Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1o Winnipeg free press tuesday april we Blue bombers Jim Reed left and Gary Rosolowich help jockey David Burns at health sciences Centre. Bums 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 gov eminent 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 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 sul Mundson 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 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 grown up and who has other sources of last year. Income. 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 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 i year 72 to paid annually. 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Custody was granted in 450 cases 50 others have not yet been determined and the other 400 applications were withdrawn. Adverse ruling feared Mercier said an Adverse ruling could eliminate All such orders As far Back As the circumstances of the Young people Are recognized As adults in Manitoba at age 18. At Issue is an Appeal to the supreme court of a British Columbia court of Appeal finding that provincially appointed judges in that province s family court do not have authority to Deal with custody visiting privileges or sole occupancy of the marital Home after separation. Family maintenance orders issued by the family division of the provincial judges court and adoptions dealt with by the federally appointed county court would not be affected by the supreme court decision Mercier said. Questioned in the legislature by Saul Cherniack John s and out Side the House by reporters Mercier said provincial legislation would not remedy the situation. It could cause a lot of administrative concerns and could cause a lot of personal concerns where there Are on going Battles for custody. It would t necessarily be unlawful for parents who did t have custody to remove the child from the said the problem would be one of National proportions and one of such urgency that it must be dealt he said. One Short term remedy would be for the Federal government to agree to give provincial court judges authority to Deal with All aspects of family Law including child custody he said. Otherwise he said it could put a Strain on the county court of Queen s Bench which earlier this year reported a heavy Load of family Law matters. Mercier said a longer term solution to an Adverse judgment would be through the lengthy process of constitutional change. 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