Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg for it cilium 2000 b3 sympathy War in Walkerton water foremans testimony piques emotions by Colin Perkel if its a Lynch mob youre looking you wont find one in this Rural town of not after seven deaths and hundreds upon hundreds of illnesses in not even after last weeks explosive confessions of incompetence and deception at the tainted water but anger there although its Sel Dom obvious to especially after water Foreman Frank Koebel gave a stunning account of deception perpetrated by him and his Boss and brother Stan manager of the Public utilities is a records Farsi anger fled to keep but people inspectors off t their backs Crit Are reluctant to ical safety discuss this they were too Media Tor times Herald on the it blew me says Pauline who told inquiry commissioner Justice Dennis Oconnor in August that those in charge of the water system had acted like people who insist on driving drunk and end up killing it was just an analogy at the i had no idea they really were like drunk if Frank Oebels testimony raised the towns emotional so did fridays news that Stan Koebel has negotiated a Severance which includes 100 banked vacation Days hell now never get to there is a real anger says Patrick editor of the local walk Erton people Are reluctant to discuss this thing with the even there is also what appears to be an almost saintly willingness to to refrain from pointing that partly because neither Frank nor Stan appear to have had any inkling they were playing with Peoples people in the Community realize that in no Way did they think it could create the tragedy that it says Jim whose first Cousin was struck Down by Coli Cathy whose two children fell horribly ill and whose husband is a plaintiff in a proposed class action suit that names Stan As a Mea sures her words i feel like theres lots of blame to go she the she were licensed to run the water system Only because of their almost three decades each on the not because they had any formal training or that testimony also revealed Frank had a drinking problem that followed him to but his big brother did Send him Home one time he was people will Tell when the chips were it was Stan and Frank who were out there putting in Long hours on making sure the water and lights stayed that is Why Stan had those 100 Vaca Tion Days in the Bank when he fell to pieces and went on sick leave just Days after the crisis on three police officers guarded Frank As he left after two Days of Frank and tearful but there was no Lynch mob no outraged citizens baying for no protest signs or screaming for criminal charges against the Brothers who were at the wheel As this towns Long troubled water system crashed and the people Are True says and they Are trying to Cope with this As Canadian press Ireland factions Hope Clinton can mend peace by Shawn Pogatchnik Belfast it was supposed to be his jubilant Victory Lap of Northern ire a Celebration of a historic Deal concluded and an elusive peace but when president Bill Clinton returns to Belfast this hell find a peace process once again flirting with the joint Catholic protestant govern ment at the heart of 1998s peace Accord is buckling under mounting mistrust and could be mothballed within and the Irish Republican fearful of exacerbating a deadly split within its is refusing to deliver a promised Start to disarmament that would relieve the pressure on other for the third time in five each Side is looking to Clinton intervention As a Best Chance to tip the Scales in its we desperately need a Deal before and we have to Hope that president Clinton coming heralds the end game because the alternative is just too terrible to said David a protestant politician linked to one of Northern Ireland outlawed pro British groups responsible for killing eight people in recent if Bill Clinton was the British prime we be in the fix were said Gerry whose Ira linked sinn fein party has benefited the most from Clinton unprecedented commitment to Northern Clinton Victory Lap in Ireland but with the presidents Lam Duck Sta Tus and key obstacles As intractable As american officials Are playing Down the Prospect of any Clinto chore graphed Hes Well As i of the limits of american said former senator George who brokered the 1998 Accord and will be accompanying were not the primary we dont make the Deci we dont dictate to anyone what they should or press port of our not a world apart autism society 204 7839563 Centre to Call the coordinator at 9898368 pick up wednesdays View for your Chance to win tickets to see eve Clear in concert february 2001 Walker theatre ballot forms will be published each wednesday beginning december 13 january the free press were there for you Jonas Ekstromer press swedish Royal family from Queen Princess King Carl Xvi Prince Carl Philip and Crown Princess Victoria attend Nobel award ceremony in Sweden first Nobel prizes of millennium awarded Stockholm the first Nobel prizes of the new millennium were awarded with peace prize laureate Kim Taejung of South Korea promising to devote the rest of his life to peace and human King Carl Gustaf of Sweden awarded the prizes for economics and literature to 12 laureates in Stock while South korean president Kim received the peace prize in the norwegian capital received the peace prize for his work for democracy and human rights across especially for his efforts to promote closer ties with North the founded in the will of swedish industrialist Alfred the inventor of Are each Worth the equivalent of about million the other laureates received their prizes at a traditional ceremony in Stockholm concert attended by they later took part in the Nobel a glittering Climax to the years Nobel attended by guests in Stockholm City this years Choice of literature Lau reate chinese born writer Gao Xingjian angered chinese authorities who said the award had political motives and the chinese embassy in Stockholm declined an 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