Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 pages vol 123 no 171 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post get Post outside cily 754 in Ontario weekly Home delivery 5 Way 05 0 Post in Winnipeg Way 09 21 Post outside cry May kids on the Street by Tony Davis staff reporter six children including a baby with festering sores and a serious cold were turned Over to Winnipeg child and family services after they were found filthy and wandering alone in a rundown North end the children were found outside two boarded up and charred Homes near the intersection of Mcgregor Street and Alfred ave nue at about 6 a patrol car was responding to another Call in the area when they got flagged Down by some concerned citizens who had hauled a group of Young from about one to seven years off the staff Aubrey Kehler said last these kids were completely the estimated to be Between 10 months and one year was taken immediately to Chil Drens a police officer on the scene swaddled the child in a the officers who responded were really concerned about the health of the youngest said the health of this one was severely the baby had a really bad neglected cold and some infected sores that haunt been looked they were All just Overall filthy and police could not say whether the baby was male or this is a disturbing but unfortunately it is not that unusual for this said an Emer gency night duty shift officer at but usually they Are not found in this kind of Joe Hyksa Winnipeg free press Robert Carver cradles a baby found with five other children in the North he added that the prognosis for the baby was police said the children came from two four were from one family and two were from the a cos spokesman said it was possible that the two groups of children had simply met in the Park and started playing together and that they had not been left alone All at cos said the parents of both fam Ilies had been found and an assess ment was being Kehler could not say whether charges of abandonment might be Laid when the parents Are if child and family services feel charges Are then per haps maybe some will be losses could save jets 1991 Deal key to clubs future by Paul Samyn legislature reporter Barry Shenkarow efforts to sell the Winnipeg jets to investors May hang on Legal wrangling Over whether tax payers Are owed More than Mil lion paid to cover team losses Over the last two civic officials and Manitoba entertainment Complex sources last night confirmed the jets wants to ensure the 1991 operating loss agreement wont Force the teams private own ers to repay the province and City for keeping the club out of the we Are looking at a clarification of the Rick the cites chief commis said last and Meg sources yesterday said the ambiguity surrounding the controversial 1991 agreement designed to keep the jets i Winnipeg May prove to be their Best Chance for a local bid to buy the nil the 1991 operating loss agree ment gave the City and the province 36 per cent of the team but forced them to cover any team losses until 1997 a Bill that could reach More than Mil lion has been paid if an Arena want built by june Shenkarow was free to sell the team to the highest but that deadline was moved to May and it has now been suggested that Selling the team to local interests would exempt the jets owners from having to repay any this latest revelation in the twists and turns surrounding the Saga to Complete coverage flames of Hope flickering when do we get Good news Burke now in Drivers seat save the jets comes after a Day filled with secret meetings and Pri vate Telephone Calls involving key members of Mec and the while Shenkarow announced Fri Day he was obligated to negotiate with two americans seeking to move the team to Mec officials were still talking to the jets private partners about a million offer to buy the i assume Harvey Secter one of the jets owners has come to town and i assume that is a basis for Dis Mec spokesman Camos Ier but Osier said if Active discus Sions were seen to be happening it would contradict what Shenkarow said at his Friday news Israel Asper said he spent the Day Fielding Calls about the even though he insists his role As fundraiser for the Mec has neither Shenkarow nor Secter could be reached for comment yes a statement the jets re leased on May 12 said the offer they accepted to sell the team to Richard Burke and Stephen Gluckstern was subject to a clarification of the 1991 operating loss Burke and Gluckstern have announced they will be holding a press conference in Minneapolis today to discuss their attempts to bring the team to Damp weather sinks puts Farmers under Cloud Sybil Redekop staff reporter More Damp weather this weekend will further delay Farmers seeding that is already two weeks Rainy conditions Are forecast for today and and that could postpone seeding yet another say were not even five per cent finished seeding in the were very far said Carla provincial in just four per cent of Spring durum wheat and flax Are in the and five per cent of according to a Pioneer Grain crop under Normal seeding would have begun the first week of May and most crops would be sown by some areas Are further behind than flooding in Western Manitoba has caused delays and the Parkland District remains wet after the Region received Sev eral centimetres of Snow this Dauphin producer Gordon Mcphee said Farmers Are playing the waiting game waiting to get onto their some of us Cope better than oth but its certainly a stressful Situ said who Only started seeding thursday on his highest a lot depends on whether weve turned the or if were going to get More of the same an other week of bad weather would be a Mcphee the Only Consolation is the wet Spring is a continent wide Phe Farmers in Northern states such As North Dakota and plan lets immigrant ads work to cure Rural doctor shortage Minnesota Are having a terrible time getting crops in the and markets Are starting to get Ner pushing wheat prices up about 25 cents a says Don an analyst with farm Market i think Farmers Are going to put in a crop and Pray the growing sea son is longer than said the later Farmers the More susceptible their crops Are to Frost in late Al Manitoba agriculture crops said Fields were just starting to dry but Rains yester Day chased Farmers inside the Carman Region is probably Best off in the province with up to 20 per cent of seeding said local a rep Keith studies show Farmers get optimum yields when they sow crops the second week of Mills by Paul Samyn legislature reporter changes to restrictions on foreign trained doctors Are being considered to help cure a chronic shortage of physicians in Rural and Northern health minister Jim Mccrae the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba has drafted a conditional Register that would allow Mccrae to plug immigrant doctors into areas of the province desperate for the proposed May be approved within weeks would require foreign trained doctors to work five years in areas of the province suffering from a shortage of physicians before being eligible to receive a full inside Story i registry gets Cool reception a5 it is intended Only for manpower Ken registrar of the the province currently has a temporary Register that allows immigrant doctors to practise in Manitoba for six months with the possibility of a six month they cannot practise in Manitoba for More than one year without passing the qualifying tests for a full eighteen months a Federal move concerned foreign doctors and Small towns alike by requiring two years of internship before application for a full licence is a oneyear residency was required prior to the new plan to Deal with the longstanding problem of attracting and maintaining doctors in Rural areas comes As Leaf rapids faces the loss of its sole physician june we Are very said Barbara president of the Northern Community chamber of which is demanding to meet with we Are saying that it is a matter of life and death and we Are not officials from the Leaf rapids health Centre met with health department representatives this week but received no assurances that a solution would be there Are about 76 foreign trained doctors in Manitoba who Are not and concerns Are already being raised that the conditional Register will do Little to help that because it will Only Register doctors who have Practised within the last three there Are fears the draft policy is biased because it Grants special exemptions for doctors trained in South Africa and the United health officials said they believe medical training is equivalent to Canadas in those there is one set of rules for some doctors and one set of rules for said Murray associate Dean for continuing medical education at the University of who has been helping foreign trained physicians get established in no paper tomorrow the free press will not publish Victoria the circus classified and display advertising departments will be classified advertising will be open 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