Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 7, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press september 1986 pages 916 convertibles Back in the race for car centres want More seniors to share programs by Bradley Bird Glenn free press i returned Home i saw my House not Only was my House but other houses where the tamil people my wife and two kids were alone at that and i feared for their so begins a Story familiar among the 300 or so tamil people of Winni a Story that starts with per develops into a quest for survival and at least for in a cold City stuck in the geographical Centre America Many thousands of Kilometres from their native sri for lifers an immigrant is there glad to be free from the racial violence from which they but problems of weather and employment cause some to want to go Sellard Churgai opportunities i like to stay says thed who came to Winnipeg after two years in Mon he says the racial strife of his Homeland will not be quickly re and Canada offers Good educational and employment for his during an interview in his sparsely furnished two bedroom apartment in the Chana Moorthy recalled the Circum stances that caused his wife and two children to flee from sri he returned Home one a gust evening three years ago to find his Home in flames and his family in the care of a Muslim soon after that they left for the City of 425 Kilometres never to return in the former British Colony Southeast of India that used to be called he had worked for a daily newspaper and earned a de cent Here he is making an hour working the night shift in a convenience and for he he is another Winnipeg Jeya Malar has a similar Story to the 28yearold whose husband is presi Dent of the Fivey Earold tamil Cul Tural society of says she and some friends narrowly escaped death in sri Lankas co three years troops looking one july As she pre pared to go to her Job As an account government troops came looking for the tamil people of her apartment the Sinha Lese part of the largest ethnic group in sri had been intensifying their attacks on the minority tamil who have been under pressure to leave the country for 40 trouble arose Between the tamils and sinhalese in the late 1940s Over a proposal to make sin Hala the official tamils demanded that tamil also be an official tension grew after the government made Sinh Ala the official language in and rioting broke out two years so Kumaras Urier was not sur prised to see burning and shooting that Day in she says the sinhalese people dominate the sri lankan which is try ing to Clear the country of hid in garage her Mother and eight other residents hid in a garage while their sinhalese landlord told the troops his tenants we rent we thought we were dead that she finally the local police came and taxied the tamils safely to a Refu gee Camp where they had no extra clothes or among others in a Concrete compound that used to be an Airport she their hindu Faith is important and acts As a social glue bringing the tamil Community together twice a immigrants life Canadas tamils Start on Bottom thankful to be Safe at last Glenn free press and her Mother spent eight Days with Little food and there Are tamil refugees in 104 Camps in sri in another tamils have sought Refuge with friends and according to a tamil newsletter from Many of these people will move to Europe and North Ameri and some will end up in Winni Peg if the families Here Are successful in sponsoring Montreal and Toronto each har Bor about but they dont All want to stay i would like to she says Jayanthan Kumara who married Jey Malar in new York a year Shes used to the Canadian i would like to live in my own College courses the president of the tamil association of Manitoba says his parents and other family members Are Back in sri Only eight months in he is studying mathematics and computer science at the University of on the other brightens at the Prospect of staying she arrived 27 months sponsored by her sister and brother who had preceded her at first she got a Job in a Tan Jay factory for an hour but for the past eight months Shes been a cashier at a Safeway store and earns an the married in will have to come to grips with their divergent views of the and that is Only one of the problems the tamil people face in another is the especially for the older a Lack of English effectively bars tamils feared for their lives and lives of their them not Only from plugging into Winnipeg but also from living on its Jey Malars for in returned to sri Lanka be cause she understand the to programs and got tired of sit Ting inside doing she also stand the having arrived last february when it was the coldest it normally gets in sri Lanka is among the 60 or so tamil families in employment is also a they Are working but they Are not satisfied with the jobs they Are says he says the jobs Avail Able Are generally Low paying Posi though there Are some Are engineers and has had problems finding when he arrived Here in january from Mon where he had lived for two he went to Register with but because of his Sta Tus As a refugee he does not qualify for their help in finding a turned Down and when some firms saw his temporary social insurance num which begins with the numbers they refused to consider him for a the reason is that he May yet have to return to sri Only about 15 or 20 of the tamil people Here Are refugee he after six months of he is thankful to be working in a convenience he says another problem is that neither he nor his wife or children qualify for health half his monthly income goes for rent and much of the rest for which leaves Little for trips to the dentist or the difficulties of living in a new land Are mitigated by the close knit Quality of the tamil they meet regularly to discuss problems and every i visit at least two or three says their hindu Faith is important and acts As a social bringing the tamil Community together twice a month at the Indian hindu Temple on Ellice there they Pray and meet for a few they Pray not Only for each other but for their friends and family members in sri Adrian Chamberlain artists jobs unique buried in the Middle of the latest Federal task Force re port the status of the artist is this remark the artistic profession is certainly not viewed by canadians As a source of livelihood or As a profession but As a form of self indulgence or As a curious in other the average person tends to think artists Are bums who dont work for a no Surprise yet in the report we have a string of recommendations asserting that artists visual a musicians and so on Are indeed like other and Are entitled to similar they include letting artists average their income for tax purposes in the manner of seasonal workers like Fisher men or Farmers allowing them to deduct Money spent in creating their Art from their income and giving them unemployment insurance pro Gram the question is who right and who wrong Are artists workers like Busi carpenters and Farmers or dont they work and should they be left to their poverty level artists Are they have a unique Job to produce Art which in turn raises Man above the level of a Mere Drudge or the arts have traditionally received Public funding rightly in View of the Brunt of the task Force report giving artists tax Breaks and so on is although society needs most artists dont make much but its in believing that artists Are like workers that the task Force typical of this is the recommendation to provide the artist with unemployment regardless of employment Sta this May work for some professional actors and musicians whose work is but what about the visual artist who cant get a commission the writer who cant sell a Book it May sound but i say a budding James Joyce or Pablo Picasso is going to hang in there through times of no Money perhaps waiting on tables or digging ditches for a any artist worthy of the name will work with obsess even maniacal this eliminates the half baked Talent actively using Public funds to sustain him artists need Public but to categorize artists As underpaid workers is unrealistic and could Lead to a welfare system for the entertainment soap Singer finally Clicks with album by Dennis Hunt los Angeles times Hollywood Gloria Loring seemed to have it All a handsome a flourishing nightclub singing career and a starring role on the no ctr soap Days of our for something was More than she had Al ways wanted to be a recording she had made three dating to the late but never had a she was nearing 40 and had trouble getting another record the last laugh so How did she manage to get an Atlantic records a recently released album and a hit friends and lovers i like having the last she said recently during lat afternoon a year ago the reality of her situation was gnawing at i was facing the possibility of never Loring fulfils dream having Success As a recording a said who has been singing for 21 no record company was going to seek me i had to make them take i had an audience of 10 people from the to Why not take advantage of that and Intro Duce a record on the show i wanted a piece of music that i could tie into a Story line and get audiences hooked on my character Liz Curtis is a so it would be natural to have her sing about a year ago she stumbled onto friends and a relatively obscure love theme written by Jay Gruska and Paul Gordon for the romantic interludes Between two characters on Days of our i wanted to make it my she so i had a Story line written into the the song was tied into that which involved my since friends and lovers is duet she had to find a singing her first Al Jar was she eventually settled on Carl a cabaret Singer who had been trying to break into the pop Market for what we did on the show was to write in a Story where my charac Ter records this she they wrote Carl into the we even did a mock recording ses the single was first aired last september and viewer response was the duet was then played regularly on the show until late Loring thought she would instantly get a record Deal but Only one was a Deal for a single was finally arranged and the record was re leased in late May on it sold copies mostly on the strength of the repeated play on the an offer Loring thought she was a shooing for an album but Carr erects still didst want her As an album the single kept record compan ies started rethinking their Posi Carr erects finally offered her an album so did tiny Amherst but Atlantic records made the winning her Solo Gloria features the hit mostly produced by Jerry it is Basi Cally the kind of dreamy pop that is aimed at fans in their 30s and what a Jungle the record Busi Ness she i thought to was but its nothing like the record i went through absolute hell to get this Deal and Ive got the scars to prove lately Lorings private life has been getting As much attention As her acting and singing it is Well known that she is the a wife of Canadian Alan the former lat night talk show Host who stars in Abc tvs growing pains be he is the father of her and there has been running commentary in gossip columns about her Romance with Don an actor on the Young and the who grew up in new York and has always considered herself More of a Singer than an she had consider Able Success in clubs and on to variety shows before joining Days of our lives in since then she has spent most of her time but that will change in five in finally leaving the she indicating that she will focus on music but continue to do occasional Ive been trying to get out for the past my contract is up and i dont want it in burned out on Day time shaking All the i just dont want to be there i dont mean to sound Highfall like in too Good for daytime in not the greatest actress in the but for daytime i dont have to the shows have to shoot so quickly that you cant do a great so you make artistic in tired of the com ;