Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba As local to 2000 8t Johns Yamaha mrs rec Centre 1 my or o Yam a a upright pianos digital pianos grand pianos cards a ii dancing v special pricing on All of our pianos monday to Friday am to pm saturday am to pm1 x sunday pm to 1330 Portage Avenue january is alzheimer awareness our volunteers will be going Doort door for thousands of Manitoba please Call 9436622 to give just a few hours of your alzheimer society Manitoba fort year Friendship stronger than illness they were girls when they Des tined to be bound forever As they experienced death and the trauma of illness now the women who made up the 1961 graduating class of the Winnipeg general hospitals school of nursing Are gathering for a special a tribute to a classmate who was always one of their Best and i think the experience of living together for three years made us class representative Margaret Steele we were All we went through so much for the most part i can pick up the phone and talk to someone i Haven spoken to in 40 i dont know that you even had to stay that we were close when we were Young and that has the nurses have held regular class coming together every five of the 72 original four have at least 45 of the women have attended the Large reunions on a steady Kathy Harvey was one of the constant remembered As a hard worker with an indefatigable who moved to Toronto shortly after returned to Winnipeg somewhere Between the 10th and 15th she was Marc Oai unt Winnipeg free press nursing grads of 61 from left Donna Scooter Sandra Allison and mar Garet Steele cant wait to visit ailing Kathy diagnosed with multiple she attended the 25th reunion party in a Kathy was at our 30th reunion but she missed the Steele weve spent six years talking about taking the reunion to her husband finally called and told us we probably on january Winnipeg Alumna will Fly to Toronto to hold the sem official class of 61 it is a Celebration and a tribute they organized across Bridge in numerous phone Calls and with phone Calls to there doing it because their Bond can never be the Winnipeg most of them will join eight or so graduates now living in the Toronto who has lived at a Mississauga Hospital for nearly a is a quadriplegic and can no longer the reunion will be a Cowkey weekend designed not to exhaust the guest of the regularly scheduled Winnipeg general Hospital nursing school reunion will still be held this Spring in All classes who graduated in the years ending in 1 or 6 Are asked to the class of 61 will be there in minus their Good Shes never been a says who says Harvey positive spirit continues some of the classmates will just e mail her when there Harvey has become known in Ontario for her Mouth painting and has designed an Annu Al Christmas card for the Mississauga Chap Ter of the is society for Many the cards have raised More than for research funding into the cause and cure of she has been actively involved in her has taught and has received numer Ous awards for her to me Shes just a Gutsy Steele she was a marvellous she was a Classy lady and just a very caring the Toronto reunion May be tinged with but Steele says still have a Good we used to have a Little she for theres some of but were doing this out of total respect for she is a part of our 3 did movies last this Deal wont wrongful death awards said too Low by Helen falling i get 3 free did movies by mail plus shipping and handling when you buy get free did movies by mail plus shipping and handling when you buy Shibi Warner Home video and Mem Home entertainment bring you the movies like never did movies deliver picture and sound Quality which rival the Best movie theatres right in your own did movies Are they dont Wear out or require did is where its and you can experience it on Toshiba full line of did players As Well As with a Toshiba notebook computer with capture the thrill with our Multi picture buy any Toshiba did from just and youll get 3 free 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recommended by the commission would bring Manitoba in line with awards in other it did not seem right that the life of a Manitoban is Worth while the life of an albertan is Worth or said Mack who asked the commission about six months ago to review the he became concerned after the court of Appeal declined to increase the Lump sum payment in place for 20 years after a woman died of cervical cancer because her gyn Ecol Ogist failed to Tell her the results of a Pap the Law Reform commission has also recommended that courts Start adjust ing the award rates for any changes will Likely come too late for the families who have already filed lawsuits Over babies who died after car Diac surgery at health sciences Mackintosh said legislative amendments do not normally apply retroactively to claims filed before the changes came into the baby death Issue will be dealt with by a different the minister of health will be involved in terms of he agreed with the commission that compensation should be a set figure rather than determined by the but Pollock said a solution would be to set As a unless liability is absolutely it does not pay to litigate a medical Mal practice suit with less than available in he when adults die families can often win larger awards based on loss of family but the Cap has been the limit for children in it did not seem right that the life of a Manitoban is Worth while the life of an albertan is Worth or More Justice minister Gord Mackintosh ;