Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 25, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press september 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Bruce Owen 6977292 Julia and Robert came up through hard times but still enjoy life they dance and will soon be triplets still up to Par and there almost 80 birthday Bash in works for dancing Trio Canadas oldest golfing triplets Are planning their birthday party and the tiny town of Mather is bracing for the i guess this is the talk of laughs Tom its probably the talk of the whole after everyone his brother Robert and their sister Julia Clark turn 80 on the triplets will celebrate 2 with a Home town Tea for 200 in Popula Tion located near the that another 300 peo ple will gather in nearby Clearwater for a the Taylor triplets Are Likely Cana Das although careful Statis tics we rent kept when they were the oldest living triplets in the world were the Cardwell Sisters of great Faith died in october 1994 at followed soon after by Hope and even if there not the oldest in the its a fair guess that there the oldest still hitting the links together and making theres a Par 3 Hole on the Pilot Mound last we All parred it at the same time on the same says it was really the three of us out there when asked if he considers him self a Good Taylor just Chuck i he i dont know How Tom Taylor still lives in the farm House where he and his siblings were Robert lives in Toronto and Julia in the says get together As often As we they plan at least two visits a with a pos Christmas meeting in Toronto already on this years Cal when the triplets were born nearly two months no one would have predicted their Long my dad weighed about two says Tom Taylors Pilot Mound resident Jolene Gar they put them in a shoe Box with Cotton Batten and they put them on the door of the they gave them Little drops of Tom says he was literally Tongue tied when he was they told the doctor to just leave the poor that id be dead by the three babies but less than a year later their father died of the which included two older stayed on the farm with the help of their Large extended i dont know How our Mother sur says we went through the those were hard but we their Mother eventually lost the family moved to Crystal City and after the second world Tom bought the farm Back and moved his son runs it but the older Man stays Tom Hast any secrets to account for the longevity of the he smoked until his 1981 heart he was the smartest thing i Ever he also credit to his Faith in in he in a firm believer in do unto i go to Church Jolene Gardiner says guests at the Clearwater do should be pre two sailors and a girl triplets in 26 serving their country in pared to see a Trio of dancing they can dance like nobody she there from the Era that they can they do it really Tom allows hell be cutting a Rug at the evening we always Fox trotted and he its something we still the party will be he but its not the highlight of his i beat my 20yearold grandson at he that was some d Winni Eggers flock to Brunt did for cheap Gas Brunild it was Worth the trip past Brunild for Many Winnipeg Drivers As they took advantage of some of the cheapest Gas in the we were what the said Norbert who had spent the Day in he said there Are also places along Highway 59 Selling at comparable Dens country about 30 Kilometres Southwest of Winnipeg on Highway is Selling fuel for cents a the Price inside the perimeter is aver aging 724 cents a staff said cars lined up All but its been crazy All Myrio Bergen Derek Brown said most customers were looking for a a Jot of people say they come from wanting to fill it some Guy came from the states to get he had a couple of Jerry cans and his Brown said while filling another Lehi a lot of Farmers bring their pick with a tank in the Back to Rick Ryder was heading Back to Winnipeg after an afternoon of Golf in win you might As Well get Gas where its he Jet a millennium project you can support Victoria general Hospital 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sustained health Rick Deputy minister of health a working group is trying to come up with plans for a Pilot project by april he that would be said who has multiple sclerosis and is dreading april because that also when her Pha Macare deductible is she said she and her husband have been thinking about leaving the province because of the High Price she has to pay for the bet Aseron that keeps her out of a wheel i be in As much As a Rush As to if drug costs were More she the 30yearold woman from the Pas is mar ried with two aged 6 and the drug she needs the generic interferon bet alb prevents the disease from she Ive gone from a Cane to a Walker in three said the woman who was diagnosed with is seven years this summer was the she said of the attacks that come and go but Are More severe each my legs were inside of my thighs Felt like glaciers and the outside Felt like drug plans vary from province to province and Gemmill said she thinks Manitoba is one of the least generous and most inflexible for people with a Dis ease like her husband Rob earns a year after taxes in his Job As a culinary instructor at Keewatin Community col lege in the she that approximately what it would Cost her to buy the drug if Pha Macare didst help pay for Shell have to pay for the bet Aseron she Hopes to Start taking next then pay the annual deductible again in she her parents will help with the and her husbands drug plan at work will reimburse her it can be More than to pick up your first prescription Michelle Gibbens a but Gemmill said she Wor Ries about Many people with the disease who dont have Manitoba Pha Macare Doest offer monthly payment Gemmill she has to pay the annual deductible for even though Shell Only be on the drug for three months of this she six months Shell be hit with another for the 2001 annual its not she she said shed have to pay a Flat a year for the drug in Ontario and would Cost about the same As Manitoba but there Are monthly payment options in and payment options in in patients pay from two to eight per cent of the drugs Cost she bet Aseron costs a year in that so an is patient would pay anywhere from to a in is patients have to go before a panel of neurologists to get approved for the then the provincial Blue Cross health plan will pay any thing Over per pre said Dorothy is society resource coordinator for who grew up in the said the Northern town is not the Best place for someone with she said Shes eyeing a move to the East where drug prices Are lower and win ters Are in Nova it costs a person with is a month for bet Aseron regardless of How much they says Rosanne manager of Community development for the is society Nova Scotia Branch in the is society in Winnipeg has asked the provincial government to look at More flexible payment options for patients said services director Michelle it can be More than to pick up your first she said of the drug Manitoba Pha Macare extended coverage to in february after a 20 month trial in the Pha 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