Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 trappers Good sense adds up to dollars in his store entrepreneur cant read or write by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Lac Brocket private business is booming on this Dene Indian re serve thanks to a local entrepreneur who cannot read or not Only has Noel never spent Day of his life in but he also has very few words of English at his but his keen business sense and managerial ability have astounded Southern accountants and consultants whole crossed his after 22 years of fishing and trap ant Sanen began his business Ca reer in when several Hundred Dene indians moved away from Bro a mixed Community of Cree in and they settled at Lac one of their favorite Seminary in Winnipeg voted Down Winnipeg has lost out As a possible site for a lutheran Church Canada Church spokesman Ernie lass Man said delegates to an annual convention in Winnipeg last week voted by a 21to14 margin to establish two seminaries rather than an earlier vote taken at the first Ever lutheran Church Canada conference ended in a tie on whether to have one or two Seminary at the same delegates voted by a Clear majority to pick Winnipeg As the site if there were to be Only Lassman the earlier vote want but gave delegates to the policymaking convention an indication of feeling within the he delegates to the convention voted by a 26to9 margin to locate the second Seminary in Edmonton rather than Lassman he said there Are about 30 students at the existing Seminary in Catharines and about 20 at a lutheran Seminary in Saskatoon which int affiliated directly with lutheran establishing one Seminary in Winni Peg to accommodate All students would have required building or renting a he lutheran Church Canada has about adherents from British Colum Bia to two other lutheran branches in Canada represent about More fishing and trapping about 100 Kilometres Northeast of Brochet and about Kilometres North of Winni because there was no store and not much Hope of getting an outside com Pany to move into the Remote North lands Indian band Council offered ant Sanen from its unconditional Grant funds to Start up a the Council also put a Small building at his ant Sanen admits his Lack of Educa Tion and English worried him the Start of his business but it did not Stop within a year he repaid the band councils loan and tossed in an extra to ensure that he maintained ownership of the seven metre Square using the earnings from his which eventually grew to a year ant Sanen expanded his enterprises to include a three table Pool where motion pictures Are also and a Coffee his business ventures generated seven full time and three Par time like everyone else in the ants Anens Only previous business experience was Selling fur and he was selected to run the store because of the Trust and respect he had earned in the management of his tramline and fish As a ant Sanen was always one of the biggest fur said chief Jerrome his Neph his dog team was one of the his outboard motors and Power toboggans were always in top running and he always kept a clean finished third in using Only five Antwan in finished third in the Pas trappers festival world dog Dene Cheshe recalled that after hard Days of ant Sanen still insisted that boats should be motors gassed and fish nets left ready for a predawn ant Sanen maintains Overall management of the but one of his five sons is Given a free hand in running the Pool Hall motion picture operation and the cof fee his eighteen Earold has successfully managed the store for the last four with an older helping with the produce and warehouse end of the All businesses Are showing a healthy profit and the Pool Hall has now been moved into a larger log building and operates five Pool the Coffee shop is also slated to move Bob free Prev Noel ant Sanen stands with his sons Angus and the youngest of his nine children to a new building and will become a full fledged restaurant next sum but the most dramatic growth has been in the store last with Federal Indian affairs and department of regional economic expansion Dree officials taking Dene Cheshe and ant Sanen Cut the rib Bon on a new Square foot store almost four times the size of the the new with mod Ern electrical four five and a sophisticated computerized Cash has been in operation for Only 13 working Days and indians want province to keep hands off had a turnover of ant Sanen estimates that this Means annual sales of arranging finances for the undertaking want at one the band invited a trading Post operator to open a and later asked the Hud sons Bay to consider establishing an another stumbling Block for Antwan in was that Federal funding agencies Felt Only Orie business could succeed in the 400resident the Agen cies thought that an extra per who could not or speak English was a rather poor two Thompso based two Northern and a National Oil company which had done business with ant Sanen for some gave him a top credit rat he in the ant Sanen received a special loan from which becomes a Grant if the business stays in operation for three he also received from the Indian affairs development the opening of the store coincided with the Startup of the Community first Hydro electric Plant by Manitoba this made it possible for the store to have refrigeration units and serve its customers a better Range of meat and perishable fruits and vegetal on the stores neat Well stocked a dozen eggs sell for 11 kilograms of flour for kilo Gram of lard for y2 a kilogram of Coffee for and a kilogram of Tea for ants Anens son with Only a Grade four makes full use of the new Cash Register in keeping the store the elder ant Sanen said one of his first lessons was not to give credit to he said people in the comm nity have Money to pay for what they Thompson staff Northern Indian bands want no Provin Cial involvement in child welfare services to treaty regardless of where the children band chiefs want contributions for programs to go directly to Indian band councils from the Indian affairs their position on the Issue was stated at a recent Manitoba Keewatin now Okima kanak meeting attended by representatives of 24 Northern Indian chief Russell tobacco of the Moose Lake Indian chairman of the Keewatin now Okima kanak subcommittee on child said we do not acknowledge any authority on the part of fee province to impose provincial standards and requirements for program Content or delivery on the weather Pyrki Pillion High Low cold front worm front he criticized the four nations from which the Northern chiefs broke away in for taking part in negotiations for a tripartite umbrella agreement on child welfare with the Federal and provincial tobacco said the Northern chiefs dislike this arrangement because it undercuts the traditional responsibility the Federal government has for treaty in a letter to Indian affairs minister John tobacco said perhaps the four nations confederacy is prepared for the Sake of a few dollars to jeopardize Indian government by Legitime timing Transfer of program responsibility to the but we Are definitely not prepared to do Norman Indian affairs National coordinator for child and family care in said under the umbrella agreement the Federal government supplies 100 percent of the the provincial child care legislation is used As the Basic Standard for programs and the bands Are responsible for the delivery of the target Date for enacting the agreement is the Northern chiefs have asked that the tripartite agreement not be put into effect until the Federal government has examined other they Are asking that either the Indian act be amended to enable band councils to pass their own Indian child welfare or that the Federal Indian child welfare statute be Joe regional superintendent for preventive child care and family services in said there Are still a great number of incidences of school burnings and a High level of a lot of this is rooted in family deaths classified death Winnipeg area forecast Cloudy today with a few periods of Light Snow or freezing drizzle this a few flurries this afternoon and High today near Low tonight near Cloudy tomorrow with a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba occasional Light Snow wednesday and thurs sunny temperatures a Little above seasonable values of 5 and Northern Manitoba mostly Cloudy through Friday with occasional Light temperatures a Little warmer than Normal values of 10 and Northwestern Ontario occasional Light Snow Snow Cloudy temperatures Little above Normal values of 4 and temperatures Canada and the world National Victoria Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Thompson Brandon Pup Hon Thunder Bay Toronto Ottawa Halifax International Chicago Minneapolis not work Boston Amsterdam Mattero Berlin Helsinki Lisbon Madrid Moscow 9 9 5 5 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 6 9 2 6 12 11 18 10 3 21 18 4 4 5 3 8 1 3 3 2 5 3 2 1 o 2 4 7 6 2 0 12 4 is 13 5 19 resort spots los 19 Las fair 18 fair 24 28 Clear 19 Winnipeg 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