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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 5, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnipeg free March 2001 digest Index local editorials a10 focus a11 letters to the editor a11 business b5 family notices in a emporiums c8 classified c9 Jumble c12 diversions Ann Landers d3 comics d2 sports record entertainment d1 movies d5 prime time to b6 weather b6 deaths Mary Louis husband of Blanche of the Joseph Leon of the wid Ower of Aurora Corinne widow of Charlie Fras Frank of Lischentski Archibald Bell husband of Dorothy Walter widower of Florence widow of Robert David widow of Emil Jean George widower of Elizabeth Barbara widow of Basil Jeremiah i classified death notices c8 111 lotteries picks winning number yesterday was lotto winning numbers saturday were and Bonus number was the Jackpot of was won by 2 each Worth winners in the 5 out of 6 Bonus number category win 234 win ners in the 5 out of 6 category win winners in the 4 out of 6 category win winners in the 3 out of 6 category win wednesdays 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director of finance Dan Koshowski 6977425 director of human resources Don Dufort 6977358 director of operations and technology Glenn Williams 6977045 Canada Post sales agreement 0563595 recycled newsprint is used in the production of this please snowmobile continued from Page a1 it happened about 90 minutes after two snowmobiles travelling on the Lee River near Pinawa collided killing both the names of the 35 and who were both from Winnipeg but didst know each were not released yesterday at the request of the the weekend fatalities coincided with the Canadian Power Toboggan championships in a highlight of the provincial snowmobiling where fans gather to watch professionals Fly around a half mile High Speed was a contributing Factor in both fatal ramp in the Lee River both machines were travelling possibly at speeds As High As 160 when they met on the same Side of a Blind in the English Lake the snowmobile was also moving it Hast been a Good weekend for that for said Harold president of Snow mobiles of Manitoba who lives in the Power View gravel said a group of English Lake cottagers were enjoying an informal fishing Derby saturday afternoon that included some one Man in the group approached the three Snow mobiles and told them to Stop because they were driving he said get off you be Dri gravel the three men ignored the mans gravel and soon after sped past him on the snowmobile Trail that led to an old logging Road where the fishing Derby participants had gravel said that 30 seconds the Man came upon the Accident the snowmobile had struck a parked pickup gravel said want wearing a helmet and had been sitting in the catapulted from the machine into a stand of the Driver broke his Arm and the other passenger injured his Only one of the two survivors was wearing a Hel the Man who came upon the Accident tried to Call an ambulance using his cell but it work in the Remote he went for a phone while others stayed with the three gravel said the ambulance reach the secluded area until almost two hours after the Call went tests Are being done to see whether the Driver was gravel but he will be charged with impaired driving due to the Way he was operating the Snow mattausch said snowman tries to Edu Cate Drivers about the dangers involved in the which Are amplified when simple rules Arent these rules include not drinking and driving Only at Safe wearing helmets and putting the appropriate number of peo ple on a six years Beyak was involved in another fatal in May he parked his car on Highway 11 just South of Lac Dubonnet so that it blocked part of the then he passed the car was struck by three other vehicles including a whose 21yearold passenger was thrown onto the Road and whose blood alcohol level had been More than twice the Legal later pleaded guilty to care and control of a vehicle while causing Alberta trusts bulletproof Klein watchers say the Alberta election Campaign int so much an exercise in democracy As it is a popularity contest involving Premier Ralph it does become a referendum on the said David a University of Calgary political Klein is the most people probably pick their Las out of a but they know Ralph that View is shared by three term lib eral la Gary who chose not to run this in the three elections i was running in Calgary Buffalo i was always running against Ralph Klein not the local tory he people who we rent supporting me would Tell were voting for or were voting for it must be frustrating for conservative candidates because there nothing More than feed Stock in Many who was campaigning in Cal Gary Doest think that entirely i dont know if its so much a popu Larity he i think the peo ple look at policy once Calgary mayor and looking for his third term As admits his personal Appeal does have some i know weve gone on the Ralphs perhaps it enters into it in you know Ive been around politics and the political scene Here for some Klein appears to have a sort of bulletproof Quality and no matter what happens in Alberta he seems to emerge Taras its a very interesting people seem to Trust Ralph peo plei believe in Hes certainly a kind of a Symbol for a lot of Taras said people who watch Alberta politics scratch their Heads because there Are doctor and nurse shortages and problems with electricity yet Klein remains it never seems to stick to Ralph its almost like Ralph Klein is Independent of the Canadian press scandal continued from Page a1 the Root of the problems lie with health Canada and the knowledge of what transpired goes to the top echelons of the department and i think the Deputy minister and the minister need to be held nip health critic Judy Wasyly Ciales who has vowed to get to the Bot Tom of the accountability problems and ordered a forensic audit of the Sage eng addiction has been away from the commons As he is recovering from surgery for prostate the Bank of Canada said Dodge is not available to answer questions about his involvement in the administration of the first nation and inuit health Branch As they Are beyond his current responsibilities As governor of the Cen trial Wasyly Ciales said she has already forwarded questions on the Issue to the commons health committee and will continue to push for an Independent review of the troubled to much of the controversy sur rounding the treatment Centre at Sag keen first nation and Ama has focused on a cast of previously unknown characters and Paul the assistant Deputy minister overseeing the of Nib who resigned amid controversy in Jan but the weight of damning evidence evidence that have come to the attention of Dodge and pos Sibly Rock will shift the focus of the attention and if there was Ever an Issue where ministerial responsibility needs to be exer it is said Walter Federal director of the Canadian tax payers Rock is responsible for the conduct of his employees and the expenditures of his information that a free press investigation has helped uncover shows that Dodge and Rock should have been aware of the Fol you have to the Virginia the person Fontaine found who w3s Tion found direct supposed to tors had been to using project be minding funds for trips to the store Las Hawaii and Australia and turned out to kept in be asleep surplus funds that he Hanii it was legally Denma obligated to return counter to the Federal gov the Federal Justice depart ment decided not to prosecute at the ia1996 audit found that nearly half of the foundations spending was question Able or lacked that same audit found that million was paid to a com Pany owned by a Man with connections to the clinic for services that could not be i the Federal auditor general reports in 1997 that health spending to first nations was not Well and in most not properly ia1998 Federal audit of Ama found that half of its spending during a four month period was not allowed under its fund ing i Cochrane took 137 including jaunts to Peru and during a three year period ending Augustia followup audit by the auditor Gen eral released in october 2000 Points to unsatisfactory Progress in Many areas related to health contributions and trans you have to wonder Why the person who was supposed to be minding the store turned out to be asleep behind the or was he just turning a Blind Eye to this or was in part and parcel of a decision to proceed in this matter Ablonczy Wasyly Ciales and Robin son say the accountability problems at the of Nib Bear an uncanny resemblance to those made Clear by the Book keeping woes at human resources right Down to the promotion of the Deputy minister who was supposed to be keeping in the Case of the human resources Mel Cappe had just been promoted to the clerk of the privy the highest ranking civil in Dodges a few months after the addictions foundation scandal he was handed the Plum Job As the coun try top inflation fighter at the Central it just seems bizarre that people who Are in the top position of accountability when there is an enormous screw up seem to end up in even higher Ablonczy russian sailors continued from Page a1 rumours about the selection process spread quickly through the crowd anyone who didst bring a picture might As Well go any one six feet or Over was too what was Clear was that those who made the Grade were asked to stick while those of us who didst were politely asked to fill out a form and mail in a As we anxiously awaited our i noticed that taller men really were beginning to disappear from the struggling for a closer i reached the front of the line in time to see a Man of roughly my height being turned i held my breath As the casting director gave me the How tall Are you he As though i was trying to slip some thing past i and was promptly asked to fill out a form and mail in a i cursed my How Short do you have to be to work on these Stu pid anyway Shorter than six feet local casting director Jim Heber said youre a bit too these russian sailors were a Little bit tall people Heber said the response to the cast ing Call definitely exceeded his weve had Over 500 people show up and its been we expected maybe half of so to have double what you wanted is Heber noting that a third of the applicants were from the Gimli while Many of the applicants fit the requirements the casting Call had asked for Young men with a Days growth of facial they ran the Gamut from Short to tall and clean shaven to a Young Man with his hair shaved in spots to resemble a soccer Ball was among the More striking apply that a look that were going to keep for another picture for Heber said with a at one he ran his fingers through a mans hair to make sure the roots would be Long enough if the mans Dye Blond hair was shorn off for the were trying to keep this As cur rent As Heber Winnipeg actor Adam who made the final said Hes definitely excited about the Prospect of working with Hollywood superstars Ford and its going to be a great expert but those who didst make the Cut for k19 give up on work ing As Heber certainly All the people that weve seen Here today 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