VOL.32, NO.2 - FEBRUARY 2018 Published by Transcona’s Only Exclusive Community Paper 130 Victoria Ave. West • Phone: 204-222-7069 www.bondprinting.net/views.php MMJHL Showcase Highlights Transcona Railer Express Talent By Lisa Kowalski Some great ideas can happen when you brainstorm. It was just over three years ago when the Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League, the team owners and the team management did just that. They met, they worked together and developed a list of ideas to increase the focus on the many skilled, hard-working players in this league. Their winning idea was implemented and the MMJHL showcase weekend was born. Now an annual event the recent MMJHL talent showcase weekend was held at the Bell MTS Iceplex from January 12 to 14, 2018. Each of the league’s ten teams played two games in a venue built to feature the top hockey players in the province. The Express had games against Jerry Sodomlak, Transcona Railer Express the Pembina Valley Twisters and the President and MMJHL Charleswood Hawks, working hard to Showcase Chairman win both games, four important points earned as the team focuses on playoffs. Noah Skorpad and Connor Shaw were both named players of the game. A big thank you to Express President Jerry Sodomlak, who as the MMJHL Showcase Chair his hard work, expertise and team of volunteers make this showcase happen. Continued on page 22 138-701 Regent Ave. W. Winnipeg, MB R2C 1S3 Phone 204-224-4015 Fax 204-224-2734 Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 am – 8:00 pm Friday - 7:00 am – 7:00 pm Saturday - 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Massage Therapy Available Proudly serving Transcona since 1983 ! Extra Value Coupon Index ! 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A hemorrhage in the eye By Steven Mintz, O.D. may produce the sudden appearance of floaters. As well, a retinal detachment Every day we see people in our office side the eye. Almost all of these, however, can cause new floaters to appear. In with the above complaint. But rest as- are transparent and hence, invisible. these cases, the floaters may be partic- sured, it is very common for people of any As one gets older, some of these ularly large and very numerous. As well age (but especially over age 50) to see pieces lose their transparency and be- a retinal detachment is often preceded ‘spots’ or ‘floaters’. They are most often come visible. Floaters take on many by a bright white lightning-like flash of caused by a change in the consistency of forms, from small dots or threads to the light. So if you suddenly see new large the gel inside your eye. very life like appearance of spiders, flies floaters or many (more than is possible The majority of the fluid inside the eye or tadpoles. The floaters may be so dis- to count) appearing at one time, with or is a gel called the vitreous humor, or sim- tinct that you can draw their shape ex- without a flash of light, consider this to be ply, the vitreous. This vitreous is a gel like actly. They tend to move with your eye an emergency. Go and see your op- tissue the consistency of warmed Vaseline. movements and tend to jump back and tometrist, your physician or the emer- It has some solid-ness to it but is able to forth across your line of sight. v gency department immediately. partially flow or move around. The human There is no treatment possible or eye, when it is developing in the womb, needed for them. Usually floaters do not Check us out online: contains a pair of blood vessels that travel signify eye disease. Because you are from the back part of the eye to the front, actually seeing the shadows of these Website at somewhat like the core of an apple. floaters, they are most evident in bright www.transconaoptical.ca Shortly before a person is born, those light or when looking at bright back- blood vessels become redundant and the grounds. To minimize their effect on your Facebook at body re-absorbs or digests these blood vision reduce the lighting or put on sun- www.facebook.com/ transconaoptical vessels. The re-absorption, though, is not glasses. 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