Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 5, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba F Winnipeg free March 2001 local a9 Phil free press this Crow and his boisterous Brethren have nearly driven Czarnecki from his Neighbours Early morning chorus May Force musician to move Der wants to be a rebel without the caws after driving Bryan Czarnecki crazy for the last 18 a Hock of noisy crows is now threatening to drive him right out of his its either that or buy a gun and that Ille Czarnecki the Mcadam Avenue resident is a musician who works nights and sleeps late when the Birds but at least twice a sometimes More a gang of from 20 to 50 crows Perch on a tree near his property around 6 do what crows the constant cawing is said Hes like his it gets worse in the its Dis the couple moved into the West Kildonan House 18 months unaware it came with a Rowdy mob for Tim head of the cites animal services said he gets roughly 20 complaints a year about but theres not too much the City can do about the As a Public Dack the City will remove any Crow nests for a nest on Trees adjacent to a complainants but its not a real the City used to shoot but it stopped about 10 years he attitudes have Dack you cant just go blasting away because there there just being Carlos executive assistant to Garth Steek River said his office alone receives about 20 Crow complaints a some people seem to really hate Gameiro Czarnecki said the cites offer to remove some nests solve his there Are too Many nests that Arent near his property and the Birds dont nest in the he objects to having to pay a fee to solve a noise so Hes considering other in thinking of he adding id love to buy a but i dont think its most crows normally Migrate South in the but an increasing number have been wintering in the according to several forum on cardiac diseases will offer hear smart advice by Adam Clayton know your that the message a Vancou ver doctor will bring to Winnipeg when he Speaks at a Public forum on cardiac disease next David Seccombe will be the keynote speaker at the presented by Walmart pharma an associate pro Fessor at the University of British has been diag nosing and researching Choles Terol problems for 20 even though heart disease is the leading cause of death in Many people still dont know enough about the importance of maintaining a healthy said i think theres a big information Gap Between the medical Community and the patient on the Seccombe said there is a Lack of awareness about atherosclerosis the buildup or hardening of cholesterol inside the arteries Over and the leading cause of cardiac its like rust inside and its a function of How you live and the choices you to a Large most experts believe it begins with some sort of injury at the level of the shells that line the arteries and depending on How you abuse the rate at which the cholesterol builds Seccombe said it is important for people to have a Basic under standing of cholesterol problems so they can plan their lives a lot of it gets Back to which is really our Pat Tern of Choice the choices we make on a daily were looking at cigarette smoking and another Issue Seccombe will address is the current interest in alternative Seccombe said there is Little evidence that some of the sup Posedly cholesterol lowering products people buy at health food stores have any the amount of hard data out there that supports one Choice Over another is not that so you always have to take these things into Carol Lezack of Walmart who planned the said its Walmart Way of stepping into the the forum will be held at the Kinsmen refit Centre on Tay Lor Avenue on april 22 and begins at 1 tickets Are and Are available at All Winnipeg Wal Mart stores and the refit Cen the funds collected will be matched by Walmart and donated to the refit Centre and the heart stroke foundation of department of political studies faculty of arts University of Manitoba controversial prostate Antigen testing touted support group urges Early checks strength in numbers Winnipeg adults read the Ess every Satur religion and american democracy Public lecture Jean Bethke Elshtain Laura Spelman Rockefeller professor of social and political University of who has written and lectured internationally on democracy and the connections Between political and ethical moot Robson Hall 8 March 8 an informal reception will follow the free parking in lots b and this is the third teen Paton lecture on an annual lectureship established through a gift from Carson an Engineer who served on the greater Winnipeg dying Board after the 1950 University of Manitoba for information Contact the department of political 474 or William 474 by Mia Rabson Joseph Courchaine thinks the Only reason he May be alive right now is because in 1997 he was hospitalized for High blood a bleeding stomach ulcer and a cyst on his because of those problems he saw a urologist who did a blood test to screen him for prostate although a recent rectal the traditional test for prostate revealed any problem the Back with elevated Levels of whats known As prostate specific Antigen a Biopsy then proved Courchaine did indeed have if this had been six months later i probably be Here said adding the Tumour was an aggressive and fast growing in my Case wait and see was not an like mammography for breast spa testing is the single greatest Early Indi Cator of prostate but unlike it is not routinely Cour Chaine and other members of the Manitoba prostate cancer support group wan this to Norm chairman of the support said too Many men end up waiting until symptoms of advanced stage cancer when it is too late to be had to wait for problems to appear before his doctor 1 ordered a spa he was diagnosed in something had to happen for me to be tested and i guess i resent Oman Ross head of urology at Boniface 1 said the earlier prostate cancer is the better life expectancy for the after cancer has spread out of the prostate treatment is available but its Pallia Macmahon two thirds of cancers detected through spa screening programs Are con fined to the making them potentially Oman says spa testing for men should be looked at in the same Way As Mammo Grams for women because there Are similar incidences of prostate cancer As breast and the mortality rates Are also and the spa test costs less than compared to the Price tag on a Macmahon says regular spa testing is controversial because elevated spa Levels Are not always indicative of prostate and he says it is not yet known what effect spa testing will have on curing the big Issue Here is whether screening is going to lower the mortality and we probably wont know the answer to that for at least five but Macmahon thinks the test is useful enough that men Between 50 and 70 should be screened with and that any Man with a fam ily history of prostate cancer should definitely have the but not All physicians agree with him and some wont give the test at Vince was forced to travel to Minnesota to get the test after his own physician he was eventually diagnosed with prostate cancer and is going the urologist even consider that i had prostate Fontaine in fortunate that insisted on a spa if i didst i could be in a stage of advanced Oman thinks the first step to getting More men tested is educating them on what spa is so they can ask their Doc tors to test them for he said haying people such As health minister Allan Roek and former opposition Leader Preston Manning go Public with their own diagnoses will allow men to Realise there is no shame in admitting to hav ing the we May have elegant but Well make you feel right at Welcome to Micheles exquisite casual its All the style of in the style of Micheles at Mcphillips Street station Casino open daily at 1 Horam 484 Mcphillips q in timer v ;