Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba 36 pages vol 123 no 253 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post get 4 Post outside cily 754 in Ontario weekly Home delivery 25 wkly 05 Post in Winnipeg August spirit pulls the Little Hope left for jets As private sector Rescue bid comes to grinding halt by John Douglas editor spirit of Manitoba admit Ted last night its Effort to save the Winnipeg jets has failed and governments should firmly and finally scrap a Rescue emerging from a two hour meet spirit chairman Alan Sweatman told reporters that months of work failed to raise Money needed to keep professional hockey alive and that it is time to pull the plug on the jets and a new it has been a collective in ability to find the resources to meet All the criteria to go he As a spirit has authorized the the City and the fed eral government to firmly and finally end the project to retain the jets and build a new entertainment the death Knell left politicians the private sector ashamed and fans i think its very spirit oppo nent and City councillor Glen Mur Ray fort Rouge i didst re ally want to be failure Means the jets will play one More season in the existing Arena while the current owners try to find a new Home for the the jets Are scheduled to play exhibition games next month and there int time to move the refund donations for taxpayers that could mean covering losses that could reach million next the thousands of Manitoban who donated Money to the save the jets purchased limited partnership donated to the endowment fund through the City and purchased suites and club seats will have their Money refunded in the Days to the immediate task is to put the Money Back into the hands of the people who made the spirit spokesman Paul Robson details on How this will be done will be provided within the next few but some diehard supporters still held out Hope jets president Barry Shenkarow could be persuaded to try one last time to keep the team in others said its time to turn the up Many of us will visit the idea of a Canadian hockey league or joining the International hockey but were going to have to examine that without a world class spirit Board member Charlie Spring future plans Shenkarow said last night that he and his partners would hold a news conference today to discuss their when they pulled the plug yester spirit haunt met one of the three criteria it set out for exercising the option to buy the jets the group had raised Between and million in limited partner ship units and an endowment fund Short of the target and about half the million the nil wanted spirit was weeks away from getting Revenue Canada and a recent letter from the National hockey league to the private Sec Tor group made it Clear its plan Sim ply would not we in the private sector took on a Challenge and told people we would do a we didst get the Job Spring what is going to kill me is that three or four years from when the nil deals with its we Are going to be on the outside i wish we would have and could this is a really dark Day for Winnipeg fans torn Between apathy jets fans Trevor Wilk and Debbie Derksen Ponder the Fate of their team night at bows sports bar now that spirit has Given to just tired of said Joe Rodrigues blames spirit of Manitoba for the he said fans did their but the private sector inside i spirit loses costly Wager i hockey fans torn i where do we go from Here i jets to stay in barn in 95 few know convicted be Dophles address by Paul Wiecek police reporter a convicted paedophile is Liv ing in an intercity apartment but no one outside of the building has been City police confirmed yesterday they took the unprecedented step of going door to door in the apartment Block of the released from jail last to warn Resi but while police fear the Man will quote of the Day if it want for that we probably be Here Hong Kong Veteran Frank Harding says americas use of the bomb against Japan during the second world War was welcomed by those held prisoner in japanese details on Page b3 the weather today wind becoming South 20 in the after High Low tomorrow afternoon Cloudy High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on Page c10 they refuse to release his name to the Media or even Dis close his existence to the people Liv ing across the they said they Are acting on the recommendations of a committee set up to notify the Public of dangerous sex maybe Well be maybe Well stumble and youth Ken Biener but the decision of the committee in this Case was we do a limited one officer called the decision Asi if the Guys they inside diversions rubes and Ann c2 in sports to should Tell the officer what Are they going to keep the Guy in his apartment Block on a Leash or something Biener said residents in the Block were provided with Tolje mans photograph and a Brief description of his criminal sources say he was convicted of sexually attack ing neighbourhood who he would first the existence of the paedophile was disclosed yesterday on the same Day that the identity of an other sex offender was released to the the other Dennis Roy is to be released from Saskatchewan Penitentiary today after serving eight years and is expected to return to prison officials and police fear he May Biener said Frank refused to take part in any treat ment Frank was convicted in 1987 for sexually assaulting a woman he met in a Brandon bar for Over three hours at gunpoint and abducting a Winnipeg the provincial committee that recommended the two different forms of Public notification is the first of its kind in Canada empowered to publicly release the identities of dangerous sex Jennifer committee said there Are various categories of High risk she said if All offenders were subject of full blown Media releases the Public would soon grow weary of the whole drug store Check axed by Tony Davis staff reporter the Federal government plans to terminate regular narcotics inspections at Cana Dian pharmacies by next a move some pharmacists worry could increase abuse of the the biennial Standard for More than 40 ensure the volumes of narcotics purchased and dispensed by pharmacies the practice helps ferret out forged prescriptions and Winnipeg pharmacist Joe Yuen said he believes the vast majority of his colleagues keep tight control Over the narcotics they but pharmacists worry that if the Bureau of drug surveillance phases out some pharmacists might Cross the ethical if you have no you Are giving carte Blanche to the bad Yuen he worries such practices As the dilution of liquid narcotic formulas with syrups to in crease profits could Bureau spokeswoman Andre ver Mette said from Ottawa the Bureau is working with pharmaceutical and medical associations to come up with an alternate inspection pro Stu registrar of Manitoba pharmaceutical said Ottawa is offloading on to Provin Cial were not that would put a big workload on and were not prepared to do these inspections unless were going to be compel Wilcox the Mpa conducts biennial in but those focus on cleanliness and client Wilcox said Ottawa has indicated it is phasing out the narcotic inspections because the amount of abuse uncovered was negligible compared with the Cost of but he argues it May have been the Surprise inspections that kept unethical pharmacists in Carole chief of the bureaus Adverse drug reaction Divi said the termination was not a cos cutting and no jobs will be in two inspectors were responsible for Monitor ing about 300 this simply represents a shift in we feel theres an in creased need to strengthen the monitoring of Adverse reactions of drugs already in the said she said when some drugs Are introduced to the Market unexpected and potentially dangerous Sid effects can crop Bear in House claws teen by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter when Joshua Fosty told his parents there was a Bear in the no one believed until they saw the claw Marks Down his the Beausey Purcarea teen was heading to the basement family room to watch a Little television when he saw what looked suspiciously like a Bear lying by the crunching potato he took a step kind of like he didst believe his Lostys said the probably just As surprised As the pawed out at scratching his leg just above the bugeye and he came flying up and said theres a Bear Hunter friends and natural resources officials were called to help remove the male Black which had by now moved into the laundry room where it was lapping up Oil it had found i a deep on All he was higher than my clothes without a tranquil Lizer gun on they had to shoot the which had crawled in an open basement window next to Chokecherry Bushes it had the Early August incident is just one of a string of encounters those in the having with the hairy its just As bad in Northwestern with the Kenora police department receiving 61 Bear complaints in july a dry summer has dramatically reduced the Berry natural resources officers theres been lots of incidents with bears in the officer Bob Brundy said i had one this morning that ate some Brundy was just driving to a woman House where a Bear had stolen the laundry off the he said the area has seen some Urban which inevitably triggers More encounters As a lot of the new residents dont practise Good Bea proofing they put out the Bird feeder or people want to save their garbage for a week so they dont have to make so Many trips to the that just like putting up a free food sign for so two bears have had to be destroyed in the Brundy has responded to about 30 Bea related Calls Over the tips to keep those hungry Bruins at Bay How to avoid a Bear conflict keep and Foo Ain a place where bears cant get at put out garbage for pickup just before the garbage truck arrives or make frequent trips to the dump your put away your Barbecue after i keep comport smelling As clean As never feed if you do come in Contact with 9 Bear 1 if Bear sees Back away slowly while talking to the Bear in a Low if the Bear fight Back both physically and you might also attack the Bear with a stick the dont in confrontation and May dont play dead and cover your the Way Yog would against a sly or Black bears Are opportunistic feeders who May see that As an invitation to an easy ;