Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local july 1995 spirit seethes Over report by John Douglas business reporter a list of demands set out by the National hockey league including a Call for the spirit of Manitoba to come up with million in Cash or Legal commitments is Little More than a bargaining Board Mem Bers and spirit members accused the free press of deliberately trying to scuttle their efforts to keep professional hockey in Winnipeg by publishing the contents of a letter sent to spirit chairman Alan Sweatman from nil com missioner Gary quoting from leaked nil Bossy letter incredibly damaging were going to keep going but youve really done something incredibly an angry Sweatman told a reporter yester Gary Bettman is saying this is the Way that he wants it to this is a bargaining he never Laid Down any Laws to there were no in a report yesterday the free press said the nil had questioned certain aspects of spirits financial among other letter said spirits prospects for receiving the nil boards approx Awili depend upon proposal which should include the follow ing a lease that guarantees the hockey club All Revenue including naming rights and score Board at least million in Cash or its at least million of that Money will be needed to cover future although the nil thinks More May be Bettman also said that because of the unique nature of the Winnipeg ownership he thought spirit should still try to find someone to cover any Possi ble spirit president Cam Osier did not dispute the facts in the Story but suggested they had been put in the worst possible youve got a document both sides have agreed not to make pub he the nil was not Lay ing Down the Law to the letter also in our discussion last week you indicated that each of these goals could be met within the time available and i therefore do not think any of these Points should cause any particular Osier the he documented issues discussed during a six hour Between spirit Board members and Bettman last week in new he said spirits Revenue projections were discussed for about 35 seconds during the six hour meet ing with Bettman and that there were some questions about the groups salary As for the Osier More we the easier it urdu old be with the but no specific amount was he also revealed that revenues from naming rights and score Board advertising have always been earmarked Lethe private boys e red River yesterday for the body of tron who is presumed drowned after he tumbled into the water by Paul Mckie and Stevens wild staff reporters Andrew Scott sat on a Rock by the red River and waited for the police to bring his grandson Home one last a tron Owen off car rail Bridge Friday after a Winnipeg police spokesman said tron was missing and presumed police divers again gave up the search for the night at yesterday they were scheduled to resume at this we like in Andrew said qui came right away As soon As we he abbe Chat his eyes with a tissue As he looked across the River where his grand son apparently hitting his head on con Crete before falling into the its a Little rough on he other family members stood by on the for the grim Harley is trons he said he put How difficult it was for family to wait for police divers to find trons its Kinda he staring Down at the Rivers its believed that tron and two other friends were walking along the rail Bridge when tron decided to step out on to a con Crete police believe he lost his bal Ance and hitting his head on the Way police duty Roy Smith said the recovery was called off late yesterday afternoon because the seven divers were weeps they Are becoming Smith we have used All the divers we Smith said Strong eddies in the red May have caused trons body to he said the divers by allowing their bodies the they were Drift Smith High winds on Friday curtailed the residents have complained about the easy Access to the rail Bridge in the Paul lives in a nearby seniors residence and has seen kids playing in the area Ive seen lots of kids going Down that he Smith said there is Little that can be he said railway police patrol the i dont know what else we can its a matter of Smith Joe free press trons father brother proves a tasty invitation to bears Robertson staff reporter love this so do some of his Distant Kenora residents have got their hands full this year with bears who have taken their lat night dining to the streets in search of tasty i Haven seen but Ive seen what Treyve dope said Mintoray fes intent Sharron David neighbors who leave their refuse out n i the strip eat night Are Wak ing Tofslie sigh of overturned containers and trash strewn about the said who Waits morning to take she said dont bother i dont worry about who lives on Minto said has heard stories from the neighbors but has yet to sight a Bear said Acree i dont go out on the deck at night any one night Early last the Kenora police service received 17 Calls of Bear sightings in a residential neighbourhood of the about five its a real said that while there Haven been any confrontations Between humans and theres a danger that could Simpson noted there Are actually Only a handful of bears running around to pwn but every time some one spots they receive a there Are maybe two or three bears and there wandering around one area of town and people Call in every time they see said the towns animal control offi cer has set up traps around town to try to capture the while Bear sightings Are nothing new in cottage Simpson noted there becoming More fre quent and the bears Are coming All summer rather than just in the prior to and with people leaving out their he its a natural inv that like opening a cafeteria said not until spirit Board members and the Fil Mon government have said the Money would be used to make up a shortfall in funding for construction of the new we did not want to get into those details in the interests of getting the Deal he the first million will go to the endowment fund and annual will go to the limited Osier accused whoever leaked the letter to the free press of try ing to kill the spirit he said Only two people on the spirit Board had read it and that it had not been circulated to others because they did not want it made f by Liana Simon free press correspondent t a la women Bleto Bear children should take folic Al Placid according to the head of the Spina Bifid association of we want to prevent Spina Bif i Helene executive of the Winnipeg based spi Ifa Bifid association of Cana its difficult if not impossible to consume enough folic acid by food alone unless you eat a cup of cooked lentils and three cups of Romaine lettuce each a deficiency in folic one of the eight b has been conclusively linked to the occurrence of neural tube defects nods in in the Manitoba association of registered dietitians Mard and the fresh for flavor foundation jointly published an education pamphlet on folic acid or foliate which is being distributed through Manitoba physicians and dietitians but Peters says the pamphlet omits crucial information about the amount of folic acid required by and markets Only to women planning a we know 50 per cent of All pregnancies Are she every woman who can become pregnant should know that neural tube defects can be prevented with adequate consumption of folic acid through food and multivitamin sup she said All women should take a Vitamin providing milligrams of folic acid daily in addition to eat ing healthfully prior to and through the first four weeks of the Mard and fresh for Fla Vor foundation pamphlet is incomplete because it focuses solely on food instead of a combination of food intake and folic acid supple Peters adding cards Mission is to encourage the proper intake of a Spina Bifid association of Canada brochure on folic acid out lines women requirements and charts the amount of folic acid found in various since october brochures been distributed through doctors offices and other be Jackie Gib bings recently received can Best be described As eight dear Jackie misspelled letter you have won based on your past determination and perseverance in submitting your you have finally won the grand prize 1 eighty eight thousand eight Hundred and eight based on your preselected win Ning claim congratulations it Bybee of Galo for personal note ant you to know that v its too sharing this entitlement with you is a special Joy for All Gibbings to do was to answer a skill testing question with no outside return the notification with its winning claim number to a Toronto address within eight Days theres that eight again and submit to process your win that skill testing ques Gib works at the Manitoba Indian education also was invited to fill in a sworn affidavit submitting her Mastercard or Ameri can express her Date of birth and signature just for identification but of needless to say who had never entered any contest As the letter didst mail the but like me she knows seniors and new canadians can quite easily fall victim to these please warn the Public about these she still on the subject of unsolicited free press Advertis me that businesses ing from j youll recall when i wrote about last May Canada Post had promised to it would seem Ings been done at Tom manager of the better business Bureau of Winnipeg and said Canada Post regulations require a much larger and bolder disclaimer than the one this company is using on its 1 the colonnade condominiums on Edmonton Street recently like a Bill from for they Aii bunt was prominently i Idip Lavedas total at the Bottom of to Heorhi in was the boxed explaining it was an off etto list your business incur classified t hats Fine except one this so called nationwide listing Pney a Winnipeg Box num Doest show its Telephone number on the lookalike if indeed it has its Doest have a listing the at its asking for Busi Nesses to Send Money sight unseen of its Durham says the solicitation is Damn near close Canada Post spokesman Brian Garrigan insist that outside of demanding that the disclaimer print be theres nothing the Crown corporation can i dont buy that at Canada Post surely has the regulatory Power of a Crown corporation to require that solicitations for Money sent should disclose the company head office address and phone if it make victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont fax or email Mike Ward on the internet at ;