Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 3, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba top news Winnipeg free press thursday August 3, 2006 a5 Canada changes guard in Kandahar Battle zone Colin Corneau / Brandon Sun maj. Michael Wright leads his son Jonas As he prepares to depart. By Donald Mcarthur k Kandahar Afghanistan ? the wholesale changeover of Cana Dian soldiers began in Earnest Here Early yesterday when about 120 fresh troops the first of Many Waves gearing up to replace the 2,000 soldiers bound for Home clambered Down from two Hercules aircraft and tested their rifles beneath the blazing desert Sun. The incoming soldiers mostly from Petawawa ont. And Shilo man., wore their uniforms during their grueling 36-hour journey and dirtied them soon after their arrival when they Lay Flat on the ground to test their c-7 assault rifles. A working weapon is More important than process and paperwork in a hos tile Region where 11 Canadian soldiers have been killed since february. The first thing they do when they arrive Here is they go to the firing Range and Zero their weapons to make sure they re accurate just in Case they have to face any kind of action said it. Mark Macintyre. This is a danger Ous environment. We All carry weapons. Whether you re an office worker a Cook a clerk or an infantry Soldier we re always prepared for the worst. We Hope the worst does to happen but we re ready for it. At Camp Shilo friends and family said Farewell to soldiers off to joint the second wave. Maj. Michael Wright said the Good byes As much As training Are part of a soldiers life. We join the army to do this kind of Mission Wright said As his two year old son Jonas standing at his Side waved a miniature 2ppcli Flag. We did to join to be behind a Art and Dianne holler came All the Way from Hanover ont o say Good Bye to their 25-year-old son Greg. We would to miss this for the world Greg smother said. You should have seen his face when he first Learned he was going. Its like a dream a dream that comes More than 100 soldiers of a company second battalion Princess Patricia a Canadian Light infantry 2ppcli departed by bus to Winnipeg yesterday then went on to cab Trenton in Ontario. Greg who spent the morning with his Girlfriend and parents at his Side said he was definitely ready to get to work. I a excited about it Greg said flashed a Broad Grin. We be been training a for Diane her sons tour in Afghanistan brings both anxiety As Well As her own sense of duty. I fear for his life she said. Deep Down when he joined we did it think he a be off to War. Yet Here we Are. We re going to stay focused and stay in Montreal Cpl. Rachelle Warren 26, watched quietly As her eldest brother a body was carried past a Royal Highland regiment of Canada honour guard from the Black watch a Chapel. Cpl. Jason Patrick Warrens ceremonial Belt and Dagger sat atop the Cas Ket As a Soldier followed carrying his medals on a Black Pillow. The 29-year-old reservist and Cpl. Francisco Gomez 44, of Edmonton died in Afghanistan july 22 when a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives beside the Bison armoured vehicle that Gomez was driving. Yesterday As the replacement troops arrived a Canadian Soldier was injured by a Canadian m-777 howitzer blast West of Kandahar City. The mishap occurred during operations aimed at countering Taliban disruptions of military and civilian traffic. ? can West news service 32 nursing positions on chopping Block Beds closing at Kenora Hospital ment late yesterday saying by Alexandra Paul the cuts Are the Best Way to wrestle control of a $1.8-Mil-As Many As 32 nurses Are fac lion deficit currently on the ing layoffs in Kenora where books. Hospital administrators Are and added ceo Mark bal closing nearly a Quarter of Caen the demand for Hospi the Beds at the Lake of the Tal health care has dropped Woods District Hospital. 26 per cent Over the last the facility is the Only hos seven years As an aging pop Pital in the popular Holiday elation relies less on hospitals resort say unionized nurses and More on nursing Homes who Are holding a rally for medical treatment. Tomorrow to protest the cuts. Balcaen said it will take a the information picket in few months to sort out the front of the main Entrance to exact Impact of the cuts. The the Hospital is due to Start at goal is to keep services going 11 30 . And conclude at 1 despite the cuts. . We will not be eliminating the proposed cuts Are the any existing Hospital pro latest in a series of economic blows to hit the picturesque town known for its idyllic fresh water Bays and sport fishing. Late last year newsprint giant Abi Tibi consolidated permanently closed its Mill in Kenora throwing 365 people Grams or services but we will make changes to reflect needs Balcaen said. We Hope that staffing reductions can be achieved through existing vacancies attrition and Early but nursing Union officials said yesterday that the size out of work and affecting the of the cuts Are too big not to livelihoods of 350 tree cutters have an Impact in jobs and on and Drivers. Quality of. Now nurses say these lat Kenora mayor Dave can est cuts will erode the Quality Field said yesterday the City of health care in the Region. Government shares nurses they intend to draw Atten worries. Tion to the cuts before they obviously there a a con happen because if they wait Cern when there a that num for the axe to fall before they Ber of jobs being Cut and Beds speak up it will be too late being closed. We have a num nurses warn. Ber of questions we want we re in the Middle of a answered Canfield said. National nursing shortage and Kenora a town Council Here they Are laying us off wrote a formal letter july 31 said Ontario nursing Assoc to the Lake of the Woods hos action local president Debra Pital Board requesting a Bastone. Once they re gone meeting with Hospital offi those nurses Arent going to vials to explain Why the cuts stay around. And the Hospital Are necessary. Wont be Able to Call them so far the Hospital has to replied Canfield said yester the hospitals senior exec Day. Utile issued a formal state. its Only happening at one Dealership one location. 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