Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press tuesday april Gerby free press Blue bombers Jim Reed left and Gary Rosolowich help jockey David Burns at health sciences Centre. Burns was Hurt when a horse fell last fall. The bombers Volunteer their Aid. Manitoba Volunteer participation claimed second highest in country by Manfred Jager they teach drive visit Comfort counsel and cheer on those recovering from illness among other things. They use their often High priced talents to the Best advantage for those they help and give willingly of their time. They never get paid for their efforts but if they did receive an average Industrial wage their labors would have been Worth billion to canadians in 1979 alone. They Are Canada s army of Volun Teers. According to Jean Campbell Community relations coordinator for the Volunteer Centre of Winnipeg about canadians about 15 per cent of the nation s adult population were involved in some formal regular Volun Teer work in 1979. This week is National Volunteer week in Canada and Campbell said Manito bans have particular reason to be proud of their Volunteer Effort. We re the province with the second highest Volunteer participation among the adult population after Saskatchewan which has 27 per cent of All adults involved. In Manitoba it s 21 per the Volunteer Centre which has an annual budget of most of it from the United Way with the bal province reorganizes method of gathering local vital statistics Manitoba s 99-year-old system of local vital statistics registration has been abolished. Lou Gorski provincial vital statistics director said yesterday that under a new system Hospital authorities clergy and funeral directors have been appointed unpaid registrars to gather and Forward information about births marriages and deaths to the provincial Branch office. Under the old system Secretary treasurers in Rural areas and civic officials in Winnipeg were registrars with rela Tives and Hospital personnel supplying information to them he said. Gorski raised the ire of Manitoba s Secretary treasurers last september with a directive announcing the change. It said corrections to certificates could Only be processed through the Branch and consequently a Large number of certificates Are reissued primarily to Correct William w. Busby Manitoba Munici pal Secretary treasurers association president said yesterday association members were angry because they believed the reference to errors was directed at them. In the past Secre tary treasurers edited some applications improving them before Send ing them to Winnipeg for provincial certificates he said. Gorski apologized to the association s annual meeting at the ramada inn yesterday. He said the errors had been made by family members and others who had provided inaccurate or incomplete information. The explanation satisfied Busby. The new system took effect april 1. Gorski said the old system was Valu Able in the Days before most people were born and died in hospitals. The new system he said should greatly reduce the waiting period for provincial certificates formerly up to eight weeks and eliminate the unnecessary step of local registration. Gorski also said Many organizations seeking identification prefer the provincially issued certificate to one for Merly issued by a municipality. Community services minister George Minaker said in a statement the old system resulted in technically Ille Gal burials which implicated doctors cemetery caretakers clergy and Funer Al directors. Ance coming from the provincial government and some special project Grants from Ottawa has no exact Fig ures other than that there Are Many thousands of men and women involved in Volunteer work. Two years ago Canada s volunteers put in a whopping hours of unpaid work according to the latest statistics. Winnipeg in particular is a very giving Campbell said yesterday. Just think of the time and Effort members of the ethnic communities put into organizing and running Fol Lorama and the festival do Voyageur year after studies have shown people Are pre pared to involve themselves in Volunteer work if the activities offered Are stimulating and Likely to be a learning experience in themselves Campbell said. Two of our most sought after Agen cies Are the provincial archives and the museum of Man and Camp Bell said. Stimulating work both Are using Volunteer help the museum for conducting Tours and classes the volunteers say the work is stimulating and but volunteers also work for the Canadian red Cross in downtown Winnipeg Are big Brothers and big Sis ters help out in the hospitals and with the work of the children s Aid society Are Active in corrections supervision work with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind the society for Crip pled children and adults health clinics such As clinic the International Centre and various school divisions. There really Are no out and out Bor ing jobs for a Campbell said. Even people who make them selves available for delivering meals on wheels do much More than that they keep an Eye on the people on their delivery list and often Are the first people to notice a change in medical conditions and can bring the client to the attention of people who can help Pat Solmundson has been a Volunteer for the last 16 years and now helps out at the Centre As a Contact Volunteer putting potential volunteers in touch with agencies and organizations which May be Able to use their help. Mayor and Council resign Over awarding of contract by Bob Lowrey Winnipeg free press South Indian Lake the mayor and Council of this Northern mining Community have resigned after their awarding of a garbage collection con tract was overruled by the provincial Northern affairs department. In a letter to Northern affairs minis Ter Doug Gourlay mayor Bruce Mcleod and the six councillors said they Felt they could not continue in office because of the Lack of Trust and Lack of coun. John Thompson said yesterday the garbage question was just one of a series of incidents. But it was the one that broke the Camel s he said Council awarded the contract to Oscar Anderson who had handled Man slain on Reserve a resident of the Oak Lake Indian Reserve has been charged with first degree murder in connection with the shooting death sunday of another Reserve resident. Ramp said an argument Between two men climaxed when Elvis James Brown 22, was shot and killed by a Bullet from a High powered Rifle. Wilbert Wilcox Sutherland 36, was arrested by ramp and remanded in custody when he appeared in bran Don provincial court yester Day. The Reserve is located 250 Kilometres West of Winni Peg. The garbage operation Well during the last year. Anderson s bid of about was accepted by a 5-1, even though it was not the lowest. A bid of was submitted by Bill Clee. Both men Are local residents. Happy about work we took a lot of time to think Over our decision As a Thompson said. We were Happy about Ander son s work but we were More concerned because it seemed to be a very Good Job for him As an individual. He has asthma and finds it hard to earn a living fishing and Thompson said Anderson has a family of six including several teen agers. Clee is an older Man whose family is grown up and who has other sources of income. Thompson said a department official told them the human factors should not influence their decision. We received a phone Call from the department instructing us to Tell the two men that Clee was to have the contract. We refused to pass on this information because we Felt it was the department s Thomp son said. He said Mcleod decided resigning was the Only Way to get the department to think. Thompson said other contentious issues with the department have involved the Community Boundary and payment for Community equipment used by the department. 1 year term paid annually. 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They argue the Federal parliament had no right to pass Laws in 1873 and 1874 that severely limited the number of Metis who could in fact take advantage of the land pledge and they Chal Lenge some similar Manitoba Laws passed in the same Era. The Law suit is restricted to the question of principle. The organizations the native Council of Canada and the member Manitoba Metis federation stress they Are not trying to oust anyone who May be living on their promised land. They simply want to overturn Laws that limited their claims. The Law suit which names the attorneys general of Canada and Manitoba As defendants does not Deal with specific properties or individual claims. But the knotty Legal issues raised Are the Type that the courts can fret Over for years. Began with parking ticket a similarly history tinged Case involving Georges Forest a language rights campaigner from the St. Boni face area of Winnipeg took three years to move from a magistrate s court to the supreme court of Canada. The Forest affair which started with a 1876 English Only parking ticket led to the restoration of French As an official language along with English in Manitoba s courts and legislature. The Metis suit reflects a renewed interest by the offspring of indians and europeans in their own background and an Effort by contemporary historians to Correct a false image of the Metis As a Semi nomadic people. The Case also has an oddly contemporary ring in these Days of debate Over the entrenchment of human rights in the Constitution because the Metis descendants of the first French and English speaking europeans who set foot in the West contend their land entitlement is entrenched in British Law. The Metis groups cite the British North America act of 1871, passed by the British parliament four years after it approved Canada s Constitution. The 1871 Law made the Manitoba act which set out the methods of distributing land to Manitoba s Metis a part of the Constitution the Metis say. An allotment of 140 acres was to have been assigned to each of the people who were determined by right of occupancy to have land claims in 1870, the year of Manitoba s formation As a province. But the claims were ignored. Douglas Sprague a University of Manitoba historian says it has been estimated that More than peo ple scattered across Western Canada and elsewhere May be descended from the group of that was mistreated. Sprague who appeared before a hearing in Winnipeg of the Metis and non status Indian constitutional review commission says Many Metis left the red River Valley in anger Over their failure to secure land titles. A number of the frustrated people joined Kiel s rebellion in 1885. 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