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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE B2 B 2 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2015 CITY winnipegfreepress. com Legals NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: CLIFFORD PETER RIVERS, late of the City of Winnipeg, in Manitoba, RETIRED, deceased. All claims against the above estate, duly verified by Statutory Declaration, must be mailed to the undersigned at their offices, PO Box 62002 Transcona, Winnipeg, MB R2C 5G2, on or before the 18th day of February, 2015. DATED at Winnipeg, Manitoba, this 14th day of January, 2015. CHRIS LANGE LAW OFFICE Solicitors for the Executor NOTICE TO CREDITORS UNDER THE TRUSTEE ACT In the matter of the Estate of Dwayne Anthony Hillhouse, late of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Deceased. All claims against the above estate, duly verified by Statutory Declaration, must be sent to the undersigned at 202 - 900 Harrow Street E., Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3M 3Y7, ( Attention: D. Knight) on or before the 9th day of March, 2015. Dated at Winnipeg, Manitoba this 15th day of January, 2015. KNIGHT LAW OFFICE Solicitor for the Estate FUTURE SHOP - CORRECTION NOTICE NEWSPAPER RETRACTION FOR THE FUTURE SHOP JANUARY 16 CORPORATE FLYER On the January 16 flyer, page 18, the Nikon D5200 DSLR camera package ( WebID: 10284824/ 10300492) was incorrectly advertised with an image of an extra lens. Please be advised that the package does not include an additional lens. It only comes with the 18- 55mm VR II lens. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our valued customers. THE woman had already swum 10 metres across a flooded ice road and carried two small children, one by one, to safety when the Monteiths spotted her in the dusk. " She was very hysterical, cold, upset, crying. I could see 200 yards behind her, two children in the middle of the ice road," John Monteith said Sunday, relating the harrowing rescue in a call from Kenora, Ont. It was - 16 C and the sun was setting Thursday around 5 p. m. over the ice road on the Lake of the Woods. John and Dorothy Monteith, who run a hunting and fishing outfitter business, were heading home after a day of ice fishing near Rope Island, about 20 kilometres south of Kenora. Ahead on the ice road, they saw the woman, children and pickup truck wedged in a pressure crack that was two metres wide. The water was up to the door on the passenger side, a man with a shovel standing precariously in the back of the box. The back of the pickup was tilted in mid- air. Over the next 30 minutes, the Monteiths would rescue the young woman, a young man and a boy and girl, bundling them all into their truck and driving them back to Kenora with the heaters blasting. " The kids were OK. They were real troopers. They weren't crying. They were probably traumatized," John Monteith said. It's what the couple did to save their kids that amazed the outfitters. " This is where it gets really interesting," Monteith said. " The front of the truck broke through a layer of ice because it was soft there," Monteith said. " That's where the pressure crack was and when the tires broke though, the truck veered off and went into the pressure crack. It fell in ( and tilted) a way in on the passenger side, where the young lady was. " It was deeper there," Monteith said. " I don't know how she got out. We didn't see it. We came upon it seconds after. She said she jumped out, probably through the window, it was rolled down. " She swam over to the ice road because the water was deep. " The gentleman got his two children and threw them over to her, to get them on the ice road. He literally picked them up and threw them, and she was in the water and she caught them. Then she carried them over to the ice road." Monteith said he and his wife arrived at the right moment. " My wife and I, we were there at the right place at the right time. There would have been people coming behind us, I'm sure. It's a very well- travelled road. The only concern, it might have been a half hour. And they would have froze." There was no official word from authorities Sunday about the family. Their names weren't known at press time. The Ontario Provincial Police provided no information. " We told the girl and the two kids to stay in the truck, and I got out," Monteith said. " The young man was in the back of the truck, like his partner, soaking wet, waving his arms. He was making sure we would stop and he said he was OK. He was really well- composed." Water over the ice road a metre deep stood between the man and the rescue. " I said ' You're going to have to get into the water,' and that's what he did. He walked from the back of the truck and I pulled him up with the shovel." Social media heralded the Monteiths as heroes, with a Facebook post from a friend that described the rescue and laced it with cautionary warnings: " Said it many times - but you can never trust the ice when you're out fishing. Good friends John and Dorothy Monteith are heroes this morning. " Coming back up Lake of the Woods last night. they came upon a truck that had crashed through a pressure ridge literally on the main road. A young couple of their two young kids had driven into the open water," the post summed up. The Monteiths say the young couple had a lot of courage. Getting the family back to dry land took a half- hour. The rescued man called ahead to relatives, who met the Monteiths where the ice road met pavement. " We met them at a place called Holmstrom's Marsh and we unloaded all the kids, and the woman and the man into the family van. They thanked us a lot. We still haven't heard if everything is OK. I'm sure it would have been or we would have heard." The victims and the rescuers forgot to introduce themselves. " The ironic thing about all this is we didn't ask them their names. It went so quickly," Monteith said. alexandra. paul@ freepress. mb. ca Truck crashes through ice, four rescued By Alexandra Paul D ID you follow the traffic to the river? Hundreds did Sunday as the mercury hit - 10 C. And The Forks saw a winter wonderland and parking lot filled to the brim. " I love this place. It's so much fun," Dora Dickson said, moving out of the warming hut on the rotunda that gave skaters a break to warm up cold hands over open flames. From early afternoon, people streamed towards The Forks. They carried skates, hockey sticks, snowboards and toboggans. Families came with kids tucked into snowsuits. Some brought their dogs. " I've never skated before. The other doctors thought they'd pull me out here because I'm the guy from the Caribbean," joked Dr. Leon Waye. He trained in Miami and came to Winnipeg via Bermuda. One of a group of about 50 residents in the final years of their medical training, Waye brought Broadway Star, a mixedbreed rescue dog, Sunday for the fun. Broadway Star was dressed in a blue sweater and blue- striped paw socks. " He loves winter and kids," Waye said. The Forks had advertised the start to its winter programming this weekend that included horse- drawnwagonrides, aboriginal programming and snowboard instruction. The skate rental lineup was long. Most people were drawn to the ice, even those who didn't bring skates strolled on the Assiniboine River or wandered past the bridge onto the Red River. " This is the first time out at The Forks," said Chad Olafson. He and his wife and their two young children live in the Crescentwood area where a frozen backyard pond is their regular rink. " It's fantastic. It's nice the weather let up and they have music here. It's perfect," Olafson said. The one downside: It took the family half an hour to find parking. Ordinarily, they'd just skate along the Assiniboine River from Hugo Street but this year, a high, fast river meant it froze unevenly and couldn't be iced. The rotunda rink under the canopy thronged with skaters, many of them newbies, circling around a music sound system. Olafson's daughter Grace, 8, wore a helmet with a tuque on top, the better to stay safe and warm. As father and daughter took a break on the benches, mother Brandee took toddler Blake out for a spin. It was his second time on skates. " He's only five years old, and he knows everything about the Jets, all the players, their names, their status, their numbers, even their ( body) weights. It's ridiculous," the proud dad said. The Forks will replay the scene Sunday. The lineup includes horse- drawn wagon rides, 1: 30 p. m. to 4: 30 p. m.; aboriginal programming, 1: 30 p. m. to 3: 30 p. m., snowboard instruction, 1: 30 p. m. to 3: 30 p. m. alexandra. paul@ freepress. mb. ca Woman's death natural AN 18- year- old woman found dead Saturday died from natural causes, police said Sunday. Police were called to a home in the 100 block of Lorne Avenue at 1: 10 a. m. Saturday for an unresponsive woman. Investigators learned there had been an altercation and occupants of the home had helped the woman and called 911. She was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died. Homicide investigators were called in until an autopsy showed there was nothing criminal about the death. No charges will be laid, police said. Truck hits ambulance A pickup truck that ran a red light Saturday and collided with an ambulance crashed into a jewelry store, police said Sunday. Witnesses told police the ambulance was headed west through a green light at Isabel Street when it crossed paths with the pickup headed north on Isabel. The two collided and the pickup crashed into Independent Jewellers in the 400 block of Notre Dame. Damage to the building was substantial. The four occupants of the truck and the two in the ambulance were not seriously injured, police said. Doctors' exits concerning BRANDON - Residents in the southwest corner of Manitoba face a looming doctor shortage. Officials from Melita and the RM of Two Border are hosting a Feb. 6 meeting to discuss the issue. Melita Coun. Alby Morris said the community currently has two full- time doctors and one semi- retired doctor who works half- time. In March, one of the full- time doctors is resigning. Her colleague is set to be gone for about six months in March, leaving the hospital with one semi- retired physician. Morris said Prairie Mountain Health management is doing its best to handle the lack of doctors across the health region, but said the community is starting to feel neglected. " Everyone is really concerned and we don't want to lose our medical services here." Nurses have told Morris they believe the emergency room will have to be shut down when the doctors leave. " The community feels the RHA isn't trying hard enough to fill these positions and they'd rather fill centres like Virden, Killarney or Russell - the bigger communities," Morris said. " If this place closes down we're going to be in a quandary." Complicating matters is the oil boom, which has been tempered more recently by the fall in prices. " This is a farming community and that's a high- risk venue with many people often getting hurt on the farm," Morris said. " We're also in the middle of an oil boom and Melita and Virden is where the bulk of where those workers go. Pierson is a long way from Deloraine or Virden. It's almost an hour- long drive." Melita's volunteer ambulance crew has almost disappeared. " We had a very good volunteer service and then the government stepped in," Morris said. " Now we have a shortage of ambulance people." Morris blames new regulations that he said are onerous, requiring unrealistic and expensive training. In 2013, an independent review of the Emergency Medical Services program in the province called for the " phase out" of emergency medical responders and a move toward a " paramedics only" model. In Brief PHOTOS BY MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Arleene Quiutoras skates for the first time. Hundreds headed to The Forks Sunday for the start of its winter adventure programming. Frolicking in the great outdoors The Forks teeming with people, including first- time skaters By Alexandra Paul ABOVE: Hugh Ebbers, 18 months, warms up by the fire with his parents, Craig Ebbers ( left) and Megan Wilton, inside a warming hut at The Forks. LEFT: Rescue dog Broadway Star shows off fancy duds and booties. ' I've never skated before. The other doctors thought they'd pull me out here because I'm the guy from the Caribbean' B_ 02_ Jan- 19- 15_ FP_ 01. indd B2 1/ 18/ 15 9: 14: 32 PM ;