Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 17, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free january irk Post office fines for missing codes likened to theft u Yaj v by Barbara aggerholm Small Brandon businesses sending mail to Brandon District addresses Are unfairly penalized for failing to use postal since the cites Post office has no machine to read a postal Union official charged Sorters working in the Brandon Post office generally do not use Post Al codes because there Are so said David president of the 35member Brandon local of the Ca Nadian Union of postal workers councillor quits Over firing fight a Lon serving councillor in the Rural municipality of Thompson has resigned after failing to get support for a Resolution to fire All of the municipality Alan who farms near said the House cleaning was needed because employees were no longer accountable to the As Long As Ive been on Council the Only Issue with employees has been How Large their pay increase should he i thought we should Start having an annual review of their perform on Kennedy presented a motion to give Layoff notices to the municipality four full time and four Par time including James who has been Secre tar treasurer for 32 when none of the other five councillors would support the Kennedy submitted his the elected 10 years said he was prepared to give the employees at least 30 Days Severance pay and to rehire any of those with work Kennedy said he decided a review of employee performance was needed after experiencing chronic employee problems while chairman of the cemetery Kennedy said the Issue came to a head prior to a Council meeting on 14 when he and the Secretary treasurer got into a shouting match Over the the Secretary treasurer has been Here 32 years now and he has every one Kennedy explaining the Lack of support for his Murray yesterday said he had no comment on Kennedy suggestion that he effectively runs things in the he said mail headed for destinations outside Brandon District is sorted in businesses Are charged five cents extra for each letter which has no and a recipient is charged 10 cents for an encoded letter if the business has not Canada Post is charging for a service there not Serle Canada Post spokesman Al Skrumeda accused the Union of undercut Ting the Post offices efforts to Edu Cate customers to use postal As Brandon and other postal stations cannot be exempted from National he we do not contemplate Ever a situation where wed have a Hodge podge of regulations which would suit the he Brandon postal clerks Are trying to enlist the Public in their fight against what they claim Are serious problems with the local their attempt has been labelled by Canada Post As a contract negotiation Brandon postal workers have been placing newspaper advertisements asking people to write letters complaining about slow Short comings in the postal code system and a Lack of planned training for in the Case of the fines for not using postal the Union likened the Crown corporations actions to the service is but improve Serle the to continue this year after november and de Cember placements in the Brandon Are a plea for a reaction from customers when postal management failed to respond to employees con he i figure Ive gone through the whole Chain of Serle now in going to the ultimate but so taxpayers have not responded As much As the Union had he the advertisements have elicited about six letters to the Union and the same number of Telephone Serle customers also were asked to write to the he said people seem to feel that it would be a wasted Effort to try to improve Canada Skrumeda said Brandon is receiving Good adding the Union is raising the issues because it is negotiating a new National but some of the positions taken Are he citing an advertisement which criticized the necessity for postal code Serle said the postal code system is a Good one when it he said people and code machines make sometimes sending mail Ken free pc 4 american snowmobiles arrive in Winnipeg yesterday after trip from snowmobiles Complete adventure seven Illinois snowmobiles arrived in Winnipeg yesterday after noon ending an kilo metre trip that was slowed by a Lack of the from it mor and calling themselves the Northwood started out on group Leader Marv Binkley said the trip was planned last year As an As far As we the trip has never been done Binkley its also a personal a com Binkley said the group originally planned to go straight to Winni Peg from approximately 140 Kilometres West of but the route was expanded to in clude a Brief stretch through the upper Peninsula of we want to promote Cross coun try Binkley we see ourselves As Goodwill ambassadors for Harold publicity director of the said they had planned to average 256 Kilometres a but were held up by poor conditions in there was no Snow in Central Wisconsin Between Westfield and Wright we had to get permission from county officers to go through some of the trails that were prepared for worst on the third Day we had to Stop Short because of the we lost a Little bit of our planned route because of the group had planned a route which took them through five North Ern states and Manitoba and covered fire damages townhouse fire caused an estimated damage to a townhouse at 28130 Strauss drive Early yesterday a fire department spokesman the Blaze was confined to a bedroom and damaged contents in the he there were no injuries and the fires cause had not been determined approximately Wright the Northwoods express brought a message from Don the mayor of to Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie who received it from them yesterday afternoon at City Wright said the group was ready for any Hazard they would have prepared for the everyone Here is an experienced he said although weather along the route was quite Good for the the group was prepared for extremely cold the group left Emerson yesterday morning and arrived at the flood Way Gates in Norbert around Fred president of Snow Man the Manitoba association of escorted them from Emerson to Dauphin bus plan set to Roll by Laura Ranee a Dauphin entrepreneur who has built a train engine in his Back Yard and a water foun Tain in his front plans to Roll his latest idea Down the towns Ray Johnston said he Hopes to have a Dauphin bus service on the Road by Johnston said the service will operate at half hour intervals in the Community of people Are very interested in the he noting a random Survey was so Many people living in Dauphin Are on fixed incomes taxis Are Good but who can afford a taxi the town has a mall on its out skirts and is spread Over several he water business said he is semite tired because of heart he operates a water purifying business from his far site located about 20 Kilometres from but some of his clients Are in Australia and saudi he Johnston said to advertise his Busi he built a floodlight foun metres by which spews litres of water per hour during the summer Hes a Man with lots of ideas and More initiative than most Hes an said Dauphin mayor Lawrence Hes the kind of Guy youd like about 10 of them in the Community to really keep things town Council studied the idea of a bus service during the 1970s but backed away from it because it probably would require heavy subs Milner but the construction of the mall five years and the current Loca Tion of the Hospital and senior Citi Zens Homes May make the idea More he Council is concerned the com Pany May run into financial difficulties in the future after people Are dependent upon the service Council would be asked to support not All councillors Are ready to hop on the bus Helen Marsh said Johnstons presentation to a recent Council meeting was too sketchy for her to decide whether she supports his weather City Calendar i h Hifler l Low a Ruura cold from worm from Winnipeg area forecast Cloudy with occasional Light Snow today and brisk North temperatures steady near variable cloudiness tonight with a Low near sunny with occasional Cloudy periods High near probability of precipitation is near 90 Pur cent 10 per cent tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly Clear occasional Cloudy periods sunday and temperatures below Normal our mistake saturday through Normal High Normal Low Northern Manitoba occasional Cloudy periods saturday and mainly Clear temperatures below Normal saturday and sunday and near Normal Northwestern Ontario occasional Cloudy periods saturday and mainly sunny temperatures below Normal saturday through Normal High Low the women Canadian club meeting scheduled for noon tomorrow will be held at the Marlborough instead of the Holiday inn immigrant women association holds a meeting on violence against at 7 today at 290 Garry the latin american association of Winnipeg holds a two part study on part 1 features the documentary film the race of at 8 today at 211 Edmonton part 2 features an illustrated slide talk on Liberal Leader John Turner is scheduled to address the Laurier club of Manitoba at noon tomorrow in the Holiday inn authors Wayne Tefs and Brian Brett read from their works at 8 saturday at Mary scorer 389 Graham the chinese students association presents a concert of chinese instrumental music at 8 saturday in the Eva Clare school of University of admission red Cross blood donor clinics will be held from 9 to 7 monday 21 to wednesday and 9 to thursday 24 and Friday at 226 Osborne Street the University of Winnipeg begins a noncredit course in conversational French monday for Contact the two ingredients were omitted from a Margo Oliver recipe that appeared in saturdays the recipe for peach her by Cobbler should have included y3 cup sugar and Teaspoon Uit Titie sofa Loveseat wide selection of colonial and traditional from special clearance Oak room talks deaths classified death National 10 i 8 2 31 40 4 i 10 7 3 7 i 8 10 20 22 29 ii 15 8 18 8 16 Thunder 8 16 5 9 17 21 19 23 4 14 Winnipeg temperature comparisons mean 16 last highest on record in 1961 lowest on record in 1890 precipitation to tall from i to 16 Millimetres Normal yesterday International n 9 new 2 3 5 10 6 a 2 2 b l 18 6 Tel 20 resort spots los hazy 17 Las Clear 15 Cloudy 18 Clear 27 Clear 21 Clear 23 Cloudy 18 Clear 24 fair 30 Clear 28 fair 28 10 m 15 3 7 1 6 10 13 3 14 13 7 6 24 10 17 15 18 21 22 16 of Winni of formerly of Hus band of Anne of win husband of Gwen of Winni of husband of Verna Koe George of widower of Alicia formerly of Hue band of Kay Winifred of wife of Albert widow of John William of lao do Hus band of Rose James Hus band of Carol Helen of wife of Alex Ander Crawford Beatrice of White widow of Harold Loye Stid of Fenelon wife of Angus Ledrich of formerly of Plum sofa Beds Many styles and covers to choose All Spring tilled Only sectional sofa bed several styles to choose wide selection of Spring filled mat from occasional chairs Wing rockers and gliding m99 Coffee donuts will be served open to the Public Friday 128 saturday 106 sunday 104 location regal 925 Logan at Arlington lots of free parking minimum Deposit 20 on special orders i financing available it v ;