Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 16, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba December 2000 saturday free press k comics plus incl Oino Msten Days yuletide Bandit caught on tape images show How Polo Park shootout unfolded a3 party Hearty a comprehensive guide to Blackie dance dinners and other assorted bashes in the area to help you ring in the new year and the real millennium b1 t the weather c22 Snow aft blowing wind not ii 3076 high20 low31 whats in store Forai Gore Vic Epresi Dentai Gore wont be in poli tics any1 Hes done fora very Long besides partying do a15 customs curbed j j t Cost Orris Bateu saying it the right of asians to receive such for funny cow f taste owners ten i j t t 1 families flee Winter photos by Wayne free press volunteers build a sandbag Dike to keep floodwaters away from an outdoor Furnace in province braces for blizzard by Carol Sanders just when you thought the weather get any up to 12 centimetres of blowing Snow were expected to hit the City today As Winnipeg braced for its first blizzard of the environment Canada warned yester Day that an fast moving weather system from Alberta was expected to dump eight to 12 pm on the Southern part of the province with Strong Northwest winds gusting up to 70 Kwh this the blizzard warning was issued for the red Dauphin and Interlake an Arctic air mass will produce Haz ardous frostbite conditions and windchill values Between 2000 and 2200 today across All of Southern and Central Mani blowing Snow May make driving treacherous with visibility near warns the weather were watching it carefully and ready to swing into said Bob Mcdon Ald of the cites Public works continued please see blizzard a2 Jerome wife Carol Wall Check out the rising Roseau homeowners pack belongings As icy Roseau River closes in by Bud Robertson Stuart Burn families headed to dryer ground yesterday As workers frantically sandbagged Homes in an Effort to keep the rising Roseau River at it was a surreal sight whole streets in the tiny Hamlet 15 Kilometres North of the Canad United states Border were covered in an icy slush while Christmas lights blinked inside Homes that were on the verge of being As Many As seven families had packed their belongings and left to stay with friends and relatives while efforts to break up ice jams along the River blasting the ice jams which have caused the River to Back up has done Little to lower water by late last Stuart Burn was breathing easier after water Levels dropped an estimated Deputy Reeve Rick Tkachuk credited work by natural resources offi cers who used a Backhoe to chop up the ice in the Roseau to get the water Relief May be Only and the Backhoe is expected Back on the scene Over the week Tkachuk Jerome Reimer and his wife Carol Wall were the first to voluntarily evacuate their Home along the which had risen a further eight inches in the last three it now stands More than 10 feet above continued please see flood a2 took frequent trips with executive assistant officials travel plans unusual by Bill Redekop the head of first nation health care health Canada for 137 trips in just Over three including visits to the Peru and aus documents obtained under the Access to information act and his executive assistant billed the department for 100 trips Over the same Paul a former assistant Deputy minister with health Cana billed the department for the Cochrane 137 trips from March to trips by Federal adms Are not although even health Canada admits Cochrane was a frequent but what is say Dirks sources in is an adm who regularly travels with an executive Cochrane and his executive Aline trav Elled together at least 100 times during the period the frequency is said one Federal official of Cochrane and Dirks travels a department minister is normally the Only government official who travels with an assistants Only occasionally accompany adms on prolonged but not on two or three Day Domestic i think you should be Able to survive on your said the Federal who asked not to be the majority of trips Cochrane and Dirks took were Shorter Domestic vis according to the documents obtained by Access information specialist Ken Rubin for the free press and the Globe and More far Flung travel included trips to for nine Days for eight Days three trips to Mont a ski resort and frequent site for government retreats Dawson Yukon and Australia for More than two weeks for the Healing our spirits worldwide Cochrane and Dirks also and resort town Monte where they stayed at the chateau which has no government or corporate rate and rooms Cost from per Cochrane was director general of first nation and inuit health Branch of Nib from overseeing a budget of More than billion annual continued please see Cochrane a4 Treadmill Christmas Days december Khz to not valid with any other ;