Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba First Indian school Board takes keys to five schools by Glen Mackenzie Federal Indian affairs officials will turn Over authority of five schools to Manitoba first Indian school division Herman education director of the Southeast tribal school said five schools with about to Stu dents on the Poplar Little Black Little grand rapids and Pau Ingrassi reserves will have a common school division is Well As a Board for each chairmen of the five Reserve boards will make up the division he Ron Manitoba education director for the Indian affairs depart is lord Selkirk May soon set sail into sea of Black with about a month left in this years sailing operators of the is lord Selkirk say they Are on the verge of turning the business into a Money we expect next year we will be said Harold presi Dent of sub Artie which owns the cruise sub Artie bought the lord Selkirk from the provincial government in 1978 for and spent More than 000 to repair and upgrade the venture Hast been smooth sailing and at times it appeared i the business was about to go the ship lost in the 1979 season and about last we didst expect to lose As much Money As we Einarson but this is Only our second full season of operation and it would seem that were starting to come Einarson say How much 1 Money the company expects to lose this but he said the ship has to be booked to about 55 per cent capacity to break each three Day cruise costs about while passenger fares Are As Low As Success appears to be just around the Einarson said the company is still considering methods of increasing income and cutting for Einarson said sub Arctic is considering offering More one night cruises to the Shorter cruises Are were gearing ourselves More to local he errant Survey to stand Albright can rest the provincial government has decided that the boundaries he surveyed More than 100 years ago will remain As they even if there slightly Ina Ccu the Issue surfaced earlier this sum Mer when six Stephenfield Farmers became involved in a dispute Over the size of various Quarter sections in the one Farmer complained that his Quarter Section contained Only hectares instead of the requisite 64 while another Farmers Quad Csc picks Winnipeg for talks Winnipeg has been chosen the site of the 1982 Canadian labor Congress biennial convention to be held next Toronto had been scheduled to be the site of the convention according to Csc adequate facilities for the expected delegates could not be found Csc spokesman Charles Bauer said the Congress decided in june to shift the convention Back to where it was held in he said the Winnipeg convention Centre is one of Only two Halls in the country Large enough and suitably equipped to handle the week Long convention scheduled for May 24 he said adequate facilities were available also in Quebec but the Csc decided to plan for Winnipeg be cause Quebec City had hosted the National convention in 1976 and Bauer said the Harbour Castle Hil the original site of the could Only offer accommodations for about he said the 1980 convention attracted delegates to Bauer noted that the num ber of delegates May be lower next year if the Csc cant reach a truce with building trades which were suspended from the Congress in 1980 after refusing to pay their he said the trades unions and the Congress met earlier this week in an Effort to reconcile their update a weekly followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free Ter actually held in the dispute involves about Hect ares of Lionel the provinces examiner of said the govern ment appointed a Dauphin area land titles official to probe the he decided that although the Boun Daries Are incorrect they will remain the Boutilier said Farmers whose Quarter sections contain fewer than 64 hectares will be assessed on the actual amount for tax who have More than 64 hectares in a Quarter will have their taxes Cas still has child a boy who was under custody of the Winnipeg childrens Aid society for about two weeks before he was claimed by his Mother earlier this month still Hast gone a society spokesman said the three year old boy will remain in the Agen cys custody until authorities Complete an investigation of the boys Home the boy was brought to society head quarters earlier this month after police found him wandering near the Down town area in late for about two weeks officials tried to find the boys parents without any they were puzzled because they find any signs of parental neglect or Hes a Normal healthy one society official said at the i find from the Way he he is from a Well caring family Hes Well brought the official the authorities then decided to Call a news conference j2 in Hopes of alerting the parents to the boys where a woman subsequently claimed to be the Childs since society officials have been investigating the boys Home life and the mothers ability to raise the said creation of the division Means 2o of the 39 Federal Indian schools in Manitoba will be under local besides those i the new five other Reserve schools will attain local control this year but will operate he Manitoba now has a higher Tion of locally controlled native Indian schools than any other he Penner said about 20 Indian schools remain part of Manitoba school Divi Green said local control started in the 1960s with a change in Federal Legisla Tion governing education of a school on the fort Alexander Reserve was the first in Manitoba to achieve local he said control by parents Means they will decide what form the Educa Tion system for Green said a flexible schedule is being considered to a Iodate those students who by miss classes because they Are Busy with trapping and other sea Sonal and division superintendent Ron Cho Neyko said parents on All five reserves Are concerned about preserving their common Saul there Are few books and other resource materials available in Saul but people Are looking at ways to Cope with he Federal funding Green said the Federal government will continue to provide funding through the Indian affairs but with five schools working together As one at least they the department Arent dividing and con quering each he Cho Neyko said the five schools have 41 teachers Are native them a ratio of about 18studentsper this compares to about 16stu in Urban but he said the Gap is narrower than the suggest because principals in the native schools teach full or part while principals and Many vice principals in Urban areas Are strictly although University offers two programs to train native Cho Neyko the smaller schools in the new division will not Benefit directly from them because the government is Overly concerned with staff he said three teacher schools like the one in Pau Ingrassi cannot compete for the teachers with larger schools like the 40teacher school in Cross but Peter director of the Manitoba education departments Post secondary career Brandon University pro Grams involve teacher training on the so the school must be Large enough to justify a the Brandon University Northern teacher education project provides teacher training to while the program for the education of native teachers trains native teachers there Are seven such Brandon University centres in Northern Manitoba and another is under consideration for the Thompson he Penner said the problem with operating a program for the education of native teachers at Small schools is justifying the staff a school with three teachers and three teachers aides would have Towlow a student teacher ratio for a Small Cho Neyko added that the which involves training sessions at Brandon University from May to a causes difficulties since Many teachers aides Are married women with v waning summer Doug Suche has been taking advantage of the last Days of summer holidays to fish the Suche and a Friend were seen fishing at the Mouth of mands where they had reeled in by the looks of drugs fishing Rod Hes either hooked a whopper or the Winnipeg lawyer reinstated pending completion of probe the Law society of Manitoba has reinstated Winnipeg lawyer William Abrams until an investigation into the handling of his clients Trust accounts is Abrams will be allowed to practise Law at his Regent Avenue office under supervision of the society until the allegations of professional misconduct against him have been society Secretary Graeme Garson said the who has been in private practice since was suspended by the society discipline committee without a hearing earlier this month after his files were audited under direction of the Law contacted Abrams re fused to comment on the files and records seized from Abrams following the suspension and subsequent investigation will also be returned to Garson said the society suspended Abrams to protect the Public inter he said Abrams was reinstated because the discipline committee is now satisfied that this has been achieved the society now feels it is in the Best interest of everyone to permit Abrams to continue working until the matter is Garson under provincial the Law society May suspend lawyers without a hearing Only in cases involving Trust a former provincial court agreed that suspending a lawyer without a particularly when that lawyer May be is harsh he said the society discipline committee uses the Power rarely and the society could have placed Abrams under temporary supervision instead of suspending but Garson said the discipline committee weighed the various avenues open to it and decided upon the he said provincial legislation govern ing the Law society prevented him from discussing the reasons behind the discipline committees Wayne free press suspected encephalitis victim left feeling weak and drained Marsh said she was 111 and slept almost constantly at by Gregg Shilliday three weeks after being hospitalized with suspected Marge Marsh is still suffering severe headaches and occasional she recently tried returning to but found the Strain too diff she said she still feels generally weak and but the Youmg Transcona Mother of two said the traditional symptom associated with sleep has not really affected i wish i could sleep she said in an but with two Young kids running around the its Marsh said she was told by her doctor three weeks ago that she was suffering from viral a Strain usually transmitted by mos when contacted by the free Marsh Kay Simpson of refused to confirm whether Marsh had contracted Western Equine encephalitis or a related Simpson said he violate doctor patient even if she did say it was alright to Tell Marsh said saturday that Simpson told her that her lab results would not be available until some time next whatever variety of the disease she has Marsh said it is not something she would like to go through when she was first admitted to Hospital at the beginning of she Felt very sick and slept almost Marsh at first i thought i just had a real bad Case of the but things got to the Point that my doctor insisted i go into the Marsh had been visiting her family near Teulon when she fell she remained in the Teulon Hospital for four they told me the next Day that i might have but i find out till now what kind i but i guess i didst get it All that bad because i am starting to feel bet Western Equine encephalitis Vic Tims generally become ill about two weeks after being but Marsh int certain when she May have been bitten by a disease carrying mosque she said she was camping in july and was bitten Many but Ive been bit just As mucin my Back so who can say the disease can he with some victims suffering brain dam age or even but medical experts say the five cases of Equine encephalitis confirmed so far in Manitoba this year have been relatively they Are optimistic that this years outbreak May prove Milder than in the the latest confirmed Case was announced by health minister Bud Sherman he said the victim is an adult woman from a Community Between Dauphin and Sherman said the whose identity has not been has been in Hospital for a number of in As Many As 60 Manitoban May have during an Equine encephalitis no one is sure of the exact figure because knowledge of the disease was limited at the Western Equine encephalitis is transmitted by mosquitoes which have bitten Birds infected with the the most dangerous of the Many strains of encephalitis Are the insect carried viral of which three Are usually evident in Manito there also several bacterial but human beings appear to be More dangerously affected by the viral which include Western Equine the encephalitis season is expected to last at least another depending on How the weather affects Mosquito Breeding ;