Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 27, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december Edith Mcphedran gets set to Hook up to a she took the equipment course out of Farmers wives tame mechanical monsters by Heidi Graham a combination of women lib and harsh economic times is forcing Many farm women out into the an agricultural expert there getting behind the wheels of mechanical monsters weighing about eight tonnes and costing More than said Gerald Bash chairman of Assiniboine Community colleges agricultural de that not something you want to learn to handle As youre using Bashforth because if you make a mistake it can be very costly and very danger he said to meet changing the Community College along with the Canada employment Centre and the Manitoba Grain Pool has started offering courses for farm women on Basic farm mechanics and this he More than 150 women will pay each to learn How to handle a a Baler or a so those who have taken it say its Well Worth the Bashforth said the 80hour course was offered last year after several farm wives expressed an interest in learning How to handle Large pieces of farm they said their husbands didst have the time or patience to teach them Bashforth everyone knows spouses Are pretty Lousy trainers for so we decided to set up a course for these As news of the course so did the he adding that even though 10 farming towns will each have classes this women still Are being turned we Hope to expand More next Bashforth sometimes the extra knowledge Means their family can save the Cost of hiring an extra while other times when theres a shortage of available labor it will mean get Ting the Job other women just want to know More about the farm they he and others who landed on a farm when they want to figure out what is going Wilf course instructor for 15 women who just completed the course in said the women were exceptionally Good students Indian Agency refused data Ottawa has refused to provide adoption registry data to a Manitoba child welfare Agency that repatriates native children from the United states and other a local official Robert director of the Ani Hinabe child and family ser said the Federal government turned Down the Agency twice when asked for the so called Alist an adoption registry of Indian children Given up for it is very hard to Trace these children because there Are so Many of Daniels often their files have been closed for the Alist is kept by the registrar of Indian affairs in Otta it would be very helpful if we could get Daniels said the Ani Hinabe child and family services has asked in Dian affairs for the list twice this year but officials refused to turn Over the confidential were getting he the Alist is a pos adoption Regis try and lists the natural adoptive and the he weve built up a registry on our but tracking these Chil Dren Down is a Daniels 200 reunions the Agency has repatriated about 200 children from the United states and other provinces since he its the most extensive repatriation program that in aware he adding the Agency is actively trying to bring Home 12 to 15 native children from other Juristic under a 1982 five of Manitoba six regional tribal councils took Over responsibility for run Ning the provinces child and family welfare act in their the councils seek adoption for native children within their local bands in like the other has concentrated on bringing children who Are victims of failed out province adoptions Back to their Home one Well known repatriation Case is Cameron who Mur dered his adoptive father in Kansas in v after being he disclosed he had been sexually abused by his adoptive father for eight Kerley was one of an estimated native children who were adopted by out province parents in the 1960s As part of a Manitoba government weather our mistake a Story tuesday said wrongly that a festival of ukrainian Christmas carols will be held at tomorrow at Nicholas ukrainian Bannatyne Avenue at Arlington in the Church is at Bannerman and deaths classified death Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny today with moderate Westerly winds and a High near Clear tonight with a Low near mostly sunny tomorrow with a High near probability of precipitation is near Zero tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny with above Normal temperatures Cloudy Normal High is Normal Low is Northern Manitoba mainly Cloudy with flurries and above Normal temperatures monday and nor Mal High is Normal Low is Northwestern Ontario sunny Cloudy temperatures above Normal All three Normal High is Normal Low is International 1 1 2 3 new 7 4 8 7 3 1 11 3 3 6 3 2 14 12 5 2 10 1 0 7 5 2 6 2 7 12 Tel 22 11 3 1 resort spots los Clear 21 9 Las Clear 13 0 19 6 29 22 Clear 23 20 23 18 rain 19 15 fair 27 18 fair 31 22 fair 28 22 27 20 National Vancouver Yellowknife cat Oary Saskatoon Wynn Pip 17 21 5 13 Thunder 3 1 1 2 1 2 4 1 we Mtoto mean last on record in 1956 an record in 1883 precipitation total from 1 to 26 Normal its Turfey of husband of Nadia metro of husband of Rose of widow of James of Thomas of husband of Ann Isabella widow of William Bur Ernest Ernie of Baptiste of Reinhold of husband of Linda Andrew of Lac do of husband of Bernice James of Anna of William husband of Emma of husband of Helen Sarah of wife of Peter Wesley of husband of Anna of widow of of husband of Lois Edward of Portage la husband of Grace George of South Henry Walter of of of husband of Mary of Earl of Pilot husband of Sadie Henry Hank of husband of Ruth of Swan of widower of Bonifate of new formerly of widow of Walter Gail of formerly of bran husband of Maria Robert of for Merly of of i with a Strong desire to they asked a lot of questions and then checked what id told them with their he if i made a mistake they sure were Quick to Point it Edith who was introduced to farm life when she married 10 years said she now considers herself a farm not a farm i took the course out of Necessia she adding hired hands Are difficult to find and expensive to Eunice a farm wife for 19 said she took the course be cause she was scared of the huge mechanical hulks she sometimes had to handle during a if it Breaks other farm workers think its because youre a she what the course did for me was give me Confidence in working on the one husband said he fully supported his wife desire to learn More and be More useful around the right we have to Cut Cor ners wherever we with the Price of Grain he its too costly to hire and i think they can do just As Good a Christmas can be parents guilt trip a Mother contacted me this week saying she knows All about the Bur Den of Christmas parental two christmases ago she was unable to get the doll her Daugh age had asked Santa to nothing i could do or say seemed to make up for she i could see it ruined my daughters real there was nothing i could Money had been a problem Back she was working Only part time then on Call As a nurse at two she had been willing to Cut out some necessities for herself if Only she could have found the toy her daughter was just dying she had called store after store in her futile she could sense her daughters she each time cousins or other playmates brought their dolls when they came to play after the every time that happened i Felt Gualtier and Kimmy would dress their just like the one she had hug them and play with them when the other kids were off doing some i could see How badly she wanted a she named the kind of but on principle in not about to give its Garden variety name and i had let her things were different last she shopped Early and Man aged to find the doll her daughter had wanted even though it want on the list to Santa last she was also careful not to disappoint her Fivey Earold but last she want significantly different Barry Mulvin from the previous Kimmy loved the but somehow it want quite the she played with it for a month or two and took it to bed with her almost every then it started ending up under her bed for weeks and she said her sons gifts didst even last that Long before he tired of the woman is divorced and she said Shes been a sol support Parent for the past she called after she read my 22 column about guilt being an integral part of the december Holiday in sick to death of All the commercialism at this time of she weariness Evi Dent in her no matter where you turn everything you see and hear is about the latest this or the latest you must have you must have if one kids got your kids must have she railed against television for planting the seeds of expectation in youngsters and at retainers who advertised certain toys More heavily in the weeks before Why cant Christmas just be a time of closeness of love and just being together Why do we have to buy and then measure everything in terms of what we got or didst get she said she wondered How Many other people feel the Way she Portage video shop is christinas victim police found no red fibres from a Santa Claus suit or Hoo prints from eight tiny Reindeer after a Portage la Prairie electronics store was broken into late Christmas eve or Early Christmas an ramp spokesman said Worth of video equipment and com pact discs was taken during the thieves broke into r and t elec 1400 Saskatchewan Avenue sometime after the store closed a police spokesman the thefts were not discovered until late Christmas i guess every kid now has got his the spokesman adding police have some evidence to go on and Hope to crack the Case in the next few no arrests have been made so far in connection with the the diamonds Gold you have dreamed Are now specially reduced 33 to 50 off engagement wedding cock Tail pendants Crystal collectors Al Mal Branck president 130 Marlon Jerome Mal Branck vital Centre Larry Mal Branck 253gold Polo Park Allan Mal Branck 788gold a family tradition of excellence 1987 Nissan truck Sale if youre thinking of trading up to a new 87 Nissan now is the perfect time at Nairn Nissan selection has never been choose from 2wd King cab e or right up to 4x4 King cab 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