Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnipeg Frh March 2001 digest ii i Index local editorials As focus a9 letters to the editor a9 business stocks b5 family notices in a emporiums c7 classified c9 Jumble c11 diversions Ann Landers d3 comics d2 sports record computers d5 entertainment d6 movies d7 prime time to d8 weather 08 deaths Yolanda Ernest companion of Rose Norman widower of Frances Jeremy baby Nicole Adrian Margaret Louise Nee widow of William Anita widow of Arthur Jessie Stewart Ruth Henry Agnes Margaret Nee widow of Bill Elsie widow of Arthur Margaret Josephine Nee of Vic widow of William Esther Theresa Nee widow of Frank Margaret widow of Vivien husband of Elizabeth widow of Agatino Sinel Helen of wife of Joseph of for Merly of husband of Metta Edna Hilda May Nee widow Ferdinand James 51 of George husband of Susan James of wife of Scott Glen of widower of Rancler Hall husband of maty Kenneth husband of Annette Bernard Fraser of Portage la Albert husband of Doris Silverberg Jean Clara Nee widow of John Robert widower of Teresa Ernest widower of Irma John widower of Hilda web of husband of Debbie Kathryn Nee i classified death notices c7 111 lotteries picks winning number yesterday was i i i How to reach us Winnipeg free press 1355 Mountain Avenue Manitoba r2x 3b6 switchboard 6977000 t circulation City delivery 6977001 t advertising classified 6977100 display 6977122 t editorial newsroom 6977230 newsroom fax 6977412 photo desk 6977304 sports desk 6977285 entertainment 6977234 business 6977235 Reader feedback 6977293 City desk letters to the editor v photo reprints to order reprints 6977063 t All departments from Manitoba outside Winnipeg 1 8005428900 v directors publisher Rudy Redekop 6977362 editor Nicholas Hirst 6977295 director of circulation Harry Brown 6977359 director of advertising marketing Laurie Finley 6977164 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 Forks continued from Page a1 they believe that by staying in the Forks that there perceived As managers of the Forks Market a source to support its new the Forks will ask for Public input on reinvesting in Portage Avenue and the surrounding area some or All of the almost million it earns Annu ally from the Portage place Parade and leases on the surrounding prop sources said other possibilities include aggressively marketing the potentially lucrative building which it still atop each end of Portage programming events in the area and working with developers on other in the new plans reflect augusts personal vision for the when he was hired last sum sources said he was the Only candidate who talked about the need to help the Portage Avenue area renewal another source said the Forks cant realistically divert funds to the North Side of Portage without further commercial development at the Forks sources said drawings will be Dis played that feature possible new commercial development for the including a 100room hotel that the Forks has been promoting for almost two i an such As a chocolate factory or a brew near the via rail station that would allow the Public to View the process taking with an accompanying retail a trolley another Lon discussed project that would link the Forks with the East and West Exchange District and the rest of a parking garage and pay parking lots to replace the lost free parking spaces that will be taken up by the new a new Pond and pedestrian walk Way that would link the Provencher foot Bridge with the York Avenue Entrance to the i Small scale commercial develop ments near the Provencher August said the plans will be revised based on Public input and then presented to the three Levels of government for final approval before one source said the hotel project is being actively promoted by the Forks adding that a verbal agreement has been reached with a but nothing will be signed until the hotel concept is endorsed by the Public through the open the source the Developer has even agreed to modify the project depending on what the Public says about housing at the Forks seems to have lost its Lustre with manage a source Howe that the Public will be asked if housing should be included on the site meningitis continued from Page a1 its enough to think about we Are watching the situation closely but at this time there Hast been a decision taken on a vaccine provincial med ical officer of health Joel Kettner said theres no question what we Are seeing in the first two months of this year is higher than the Mother of one girl who attended the Sleepover said she arrived Home Fri evening to find a message from a Public health she and her daughter went immediately to Misericordia urgent care and were prescribed her daughter had shared a common bowl of Popcorn at the Sleepover said the who spoke on condition of they we rent that Overly they wanted to be very and treat her just in she the Mother said she spoke to both a nurse and a nursing supervisor at Misericordia and was confident her Ter had not shared anything that could spread the i worry most about the ones who share she Over the weekend another girl at the same Sleepover was admitted to Hospital with a suspicious meningitis was ruled doctors believe the second facts on meningitis meningitis an inflammation of the lining can be fatal and often progresses in a matter of symptoms High neck vomiting and a bruising kind of rash somewhere on the anyone with those symptoms should see a doctor the disease is spread from one person to another by sharing drinking glasses and cigarettes or by intimate con such As about one to two people in contract Beningo Coucal meningitis every and per cent of those girl May have picked up a minor virus or she May have suffered an unusual reaction to the precautionary Antibiotic All the teens were not since 1992 have Public health officials mused about a widespread vaccine at that time Quebec launched a Campaign after one child died of meningitis but there were no deaths there have been no deaths from meningitis in Manitoba this ordinarily there Are 10 to 12 cases a year with a 10 per cent fatal Ity across the country there have been an unusually High number of meningitis cases in 60 people have been diagnosed with meningitis since december vaccine programs Are going ahead for teenagers in both Alberta and five of the six cases in Manitoba including the latest one Are linked to a Strain of Beningo Coucal c bacteria known to cause outbreaks and it has struck in Edmonton and other parts of in january a Winkler teen was diag nosed with the b Strain of later that a 16yearold Kildo Nan East student and another 19year old Winnipeg Ger was diagnosed with the c the same As a Portage la Prairie woman in her also in a 29yearold Man was hospitalized with a blood infection related to the Beningo Coucal whether its a new Strain or an old foe coming Back we dont said Pierre a medical officer of health with the Winnipeg regional health tracking Down the c Strain is now in the hands of Federal infectious disease Plourde this might be a National phenomenon with a new Strain and that being time running out for ailing Tot Vancouver t the parents of a month old baby who desperately needs a liver transplant appealed yesterday for help from and corporate donors to pay for the operation in the United Jerry Ewen and Gyatha Sandoval of Vancouver said tune is running out for their Camilo Sandoval they said they wait Only 10 More Days at before taking their son to los Angeles for the but they estimated they need to addition to the Treyve already their son has a potentially deadly condition known As biliary a rare disease that affects just one infant in Canadian press plane with 54 aboard lands on one engine awestjet737with 54 passengers and Crew landed safely with one engine last Lyn Winnipeg airports authority said the Pilot shut off the planes other engine when a control panel Light came on Indi Cating a Book said the which was flying in from Cal landed safely on runway 13 at 10 As air port and City emergency Crews looked passenger Roberta of Crystal said everyone remained Calm when the Pilot came on to say hed shut off one of the engines a few minutes before the plane it was pretty Melvin Why make everybody panic the flight attendant said they can Fly the plane with one melvins Hus agreed the Pilot was very when we land there were three fire trucks on the ground which mowed us he these kind of things must Hap pen every Lee denture clinic 274 Smith Portage Graham Avenue 9434048 9437629 personalized denture service to the Public since 1955 we accept All denial insurance i Hospital institutional Calls available i repairs while you wait free parking at rear Salmon steaks 10 cod Cheeks shrimp 100 for King crab Large arms 2 lobster tails 10 for 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