Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba January just suffer without going to a it is one of the difficulties with the information we we dont know if we can extrapolate from the number of people who have had testing she a similar Strain of the virus is causing an epidemic in the fast said the influenza season Here begat later than and the number of con firmed cases appears Only slightly above average and cant be called an confirmed cases have been split almost equally Between Winnipeg and Rural Manito there have not been any reported Case of often linked to fast said there have been at least two cases of people with influenza symptoms who have died in the province this but there is no Way to determine if influenza was the cause of death because the victims also had other Doug Winnipeg Deputy medical said the flu Bug does not appear to have hit the City in full Force he said his department has been monitoring schools and daycare centres and the rate of absenteeism is still below 10 per cent the level at which a warning is but Luckhurst said that could change with Little warning because the Shanghai flu is highly contagious and can spread the symptoms of influenza Are similar to those of the common including exhaust 88 Shanghai flu cases reported As delayed season takes toll by Jim Tom Lack of youve been feeling rundown and miser Able you May have one of the 86 cases of Shanghai like influenza in the health officials say 88 cases have been confirmed since Early Margaret provincial director of communicable disease said its impossible to estimate the total number of cases in the fast said Many people native school touted for City educators target september opening by Nick Martin Winnipeg could have an ojibway language school As Early As a native education conference concluded its said Katherine elected chairman of a committee to plan implementation of the alternative education it will be a Community a family about 25 people attended the final Day of the today conference sponsored by the Abi Nochi ojibway pre school program and the Manitoba association for native participants hoped the school could offer kindergarten to Grade 12 conducted in Jib who chairs the preschool Lan Guage said in an interview that a native controlled school is possible this there Are vacant schools that Are a possibility for us to she Al though the conference did not discuss specific busing would be necessary for Many parents who choose to enrol their Chil she conference chairman Eric Robinson cautioned participants not to get Hung up on Well be Able to bypass most Obsta cles in if we have that will As aboriginal Mary executive director of the told the conference not to worry about the Small in not Hung up on in Hung up on motive Richard said her grandchildren will soon be entering Winnipeg it is the most detrimental system for our native Chil heritage languages they can learn English but they Are in danger of losing their heritage Ian she Sinclair said ojibway and Cree Are the predominant native languages in and four other native languages Are spoken in the there is no shortage of unemployed native teachers who can instruct in their own she Richard said in an interview that heritage language instruction May begin with the youngest and Progress Yearby year until the entire curriculum was offered in other schools could she Here in we seem to be so close minded about whereas european children commonly speak three or four Richard Dorothy principal of a Mohawk language school near told the conference it took 10 years to build from kindergarten to Grade 6 in the Mohawk Many students entered the system speaking Only she this Grade 7 students Are learning a variety of subjects in from kindergarten to Grade students speak Only Lazore from grades 4 to they learn half the Day in and the rest of the Day in English with the exception of a half hour of French the drive to revive the language was very Strong among she Success depends on heavy Parent involve and the hiring of Mohawk staff including secretaries and janitors so that students hear Mohawk in their school in she Winnipeg school division trustee Anita who attended pan of the said in an interview she would support heritage language instruction if enough native parents Back the deaths classified death Clare husband of Gerry widow of Henry of husband of Ethel Harold of formerly of husband of May John of flin husband of Shirley Martha of win formerly of Carman of Hus band of Ernestine inimitable style nip Leader Gary doer demonstrates his own unique style As he sends a Rock spinning Over the ice in the annual River borne Winter doer was participating in the saints and sinners match a Tongue Incheck title to a game pitting City clerics against provincial newsstand adds to mall failures by Donald Campbell another Portage place store was empty and its doors locked when the downtown Winnipeg mall opened for business yester Day the third in less than two the adventure a news paper stand and gift shop located on the malls second floor beside the Walkway to the suspended operations its owner it was not working said Phil Cal who also owns a gift shop and adjoin ing Yogurt stand in the food we May try something else i dont mall manager Don Knight agreed it Hast been a great Start to the new year for Portage but said these things Hap pen m retail will be Tough in the he adding that some weaker operations will find themselves in its happening to other Salnitsky said the adventure stores two employees will find work with one of his other gift we just we rent getting a Good enough return on Pur he it had nothing to do with the mall its just that retail today is you can see it in the people dont have As much Money to original tenant adventure is one of several original tenants in Portage place that have gone under before reaching the Halfway Point on their it had More than five years left on an Lightyear last Shoreys optical also closed up shop and moved its Stock despite a court fight launched by Cadillac Fairview the Developer that owns the the optical chains area manager said Friday the outlet folded because of continual losses since opening in a childrens clothing store on the malls second has also suspended operations since the Vancouver based company closed its retail outlets on just before the mall lost one of its major tenants when Breslauer and War Ren jewellers shut it was reportedly unable to afford its rent for management has also struggled for some time to attract a major restaurant to the Picasso the first tenant to go closed its doors within a few months of the malls opening in september it was to be replaced by an Ontario based whose backers announced in 1988 that they intended to spend million on a Noviola cafe in the Street front but company officials have since said they Are concerned about the viability of the a sign heralding the operations arrival is now nowhere to be seen near the intended Knight said Hes hoping owners of the adventure and Stephanie can continue their he said management at Stephanie will meet with creditors later this month to discuss the hopefully they can convince the creditors to play Ball until they get Back on their Knight he said All is not doom and gloom at the suggesting new clients Are interested in moving into the vacant Ken free press Scheak preview tank Abramowich of the Winnipeg Blue bombers big Blue brigade gives shoppers at Grant Park mall a sneak preview of Schmo key the 38th annual Media frolic takes place at the Winnipeg Arena this tickets Are available at select seat outlets for an upset stomach and even the length of suffering can Range from a couple of weeks to two fast the elderly and the chronically ill Are especially susceptible to the and suffer More because of any other medical Condi she both groups should be immunized by their medical experts estimate influenza claims Canadian lives and costs million in Tost work time each Lapel in promotes diversity by Jim Timlick the Bani brith plans to fight fire with fire by introducing a Lapel pin promoting cultural diversity and Unity in the pin bears the slogan proud to be Canadian diversity and Unity and depicts four men and women of different ethnic origins holding hands in a Barbara acting regional director of the league for human rights of Bani said the item is a direct response to a Lapel pin designed and distributed by Peter Kouda of Koudas pin shows a Semi clothed Black Man holding a a turbaned sikh and an Oriental figure in a chinese coolie hat staring Down at a Wor Rie looking White Man in a business the pins message asks who is the minority in Canada a local wholesaler has said he plans to begin distributing the pin in Winnipeg later this Brian president of said he has no intention of halting his plans to distribute the pins in Schacter said the leagues Alberta offices have been flooded with inquiries from people wanting to know How it plans to respond to the we didst want to be we wanted to do something More positive and i think this is a Way of doing she said in an interview from each the Bani brith pins will sell for each and will be distributed across the approximately of the pins manufactured so far have been sold to the Liberal party of a spokesman for the jewish human rights groups Winnipeg Branch said they will be available in the City within the next three Schacter said the league was initially concerned that any response to Koudas pin would draw More attention to it but decided that the new pin will be More effective than no response at human rights groups began denouncing Kouda pins about two weeks since he has received orders for approximately of the pins in Alberta Gene president of the Folk arts Council of said yesterday his organization had also been reluctant to com ment on the pins because it believed that demand for them would eventually drop but he said publicity has already increased their initially we had thought that it would just go away but we realize now it Lloyd the Alberta human rights commission has been asked to determine if the Lapel pins constitute hate the commission has issued a statement deploring people who produce items which denigrate the role and rights of minority but it also warned that there is a difference Between prejudice and new fingerprint system termed Long overdue a new automated fingerprint identification approved by City councillors last is Long a senior Winnipeg police officer in the present state of we just cant do the Job without said Deputy chief Paul we have about one million fingerprints on file right and its just physically impossible to Check them All manually if All youve got is one print or a portion of a with this Well be Able to input a print and get a running list within two which is something it takes us a sometimes to do right acting crime superintendent Dennis Toyne said the new system approved by the cites Protection committee but yet to receive councils nod will make police work More going to its going to theres no he that ability to quickly track Down a print or a partial print is very acting inspector Bridgwater of the departments identification unit said the sys tem is efficient and it will definitely increase the Overall Quality of the work this unit is putting he Bridgwater explained officers must now Check a print against sets of prints that clog the units files something that next to impossible and done Only in cases where officers have enough prints to narrow it Down to a particular its very unlike the Auto mated he Johnston said a fingerprint found at a crime scene is put into the new system and automatically checked against All other prints that have within a printout giving officers a list of Likely those prints Are then called up on a computer screen and matched 9gainsf the original ;