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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 2012, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A13 winnipegfreepress. com WORLD WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012 A 13 Clow & Deblo IPEX Conbraco Apollo Valves Pipestar International Endries Special Olympics Athletes, Shayla & Cody Equipco Wolseley Engineered Pipe Manitoba ICP Wolseley Mechanical WE'RE THERE FOR YOU COMMUNITY PROFILE The 7th Annual Wolseley Classic held June 6th at Bel Acres Golf and Country Club was a huge success! With the support of 152 golfers, including 22 sponsors this year's Classic managed to raise $ 30,000 for Special Olympics Manitoba! What an amazing success. It was a beautiful, scorching 33� sunny day and 1st place team, consisting of Mike Kerr, Tony Teunis, Barry Manish and Trevor Matheson took home the grand prize. Congratulations to the All Canadian Renovations Team! Thank you very much to all those who participated in the Wolseley Classic including the players, volunteers and Special Olympics athletes. Everyone worked very hard to create this terrific day filled with exciting events. Special Olympics Manitoba is a non- profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Manitobans with an intellectual disability through sport. Wolseley Canada is a corporate sponsor for this worthwhile cause and an active member in helping them reach their goals. Wolseley cares deeply for this organization and for each individual athlete. Every person that participates in events like this, help contribute to the success of Special Olympics Manitoba, and for that we say " well done!" Visit www. specialolympics. mb. ca A very " Special" thanks to our Sponsors Pipestar International Inc. Endries Urecon Pre- Insulated Pipe IPEX Inc. ICP Midwest Engineering Ltd. Maple Leaf Construction Conbraco Apollo Valves Mueller Canada Titan Foundry Nelson River Construction W. D. Industrial Group Deblo / Clow Derksen Plumbing & Heating Ltd. Waterite Technologies Franke Kindred Canada Georg Fischer Central Plastics Investors Group - Lesley Hamilton WILO Canada All Canadian Renovations Bentall Kennedy Meridian PVF 7th Annual A THENS - Greece moved to end its protracted political impasse Wednesday, swearing in a new prime minister to lead a largely probailout coalition tasked with saving the country's place in the eurozone and easing a European financial crisis with global repercussions. Antonis Samaras, a 61- year- old U. S.- educated economist, became the fourth prime minister in eight months. " I know well the need to restore the dignity of the Greek people that has been wounded," he said. " I know the need for a quick recovery of the economy to restore social justice and social cohesion." Samaras, leader of the conservative New Democracy party, will head a three- party coalition that includes the socialist PASOK party and the small Democratic Left. The new government faces massive financial challenges. It must deliver on pledges to implement painful austerity measures, including cutting tens of thousands of civil service jobs, in exchange for billions of euros in rescue loans from other European countries and the International Monetary Fund. " You are taking over the governance of the country at a difficult and historic moment. You have many battles to fight, both within Greece and abroad," the outgoing caretaker prime minister, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, told Samaras during their handover. New Democracy narrowly beat the radical left- wing Syriza party in Sunday's elections, but fell short of enough votes to form a government on its own, leading to power- sharing talks for three days. Similar talks after an inconclusive May 6 election had collapsed after 10 days. Syriza, led by 37- year- old former student activist Alexis Tsipras, had campaigned on an anti- bailout platform, vowing to pull Greece out of the commitments it made to impose deeply unpopular austerity measures in return for the multibillion- euro bailouts. Greece has been dependent on the bailout funds since May 2010. Tapping into widespread anger at the austerity, Tsipras quadrupled his party's support since the 2009 elections and will now be the main opposition party - a role it has already said it will use to oppose the bailout. " Syriza will fight from the position of responsible, active opposition," spokesman Panos Skourletis said after the coalition agreement was announced. " It will stand beside those who suffer from the policies being implemented and will lead the social struggles of the next phase in the effort of keeping alive the hope of overturning the bailout policies." But with the formation of a largely pro- bailout government, immediate fears of Athens reneging on its pledges have receded. Combined, the coalition's three parties hold a strong majority of 179 out of parliament's 300 seats - although it is unclear how united they will be. New Democracy and PASOK are longtime foes in a rivalry that extends from the early 1980s. The new government faces a long, tough job. It must deliver on pledges by its predecessors to generate huge new savings, privatize publicly owned companies and real estate, cut some 150,000 civil service jobs and open restricted professions to competition. All three coalition parties broadly back Greece's pledges for further austerity and reforms, but have pledged to renegotiate some of the terms for the rescue loans. Samaras campaigned on promises to lower taxes, restart the economy and provide income boosts to low earners, large families, police and fighter pilots. New Democracy and PASOK, the party that came in third in Sunday's vote and is led by former finance minister Evangelos Venizelos, are also looking for an extension of at least two years in the deadlines for implementing fresh cutbacks worth a total 14.5 billion euros ($ 18.42 billion). Fotis Kouvelis of the Democratic Left went further Wednesday, saying Greece should eventually " disengage" from the austerity commitments and " lift those measures that have literally bled society." An initial test could come as early as today, when the finance ministers of the 17- nation eurozone meet in Luxembourg ahead of an EU summit on June 28 and 29. - The Associated Press Greece swears in its new PM By Elena Becatoros To lead largely pro- bailout coalition CAIRO, Egypt - Authorities delayed the announcement of the winner of Egypt's presidential election, which had been expected today, and gave no date for a decision, hiking tension as allegations of fraud swirled and each candidate declared he was the victor. Amid the atmosphere of political confusion, the Muslim Brotherhood claimed there was an organized campaign of allegations against it to mar the election and keep its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, out of the presidency. The accusation raises temperatures and the possibility of a backlash from the Brotherhood if its rival - former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq - is declared the winner. On top of the potentially explosive dispute over the election is murkiness over the latest health scare of the 84- year- old former president, Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in Egypt's uprising last year and is now serving a life sentence in prison. Overnight, state media reported he suffered a stroke and was put on life support. He was transferred to a military hospital from the Cairo prison hospital where he has been kept since his June 2 conviction and sentencing for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising. Security officials said Wednesday he was in a coma but off life support and his heart and other vital organs were functioning. But the ambiguity over his condition has fuelled skepticism among the public, where many already suspect reports of his deteriorating condition are merely a pretext by security and military officials sympathetic to the former boss to get him out of prison to a more comfortable facility. In a series of swift moves the past week, the ruling generals have cornered for themselves sweeping powers that effectively subordinate the next president and severely limit his capability for independent action. - The Associated Press Egypt delays announcing winner of election By Hamza Hendawi ANDREAS SOLARO / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Antonis Samaras enters the president's office after he is sworn in on Wednesday in Athens. A_ 13_ Jun- 21- 12_ FP_ 01. indd A13 6/ 20/ 12 10: 07: 49 PM ;