Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Watch for cd Miles plus Sermon today including Emmi business a clod hoppers Candy has turned a grandmothers recipe into a $100,000 Success Story for a City company 12. Quot i vim my win a More than 22,000 fans we re at Winnipeg stadium to celebrate last night As the Blue bombers beat Montreal 34-23 i hot viewing a ambitious can series High Quality informative and fascinating by the weather a a Cloudy with occasional rain. High 12. Low 2. Details on Page c20 saturday free press inside sluggers on route 66 Sammy Sosa held the Home run Lead for Only the second time this season when he slammed his 66th last night but Mark Mcgwire matched him just 45 minutes later /d4hearts beating faster there san a adrenaline Rush at the health sciences Centre since the first heart transplant in Manitoba was done there thursday Hospital spokesman Niimi Rodger says. The identities of the recipient and surgeons remain a secret /a3farm policies a concern the Clinton administration said yesterday it is a highly concerned Quot about Canadas farm Trade policies /a15open up Axworthy says the in Security Council a must be More open and transparent in its work foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy told the in general Assembly yesterday. Canada is seeking a Inonu Perma nent seat on the Council /a20royal Bank Ante while the rest of Canadas big Banks were Busy Matching Cisco a mortgage rate Cut of the Day before the Royal Bank yesterday leapfrogged the Competition by slashing rates even further to Between 6.65 per cent and 7.60 per cent /b12today in your City province a the Nields with the dust rhinos West end cultural Centre 7 30 . $18. A fall supper la Riviere recreation Centre 4 30 to 6 30 ., $8 children six to 11, $4 preschoolers free. Phone 322-5717. 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A your lives have been totally torn apart a said Rick Pollock who owned the property with his wife Lori prior to sept. 16. A i Haven to slept in seven Days. Nobody can believe what a been a our lives have been totally torn apart sex property owner says allowed to the vacant parcel of land 1.82 hectares along the Assiniboine is in the Lido Plage area one of the wealthy new developments sprouting in the capital Region outside Winnipeg. A Neighbour described the vacant property As having a a million Dollar View of the Assiniboine because of taxes owing even though the sum was just $102, the pm held an auction for the property. But no one showed up said Andre Carriere the rms general manager. A woman who happened by for another reason put in a bid and it w As accepted Carriere said. She was the Only bidder. The woman Ann Pedersen is a part time employee of the municipality according to Norman Boudreau lawyer for the pollocks. A there has been a serious serious mistake a Rick Pollock maintained. A do you think for $102 i would let that property go no a houses in the area sell for up to $250,000, according to a realtor. Prices Jim Georges turns on keys three key West Fla. Reside its struggled to hold onto each other yesterday As they battled to escape Hurricane Georges fury As it descended on the Florida keys. Sheets of rain pelted Down whipped by 170-Kilometre-an-hour winds. Please see Story on Page a14. Early . Bomb tests pose cancer risk for thousands by Keith Mcarthur staff reporter thousands of people across Canada and the United states will Likely get thyroid cancer because of bomb tests conducted in the Nevada desert during the cold War. The tests a w hich the . Government once swore were Safe a will probably result in at least 11,300 cases of thyroid cancer in the United states alone according to a . National research Council study released this month. It is the second comprehensive study the . Government has commissioned in an Effort to determine the full effects of the fallout on americans. Neither study looked specifically at How Many canadians were exposed but special Repart tomorrow canadians learn they were under the nuclear Clouds a study stopped at Border a8 High Levels of contamination along parts of the . Border suggest that hundreds of canadians could also develop thyroid cancer because of the tests. A when looking at the fallout plumes just As there is significant deposition in Montana so must there be significant deposition in Canada a said Owen Hoffman an environmental scientist who worked on the studies. A Canada was the recipient of Nevada test fallout and possibly significant nuclear More than half of those who will develop thyroid cancer because of the bomb tests have not yet been diagnosed with it according to the arc study. Fallout from the nuclear weapons tests conducted Between 1951 and 1970, contained High Levels of radiation in the form of iodine 131, an isotope that leads to the development of thyroid cancer in some people. The fallout drifted far away from the Nevada test site a mostly toward the North and East a and fell As precipitation throughout much of North America. When people consumed milk from animals that had grazed on the a a hot pastures their thyroids were exposed to the radiation. Continued please see milk/a2 and development Are expected to soar now that the province has agreed to subsidize a water treatment Plant to serve heading Ley and surrounding municipalities such As Cartier according to realtors and residents. Carriere insists the municipality had no Choice but to auction off the property because of amendments to the municipal act concerning tax arrears. Continued please see rm/a2 Blue flu hits police suspension leads to 17 District officers phoning in sick by Mike Mcintyre police reporter one Day after a Winnipeg police Constable charged with assault w As suspended without pay most of the officers scheduled to work the Day shift in his District called in sick. Acting police chief Jack Swatski confirmed that 10 out of an estimated 16 District 6 officers in South Winnipeg did no to report for work yesterday morning. A police show support for buddy /a4 a it is unusual for that Many people to Call in sick. Around the rest of the City mostly everybody who a supposed to be at w Ork is at w Ork a said Swatski who said the situation w As upsetting. A the mood is a Little sombre when you get into a situation like seven officers on the District 6 night shift failed to show up for duties police said last night. Insp. Darryl Preisentanz said no other District reported significant numbers of officers calling in sick. As a result of the District 6 action officers from other divisions such As traffic w Ere forced into emergency duty to ensure that minimum coverage in the District was met. A we managed to fill All the Cruiser car positions a said Swatski. Although Swatski did no to want to speculate on whether the sudden sicknesses were related to thursdays suspension of const. Grant Eakin Winnipeg police association vice president Boyd Campbell was More forthcoming. A i think this May be a response by some of Grants fellow members. We appreciate w Here they re coming from but this certainly Wasny to organized by the spa a Campbell said from Ottawa where he is attending a conference. Continued please see suspension/a2 helping you make better business decisions mind master top few Tures $1799 mind master top / Intel Penti Uin ii 30 0 / 64mb ram i / 15�?� Monitor /6.4gb hard drive / Wake on Lan network card. / keyboard amp 3-Button mouse /windows�?~98, a a a / 3-yr. 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