Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba B6worldvvinnipix Nii Maui pats Day celebrated parties prayers Dublin but packs pubs and pews mixing religious reverence with raucous thousands packed the Grassy squares of Savannah yesterday and joined the rest of the United states in a Patricks Day Celebration of All things worshippers packed the Cathedral of John the Baptist for morning mass about the same time bars opened their doors for those breakfasting on bloody marys and Beer and perhaps a Side of Green grits to coat the Savannah Patricks Day the country is a 177 year old the party begins before Sunrise and lasts into the wee Green greasepaint Lee Eason covered his entire face and Bald head in Green greasepaint with an airbrushed White Shamrock on Ive been Here since this morning and i haunt been to bed the Savan nah trucker shouted Over the cheering crowd and bras band blare of the the Green scene was a marked con Trast to where an Irish Bishop led his congregation in prayers for an end to Footman Mouth disease As Ireland itself marked its quietest Patricks Day in so great is the govern ments fear of the disease which has spread across Britain but has so far not entered the Irish Republic that it can celled fireworks and other festivities across the Irish people made up for the sombre mood in their Home at the biggest in new York it was a mayors last Patricks Day Parade and a cardinals Kevin Rivoli associated press on Hillary Rodham Clinton was the Queen of Green for a when More than one million spectators watched pairs of feet March up fifth for mayor Rudolph it was a Farewell love fest in Rudy Rudy we love you yelled one group of fans minutes after the mayor greeted newly minted Edward Cardinal Egan in front of Patricks senator Hillary Clinton attended mass at Patricks but then she skipped the fifth Avenue Parade and headed upstate to parades in Syracuse and unlike the new York City which bans the processions in those cities do not exclude i think parades that honour Irish heritage and culture and bring people together should be not Clinton said in we should be marching in a Way that brings us together and in very proud of what happens in in cold temperatures and a change of venue didst deter thousands of spectators from watching a Parade that featured Irish about 60 26 bands and one enormous helium a plumbers Union dyed the Chicago River Boston was just warming up for a weekend of Patricks Day with corned beef and cabbage a dog show for Irish setters and an Irish Coffee Competition judged by the at Pinkie masters in the lounge where former president Jimmy Carter stood atop the bar for an Impromptu pats speech in Ter ence Hennessy stopped in Early for a family that our said his Emerald Necktie flecked with Blue Sham press British Farmers revile Footman Mouth culls claim Slaughter on suspicion measures going too far tourism Industry also frets London As Footman Mouth Dis ease continued to spread across Britain the government found itself caught Between a tourist Industry desperate to draw visitors Back to the Countryside and Farmers angry hundreds of thousands of healthy animals Are to be the Royal society for the Preven Tion of cruelty to animals joined mounting opposition to the mass which Calls for healthy sheep and pigs to be destroyed with in three Kilometres of infected Sites in the worst affected areas of North Ern England and Southern wrong wrong place if there Are speculative culls the government risks killing the wrong sheep in the wrong said the groups chief Chris Lau plans for the expanded Slaughter have divided the National Farmers Union supports the move but lobby group Farmers for action said it would take Legal action to Stop the this is fallout War and i dont use those words said spokesman David if this is the Way they want to Han dle in afraid Treyve got a fight on their the wide culls Are scheduled to Start after government officials explain them in person to Farmers but in northeastern Scot some Slaughters began of apparently healthy sheep that had come from a Market in one of the condemned Northern England the scottish parliament a month after the outbreak nearly 300 cases of Footman Mouth have been discovered in along with one in Northern Ireland and another in the government Hopes the drastic cull will allow officials to reopen some of the path ways and tourist attractions closed in an attempt to Stem the tourism officials said the closures Are costing the Industry the equivalent of hundreds of millions of Dol Lars a culture Secretary Chris Smith said yesterday the government is looking at ways of providing economic Relief to the tourist we will be seeing if there is More the government can what i can not do is produce an instant Cheque he said during a visit to England Lake whose Idyl Lic Hills and Glens normally swarm with in face of Farmers unease about the officials announced Friday that chief veterinarian Jim scud Amore will travel to affected areas tomorrow to speak to the National farming Organiza who have been in very close understand its need and although they find it terribly Dis Tressing recognize the need for said Junior agriculture minister Baroness individuals affected need to understand it which is what we Hope to achieve Over the next few she confiscated guns police in the Lake District county Cumbria said Friday they confiscated firearms from a Farmer who allegedly threatened veterinary officials who came to cull his it is unclear How Many livestock will be killed under the Slaughter on suspicion scheme National farm ers Union Leader Ben Gill set the number at More than one but Scudamore said it would be about including More than animals already press peanuts Cathy our hw6er strike pint last Verv Pip it the stomach still in charge Garfield f 3ust Call me a woman who knows Hou to rekindle no More cold in Here to take Vou Home please dont be mad at me i Caln of Flke Hou feel growl this 15 National fi5h week and 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