Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, December 13, 2000

Issue date: Wednesday, December 13, 2000
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 local Winn Pix Fruh Dick bib 2000 pills s Arcet prices effective 13 2000 Green giant Kernel or style Corn q q f 341398 my Vav Kelogg Corn flakes cereals 525 Black Diamond proce cheese spread 580 Blue water fish folgers ground 300 Lakeland soft Margarine tub Beatrice Chocola milk i Sqq Kitty Brunch dry cat food i 1 Jet Dove dish detergent 500 by chef boy Ardee Spaghetti sauce 635 Sun Rype ffi5juices deep Cove Flake Lite tuna 170 Macaroni cheese dinner 206 g produce Royal gala apples Canada Grapefruit Usa cooking onions Usa grown Green cabbage meats Cut from Canada beef fresh Mcken legs Back smoked picnic shoulder 1 1 Chuck Blade t sirloin 2 inside round stewing ground xxx Oft 59 pork loin roast 2 j pork loin chops 2 j cooked roast g coarse garlic 2 j Bacon cadets g 1 775 Westminster 10 am 8 pm 855 Mcgregor 1oam8pm 619 Broadway 9am9pm 227 Henderson 9am 9 pm 719 Matthews ave 1oam8pm on Estop Accident reporting program offers hidden Benefit for Mph hit and run claims disappear Driver beware i dont want to Call it a hidden lets just say that Drivers Arent the Only ones who Are receiving a Bonus with the newly announced hit and run program from Winnipeg police and Manitoba Public the Bonus for the i Landrun victims is obvious they dont have to go to both a police Sta Tion and a claims Cen tre to file a Accident specialists from the police and Mph will take your reports and inspect the damage together at one of two City claims its on Estop shopping for so its More says Mph Vic president John As for the hidden Benefit for Mph and police it so happens that a similar program has already been running in Brandon for a what weve interestingly says is when somebody sets an appointment and we Tell them police will be there on hand to take their state ments and fill out their a Quarter of those claims Are that suggests As Many As 25 per cent of hit and run claims Are by the there Are million Worth of i Landrun claims every year in and the most common Type of hit and runs you the parking lot i i i fire follows received an email from Glenn one of the firefighters injured in last weeks House fire in wrote Glenn i would just like to take this through to thank All of my fellow and strangers who phoned me and wished me it is much easier to get through what we went through with a great support sys tem behind Glenn is still not Back at Hes still recovering from smoke inhalation and Burns to his so i called him yesterday and asked him about All the Calls he Glenn said the one that really stood out came from a the caller was the grandson of the 70 year old woman resident of the House who Glenn and the other firefighters were erroneously told was still the grandson left a message thanking Glenn for what he and the others tried to i i i David Goldenstein called to say his who lost his Job when Art upholstery was torched last has found another my dad just found his dream is the Way David phrased Hes working with Rob Baldwin at that furniture a few others also have found jobs and a few More might also find work with that furniture the response to his fathers plight seems to have restored Davids Faith in Humankind and human i i i did you that renowned Winnipeg film director Guy Maddin is writing a feature for the Vil Lage voice on the locally shooting Abc movie of the week about the Osmond that 19yearold Alexandria daughter of Tony Deluca and his wife and Felicia has a dancing role in the Osmond movie that veterans affairs minister Ron Duhamel was a Boxer in the army that Ron Paley and other former Mem Bers of the Winnipeg jazz society Are try ing revive the group and its monthly music get together if youre phone Lou Wolfe at i i i dear i thought you and your readers might enjoy a pre Christmas act of kindness after the stolen Santa incident i am a student at the University of Mani school of and we of right in the Middle of final this my Friend Cindy came to pick me up Bright and Early so that we be late for our music history while driving out along a gentleman honked to let us know that our tire had gone we made our Way to the near est service station Only to be told that the air Hose was Frozen and didst it was the same Story at another station Down the Road who knew that those things by now its 20 minutes before our exam and we Are clearly not going to make it after an attempt at changing the tire and discovering that even the bolts were Frozen we went on our Way to Call a this is when our Good Samaritan Angels pulled a woman named Leslie and her Little girl Montana with the Beautiful she offered us a ride to the University and even managed to Calm us Down on the Way All i know is their first names and that they moved to Winnipeg from Regina a year i just want to thank her again very much and to Welcome her and her family to with her exceptionally Large she should really fit in we made it to our exam with five whole minutes to spare thanks Gordon Marylynn Hepple and Cindy Isaak 3 installation and firs month free with Allethe news and communication possibilities All a fils the perfect family sign up and if ninth the St v h1 v High More room in med school about 15 More Manitoban will get a Chance to enrol in medical school next health minister Dave Chomiak confirmed the increase reverses cuts made by the former tory government in the Early firs year enrolment at the University of Manitoba medical school currently stands at about 70 to Chomiak the minister also plans to create new residency positions in family Medicine and other specialities for students who have already completed medical residencies provide two to four years of ont Ejob training in Hospi in the number of residents in family Medicine was reduced by the former government from to 24 from said Manitoba wants More provincial finance ministers Are calling on Ottawa to put More Money into the pockets of have not including about million for Mani while increasing Transfer pay ments to provinces across the finance ministers meeting in Winnipeg yesterday presented the Federal government with a United demanding it restore Transfer pay ments to pre1995 Levels and include an escalator clause that would see the payments increase each year As the Economy but they also called for a new method to calculate equalization pay ments to poorer provinces and removal of a Cap on those equalization payments Are based on a formula that looks at each provinces ability to raise comparing it to a National that Standard is based on the Rev Enue numbers in five provinces British Man Ontario and the finance ministers want a new based on the Revenue num Bers of All 10 Manitoba finance minister Greg Selinger said that would put an additional million into Manitoba cof fers and Cost the Federal government billion to right Manitoba receives about billion in equalization smuggled goods seized a Winnipeg Man tried to enter Canada illegally by driving past signs and construction pylons with a Cache of smuggled goods at a closed Border crossing at ninety two boxes of eight two Cartons of a cd Burner and a pair of Pearl earrings were among the goods seized from the Toyota 4 runner driven by the 35year old said Jeff chief of Canada customs and Revenue Agency intelligence and contraband the Man was arrested at on John ramp staff sergeant with the customs and excise said charges of smuggling Are being contemplated under the customs act and because of the tobacco products there Are also offences under the excise ;