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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A16 Canada / world Winnipeg free press wednesday june 23, 2004 metric muddle leads to teens drug bust Victoria ? confused How to Divide Kilos of cocaine into ounces for Sale two teens from a posh Victoria private school allegedly turned to their math teacher for help . Provincial court heard this week. An 18-year-old woman a Grade 11 Stu Dent at St. Margaret a school for girls testified in court that her classmate returned from the thanksgiving Holiday with a Large Quantity of cocaine which she intended to sell. Names withheld but the two girls whose names Are being withheld were allegedly Uncer Tain of its value since neither knew How Many ounces there Are in a kilogram. She asked me and i did to know. We were in math class so the teacher would know. So i asked the student testified. The other student now 18, is on trial in . Provincial court for Possession of a narcotic for the purpose of Traffick ing. Police arrested the girl on oct. 14, 2003. She was 17 at the time. Seized police seized the cocaine from a locker at the school. Police testimony monday revealed the cocaine was in two bricks weighing 0.468 and 0.506 kilograms. They were found inside a Backpack along with a note and school textbook. St. Margaret a is one of Victoria a More exclusive private schools. Annual fees Range up about $35,000 for boarding Stu dents. ? can West news service every wednesday the Winnipeg free press in co operation with Canadian blood services publishes the current blood Levels and blood donor clinic information. Winnipeg blood Supply As of monday june 21, 2004 units 500 450 400 patient needs 350 current Supply 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 of a Bab of a Bab wednesday june 30 is Winnipeg free press donor Day. For your convenience we will be open from 8 00 . To 5 00 . Help us Start the summer with a full blood inventory. Happy Canada Day from Canadian blood services Mobile clinics stroke rate in children kills old person myth o Ottawa ? the number of Canadian children having strokes is More than Dou ble what doctors believed according to a new study that shatters the myth that stroke is an old persons disease. Just two to three children per 100,000 were thought to be at risk of a brain but researchers at a National registry will report today at a world stroke Congress meeting in Van Couver that the figure is actually five to six per 100,000. Put simply at a Bare mini mum at least one child every Day in Canada suffers a stroke says or. Gabrielle Deveber a neurologist at Toronto a Hospital for sick children and director of june 23 Parish june 23 Westdale Junior High school the Canadian paediatric ischaemic june 24 Winkler june 28 Russell june 28 holy eucharist Parish stroke registry. June 29 St. Eustache june 30 Carman half the strokes Are occurring out of the Blue in children who information Call toll free 1-888-2-donate 1-888-236-6283 Are not at risk of stroke because for appointments or clinic of an underlying medical Condi Tion. And Many children Are Only diagnosed hours and even Days after their stroke because too Many doctors and parents Are unaware children can have strokes. Symptoms include numbness or weakness particularly on one Side of the body confusion impaired speech loss of vision dizziness and sudden severe headache. But child strokes Are often misdiagnosed As seizures or migraines. The delay Means children virtually never get to Hospital in time to qualify for clot busting drugs that in adults can reduce the risk of death from stroke and even reverse brain attacks in some cases. Clot busters must be administered within three hours of the Onset of stroke. So those children Are going to have much worse outcomes ? bigger strokes and More neurological damage Deveber says. Twelve per cent of children who suffer a stroke will die. What a More 40 per cent of children who have a stroke Are being sent Home from Emer gency rooms or doctors offices without so much As aspirin even though one in five is at risk of suffering a second stroke. The Canadian registry is the first in the world to show Well established child stroke rates says Deveber. At least 150 children in Canada a year Are suffering an ischaemic stroke where a clot interrupts blood flow to the brain. At least 150 More Are estimated to suffer Hemorrhagic strokes bleeding into or around the brain from a ruptured blood vessel ? can West news service now is the time this is the place. With every Purchase dinner for two at Dubrovnik ring in and win is Back and bigger than Ever. Get a guaranteed minimum $1,000 off. With a Chance to win up to $10,000 off. 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