Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Carolin Vesely 6977292 Beausejour trustee convicted of seeking sex with minor by Paul Mckee and Kevin Rollason a Beausejour businessman and school trustee was convicted yesterday for attempting to obtain sex with a Mike who owns the Lyric the atre and other buildings in was convicted by a jury yesterday after a today court of Queens Bench Justice Debo Rah Mccawley gave a sus Pended sentence and a two year Proba Tion which included attending any counselling ordered by probation ser Crown attorney George demo Issac had asked for a prohibition from Baxter being with children 16 years and but to Mccawley said that would be difficult because Baxter owns the local Mccawley also said it probably want necessary because in such a Small Community most people would know Baxter and the crime of which he had been contacted at his Beausejour Home last Baxter said he has already resigned his seat As a trustee for the Agassiz school As Well As his position As a Volunteer paramedic and member of the masonic what can i say said noting his lawyer is looking at an i was found which is different than pleading its a she said i guess she was believed and i its As simple As the whose identity is protected by a publication worked in a local store Baxter visited from time to time the who no longer lives in testified that on one occasion he propositioned demo Issac told the court the reason the minor came Forward was she did it want this to happen to someone More vulnerable than Shes an extremely tenacious girl and she had the Strong support of her Fame Murray former chairman of the Agassiz school said he was unaware that his fellow trustee faced charges of any he said he could it speak for the no one else from the Board returned Calls Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press delivering the gospel a portion of the new life Baptist Church wends its Way through Stonewall yesterday on a tre trek to a new and bigger location just East of the along with an addition consisting of a foyer and will Cost meningitis cases linked to new Strain Bug that spurred vaccinations is same variety found in 2 Manitoban by Alexandra Paul loan fund set up for Farmers by Paul Samyn Ottawa Canadas Cash strapped Farmers will be Able to tap into lion in interest free Loans to help with their Spring seeding Federal Agri culture minister Lyle Vanclief announced the doubling of the Cash Advance pro first reported last week by the free will immediately make up to available to each it is a Means of helping Farmers quickly and effectively and it is another in the ongoing series of financial Mea sures our government is taking to help those Canadian Farmers who Are facing income Vanclief said from Quebec where he is meeting with his provincial Vanclief said the Cost to the Federal Treasury of covering the interest on the Cash advances will be about last Farmers took advantage of the Cash Advance which made up to available to each pro Vanclief second dose of farm Assis Tance came after announcing last week a onetime emergency payment of million which Farmers and the provinces loudly denounced As far too As Vanclief was helping Farmers with Spring seeding he was facing questions about the administrative costs overruns of the controversial Bil lion agriculture income disaster Assis Tance program according to records obtained by the Canadian taxpayers federation under Access to information the Federal administrative Bill was million for the two year program in Manitoba and four other add in five other provinces that have been Sel adminis tearing the and the total administrative Bill could near aids administrative costs were initially pegged at what we object to is taxpayers Money being used to provide support for consultants and bureaucrats instead of being used to support said Vic Tor taxpayers federation director in doctors have identified a new Strain of meningitis As the cause of a widely publicized outbreak in Alberta and Treyve linked it to cases in both Manitoba and a senior fed eral infectious disease specialist said yesterday this is the Type weve had in the past that has been associated with the More virulent disease and were seeing another outbreak with a clone of a similar said Theresa acting chief of respiratory diseases for health Canada in Public health officials in Manitoba Are taking a Waitan see attitude toward mass vaccinations after Laboratory tests show that Only two of the six Manitoba cases since january can be definitely linked to the new in the provincial officials across the country Are watching closely for signs the new Strain is in three out of five cases this Winter have been tracked to the same Strain isolated in Alberta and officials like those in have yet to recommend a vac Cine doctors in Alberta with help from the Federal microbiology lab in Winnipeg isolated the new Strain after running tests to compare it to the Strain behind the last big outbreak across the country nearly a decade the Klein now in the midst of an election responded to the outbreak with a province wide vaccination in the Mother of one teenager who Lay in a coma for three Days after being infected with Beningo Coucal Dis ease in january spoke out for the first time i have to say the children out there do not have a clue How serious this Bac Teria what it really boils Down to is what the symptoms of meningitis Are and How fast you get medical treat said the who did not want her family identified but is convinced her sons near death contains a lesson for this is the utmost fast deadly disease of All she the 16yearold East Kildonan teen woke up on a saturday morning in late january feeling Fine at 9 by mid hed lapsed into a life threatening the Only sign anything was wrong throughout the Day was a headache and a sore neck that he complained of at about 5 he just wanted to just let me i just need sleep is All he kept say by Midnight he was fighting for his the Mother when your children have a make sure you ask them if they have a stiff health authority tickled Pink to be in the Black predicted surplus an important wry says by David Kuxhaus the Winnipeg regional health author Ity is predicting it will be in the Black this were pretty Happy about said ceo Brian its a very important step for us not to have to carry Over a authority oversees nine hospitals and personal care Homes in the included among them Are the provinces two largest hospitals health sciences Centre and Boniface Gen eral in the it was not uncommon for hospitals to run deficits that stretched into the tens of millions of according to third Quarter the health authority is running a surplus As of Postl said the surplus will Likely be some what lower because there Are still some outstanding Bills that must be paid in the fourth Postl said getting Cash earlier and More of it has made the facilities Are now getting their Money in at the beginning of the fiscal giving them 12 months to make in the Postl said sometimes budgets be in place until late summer or Early it gave us very Little time to react to said Postl said Money for health care has also increased Over the last several years to adequately fund he said that want the Case in the Early part of the decade when governments were dealing with he said there has also been a concerted Effort among healthcare administrators to live within their Postl said three of the nine facilities will Likely run deficits this he said costs associated with an expansion at Victoria general Hospital and the con version of the Misericordia health Cen tre into a Lon term facility will keep those two facilities in the Deer Lodge Centre will also run a deficit due to overtime and staffing Postl said the deficits at All three of those facilities will be amount ing to a few Hundred thousand the accused the nip yesterday of secreting away fed eral funds earmarked for medical equip we want to know where this Money said tory health critic Myrna theres been no announce Driedger said Shes fearful the Cash has been dumped into general she said the nip should recall the legislature so opposition members can question the its the second Day in a Row the tories have made such a on they said the nip int doing enough to help Gate West Coin one of Canadas largest Coin dealers and official Canadian mint distributors we buy and sell All paper ill Tarla and related All current mint products available at mint Issue Price 1711 4899112 major Coin Market maker a factors per ecu est More wedding Spring mattress Box Spring bunk bed water bed replacement sofa bed rollaway Pillow mattress foam bed Frame or bed rail Best Quality 1 Low prices 15 Macdonald 41391 James 9424701 la Kri too 96 to a healthier looking you with no downtime a great gift for any occasion photo rejuvenation a new innovative program is a noninvasive treatment that helps improve skin without disruption of the skins 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