzie says she remembers Little of that she can recall Beckwith trying to throw her eldest son off a ninth floor bal Cony and fighting with guests at a recep after the family members but Mckenzie daughter also named Letitia and a female Friend returned to the apartment in the Public housing com plex to Check on the she said Beckwith told her were mar ried whats it to you its Mcdonalds says racial slurs on exem Loyee an aberration Vancouver a ruling that Mcdonalds restaurants pay a former employee because he was subjected to repeated racial slurs is the first time the restaurant has faced such a the company said the human rights Council awarded Amish the largest amount of Money allowed under provincial the Council said ram suffered repeated racial slurs from his Peers and supervisors be tween 1983 and and it ordered Mcdonalds restaurants of Canada to cease such an immigrant from had worked As a manager at five Vancouver area Mcdonalds in a prepared the restaurant Chain said its employment policies provide equal opportunities to All employees regard less of marital or family Sta Handicap or Avalanche kills leaves coworker injured k1rkland a 32yearold Miner who was buried under an Avalanche of Rock after an explosion in a Gold mine was found dead hours after his co worker was Steve Guindon was pronounced dead shortly after 9 seven hours after a Rock burst in a sudden explosion during blasting at the Lac minerals macassar mine in this North Ern Ontario Guindon Glen was res cued from the rubble after spending five hours trapped at the Bottom of a mine Fenton it was a very heroic Rescue because it is very dangerous Down the spokesman he was in very Good Harwood was in serious but stable Condi Tion at Kirkland and District Harwood reported losing communication with Guindon while six seek funding for Zuffi Appeal Montreal Quebe cers who lost an Lightyear court Battle for compensation with the manufacturers of urea Formale Hyde foam insulation asked for provincial help yesterday to Appeal the the six families asked Quebec Justice min ister Gil Remillard to cover the Cost of an a the province paid for the last round of which was the longest civil Case in an official Remillard office said the government would not consider funding an Appeal until it has finished studying the judgment handed Down by Supe rior court judge Rene Hurtubise this the six families also said they might aban Don their but Only if the Federal and provincial governments compensate them for the trouble they had with the bag lady froze to death with in pockets Toronto a bag lady found Frozen in a parking lot stairwell this week died with in Canadian and Bills in her pock the about was known by sight to Street people but has not yet been Ridenti said Toronto police Al with that kind of Money in her pockets you wonder Why she didst go somewhere Brown its very rare to see a bag lady with that kind of the who apparently died of hypo was found unconscious by Security guards in a downtown underground parking garage about she had taken Refuge in the car Park on a night when the temperature fell to transit will operate on a schedule on december january 1st free installation if you order now save up to the world its chemical free for Well water systems removes Iron taste and odour maintenance free no More rust stains 60 Day Money Back 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us at United nations Secretary general Javier Perez de Visi Bly bid thousands of in staff members goodbye saying that we have seen history from Security guards to top Mem Bers of his staff members at in Headquarters gathered in the general Assembly Hall to thank the Secretary general and serenade Perez de who leaves office 31 after 10 years at his was honoured with a standing ovation of about five minutes Kkt Man held Justice department said yesterday it arrested the head of the Tennessee Kun flux klan on charges of firing a gun into a Nashville synagogue last Leonard identified As the grand dragon of the Tennessee was aasted along with Jonathan associated with the klan and the racist aryan the Justice department the two were named in an indict ment unsealed following their arrests yesterday on Federal civil rights Sailboat sinks Manila Nineteen people drowned and three were missing after a Sailboat Sank off the Central Philippines province of the official Philippines news Agency re ported the coast guard rescued 38 people from aboard the boat when it Sank the news Agency publisher in race fort Fla a Magazine publisher who has been arrested 19 times on obscenity charges is running for sheriff against an incumbent know As an Antipo Nogra Phy Al publisher of a sex Magazine with a circulation of said he will Challenge Nick Navarro in novembers election for Broward county Goldstein insisted he is serious and Likely will run As a to cop bus Ted a television pop has seen what a real police station looks like after ussling with officers Over a parking Ron who portrayed officer Levitt in the old Barney Miller television was carted into a police Van thursday and charged with harassment and improper police was involved in a fracas with police officers who were rally ing outside City Hall to protest the sus pension of a patrolman for a beating ;