Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, June 01, 1995

Issue date: Thursday, June 1, 1995
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fame and its ensuing loss of Rwy 52 pages vol 123 no 181 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 trek honors dead pow five canoeing to Churchill Winnipeg free press deadly get Post 80f get Post outside cily 754 in Ontario weekly Home delivery s3 25 wkly 20 Post in Winnipeg wkly outside City june Wypa Uleckie staff reporter five Winnipeg men will paddle a Canoe More than Kilometres with a plaque and a time capsule full of War Memorabilia to Honor an Uncle who died in a japanese pow Camp during the second world next Dave and Chris Pancoe and three of their friends will begin the journey from Winnipeg to a Northern Manitoba Lake recently named for the Dancoes great Uncle As part of a jus completed project to Honor Manitoba War the 11week trip was the brainchild of Dave Pancoe and Paul both they came up with the idea in the fall of 1992 goal to erect a plaque in Honor of great Uncle Mike Panco that Side of the family dropped the Panco died in at age excited by idea Dave enlisted his and Paul asked his they were joined by Mutual Friend Keith All had experience canoeing and were excited by the idea of the trip from the Forks to Panco Lake and then on to whats made the trip More interesting is the whole Veteran said it makes the whole trip said Karl has made the biggest sacrifice for the the Winnipeg Ger works in for a computer software Hes taken a four month leave of absence to the adventurers clockwise from Karl Chris Dave Paul Gossen and Keith Joe free press path of the journey take part in the Karl had a filipino woodcarver make the plaque out of a single piece of on the Back Are the names of the five inset in Metal on the front of the plaque is a dedication to Panco this plaque is dedicated to the memory of Mike Panco and All canadians who sacrificed their lives for our its Kilometres from the Forks to Panco Lake and another 645 from there to take the train Back to the group is taking two a kayak and 11 weeks Worth of dehydrated which they began preparing last an emergency radio transmitter from the Manitoba Telephone system is packed away just in there also taking a global positioning system satellite tracker to pinpoint Panco lakes position for there Are stories of voyageurs being stuck on Lake Winnipeg for two said in Hudson Bay makes Lake Winnipeg look like a party there undeterred and looking Forward to their launch next Karl War veterans who want to donate War mementos for the time capsule Are asked to Call Smilowski Winnipeg free press air India proof Worth million ramp offer Reward to Nail Down Case against suspects in 85 bombing Canadian press Vancouver the ramp have six suspects in the bombing of an air India flight that killed 329 people 10 years ago but there offering a Reward to flush out the evidence they need to Lay there Are people out there who know who the suspects Are and they know the involvement of the Peter Montague said yesterday of the worst terrorist act involving we have a lot of physical evidence and now its the Reward to corroborate that physical the record Reward is being posted for information that will Lead to the prosecution not necessarily the police Hope the Money will push people on the fringes of the plot to come Lead investigator Bob Stubbings suggested some might get immunity along with the i think wed have to look at that and see what their role in it he the ramp were vague on Why the Reward is being offered nearly 10 years after the Montague said the investigation is at a stage where Public assistance is needed but say if anyone had approached police asking for Money in return for air India flight 182 from Toronto blew up off the coast of Ireland on june killing All on including 278 a family of four from Winnipeg was among the no one has been charged in the although Inderjit Singh Reyrat was sentenced in 1991 to 10 years in prison on manslaughter and explosives he supplied components for a bomb that killed two baggage handlers at Tokyo Narita a suitcase on a up air flight from Vancouver blew up As it was being transferred to an air India disease catching Winnipeg doctor finds evidence flesh eating illness contagious Sybil Redekop staff reporter a Winnipeg doctor has found evidence that flesh eating disease is contradicting previous statements by pub Lic health Greg Pidwirny has diagnosed two children with Necro timing fascia tis just Days after they visited their Winnipeg grandmother who had the the two children spent an afternoon with the woman just be fore it was discovered she had the disease and she underwent an Emer gency lifesaving it obviously can be spread just As easily As Strep but what makes it attack one person and not i dont said pid out of danger he said he Tell whether the children contracted the disease from the or vice the incident occurred three months but Pidwirnyj tests confirmed Only last week that the children had the same Necro timing the children Are out of Dan Ger because Pidwirny treated them with antibiotics As a precautionary measure immediately after their grandmothers disease was disco names and other details of the Case Are being kept confidential to protect the identity of the there is mounting evidence both that the disease is transmissible and that cases of the disease Are on the said Donald a leading Canadian researcher on the that exactly the experience weve head of microbiology at the mount Sinai Hospital in said of Pidwirnyj its not transmissible to the same degree As measles or Chicken its Only transmissible in close fam ily settings and where there has been prolonged earlier this year in a woman and daughter died from the Low said the Centre for disease control in Atlanta is expected to recommend soon that All family Mem Bers of new victims of Necro timing Fasci itis be treated with the Ontario government is close to issuing a similar while Manitoba is also reviewing the Situa said Digby a medi Cal officer with Manitoba Low said parents of children who May have come in Contact with the disease should not worry because the disease does not lie dormant like aids and would have surfaced by our experience has been when you see a a secondary Case usually occurs within three or four he Low said Necro timing Fasci itis was first documented by the 5thcentury greek doctor but the disease had mysteriously disappeared for about 40 years prior to resurfacing again in the late Gordon for whom a Winnipeg High school is was a Provin Cial medical health officer in the 1920s who contracted Necro timing Fasci itis and died within 24 i think youre going to hear in the next six months that the disease was very Active last showing a marked increased in North Amer Low ramp confirmed allegations made during the Reyrat Case that the two bombings were linked and that sikh separatist Talwinder Singh Parmar was a main Parmar was questioned after the bombing but later fled Canada and died in a shootout with Indian police in we will confirm that Parmar and Reyrat were together when they let an explosive device go off in Back in said the bombings were apparently in retaliation for the Indian governments assault on the Golden Temple of a prime sikh holy place that was also a Centre for the militants Bent on a separate sikh state in the Punjab the ramp used pieces of the air India Boeing 747s fuselage retrieved from More than metres under the Ocean As a backdrop for their the ramp has spent million and had 200 officers on the Case at its assistant commissioner Dennis Brown quote of the Day its scary because he looks so its nauseating just listening to courtroom Jeanne reacts after the introduction of a videotape the prosecution shows Paul Bernardo raping his sex wife teenage details on Page a9 the weather today mainly sunny and High Low tomorrow mainly sunny and Ligh Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on Page d12 inside 88 diversions rubes and Ann in sports to lotto Bonus run me win quest Rou Cash research foundation lottery 1st prize 2nd prize options Dodge Viper year round recreation package triple e Dodge Ham f Cash 774 i Hoo f7 detailed put Lii Liny on in quest 04 i 206 final draw june pm Boniface general Hospital research Centre atrium 351 Early Bird draws 200 pm May 25 june at offices of Komg peat Warwick chartered travel certificates no exchanges Prall prizes ;