Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 2, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba See no evil several killer viruses a code 40 pages vol 123 no 241 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press Ost Post t get t Post outside clip in Ontario weekly Home delivery wkly t Post in Winnipeg wkly outside City August province was warned blast Likely by Wanda Chow staff reporter a Winnipeg Engineer who predicted last saturdays pipeline explosion nine months ago said it will happen that unless Tran Canada pipe lines changes its said Wayne a metallurgical specialist for test labs International in an october letter to the Provin Cial fire commissioners Tennesen said there would be a rup inside Story i pipe a ticking time bomb Ture on the pipeline in Manitoba in two to five i guess i was off by a few he said Tennesen made his prediction after Reading a 1994 transportation safety Board it concluded that the bulk of Cana Das natural Gas pipeline system is a ticking time bomb that could go off at any the which mentioned a 1989 leak near Brandon and studied three pipeline ruptures in Ontario in 1991 and pinpointed their cause As stress corrosion the same As in the recent Brandon who sent his warning letter to Alvin then the assistant supervisor at the fire com missioners said he knew he was probably warning the wrong of fice but i did what i he said he didst approach Tran Canada pipelines because he As Ken Gigotti Winnipeg free press Kyle with mom dad John and brother is going to City family gives up everything for son boy going to Hungary to learn to talk Batree Nathan staff reporter a Winnipeg family is moving to Hungary to give their son what they Hope will be the Best treatment for cerebral the Best one year at Budapest Peto Andras Institute for conductive education is what Debbie Loewen is counting on to help her Foury Earold learn to walk with a Walker or were really excited about said the Transcona the parents we talked to Are very passionate about the Debbie and her sold their Home and John has taken a 10month leave of absence from his Job As a Manitoba Hydro technician so Kyle can attend the school from september to there he will receive conductive education at the 50yearold its a therapy method designed to improve cerebral palsy patients walking and but its not Well established in Loewen the Only conductive education done Here is at three week Camps every year in there is another full time school in England but the costs were an hour compared to a Day in Loewen and Budapest is the Birthplace for conductive so we Felt better about she cerebral palsy is caused by poor development of the brain cells in the area that controls the development May be hampered by insufficient oxygen to the brain during brain head injuries and there is no cure for this which is believed to occur in to three cases in births in when Kyle was he was diagnosed As a spastic meaning he has Little control of his and he walks with a pummel to a baby by holding on to his parents with both his speech is also affected at age his vocabulary is limited to 50 in for seven hours a five Days a Kyle will be taught How to walk and talk through exercises designed As fun while Debbie will attend the school with John will teach their older son at Manitoba Hydro is also helping to raise Money for their year which they estimate will Cost for living and the cerebral palsy association of Manitoba has also set up a Kyle Loewen Trust which is accepting donations from the sued the company had seen the same report that alarmed a Tran Canada spokesman said the company is aware of the which led to a National Energy Board inquiry into the problem and into Tran Canadas testing and maintenance David Annesley said from Calgary that the National Energy boards final report contradicted some of the findings in the safety Board including a warning that some of the tests for stress corrosion May have actually increased cracking in the the safety Board report also questioned Tran Canadas decision to limit its stress testing to the stretch of pipeline Between Winnipeg and Toronto in spite of the 1989 Brandon Annesley defended the Eastern it was deemed at the time that the 1989 Bra Donarea leak was an isolated Annesley but he said the explosion on Satur Day has prompted Tran Canada to begin tests West of stress corrosion is hastened by corrosive soil deterioration of a pipes protective and certain testing and repair meth according to the safety Board Tennesen agreed its Tough to pre dict where a pipe will rupture but he said he has no doubt there will be an other burst unless All the pipes Are closely All the situations Are exactly the same As for saturdays explosion unless they can isolate All potential spots and inspect spirit wont give up ghost group plans song to raise Cash by John Douglas business reporter Over the next several Days Manitoban will be hit with infomercials and even a song in an attempt to re capture the emotion that propelled the save the jets Campaign two months ago to raise million in just four the True question is whether the Community is going to support the project with the financial resources that were committed plus another spirit of Mani Toba president Cam Osier we Are resolved to focusing our efforts on that and proving to the world the City can do squeezed by an impossible time a pile of technical bad Public relations and the failure to persuade City Council to Back a tax ruling needed to establish a Charita ble endowment spirit was on the verge of giving up the ghost just one Day but the groups members emerged last night from a four hour meeting saying there is Only Dis Honor in failing to finish the in spirit has vowed to intensify its quest to keep the jets in Winni shutting this Down would have been spirit chairman Alan Sweatman but for this to die on a tax technicality is a Rotten thing to go off its hard to but we searched our souls and decided if we were going to we were going to live and if we were going to we wont do it on a the new Mission capped a Day when even spirit critics went out of their Way to encourage them to go Israel Asper told reporters that while he did not like the plan spirit is proceeding the Issue is simply too important to let he also offered to help make the plan More palatable by raising million for inside Story reviving the spirit a6 spirit ignores councillors b3 no hockey events at the new Arena if spirit can close its the stakes Are too High to Roll the Dice with Peoples he told this is not five minutes to there Are still two weeks and look what we did in four what we Are talking about is per Manitoban that not a Stag Gering amount if we All pitch in to spirit Hopes to sell million in photos by Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press Osier left and Sweatman vow to continue the Campaign to save the Asper left said while he has doubts about spirits game he wont let the nil team leave Winnipeg without a limited partnership units and raise More than million for an endow ment 15 to close the the private sector group expects to raise another million Over the next two years to increase the endowment fund to million by the time the new Arena would open in but for the plan to spirit still requires City Council to Grant tax status for its endowment yes the finishing touches were put on a plan to try to get the Issue up for another vote this Asper rated the chances of a Posi Tive vote As i dont think weve heard the final work on the tax he in optimistic that if the total picture is put before it will do its part and agree to the spirit fundraisers left last nights meeting prepared to put the Pinch on everyone who promised Money in sources say if spirit can col Lect on All the pledges made for the endowment they will surpass the interim quote of the Day when military weapons Are turned on the american who makes that decision representative Bill Zeliff grills attorney general Janet Reno on the deadly decision to use tear Gas on the Branch Davidian compound in details on 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