Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Brian Cole 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local May Mike Ward second opinion on repairs pays off the lady from Selkirk didst want her name publicized because Shes on disability i passed on inquiring what that had to do with her reluctance to be i have this Rule that if a person cant give me a valid reason for anonymity then i wont name the party that accused of but i checked out her Story and its certainly Worth telling you her car broke Down in the she had it towed to a car a Mechanic gave it the once Over and called her to say the engine had seized and it would Cost about plus taxes to be not Able to she had the car towed to another service station where a buddy of her Boyfriend he checked out the car and it turned out it had a broken alternator with an Oil Cost the dealerships owner later agreed to cover the he insisted that had she left the car a Mechanic would have eventually realized the engine haunt paying for the Tow was a Goodwill gesture on our he that brought a smile to the face of yours q q q still on Auto the Wall Street service Centre has agreed to reimburse Annemarie Gosselin a towing charge and the it Cost to fix her car at another repair Gosselin took her car to Wall Street service Centre earlier this month for a tuneup shed seen later that she received a Call f rom a Mechanic saying the work had been but the car would not hed determined the cars starter needed it would have been the cars fourth in two an hour or so the Mechanic was Back on the phone to say the new starter would Cost and that other repairs were the fuel pump being Gosselin decided to get a second opinion and went to collect her they still insisted the fuel pump and starter had to be replaced for the car to Start she arranged for it to be towed to Iber service station on Mcphillips owner Brian Paisley found the fuel filter had been wrongly installed and that Why the car i called Wall Street service centres Frank to find out his Side of the he said hed be contacting last she called Back to say hed agreed to reimburse her the but that he refund the tuneup Given the youd think he you she yes i q q q further to my warning two thursdays ago about business advertising solicitations that look like Winnipeg chartered accountant Mary Wladyka wrote me to say shed received a phone Call asking her to confirm the wording of her business listing in the Canadian business i told the female caller i was not she Wladyka was others i can see a problem if they Are Able to obtain a Purchase order a name for the a credit card she pointed it will make catching the fake Billing very difficult for some businesses because it will look All the More the Manitoba Telephone system has issued a warning to businesses that an out province directory firm annually sends out mailings that look similar to its victim of an injustice hut bureaucracy wont remedy fax 6977412 or email Mike Ward on the internet at a Joe Bryks Winnipeg free press from Ryan Greg Dan Mastrangelo and Daryl Rancourt have a Good Orange Park ban on booze leaves hangover by Tony Davis staff reporter it was quiet at grand Beach last maybe too quiet normally bursting with people on the May Long the Campground at grand Beach provincial Park was a virtual cemetery this week As a ban on alcohol was implemented at six provincial Parks on a trial that had some business people in the nearby town of grand Marais worrying if the ban would do More than just keep alcohol out of the this ban is going to have a negative Impact on my said Ron who has been running the grand Marais Village also contains a liquor 24 look at the its practically and its not just because of the of 404 Sites at grand Only 48 seasonal Sites were and 35 casual in it was so the Park was Able to reduce staff from 23 to Friday and yesterday were Cool and very accounting for some of the but even grand Beach Park officials admit the Campground is usually packed on May Long rain or normally we would be full right said Derek a Park patrol natural resources minister Albert Driedger implemented the liquor ban in response to a Rise in vandalism and violence in provincial at grand Beach weve had sexual even said most of the Rowdy ism is being blamed on teenagers from 15 to 18 looking to blow off steam after a Long and what did teenagers and Twenty somethings who headed for the Lake think of the ban it said an 18yearold party As she sipped a Budweiser at a cottage in grand Marais with about a dozen other this ban just punishes everyone because of the actions of a few she said her group had been Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press Park officers Chris Smigelsky left and Rudy Loewe Check the trunk of a car entering grand planning to Camp at grand Beach until they heard about the so like Many they went to cottages in grand that has some cottage owners in grand Marais worried that the liquor ban will simply move the partier s out of the Park and into their Back in All for the but i guess this is the Price i might have to said Jeff As he eyed a burgeoning party of teenagers a few cottages Down from logging protest fizzles under Rainy weekend skies by Annette elvers free press correspondent seven Damp and Chilly environmentalists folded their tents in Black Lake Camp ground yesterday morning As their protest peace Camp fizzled in the dreary weekend an environmental group called Earth first Manitoba had organized the Camp at Black in nop iming provincial the plan was to educate campers and cottagers about the logging in the v Earth first says the Forest is becoming a desert because natural including Forest fires Arent being allowed to take place normally in the but its Paramount concern was the cutting be ing allowed in the provincial Pine Falls paper formerly Abi Tibi Reyes on logging in the Park to Supply its Pine Falls newsprint spokesman Vince Keenan told the free press last week that he hoped the group would keep its Promise of nonviolence during its protest Active he have by the time the Rainy saturday afternoon rolled the peace Camp was Black Lake Campground staff said that the group consisting of seven cold and wet Camp including Eric an activist from new York City had left before noon and that further plans for the peace Camp were members of the environmental group could not be reached last family issues Appeal Over Oil by Alexandra Paul medical reporter a Rural family with six Chil Dren sick with a rare genetic disorder half of All the known cases in Manitoba is appealing to the Public for Cash to buy Lorenzos were hoping to raise enough funds to last a year for All the said male resident Anna May whose son is among the six boys who Range in age from two to the family cant afford the which is not covered by Public health lives changed forever the six boys Are among 12 Manito bans who have tested positive for the biochemical defect that causes or a rare genetic disorder that eats away the Central nervous the Only Hope with that illness is Lorenzos Oil and a very strict Maynard the total Cost of the Oil for the six boys in a single month is Maynard the family is Selling tickets for a social june 9 at be Rendez a Boniface area Community the Olive Oil based substance was made famous in a 1992 Hollywood movie starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte that depicted it As a medi Cal the Oil appears to work for some people if Given before symptoms of according to a 1994 Baltimore Cheryl the doctor who recommended the said she admires the family determination to raise funds to buy right now we Are doing whatever we can to get the boys funded but its an experimental drug and the government Doest fund experimental said a University of Manitoba professor of paediatrics and human genetics and director of metabolism services at childrens doctors Are urging governments to loosen funding restrictions for treatments such As Lorenzos such treatments have yet to be approved for the Market but they have met safety standards and Are being tested for the options to treat rare Meta Bolic diseases that in the past were unbeatable Are rapidly increasing but the ability of our healthcare sys tem to adapt is a slower Greenberg we have to have funding mechanisms that Are to be Able to respond to these new there Are Many different types of Ald and Lorenzos Oil is Only used to treat the rare genetic disorder that is chromosome the boys Are among the estimated one in canadians affected by the based disorder and All Are sons of siblings who Are carriers through their maternal grand five of the boys Are in the Early stages of Ald and the sixth whose diagnosis last fall led doctors to the discovery of the other five has bounced Back from two re Only that a Fivey Earold in and Maynard son Are Tak ing the Oil but the other four will soon need it in an Effort to stall the Advance of the Maynard firewood Pete deadly for elms by Nick Martin City Hall reporter one pile of dumped somewhere in Wildwood Park 20 years has killed tens of thousands of Winnipeg Elm but it could have been far City forester Mike Allen the first dutch Elm disease detected in Winnipeg in the summer of 1975 was in a stand of Trees behind Johntra Vanscourt school along the red but the diseased Wood could have been anywhere in the Allen that typically How dutch Elm disease moves into a new through it went into the v Wildwood because the stands Are it spread up and Down the on Allen surveyed a Cluster of Large stumps behind the schools in a Small Clearing where once mighty elms now smaller elms have been replanted by Johntra Vanscourt despite the Winnipeg was relatively ready to Deal with the the alarm was triggered 10 years earlier by Martin Benham and Vern recalled a provincial and the Parks departments Benham had studied dutch Elm disease in Eastern Canada and in the United Allen they knew it was marching on if it want for those two we would have been caught with our pants Only five Trees were lost in we took Down More Trees widening roads Back Allen said weve lost about Trees through dutch Elm and another weakened Trees through environmental eight five per cent of the losses Are on the Public education on the disease is since the vast majority of Winnipeg surviving Elm Trees Are on private said Judy project manager and Confounder of the coalition to save the we have state theart technology on Public land to contain the alien pointing out the City lost Only 115 Elm Trees on Public land last the Overall loss rate to ded is now less than two other communities threw in the Towel and gave we said Werier said the first signs of dutch Elm disease emerge in the first signs Are the Curling of the the leaves Start to curl there still then they turn then then they a mature Elm tree can be saved if less than 15 per cent of its branches Are infected when she Trees can be injected by the which will also inject Trees on either Side of the diseased Allen Werier with elms ;