Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email b1 August 1995 festival wears out Welcome by Bud Robertson and David Kuxhaus staff reporters some Cor Donarea Resi dents Are so miffed with the annual Days of wine and roses festival they May petition the police to shut the Celebration and the areas City councillor said hell pull the plug if organizers dont cancel the Beer gardens and loud Rock i will not allow this to proceed if certain conditions Arent Glen Murray fort Rouge Jessie Avenue resident Kevin one of about 50 people who crowded into a Hall recently to voice concerns Over the said going to police is one of the options the residents Are consider ing after years of putting up with loud music and throngs of it degenerated into a it was a Nolan said of last years id rather not have it at said another police can put an end to any event that uses a Public area such As a City Street if its judged to be Murray said Hes met with area merchants and is confident things will be toned Down this this will be a family festival and not the kind of event some 21 year old kid will be coming to look ing to listen to hard Rock music and get Murray while police made Only one arrest during the three Day Festi Val last 20 officers were called to a 7eleven convenience store on Corydon after a gang of 300 youths swarmed the As Back lanes were blocked with traffic and one adventurous couple even decided to have sex on an outdoor picnic said who has lived at the same address for 25 Corydon business improvement zone chairman Gerry Parent promises this years Days of wine and roses festival wont be a repeat of last years deadly virus lurks in shadows Parent said the Corydon Avenue Street which runs 8 to wont have the huge Beer Gar Dens or the Rock bands that Drew some revellers to the area last we were under the mentality that bigger is admitted Par adding the festival plans to return to its ethnic Rock bands will be replaced with opera singers local restaurants will take Over for the hot dog Ven Dors and the Beer gardens will be a lot he As local people will be involved with arts and crafts Dis plays and the carnival wont be Fea Turing games of Chance and adults Only Parent noted Security staff will be More visible this but Nolan said not even a scaled Down version of the festival will appease however Marie of the Corydon Village residents Assoc i think most residents Are supportive of that kind of by Wanda Chow staff reporter imagine being seriously ill for six years without doctors knowing what was wrong with that what happened to 63yearold George who was finally diagnosed in 1992 with hepatitis a potentially deadly virus which had been discovered just three years its believed he was infected by a blood trans fusion during a Gall bladder operation years but by the time doctors diagnosed his his liver had already been necessitating a liver Tessier was one of More than 80 people who showed up at a recent hepatitis c Public Educa Tion forum sponsored by the Canadian liver foun Dation and the Canadian red Cross society and led by his Gerald the virus affects As Many said director of the liver diseases unit at the health sciences in that Means More than most dont know he symptoms Are an uncommon those most at risk of being infected by the which is spread through direct blood blood con Are people who share contaminated Needles for drug who have had transfusions of contaminated blood or Are engaged in no sterile body piercing or while the risk of contracting the virus through transfusions of blood or blood products is extremely Low since the red Cross began testing for the virus in per cent of Haemophiliacs who depend on blood products will test positive for hepatitis Minuk among people who have Ever used intravenous 80 per cent will test infected people can prevent the spread of the virus by not donating blood or and not sharing intravenous drugs or a Needle used by an infected person can contaminate a shared vial of intravenous Minuk outside of those High risk contracting the virus is a relatively uncommon he while it is theoretically possible that it is spread through sexual activity during a woman menstrual it is rarely transmitted sexually or from a Mother to her child during he the principal symptom of the disease is but most people have no noticeable symptoms Over the course of the infection while All hepatitis c is inflaming and damaging their Usu ally causing or of the in later stages of the symptoms typical of liver disease such As swollen Ankles and spontaneous bruising and jaundice and yellowing of the eyes and Twenty to 30 per cent of people infected with the virus naturally rid themselves of it without treatment within six months of Minuk the rest May never get rid of the Marc free press four horses Graze near the Tran Canada Highway As the Sun sets on another warm Prairie Day East of summertime and the Sellin is easy by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter the hot dry summer has created a Bonanza for resorts and a boost for those who sell seasonal commodities like Rod supervisor for the grand Beach District of the Manitoba natural resources depart said people flock to grand Beach each weekend up 20 per cent from last he said some credit for this years and summer is due to the alcohol ban in provincial Parks on the Victoria Day Bob president of grand Beach which runs the Beac Side drink and ice Cream operations and the Board walk surf club estimates his business is up 60 per Mark White Shell provincial Park Man said this has also been a great year for the with campgrounds full almost every business has also boomed at Clear Ray new owner of the wigwam restaurant and said his business is up Over last Trevor who has run Mckoyes ital Ian restaurant the past six he said this year has been Good and because so Many cottagers Are there for the Good weather into september should help him As in a poor sum most people leave labor Day Bill president of Wett sales and Distri which distributes great Moose old Strohs and Corona Beers in said this has been the Best year in the five years he has been in Gould attributed the Success to warm weather plus a growth in the brands he Dune Rousseau of Molson breweries said this has definitely been a Good its Bee drink ing no doubt about audiences waste no time in filling ethnic pavilions by Manfred Jager staff reporter m r m f i y Grant Park 500 Nathaniel Street nightly performances of italian and sicilian we music and dance by performers including Bart Maria the Ted Komar band and the sicilian Folk sunday and and 11 monday to Pavilion opens 4 sunday and 6 monday to food pasta Al Spaghetti and italian sicilian cannot and various imported gone Are the years when the August Long weekend meant a slow Start for Folk last they were packing them in at the slovenian and the hungarian pavilions with better shows than Ever and delicious National spot checks with some of the other 15 firs week Fol Lorama pavilions in the 26th annual Cele bration also indicated above aver age Bryan coordinator of the slovenian said the 800 members of his ethnic Community Are As Lively in their cultural Pur suits now As they were during the heyday of slovenian immigration to Canada Between 1947 and the Pavilion is located in a 300 seat tent at 95 Macdonald More important our culture and language have always been More important to us than or military assertive Lebarch weve been accused throughout our history of shifting with the wind and weve been part of just about All the coun tries surrounding us As a we adjust ourselves politically in the interest of what really mat ters the things we hold at the Hungar Pannonia Pavil 960 Arlington perspiration was the order of the Day for 40 Young singers and dancers belonging to the hungarian Kapis Tran this there presenting 18 shows at the Burton Cummings Community and dance coordinator Elizabeth does it losing weight with All this exer Cise she i Only have you tasted our Hun Garian dishes whose group is named after a medieval hungarian nation Al has been involved in Folk Lorama since the age of there Are about Hungary a canadians in communities Hurt by funding cuts by Bud Robertson staff reporter Federal funding cuts and engineers miscalculations Are wreaking havoc on a num Ber of communities that signed on to a Federal provincial infrastructure one town underestimated the Cost of its waterworks project by nearly while three other r which were expect ing to get millions of dollars under the Canad Manitoba partnership agreement on municipal water infrastructure had their funding requests we feel we had something that was taken away from said Morden mayor Ernie the town came in under budget with the first phase of a two part sewage and waterworks said but expected for a badly needed water treat ment Plant was received Only million of the million it needs to Complete a major sewer and waterworks the town is currently appealing the decision to Cut its funding and is awaiting word from Steinbach received million for its sewage infrastructure program but was denied million for new i think were going to have headaches All the Way conceded Manfred Secre tary to Pam is management which oversees the other factors which have added to woes faced by communities include engineering miscalculations and contractors charging More for their work than had been planned said at least three communities Are facing funding shortfalls after engineers underestimated the actual Cost of their for is seeking additional funding after finding out its waterworks project will Cost More than planned an engineering report prepared in the late 1980s did not reflect the True Cost of treating water con Taining arsenic and said Virden Secretary treasurer Robert the figures were incorporated in a estimate when the town signed on to the program in late is Over its while Altona and Arborg Are Short As much As ;