Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, May 26, 2000

Issue date: Friday, May 26, 2000
Pages available: 172
Previous edition: Thursday, May 25, 2000

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba May 2000 Winnipeg free press Hollywood reviews the province opening Day 2000 whats new at the Park a3 Brian Duva spouts off d1 Gold eyes preview d5 Manitoba gets two thumbs up from visiting movie makers c1 flyer in today paper winning on1y the increasing afternoon 40 Chance of High 20 low8 t garbage Day 3 school Day 1 inside missing Justice child find Manitoba is leading the charge against internet paedophiles by pushing for legislation to protect kids a6 judge warns lawyers Madam Justice Ruth Krindle threatened yesterday to sequester jurors for the Dura Tion of the Manitoba warriors trial a trial that could take a lawyers on both sides of the courtroom dont Stop talking about the Case to the Media a3 determined not to die there was a Hole in his right his Mouth was full of broken Teeth but Patrick Castro was deter Nii Ned die in the base ment of a new York restaurant where he and six other workers had been shot Sisters sweep awards Sisters Lindsey and Shannon Wiebe of Glenella cleaned up yesterday As awards were handed put in the Canadian authors association Winnipeg fic Tion contest c5 i business Sale imminent regulators have reversed a ruling that Winnipeg Bun Ler industries is ineligible to buy versatile farm equip Clearing the Way for a Sale of the Winnipeg tractor so new Luthin two Buh says axe fire hire More paramedics report by David Obrien the City has tentatively endorsed a report that Calls for boosting paramedic services and a net reduction of three fire stations in a sweeping redeployment of firefighting five of the cites 26 fire Halls Are targeted for but two others would be built in new the 169page analysis by Tri data of also confirms earlier studies that said Winnipeg ambulance service is drastically under staffed and that its response times Are Well below acceptable a shortage of ambulances in the City has been linked to at least one death and hour Long Waits have become paramedics have said the service is near the breaking Tri data says an Ideal response time for critical medical Calls is eight min 90 per cent of the the Winnipeg service responds to those Calls in 12 minutes on 90 per cent of the it continued please see fire Halls a2 Why did they die officials knew water tainted Opp launch criminal probe by Andrea Ball Lle officials knew As Early As May 18 that this towns water sup ply was contaminated with deadly Coli bacteria but failed to warn the Public about the massive outbreak that has now killed five people and threatens to claim More after that admission by a shaken and nervous Jim chairman of the towns tiny Public utilities commis Ontario provincial police yester Day launched a criminal while a lawyer filed a class action Law suit alleging negligence on the part of town a coroners inquest will also be Kieffer said neither he nor the mayor was told that a test had shown the water was contaminated until after the residents were ordered to Start boiling in the Kieffer admitted that his manager didst realize the potential threat to lives despite a report on thursday of last week that showed the water was at the particular yes that said sounding the admission followed a shocking allegation from the areas medical offi cer that the utilities commission knew for at least a week before people started dying that the water was co Tami this could have been said Murray who asked commission workers three times Dur ing the weekend if the water was Safe to drink and each time was told there was no continued please see water a4 Kevin Frayer press a Young girl Centre is taken to an evacuation helicopter by family and paramedics in Walkerton our water is City says Kevin Flayer Canadian press angry resident Philip englishman shouts at Winnipeg water is Safe from a bacteria outbreak similar to one that has claimed five lives in Southern Ontario this the City Kelly research Engineer with water and says two factors contribute to the Quality of our drinking the first is the Basic Quality of the Shoal Lake is a very fairly Pristine and the water Quality is very Kjartanson we dont see much in the Way of As there Are few livestock in the lakes Kjartanson which is one of the sources of the Coli Bac Teria which got into the water system and killed five people and made hundreds More he said once the water begins its journey to Winnipeg and your it is treated with chlorine which kills bacteria at three separate the disinfection system is continually As is the chlorine level in the there Are 19 Points in the distribution system that we regularly he the City is also looking at building a water treatment facility that would replace the chlorination opera sings new fires director Manitoba company choking on red talks merger with so by Morley Walker Salemno dismissed Manitoba opera has fired its music marking the second time this month the american conductor has been Given his walking the dismissal yesterday of Louis Salem no comes at a time when arts Community leaders Are floating ideas about merging several beleaguered including the the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Winnipeg symphony we should be talking about these Rob Board president Sandy Foster said the future will need to see a revolution for opera Board president Bud Sherman said that Sale nos which paid him for 15 weeks a was terminated in the Best interest of both it just want working out for either of Sherman this will allow us both to move he said the opera will take its time and exercise due Diligence in finding a replace in the a committee will be struck to Deal with artistic and a full season of three shows is planned for next continued please see opera a2 1c computers 17 marys Road 95894oo 1o6 the Bay downtown jul Lubou open sunday the Bay vital 2nd Hook out n sunday my Bawd drive my carom 32m0pc100ram 30 sound internet Moum cup 18 Kyd 16 Colour Monitor 1 year on internet 1099 Imam Vowk sound 13 of hard drive 48 Max carom 64mbpc100ram Ambar Pidto 30 stereo 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