Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 9, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1981 3 trustees delay decision to limit lunch program it Winnipeg school trustees have inde finitely delayed a decision on controversial recommendations aimed at limiting the divisions nutrition superintendent Wes Lorimer recommended the program be constrict that simple feeding arrangements be made at schools where numbers Are Small and can be kept Small and the casual feeding of All children who show up should be he told trustees yesterday he based his recommendations on a civic pro Vinci Al report which rejected Media accounts of Large numbers of hungry intercity children lining up to eat at soup trustees voted to defer decision until they receive further information and meet with provincial Cabinet minis ters who could share responsibility for the education minister Maureen hem Phill said in an interview monday she is concerned that intercity residents get enough to she said that while she Doest believe there is starvation she visited Homes while campaigning in Logan constituency where the cupboards were Lorimer said yesterday he believes children of the working poor need Spe Cial but that parents on social allowance Are receiving enough to pay for Basic the problem must be the Way they manage their on Parent families Rise in 1980 Winnipeg school division experienced a dramatic increase in on Par ent families last Paul a division research said yesterday per cent of division children reported in sep they had Only one Parent at compared with 15 per cent in a report is due he Madak said in an interview studies show the educational effects of family breakup usually last about a year and students become listless and daydream More As they experience a period of he said 38 per cent of Winnipeg division intercity elementary students and 40 per cent in secondary schools come from on Parent com pared with 16percent elementary and 21percent secondary in suburban Madak submitted a report to Winni Peg school trustees which found the education level of parents and single Parent families Are the two most important detriments to academic test other in were unemployment and rate of school to school the report said that a year the effect of single Parent families ranked fourth As a Factor behind parents Transfer rate and the information was obtained from 1980 division wide tests in grades 3 and which also found inner City students had lower test scores than students from wealthier parts of the the report said the percentage of children with unemployed parents in creased during the year to per cent from per cent in but Madak said later much of the unemployment was temporary and in Money because they can apply for More to pay for such extras As Eye he said in an he told trustees he would give school principals and nurses authority to de cide which children should be suggesting these school officials give a visual inspection to the child by considering such features As weight and trustee Brian Dixon said this would mean school officials would decide who is hungry and could result in principals worrying about justifying the number of students Lorimer said he wants to ensure the nutrition program Doest become so open ended it feeds every student in the he believes the division should be Able to justify an expenditure As High As next year and million shortly he suggested school officials take the names of children who Are fed and Check into their family but several trustees said they would oppose such a Means the nutrition program operates in 20 trustees approved a motion in june that it be expanded by 4 into seven More schools principal Laura River Ralph Weston and la they approved a motion yesterday saying the programs expansion into the new schools should be a top but voted six to one trustee Margaret Trott was absent against Glenn free press traffic moving Anu m works and committee chairman John Angus eluded Many women who became Jometa mayor fill Nome and others yesterday to open the new million Portage Avenue single parents and could not find jobs Bridge Over Sturgeon construction was finished seven months ahead of right bailiffs seize carving from Art City licence department claims owed in transient traders fee by Ron Campbell his Art barred the bailiffs came to seize but Len Fairchuk the president of project White Buffalo at 3339 Portage objected when two bailiffs arrived just before noon to execute a seizure warrant on behalf of the the City licence department wanted payment of a transient traders licence fee plus in according to a licence department Fairchuk had been operating an Indian Art shop in the shops of Winnipeg Square for a week before the licence inspectors found out about under Section 142 of the City of Winnipeg the City May act under warrant to seize the owners Merchan hold it for eight Days and if the fee is not sell the goods to obtain the Fairchuk said he closed his Winnipeg Square shop saturday night after nine Days operation and Only in not even enough to cover the weekly he figures he lost about on the two Simpson and bailiffs came to his 339 Portage Avenue Art shop yesterday to seize Art objects in lieu of the unpaid licence within an three police three news re two television lawyer Serge Radchuk and former building owner Al Golden had a at about the bailiffs de parted with a soapstone carving of twin Polar which Fairchuk valued at they took it to Grays auction rooms for eight Days and if Fairchuk still Hast paid the the City can sell the piece to realize the but Fairchuk said the Art which displays his own work and that of other Indian cannot afford the Fairchuk said if a no status has to pay a licence fee to the the City should have paid a fee to the indians who originally occupied the land where Winnipeg now Fairchuk feisty mood continued even after two police officers after the officers looked the seizure order one of them told the bailiffs to remove a display stand of eight soapstone carvings from the Fairchuk marched Over to the door to close barring the bailiffs Way one of the police officers then went to talk it Over with someone and fair Chuk went to the phone to Call Rad his within Radchuk looked Over the warrant after asking some advised fair Chuk that everything was after some Fairchuk agreed to surrender the twin Bear carving and the other carvings were at that two television cameramen arrived in the but police closed the noticing the Fairchuk moved to forcibly open the Over the protestations of Radchuk and one of the constables who said he could be charged with causing a that door stays we Are open two persons recovering after stabbing incidents a Man and a woman Are both recovering from injuries they received in two separate stabbings in the City overnight police said yesterday that although the victims were detained in Hospital both were listed in Good condition Early yesterday and were expected to be released later in the the was stabbed three times in the Back by two other women during an apparently unprovoked at tack shortly after 1 in the Wash room of the Leland 218 William police said although no arrests have been they Are looking for sever Al the was stabbed once in the lower Back after he was attacked by four men while standing in a bus Shack at the Corner of Maryland Street and notre Dame following the which occurred at about the wounded Man took a taxi to the nearby health sciences police the four assailants All escaped on foot following the i i for Fairchuk opening the he motioned for the cameramen to come but one of the officers went toward the and Fairchuk moved to Block his when the Constable explained he wanted to Fairchuk let him then the Constable and a second officer stood just outside the shops threshold in the continuing to Block Entrance to the Fairchuk said the shop was open for business and they should not be Block ing the were just keeping the peace right of one of the constables when a police sergeant arrived and wanted to make a Call on a Telephone in the Fairchuk demanded 15 cents and moved to take away the phone when no payment was the sergeant made his and just before he paid the 15 Golden had until recently the owner of the build he advised Fairchuk the bailiffs had no Power to seize he said the City had no right to demand a transient traders licence for the Winnipeg Square because a fixed rent had been paid for if you Are a tenant in a you Are not a Golden a business licence would have been the proper and because that fee is calculated at 10 per cent of the you owe the City go get your said the former mayoralty Fairchuk said he plans to get Legal advice on the he said its just another example of How the system works against Dixons proposal that this be done specifically to meet the 4 Lorimer said 10 or 15 children Are now being fed in some of these but establishing a full program would open it to 30 or 35 division administrator Les latin eco said the hungry children in those schools Are being trustee Luba Fedorkiw said the Board should be looking at the philosophical question of whether the school Board or parents have primary responsibility for feeding Mario a division resident seeking the nip nomination in a Ward 2 said that while the Law says parents Are there would be no need for such agencies As the childrens Aid society if parents could carry out their bureaucrats can argue endlessly that someone else ought to feed the but if the school refuses to do the children will go he said in a Brief to the resses will carry Green pledges by Ingeborg Boyens the fledgling progressive party will Cany on despite its losses at the polls party Leader Sidney Green said Green said about 30 progressive candidates agreed at a weekend meeting that the party had a cause to fight for through to the next we feel that the positions that we took and the Campaign we conducted More than justify our continued pres ence on the Manitoba political Green told the former new Democrat said news of the provinces projected deficit proved that progressive policies of fiscal responsibility Are Well found if Premier Howard Pawley had Ever listened to the progressive he would have known about the prov inces dire financial Green the Man is either Blind or engaged in some kind of because everyone knew about the he the party plans to use press state presentations to the Legisla Tures Law Reform committee and pub Lic meetings to get its Point across to the in it will sponsor a Celebration commemorating the party first Green the progressives will make do with out party Headquarters until finances Are More Green said the party has not decided yet whether it wants to court new members or whether it will maintain its 400to 500name list of Green himself is returning to a full time Law other political observers say Green is not being realistic about his party chances of an electoral even Liberal Leader Doug Lauchlan conceded there int room for four political parties in this province perhaps not even for party doomed i think its pretty Well candidate Bernie Bellan said of his progressive almost impossible for a third party to some liberals and progressives Al ready have been talking about Merg ing the two but Green has ruled out the polarization on election Day left both the liberals and the progressives without representation in the Legisla the liberals share of the popular vote dropped to seven from 12 per cent and Only one of its 39 candidates finished better than the Liberal party had predicted its revitalization when it acquired a full time executive director last when it elected a the progressive in for the first garnered less than two per cent of the votes Green earned Only 780 Lauchlan said he Hopes his party will think twice before deciding on a Busi Nessa usual the natural tendency is for a party to say lets but die a slow death he i dont want the Liberal party to die without a Lauchlan said unless there is a real the party May not even have enough Money to keep him on As members of both parties Felt the Lack of a full slate of candidates made them unlikely choices for voters hoping to oust the conservative government three weeks Lauchlan said his party scored poorly in the election because people didst View it As a the unlike the didst talk of forming the next govern at least people we rent saying we were he we didst run 57 candidates because we members of both parties say they Are sure the conditions that left Manitoba i polarized will not continue through future Bud a 12yearveteran of the said the recent Bielec Tion Success of the new social demo cratic party in Britain indicates there is Hope for an alternate party in a system dominated by labor and Busi Ness Boyce said the progressives didst fare Well during the election because they didst have enough time to pre scored badly we didst get off to that Strong a he Burrows contender Ben Hanuschak said the party scored badly because it made its pitch at a time when there was an intense antigovernment feel in 1973 we might have been elect he there was a mood to give a third party a Wolseley candidate Murdoch Mack a said the party has a basis for optimism because 52 per cent of the people in the province of Manitoba voted against the former sacred and current progressive member Jake Froese said news of the provinces projected deficit gave him More encouragement to because it showed progressive fiscal pol icicles Are but a 27yearold Post office was one of the few candidates to voice scepticism about the party he said he doubled the progressives could Ever earn More than five to six per cent of the popular i think we have a fairly stub born Leader and some people around him that Are less than he Bellan said Green was both the party strength and its while people seem to respect greens parliamentary they agree that the progressives were More than one Man and his Vendet he Bellan said he would rather see the progressives carry on As a parliamentary Rump group offering com ment on political affairs and talking about fiscal Lauchlan also said his party May have to consider changing its mandate if it Hopes to the party could operate As the new York Liberal party criticizing and commenting on government but not Fielding he it could develop a new Rural base to answer the needs of frustrated farm ers or it could address righting Lauchlan said the options will have to be considered at a Liberal provincial Council meeting this weekend and at an annual meeting tentatively set for Lauchlan said the party 1980 convention gave people a false sense of the Liberal party although it attracted More people than any other party the delegates were not committed enough to keep up their work at wooed same voters he said the liberals and the new democrats found themselves going after the same women and new but the nip had the advantage of a decade of solid grassroots Bob the Liberal Candi Date in Dauphin who worked full time for six months on his Cam told Lauchlan he didst think a Liberal could be elected that has to be taken the party Leader but he said the party did attract Many Young professionals who deserved a Chance to carry on the Liberal other liberals were completely committed to the i think its too Early to put the Liberal party to rest in this prov Jay candidate in River i dont give up that i 1 ;