Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 7, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A local win nuts frit junk 2000 Shirley microbiology director at end protest laboratories in holds a Petri dish containing focal col form and possible Coli bacteria that would make water unsafe for fluid Bon Evilie free press lab finds 10 per cent of Manitoba samples contaminated water tests turn up Coli by Alexandra Paul focal col form and Coli Are showing up in As Many As 10 per cent of Provin Cial water samples now flooding in for testing in the Wake of the outbreaks in walk and say Laboratory people who have been taking their water for granted Are now said Shirley microbiology director at end protest a private lab that does the bulk of testing on food and soil samples in the lab has uncovered focal col form counts of far above the National safety guidelines of 10 parts per 100 Millilitres in about 120 of water the Sam Ples were sent from private Wells and municipalities after provincial officials warned last week that drinking water int tested enough and May not be As clean As the lab also discovered mild strains of Coli in drinking water where there should not be any at the provinces chief medical officer of health is concerned about Manitoba Overall water were concerned that people have Safe drinking whether they fall under the Public health act or said Joel private Wells and private labs dont fall under the authority of the health said Ket the labs and owners Are under no obligation to report contaminated water on private if a Public health officer became aware of the the officer could act under the insanitary conditions he the tests Are the first widespread sampling of Manitoba drinking water since the flood of the same year the former provincial government axed subsidies that allowed fam Ilies to test Well water free of people now pay either to test for focal col form and Coli bacteria or for tests that also include the message id like to give is How important Public health it needs to be kept in the limelight but we tend to be nonchalant about it and it takes incidents like Walkerton and Elkhorn to bring it to the Czogan now the labs receptionists Are answering an average 200 phone Calls a if you were Here this morning and saw the the numbers Are there were a couple of Hundred at the bus said lab manager Wanda Kettner warned not to read too much into test we dont draw too Many conclusions from a single he he would be concerned if tests results consistently showed High focal col form that a much More serious prob he mild strains of Coli showed up in about one per cent of samples in counts As High As 100 parts per Millilitre in water that was also contaminated by focal col form the Coli discovered by lab experts in the Well water is not the deadly Strain found in Walkerton and although it is enough to give people a Nasty Case of Walker tons tainted water is suspected of causing As Many As 11 one thousand people in the town of reported symptoms after drinking water was contaminated with Coli in two toddlers were infected with the same Strain of bacteria on their parents cattle farm More than a week tests cleared the farms Well but results of tests on soil and food samples for evidence of the illness known As hamburger disease Are still Caitlin and her brother 20 remain in health sciences Centre on dialysis in serious but stable condition after the bacteria damaged their As Many As 150 people a year get sick with hamburger but the province has no record of the illness being traced to drinking As in it is usually linked to undercooked the bacteria live in the intestinal tract of summer sa1e casual pants summer shorts dress shirts Long sleeve dress shirts Short sleeve Polo its ii Moores oversize extra charge clothing win for a location nearest you Call 1877mooris6 soph now continued from Page a1 the woman did not testify during Sopho nows first trial and showed up As a defence witness during the mans second at the time she said she want interviewed by but went to Sopho nows lawyer when she heard about the Case through Media coverage of his first if she was telling the he didst do said it bothered me that they didst talk to Winnipeg police Bob Johnson said yesterday Swatski will Field questions on the police investigation into the cold Case tomorrow during a press until he police will not be i am going to stay mum on the he i dont usually say no com but today in saying no details of exactly what Swatski plans to announce Are but a source close to the Case said yester Day the Dan results will go a Long Way in supporting Sopho nows 19year Battle to prove his it will be a very Good Day for said the friends and family Mem Bers on both sides of the Case say nothing can repair the damage the last 19 years of waiting and uncertainty has Tate said the Legal Battle has taken its toll on her brother and has strained the family Hes changed after All she said from her Home in weve grown late said while her brother awaited his Fate in jail he was forced to miss his Brothers wedding and was not allowed to attend his fathers Patrick Levecque was Stoppels Boyfriend when her body was found on the bathroom floor of a Boni face doughnut shop in december with a length of twine twisted around her he said he and Many other friends of Stoppels never believed soph now was the teenagers he didst seem to fit the he according to what other witnesses said and it just didst seem right to Levecque said the length of time that has passed since Stoppels killing will make it difficult for police to solve the maybe now someone will finally feel guilty or get a conscience and admit to he but for now theres no Comfort in there is still a family that Doest have anyone to answer for their daughters volunteers Roll up sleeves Over the next four More than 150 volunteers from across the City will Plant and pamper their Way through the United ways first City wide Days of thirteen projects will Benefit from the efforts of volunteers from 16 Winnipeg As they work together to Benefit seniors and people with the projects include i Canada Post volunteers will repair and paint the age and Opportunity seniors Centre on Burnell i can West global volunteers Are painting the new Canad an paraplegic association logo on its i volunteers from Meridian Canada Are upgrading the Elizabeth Fry society Facil i ten its pioneers will be painting a Large map of Canada on the Grosvenor school i Bank of Montreal Volun Teers Are helping Macdonald youth services renovate the inside of its i cambrian credit Union volunteers will be planting a Flower Garden at the Anne Ross i volunteers from the Royal Bank financial group and its Are helping Malawi i Chi Itata Host a i forty volunteers from the North West company will be painting eight residents rooms at the native women transition i Boeing Canada volunteers Are cleaning up the Rady jew ish Community centres Camp i volunteers from Cibic Are cleaning up scouts Canadas Camp i investors group volunteers Are cleaning service de con i volunteers from agriculture Canada Are helping with the stroke recovery association of Manitoba mad hat ters Tea party and knitting i the body jerrys hair design and Day spa and the Wellington College of reme dial Massage therapies will be treating the women health clinics mothers morning out program to Beauty and relaxation treat clean slate at native policy Summit two thousand native leaders from across Canada Are meeting in Winnipeg this week to discuss policies that affect band elections and land and resource and transferring the which runs until is a joint initiative Between the Assem Bly of first nations and Indi an and Northern looking at How to Transfer More control of those election and land issues to first Roger the fans executive coordinator of research and says the conference is an Opportunity for first nations leaders to have input on policy before its drawn rather than after the weve started off with a clean he what weve through the Assembly of first is try to get the first nations themselves talking about the kind of the there comfortable Jones said the consensus from this weeks conference will be brought Forward at the fans annual general Assem Bly in Ottawa in auction Saij auction House Jimr s thru management co Uva Lux Ruva 28 bulb tanning bed 6 Salon chairs 4 hair dryer chairs reception counter display stands rec thru Sentinel of Kif storage Over 50 tvs some sold by the lot 50 Vars sold by the lot to testing equipment to parts and Ace books Konica camera old brass Horn 10 aluminium step ladder Raven guitar Delta 10 table saw tools Coal Oil lamps Nice Gold Star bar fridge 2door Metal Cabinet Canon 1020 photocopier service counter Grey 6 shelving Oak barrels wine press barrels sold in one lot 4 pc bedroom suite upright piano boxes sold by the pallet plus other items too numerous to rec thru try step 1979 Chevy Impala station Wagon 1985 Plymouth caravel 1979 Ford tile warehouse Ceramic floor tile 49 2334418 50 Archibald la i s u t als 18002674als conference of mennonites in Canada notice is hereby Given that the conference of mennonites in originally incorporated by chapter 91 of the statutes of we present to the parliament of at the present session or at either of the two sessions immediately following the present a petition for a private and to Amend the act of incorporation in order to change the corporations name to mennonite Church to revise the Constitution of the including its objects and Powers to delete certain restrictions on the holding and disposition of real property to permit the corporation to carry out Iii objects and exercise its Powers outside Canada and to make such other technical and incidental changes to the act As May be ;