Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free january i pensioners warned of schemes pensioners should guard against being bilked by quasi religious fund raising says the president of the Manitoba society of John Rankin said he had received a number of complaints recently about religious organizations asking seniors for its a computerized letter and it tells people to Send their biggest Cheque to Rankin i feel this is taking advantage of seniors by groups which should be standing for the highest there just preying on weve heard of instances of peo ple who sent cheques and then left themselves Short of funds for Rankin said he was not sure which religious organization was sending the adding the society was trying to document somehow they get Peoples names from a mailing Rankin last seniors in new Bruns Wick complained about letters being sent to seniors by to evangelist Oral in the Roberts says satan will bring ominous tidings in adding that god gave him 33 Prophe to receive the recipients Are asked for a see Faith Bernard executive direct Tor of the new Brunswick senior citizens has complained about Roberts to the ramp fraud Moncton the Justice and the better business de Public relations director for the Manitoba condemned the scare tactics involved in the like Thornhill said he was not sure which organization is responsible for the Hydro workers Given Days off some Manitoba Hydro workers have started a alternating work week that gives them every second monday last monday was the employees first Day off under the which redistributes time off they build up by working a longer said spokesman Verne the workers used to have a four work week from Midway to taking their Days off from time banked during the rest of the he instead of concentrating their Days off during that five month it has been u is Dave Johnson free press j graduates told greater Reward than the change that has taken place in ram three Levels of government saturday saw their substantial investment in retraining about 600 Manitoban pay the event was the first graduation ceremony of the Core area training and employment Agen part of Winnipeg Core area with the sounds of music from the movie chariots of fire still ringing in their 125 of the latest graduates of 10 different Cor Earea training programs marched across the stage at Tec voc High school in Cap and gown to receive their diplomas from Manitoba education minister Maureen Hemphill and Dennis executive director of the provincial and City tax dollars provided the gowns and Keepsake mortar Board Cost about consider it Money Well most graduates have faced chronic their Edu for a variety of reasons family troubles had statistics from the graduating class underline that fact 20 per cent were single 58 per cent were 43 per cent were All reside in the Core area and most were 17 to 34 years Terry a graduate from the cores mental retardation worker is an exception to some of the has a a in sociology from the University of Hes also 90 per cent he said his University degree provided him with boo learning but no firsthand information and Contact with working with which is my favorite he found the Cor Earea program provided beneficial work settings that gave him experience working with other handicapped although unemployed about 200 of the 300 Core area graduates have full time jobs Zrobek said two of the schools where he trained for 15 weeks last Spring and fall have expressed interest in hiring Many graduates said retraining gave new meaning to their Confidence and an altered Outlook on the politicians took note but made no promises to keep alive the program which ends next Federal health minister Jake Epp told graduates there could be no greater Reward than the change that has taken place in Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie said retraining is not the easiest ques Tion to tackle but one that is deserving of a Good Deal of consid who gave the keynote said graduates were proof of society closed doors to disadvantaged and certain groups easily discriminated the fact that most graduates haunt come through traditional school programs meant they had to fight harder against stubborn bureaucracies in order to proposes debt adjustment agriculture minister Bill Uruski says his new proposal for aiding farms in financial trouble will create a debt review Board with some Uruski said it will expand the work of the existing review Board with new Powers to pressure lenders into writing Down he called it debt not a moratorium on All loan repay ment in an Uruski said it want necessary to Stop All ongoing loan As a moratorium would he it will involve a powerful review Board in each Case of serious foreclosure risk and apply a form of binding admitting the existing review Board has not been Uruski said its recommendations were Only neither the Lender nor the Bor rower had to take the the minister said a system is needed that will help the most Hope less cases wind Down operations in an orderly and require a loan restructuring to create a manage Able debt Load that will allow viable farms to continue we have about farms in serious financial nearly 10 per cent of the commercial farms in the he referring to operations with sales of or More based on the last what is even More worrying is that most of them Are among the younger Farmers under age 39 who provide the basis for our future Uruski said a High percentage of the provinces Farmers Are More than 45 years Many at or nearing retirement he said their farms Are mostly in Good shape with Good but in the process of transition to another this younger generation had Al ready proven itself to be More prod but got caught by soaring interest rates to finance the Transi the minister a debt review body with Teeth is Uruski one that can get debts written Down for the worst problem cases probably to per cent of Farmers who Are in pretty serious 39peat fires official says almost half the peat fires which prompted an Extension of a ban on open fires have been Manitoba chief fire prevention offi cer natural resources minister Al Mackling extended the ban on open fires citing the need to control the 83 peat fires then Burn the ban on open fires lasts Between april and provincial officials said in no vember smoke from the fires obscured Highway travel and created a health Art Briggs said 39 of the 83 peat fires which were burning in Eastern Manitoba in november have been 1 what helped an awful lot was the late Rains in Briggs those put some of the fires some of the landowners put their own fires Briggs said most of the fires still burning Are in the Stead Pine Falls and some Are burning around Whitemouth and equal Opportunity jobs report sought from official says the Manitoba association of rights and liberties will seek de tails of a City report on equal Opportunity hiring at its meeting the groups executive director Abe Arnold said he is tired of waiting for the report which was due to be released in Arnold said the City has taken no affirmative action in its other than to Send applications to visible minority Sharon the cites equal employment Opportunity said she will speak on affirmative action at the Gould said she Doest know if the report will be Back from City commissioners by they have been reviewing it for two she Gould said the reports completion was delayed because of Las minute information which took a Long time to compile and add to the Gordon Manitoba of will moderate a discus Sion at the meeting involving the physically ethnic labor and govern ment Claudia chairman of the Manitoba human rights commis also will speak at the meeting at Andrews 425 Elgin the Rene project Northern wilderness training Centre for native offenders will be put on hold until june 1 its Board chairman Alfred head the Centre has trained More than 200 inmates since 1982 in skills needed to work in their Home communities after being b the Board closed the Centre 14 when funding from the Federal local employment assistance program was Cut off it had planned to resume operations tomorrow if new weather Winnipeg area forecast financing could be head said an application for assistance was sent to the Federal manpower but no reply has been when we met last the Board decided to Mothball the Centre instead of dismantling he we Felt like the Snow and ice around the wilderness might melt with the coming of head said the Board is pinning its Hopes on new funding programs which employment minister Flora Macdonald will initiate this we Trust there will be some Way to get Lon term funding for the he project coordinator Neal Joyce said the Centre received a leap Grant of to build the Camp in and another was granted in the last two the Donner foundation also gave and the province contributed Joyce said it costs a year to run the located on the Shore of Blueberry about 50 Kilometres Northeast of Cranberry armed Trio fails in Holdup attempt three armed men made an unsuccessful Holdup bid at Chi Chis restaurant yesterday police the armed with two rifles and a baseball entered the restaurant at 1590 Regent Avenue at about and forced eight employees into a a spokesman the Trio demanded Money and the combination to a when the manager said she didst know the she was hit in the Mouth with the butt of the police the spokesman said she was not seriously adding the employees spent about 45 minutes in the cooler before another manager arrived and found sunny with occasional Cloudy periods brisk Northwest deaths Erly winds mainly sunny highs both Days near 10 Low tonight near probability of precipitation 10 per cent tonight and classified death extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mostly sunny occasional cloudiness thursday sunny temperatures will be near Normal wednesday and a Little below Normal thursday and Normal High is Normal Low is it will be near Normal High is Normal Low is 9 2 g 5 22 33 19 15 21 24 32 11 13 26 26 35 Thunder 17 13 17 20 23 11 International 23 19 new 11 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