Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba A Winnipeg free press monday june Fox inspiration for Cree marathoner natives must Bob press by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press the Pas a Cree Indian who says he is ready to begin a metre wheelchair Marathon next Mon Day says he is not attempting to imitate Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox who died in Hospital yesterday. Francis Mckay 23, of Moose Lake says he is often accused of being an imitator of the one legged runner who captured the admiration of the nation and raised More than million for cancer research. It not he said in an inter View. Naturally i read everything i could about him and he been a tremendous inspiration but i doing this on own. I want to show people that they should at something big and never took Back whatever their the mass kiss wheelchair in Cree Marathon begins at the Pas july 6. Mckay plans to wheel his Way South along major highways to Winnipeg and Back by aug. 29. He will Start each of his planned 50-Kilometre laps at 4 . To avoid the kind of heavy traffic mishaps he experienced while training. Blown off Road in a trial run earlier this month Between the Pas and Cranberry por Tage a distance of about 90 Kilometres Mckay was forced into the ditch twice by passing vehicles. Once he was blown from the Road and the other time Side swiped by a Large camper trailer he said. I was damned mad at the Mckay said. But anger pushed into doing More. I was determined not to let anything Stop Mckay woke up last August Para lazed from the neck Down following a car Accident. The vehicle rolled Over and Mckay managed to walk away shocked but with no apparent injury. The paralysis set in the next morning. According to a Hospital spokesman in the Pas the form of the paralysis is As yet beyond the doctors Mckay spent six weeks at the Winni Peg health sciences Centre undergoing tests and therapy. Slowly he began to get some movement in his left wrist. Then the right started coming around and the left one would become paralysed for Short periods. I Tell you it was hard work trying to move your arms when you had no sensation. I could t Tell when arms were in front or behind during this time Mckay said he made up his mind to do something like the Marathon. Back in the Pas a Man who had spent some years in and out of share in jobs conference told Francis Mckay denies his wheelchair trip is an imitation of Terry Fox Marathon of Hope. A wheelchair told Mckay if he gave up and let other people do things for him a pacer will be running beside the wheelchair. The trip is officially endorsed by the Pas Branch of the Manitoba league of pm socially handicapped. The Money raised will Aid physically he deserved to be called members of Mckay family will drive behind him in a Van along the route. They will try to warn traffic and disabled people in the North through Public awareness programs and construction of ramps and other facilities to assist handicapped people entering buildings. Pledges can be sent to Box 3030 in the Pas. By Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press the Pas High unemployment among treaty indians and Metis is a problem faced by All Prairie prov inces regardless of their economic Prosperity a native employment con Ference Here was told. Ron Gartshore coordinator of employment counselling and relocation in Alberta told the inter provincial association on native employment Confer ence that employment in his province has increased at an average yearly rate of 5.4 per cent Between 1971 and 1980. However unemployment on Indian reserves was 63 per cent in 1980, a drop of 14 per cent since 1976. Manitoba and Saskatchewan spokes men said native unemployment in their provinces was in a similar Range and soared to 90 per cent in hard hit areas. Gartshore said there Are expected to be new jobs created in Al Berta by 1988. With All these jobs coming Avail Able it is important that we ensure a much higher participation by the native people. The Challenge is to ensure that every Section of society is doing every thing it can to make these opportunities available to native he said. Gartshore gave 32 examples of where the resource industries Are stepping up native recruitment and training pro Grams where government is increasing counselling and Job relocation and where joint vocational training projects Are being undertaken by government Industry and labor. Population May double Bob Bone director of the Institute of Northern studies at the University of Saskatchewan said six of every 10 residents in the province Between the Ages of 15 and 64 Are employed. However among native people Only four of every 10 Are employed. By the end of the 1980s, the native population in Saskatchewan is expected to Dou ble. He said More and More residents of reserves and Remote communities Are expected to overcome their geographic disadvantage by flying to work from their communities on a regular basis. He said 200 workers currently Are being airlifted to work in uranium mines. Michael Decter a Winnipeg Consul Tant said while new jobs were created i Manitoba in the last four years the Job Market suffered be cause of delays in Manitoba Hydro developments and other major construction projects. Decter noted that Between and new jobs Are expected to be created in the province during the next decade. Unexpected Blessing he said the delay in some of the major projects could be an unexpected Blessing which would give the prov Ince a Chance to plan for the training of people in the Remote areas for not Only construction jobs but Long term future employment. Garth Leask of Alberta the newly elected president of the association said the most positive step the Feder Al government can take in All of this would be to initiate a critique of All the major projects like Manitoba Hydro the Saskatchewan Potash and uranium Industry and the Petroleum Industry in Alberta. It would be helpful to see what has been Good and bad in these undertakings in terms of native he said. He said the projects had brought a lot of Money into the various areas but that local people were the last to know about it and get he favored working out a system of producing some of the components for Large projects in the More Remote communities and instituting training programs in construction trades for younger peo ple. Village stages museum Days . Joseph will celebrate its annual museum Days saturday and sunday. Saturday afternoon a tour of the museum with a display building historical houses Blacksmith shop and machine shed will be held. The Day will end with a Bonfire and Square dance. A Pancake breakfast sunday morn ing will be followed by demonstrations of old threshing machines tractors and cars. St. Joseph is about 80 Kilometres South of Winnipeg. City Bandur Ria workshop set for Winnipeg held from 6 to 10 . Thursday and from ii . To 5 . Friday and saturday at the . James civic Centre 2055 Ness Avenue. An Opal cutting demonstration will be featured. Admission is free. I the newly formed Manitoba band Urist Circle will hold a summer Bandur Ria workshop july 20 to 29. The course is for players at All Levels beginners to advanced. Registration deadline is wednesday july 1. Write the Circle to Box 2608, r3c 4b3. Tine 12th annual Rock and Minera show Wil beefs of 3esx w t116 administrative office 502-504 main Street. Weather our mistake Winnipeg area forecast High today near 24. A few Clouds tonight. Low near 15. Sunny tuesday with afternoon cloudiness and the Chance of a Shower or thundershowers. Brisk southerly winds. High tuesday near 29. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba wednesday mainly Cloudy with occasional showers and temperatures above Normal. Mainly sunny with temperatures slightly above Normal thursday and Friday. Normal High 24. Normal Low 12. Northern Manitoba temperatures much above Normal All three Days. Wednesday and thursday mainly Cloudy with occasional showers. Friday mainly sunny. Normal High 22. Normal Low 9. Northwestern Ontario Cloudy with showers and above Normal temperatures wednesday. Thursday and Friday mainly sunny with temperatures slightly above Normal. Normal High 23. Normal Low 11. Temperatures Canada and the world some saturday editions carried the same Story twice on Page one due to a paste up error. One version was under the heading Manitoba to Stop jailing offenders unable to pay Fine the other under the heading burned by fire insurer. 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