Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2t paqe8 vol 122 no 300 publications mail registration no 086 Winnipeg free press get to w 05 i Orthor 1994 Joe bhvhswiinnipe6 pee pbe55 Toulson Boot Camp inmates get plenty of Young convicts do deep knee bends with some in Boot Camp Means officers love taking out the trash police reporter instructors at Toulson Boot Camp Call her Bert and six wayward inmates Are coming to terms with no one has Ever put Bertha on a but the Green log is estimated to weigh at least 250 a former Marine is instructing the six Young All aged 17 to on the finer Points of performing leg squats with the beast on their and he is getting his message across the Way marines do at the top of his get you get up he yells As the their faces twisted in a combination of pain and struggle to stand up beneath the they have been doing up and for the inside Story As past and be doing it for another at Toulson Boot they Call this across the another Emmarine is supervising a scare looking youth is dismantling a massive Rock hundreds of rocks Are neatly piled in a the kids task is to pick one Rock off the pile at a jog 100 metres with it and place it neatly on the and then do the same thing Over and Over and Over again until Hes then he has to reassemble the whole pile in but the rocks Are piled up in a sadistic the Light rocks Are on top of the pile and they get progressively heavier until the where there Are Small weighing 30 to 35 kilograms the More tired the kid the heavier the rocks and the crime that deserved such extreme punishment he was caught talking in the Chow Bob Clay is a longtime Maryland corrections a medal Winner with the marines in Vietnam and the founder of the Toulson Boot like his Canadian he is shaking his head at the scene playing out in front of but for a different this place has gone Clay the Man is his particular Bone of it turns is with one of the log the his face contorted in agony and struggling for every gulp of has apparently not noticed that his pants have slipped slightly below the required hip he looks like a Clay in his such an infraction would get the offender extra Rock pile Clay left about two years his vague explanation suggests that it had something to do with the Camp getting a Little too Tough for the states red Cross May end blood role Agency demands of to fix system Ottawa unless the prov inces agree to a major Over haul of Canadas blood sys the Canadian red Cross says it will pull out of the blood donation business if we dont have that then Well have i turn Over our responsibilities to someone Doug the society Secretary told delegates to their annual meeting the red Cross has been under in tense Public scrutiny since last a Federal inquiry into Canadas blood system the Mcever commission has heard from dozens of witnesses slamming the nonprofit corporation Over the most of them he who got aids from the blood Supply in the Early in a spokesman for the health sciences the red Cross biggest customer said the hospitals Only concern is that it has a steady Supply of Safe As i understand there not talking about abandoning the Field but turning it Over to someone Jim Rodger As Long As the blood Supply is Safe and continues it is immaterial to Rodger last several of Canadas 17 blood centres failed to meet food and drug administration rules for the production of blood prod Lindores said the Canadian red Cross knew in Early 1993 that it would need to meet Fra require ments and the society started to change manufacturing rewrite procedures and train but provincial health depart ments which provide 80 per cent of red Cross funding through the Canadian blood Agency failed to red Cross facts Canadian in some foots about the Canadian red Crow history first blood depot opened in Vancouver in by 1961 had become National blood today 17 blood centres responsible for delivering More than 20 different blood products to 900 Canadian operating budget in 199344 donations in million Volunteer donors attended blood donor clinics across recipients about canadians depend on blood products every processing Canadian plasma is sent to laboratories to be separated into various blood products such As anticoagulants and Canada has no similar approve funding because of a Dis agreement Over new safety Lindores said the blood systems current problems Are the result of that for years the society has been asking for the flexibility to make changes without always having to get the agreement of All 10 prov inces and two he the provinces approved recommendations last february that would reduce the red Cross control of the blood Supply they called for the government blood Agency to take Over the Pur Chase of blood from the red Tough airborne regiment uptight under Microscope Bidou Naime staff reporter Rwanda the eyes of a nation rest heavily on the shoulders of along with 70 other members of the Canadian airborne Simpkin is in Africa As part of the Canadian peacekeeping and humanitarian Relief efforts in like his he is also Here to try to repair the tattered image of his whose debacles in Somalia continue to be dredged up in Public trials that have sent one Man to jail for the torture death of a somali there is not a Day that goes by that i dont think about the fact that we Are under a Microscope said a 30yearold former teacher from West of Portage la Simpkin said he and his soldiers have been under constant scrutiny since they arrived in Rwanda in he said he fears the politics of the situation could cause even a minor incident to be blown out of proportion and result in his entire regiment being disbanded the worst of fates for soldiers known for their fierce loyalty to their unit and to each the lads Over Here Are under so much pressure not to create any controversy that if they had to take a shot at someone to save i wonder if they would do regardless of new facility neighbors will Cash in theres Gold in that Arena by Paul Samyn staff reporter its a question with equally lucrative spinoffs for those whose Arena prayers Are wherever we put this thing Are there will be a Benefit to whom Ever is next said one insider involved in the location the Richardso jts will be big winners if the proposed Portage Avenue Bart site is the wealthy Winnipeg family owns nearly two City blocks that will be sure to increase in value if the new ill omillion Home for the Winnipeg jets is built next Many in business circles Are Luigi fitting the Richardson equate or is the reason the site North of Tea works is now being location pros and cons of two pushed instead of one across front the Winnipeg convention take a look at who is spearhead ing said George who owns the charter House the possibility of an Arena located East of the Richardson land holdings has also led to speculation the family May resurrect a 1990 plan to build a nine Storey addition to their Westin hotel a move that could take convention business from the publicly owned convention Hartley a leading member of the so called group of 44 hoping to build the hotly de Nies his family Fina Niril interests Are involved in the it has never been part of the Dis Richardson Richardson said his family has owned the property for decades and he abstained from the vote which saw the group of 44s executive endorse the Portage Avenue East John the group of 44s said the site was chosen solely on its own not because of who stood to gain that Richardson interests had absolutely nothing to do with he everyone has shelved their own Loewen said proof that the Rich arsons Arent influencing the Selec Tion process is obvious in the fact that the group of 44 is willing to Market the convention Centre site if the partake Avenue East location is rejected if the site moves Back to the convention there Are others who stand to North american life is one of the biggest boosters of the site and has offered to donate some of its land for the we have a Lon term investment in Winnipeg and we want to enhance said John a senior Vic president of despite the airborne determination to Salvage its the Rwanda Mission has not been without last one of the airborne soldiers was sent Back to Canada to serve a 58day jail sentence after soldiers under his command were drinking on duty and shot off Sev eral rounds from a master Roy Van Den t o quota of the Day All you got to do is stand Hen about 5 Oclock and watch All these people get the Hett out of Here As quickly As they Greg a Tiong resident of Maryland drug Ridden inner not not Many Oul Aidyn want to stay Mart on Pap a5 who was also with the airborne in said he is concerned that the Only thing the Public will re member about the Rwanda Mission is the fact an airborne Soldier was sent Home in just because we Are in the air every Little thing we do wrong becomes a major problem and the Good things we do dont seem to get he a North american life sub North americans offer is Contin gent on Edgecombe getting the rights to develop the Arena studies show businesses closest to the Arena will see sales increase by per cent due to the million extra people the facility is expected to attract annually in sports c8 ;