Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba J Winnipeg pret Bernadette Beardy right sex Heads of lettuce in her Garden with Ontario students Brad and Elizabeth gardens raising Heads at Cross Lake Ontario students inspire Community return to growing own vegetables by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Cross Lake gardening is Mak ing a Strong comeback in this comm according to mayor George Mcl generations ago raising food was a necessity in this Community of treaty indians and 450 but the practice eventually fell victim to pack aged barely two years patches were All that was but last with encouragement from two Ontario there were 20 Well cultivated gardens of vegetable and potato this year the Garden count Rose to 30 and Community leaders Hope that num Iber will double next a few weeks ago the provincial department of agriculture arrived with a tractor to plow new Garden plots for 30 Deputy chief Jonah Mckay of the Cross Lake Indian band said the tractor didst stay Long he said a lot of people did not know it was coming and still want plots we want that tractor Back in sep Mckay both the Deputy chief and the mayor say two University students from on who have spent their summer holidays helping interested Are responsible for the renewed interest in their work is part of a mennonite Central committee pro last Sisters Jane and Elizabeth nigh spent three months was completing a science degree in nutrition at the University of Western Ontario and is an honors student studying French and English literature at the University of this Spring Elizabeth married Brad who has completed two years of an agriculture engineering course at the University of they returned to Cross Lake accompanied by Lorette arrived after wedding the Johnsons arrived on May just about a month after their wedding and will return to Ontario its a very fascinating Way to spend a Brad were celebrating More than just Elizabeth As in the previous the group arrived with 270 kilograms of seed Pota plenty of vegetable seeds and a potatoes were sold at the going rate and the seeds were the Tiller was loaned to anyone who Elizabeth said it was a Tough year especially at the Start when a lot of seeds were washed out by heavy Rains or began to then in july a dry spell hit the area giving late planters an other the biggest thing these mennonite people do Start and is to encourage people to keep the mayor Bernadette a 50yearold said the students were not Only around to answer but also helped her seed a Large potato Section of her Garden while her Hus band was in Beardy has a healthy crop of Pota rhubarb and her beets and carrots and onions look prom As with most local she lost her pea and bean crops As a result of Ajune cold a lot More of us Are realizing that weve got to get More and More food from the another Victoria a Garden is a great saving when you have a family like mine who Are big vegetables the Garden will at least carry us through the summer and Elizabeth said the importance of weeding has had to be explained care fully to the in the old Many people would Plant gardens be fore leaving to fish for the they had no alternative and just had to take a Chance on what they find when they came Back in the she weve had to help people under stand that weeds and vegetables cant exist in the same piece of she our mistake City Calendar a Story tuesday said wrongly that students in Transcona Springfield school division go Back to school in they return teachers in the division go Back weather h High l Low Winnipeg symphony orchestra will hold a preliminary meeting Tor new volunteers at tonight in the Board room of the Centennial concert a regiment reunion for members of the Queens own Cameron highlanders of Canada will be held at 8 at the Minto the Canadian red Cross Manitoba will hold blood donor clinics from 9 to 7 monday and to 27 and 28 at the 226 Osborne Street noon to 7 tuesday at sky red Cross Centre to and from 1 to 4 wednesday at its Empress Street 6th training sessions for people interested in working with people with mental retardation will begin in participants should Contact Gina at the Canadian association for the mentally Winnipeg 825 Sherbrook an eight week family asthma program sponsored by the Manitoba lung association will be held from 7 to wednesdays from 16 until 4 at Sargent Park recreation 999 Sargent admission is on a firs come basis and consent is required from the Childs the league for life is sponsoring its third annual Walka Thon starting at 9 26 at Johns presbyterian Bannerman Avenue and Charles sponsor sheets Are available at the league 579 Des neurons Winnipeg area forecast becoming sunny toward High today near Low tonight near sunny with some Cloudy periods tomorrow and a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny saturday and temperatures near Normal readings of 26 and 12 throughout the Northern Manitoba showers becoming sunny Satur Day and temperatures above Normal readings of n and 9 Cooling to near Normal by Northwestern Ontario mainly sunny with Normal tempera Tures of and 11 saturday and temperatures and world deaths classified death National my 24 27 26 28 28 25 so 30 than Ter 26 24 25 23 16 11 15 13 12 12 14 13 15 16 14 8 10 13 13 10 Tel 31 18 17 12 31 22 Cloudy sunny fair Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy 23 31 32 28 30 32 30 29 20 28 35 23 24 26 27 25 26 26 24 23 26 19 32 20 18 33 u 12 19 16 12 24 12 12 13 two Lii 1 17 19 18 him cml w resort in 1945 w in Arthur of 379 Hargrave suite John of husband of Muriel Ralph of husband of Hilda Margaret George of fort Alexander son of Tucy and George of Gilbert of Grunewald Walter of West Daniel of kill formerly of husband of Poulse of France of pfc wife of Peyton of 9 Corette widow of Herman Joseph Charles Alex of husband o Edith Mcdonald Doris of formerly of wife of Jim of Central Park 70 Poseidon widow of George Harry of husband of Uura of 1335 Henderson suite Hys Banc of Wishek Mina Phyllis 91 Alfred of Green husband of Kathleen George Alex husband of Eliza Beth of of Holiday Haven nursing widow of Richard John of Winni formerly of Whitemouth and widow of the gardeners and the Community leaders Are anxious to have the John Heppner and any other mennonite students Back next the Deputy chief said a number of promis ing projects have started in the Community f but faltered because the people who started left just a bit too the mayor said he thought the Stu Dent help would be needed for one More by Brian Cole soaring interest blamed for stowing residential real estate hive reduced Lake Emtage purchases to a Industry spokesmen 1 Haven had a single Sale All Jim Defoort of Adrian Vens realty said in an interview this def Dort was one of several agents in Manitoba and Northwest Ontario who said High interest currently hovering around 21 per have helped make ii one of the worst sates years in recent in the demand for cottages has been White the Supply has been prank Rogoski of grand Beach realty but this year Supply has jumped about 100 per cent White demand has dropped he in 1978 you could sell a tent on a Reg ski this year nothing is he during a Good Rogoski said he could sell about 15 this year he has sold As Well As making it difficult for people to borrow the interest rates have also prompted Many potential investors to keep their Money in the Defoort instead of buying a cot you could be collecting de who has sold cottage realty for about 10 Mark Spencer of Block Brothers realty also said he Hast been Able to sell a cottage this Treyve been very but the Odd one has been said who does most of his business in the grand Marais in Northwestern realtor Javid Pearce said total activity has been reduced by about he explained thai while to Hertz Are still some serious including those who dont have to borrow i Many of the younger families or i who Are facing hefty mortgage in creases on their houses Are staying cottages ranging in Price from 000 to As Well As undeveloped lots Are the most difficult to were not seeing any of the Young people who buy lots for future he while All agents contacted Day agreed that sales during the past year have been a few said business Hast been too its been but Ive made Betty Smith of Delbro real estate said during an Smith said she has sold 11 cottages this year compared to about 17 last not that Many come on to the Market in this but when they do they still she considering the High interest rates it has been said Lesia min of Interlake 1 sold two last she adding that the other 15 agents working at Interlake have been averaging about two deals a week for most of the Minarik said cottages listing for and less have been moving fairly while those in the neigh boyhood of remain on the mar Ket quite a bit although she agreed High interest rates have affected cottage she said Many of her customers Are paying for their property with savings borrowed i think a lot of people realize property is a Good she changes in students bus service possible parents of French and ukrainian immersion students in the Winnipeg school division should Contact the Divi Sion office if they want changes in the school busing schedule proposed for the coming Dave executive assistant to the said the Board decided last May that immersion children would no longer be bused straight from school and Downie said yesterday that under the new policy children Are picked up at the school nearest their a daycare Centre or some other Central trustees said they have been getting Calls from immersion parents concerned about the inconvenience they will suffer if their children Are not picked up at notices Are to be sent to immersion parents Friday telling them their Chil Dren will be picked up at the school nearest their but if enough peo ple want a different location for their the division could accommodate Downie he said the rising popularity of immersion education is making it impossible for the division to continue door to door bus t a full House of Home video 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