Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 21, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news monday february 1977 class mail registration number 0286 festival do Voyageur finishes a big week injuries take main toll of labor official says tongues and tails wagging a team of dogs above carries Dennis Laboda of Minnesota into a Long turn near the perimeter and Highway 15 in Hie class a race dog sled race of Winni Peg s festival Duvoy a eur. Which ended sunday. The week end s Cool Crisp Wea ther was Fine for sled Ding and other outdoor pursuits. Alex right won the fiddling contest for people aged 18 to 49 years. The fun was there by Brian Cole the 1977 edition of the fes t i v a 1 do is a Success but organizers Are already Locking at ways to improve its 1978 format Gerry Murrene one of the organizers said sunday. We be done very Well Fin he said in an interview. Ill know More in a of ple of weeks but we should have enough to cover our 3 0 0 0 0 Al budget and our deficit from previous years which we be been carrying a Long this has been the most functional festival yet. There were no hangups no problems and no mishandled events. The Peop were there the show was there and the fun was he said. Attendance was an estimated an increase of compared with last year. However Parade Atten dance was Down to from about last ear. That was mainly because of the or. Tur Rene said. Were no real disappointments or. T u r r e n e said. However festival organizers will probably talk about trying to get More peo ple to the cultural events in eluding the Folk dances plays and displays of St. Boniface history. We want to expand on the cultural the advertising brought in Many people to the commercially oriented exhibitions to the detriment of the cultural exhibitions he said. One of the biggest successes of the festival was the great rendezvous in the Winnipeg convention Centre. We re very pleased with it. It s the first year for it at the convention Centre and we re nursing the great rendezvous Fea tured a Casino and Beer Gar Den with continuous entertainment for the last four Days of the festival which began feb. 13. Besides the Success of the great rendezvous All dances trading posts and so Cial evenings was sold out every night of the festival or. Surrenc said. That has never been done before. It s because our Price Structure is so reasonable. We charged or s2.50 for everything. As Well the festival visited about 160 schools with histor ical displays and to have afternoon sock i would say about students participated in our school in some of the festival s closing events sunday Burt Duciaume of Richer. Man., won the jigging contest while Alex Carriere of Lorette Man., won the fiddling con test. Crippled children s society to Benefit dancer trying 72 hour Marathon by Brian Cole about . Today Eric Brennar scheduled to begin a dance he Hopes will take him into the Guin Ness Book of world records. And at the same time he plans to raise Money for the society for crippled children and adults. I Hope to go for about "2 or. Brennan. 26, said in a Telephone interview. The world Jive dancing re Cord of 53 hours was set in Fune 1976. By an Ohio Cou ple. They broke Rry old record of 43 hours which i set in june he said. Or. Brennan an employee of industries Ltd., of Selkirk Man., feels he has Chance of break ing his old record. In preparation for his stint to include a Tive in Ingle break every hour. Or. Bren Nan has been exercising regularly to develop agility. I m in pretty Good he said confidently. It s no wonder. Aside from working during the Day or. Brennan teaches ballroom Folk and Square dancing for the University of Manitoba the Myca and the trans Cona department of recreation six Days a week. That helps keep in shape during the dance in the Winnipeg inn lobby he will be eating bananas Orange juice milk and Salt. Or. Brennan has been associated with dancing in one Way or another for a Long time. When he was younger he spent a lot of his time skate dancing. Then at the age of 22, or. was told by doctors he would have to give it up because it was causing Back problems. That s when he took up dancing. It s been my life. At first i did things Lik a the dance Marathon just to promote he said. That changed however after or. Brennan set the Marathon dancing record. I was invited to the Crip p 1 e d children s society s dance. And i was quite taken Aback. They got on the dance floor and they tried so hard. And they weren t Happy with just trying they wanted to do it shortly after that the dancer got in touch with the Csc and the shrines. They both agreed to sponsor him in his dance. If anyone wants to come Down and dance with me. They re Welcome. If they just want to donate Money they can through the Csc s noon hour show or the Bank o he said. More working Days in Manitoba Are lost through in juries and fatal accidents than through strike and Loc k o u t s Victor j Rabinovitch executive director of the provincial department of labor s workplace safety and health division said saturday. 1975, at least 680.000 working Days were lost through injuries and accidents about five times More than were lost through strikes and lockouts he told about 160 people at a two Day seminar in the North Star inn on health and safety in Industry. Health and safety Are not frills or fringe benefits he said. Activity in the work place is the Central focus of a productive citizen s life. Where workplace conditions Are unsafe or unhealthy All of a person s life is adversely this principle is embodied in the workplace safety and health act which was Given assent last june he said. The act unites in one stat Ute All the legislative author Ity to Deal with health and safety in working places he said. Such authority was for Merly spread out among a number of acts and statutes. Plaque honors conservation More than one million Manitoba school children have been taught conserva Tion under the Manitoba for Estry association s conserva t i o n program in schools throughout the province. Since 1944, the project been at work quietly throughout Manitoba teach ing children the value of conservation of the province s natural attributes. An inscribed pique placed in Montrose school 691 Mon trosic Street is testimony to the program. The program will be car ried on this Winter by Henry Murkin who Hopes to reach 35.000 students As he travels offering Manitoba children films and discussions on conservation. The association is a non profit non government Public service supported solely by Grants and donation it has a summer Camp near Lla dash Villa which offers children excursions into the prov Ince s Nursery and forestry reserves there. Apart from bringing All the authority under one depart ment for the first time he said the new act has two innovative features the establishment of joint employer worker safety and health committees in designated workplaces and the Extension to All workplaces of the procedure nov in the mines act which allows workers to refuse to work in unusually dangerous or unhealthy situations. Or. Rabinovitch said the Basic of his division was not to lecture or preach but to increase the capacity of All those involved to anticipate problems and to change the conditions which give Rise to them. He emphasized the joint committees were at the Centre of the province s approach to health and safety. The people directly involved in the workplace must Bear the collective responsibility to Deal with conditions of f e c t i n g their safety and he said. The next major step will be to improve the attitude of individuals which will come from the successful develop ment of the joint committees and the resulting improve ment of conditions he said. The minister he said has an expressed policy of meet Ings with labor manage ment and other parties be fore the act is proclaimed. The first of three Consulta Tive meetings or hearings will be held today in the legislative building with employers. The minister will meet thursday with labor representatives and again next monday with interested professional organizations. Huband backs govt strike rights a Liberal Manitoba government would give govern ment employees the right to strike provincial Liberal Leader Charles Urband said saturday. However that right would be limited and essential ser vices would be maintained or. Huband said in a press release. The Liberal Leader was responding to Manitoba government employees association president William Jack son s request for opposition views on whether civil servants should be brought under the labor re lations act. Or. Jackson has recently announced the Myka would withdraw support of the provincial government unless it brings the association under the act. Progressive conservative Leader Sterling Lyon has not made Public his views on the Issue but has proposed to meet with or. Jackson. Or. Huband stopped Short of advocating that the association now regulated by the civil service act would be brought under the labor met. He said the association should have the i fit to strike As Long As essential services were maintained and said negotiations be tween labor and manage ment should begin before the old contract expires. A report on process of negotiations should be made to Thor minister of labor he said. If negotiations began to drag the minister could set up mediation or conciliation before the contract expires. And conciliation officers should be appointed by the chief Justice of Manitoba not the minister of labor he said. Guard hit in breaking a Security guard was knocked unconscious and locked in an office at the we Staci Rosco Ltd. Plant at 450 desaultels Street St. Boniface Early today. Police said the guard Dis covered two men breaking into vending machines in the main floor dining room. The guard s supervisor found him when he arrived for work. Eight stitches were required to close a Cut in the guard s head. The thieves who broke into five vending machines also took from these purity guard police said. The Plant was entered by Way of a window in n Over head door about . Traffic accidents kill 2, Hurt 1 two Manitoban Are dead and a third was reported in Good condition in Concordia Hospital As a result of separate traffic accidents Dur ing the weekend. Dead Are Hnat Diduck. 71, or 1024 Inkster Boulevard. Samuel Hardy Mason 37, of Melita Man. Winnipeg police say they have charged a 27-year-old Winnipeg Man with leaving the scene of an Accident impaired driving and causing death by negligence in connection with the traffic death of or. Diduck. Or. Diduck was crossing Inkster at Wiginton Street when he was struck by an eastbound vehicle which failed to remain at the scene. Or. Diduck was taken to the health sciences Centre where he died about 8 . Saturday. An ramp spokesman said or. Mason was killed after the car he was driving went out of control about . Saturday on provincial Road 445, one mile West of Melita Man. A six year old East Kil Donan boy was reported in Good condition after he was struck by a car about . Saturday. Police said the boy James Smith of 295 Poplar Avenue was crossing Brazier Street near Harbison Avenue when he was struck by a South bound car driven by Keith Burr 23, of 451 Cal Avenue. Pfc to by Ca rns a fester and a lion on a uni during Canadian forces win Cycle entertain onlookers saturday Ean Val Parade ;