Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 10, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Virtual reality disabled children team to drive safely we 40 pages Winnipeg free press 50 h it it May 1994 Shenkarow willing to extend june 30 jets deadline by Scon Taylor sports writer the president of the Winni Peg jets said last night he has no difficulty extending by six months or so the june 30 dead line to resolve details concerning team ownership and construction of a new but Barry Shenkarow said he wants to see tangible Progress in the super Lex flexes d3 Arena debate before extending the right we Arent planning to sell the team and wed be Happy to extend the deadline if it appeared the process was moving Shenkarow according to an agreement signed by the jets private the the province and Winnipeg enter Prises in october the interim steering committee has until june 30 to find an approved owner for the hockey club for a Price of after that the private own ers can sell their shares to any buy Shenkarow was asked to extend the deadline two weeks ago by the members of the James Burns com the Blu Chip group of Busi Ness people called upon by Winni Peg mayor Susan Thompson and Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon to put a Deal together to build a new downtown Arena in the according to briefing notes acquired by the free press last the Burns committee asked Shen Karow to extend the deadline in or Der to Market luxury boxes and sea vandals trash and memories chaos leaves legacy offer by Bud Robertson staff reporter Grace Huhns 44 years of wonderful from anniversaries to were marred in a single Day by this was our mothers Day said who discovered on sunday that her cottage at White mud Falls North of Lac Dubonnet had been one of As Many As 18 trashed by unknown seemingly Bent on it was so said who lives in Pine Falls and had just been out the Day before to get set for the coming the culprits apparently used crowbars and battering rams to break into the cottage and smashing windows and doors As they and while she Hast yet examined everything to see what they a television set was left it was so said adding this is the first time anything like this has happened to theres four generations of us that have gone through that she and just like the Tornado that ripped through the area a few years she its an event that bound to haunt you just dont get Over her Marium knows Shell never feel the same again about the place she and her family have spent 38 unforgettable even her husbands ashes Are Laid to rest on the it makes you feel so unsafe said a Winnipeg resident who also Learned on sunday about the destruction that someone had wrought on her beloved summer after smashing a window to get the culprits ransacked the cottage and blasted a Hole in an outside Wall with a gun Frayne kept but never an antique rocking chair was less with Friend Lawrie Dalton Shell never feel the same about her summer also damaged in the Buth cottage owners said they were its just the Basic fun of doing something that will harm someone fumed Emily a permanent resident whose Home was her husband discovered some of the damaged cottages while out running this just started in the last few said adding this is the worst vandalism she has seen in the area in but Lac Dubonnet ramp Daniel Kochon said Wanton by people looking for uncommon in cottage where Homes Are left unattended All nothing More than the usual breaking we have said adding crime stoppers has been notified of the so Only five cottage owners have reported a he but said others May not yet be aware of the damage to their a damage estimate was not available last Redekop named up publisher Rudy Redekop Rudy has been named publisher of the Winnipeg free effective imme the appointment was announced yesterday in Winnipeg by Samuel president and chief executive officer of Thomson newspapers in making the Hindman said Redekop will pro vide the free press with vigor Ous and imaginative new leadership at a critical juncture in the newspapers he replaces Maurice who leaves to pursue other Busi Ness Redekop served As comptroller and general manager of the free press for 10 years before being appointed publisher of the Thun Der Bay times news and the chronicle journal in during that time he guided the Thunder Bay newspapers to increased Revenue and prof Tabil while introducing a series of successful new the Thunder Bay newspapers were consistently among the country top performers during his born and raised in Redekop graduated from the University of Manitoba with a a in he became a chartered accountant in 1971 and worked at the accounting firm Price water House and the Wawanesa Mutual insurance companies Over the next dozen Redekop is married and has two son tickets in the proposed new building As Well As to allow time for the National hockey league to agree to a new collective bargaining agreement with its without some kind of salary Revenue sharing system in it would be very difficult to make the jets profitable in the notes Filmon said the prov Ince might consider taking Over the ownership of the jets on a Short term basis to allow investors time to buy into the the nil said yesterday that while government ownership of franchises is not it would Likely be permitted on a interim the report of the Burns commit tee is expected to be submitted this new virus feared As his rival thousands in Canada infected with hepatitis but few know staff up Ottawa medical experts Are debating How to con tact people caught up in a medical tragedy that could rival up to canadians Are believed to be carrying the hepatitis c but Only a Small Frac Tion of them know anyone who had a blood transfusion before 1990 or has Ever used injection drugs May be at the red Cross has set up a com Mittee of experts to recommend strategy on the potentially explosive but theres no consensus obviously its a very important question and there Are both pros and cons to the said Marga ret Deputy medical director for the red Cross in Manitoba and a member of the Rcv fast said the problem with contacting those infected is that they cant offer them a if we let people know it would Al Low them to enrol in drug and treat ment trials but right now theres no satisfactory treatment available for said adding she does not know How Many Manitoban May be the Rcv dilemma is raising Many of the same issues that have made the i v debate so demands by victims for financial hepatitis c is a progressive disease that attacks the some people escape with no but Many get liver cirrhosis and a significant number die of theres also an elevated risk of liver let me Tell its a lot More easy to get Hep c than its much More says Samuel a liver specialist at the univer sity of nobody heard of Hep c but in the end its probably killing a lot More people than Many people survive Rcv with moderate or mild but the virus was much More prevalent in the blood said the logistic problems of trying to Trace who got what Are going to be much greater than with the magnitude of the problem has been slow to sink partly because people can go for 25 or 30 years after infection without and partly because scientists didst Iso late the virus until the disease is spread through the blood mainly by transfusions and Needle the risk of sexual transmission is some people with Rcv have no known risk fac tors no one knows How they got a test to screen blood for Rcv was implemented by the red Cross immediately after it became in the last year for which statistics Are Avail cases of hepatitis c were reported to the Federal Laboratory Centre for disease but those figures include Only four provinces British Ontario and Prince Edward the great majority of those cases were from British co data from other provinces were not the accepted estimate is that be tween per cent and per cent of the Canadian population Are that Between roughly and quota of the Day i knew she was going to i was so Over new South african my Thandi Mkhwanazi was ova rooms with Whan Tataran activist 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