Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 3 school secessionists holding talks by Glen Mackenzie talks Are under Way Between fort la Bosse school division and representatives of two resident groups in an attempt to keep an estimated to residents from seceding from the school Harry an Elkhorn area Farmer and member of the Elkhorn save the school said a court hearing is set for 4 in Virden to hear residents appeals of a Manitoba Board of reference ruling which denied Elkhorn and Resto Narea residents permission to set up their own school the controversy started in when the fort la Bosse school based in voted to close Elkhorn school in the decision was made after Only one Public hearing with parents about the Leonard said in a Telephone he said that after parents withdrew their children from school for a month in the Spring of the school Board set up an and hoc committee of five trustees and four residents and also voted to defer the closing decision by a action launched the committee recommended in de that the school Board not close any More schools until at least the Board adopted this recommendation a month Leon Ard in the fall of Elkhorn Resi dents and residents in the Reston area launched an action before the Provin Cial reference Board under a Manitoba Public schools act provision which allows people to form their own school division out of an existing Leonard said reference Board hear Ings were held from february to May this and in August the Board ruled against the residents without giving any he said the applications from Al Stone Short for Albert and Pipestone Rural municipalities and the Elkhorn groups would Divide the current fort la Bosse division into three division superintendent Harry Chornoboy said that if two Small Hutt Erite Colony schools Are the pro posed Elkhorn division would have three schools and about 300 the Reston division four schools and about 400 total division enrolment is now about he said in a Telephone investors awaiting decision a two year Legal Battle which has forced about 965 investors in the bankrupt Winnipeg mortgage Exchange to wait for their Money appears to be coming to an a letter mailed Friday informs in most of whom Are senior that decisions on two outstanding Legal cases Are expected to be handed Down by the end of Gebru the court disputes Centre on How assets of the bankrupt firm should be the Money is being held by bankruptcy trustee Jack Down until the question is of Thorne Riddell has recovered More than half of the roughly million invested in the but its unclear whether recovery of All the funds can be Gauthier Case businessman Jim Gauthier and a group represented by lawyer Harvey Pollock claim they Are entitled to get Back All their the majority of investors say funds recovered should be paid to each creditor in proportion to How much he had put the Gauthier Case was heard earlier this year but the decision was the Pollock on behalf of four will go to trial Down said he is informing investors by mail that Justice Scott Wright of Manitoba court of Queens Bench has indicated he will deliver his Deci Sions in both cases by he refused to provide a copy of the letter before its received by invest Down cautioned that payments to investors will still be held up if an Appeal is launched in either of the lawyer Richard who represents the majority of investors seeking a pro rata distribution of the said an Appeal was if this Hap a final ruling would take a few months the reference Board frequently allows Manitoba residents to move their Homes from one school division jurisdiction to but Leonard said this would be the first time new divisions Are carved out of an existing Chornoboy said he is confident agreement can be reached before meetings Are to be held this he said in a Telephone fort la Bosse division also has four schools in two in Oak Lake and one in but if three divisions Are created each will have a High Leonard Leonard said Elkhorn residents Are confident they could afford to add two teachers to what would be their Divi Sion and Cut costs by having a principal function As superintendent and hire a Par time Leonard also said people realize that unitary school boards Are More interested in the economics of the Issue declining and the fact Young people keep moving to the City have made Small schools More difficult to but enrolment in Elkhorn and res ton area schools has remained about constant in the past few years while enrolment in Virden schools has and Elkhorn and reston1 residents dont believe their children should be bused up to 100 Kilometres a Day to preserve programs in Virden he Chornoboy vigorously denied the division is trying to maintain enrolment in Virden by forcing Rural High school students into town by we futuristic fantasy world inspires creations in an ancient Artford by Greg Bannister although he draws much of his inspiration from a future fantasy Birds Hill leather artist Doug Gibson practices an Art form which is possibly years Gibsons sculpted leather Art which he and Stephenfield artist Wayne Bourgeois presented at the fou Day Manitoba Christmas Craft were among the More unusual items on transfixing both the serious buyer and the organizers of the Sale estimated that Between and paid apiece to visit the 97 and an other attended a preview thurs about 140 artisans took part in the id like to thank everyone in Winni said spokesman Jimmy were really excited with the re Gibson said there Are probably no More than ten people in Canada who Are producing leather Art Sev eral pieces at the show were sold to collectors from the United states and originally a Belt Gibson said he also makes leather Wall although he exhibited none Man bolts past customs officers an unidentified Man bolted past Cus Toms officers at the Winnipeg International Airport yesterday and jumped into a leaving his Luggage be after he was spotted in the Airport later by an Alert cab the Man finished his business with Federal customs and exise officials and was then turned Over to said Tom manager of operational ser vices at the Airport for the customs and excise Schoen said there was an outstanding warrant for the mans could not be reached for comment last Jim free press the Man arrived on a Northwest Orient airlines flight from Chicago at about had cleared the preliminary customs examination Down stairs and had been directed upstairs to claim his but Ortice he got upstairs the Man burst through doors into the terminal and jumped into a cab two hours later a taxi Driver spotted the Man in the terminal and contacted customs Schoen he did not know whether the cab Driver was the same one who initially drove the Man away from the the secondary customs examination was completed and the Man was turned Over to he Schoen said he did not know whether the Man had any hand Luggage with him when he ran out of the he said people occasionally Bolt past a customs officer standing by the but Are often caught with the assistance of the some of them dont want to be bothered talking to City police said they were asked to search for the Man after he fled the at the Craft fair due to space limit according to with whom Bourgeois has apprenticed for several the leather masks Spring from the same school of Art which created entire Wall murals of embossed leather in ancient being or Doest have great longevity and so Little of this Artford has survived the ravages of time to create a record for Art said in fact there Are no records of the use of Wood or leather As Gibson there is no doubt they were used As the traditional has Only been around for the last 300 what did they use before that Gibson and Bourgeois 125 leather masks to the Craft by saturday they had sold All but about the masks ranged in Price from to with the average mask going for about said Gibson said the which must be made with vegetable Saddle leather rather than synthetically tanned will be available at two City galleries in he said he has a 50piece edition of masks which he Hopes to display in january at the Lindor gallery and at Desart both located in the masks Are created by placing a leather hide into almost boiling water and leaving it immersed until it takes on a Loose consistency which Gibson said is similar to its organic and in this form it allows you to he adding that he often drapes the softened hide Over a piece of Wood which he May have carved into a specific the shape of the wooden form will be transmitted to the mask once it dries and Gibson agreed the images in his masks Are i dont know where the faces come they Are almost other Dimen signal sometimes when forming the mask i will deliberately use a Hole in the Wood or a scar in the leather to add a fantasy Edge to the visions of future Gibson said that while his work tends to visions of the Bourgeois work is More from a 13th Century fantasy world of hobbits and Gar after sculpting the the next phase in their development is the the vegetable tanned Leath according to is a highly versatile medium for among the preparations he has used to create the Rich colors seen in the masks Are Wood air brushes and in a the effects of color on leather Are the same As on paper but paper is i can push the leather into a three dimensional a mix of painting and Sculp Huta continues 22year fight for disability compensation never fails Jason is amazed by the magic of the Santa Claus Parade Winni Eggers had mild weather to enjoy some 25 floats and bands in the annual former postal worker John Huta is carrying on his 22year Battle to win permanent disability compensation from the Federal suffered a concussion when he was struck by a Metal bar while handling mail at the Winnipeg Post office he later complained of headaches and Back and neck and was released from the Post office in 1969 on the grounds of in the the workers compensation which is empowered to decide whether Ottawa should pay per manent disability benefits to has been Adamant that he was not entitled to but Huta sent a new application to the Board two weeks and is confident hell be successful this theres just no Way they can turn it he refusing to the North end resident has also applied directly to the Federal Supply and services department which looks after civil service asking that he receive benefits retroactive to 1969 when he was dismissed from the Post he has been receiving a pen a month the Post office since he said he expects a reply if Hes not successful in getting the Huta said he will take his Case in person to the departments offices in Huta threatened to stage a Satin in the office of Federal health minister Monique begin last april if Ottawa didst resolve the matter to his Satis he said he abandoned that plan at the request of the Canadian Union of Post Al he said the Union is help ing him with his age study takes time theres no end in sight for the one Man provincial commission looking into the Issue of mandatory retirement in the Public and private update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free i really dont Alan assistant to commissioner Marshall refusing to speculate when a report might be its a very Complex he were progressing steadily and sure Simms said research is still being conducted into various arguments presented to the commission when it asked for submissions from the Public earlier this Rothstein conducted several Public hearings throughout the province last but most were sparsely attend no Public hearings Are Simms the inquiry was appointed by then attorney general Gerry Mercier on the recommendation of the Manitoba human rights who has served As an adjudicator for the human rights com Mission on several cases concerning compulsory is to make recommendations on whether the provincial human rights act and related legislation should be he is also to examine differences Between Public and private sector attitudes to mandatory trends and legislation in other and the relevance of pension plans and social Security to the customers reimbursed greater Winnipeg Gas reimbursed its customers nearly for work they had done by private con tractors during a strike earlier this company spokesman Bill Salo said customers took up the offer the company made about a week after 260 service and maintenance workers re turned to their jobs following a 79day strike which ended in Salo said 899 requests for reimbursement were costing the company the remaining 166 requests were refused because they involved equipment the company does not look he the Gas company sparked a Contro Versy shortly after the strike by the Energy and chemical workers Union began in by announcing it would not pay for any work performed by private contractors while its employees were off the but after the labor dispute was set the company said it always in tended to pay for such it kept quiet about the Salo said at the because we could have been accused of alls Well at Pollock alls Well at Pollock Beauty the provincial government the province began monitoring conditions at the downtown hairdressing school after students and instructors staged a series of walkouts 18 months ago to protest the Quality and hours of following meetings with instructors and school the provincial Consumers Bureau was assured that the school would comply with the private Trade schools the Bureau continued to Monitor the school until about a year ago when the consumer and corporate affairs department lost jurisdiction Over the Denis Deputy director of the said there were no problems with the Institute during that Orlando financial and administrative director of the Community colleges division of the department of education which now looks after Trade said the problem has been resolved and there have been no com ;