Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba my 1980 9 hard to stay awake despite the name on the Young Leeann Graham of Winnipeg just had to witnesses at the convention about persons from Manitoba and catch a Little shut Eye at the 1980 divine love District convention of Jehovah Northwestern Ontario attended the fou Day meeting which ended students May be on but schools Busy by Glen Mackenzie schools throughout Winnipeg Are officially closed until but civic and education officials have found plenty of uses for Ron Public relations offi cer for the cites Parks and recreation said 24 Winnipeg schools Are being used As summer youth providing athletic and other programs for children aged 13 to these which opened july operate on a drop in he most centres Are open from 1 to 10 mondays to fridays and run through the third week in Odonovan As the department offers play ground activities for the younger set and such special programs As Golf and Tennis sailing and Many other schools and Community centres teacher urges Indian heroes throughout Winnipeg Are used for these further information May be obtained from your nearest Parks and recreation department Harold superintendent for Winnipeg school said that be sides the Parks and recreation Active the division has a four week sum Mer enrichment program in about a dozen intercity although centred on developing language the program also includes such activities As arts and crafts and Field he language program Brian principal of Winnipeg school divisions summer said an pro Gram is operated in Russell vocational David Livingstone school and the Winnipeg adult Educa Tion approximately Winnipeg Stu dents Are in summer school this Burdy said total Winnipeg division summer school enrolment is up per cent Over 1979 a total students this year and last he said this year there Are regular High school of whom about half Are taking courses they failed during the another 429 Are Junior High students who failed a course or did poorly in it and 353 Are taking English As a second language Rurdy said i hip Are Ahnne from fort Garry and other school Divi Sions Are taking repeater courses at Vincent Massey collegiate and another 500 Are at Sturgeon Creek regional secondary school in Kamesas Sini Boia for the same in about 320 Are taking courses for varied reasons at the University of Winnipeg George education director for James Assiniboia school Divi said eight artistically Handi capped students participate in a sum Mer instruction and play therapy program and seven slow learners in grades 11 and 12 Are involved in a furniture making both pro Grams Are at Kirkfield Park As the Parent Council at Assini Boine school has started a Day Nursery for 20 to 30 Buchholz the division rents to private daycare organizations and to a music school during the school year but cant rent surplus school space for purely com Mercial operations because of zoning he Norwood superintendent Dow Ney said his division runs a summer Long program for about 110 trainable mentally handicapped Many Are students at the divisions soft Ley school for the Downey said another titled ageless includes about 220 elderly residents and about 130 Elemen tary school it features Educa Fuy Wro Hgt on a River East division Secretary Treasur said the division tries to limit the number of activities so schools can get a Good several spokesmen also said schools Are used heavily for continuing Educa recreation and other programs during the school Gordon building superintendent for vital said that contrary to Public opinion such activities As night scouts groups and others use schools so much that the permits for school use go out by the score during the Edmunds said that since the build Ings Are there and Cost a lot of Money to the taxpayers should get As much use As possible from rent report differences called minor by Laurie stretch consumer affairs minister Warner Jorgenson says that after Reading through the preliminary and final drafts of two reports dealing with rent he is satisfied there Are no major differences Between legislature by the doer said vital information and anal Ysis were left out of the two final reports on rent decontrol no action planned Jorgenson said last night investigation into allegations that the reports perhaps in a year or so youll be Able to put Stamps on your letters bearing portraits of four great Canadian in Dian John an oblate brother who teaches in Williams will meet with postmaster general Andre Ouellet next week and present him with prints of proposed Stamps bearing the portraits of four native heysel was in Winnipeg during the weekend in route to Ottawa with his proposed after said heysel during an in Why should sir Isaac Brocks face appear on postage while an equal in illustrious hero of the War of 1812 Tecumseh does not Louis Kiel also appears in the but not a Cree chief who sided with Riel after the Federal government broke a Promise to provide his people with food after the Buffalo Dis chief of the Blackfoot con was awarded a medal by Queen Victoria for not siding with Riel or sitting but today he is All but Canadian school children May be familiar with Captain James but they Are not As Likely to recognize who received Cook with open arms when he arrived in Vancou ver and nursed Cooks scurvy stricken Crew Back to these four figures were chosen by Indian children of Josephs Mission at Williams the artwork was done by Sioux artist Roy Mous who based his work on done by the ironically Czechoslovakia has issued More postal Stamps dealing with native Indian culture than which has issued 12 Stamps illustrated with native heysel has worked with native Chil Dren in the Interior for 20 he said Hes concerned about their High dropout he reasons that the problem stems from their Lack of Cul Tural the idea is to promote an Ness of their culture so that they can identify with people from their own said How Many people realize that the Indian warriors were the Best guerrilla fighters in the world the Viet Cong studied their fighting tactics and during the second world generals on both sides also studied North american Indian guerrilla he its interesting to see the reaction of Indian children in an integrated class room when the subject of Indian Lead ers is you can see their faces Light up with a sense of Many esl students As last year be cause of the recent influx of Immi particularly from Southeast he attributes the increase in other programs to a desire to Complete High school to lighten a students Load in the coming school year and to higher unemployment for High school students this enrolment everywhere else is drop Ping but the summer school business is he spokesmen said about 850 students and there Are at least two joint activities a summer for the two Downey All these Norwood programs operate out of Nelson Mclntyre he thorough cleaning greater Winnipeg schools which dont have summer activities Arent simply left spokesmen said summer is a Good time for custodians to give a school a thorough de Jorgenson said yesterday he read substantially different Iii Slop reports on Friday and found there Are so few and so minor they amount to i fail to see where this warrants a big he the Only changes Are minor changes in wording of the preliminary Gary president of the Manitoba government employees said Friday reports prepared by a rent review office employee had been censored through omissions and other Subtle Means by senior department officials before being tabled in the housing plan still with City firm awaits decision on proposal to Purchase lots for a Winnipeg development company which More than two months ago pro posed building Low priced houses in the inner City has still not received an answer from the the proposal from engineered Homes was received by mayor Bill Nome in the prior to the annual seasonal construction the build ers planned to offer single family Homes for under if the City would sell Cit owned lots for the company would Start by building on 30 preferably in the Point Douglas and North Winnipeg Len regional general Man Ager of the said he Hast received any sort of response to his offer from City even though Norrie said at the time that he was impressed by it seems to be going the Way of All he the City officials get bogged Down with other things and i guess maybe this is tied into even if the plan goes it will be late fall before construction gets under Way and that an added Handicap because it Means the Homes will be More since we have to incur added heating costs and other Polechuk said he Hast lost All but nobody is going to put their time and Effort into this idea until the City actually moves on environment commissioner David update a weekly followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free Henderson said the Board of commissioners has been waiting for two re ports about the Quantity and availability of civic owned he said the Board would probably consider the information next week and if All goes Well the information could be passed on to the executive policy committee in about two Henderson added he still Doest know himself How Many lots the City has because he Hast seen the report from the land surveys and real estate he noted the number is nowhere near the 200 Norrie Ottawa seeks data on helicopter plans the Federal government has asked for detailed information from a West German company before it decides whether to finance the firms plan to build a helicopter Plant in George assistant Deputy min ister in the provincial economic development said the is preparing a plan which it will present to the Federal government by the end of this the Federal government will then decide whether the proposal is he the headed by Han Chris Tian has been negotiating with the provincial government to rent space at the defunct Saunders air Craft manufacturing facility in Gimli for its they say they want million Over five years in Grants and commercial Loans from various Levels of government for their Ven a Federal Industry department offi Cial said in january the company must show it has unlimited funds if it expects to receive any government As Hayes said the company business plan will contain information such As the schedule of costs of percentage of the Market it is expecting to expected prof its and other detailed financial info he said the Manitoba government has also received a report from an Otta abased aircraft consulting firm on the feasibility of the he re fused to reveal the contents of the but said it would have to be studied in parallel with the business Spivak to return Home in two weeks former provincial conservative Leader Sidney Spivak is expected to return to Winnipeg within two weeks after undergoing a series of operations at the Mayo clinic in Mira Spivak said she is currently living with her husband in an apart ment in Rochester while he completes outpatient treatments at the the former party leaders condition is substantially but he is not yet fully she Spivak underwent emergency Gall bladder surgery at Boniface Hospi Tal last his condition worsened when he developed an inflammation of the pancreas in and he had to undergo More he will have spent nearly three months at the Mayo clinic by the time he returns to the he expects to return to work by clinic spokesmen say the illness was a serious but Spivak responded to treatments Spivak led the provincial conserva Tive party before losing a hotly contest de Battle to Premier Sterling he was unsuccessful in his bid to enter Federal politics when he narrowly lost the Winnipeg fort Garry Riding to Liberal Loyd Axworthy in Here and no action will be taken against anyone in the rent review office which prepared the its he there Are no substantial differences and no omis he had ordered an investigation into allegations made by the report tabled in the legislature last week said there was Little or no change As a result of decontrol with respect to the age of apartment build the original says the age of buildings makes a significant difference and results in higher increases for older doer told a press conference Friday tha the government was Basing its policies regarding decontrol on wrong the document was a study of rent increases in de controlled blocks to the end of Jorgenson said that because one was a preliminary and one was a final there would be some changes in word it was expected the head of a department would make minor changes from the preliminary to the final draft before it receives the final stamp of he a report in Progress moves up the he it the final draft wont be identical to the initial to accuse rent stabilization Board chairman Allen Chi Sven of doctoring these reports is not he was Only doing his but doer had said the analysis of raw data is the most important part of any report and that this is the Section which is missing from the document tabled by the increases cited the report released to Las says the rent increases proposed by landlords in the period monitored was per but doer said it Doest As the original study that the highest rent increases among de controlled suites in old blocks and the highest increases among two bedroom suites were per cent and per cent respectively As the tabled report didst explain that vacancy rates in the inner City Are far lower than the average rate of per he the tables make up the bulk of the Jorgenson they Are identical and there Are the same num ber of ;