Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tuesday August 22, 2006 b1 muscle car comeback general motors Oshawa ont., Plant will produce the updated Camaro. City business business b5 City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 i i family notices c7 mean spirited Brand spoof is no joke m Locking the talking. Manitoba a spirited Energy branding has been a Success in one respect. It still has people talking. Mostly mockingly mind you. Then there a the photograph that a been making the rounds via email. It shows the spirited Energy logo super imposed Over three men passed out at a downtown bus Stop. I laughed at first. And even showed it to a couple of people in the office. Until it dawned on me that at least two of the men appear to be aboriginal. Shame on me. And having been alerted shame on anyone else who passes around what amounts to a visual racist joke. What would you do. There was a Surprise waiting for Bev Watson when she finally got to the front of the line at a Winnipeg atm one recent sunday. The person who a been in front of her forgot to take the Cash. And by the time Bev saw the Money the person was gone. What would you do Well what Bev did was Contact the Bank which could to help her. Then she emailed the free press. If you know How much you left behind ? yes it was More than $20 ? and which atm was involved All is not lost after All. Contact me and ill put you in touch with your Money. A bouquet for a politician. Good to see a politician knocking on my door Between elections the Way that Rookie Winnipeg South conserva Tive my Rod the giant killer Bruinooge did last week. Missing. Veteran free press reporter Leah Janzen has taken at new Job As manager of communications at the University of Manitoba. Shell be missed in the newsroom and in the news pages. Just last May she and col league Kevin Rollason did the paper proud when they won a National news paper award citation for their cover age of a fatal Cessna cargo plane crash on the City a South Side. Thanks from the family. Janet Vickery and her family asked me to convey their gratitude to everyone who turned out to celebrate the life of the late Al Pappy Vickery ? one of the last of the local old time newsmen. The last laugh. Free press col league Linda Rosborough was sharing a Story last week that other parents should appreciate. Linda said she was sitting on her backyard deck with her three year old daughter Charlotte Hulan the other Day when Mommy noticed that Char Lotte was being very quiet. Linda looked up. From her spot on the deck All she could see was the top of her daughters head. What Are you doing Linda inquired warily. Sounding Ever so pleased with her self Charlotte answered i a playing with that a hornets As in wasps. I Don to think that a a very Good idea Linda said. After i stopped laughing i suggested to Linda that Charlotte would Only have to be stung once by the wasps she Calls hornets and she would to be play ing with them anymore. She was Linda said. Right on her Bare so what do i know. 52 number of animals featured on front Page of the free press saturday. 26 number of animals featured in free press that were adopted. 58 number of animals adopted Over the weekend. 29-35 number adopted on average summer weekend. 13 number of dogs still available for adoption. 90 number of cats ready to be adopted. 1 Bunny named Carl still waiting for a Home. Because Many people Are at the a humane society spokesperson by Trevor Greyeyes cottage or Lake soaking up the Sun. Said most of the animals featured she said adoptions on a typical in the paper will probably be summer weekend could be any adopted. I t was one Happy week where from 29 to 35. Also potential adopters featured end for dozens of cats Home on saturday and sunday the on the front Page were identified and dogs adopted after a humane society had 29 animals by previous owners As their lost adopted each Day with another pets. Front Page spread in Satur eight on hold ? where $20 is put for the second year in a Row the Days free press featured Ani at last Down by an interested person with saturday edition of the free press Mals languishing at the 24 hours to pay off the rest. Featured 52 potential adopters ? it was Wall to Wall people at the dogs cats and a Bunny ? on the Winnipeg humane society a humane society Over the weekend front Page to highlight the need for kennels. Amid the pets pet products adopting an animal from the dozens of pets humane society staff and cages. Humane society. Karen Young Jamerson the As of yesterday morning 26 of a few of them caught the eyes of humane society a adoption manag adopted following the animals featured on the front Colin Payne and his partner Tara or said the weekend was a huge of the saturday free press had Kisil. Success after the free press Fea been adopted. There were still 13 free press Story Ture with the summer season Usu dogs and 90 cats available for continued ally being an off time for adopting adoption. Please see pets b2 victim haunted. By $270 ambulance Bill by Aldo Santin can it get any worse for a former pizza delivery Man who had been stabbed in the Back robbed and left for dead the Man survived the attack with nerve damage and impaired sight and he Snow fend ing off a collection Agency that a trying to col Lect on the $270 ambulance Bill from that harrowing night in december. I was thanked in the Back and had to wait 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive not know ing if i was going to live. Now they want to give me a Bill the 36-year-old Man said. The Man who asked to remain unidentified because his two 17-year-old attackers have not faced trial said he first began receiving Bills from the Winnipeg fire paramedic service in january. He said he called the service and gave them the workers compensation Board claim number assuming that because he was attacked and injured while working the web would cover the ambulance Cost. But the Bills kept coming. He said the web told him his employer was responsible for the ambulance transport costs adding he told the Board to Send the Bills to his Boss. New Bills were sent to his workplace but they were made out to him. I used to make $2,000 a month delivering pizzas but when i was off work i was getting $600 a month from web the Man said. A web Cheque would barely cover the ambulance Bill. I did to have any Money Back he said he ignored the Bills and after being off work for four months recuperating from his injuries returned to work after a dispute with the web when his payments stopped. I was at Home with no Money and these Bills kept Winnipeg fire paramedic service chief Wes Shoemaker said invoices Are routinely issued to everyone who is transported in an ambulance including victims of crime. Continued please see ambulance b2 i Don to want to be reminded of the attack every three weeks by getting a Bill in the mail ? victim of stabbing ;