Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tuesday june 22, 2004 City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 family notices b6 City & District b1 summer is Here really crops unseeded berries late As third coldest Spring ends by Helen falling and Aldo Santin m Anit bans ushered in the first Day of summer yesterday after the third coldest Spring on record with nothing but mosquitoes to prove the season we live for is really Here. With a High in Winnipeg of 16 c yesterday ? eight degrees below Normal ? and Frost possible in the Interlake tonight that baking hot summer we love to brag about is missing in action. Blame a Low pressure system five Kilometres straight up for the coldest May 1 to june 20 since the frigid Springs of 1907 and 1945, environment Canada meteorologist Jay Anderson said. And it will get colder the Messen Ger of gloom warned after looking at a forecast calling for More rain Over the next few Days and a Low of 3 in Winnipeg Early tomorrow morning. Its cold right across Canada except in . Anderson said the Low pressure sys tem hovering Over us on and off since february is diverting cold Arctic air from Alaska. As it finally disappears the weather is expected to warm up Over the week end and hit Normal temperatures by monday Anderson said. The seasonal forecast which Only proves right about half the time is Call ing for hotter and drier weather than Normal for the rest of the summer. Farmers could face the most serious consequences of the Cool wet Spring with potentially hundreds of thousands of acres unseeded according to Herb sulkers of Manitoba crop insurance. He wont know the total until after today a deadline for filing claims but he does to expect it to be nearly As bad As the brutal Spring of 1999, when More than a million acres of soggy crop land in southwestern Manitoba went unplanned. Continued please see summer b2 Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press Rev. Thomas Lurvey left of Sherwood Park lutheran Church and Rev. Marc Whitehead of North Kildonan United Church Lead service. Peter Liba gathered under a Cloudy sky by Leah Janzen at Brookside cemetery yesterday to say goodbye and thank you to those who tucked away in the farthest Corner of helped this years students better under gift to living stand the human body. Graves of the War dead and the drooping Brookside cemetery past symmetrical we gather to remember with thanks headstones of those Long past about 40 and gratitude these men and women who people gathered yesterday to say Good had a vision of what could be of what is Bye to 14 people who helped further med possible said Rev. Marc Whitehead of Given in death North Kildonan United Church. The dead were not scientists or doctors. Ical research. Each knew Joy and pain dreams and none made groundbreaking discoveries disappointed Hopes. Each of them chose to further the cause of study and learning to bans who decided in life they would in a Laboratory. They were average Mani u of m event honours those and ultimately of the worlds health. By donate their bodies after death to the uni the gift of these people we Are All blessed who gave bodies to science and our Community is studied by budding doctors and dentists. Clergy u of m faculty medical Stu varsity of Manitoba medical school to be continued please see memorial b2 dents family members and . Time capsule a window to u of is past 1894 treasure removed during renovations by Nick Martin Lloyd Axworthy reached Back 110 years into history yesterday and care fully ? very very carefully ? picked out treasures such As the 1890 Book of discipline minutes of the Northwest company two copies of the Manitoba free press and 25 cents in change. Wearing special archaeologists gloves the University of Winnipeg president sifted through a time Cap sule buried june 26, 1894, in the Cornerstone of Wesley Hall. A tiny three paragraph Story in that Days free press described plans to Lay the Cornerstone at 3 . For a build ing that has been a landmark of the West end of downtown for 110 years. Wesley College became United col lege which in turn became the University of Winnipeg. The deteriorating Wesley Hall is being renovated As the first project in overhauling the u of w Campus. The provincial government has already contributed $14 million to a capital fundraising Campaign. Its financial goal and priority projects Are expected to be publicly announced soon. Well be launching a contest to see what goes in the new time capsule to be buried in the renovation project Axworthy told a Small ceremony yesterday. After work Crews removed the 1894 Cornerstone a hard hatted Axworthy climbed up a scaffold to gingerly remove the time capsule. Continued please see University b2 ;