Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday july 29, 2006 b1 cabs go hybrid fuel sipping cars Appeal to the taxi Industry City business business b8 City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 can to live in de Nile mistakes happen i winced when i saw the apology on Page a2 yesterday. Not for myself but for daily journalists everywhere. Because but for the Grace of god. In Case you missed it the apology read As follows we reported wrongly yesterday that Lloyd Axworthy a former Liberal for eign affairs minister criticized Winnipeg a Asper family for using its Media Empire to defend Israel and shape Canadian foreign policy. He did not say that. In fact Axworthy was referring to groups of Diaspora ? various ethnic communities in today a multicultural society ? influencing Canadian foreign policy. Where we quoted Axworthy As saying the Aspers he in fact had said we sincerely apologize to both Axworthy and the Asper with All due respect to the serious Ness of what was clearly ? or unfortunately not so clearly ? a misheard word what happened reminds me of that old saturday night live skit where a couple of Chicago bears fans Short ened their Favourite teams name to a a bears. A Aspers. Diaspora. Disaster. You can see How it could happen. Later in a generous bit of self Depre cation Lloyd Axworthy told a free press editor my wife told me my mumbling would catch up to me one but it want Lloyd a fault of course. We now know that he said Diaspora because the interview was taped which gave those concerned the luxury of listening More than once to a word that apparently sounded remarkably close to a Aspers. As i was saying that kind of mistake can happen to any reporter. And has. One of my colleagues remembers interviewing Vic Schroeder who was then Manitoba a finance minister. Schroeder misinterpreted his first question. Or maybe it was my reporter Friend who misinterpreted his answer. No matter thereafter whenever Schroeder said White the reporter wrote and so it went. By the time the Story appeared the Only part my reporter pal got right was Vic Schroeder a name and his Cabinet port Folio. Then there Are the brain cramp errors. Another newsroom colleague tells the Story of interviewing an actor who con fessed to being a except that when the Story hit the paper Workaholic had became fortunately the Lush laughed it off. Sometimes ? most times really ? we Are saved by copy editors or ? Way Back in the old Days ? proofreaders who collectively were our last line of defence against making fools of our selves in print. Case in Point. A senior editor remembers being a Young reporter writing about the Loca Tion of a Northern Community 600 Miles away As the Arctic Char continued please see Sinclair b2 by Aldo Santin l Olly Mackenzie and her brother Brian Pascoe went to the pan am Pool yesterday morning in Hopes of seeing their mothers swimming medals one last time before they were packed away. They were too late. All of the Glass cases on the Walls along the second level running track that once proudly displayed the history of Canadas Pool champions sat empty including the Case that boasted the medal swimming record of Winnipeg a own Reta Tustin a local swimming phenomenon from the 1920s and ?30s ? Mackenzie a and Pas Coes Mother. This in to How we wanted it to be Mackenzie said. We donated our Moth ers medals so that our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren could come Here and see them. Now what will happen to them by David Kuxhaus an inner City women a Centre will temporarily close its doors today because of a sewer line break. Elaine Bishop executive director of the North Point Douglas women a Cen tre said it could to come at a worse time. The Centre is normally open six Days a week giving women and their families Access to a Community Telephone and computer laundry facilities and a Safe place to relax. In the summer the Centre offers recreational activities for kids. On monday a sewer line ruptured flooding the basement with sewage. The Centre could be closed for at least a week while emergency repairs Are made. The Bill could add up to As much As $15,000, the City was very Short sighted to let the Hall of Fame go she said. It belongs Tustin a medals have been packed in one of hundreds of Anonymous boxes that lined the pools Royal gallery. Vaughan Baird the president and chairman of the aquatic Hall of Fame and museum said that to meet the aug. 1 deadline imposed by City Hall he did to have time to Cata Logue the pieces As they were removed from the Pool Walls. Baird said he expected the last of the thousands of museum pieces would be removed by the end of the Day. There was it much left to move yesterday. The Large paintings of Alex Baumann were still hanging above the Eastern end of the run Ning track. Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau a swim trunks he was an avid diver were still on the running track Wall. A Small nude painting of Baumann remained tucked in its place under the stairs on the ground floor. Its Over. Its done Baird said As he sat Money the Centre does to have. Bishop said the City has told her they Are not responsible for the sewer line because the rupture is right under the building. Bishop said they re going to have to use their line of credit to fix it but she a hoping Winni Eggers will help out with donations. The Centre which opened in 2003, operates on a Bare Bones budget of $110,000 and is funded by the provincial government United Way the Winnipeg foundation and other groups. Tax deductible donations can be mailed to the Centre at 221 Austin St. North r2w 3m8. Donors can also con tact the Centre at 947-0321 when it reopens. ;