Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Court upholds Beard wearer Safeway loses round As boards decision by Joe Rubin a Manitoba court of Queens Bench judge has upheld a arbitration Fueard decision allowing a Canada Safeway employee to Wear his Justice Hamilton yesterday prohibited Safeway from taking any action against produce employee Don Chapman because of his whiskers unless a company wide Beard policy is determined by an arbitration Board or a management Union until you do Safeway is stuck with Chapman and his judge Hamilton lire company cant Deal with him any differently than anybody the because he has a the motion asking die court to uphold Chapmans arbitration Board decision was filed by local 832 Otto Manitoba Pood and commercial workers on a few lawyer Story Edge Slid the Union interpreted the Board decision to mean Chapman could not be disciplined for wearing his Beard while working his regular shift in the produce depart pot Mare than a year since the Chapman was allowed to Safeway stats at Corydon Avenue Ami Lanark Edge told flu whew a court of Queens Bench heard a Union Appeal of an arbitration decision ordering another Safeway employee to shave his Chapman was Given a paid leave of absence from the the Day the judge dismissed the unions Edge said Safeway District manager called Chapman and told him to report to War the next Day Wayne free press v f x Vas v v s pedestrian injured ambulance attendants Aid a 47yearold Blind Man who suffered multiple fractures to the arms and legs after a collision with a Fork lift yesterday at Portage Avenue and Vaughan police said Xavier Owen was on foot when the collision he was reported in fair without his Beard or tie would tie disc Chapman asked the manager for time to consult his lawyer and was told to work eights until the matter was Edge there is an intention of the comp any not a comply with the Chapman arbitration Board Edge he is ready to discipline Chapman unless Hes prepared to hide himself on the night Safeway lawyer disagrees Safeway lawyer Roger Hansell disa greed with the interpretation of the arbitration Board maintaining the company did not violate the Hansell said the boards decision allows Chapman to Wear his Beard unless Safeway can show its business interests will be a Public opinion Survey has shown that the majority of individuals polled prefer red shaven he Hansell called the unions application saying no disciplinary action has been taken against Chap if and when there Ever he could file a Hansell judge Hamilton did not agree with Hansell on the matter of in giving Chapman a paid leave and then telling him to report to work Safeway was dealing with him in a Way he could not be dealt with were it not for the fact that he had a the judge patient to get guide Manitoban admitted to Boniface general Hospital will soon be issued copies of a new patient guide telling them about the institution and their status in Patrick chairman of the Board of directors of the 826bed Hospi said yesterday the bilingual patient guide Booklet is expected to be ready for distribution within Doyle said the guide deals among other patients rights of Access to medical records a right which is not automatic and a restrict All we can really say is that the patient has the right to ask to see his Doyle his who keeps that record May make it available or May say the new patient guide follows an other 10page Gen eral hospitals Aims and of about to be distributed to staff benefactors of the Community groups and educational institutions throughout the also printed in English and the Booklet lists the hospitals Basic objectives As providing Quality health participating in health education and promoting medical pavilions take shape volunteers prepare for opening of Fol Lorama by Bob Armstrong the mayor climbed Down from an eight metre scaffold a tape measure and tools hanging from his mayor Jim Haggan of the Irish Fol Lorama Pavilion at the Bertrand Arena had been hanging signs and decorations from the ceiling of the Arena in preparation of the opening of the Pavilion at 4 he was one of hundreds of people in the City this week doing the last minute work on a Job which started months ago preparing a Pavilion where people could show off their food and fes Man hours approximately Man hours Are expected to be contributed by volunteers in the preparation and operation of 37 pavilions this the Irish Pavilion is planning two different one with musical and dance the other a musical tour around Ireland with scenes from the Island projected on a screen above the the Pavilion has brought musicians from Ireland to complement Ca Nadian groups sounds Irish and the Norberry for Haggan and others working on the Pavilion the preparations began in for some of the entertain the rehearsals will keep going until tomorrow while the Lesti Val is being officially kicked off at the Centennial concert Hall Haggan estimates that 50 to 60 perfumers Are involved in the Irish Pavil Ion and that a minimum of 160 Volun chilean dancer Waits turn Leer a night Are needed to keep the Pavilion the romanian Pavilion at the Demetrios romanian orthodox Church on Furby Street cant count on quite As Large a work there Are Only about 35 Active members so Al most All of them have had to get one of the pavilions main attractions is its or icon which separates the alter from the rest of the the Wail sized icon screen at the Church is the Only one of its kind in Canada and was hand carved out of Oak by two Ion and Vasily said former mayor Anne it was brought Over from roman a in seven crates and the byzantine style icons were painted by Winnipeg artists Michail and Gavriil the depicting old and new testament Are Laid out in and at the top is the judgment Day the attractions Are of a More worldly at one end of the Church basement is a Small where dance groups have been practising for some at the other end is the where the Cooks Are preparing to make Rosie us Plutni stuffed Arden us Plutni stuffed Jarmale cabbage romanian sausages and a variety of romanian several dance groups will be provid ing the including six members of a professional group from said entertain ment coordinator Irene locals included Winni Eggers in the show include the Pernita dance who danced at the Pavilion in 1978 and a choir and a childrens dance workers were sawing and pounding at the Roma Pavilion in the fort Rouge Leisure Centre last put Ting up the bar and but across at the italian Canad an league of the musicians and dancers gathered on wednesday night for a at the chilean Pavilion at Churchill High painters and carpenters were transferring the gym into a chilean festival on the stage a group of about 18 dancers were whirling and forming circles and dancing in practising a dance that comes from the Northern part of an area with cultural roots going Back to the share festivals with the people of Northern Argen Peru and the North Erners of Chile share religious Festi Vals with dancers representing ancient said Alejander a musician in the group ret Aguar the seven person band plays Trade tonal Folk songs from the As Well As More modern songs of written since the 1973 coup that brought Many of the chileans to win in a Corner near the Jose Mansilla was painting one of the seven multicoloured Demon faces that go along with the Folk and in another Corner was a re minder of what caused Many of the chileans in Winnipeg to come a Large hand painted poster of for Mer chilean president Salvador Al Lende stood against a Wall with the inscription assassinated by the Junta mayor Julio Rivas said the painting would because it is part of a display of chilean but the inscription would be we dont want to use Fol Lorama for political even though Many of us Are Here because of he Sheldon Sturrey foreground has accused City of sidewalk repair irks merchant by Pamela Fayerman got a big Sale coming up and work Crews Are tearing up the sidewalk in front of your hindering Access to the premises just Call the be glad to hold off the work in front of your place As Long As it Doest interfere with the sequence of Murray head of the cites construction said work Crews accommodated Kern Hill furniture Coop 843 main which is holding a Sale Tomor the manager of competitor main furniture located two doors thinks the City is playing favor the sidewalk in front of his store was torn up yesterday i could care less if it want the same kind of Sheldon Stur Rey the Point How can the City play favourites like that my customers Are being inconvenienced by the but when i asked if they could do a faster they told me no i think that if there going to repair the sidewalk on this they should do it All at the same Long said he cant understand what the fuss is if someone has a Sale Well obviously try to help him Long All we Are trying to do is get along with today we inconvenience one store and tomorrow an if somebody makes a special request to hold off for a we will unless its going to totally ruin our sequence of help promised Long said the City int interested in trying to help one score beat out sure Well Bend Over to help a Guy late yesterday Sturrey was beginning to get some satisfaction after his the Foreman of the City Crew told him the Concrete would be poured this morning and would be dry by the whole thing still irks me Sturrey Rick the Crew said that if Sturrey had made the same request As the manager of Kern Hill furniture Coop the City would have obliged him too by holding off on the digging until next its so Skutnik and the thing we have to have the Concrete poured tomorrow anyway because the clients from the hotel across the Street have a tendency to fall into this stuff so we want it to be dry for the criminal record opposed by Nathanael Herron Winnipeg lawyer Sandy Mackenzie says about two thirds of those convicted each month for marijuana related offences be labelled Crimi As they now Are under the narcotics control Manitoba representative of the National organization for the Reform of marijuana Laws said in an interview earlier this week that Federal Laws on marijuana use should be re formed to remove the attachment of a criminal record upon conviction of pos increased use by people is a sign that marijuana should be de criminal Mackenzie stalling claimed he said that the Federal government has been stalling on the Issue for the last 10 years because it Hast been Able to find a politically expedient the government has been considering reducing the criminal pen Alty without abolishing the criminal but if the crimes were reduced to misdemeanours under the food and drug it would make no sense to maintain a record As if the offender was a rapist or a he Mackenzie said Many of he health problems involving marijuana use is the result of but greater harm is done to the user when a criminal record or jail sentence is he ;