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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 11, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba Legal group celebrates the Community Legal education association is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a dinner on Friday. Justice minister Gord Mackintosh will introduce the keynote speaker Stephen b. Bright executive director of the Atlanta based Southern Centre for human rights. Tickets for the dinner being held at the ramada Marlborough beginning at 6 30 p. M., Are $ 55 or a table of eight for $ 400. For More information Call 943 2382. Breakfast with Lathlin you can have breakfast with aboriginal and Northern affairs minister Oscar Lathlin tomorrow. The breakfast is being held at the place Louis Riel All suite hotel from 7 30 a. To 9 a. Tickets Cost $ 30 for members and $ 35 for non members. For More information Call 948 0100. Business Trade show the fourth annual business connections Trade show is being held on thursday at the its Centre from 9 a. To 6 p. The shows keynote breakfast speaker is University of Winnipeg president and former my Lloyd Axworthy. Alwort Hyss speech and a breakfast is at 7 30 a. M., with tickets costing $ 25. For More information Call 944 8484. Las return to legislature Manitoba ass 57 Las return to the legislature today for a two month sitting the longest session of the year. Question period begins each Day at 1 30 p. Silver Heights meeting on thursday a Public meeting is scheduled for 7 p. At Sturgeon Creek collegiate to discuss Progress on the study into the possible closing of Silver Heights collegiate. Hitting the links City Golf courses Crescent drive Kildonan and Windsor Golf course Are expected to open sometime this week. Put raking on hold Jeff Pritchard owner of a touch of grass professional Lawn care warns the grass is still too wet to begin raking. Pritchard suggests waiting another week until the Frost is out of the ground and the Lawn dries or youll do More damage than Good. Got a news tip or Story suggestion Call the free press tips line at 697 7292, e mail it to. City. Desk free press. . Ca or Send a fax to 697 7412. Compiled by Kevin Rollason and Jason Bell c Ity & District family notices b6 City editor Steve Pona 697 7292 City. Desk free press. . Ca b 1 Winnipeg repress. Com m Jondaya pril 11, 2005 the Outlook a look at the week ahead in and around Winnipeg wow. A Jana. Com Mackintosh by Nick Martin a 22 year old Saskatchewan Man was in critical condition last night after he fell 15 metres Early yesterday afternoon from a radio transmission Tower he was working on Southwest of the City. I heard a thud and then there was scrambling. I heard a yell of Call 911, a still shaken chum limited technical director Lorne Anderson said last night. Anderson said the Man fell onto gravel packed into mud. Federal and provincial health and safety officials were on the site almost immediately to begin their investigation. A provincial government spokesman said last night that he would not make any comment on the Accident. Anderson said the Man was conscious but in a lot of pain when an ambulance Crew arrived. He could move his upper body and had some feeling in his legs Anderson said. He was conscious the whole time in a lot of pain. Anderson did not know the name of the Man who worked for the Saskatchewan company Westover. It had been subcontracted to make improvements to chums 400 foot High transmission Tower near Mcgillivray Boulevard and la Verendrye Road. The project will enable the Tower which already transmits crw 1290 am and q94 pm to transmit Bob pm. There were five other Westover Crew members working yesterday but the injured Man was the highest on the Tower said Anderson. Their Job yesterday was to pull a transmission Cable to within a few feet of the top of the 400 foot Tower. On the Job the Crew had been on the Job All week he said. They started up the Tower about 1 p. Yesterday they had been working for half an hour. The eyed got up to Between 40 and 50 feet. He was climbing up the outside of the Tower pulling up the Cable inside the Tower. He was the High Guy this transmission line would have gone up 350 to 375 feet Anderson said. Anderson said the Tower is made up of a series of Metal triangles which Crews can climb on the outside. Workers have two safety clips always leaving one attached to the Structure while undoing the second and climbing up a few Steps before again clipping the second to the Structure. Theress always supposed to be one clip on the Tower and 95 per cent of the time both clips Are on the Tower he said. He either a snot clamped on when he slipped or the Metal he was clamped onto gave Way. Anderson said chum has been doing extensive work on the Tower combining All transmissions for crw Bob pm and q94 pm into one Tower. The company has had another Tower in Starbuck. City police and fire Crews and the r. Of Macdonald fire department rushed to the scene. Anderson said the three stations will have to operate at lower Power than usual while the investigation continues and the government investigators May need the stations to go off the air today while they climb the Tower. He was Uncertain when the Tower project would resume. Nick. Martin free press. . Ca Man injured in fall from transmission Tower by Nick Martin Jean Bissett knew just knew that the time was right yesterday to let other people see the Flag that her father Dan Bissett carried into Battle on Vimy Ridge 88 years ago. She brought the tattered but lovingly preserved Union Jack to a ceremony in Vimy Ridge Park commemorating the decisive Battle of april 9, 1917, when 3,598 canadians died taking the Ridge from heavily entrenched germans. Her father made it Home became an ramp officer and lived to the age of 72, Bissett said. He served in All the major Battles. He took this Flag into Battle and retrieved it after the carnage Bissett said yesterday As a gentle rain began to fall on the crowd of about 150 veterans scouts cadets and spectators. Her father was in the trenches and gassed at Ypres she said. I visited Vimy on his behalf in the Early 60s, Bissett recalled. Bissett said her late Mother kept the Flag then left it to her. I saw the article in the paper about the ceremony i thought its got to go to the ceremony. Ive just kept it with my own Memorabilia. Ill eventually donate it to the War museum in Ottawa she said. Hugh Mackenzie past president of the korean War veterans unit 17, said he was amazed when Bissett arrived with the Flag just before the ceremony which included veterans affairs minister Albina Guarnieri. People really dont know How important the Battle of Vimy Ridge was making Canada a nation Mackenzie said. It was the turning Point of the War. At Home it United Canada. Occasions like this should always remind us that Freedom is not free Mackenzie said. Continued please see Vimy Ridge b 2 they fought to unite Canada ceremony honours Vimy Ridge soldiers by Leah Janzen f ormer family services minister Tim Sale was warned of financial irregularities at Hydra House in april 2000 seven months before he said he first heard complaints about the Agency. Until now the province has maintained it did not become aware of allegations of miss pending at Hydra House until november 2000 when James Small the Agency yes former ceo asked for an investigation of the organizations books. But documents obtained by the free press show a former Hydra House employee wrote to Sale in Early april 2000 asking him to investigate possible misuse of funds at the Agency. Hydra House is a for profit social service Agency that provides care to More than 90 disabled adults and children at 11 group Homes around the City. The Agency was the subject of a scathing review by provincial auditor general Jon Singleton which was released last june. It found executives misspent More than $ 1.5 million in Public funds on trips furniture Homes and cars Between 1997 and 2002. In 2003, Hydra House received almost $ 6 million in Public funding. After the miss pending scandal came to Light last summer the province announced it was cutting off funding to Hydra House and stopped placing new clients with the Agency. The government is negotiating with St. Amant Centre to take Over care of Hydra House clients. Tory family services critic Mavis Taillieu said the documents show the province lied about when it was first made aware of financial problems at Hydra House. Singleton said the province did not provide him with the april 2000 allegations when he undertook his review of the Agency in 2003. Continued please see Hydra b 2 Early red Flag revealed minister warned about Hydra House 7 months sooner than he stated Joe Bryksa / Winnipeg free press worker investigator at scene. Ryan Pfeiffer / Winnipeg free press Veteran John Gillis holds the Union Jack Flag that survived the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Also pictured from left is Albina Guarnieri Jean Bissett my Pat Martin and St. James la Bonnie Korzeniowski ;