Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free a Tiltay september 1981 Camp director says hot seat no big Deal continued from Page 1 knew that if she misbehaved she could expect to get the Shock Teri said the hot seat incident occurred one evening in August during supper she said one of the staff members announced that another staff member been misbehaving and that he was going to be jumped pretty High the without saying a then took his place on the hot seat which she described As a Stool like chair with a Long wire attached to the staff member administering the discipline then pushed a Button on the wire causing the offender to jump off the it was like a he jumped pretty Teri the incident puzzled both at first i thought it was a but then i saw him in the Teri id never seen anything like it i didst think it was very a director at the camphor eight said the hot seat want supposed to be used for punishment and that the girls probably got the wrong impression from the it was supposed to be a fun i sat on it Many its no big he he agreed that subjecting a group of children to such a scene could give them less than humorous ideas about what was taking for that he the practice has been some of the kids were going Home with stories totally he it was never made to be used As a disciplinary although Dirks emphasized that the hot seat was to be taken the mothers of the two children expressed anger that not a joke to i dont think she Teri was sent to Camp to see Louise Mcdonald just appalled in just i dont believe this is going in really disturbed about said Sandra both mothers said the children liked the Camp and wanted to but they said they Send their girls Back because of the Mcdonald said she want initially sure if her daughter was telling the truth and decided to raise the question of the hot seat with the big Sisters which along with the Manitoba camping association and the free press Sunshine fund helped place the girl in the she said she has not yet received an answer from the big Sisters As to whether a hot seat had been used As discipline at the Dirks said he didst think there was anything sinister about the electric hot it was never used for anybody who did anything he the chair was used Only when Camp ers and staff members volunteered to receive he he explained that staff members automatically volunteered for the chair when they broke certain Camp particularly when they pushed somebody in the it was announced that if you did Chuck somebody in the water you were volunteering to sit on the hot they knew that they pushed some body off the Dock they were Volunteer ing to sit on he it was never used As a ceased to be deterrence in fact Dirks said the chair was considered such that Sorne staff members would push other people in the Lake just so they could get the hot at this Point it ceased to be a another Factor contributing to the abandonment of the he concerning the hot seat incident involving the two Camp staff Dirks said person who jumped out of his seat was probably exaggerating the pain involved in the Shock treat they like to he in that particular Case when she Teri was Here it was used and As a result she May have gone Home with the wrong although Dirks said All the staff members realized the hot seat was a he explain Why the Chil Dren were left to draw their own conclusions from the he said he didst know Why staff members didst explain the hot seat was a Dirks said he authorized construction of the hot seat after Reading about it in a camping idea although he said he didst know its one staff member said the seat had a six Volt the a contained several games and a series of jokes As Well As the hot seat life in the fast Lane Margaret estranged wife of the prime swerves around a curve in a go cart yesterday to promote a new television show she will be hosting on a Ottawa television liberals claim prices beat pc plan continued from Page 1 they As both heating Oil and gasoline will be cheaper after 1983 under the new Deal than under the they also concede heating Oil prices will be about four cents a litre More this year and next under their agree ment and about the same As under the conservative proposal in but in heating Oil will be about 43 cents a about three cents cheaper than it would have been under the tory they As natural Gas prices will be lower and the liberals Point to Gener Ous government Grants of up to to persuade people to convert to but no matter whose figures Are or to what purpose there the Energy Deal signed tuesday seems to be having an Impact on inter est1 the five major Banks Canadian Imperial Bank of Royal Bank of Bajik of Bank of Nova Scotia and Toronto Dominion Bank said yesterday they Are reducing their prime by half a percentage Point tuesday to per Down from the record High of per cent set there was no indication whether the drop might mean an or even a Seri Ous in the surge of interest rates to record i m ii Iid Owney suggests heftier advances Capstaff Manitoba agriculture minister Jim Downey has called for heftier Advance payments from the Canadian wheat Board and agriculture Canada help Prairie Farmers unable to deliver Grain because of the Thunder Bay Grain handlers Many Farmers who have been Busy harvesting their crops will now be faced with no delivery opportunities and therefore no Cash flow to ease their critical financial Downey said in Tel exes to senator Hazen minister responsible for the Canadian wheat and Federal agriculture minister Eugene the maximum Advance payment to a Farmer is currently the wheat Board has estimated 000 Farmers in Western Canada Are losing More than million a Day because of the strike by the her Canadian Lakehead Grain workers in other Tel exes to Ottawa Manitoba opposition Leader Howard Pawley urged Federal labor minister Gerald Regan to try to get negotiations going provincial highways minister Orchard called on transport minister Jeanluc Pepin and argue to use alter native including to keep Grain Pawley urged Regan to personally seek a return to the bargaining table by the Grain handlers and the Lakehead terminal elevators the employers negotiating Orchard in his message said Chur chill is capable of handling an addition Al tonnes of Grain to the end of the shipping other Grain ments could move by rail to West coast or East coast he up rail said yesterday it has been asked by the wheat Board to reroute 500 cars carrying Board Grain destined for Thunder Bay to terminal facilities in Moose where Grain will be cleaned and then sent to Montreal for Daly de a up rail spokes said the Grain will be sent to the Allstate Grain Inland terminal in Moose jaw where it will be cleaned Export he said it will be tuesday before enough Grain is cleaned to make up a 90to 95car train to go to de Gagne said if the strike plans Call for two trains a week to leave Moose jaw for Montreal after next Leo a spokesman for Cana Dian National said car received instructions from the Board to reroute 80 Grain cars to termi2 Nal facilities in court told policewoman propositioned 160 times continued from Page 1 this time to up his offer to she again and moments later several officers who had been staking out the area arrested in urging the court to impose a Finlayson said what is in Issue Here is the right of any woman to walk the Street without fear of sexual harassment or the Crown attorney noted the policewoman had been plainly with Low Slacks and no make she was under orders to walk up and Down the Street and mind her own business and not bother yet on the three nights she spent walking in the she was approached by men a total of 160 Finlayson obviously any woman walking in that area will be subject to sexual harassment and he he also noted that one Austin Street resident had complained to police that on Many nights die exhaust fumes in the air were so dense that he keep his windows Finlayson said the police went to Check out the problem and agreed there was a tremendous amount of they tried to Clear the prostitutes but the girls simply re turned to the area once the officers the Crown attorney so the vice squad decided to go after the prospective hoping the method May be More effective in curbing the when asked by judge Collerman if he had anything to Kopeck said he never realized what he was doing was against the but she said no and you kept bother ing judge Collerman a woman has the right to walk the Street without being pestered and that exactly what you he asked Kopeck How he would like it if his wife was walking Down the Street and a Man kept pestering her to have sex with i like the father of two said the judge said although Kopeck had no previous criminal a Fine nonetheless was lawyer promises Bank to get Pound of flesh continued from Page 1 funds makes the situation even More in not sure Why there doing what there i find it strange and certainly their funds Are be get their Pound of that for Cohan said the issuing of the state ment is disturbing but the fact that he has not yet been served Means he cannot file a statement of defence answering All the in the statement of the lawyer acting for the Patricia said in an interview she was unable to say Why the statement Lias not yet been served on Manitoba court of Queens Bench official Allen Rouse said statements of claim can be filed and never served on the but the court is Likely to question the plaintiff if an inordinate period of time passes before service on the defendant is Rouse said on Many a plaintiff will file a statement just to put the defendant on notice that Legal action is being launched and then Hope that a settlement can be made out of As a Par time Cohan is paid a he presides Over a full Range of provincial court criminal cases and is used during Peak court Par time judges Are selected by the attorney general on the basis of their experience and knowledge of the several full time judges now sitting in provincial judges court were at one time Par time South Africa denied say continued from Page 1 of the nature of the regime in Power in South Morden it was purely a technical question regarding the credentials of a delegation which quite clearly were in after yesterdays South african ambassador Adriaan Ekstein told a news conference he will Fly Home to report to his which he said will draw the necessary conclusions from the Assembly he did not say action it May earlier the Assembly voted with six to overturn a Rul ing by its ambassador Rue Diger Vonwechmar of West that would have allowed the South african envoy to speak on a Point of opening the kenyan foreign minister Robert ouzo called on the world Community to take action against South Africa for refusing to withdraw from the we now a the International com t Unity to take effective individually and against South Africa for her consistent Defiance of our for her blatant refusal to withdraw from Namibia and her repeated and unprovoked attacks on the frontline he angolan Interior 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