Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free my my courier service letters in says Post office by Gregg shall Day several thousand pieces of mail found dumped in a Creek near Adolphe last week were supposed to be delivered by a courier service and not the Post a Post office spokesman said information officer per melting con firmed about pieces of so called mail were discovered by a Fisherman in a Creek 16 Kilometres South of Adolphe but said Post office investigators determined the mail had not been metered and did not carry it was mail to be Deli Vered by Globe it appears to be mainly Bills destined for the Boniface and vital hotting said the mail included Bills from the greater Winnipeg Gas the Manitoba Telephone Eaton and the melting explained that during the recent mail strike Many companies hired courier services to deliver especially he said it was difficult for the courier companies to guarantee that their Drivers actually delivered everything entrusted to this sort of thing has happened in not saying its the fault of the courier its just a damned difficult thing to keep on top of when you have All those dumping mail during the strike appears to have occurred across the coun Post office officials in Ontario Are investigating mail hidden in a garbage dump near Thunder Bay and a collection of Bills found on the 18th Fairway of a Mississauga Golf mail with courier company stickers has also been found in mail boxes across the melting said several Hundred pieces have been found in the Winnipeg Post office since the strike ended but he added that most of the courier stick ered mail was hotting that the Post office was attempting to find out if some companies in been double billed or at least a free press Check with the compan ies involved indicated the mainly Globe and had dumped mail into the Post spokesmen for each courier said they were Only charging their clients 17 cents for each piece of mail because of the Large amount of business they were receiving during the the firms insisted what they did was entirely legals some such As greater Winni Peg Gas and seemed to agree when contacted by the free a greater Winnipeg Gas spokesman his company was charged Only 17 cents apiece by Globe and i guess we dont really care if it gets delivered by them or the Post just As Long As it gets worm turns for eight facing fraud charges the worm has turned for eight americans who face fraud charges if they Ever set foot in ramp have issued Canad wide warrants for the americans following an investigation of a business Deal involving 30 Manitoba residents who were supposed to raise and sell the eight americans were involved with a company called worm growers Exchange based in which had contracts to Market Worms for the Manitoba the Manitoban received Worms from the firm and paid anywhere from about to for contracts committing the company to buy Back the crawlers progeny at a the business Deal went sour and several Manitoba worm growers were forced to virtually shut Down after they experienced problems producing and Selling the along with their which folded in the Ameri cans face 60 counts of fraud and Over for making promises to 30 Manitoba residents who entered the supposedly profitable business of Rais ing cribbing found in dig an archaeological group searching Bonnycastle Park for the Tost bastion of upper fort Garry has discovered log Wal style cribbing about 150 Centi metres below the Park but Field director Biron Ebell said he int sure what the cribbing is from or what it was used he said the cribbing could have been part of a update a weekly followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free grease pit which was contained in the old Streetcar barn on the site in the Early Days or from a cellar which somehow found its Way to the along with about seven other archaeology students from the University of will continue the search for the 146yearold Stone bastion of the old the group began digging on a Small site near the Northeast Comer of Assiniboine Avenue and main Street last week after receiving City 42 paid for lost wages fort two employees who were left unpaid after their employers went bankrupt have received a total of 454 in lost wages from a publicly Fin danced fund set up in under the established by the provincial employees Are guaranteed up to each for lost wages if their employer goes out of business before paying a spokesman for the provincial department of labor refused to disclose the names of the firms involved or the number of applicants which resulted from each the government established the 000 fund after defeating a Resolution by progressive party Leader Sidney Green which called for an employer financed wage recovery Manitoba open chess Champ Fletcher Baragar moves Down the alternately impressing and depressing his chess amateurs pawns in match Only two out of 40 manage to get the Best of Manitoba chess Champion by Gregg Shilliday North americas shopping with their requisite pipe Din music and might be Condu Cive to but they can provide a deadly atmosphere for about 40 Oil lube Bobby Fischer discovered this saturday As they took on Manitoba open Champion Fletcher Baragar in a simultaneous chess demonstration at the Grant Park shopping Baragar lost Only two both to fellow members of the Winnipeg chess chess Centre organizers estimated Baragar played at least 40 opponents Over the so even they were impressed by the champions perform certainly most of his victims admitted to being impressed after playing depressing experience David Craig of Warsaw interviewed after a 45move game in which he eventually said he also found the experience i opened then but then i made an absurd Blunder which left me on the defensive for the rest of the but the worst thing was that he never seemed to spend More than about two seconds considering a i he was playing 20 people at the who blamed his loss on a Lack of said he would like to have beaten the to ranked Active player in the i would have enjoyed telling people i beat but i have mentioned that he was playing another 20 people at the same Law student Glen Johnnie John one of the two was in an elated mood after his so what if he was playing All those other people he crowed with his Tongue firmly in his i squashed he didst have a Johnstone said he declined Baragars Queens gambit opening and went on to beat him within 30 considering the number of games he was i decided to go for the most complicated positioning i guess it was the right but while a few were Able to stay close to most were completely out of his one elderly Man found himself checkmate fairly Early but he painfully reset the Board and asked Baragar if he could try Baragar smiled and told him he would be a number of children took time from their saturday electronic space games to Challenge the recently titled chess Baragar played them with the same serious Nessas anyone one youngster who was taking his chess very seriously was Ron of Queenston Ron has Only been playing chess for a year but several times Baragar seemed to pause longer in front of the sters Board than anyone after a Tough Ron finally lost his a wayward newspaper reporter was playing next to Ron during the exhibition and quickly found himself into a Corner by Baragars aggressive play desperate for he turned to his pin sized what do you think i should do Hes pressing pretty Ron surveyed the Board for a of then you better he you dont have a mennonite elementary school fast attracting full enrolment Winnipeg first mennonite Elemen tary school is already nearly the maximum number of pupils in the new school was set at and by this week nearly 50 were already in said school Board member Allan not All the children Are but Siebert said he had no idea How Many were from no mennonite its not an Issue to he the school administration has rented four classrooms in Lansdowne Elemen tary school on Wiginton Street and classes Start Siebert said the Volunteer Board was s Only formed in mid june and its almost miraculous that everything has fallen into the Board is made up of Many prominent Winnipeg including Henry a medical re searcher at the University of Manito management consultant David Epp and provincial judge John Siebert said they Are not criticizing the Public school i dont think we see ourselves As competing we dont see ourselves As some kind of said they also Are not the Renaissance he Renaissance International is a non nonpartisan citizens com Mittee which objects to sex the theory of evolution and liberalism in although there Are four mennonite High schools in there has never been an elementary school in tuition fees Range from for kindergarten to for Grade Chil Dren will be taught the regular Manitoba Public school curriculum in a Loving Christian atmosphere in which parents have a lot of although the tuition Doest come close to covering a Grant from the David Friesen family foundation1 has made up the the principal of the new Jim is also allans who retired last year at 55 from Ontario Public school has spent 20 years working for the Ontario ministry of including 12 years teaching at the Hamilton teachers col he also held the position of curriculum services officer for the Ontario education 4 3 injured in accidents during weekend four people died and three others were injured in traffic accidents in Manitoba during the including a Winnipeg Man who died when his bicycle collided with a Thomas Archibald of Battery was pronounced dead at the health sciences Centre after the Accident about 3 Friday near his Roy of the Pas and his were both taken to Grace Hospital after an Accident Friday eve Ning which killed another passenger in the Orton of police said Berg was driving a pick up truck on Highway 6 about five Kilometres North of Woodlands when he apparently lost control of the vehicle and it went off the Jason Berg was in Good condition in Hospital yesterday and his fathers condition was critical but becoming More Stonewall ramp Are investigating the cause of the another William Sylver Henry of Lake was killed when he apparently lost control of his car on a municipal gravel Road near the Village of Gayleard was pronounced dead at the scene after the car was discovered yesterday police said the Accident happened Between 2 and 8 a collision Between a semitrailer truck and a Van claimed the life of another Winnipeg Man about 6 Harvey William John Driver of the died in the Accident on the Tran Canada Highway about Kilometres West of the truck John and passenger Richard David both of Winni each suffered minor North end group battling to Pamela was one of Many area residents who helped to Spruce up Pritchard by Tom Goldstein Winnipeg North end has a legend Ary reputation of being and the Pritchard Park area might Well rate a capital children have been molested adults have been there was a rap murder about five years people Are very frightened of that Community worker Don King walk blocks to get around but area residents especially the newer ones the crime Haven image belongs to the the stigma and the Park at Manitoba Avenue and Charles Street has been ignored and Marsha Mother of a and expecting another child said she had great expectations when her family moved across the Street from the Park about 30 months we thought it was going to be Jones and it now Jones and a group of other residents Are trying to bring the Park up to those earlier this a group of about 15 residents formed the Pritchard Park recreation and rehabilitation King and about 30 other peo ple pitched in saturday in the first phase to rejuvenate the there was nothing they could do about the old Asphalt Tennis and basketball nor could they immediately put the single Storey Park building to better use than Chang room and storage but the playground equipment is no longer Bare Metal or utilitarian new paint shines the swings and merry go round Shine in Coats of yellow and red even residents who just passed by picked up a Brush for 10 or 15 King taking a break from painting the top bar of a set of the turnout was particularity Gratis he because saturday is generally a Day for shopping and re As the North end fair was going on just a few blocks people want to fight to get the Park King saturdays painting Bee was the first step in the Battle to bring people Back to Pritchard the group is hoping to get a Community improvement program Grant to redevelop the a meeting will be held in october to introduce the Park to the whole King the Resi dents will decide what shape the new Park will one of the problems is that adults think of it As a kids Jones As a couple of youngsters splashed in the wading but the children will not be left King said he Hopes the new facility will be a learning Centre for children As Well As a place to with the participation of the com youre virtually guaranteed till King he said the a proc is attempting to explode the myth that the North end lacks a sense of Community and is dying As a there is still a Strong sense of Community and More even than in he its alive and doing fairly Well for ;