Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 30, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press december Page 2 Julian provincial editor town enters 90s with vigor by Gladys Terichow special to the free press Carman this Community of is heading into the new decade with renewed enthusiasm and ten of the 13 empty storefronts have been filled during the last 15 about a dozen new Busin esses and industries have been and several businesses have come under new work has begun in Earnest to devise an economic development strategy that is expected to see the towns population double before the turn of the economic development officer Ilija Dragojevic was hired As the towns first economic development officer 15 months ago to aggressively pursue leads for potential Busin esses and industries and help the town adopt an action plan for eco nomic the process of getting everyone involved and working together is More important than the he emphasizing his system encourages Public almost 900 surveys were sent out last week to randomly selected Homes in the Rural municipality of Dufferin and the communities of Elm notre Sperling and Carman asking if occupants Are looking for what Type they would be willing to and wages they the result of this Survey will allow us to be More aggressive in our Dragojevic it will identify what the Community will support and we can go after it with the second part of the process includes joint meetings with the councils of the Rural municipality and the town to answer questions listed in Dragojevich Community needs he said these meetings and sub sequent sessions involving the Cham Ber of Commerce and business Community will help identify the towns goals and strengths and weaknesses and types of services and industries the Community would economic strategy before the final economic develop ment strategy is three or four Public meetings will be held to refine the draft the Community must decide what it will support and where it wants to he no one person can make that decision for a Dragojevic is documenting the process Hes As Well As the hurdles and suggestions for overcoming it will help him Complete the masters program of natural resources management at the University of i want to develop a process that other communities can he explaining he Doest want his similar to a to be Only an academic Dragojevic criticizes the senior Levels of government for not having specific policies in place on Rural he would like to see governments adopt policies promoting Botto up to Down planning Hast been he governments must allow communities to take their destiny in their own hands and Well be there to help you if you need if that comes you will see a lot of changes in Rural Rural he must also realize that development from within is essential to attract outside industries and you cant just sit Back and wait for development to happen on its he you have to be just As competitive As your neigh Boring towns to create positive in Vestor Dragojevich most notable successes in following leads have been finding occupants for the towns two eyesores a vacant car Dealership and a downtown building vacated by Robinsons the buildings Are now occupied by a general motors Dealership opened by Janzen Pontiac of Winkler and another Success was getting a new Industry to locate in the towns new 29hectare Industrial Walinga will be expanding its operations to distribute and assemble Grain and feed hauling equipment Nib showman recalls glory Days by Handy Turner Winnipeg free press old showman does not regret the Days he spent crisscrossing Southern Manitoba in his secondhand a celluloid messenger with Blacka Edwhite in a time before Gerry Mcleod brought the world to Rural he was a travelling showing National film Board movies in schools and Church for Many Rural the films offered rare View of the present and a glimpse of the during the the films were invaluable for recruiting soldiers and Selling in the late the movies documented everything from Radical political changes on the world stage to advances in farming techniques and but unlike the people who made the the showmen task offered Little in the Way of exposure except to cruel Prairie but the men and women who roamed the Countryside had a fervent belief that their Job behind the projector was As important As the work of those behind the the Guys who were in it in a not in the religious but with a message to build a better we were prepared to work Long hours to get this message he we Felt we had a like most Mcleod was driven by his belief that the films had a fundamental effect on their for he Felt the films helped improve the racial Harmony in Rural where he said foreigners were not always film was a Means both emotionally and intellectually of communicating and that what i was looking he Mcleod became a showman in 1946 after serving with the signal corps in the second world i made up my mind i was going into the National film Board when i came Back from the if i came showmen were employed by the film Board As a distribution network on the beginning in Only a handful of projectionists covered each each responsible for Large Rural for had 55 schools in his Region in the late its All very Well to make said who moved to Glenboro in but you had to have some system of getting the films tit the and that what led to the travelling not Only did the showmen thread the they also held discussion sessions with students and adults at the end of each the system garnered a worldwide reputation As government officials from both China and India attempted to emulate the nabs distribution at least one american Columbia made a desperate attempt to tap into the system during the 1950s to get its films moving across the when the americans attempt to infiltrate the Nib system they labelled the Board Mcleod they started a Rumor going that we were riven with he the Nib was always regarded As a Little left of Centre but we Only wanted to show Canadian we didst want to show that american the american stuff was strictly something that Mcleod said was not a Strong suit of Nib which focused on social and historical he still reveres films such As nobody waved an Nib drama released in the Early 1970s about a teenagers difficulty in communicating with his of television eliminated the Days of the As the Nib found a new and vibrant Way to reach a Large although he stayed on the Road from 1950 until he retired in Mcleod spent his time helping to establish local film clubs through school but not the showmen were honoured last summer when the Nib paid a special tribute to them As part of the film boards 50th anniversary Mcleod still has the Nib plaque displayed prominently in his Small Home Here and he keeps a Small tape cassette documenting the efforts of the perhaps that Why one of the few showmen alive has no at least somebody waved Gerry in his Glenboro peeps through an old eight millimetre movie camera As he recalls his Days As a shortage of anaesthetists lamented doubling of waiting list for elective surgery at Brandon general Hospital feared by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press Brandon a waiting list of More than 600 people for elective surgery at Brandon general Hospital could double in the next six months because of a shortage of officials Brian head of Anaesthesiology at the said two of its five anaesthetists will be leaving in the next three while a third wants to Cut Back to Par time it makes it almost impossible for the two that will be he Mckiernan blamed the shortage of specialists on a change in the rules of the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba during the last two years that makes it difficult to recruit foreign for he one current Prospect from England graduated from Basic medi Cine in India at the top of his although the candidate has an English Fellowship and regularly contributes to Canadian medical he must still have his training assessed and undergo an enabling that could delay things two he noting the exams Are Given Only once a Mckiernan also pointed to insufficient numbers of Canadian saying Manitoba has Only two candidates expected to graduate in the Field this Canadian medical he Are reluctant to enter the Field because of heavy training requirements and malpractice insurance premiums of More than a although this is now partially reimbursed by Manitoba health services Mckiernan said he suspects this funding will be Cut off in the next provincial a peer review committee report released by the Hospital last week Points to the need for More anaesthetists because of a proposed expansion to the obstetrics Glenn the executive director of Brandon said there Are also Short Ages in the Fields of nuclear psychiatry and specialized Nurs As a regional the Hospital services residents of southwestern we need to do some innovative and imaginative things to attract people to bran he Chapman said although shortages Are the situation is especially Crit ical in people in these specializations will gravitate to larger centres with teaching he also said Manitoba is worse off than some provinces because of lower fee sched Ules and because it is not considered an attractive place to live by residents of the West coast and Southern earlier this Manitoba Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said a shortage of 10 anaesthetists in the province is expected to increase to More than 30 during the next five the pending loss of one full time and two Par time anaesthetists at Winnipeg health sciences Centre next month is also expected to reduce the amount of elective surgery a june report by the Manitoba medical association said up to 14 specialists in the Field were expected to leave the profession this this could mean fewer operations in Manitoba hospitals in each of the next five the report daily Deal mountie fined for poaching yesterdays results Are 6 of 8 of 8 of clubs and 7 of a match of All four playing cards on one Selec Tion wins times the a match of three playing cards wins 30 times the 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