Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 22, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Frik february 2001 regional Law enforcers cracking Down on snowmobiles officer out in Force to promote safety in Light of grim Accident stats by Kevin Rollason Manitoba and Ontario Snow mobiles beware police officers want you to behave responsibly for your own to that Manitoba conservation officers and the ramp in this province and the Opp in Ontario Are out in Force this month looking for snowmobiles who Arent following Safe each cites statistics As the reason for increased vigilance nine Snow mobiles have lost their lives in Manitoba this Winter while three peo you col t pie have died in North Western Kenora Opp Lee Morris said their Zero tolerance Campaign this week is focusing on checking Ages of seeing whether they Are Wear ing and if they have valid operating registration and All while informing them about Safe Morris said statistics show snowmobiling is the leading cause of win Ter and the highest risk Driver is aged 20 to As he said Northern Ontario has significantly higher snowmobile related Hospital admission rates than the rest of the and alcohol causes More than half of the even one tragedy is too Morris said this year we have one of the most unpredictable years for ice thickness and Quality in my 18 years of doing this Ive flown a couple of times recently and you look Down at the ice and you shake your its Munfor earlier this a 23yearold Kenora Man died of hypothermia after he and his 18yearold who was legislate Conion All you can do is promote safety a passenger on his plunged through the the two made it to a but the Man died when the pair was unable to Start a the woman remains hospitalized in ramp Steve whose department is checking trails the entire month of february with the help of Manitoba said there Are simple precautions that can be taken to ride our recommendation is stick to groomed Saunders or both have contributed to the Bob executive director of the snowmobiles of Manitoba said there is no ques Tion snowmobiles should follow the Law and they should use groomed there should not be any Aitken if youre playing by the trails Are the safest place to but you cant legislate common All you can do is promote Safe Aitken said the Provin Cial government will meet with Snow mobiles next month to discuss snogans ultimatum that it needs from the province next year or it will close All Kilometres of groomed trails next Victor Vrsnik of the Canadian tax payers federation said the province should give the group the Money for Trail grooming by treating the Esti mated it collects in taxes from gasoline sales for snowmobiles As a user they be expecting a but they Are already paying their fair share for fuel taxes and their fuel taxes should pay for Vrsnik Bob Aitken space station briefly visible for next three nights keep Eye on see the International space station has made its Way around to this part of the planet again and will be briefly visible from Brandon and Winnipeg for the next three the largest Structure in orbits about 400 Kilometres above the Earth and will show up in the South Western part of the people within about 100 Kilometres of Brandon and Winnipeg should be Able to View which should be As Bright As the brightest according to sky and Telescope Alpha can be seen tonight from Brandon at and from Winnipeg at for five it can be seen from bran Don at for two on Alpha will be visible from Winnipeg at for four it last passed through our skies in also the planet Venus will reach its greatest brilliance and it will also appear in the Southwest around Sunset for about two construction on Alpha began on with the launch of its cargo called the first Crew went up last with two new mod Ules being on with anxiety running High every step of the space shuttle Atlantis astronauts installed the billion us destiny space Laboratory on the International space station the shuttles Rob Tarm operator cautiously eased the Laboratory module out of Atlantis payload Bay and after almost two hours of hoisted it up to space station because the Rob Tarm operator had Only camera views and no direct line of two space walking Crew mates assisted from serving As her destiny is the fourth module to be added to space station Alpha since the first segment was launched in novem Ber of destiny gives Alpha More liven space than the worlds previous space stations the seven soviet salyut stations in the 1980s and Early nasal skylab in the 1970s and the abandoned Russ Ian launched in 1986 and scheduled to plunge into the Pacific Ocean in correction notice re Gold Seal Pink Salmon effective until 2001 the Iga Camelot flyer incorrectly stated prices for Gold Seal Pink the works out to Price on this item should be Iga apologizes for any inconvenience caused to our valued the family Centre of Winnipeg where families come first 9471401 2001 local heroes screening is Aid independents local heroes Cantina Fin festival to term press in 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