Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 13, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press local september 1997 John Douglas 6977292 features Buzz Currie email my Ca a3 plane delays anger passengers continued from a1 company officials cite financial difficulties that came As a result of the highly competitive nature of the Canadian mar which also led to the demise of other carriers such As a press release issued late last night the announcement ends a Short but tur Bulent life for a delay in the delivery of one of its Only two 737 planes from its supplier left the company juggling flight times while inconvenienced Passen Gers the company initially said the Passen Gers anger was attributable to the fact that As a discount Many of its Passen Gers were new to the and didst understand that delays happen routinely in the air they also said other liners were refusing to help them schedule alter Nate flights for once their full Fleet was on officials delays would they As recently As last company spokeswoman Dawn Lashbrook said the liner had experienced isolated scheduling problems since its shaky but was running at about 80 per event on she did say last that due to ongoing seat sales by major Vista Jet was consolidating some routes for two weeks until its ridership picked the Man who Heads the Winnipeg air ports authority said yesterday that the announcement was but not completely we did see them As a credit and they paid in full for Landing said waa president Murray so theres no loss to Vista Jet has struck an agreement with air which will help passengers find the lowest fares possible for replace ment Vista Jet ticket holders Are asked to Call air Canada at and have their confirmation number a photo i so percussionist Frederick lessens plays the car Horn on a Jaguar for people at Portage and main symphony Toots its horns in rousing noon hour concert Morley Walker and entertainment columnist w atch your Mick a Young musical sprout named Bramwell Tovey stole your Thunder yesterday by conducting the Winnipeg sym orchestra in a rousing noon hour con Cert at Portage and this would be a great place for the rolling enthused civil servant Ronald one of the estimated people under Cloudy skies at the closed landmark Ujj even better if it was yesterdays of was Ethe Kickoff event of the sos 50th Annivera the highlight was the world pre Jhmiere of concerto for car horns and commissioned from Winnipeg born composer Victor so principal percussionist Frederick earned a stirring ovation for his pounding performance on the Horn of a 1997 m accompanying at the wheel of a 67 Pontiac was cd ctr personal Peter they should have hired some ladies joked office worker Arlene Witwick then they would have been Honky Tonk Winnipeg police staff Gary Shewchuk estimated the crowd at the Intersex motion was closed from to Shewchuk said traffic problems were min Wesley 3 turn it Down he said Winnipeg transit reported 15 minute delays on some downtown and traffic southbound on main was backed up several so attired in Black trousers and yellow performed from a raised bandstand facing West from Between the Richardson building and the Bank of Mon the excellent sound was amplified through Banks of speakers on either Side of the the orchestra opened the 50minute con Cert with Glinka russian and Ludmilla they also played Strausss radetzky selections from Bizet and Tchaikovsky Marche this is a part of said childrens musician Jake who hiked to the How often can you stand in the Middle of Portage and main and Only have two cars honking at you the baseball capped Ever the show earned his he told a few thanked corporate led the crowd in a round of hand clapping and even flogged a so scratch and win season ticket about the Only think he didst do was strip to the Waist like Jagger and set fire to the Bass Tovey adds said up rail employee Linda he has a lot of stage pres that for the so continues its 50th anniversary celebrations with a gala show tonight at the Centennial concert they Are slated to perform Tchaikovsky 1812 overture at the Forks tomorrow night at that concert is also the Only a few years shy of their 50th anniversary will play 30 at Winnipeg what served the families of our Community years ago May not be what serves them Well that Why our funeral Home remains at the forefront of innovations that provide real Comfort and practical at a most difficult providing pre services in seven chapels and reception centres with convenience these Are but a few when its time to look for a funeral Call on the one with a Jong of looking toward the Glen Eden funeral Home cremation cemetery reception Centre 4477 main Street Odim faults attitude of staff heart program held Back by my says by Alexandra Paul medical reporter a n1mos1ty among surgical staff and Lack institutional support led the surgeon in charge of childrens heart operations to lose Hope in the an inquest heard towards the end of the i was feeling it would probably never work in win or Jonah Odim testified on his seventh Day on the just As dims frustration mortality rates forced the Hospital to shut Down the program in Decem Ber 1994 nine months after Odim was recruited to Lead the the program was never Odim listed a series of complaints he feels held the program Back from personality conflicts with Doc tors and nurses to an inability of Hospital manage ment to come through with the support they promised when he was the led by associate chief provincial court judge Murray is probing the deaths of 12 Chil Dren in 1994 after open heart it will examine whether the program was Ever Odim said he wanted the program to continue and tried to answer the concerns of anaesthetists and nurses about High mortality i Felt the program could tackle some higher risk but it was strained because of the Way it was he the program was scaled Back briefly after Anes theists refused to assist on harder cases with Odim Dur ing the summer of that an internal Hospital review headed by chief paediatric surgeon Nathan Wiseman failed to put the program Back on Odim testified he Felt the doctors and nurses he worked with didst want the surgery program As much As he i did try to talk about the Lack of commitment to the n q u e s t but that was deflected by the issues of mortality and he he criticized the commit ment of doctors and nurses in the intensive care units and the operating but it was the anaesthetists he singled out for the harshest i always did sense there was some whether members wanted the paediatric cardiac pro Gram or they were just doing it because it was part of their Odim said of the Anes he said he Felt none of the anaesthetists got enough experience on open heart surgery because there were too Many of them doing too few he made similar criticism of doctors working in intensive care Only the per unionists who run the hear lung machines were like Odim with the same 100 per cent commitment to their under Odim conceded some criticism of his techniques was valid but the real stumbling Block was the hostility of people around in sure i could have done things we in might share that but in not sure what i could have done about the attitudinal in not sure i could have done any thing to change others on the team failed to understand the nuances and intricacies of paediatric cardiac and then made the tension worse in the operating room by chattering and talking through critical Points Dur ing Odim also questioned the level of commitment of the Hospital and the doctors who hired it included the whole Structure of the he dims testimony continues next Calvin Klein ;