Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free november 1981 Waso Chance to work retarded adults hone workplace skills by Sheila bean mentally handicapped persons now have a workshop where they can learn to work in the the called Waso work and social 585 London provides the Opportunity for mentally retarded adults to learn life and social Waso managing director Judy Richardson said students learn How to package items for local companies on a contract they package take out utensils for champs food sys camping and outdoor supplies for Coghland and nuts and bolts for Winnipeg Richardson said Waso is trying to limit contracts to the East Kildonan other work skills taught Are Atten organization and Breaks for learning social skills include communication and appropriate social behaviour in both a work setting and a casual set Richardson said even their cof fee and lunch Breaks Are for learning because relationships with other peo ple Are important in the housekeeping and use of the bus system make up the life skills a Reward for the staff came yester Day when a woman took the bus to Waso by herself after Only one Day of bus that skill usually takes a few Days to said although the workshop officially opened it has been in operation since Richardson said students Are enjoy ing the mainly because it gives them a Chance to if the rest of the family works and you you feel she there Happy that there n she said they get a great feeling of accomplishment from earning Money for their bus and they have socially some Are less they enjoy Wayne free press student Linda Flatt places tie Down cords in plastic bag As being with the group some were a Little nervous and now Treyve settled twelve aged 21 to Are involved in the program and Richard son Hopes the group will increase to the limit of 30 people by next the aim is to prepare them for a competitive Job in the one Man is ready for a Job Richardson but most people will probably take a year or some May never be ready to will be a place where the permanent students can come to work every this will be their Waso was founded last fall by a group of parents and educators of mentally handicapped people in East they saw a need for a after mentally retarded people leave the school sys tem at age some Are still not ready for the work but there people and they have feelings and they want to express said there not like Rock music they like Rock they like to dress in style like everybody there just the same As other people their age with the same needs and the Anne Zorowski Macdonnell said East Kildonan part of Waso cares about its mentally retarded so the Community worked together to provide them with a Valu Able Waso solicited Volun Teers and a building from the Community Over the course of a their annual financed partly by the City and the is and May increase to if the Federal government kicks in some renovations on the old Bible study donated by Emman Uel United Cost Waso received word yesterday that the gig Blu jeans company is donating a Blister a machine that seals shut plastic City Calendar North Dakota firm Hopes to air payt in City a North Dakota company is seeking to Start up a television station that Hopes to be the first to offer pay television on a Large scale in win Jack president of satellite television said that if All goes Well the station could be on the air by february or March offering conventional programming during the Day and first run movies through a Vav after he said that if Winnipeg Cable companies Arent prepared to carry the Winni Eggers could pick it up with antennae or Rabbit the pay to signal would be available Only to those who subscribed to payt has been operating in United states for seven years at a Cost ranging from to a but has yet to make inroads in Feder Al and provincial governments Are currently discussing How the service should be Wood give examples of pay to programs he would Supply because he has yet to make a Deal with any of the companies which transmit the product via satellite receiver he said the plan would be to install a satellite receiver at Pembina and use a Tower to rebroadcast payt Sig Nal to Wood said his company recently received a payt licence from the fed eral communications commission acc in Washington after a fou year he added he has offered to buy the former kind television Tower at Pem Bina now owned by Cynd Winni Peg Butha received no if this offer Falls the company will buy a 460metre Tower from a Don Cynd said his company will decide soon whether to sell to if the Tower will be moved to the Minnedosa area to allow Cynd to expand its viewing area to Western Brinton said Cynd opposed Woods application to the acc on the basis that another television station want needed in the regulatory Agency decided the station would Benefit Northern North he added that any attempt by Wood to get his station on the Cable system in Winnipeg could run into roadblocks with the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission at the the crts can Tell the Cable companies in Winnipeg exactly what they can and cannot he doubted that regulators will want to see an american operator come in and take off the Wood said that if the Sta Tion int on it would still be available by antennae or Rabbit each subscriber for the payt part would receive a decoder to unscramble the signal and be charged an undetermined crts vows Early ruling on to bids Federal communication commission essay they will decide As soon As possible who should be licensed to carry satellite television service to Rural and Northern Manitoba common a panel of four commissioners from the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission spent three Days in Winnipeg this week hearing applications from businesses and Community groups for the panel chairman Jim Robson said he considered Christmas a reasonable tar get Date for a decision on the Applina the 16 applicants Are proposing to beam signals from four Canadian Tele vision stations to a Host of Manitoba while some Are also of Fering to provide radio the to which Are part of the Canad an satellite communications can com include chant of cite to of cd Chov of Hamilton and to ctr of Jan regional director general for the said All the applicants were Given a full Opportunity to present their he said Many of the applications Are competing to provide ser vice for the same the City of Thompson presented a useful Brief to the discus sing the pros and cons of the various proposals to serve that he the City didst formally endorse any of the Arctic radio which runs stations in flin the Pas and argued against licensing any of the applicants for outlets in the three commune mount Carmel clinic will sponsor health month monday to information centres and blood pressure clinics will be scheduled at various shopping malls in the times and locations Are to 4 9 and 10 and from noon to 4 30 and 1 at Garden City shopping Centre and Garden City Square 11 to 12 and 13 and 10 to 4 14 in Eaton place 11 to 4 1618 in Winnipeg Square noon to 4 2527 in Southwood mall to 28 in Kildonan place and to 4 24 at Grant Park shopping weather our ass stance an editorial published wednesday erroneously quoted an out of Date version of a clause in the proposed charter of human rights the clause governing search and seizure now has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or Jack of was sentenced to life imprisonment thursday for second degree murder in the shooting death of his wife in the free in a Story in thursdays identified the accused As Jack provincial winning ticket in yesterdays provincial lottery is there also Are subsidiary and deaths classified death Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny wind becoming moderate North in the High today near Low tonight near Cloudy periods tomorrow and cooler with a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba sunny monday with temperature near Normal readings of 2 and sunny and Milder tuesday and wednesday Northern Manitoba Cloudy periods mainly Cloudy Lues Day and wednesday with temperatures returning to near Normal readings of 3 and Northwestern Ontario sunny and Cool sunny and turning Milder tuesday and Normal High Normal Low temperatures Canada and the world National Victoria 13 Vancouver 10 Calgary 15 Edmonton 17 Thompson 2 Kenora 14 Brandon 15 daunt in 12 Thunder Bay 11 Toronto 13 Ottawa 17 Montreal 14 Halifax 9 International Choc too 14 Minneapolis 13 Newyork 16 Boston 14 Amsterdam 13 Athens 19 Berlin 7 Helsinki a Lisbon 24 London 12 Madrid 22 Moscow 0 i 2 o 2 4 10 7 14 n 5 10 4 1 11 4 5 2 12 16 5 15 resort spots los 21 fair 25 fair 31 fair 28 Clear 27 fair Cloudy Cloudy 29 24 29 31 31 30 5 11 3 13 17 14 22 24 20 24 18 22 21 25 24 Winnipeg temperature comparisons mean last Hogtie to on record in 1975 lowest on record in 1935 precipitation total for 1 to 6 Milli metres Normal daughter of George and so Phie of 505 Munroe of 264 Munroe widower of Kathleen of because son of Isabel and the late Gordon of 403 Oakdale widower of Isabel of 334 thur so wife of Peter Dany of formerly of Birtle and widow of or Fridrik of formerly of wife of Henry of Oak Lew 2395 Ness widow of Bill of 303 Goulet wife of Tobie of 492 Burrin of Maple formerly of son of Ida Han of widow of Alexander of Beacon Hill formerly of Spra of husband of Marguerite of 478 lip ton husband of Joyce of 1028 Redwood que of husband of Kay wife of Jeffrey David new of because husband of Agnes Peltz of 107 Hart wife of Victor to of 460 Louis Riel husband of Marie Jeanne of 242 Machray son of Pamela and John of 677 Cathedral wife of John of 705 Aberdeen husband of Rose of san husband of Toby of formerly of widow of John of 161 third Portage la husband of Michele of North Van formerly of Winni wife of Wally of husband of Carrie of 1000 Mcgregor Hus band of Bernice widow of Alfred of 629 Machray husband of Mary of 1812 legion formerly of Sandy widower or Mona of 1137 Clarence husband of 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