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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page a4 a 4 Winnipeg free press sunday August 31, 2008 top news Winnipeg repress. Com congratulations to g. Bradley who has won a $ 50 husky Mohawk Gas card just for being a free press 7 Day subscriber Check the free press daily fro August 18 the to october 12 the to see if you have won. Not a subscriber Call 697 7001 to subscribe and be eligible for free Gas Winner will be contacted by phone. 200 Princess St. 942 1177 dying of embarrassment difficulty eating or writing in Public difficulty maintaining Eye Contact blushing sweating dry Mouth racing heart in social situations Call 925 0600 1 800 805 8885 wow. Adam. My. Ca 2006 07 6203 August 31, 2008 if this matches your press card number Call 697 7580 to claim your $ 50 gift certificate to Blaze Bistro & lounge prize must be claimed within 5 Days of publication. A after cycling from los Angeles to new York and hiking from Georgia to Maine Yourd think kayaking from Winnipeg to the Gulf of Mexico faze Kevin Knieling. But the adventure seeker said going roughly 5,600 Kilometres by kayak is a Little different than the leisurely Day tripping feel of Bike travel. This feels like an expedition he said. Fighting winds gusting up to 60 Kilometres an hour Knieling and fellow traveller Kobie Rhodes took to the water saturday afternoon for a voyage that will carry them from the Assiniboine River to the Gulf of Mexico if All goes Well. The duo began their trip on the Riverbank behind the Bourk Evale Community Centre a Low key Send off witnessed by a few people fishing on the Shore. The two kayaks were packed with supplies and equipment for the journey through River systems in Southern Manitoba and 12 american states winding up in new Orleans. The trip will Likely take three to four months depending on our penchant for fooling around joked Knieling a former Wall Street stockbroker who gave up the daily grind and began travelling a few years ago. The tour will Complete his adventure triathlon which includes the cycling and hiking excursions earlier this year. The longtime traveller has visited More than 40 countries but this is his first major expedition with a companion. Knieling met Rhodes a new Sealander while hiking there in 2006, and the pair decided to take the kayak trip together. I had the time and i did not want to sit around doing nothing said Rhodes a travel Junkie whose next big trip will take him Down the Pacific Crest Trail from the american Border with Mexico to the Border in British Columbia. The pair stocked up on $ 5,000 Worth of equipment and supplies from Winnipeg Gas wilderness Supply company. With Windy Winnipeg behind them Knieling and Rhodes have other challenges ahead dodging tugboats and barges on the Mississippi River and port aging for roughly 10 Kilometres from the Bois de Sioux to Minnesota Rivers. The travellers Hope to Post updates on their websites wow. Kevi Knieling. Com and wow. . Com. Knieling Isnit sure if his next destination will be More International travel or Back to an office but he thinks hell eventually collect his stories on paper. Ism sure ill put together a Book when ism in one place Long enough to write it he said. Lindsey. Wiebe free press. My. Ca adventurers to kayak from Winnipeg to Gulf of Mexico by Lindsey Wiebe Sarah Kearney / Winnipeg free press Kevin Knieling front and Kobie Rhodes take their last Steps on Winnipeg soil saturday before starting their journey. Sarah Kearney / Winnipeg free press Kobie Rhodes gives a big thumbs up before setting off in the Assiniboine River to journey to the Gulf of Mexico. C an Adas monitoring of food borne illnesses is paltry compared to systems in place in the u. S., a Winnipeg food safety expert said As Lister Osis claimed a 10th life this time in Alberta. Rick Holley a University of Manitoba food science professor said Foo net actively monitors ten Large areas of the u. For food borne diseases and then identifies the sources. Meanwhile health Canada relies on passive ways of detecting potential outbreaks of food borne illnesses he said. Health Canadas National enteric surveillance program which has its Laboratory in Winnipeg is charged with detecting and investigating outbreaks of intestinal illnesses and triggering food recalls. The problem is we dont have a consistent identification of what is and what is not a reportable disease agent in Canada said Holley noting information must be passed from regional health officials to provincial health officials to Federal officials sometimes leaving holes in what is monitored. You can see theress plenty of Opportunity for information to be lost As a result of an outbreak because we dont always capture the cultures from the patient or the cultures from the food. Holley is comments came the same Day As news that Kristen Hicks 36, died in Hospital in Grande Prairie alta., on aug. 14 after listeria caused an infection in her blood and her brain. She had other serious health problems before eating contaminated food. The Canadian Public health Agency has now officially attributed 10 deaths eight in Ontario one in b. C. And the latest in Alberta to the outbreak of listeria Monocyte genes bacterium. Holley said the outbreak Points to Clear ways the poor Canadian system for monitoring and reporting food borne illnesses can be improved. Foo net was launched in 1995 in five major u. Cities. Foo net figured they could Monito. The number of people who got ill what caused them to become ill and Send out people to get patient samples and food samples and then report that Back he said. Its an Active program that tracks what makes people ill in food. We dont know that in Canada we dont know which foods cause people to become ill in this country. Doug Powell an associate professor of food safety at Kansas state University said pregnant women Are 20 times More susceptible to contracting Lister Osis than members of the general Public. Yet they Are not warned to avoid Deli meats and smoked Salmon two of the foods where the bacteria Are commonly found he said. It makes no difference whether the food is locally grown organic or is shipped hundreds of Kilometres from a Large multinational company. Organic is a production Standard that has nothing to do with food safety Powell said. People think its safer and they think that local is safer but there is no evidence of that. The Canadian food inspection Agency has widened the meat recall to cover 16 More products including Ham pastrami Turkey breast Kielbasa sausages sandwiches and submarine sandwiches. Maple Leaf foods began a recall of Deli meat products aug. 17 after listeria a potentially fatal bacterium was found in its Toronto Plant. The company has taken out advertisements in newspapers and on television taking full responsibility for the deadly outbreak. With files from Canadian press and can West news service Gabrielle. Giro Day free press. My. Ca u. Food safety checks better expert Canadas system passive by Gabrielle Giro Day the search in Ayisi Dene first nation for two missing canoeists was called off saturday afternoon due to Rainy weather but the bands chief said recovery efforts to recover the menus bodies will continue sunday. Arnold Thomassie 33, and Gilbert Sandberry 35, Are missing and presumed drowned after last being seen late wednesday afternoon struggling to paddle in the Windy Waters of Madoule Lake. Thomassie and Sandberry were not experienced boaters or swimmers and their Canoe and other personal belongings were located thursday on a nearby Shore by searchers. Hope has been abandoned by the menus family and friends that be found alive. The divers Are Here and they re doing As much As they can do said chief Bernice Thomassie of the Remote first nation about 200 Kilometres North of Thompson. They re getting As much help As they can from the local members. Visibility is not too Good. Its been raining All afternoon. She said divers would return sunday to the Lake to search for the menus bodies. Ramp said Friday that officers from the Thompson detachment were in Madoule Lake to assist along with members of the civil air search and Rescue association. Thomassie said the Small Community of about 300 people Many of whom Are related is struggling after the deaths of the two men. A Vigil has been set up at the local band Hall where residents have gathered to sing. Thomassie said the search for the bodies May not be Quick. The water is quite deep. It can go anywhere from 70 to 80 feet said Thomassie noting Madoule Lake also has Strong currents that make searching in the northeastern Section difficult. Gabrielle. Giro Day free press. My. Ca Rainy weather delays search for missing canoeists by Gabrielle Giro Day Maple Leafs Brandon Plant rapped in 2007 the company that has taken full responsibility for the deadly Lister Osis outbreak was criticized by the u. Department of agriculture eds food safety and inspection service for conditions at its Brandon Plant. Here Are some observations from the inspectors audit of the Brandon Plant in May 2007, available in a report on Canadas meat poultry and egg products inspection system Many ready. To use knives had fat and meat residues from the previous Days work. The trap entry Hole of the catch All mouse trap was blocked by masses of fat and meat. Multiple reports by the pest management firm indicated a problem with the l 14 trap and yet no action was taken by the establishment to Correct the problem identified by the contractor. The management indicated that they would follow the program carefully in the future. Source United states department of agriculture website a _ 04_ aug 31 08. Ind a4 8 / 30/ 08 11 42 41 pm ;