Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 2, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 local Winniw March 2 downtown hotel Deal transformation Oytra Elodge grinds to halt by Paul Mckie a major hotel Chain has pulled out of the transformation of a downtown leaving the building with refinished suites but no Pool or the trave Lodge hotel at Portage Avenue and Colony Street was supposed to become a a Brand of hotel by Marriott trave Lodge management expected to be operating under the courtyard name As Early As last sep tember when the Deal was announced in but a Marriott official has confirmed that the Deal fell the Marriott is no longer said Scott Vic president sales and marketing for Marriott hotels of its not very usual for us to announce a project and not go said we did not conclude a contract in this but Steven director of operations for Westmount in West Ern insisted the Marriott Deal want Westmount hospitality owns the As Well As More than 160 hotels across including the Sheraton and two Comfort inns in our Hope is to have a final agreement with said no Deal is absolutely dead until its said it was he divulge the Deal breaker but said it was a Mutual the Deal was for trave Lodge to become a court Yard but the hotels owners had to Reno vate to come up to Marriott Marriott had not invested any of its own Wayne Glowacki Winnipeg free press trave Lodge general manager Dave Aponiuk stands beside unfinished swimming Pool in hotel on Portage Money in they made a decision to go into a Dif Ferent said trave Lodge general manager David Antoniuk said renovations were still going although he expressed sur prise that Marriott was no longer the 10 floors of rooms and suites have All been renovated and the hotel Rose on the footprint of the demolished mall hotel More than 15 years ago when it opened As a relax but Antoniuk said the hotel now had moved from the discount Label and was distancing itself from its nextdoor the bus were trying to Weed ourselves away from the bus Antoniuk said while the new rooms Are ready to the hotel Doest boast Many Antoniuk said it has been Tough to attract customers without an onsite Pool or occupancies have been Low the past couple of he Antoniuk said renovations will be completed by the end of regardless of the Brand of the no workers were on site earlier this the restaurant has Bare drywall with no fix the old Pool in the basement is closed and the atrium that used to let natural Light into the Pool is James said renovations have been put on hold in the areas until a Deal with Marriott can be completed or they look to another Antoniuk pegged current renovations just shy of with the remainder of the Money up to million to be spent on exterior Blind waitress read orders easily Boss by Mike Mclntyre for Cook and cashier denial Lampkin was described by her employers at two Rural restaurants and a Winnipeg convenience store As one of the Best efficient and always imagine their Shock when Manitoba Public insurance investigators came calling one wanting to know How the 26yearold Winnipeg woman managed to Cope with such a debilitating injury total blindness in her left and minimal vision in her right she mentioned having a bad but never anything about her de her former manager at the Triangle Oasis restaurant in told a Queens Bench trial she have been Able to do the Job if that was the he said Lampkin ran the Kitchen with woman on trial in alleged my fraud ease while working at his eatery in Early 1994 Reading a string of food handling the deep Fryer and Steamer and cooking food to his customers did you Ever have complaints about her bumping into or or other employees Crown attorney Terry Mckean asked he Lampkins monthlong fraud trial began yesterday with Mckean outlining the bizarre Case against it All he with a seemingly minor mishap in Lampkin fell off the Back of a car and bumped her head that summer in she spent two Days in complaining of blurred vision and she was but went to an Eye specialist several weeks later com Etland Budgie food per Box Fantail goldfish Serape Tetras Cuttle one Plexco stomps Neon Tetras Spray Millet to each March balloon Hamster exercise Ball from Pine shavings 2000 planning of poor following a lengthy examination of her alleged Lampkin was declared legally Blind in her left said the doctor also found she had Only about 10 per cent vision in her right Lampkin immediately filed a disability claim with Mph stemming from her fall and began collecting she continued to baffle various Eye specialists with descriptions of her said at one Point in her vision would be better than the last and at other it would be he told jus Tice Morris she even claimed she could see Light and the outlines of he following the diagnosis and the commencement of disability payments worked various including the Winkler a Chicken Delight and a 7eleven she didst Tell Mph she had gone Back to said Mph investigators became suspicious in 1996 and launched an extensive invest they hired a private i Vestiga who followed Lampkin around for parts of the next three they collected More than 30 hours of videotape which will be played during the Mckean said they will show Lampkin doing a variety of everyday tasks without so much As a hint of she functioned no differently than a person with he Lampkin was arrested and charged with fraud in by she had collected More than in disability payments but was seeking to collect a much Large payment of said he told court he will sub Mit evidence of a Job application lamp Kin filed with the Winnipeg convention which asked if she had any Dis she said there were numerous expert witnesses Are also expected to including several who examined Lampkin Over the years and dont believe she is he delicious buffets or table service Merw introducing a gorgeous sixth now open of we carry Challenge hydration enter to win a 1 year Supply of Eagle dog or cat food hag Best service Best selection Best buy Price Ramiy non Seq ask a pet counsellor to or breakfast monday thru Rise n Shine breakfast to two eggs any or or hash Browns and Toast for saturday mini breakfast Buffet to for sunday both lunch and dinner 1 come with a Choice of three a fantastic salad and an assortment always Ina hides a hot dessert including mond buy get one Friday seafood Buffon Delicio i delicacies deluxe breakfast Buffet to a Winnipeg tradition for just deadly crash gets Man two years by Mike Mclntyre a Man who rolled his Van into a ditch then fled out a passenger window when it burst into flames says he was so drunk he didst realize his female companion was still trapped inside the burning Darryl Walter was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to criminal negligence causing Shannon was killed in the Accident last March on a gravel Road near police needed to use dental records to identify the badly burned Sandy Bay teens during his sentencing hearing yesterday in Portage la court heard How Long claws told police he thought hed dropped Thompson off at Home just prior to the with the befuddlement of Alco hol and having just been in a major he remember if she was still in the defence lawyer Mike Cook told Queens Bench Justice win Ston different outcome had he been there May have been a different a resident of Long Plain first ran to a nearby farmhouse for help following the which occurred on an Iso lated stretch of at the he was travelling Over 90 Cook said his client panicked when the Carburettor backfired and the engine caught Long claws and his Cousin had done repair work on the Van earlier in the while drinking Long claws tried to Stop the but his High Speed caused him to veer off the Road and Roll at least four the Van landed upside Down in a said Long claws and Thompson had Only known each other for a Short time and were on their first offi Cial Date when the tragedy he its my fault i its my fault i its my fault Shes Long claws told police Fol lowing his i lost the girl i loved in that police did not take any blood alcohol readings from Long claws but initially charged him with impaired driving causing he pleaded guilty to the included charge of criminal with his use of alcohol cited As an aggravating Cook and Crown attorney Joyce Palmyn submitted a joint recommendation for to serve two years in which Norton agreed was 89 of Winnipeg University graduates read the Winnipeg free press autism society part of our world not a world apart Gerber Asra coloured roses dozen 14 March 15 or while supplies last Florist with 1 7 locations to serve you the City of Winnipeg winning notice of win Peg meetings City Centre Community committee Date March 2001 place Community committee 300 Assiniboine Avenue i time regular meeting Public hearing to consider zone pm and License mailers All interested persons Are invited to Carol Telephone 9863157 v r ;