Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 3 r l1 y a Winnipeg free december 1982 school libraries caught in tight funding squeeze touch up a toy poodle stands at attention As Trainer Gail Janke gives North winds dog show at the Winnipeg convention Centre its fur coat a touch up trim prior to judging during the Board wont Appeal judges ruling the Seine River school Board has decided not to Appeal a Manitoba court of Queens Bench ruling which invalidated the boards hiring of for Mer trustee Maurice Sala Divi Sions assistant Board chairman Roland Lavallee re fused in an interview to say Why the Board decided against Lavallee also refused comment on whether who was denied tenure As a teacher in the division before his election As a could be consid ered again for the assistant superintendents Justice Louis Denise ruled that Sala had a conflict of interest because he remained a trustee while applying for the administration even though he did not take part in Board meetings while the hiring was update a follow hip to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free judge Denise said Sala could have avoided the conflict if he jihad submitted his resignation As a trustee along with his application for assistant superin project gets new funds renewed funding from the Ontario government will allow University of Winnipeg anthropologists to continue their excavation of Stone carvings in the Clearwater Bay area of Lake of the Woods next Jack an anthropology professor who Heads the excavation said he believes recent misunderstandings about funding have been mostly he said the govern ment As Well As the Politi seem favourably disposed to continued support of the we will have but the level of funding i cant said the team will return to the site sometime in he last june the team found insect and human figures chiselled into Rock about 40 Kilometres from the Manitoba Ontario the draw Ings Are believed to be by ancestors of Canadian ojibway and Cree and Date Back to 3000 the find has already been publicized North Steinbring said he will need More than to conduct the work pro firm facing lawsuit Over firing the Vic chairman of Westman Media cooperative expects the organizations former regional program director to launch Legal action Over his dismissal last Wayne Kines said yesterday the Board received a letter from lawyers representing the former program Ajan de threatening a lawsuit for wrongful dismissal unless he was reinstated the Issue will now proceed to he the former employee has questioned whether Community services minister Len Evans had a role in his dismissal from the he was dismissed after the ministers daughter and an other Coop worker resigned in because of professional with the regional Evans said he had called Bill Bur the coops to discuss his daughters departure from the but denied he attempted to use his influence As a minister in any in his letter to the Board de Jardins lawyer says the dismissal is in Clear violation of employment policy set by your he said the action was taken without any notice and without providing him with a Rea son for the the Coop held its annual meeting but the Issue of de Jardins dismissal was not raised in any Kines a new Board of directors was and it will hold its first meeting Early in at saturdays Burgess was not reelected to the the current site work take two years and he Hopes to begin work at another site if funding per he said he realized such projects Are vulnerable to funding no Trace of youth found the parents of a Beausejou area youth who disappeared in a snowstorm More than three years ago Are still hoping their son will be it looks pretty grim right but find him said Leona Uleckas son who would be 19 has been missing since 1979 after he took a Small Shotgun off the Wall of the family Home and headed into the dense Bush to Hunt no Trace of the described As Woods or his weapon has Ever been a Reward issued earlier this year was unsuccessful in turning up any the boys father continues to search the Bush whenever he Olecka said she still has lingering feelings that there May be a connection Between her sons disappearance and that of Spencer Middleton of who vanished five Days after Shane went Middleton body was subsequently found in North of although rom say they Are continuing to investigate the Olecka is you would think they would have some Trace by she by Glen Mackenzie Many Manitoba Public school libraries Are caught in a tight squeeze Between funding cutbacks and rising Dave Vic president of the Manitoba school Library audiovisual said education department statistics show that half of Manitoba school boards will spend the same or less on Library additions As they did in a University of Manitoba education faculty said the figures which did not identify individual school boards also said school boards Library spending varies from nothing to per eight divisions allocate he said in an the association recently told the provinces education finance inquiry that average Book prices Rose 49 per cent and Magazine prices 102 per cent from 1975 to the province gives school divisions an annual print and non classroom materials but Library acquisitions Are included in the general Block which school boards May spend As they Jenkinson said Many divisions use part of the textbook Grant for Library he said teachers have even to their libraries by patronizing used Book although adding that some teach ers always did some shopping Rex Manitoba teachers society president and a former Rural Manitoba said he used to attend such sales for books in subjects like but most books at such sales do not belong in school he said in an Ron Manitoba Deputy education said the provincial headed by seven Oaks school division superintendent Glenn will look at Duhamel said in an interview the government does not object to schools using textbook Grants for Library a the government recently set up a system called Frame to look at standardized accounting and How school divisions allocate their Block but this definitely is not designed to Tell divisions How to spend the Duhamel he said he would become greatly concerned if boards Cut or froze Library spending for several but spending should be judged in Light of the boards recent and maybe it makes som sense to slow Down in some Duha Mel George Vic president of the Manitoba association of school said the Library of a Small school is often one of the first areas to go under the knife when school boards look for places to he also said school closings due to declining enrolment could improve the situation because the same number of books will sit on the shelves of fewer but Jenkinson argued this creates a duplication so you really Haven offered the student anything he also said Many books could be few donations Jenkinson said school libraries get few offers of donations from the and have to reject some of them be while volumes a collector has kept for years have great value to the Many Are outdated for today school divisions rely on local Public libraries for some supplementary sup Buchholz said a Winnipeg Public Library Bookmobile serves Phoenix school in and Duhamel said Public libraries can be used in a positive Way to enrich school Library but Jenkinson said the Public and school libraries have distinctive functions while Public libraries Stock recreation books which school libraries both need such books As ency clo a poor Quality Public Library cant help a poor Quality school Jenkinson arson eyed in garage fire arson is suspected in a fire which caused damage to a garage at 311 Henderson Highway a Winnipeg fire department spokes Man said fire broke out at at the Circle c car two cars and a Van were damaged in the there were no three other fires Early saturday left an estimated the spokesman said careless smok ing caused a Blaze about 3 in an apartment suite at 688 Nassau damage to a Walls and ceiling was estimated at the spokesman also said a fire about the same time caused by an overheated Heater left an estimated damage to a Boxcar and its contents on the up rail main line at Keewatin a third at the dianetics Centre at 687 marys Road about 5 caused an estimated the spokesman cause of this fire is under he Airport to turn profit drop in air traffic by John Mcmanus despite a depressed Economy and reduced air traffic of Between eight and 10 per Winnipeg International Airport continues to be a major source of Money for both the City of Winnipeg and area the airports Gross Revenue this year will be Down from 1981 figure of but the acre Airport is expected to generate a profit from Revenue estimated at the Airport provides the City of Winnipeg with More Revenue than up which now is paying million under a Grant formula for holdings within City payroll Canadian National railways in 1981 paid a Grant in lieu of taxes of million for property in the because it is owned by the Federal does not pay property but pays the City a yearly Grant in lieu of this year Winnipeg International will pay the City about less than last despite airline staff the Airport generates More than aviation related jobs and has a combined payroll of More than Mil Barry in charge of finances at the estimates it spent million on material and supplies during the last year and its 40 tenants rang ing from Small Bush airlines and Over haul companies to airlines and aerospace companies probably spent More than it is probably one of the richest personal income tax contributors in aviation related wages Range from i i John free press less than a week for some part time ground jobs to several thousand dollars a week for some airline cockpit last available figures in 1981 from a transport Canada study claimed Visi tors who pass through Airport Gates spent million in the Winnipeg downtown businessmen in travel re lated businesses have recognized the catalytic potential of the Airport and have moved to put the airports information counter in the hands of the Winnipeg travel and convention Reau to City As a Conven Tion and tourist but passenger loads Are Down to an estimated million from the lion passengers who used the terminal last aircraft movements Landing and takeoffs Are also expected to be by about eight to 10 per cent from the controllers handled in food services at the a Good barometer of Are Down about 18 per cent since according to an Airport the economic slump in most Indus tries has not Hurt air cargo and freight particularly in the Small package business courier and combined passenger package flights on the the Airport handled tonnes tons in 1981 and should show an improvement this while courier flights Are increasing with Federal express now in this Market against the Lornis and others capitalizing on companies reduced invent the airlines Are generally Hurt the charter business is Down and mostly reduced to gamblers specials to Las i according to Lynn customs supervisor at the there were 106 trans order Charters in the first nine months of carrying in the same period last customs handled 122 Charters and 528 in 1980 the figures were 108 flights and air Canada boarding figures were not available but the Crown line is in the throes of paring More than from its payroll and its pilots have taken a seven percent wage Cut so that no flight deck Crews will be out of cutting personnel Ward air stopped chartering direct from Winnipeg in september but is to resume with flights to the Pacific this Norair has not operated out of Winnipeg since summer because of a strike a tentative settlement was reached with ground Crew last week and Pacific Western would not provide figures for Winnipeg but reported traffic throughout its system was Down 20 per cent in the first six months Over last Pacific Western has been cutting personnel All year and will be Down by about 500 employees by a spokesman Daly Degagne of up air said cargo has substantially increased Over 1981 and the improvement factors include the new cargo terminal and the fact that firms Are not stocking invent choosing to Fly it in As up air passenger boardings Are off eight to 10 per cent Here but like air the airline has reduced the number of flights and aircraft have Fuller k passenger loads and aircraft landings and takeoffs dropped at Winnipeg International this local airlines Buck National trend Manitoba commuter and freight airlines Are looking for expansion next year even though mainline and Region Al Jet carriers Are reducing payrolls and Alfor Riverton airways of win which has been the major Suc Cess Story of Manitoba general aviation in the past five has asked the Canadian transport commission to broaden its commercial serve northeastern Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario to include service to Oxford just North of the 54th i Ilford now flys goods and mail to a string of Inland Indian re serves at Island and gods red sucker Lake and Sandy the Winnipeg based like All third level air is limited to using Only propeller driven Gabrielle air service of Swar River which began its Swan air ser vice Between the Northern Valley Centre and Winnipeg two years ago on a route that was never established on a commercial then added Russell to its service asked the air transport committee if it can begin serving the Pas and flin As Well As Hudson Yorkton and Swan air is limited under its licence to using Small passenger aircraft Only As Large As a twin engined Cessna or Beechraft with a Takeoff weight of kilograms Northway aviation of which now flys to Arnes and a number of reserves on the Eastern Shore of Lake has applied for Permis Sion to add Winnipeg to its commercial i ;