Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba December 2000 Winnipeg fre flourish with on daily interest Oivinn 9256824 1877achieva Ress put Hawer Chuk in the Hall overlooking Best Jet Ever for hockey Hall of Fame is a fumes Scott Taylor c1 seasons ratings Winnipeg celebrities share their Christmas table traditions the Snow tapering off later in the wind n 3050 high17low32 garbage Day 1 school Day 2 inside party time in Scotland up to reporters and the first of Thea list guests including Gwyneth Paltrow and fashion designer Stella Mccartney have started arriving in the scottish High lands for Madonnas wedding Friday to British film director Guy Ritchie 07 drive stay alive thinking Abou drinking and Dri ving during the holidays think there Are plenty of Safe ways get a night of bus ser vice on new years to operation red nose a16 scouting the bowls football fans ar6 looking for Ward to enjoying tie slate of College bowl games and so Are the Winnipeg Blue the wont be Tun ing Inion bombers brass Wui use the to scout Talent map off ice rite of president Bill Clinton advised Bush to get a Good and do what he thinks 014 i business on the honour Roll 1 four Winnipeg companies Are the 50 Best managed private companies St Canada this year and of Are value Butth Eyre top Busy to More less crime Manitoba population growing breaking numbers fall by a third in City by Kevin Rollason and Alexandra Paul Manitoban got a double dose of Christmas cheer from fed eral number crunchers yester Day crime is shrinking and our population is continuing to Home alarm systems and fewer male teenagers Are being cited by experts for the almost on third decrease in break and enters in Winnipeg since and Manitoba population is on track for a second consecutive year of growth the first time that happened since the More people Are moving Here because there Are More the provincial Economy is growing by nearly three per cent this year and its forecast to do the same next according to statistics compiled by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statis Winnipeg had per cent fewer break and enters in compared with there were reported break and enters in Winnipeg in Down from about in Only with a per cent saw a greater drop than Winnipeg in break and enters during the same time there were reported break and enters in Edmonton eight years the gifts keep coming Jeff de body Winnipeg free press Lilia Valle Between children has been bringing the Davies family gifts Ever since Reid Davies rear retrieved her stolen purse eight years from Frances Davies and her Victoria and to a scared nurse hell never Stop being a hero its been eight years since Reid Davies did something Gallant for a woman in which int unusual in what has happened it was novem Ber 1992 and Reid then a recent com Merce Grad with a wife and baby girl was working for Canada driving a mail truck when he spotted two kids sprinting along notre near it didst take him Long to figure out Why they were they had snatched a and the a nurse at the near by health sciences was hurrying after them at the time Lilia Valle was As shocked As she was nothing like that had Ever happened to the 54yearold not since she came to Canada from the Philippines in at that Point All the 25 year old truck Driver knew was that he had to help so Reid jumped out of his gave Chase and quickly recovered the purse one of the thieves dropped in the Balmoral hotel parking she was very Natu Reid recalled and then i just Lilia was for but she was so shaken that she forgot to get the name of the kind the next Day she called Canada which checked the route sched ule and tracked Reid they dutifully rewarded Reid but Lilia wanted to Reward Lilia found out where we lived and came Over and brought me a Bunch of a bottle of some it was very i remind was november the following in december the Davies moved from the apartment they had been so Christmas eve we get a Reid its Lilia she said youve i had a hard time finding i have some presents for your when she dropped Over she had gifts for Reid and his wife Reid was surprised at Lilias but the following Lilia phoned she had More gifts for the again in june she called with a birthday gift for baby and so it has gone for eight Reid is 33 now and the Confounder of momentum but every easter and Lilia Valle still phones 10 min utes before she shows up with Only the and trendiest for the then she spends an hour playing with now eighty Earold and six Earold and until next its said my kids love they Call her auntie continued please see gratitude a2 in Down from about in the National rate of 649 breaking for every population in 1999 was Down 11 per cent from and was the lowest since continued please see numbers a2 better fewer babies a3 baby spirited from Hospital infant found nearby grandfathers caper spurs Security review by Tracy Tjaden Security at health sciences Centre is coming under Tough scrutiny after a Newborn baby was taken by its grand father from the hospitals maternity Ward yesterday the Hospital was locked police were called and 15 Security guards rushed to the scene after staff called a code Pink at yesterday the warning that signals a baby or infant is not where they should police recovered the Oneda Yold baby an hour later at the residence of a fam ily member near the division 21 Clarke single said last night police were still trying to locate a police spokesman Bob John son confirmed yesterday it was the baby Grandfather who had walked away with the police did not release information yesterday on How the Grandfather managed to scoop up the baby and take it away without anyone the baby is now in the care of child and family the incident has sparked a review of the hospitals policies and procedures surrounding Security of newborns to see if improvements Are Hsc spokeswoman Michele Auger said yes in the Short management is considering purchasing an electronic child Protection which uses electronic armbands to Monitor the whereabouts of babies on the Auger Victoria general Hospital is the Only Hospital in the City that has such a sys Beth director of nursing for women health programs at the Winnipeg regional health author said she Hopes this incident will spark a renewed commitment to installing similar systems in the cites other continued please see baby a2 i v c ;