Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday june Down by the old Mill Stream Grant s old Mill a replica of the first Watermill in Western Canada built in 1829, opened yesterday amid pomp people and flour dust. Guide Karla Berbrayer helps assistant Miller Archie Mclachlan bag critical a a flour ground from Rye and durum wheat at the Mill at 2777 Portage. United Way Good thing5 goal keep a Good thing growing United is a slogan Winni Eggers will be hearing a lot of this summer on radio and television and Reading in newspaper ads. The advertising spots were introduced to United Way trustees at a Board meeting last night shortly after Board members approved a 1981 fundraising goal of an increase of 11.6 per cent Over last year. President John Bulman stressed the importance of reaching the 1981 goal. The Community needs the Money desperately needs the he said. Our member organizations have set their own objectives they feel there s a fighting Chance to make it. Volunteers Are already approaching corporate donors for this year s Campaign which officially starts sept. 21. Campaigners plan to make a special Effort to increase individual donations from the government and Public Sec Tor. Campaign chairman de Ranft said the organization is taking a risk in adopting the higher goal but we feel the volunteers we have Are willing to accept the in other United Way business yester Day Board members approved Grants totalling for four charitable organizations. The interfaith pastoral Institute will receive Camp a Pateka 500 Community income tax ser consumer credit counselling and scouts Canada a special project Grant not to exceed weather Winnipeg area forecast sunny today with afternoon cloudiness and a Chance of a thundershowers. High near 24. Low tonight near 10. Sunny tomorrow with a High near 26. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba occasional showers saturday and Sun Day mainly sunny monday. Temperatures near Normal readings of 24 and 12. Northern Manitoba showers saturday and sunday mainly sunny monday. Temperatures near Normal readings of 22 and 10. Northwestern Ontario showers saturday and sunday mainly sunny monday. Temperatures near Normal readings of 23 and 11. Temperatures Canada and the world acid rain keynote subject Federal environment minister John Roberts is scheduled to speak on acid rain when 200 health inspectors meet in Winnipeg july 5-10 for the 47th annual convention of the Canadian Institute of Public health. Manitoba environment minister Gary Filmon and Lillian Peters Mullin . Consul general in Winnipeg will also address delegates july 9. Topics to be discussed during the week Long gathering at the Birchwood inn include food Salvage animal diseases in meat and urea formaldehyde insulation. Mayor Bill Norrie is scheduled to open the conference by proclaiming july 5-10 As Good health week. Western express five tickets Worth and five Worth each were picked in the Western express lottery draw wednes Day. The tickets Are 1185164, 3453663, 1485336, 3043318 and 4125512. The tickets Are and 1296788. There Are prizes of for tickets with the last six digits of the top draws for the last five digits and for the last four. Deaths class fled death National Victoria. Vancouver. Calo Arv. Edmonton. Reolena. Winnipeg. Thompson. Kenora. Brandon. Dauphin. Thunder Bav. Toronto. Ottawa. Montreal. Halifax. International Chicago. Minneapolis. New York. Boston Amsterdam. Athens. Berlin. Helsinki. Lisbon a Max. Man. My. 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By poll co fighting dirty hard work in inferno by Mark Bourrie special to the free press fort Frances concocted the idea of Purgatory must have been a Forest firefighter. It s dirty hard work and on a fire the size of the inf Emo that raged Here the past three weeks the men who fight fires often work the length of the fire without a Day off. While they re working much of their time May be spent toiling 16-hour Days on a fire line accessible Only by Heli copter. I hired on to fort Frances 9 As what s known As an extra fire fighter at the rate of an hour along with Over 100 ojibway residents of local reserves. After waiting for the fire to stabilize and the Rains of the first two Days of the wildfire to Knock the Blaze Down we were driven to a trapper s Shack about 30 Miles from fort Frances. A Hughes 205 helicopter which holds three men shuttled our five Man Crew to a Small Lake about four Miles from the Shack. There we set up Camp on the Rock surrounded by Muskeg about 100 Yards from the fire line. Seems upset three of the four ojibway on our Crew worked planting Trees. Gilbert Smith a Young Indian who drives about 120 Kilometres each Day to work at a logged Over area not far from the fire seemed upset that most of his work had been destroyed by the Blaze. We try to Plant about Trees each in a Day and this fire comes because someone goes camping and does t bother to put out his most of our work consisted of patrol Ling the fire line looking for trouble spots near the Edge of the fire that might get out of control when the Forest dried and the wind picked up. Patrolling meant getting up shortly after Dawn crossing the Lake in a Small Power boat and walking through mus Keg and Ash until Nightfall. The Forest was silent. Animals such As Bear Deer Moose and Birds had either died in the fire or were driven out. Most of our line traversed burned out areas where blackened Trees still reached for the sky. The Forest floor was like an ashtray. Burned poles littered the blackened ground. About three inches of Fine Ash Lay on the ground mixing with wet boots to form Lye which Tore at the skin of our feet. After two Days on patrol i began walking with a Peculiar gait As the Bottom of my feet turned White and the Lye ate away the skin. I complained about the deterioration of my soles to the line Boss who called for a helicopter to bring me clean socks and foot powder. Not surprised i was t surprised when the helicopter delivered. Regardless of the Low wages and sometimes poor Organiza Tion of the men supervising the fire the Ontario ministry of natural resources looks after the men they Send out to the fire line. Eight of the 10 Days we were on the line we ate steaks ferried in by helicopter. Food orders came Complete and fast. When we left the Burn we were told to 9nly bring unopened food. Thus five dozen eggs and 10 steaks were left to rot in the Bush. After an arduous Day of walking the line digging at stumps to put out stubborn smudges hacking at burning Trees to soak them Down with water from our backpacks and hauling gear into the Bush to be prepared for a flare up we returned to our Camp to spend the nights in quiet boredom. The indians whose first language is ojibway joked among themselves and to me about the Man in the Black coat who walks around in Bare feet the Black bears that had been driven from the fire and lurked around the 32 Camps along the 59-mile-Long fire line. A few Miles from our Camp bears raided the tents of another Crew tear ing at their food and scaring the Crew. One of the men shot the Bear in the foot with a .22-calibre Rifle against the orders of the fire Boss. Bear enraged the Bear now wounded and enraged lurked about the Camp for several Days until caught in a live trap by conserva Tion officers., news of the shooting came to us Over the portable radios issued to each Crew along the line. They were our Only source of news while on the line. As the fire decreased in intensity Crews were pulled out and much of the surveillance was taken Over by helicopters which airlifted Crews from a base Camp about 10 Miles from the fire. The helicopter fliers seasoned Bush pilots were generally believed by the men on the line to be crazy. Mike Stockton a 33-year-old flier working out of Kenora serviced our Camp and helped us patrol our line. Our Camp was set up near a logging Trail which we used for a helipad. Stockton would land the helicopter where the Trail ended at the Lake and when lifting off would Fly almost Side ways in an arc until he reached an Altitude of about 75 feet when he would straighten the Hughes 205 out and head Over the Burn. All the while he would be singing with the doors of the chopper removed. His unorthodox flying style would attract members of our Crew to a Safe place along the Cut in anticipation of the crash that we expected. Each time however he cleared the Trees. Stockton was often accompanied by Wayne Langel a supervisor responsible for a Quarter of the fire. Langel acted As sort of a morale officer keep ing up Camp spirits on Rainy Days when we were forced to stay in the 14-by-12 foot tent. Gave us advice he would give us advice fill us in on How the fire was behaving and bring up copies of the newsletter put out at the base Camp. The paper was published for Over a week until a Page of off color jokes which were appreciated by the men in our Crew rattled an official of the ministry of natural re sources in Toronto. The suppression of the paper two Days later caused anger and frustration along the line since we were Cut off from a lot of news and did t receive the solution to a hard crossword Puzzle that had kept the firefighters Busy for three Days. Fighting the fire was a filthy Job Ash and smoke imbedded themselves in our clothes skin and hair and Damp Ness caused a rasping cough in All members of our Crew. In the midst of the Ash and Muskeg though there was some Beauty. Within a couple of Days of burning the Forest floor sprouted trillium and Small wild Flowers. Birds were the first to return to the blackened Forest. The ojibway told me Forest fires Are natural and necessary to the Bush. The heat which reaches As High As degrees celsius causes the Cones of Jack Pine to open and spread their seeds. The fire was beneficial in other ways. In the first week of the Blaze the ministry spent about much of that Money was spent locally for food equipment and rentals. 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