Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july i980i students take up painting brushes by Nathanael Herron some Manitoba students Are painting a pretty financial picture out of what might have been a summer of Unzem three painting companies have grown out of the annual employment woes Many students face and the even Tual results have been not Only Reward ing but satisfying in a business sense to All of we had to we pretty hard at first but it has worked out of said one of two managing partners of the recently incorporated student starting out can be difficult at financially dangerous but and his Kart or employ up to 10 other Stu dents and drive three company Lehi All paid for out of their legislature urged to alter education Levy changes in Manitoba educational funding were called for saturday As a committee of the provincial legislature studying the proposed new Public schools act wound up its Public hear the Winnipeg school Board renewed its Foury Earold objections to the greater Winnipeg education which it claims puts a million an Nual unwarranted Burden on taxpayers of school division the Manitoba Liberal party called for guaranteed special funding for Winnipeg school division 1 because of the special educational problems in the estimated to Cost the division an extra million last echoing the plea of Many groups representing handicapped the vital school division called for assurances of government funding to help school boards meet their expensive obligations to integrate Handi capped children into the educational education minister Keith who has received 29 representations criticizing the legislation in a of areas ranging from the rights of handicapped children to teacher tenure and proposals for an educational of Hast ruled out the possibility of some changes before the new school act becomes he would Only say there Are certain matters raised during the hearings which he wants to consider before making final Elizabeth a Winnipeg school Board told the commit tee it was completely unreasonable for the government to delay further action on the greater Winnipeg Educa Tion tory Bac Bencher Len Dom Ino has a Resolution calling for its abolition before the but it is Likely to die on the order Fraser representing Mani Tobas proposed a change in the Levy so that it be based Only on commercial and Industrial assess ments and not on residential Dunford went further in calling for removing educational funding from property taxation and putting it on a stronger tax such As income Alex assistant superintendent of the vital school told the committee that the Amant Centre operated under contract by the school is seeking to move some children into group if such children then become the sole responsibility of the it could Cost taxpayers of the division More than even though parents of the pupils live in other areas and some outside the Union meet to discuss contract the Winnipeg executive policy com Mittee will meet today in a special closed session to hear a request by Canadian Union of Public employees local 500 for a change in the recently drawn up contract for civic pm Deputy mayor Pearl Mcgonigal said last night the alteration being sought wont change the end result of the the Dollar figure wont Mcgonigal a special meeting of Council has been scheduled to follow the committee de president of local 500 of the Canadian Union of Public pm refused to comment on the proposed change until after today Council members of cupe will meet Tomor Row to vote on the new Pupil must quit course if 20 classes Are missed vital school Board has adopted a policy that forces a student to withdraw from a course if 20 classes Are the policy is to be implemented for a year and then said Donald assistant superintendent Alex Boyes said the attendance policy was Deve loped in response to principals who wanted the Means to fight absenteeism present Law provides penalties for parents of students up to 16 years who miss but does not govern Stu dents beyond that affected will be the majority of Stu dents in Gle Lawn and Dakota Colle the divisions two High the policy is based on the premise that Normal absences will rarely exceed 20 periods per it assures parents no students will be forced to withdraw because of medical reasons or exceptional employees make enough to go Back to school and the owners make a comfortable the whole idea starting up a company started in the summer of 1977 when the two had just graduated from High unable to find a they got together with a few other people one weekend to paint a friends when they had Lettke and Erhardt decided that they enjoyed the work and decided to go for Treyve never looked Steve owner of Corman corporation another painting company which employs stumbled on the business in a different before started the company five had bounced around from Job to Fob never finding one that realty suited part of the problem was that he didst feel like being some body tool in a big starting up his own painting business meant he no longer had anybody telling him what to the first Job Meronek did was the Interior of an old he had no experience and had to regularly run Down to the local paint store to ask for the owner was so Happy with the Job that he gave him a employs 20 students perhaps the most successful of All the student painters in the City is Robert Fenton and Sunna student Fenton has been painting for admit seven years now and has just recently turned his student Enterprise into a full time Sunna painters now is the largest in Winnipeg and employs 20 students to do residential and commercial it pays students from to an depending upon the students exper one of the reasons for the great Success of these student run enterprises is their competitiveness on the open they Are not year round Busin and Corman offer work at lower than professional Meronek says his prices on the 20 percent lower than the going rate Lettres about 25 percent As a professional employing Stu Sunna is Able to undercut competing painting businesses by 25 per cent because of Low overhead and lower student any student thinking of starting his or her own business should have an aggressive be physically fit and willing to Lettke Meronek agreed and you also have to be willing to do a Good since most of Meronek work comes through references from satisfied Cus he said Good workmanship is a both Fenton and Meronek recommend students get into their own Busin esses because theres lots of work for those students too Young to begin their own theres the Manitoba summer enterprises running businesses in an Effort to give a group of High school students experience in running their own the provincial labor department has set up the program which consists of up to 90 students running and handling three Small scale businesses for the months of july and program coordinator Kathy Rempel said the emphasis is not on the Money they make but on the experience the three which will be manufacturing plexiglass picture Bird marionettes and Wall plaque key Are designed to offer Young people the Opportunity to learn about the mechanics of forming and managing a students involved in the program will elect company establish production figures and keep company employees will be paid Accord ing to How successful the company at the end of the summer the enter Prises will be liquidated and the profits split up amongst the Remple said any other High school students Between the Ages of 14 and 18 who Are going to be in the City for july and August should Contact her through the department of defeat for Victory a reduced Shell is All that remains of the Victory 333 main the property at the Southeast Corner of Portage Avenue and main once was considered an historic aut Opac fails to reduce claims of victims ignoring Seatbelt aut Opac has lost its first attempt to have reduced the size of claim awarded an automobile Accident victim who want wearing a general manager Dutton says the government operated insurance Agency will continue to Chal Lenge in court certain claims made by victims who we rent wearing seat were not saying were going to Challenge every Dutton said Dur ing an it depends on the last aut Opac announced it would attempt to have the size of a Given claim reduced if it was obvious that use of a Seatbelt would have significantly lessened aut Opac has argued such action is justified because any person who Doest Wear Seatbelt is actually guilty of contributory Jim free Phass update a weekly followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stones that have appeared in the free project site sought Duane the Man who wants to use Birds to bring mosquitoes under wants to turn a Small Manitoba town into the purple Martin capital of were looking for a Small town where we can erect a Tower with Bird houses like they have in the United Johnston said during an inter the purple at seven inches in is the largest of the Swallow Spe cies which regularly inhabit Manitoba and is reputed to have a voracious appetite for although some including Winnipeg entomologist Roy scoff Auto acs Seatbelt stand has Chris Rafuse eager to buckle up at the idea of using Birds to significantly reduce the Mosquito the purple Martin is a legend in some cities in the United a longtime fan of the Johnston decided to help organize the purple Martin club and staged a member ship drive at a local shopping Centre last in the last three months the member ship has risen from five to these Bird fans will Likely have to wait until next year to see How effective the purple Martins Are in handling the Mosquito dry weather conditions have almost eliminated the problem this plans for building fund still Uncertain after seven officials Are still Uncertain about what to do with the More than in the Assiniboine Park zoos beastly big building the zoological society of Manitoba is still holding it the Money in said zoo director Clive i have no idea what there plan Ning to he about was raised during a which began in 1973 under the direction of the Winnipeg advertising and sales to build a multimillion Dollar mammal House Complex for ele rhinoceroses and some of the Money was raised by Selling zoo tenants and buttons while other funds were raised by school age although the beastly big building drive started it Gen Erate enough interest to raise the million for the the fund was soon taken Over by the zoological society of Manitoba and continued until 1975 when the campaigns fund raising licence the Money was subsequently placed in Trust and has grown by nearly due to accrued interest and other donations and filipino nun risking arrest returning Home by Nelle Oosterom when sister Marianni Dimaranan goes Back to her native Philippines later this month she May be placed under a the Blac veiled nun has been detained before for speaking out on behalf of millions of poverty stricken filipinos she suffer severe political repression under the regime of president Ferdinand labelled a Dimaranan spent 47 Days in a detention Camp in she she was subjected to but she she was luckier than 1 was not tortured because i am a said the who is on a speaking tour of Canada and the United states and was in Winnipeg As the director of the task Force on detainees of the association of major religious superiors for women in the she worked to document cases of torture of political prisoners in philippine military prison these reports assist amnesty International in its on her present speaking she reported on the latest form of repress called salvaging is the unofficial As Sasina Tion of political she a subversive is anyone exercising what we would Call human rights Farmers meeting to discuss their prob priests and Sisters who Side with the the Philippines has been under mar tial Law since since said the thousands have been detained in political lately people have started their Muti lated bodies found later in shallow the task Force has been Able to document 233 such disappear Nice since in one Case this past a Mili tary weapon Carrier was sighted in a Rural Village or and shortly afterwards two who were Community the remains of their bodies were later found in strewn in a shallow Field in Negros also this year three bodies were found burned in a Hole near a military the people of the Barrio took the Case to court i think that was one of the first times a Case like that has been before the do you know what happened the military were and do you know what the judge said he denied that those people had been arrested by the Dimaranan said that while the Marcos regime spends Large sums on expanding its military and building a vast infrastructure of superhighways and she said the majority of the country 45 million continue to live in never did we have such hard conditions As up to 80 per cent of the people Are getting poorer did you know that 40 per cent of the deaths in the Philippines Are attributed to malnutrition Here we Are a food producing nation and we do not have enough food for our the shiny hotels Are an expensive she hotel employees Are ordered to keep on third of the hotel lit even when it is empty or there Are few the new roads and dams go to Hen fit the multinational which Are drawn to the Philippines by the Prospect of cheap she Dimaranan said the Philippines is a american the Southeast asian country hosts american military two of which Are the largest outside the Continental ;