Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free press saturday july 29, 2006 City museum continued from Page b1 Public sentiment however seems to lie solidly behind Baird and to be critical of decision makers at City Hall who be allowed the Only National Hall of Fame and museum based in Winnipeg to slip out through their fingers. The Hall of Fame and museum Are a natural fit with the pan am Pool it belonged Here said or. Robert Thor Lakson a longtime Friend of Baird a and the Man who Baird credits for the idea of constructing the Royal gallery in time for the 1999 pan am games. Tyler Lane a Foreman with two Small men with big hearts moving said he spent the past week orchestrating the move of the artefacts and he a angry with How everything a turned out. Most people Don to move out museums Lane said. None of this stuff should be leaving Liz Karman a Linden Woods resident working out on the track earlier this week said Winni Eggers have ignored the aquatic Hall of Fame and museum adding it will find new life in another Community. It was important that the Hall of Fame was located in Winnipeg but its been neglected Karman said. If it moves to some other City then it will get the care it Pascoe said he regularly took his grandson to the Pool to swim and the child always wanted to look at his great grandmothers medals. We re not worried about the medals but i think wed like them to stay in Manitoba Pascoe said of his mothers swim Ming medals. Once a new Home for the Hall has been found i think wed like our Mother a medals to go in the Manitoba sports Hall of Fame at least there wed still be Able to see Baird said even As the team of movers boxed the artefacts he continues to butt Heads with civic bureaucrats. He said he was told last week he could make use of the pools ladders and lift equipment to take Down the artefacts but a senior bureaucrat told him thursday not to touch the equipment. We had to spend $500 to rent a lift Baird said adding the same bureaucrat wanted to know when he would be removing the empty display cases. I told them that they re screwed to the Walls so they belong to the City Baird said. That a their problem most of the Halls artefacts Are boxed and waiting in the pools Royal gallery. More than 100 items from the Halls Cutty Sark collection of Model 19th Cen Tury sailing boats have been loaned to the Manitoba museum. Several Bronze pieces have been loaned to the Winnipeg convention Centre. Baird said the rest will be kept in Stor age but he would to reveal its location because of Security concerns. He said he expects the aquatic federation of Canada ? the umbrella Agency that rep resents the four aquatic events of swim Ming diving water Polo and synchronized swimming ? will invite municipalities from across the country to bid to become the new Home of the Hall of Fame and museum. ? former mayor Stephen Juba asked me to get the Hall and we be been Here for 40 years Baird said. Now we re done.?. Sinclair continued from Page b1 a senior editor remembers being a Young reporter writing about the Loca Tion of a Northern Community 600 Miles away As the Arctic Char fortunately a proofreader caught that fish before it hit the wrapping. A Junior reporter still blushes when she tells the Story about arranging to meet and interview a group of bowlers in Transcona. How will we know who you Are the Bowler she was speaking with asked. Ill be the one in the Pink coat curly hair and carrying a notebook she said. The bowlers were All Blind. Then there a the self mocking our mistake that still hangs in the free press newsroom like a decapitated head on a stake. It reads in some editions of yesterdays newspaper the death listings appeared incorrectly under the Lotter ies heading and the headline staying alive appeared above the death and then there was the time a reporter who was covering a murder trial substituted the name of a Man found dead in a trash Container for the nil player he had in the office hockey Pool. Thankfully that Gaffe was caught by the same reporter turned editor who thought Arctic Char flew. Of course i have my own Favourite Story about myself. As a Young police and courts reporter at the Edmonton journal i was assigned to get a comment from the chief provincial magistrate a Gruff Guy with a Demeanour befitting a hang ing judge. But when i reached his Secretary Over the lunch hour she said he a gone Home. His father in Law is being married today she said. Or at least that a what i thought she said. When i reached the judge at Home i quickly apologized for intruding. I a sorry for bothering you at Home i said. I know your father in Law is being married married his voice boomed Over the phone. He a being buried As i was saying there for but the Grace of god. Go us All. Green team makes Strong showing apparently its easy being Green when you re from Swan River. Five students from Swan Valley regional secondary school joined forces to Post one of Manitoba a highest finishes Ever at the Canon Environ Hon an environmental Challenge that featured More than 250 students from across Canada and the United states. Team Manitoba placed seventh out of 52 teams and was the top finishing squad among the eight teams from Canada. Amanda Hardie Kathleen Peden Jaime Martin Dallas Gade and Tyler Burnside made up the Host team while Alex Verbo was their teacher adviser. A squad from Virginia placed first Fol Lowed by Pennsylvania Texas California and Ohio. The top five winning teams will share $75,000 us in scholarships. During their we Klong stay More than 250 students received training from local experts on a variety of natural resource and environmental topics. Teams competed in a rigorous Daylong Field test wednesday and gave Oral presentations in front of a panel of judges yesterday. The event was held at the University of Manitoba ;