Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vhf u u u mennonite Volunteer Relief group helps towns with cleanup fire victims pm free press by David Roberts Winnipeg free press Ashern volunteers from mennonite churches in Southern Manitoba have arrived in the fire scorched Interlake to help replace Fence posts and 500 Kilometres of wire lost in the recent Brush Henry site coordinator for the mennonite disaster said about 20 volunteers from Arborg and other towns arrived this week to help with the cleanup after Brush fires destroyed at least 17 Homes in the were Here to help in any Way we Visch said at the disaster services temporary Headquarters in the Ashern Curling dead cattle the fire victims Are really help ing themselves As much As but if we can help we Visch said volunteers cleared de Bris from barns and Homes levelled during the Brush fires and have been helping area Farmers dispose of dead the mennonite volunteers have identified 48 properties in the Ashern area that require Visch adding he Hopes the cleanup can be completed in two Rainy weather thursday postponed the volunteers plans to history repeats in pages of news by David Roberts Winnipeg free press Eriksdale history has a Way of repeating Harry Granberg and his have As Granberg Eriksdale fire chief was recovering from a week of fighting Brush fires in the his Mother pulled out a copy of the 1920 free press evening the first thing 1 said was read this told her a Page one headline read citizens give freely in response to pleas from needy the Story reported How Winnipeg Gers responded generously to the needs of those left homeless after fires swept through the Interlake in the summer of Relief on Way the first paragraph read Relief from Winni Eggers is on its Way to scores of victims of Bush fires in the Mulvihill the Story indicated the 1920 Relief drive was spearheaded by the free contained in various packages and which reached the free press were hundreds of excellent articles of wearing Many of the garments and shoes showed barely any Wear and they will be Welcome indeed to the fire Many of whom Are suffer ing from whose Home was razed by the tries on donated clothes at Curling continue replacing the 500 kilo metres of Burnt fencing so cattle ranchers can return to that a lot of Visch adding posts have been ordered from ranchers Are hoping the Manitoba government will pay 80 per cent of any replace ment costs not covered by insure last mennonite volunteers helped with cleanup and repair after a Gimli five years the disaster service donated More than in Cash and Grain to Interlake Farmers verging on the 1989 Ashe Narea fire victims and their friends have greeted the volunteers it free press those mennonites were like Highway to said a Friend of George who lost his Home to the yesterday they came and helped around the they take any Money for helping us they do it for their volunteers from the service helped Hind Marsh working in the rain to set up a trailer beside his Burntout Hes soaking that poor Jeanne said of who is partially that Home was his said he raised seven he lost his wife there Hes pretty residents from All Over Southern Manitoba have sent food and Money to the families left homeless by the Ashern resident june who is coordinating distribution of the huge Cache of donated goods from the local Curling said Public generosity has been we have no shortage of Price we have pots and bran new pressure used fridges and the people were shy to come Here at but now Treyve accepted thousands of pieces of food and hardware donated by Manitoban have been Laid out in the Curling rink for the an entry published on the fridge door feature in today comic Sec Tion wrongly lists the artist As Harry in the artist is Henry Winnipeg free press May 1989 Page 2 two sentenced for rapes special to the free press Thompson the last two men charged in a series of rapes involving a 15yearold girl on a Remote Northern Indian Reserve in 198687 received prison terms Alfred Edward who pleaded guilty to one count of sexual received a fou year while John Paul received ant Sanen was convicted of a similar charge in a Brief trial earlier this asses same and ant Sanen were among six males including three Young who were charged in the incidents that took place on the North lands Reserve at Lac about Kilometres Northwest of the now who had lived with a White family for virtually her entire was raped 17 times Dur ing the seven months she spent on the Reserve where she had been returned by the Wasis child and family services Agency against her will to live with her natural Par she later went Back to the White during yesterdays sentencing Justice Scott Wright of Manitoba court of Queens Bench described the accused attacks on a very Young girl As nothing Short of Wright described asses same and ant Sanen As reasonably intelligent people who should have been fully aware of the devastating effects of their assaults on the Young defence lawyer Saul who represented both of the read a letter from North lands chief Jerome Dene Cheshe commenting on the contribution both men made to their Homes and to the the chief said he would be glad to have them return to the commune letters from relatives were also Wright said he could not escape the conclusion that the prison sentences were needed As a deter rent to Dunnea and Harry Granberg with 1920 free press whim speggers also raised for the fire victims in the area a fair chunk of Cash in 1920 when a package of cigarettes was 19 cents and a weekly subscription to the free press Cost 25 the response certainly shows the manner of men and women which make up your wonderful said a 1920 settler and Multi Hill lire the newspaper also ran Page one stories that Day about the use of adrenalin to restart about Germany Selling arms to the so and about Irish prisoners on a hunger strike near and inside there was a Story about a member of the Royal Northwest mounted police who returned to 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