Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 23, 2014, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A1 Tough to let go The Lego Movie creators admit they were ' terrified' ending wouldn't work / A14 Living in Winnipeg Feeling the ethnic glow on Ellice Avenue A8 Library gets some loving Not all of the great stories are on the shelves A9 Send news tips and photos to tips@ freepress. mb. ca For breaking news go to winnipegfreepress. com DID YOU WIN? Lotto 6/ 49 9, 13, 19, 22, 33, 34 Bonus 20 Pick 3 Winning number: 501 Extra Winning number: 4574869 THE WEATHER Mainly cloudy. HIGH - 17 LOW - 23 INDEX PAGE 2 FEBRUARY 23, 2014 Arrest ends drug lord's luxurious life on the run / A6 Trudeau has some Manitoba delegates fuming / A5 Ira's Deli - where Bono's just another customer / A8 Ukrainian president flees Arch rival Tymoshenko goes directly from prison hospital bed to stage at Independence Square / A3 Last member of Trapp Family Singers dies STOWE, Vt. - Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member and second- eldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazi- occupied Austria was the basis for The Sound of Music , has died. She was 99. Von Trapp died at her home in Vermont on Tuesday, her half- brother, Johannes von Trapp, said. " She was a lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people," he said. " There wasn't a mean or miserable bone in her body." Maria von Trapp was the last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers made famous in The Sound of Music . Their story was turned into a Broadway musical in 1959 and a 1965 film, which won the Oscar for best picture. Trapp was portrayed as Louisa in the film and musical. She was the third child and second- oldest daughter of Austrian naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. Their seven children were the basis for the singing family in the musical and film. The Sound of Music was based loosely on a 1949 book by von Trapp's second wife, also Maria von Trapp, who died in 1987. In 1938, the family escaped from Nazi- occupied Austria and performed concert tours throughout Europe and then a three- month tour in America. The family eventually settled in Vermont and opened a ski lodge in Stowe. - The Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILES Members of the Trapp family give a public concert at the family lodge in Vermont in 1966. Maria is third from left. An Olympic effort Brett Wall leaves his opponents in the dust as he races down the snow packed 100- metre snowshoe course at St. John's- Ravenscourt in the 34th annual Kinsmen Winnipeg Winter Games on Saturday afternoon. Winnipeg Jets captain Andrew Ladd dropped by to cheer on the Special Olympics athletes / A4 FOR COVERAGE OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS IN SOCHI, SEE PAGES B2 - 8 RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS A_ 01_ Feb- 23- 14_ FP_ 01. indd A1 2/ 23/ 14 12: 22: 46 AM ;