Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free Latuf april 1990 fund goal this year continued from Page 1 hesitations about sending them Syzek three children were among 742 from Low income families last summer with the help of the Sunshine were Able to spend a week of two at a Camp accredited by the Manitoba Camp ing close to 60 per cent were from Winnipeg inner More than was raised from free press readers through last years an additional came from a Grant from the Manitoba department of heritage and and the fund already had from in bringing the total to this Sunshine fund coordinator Bettie Lees said applications for at least 800 children Are expected to come asking for spots from among the 23 Camps accredited by the camping we need and we need it Lees adding the goal for this year is about spots at the Camps Are starting to fill so we need to work As quickly As Lees i know the kids will be disappointed if they dont get a Chance to who is said that As a Mother of five attending school full time and living on student she would never have been Able to afford giving her children the experience of with going through a divorce and my going to school my kids were getting a bit she but going to Camp gave them a Chance to learn things like horse Back which really gave a lift to their added Syzek knowing what it has done for my i think every child who wants to go to Camp should be Able whether their parents can afford it or Lees said the popularity of the program has grown especially in the last few years As More people have Leared about the Sunshine in 338 children were sent to and More than double that number Are expected to go this there Are 150 or so applications sitting on Leess but she said donations need to Start pouring in right away in order to ensure that every child who wants to go to Camp will get the right things Are in a bit of a especially since weve been looking for a new Lees she said the camping association is being forced to relocate by the end of May because the Manitoba sports federation is moving out of its present Headquarters and can no longer donate the space it has offered for As a the fund has received Only two donations so far this year for a total of when it had already received More than by the same time last were really asking Manitoban to open up and continue the generosity they have Given in the she these kids need anyone who wants to make a tax deductible donation should mail it to the Sunshine 1495 Matthews r3g Lees said that even though the association will be All donations sent to the old address will be forwarded to the new donations May also be taken to the classified advertising department on the main floor of the free Pess 300 Carlton anyone who wishes to give anonymously is asked to make that specific As names of those who give will otherwise be printed in the free daily Deal yesterdays results Are King of 7 of Queen of 8 of a match of All four playing cards on one selection wins times the a match of three playing cards wins 30 times the Wager and a match of two playing cards wins three times the moms on the run two japanese Snow monkeys sit in a backyard in Rural with their Mont hold babies waiting for a food the two female simians Are among five who escaped last residents of the who thought the monkeys were ill until they gave have provided food for the pair throughout the killers release blasted continued from Page 1 acquisition certificate in legally allowing him to Purchase the weapon he used to kill supporting Rampersad Call for tougher questioning before such certificates Are suggested his client Likely have been Given the certificate in the first the current registration form asks whether the applicant has had a conviction for a violent crime within five years prior to the Date of apply he he said had been convicted of assaulting a police officer on just four years before he was Given the certify that certainly less than five years since the last Gindin in not sure How that got through the who described the murder As a random also criticized the fact that Macklin was released from the Selkirk mental health Centre in 1971 after a few months of treatment and was Given no medical there Are a lot of things Here that have Gindin noting Macklin didst see a psychiatrist again until after he was charged with killing outside Peters present throughout the greeted Rampersad Calls for changes in firearms regulations with enthuse saying such measures Are Long i think there Bill brother of the i think this is awful late in com these Are changes that should be made and need to be made i dont think theres a person in Cana Dian society that would disagree with these questions being Peters added he Hopes parole authorities will take the needed Steps to ensure his Sisters killer int released until its certain the Man wont pose a threat to race chief rapped on report by Radha Krishnan Thampi chief civic commissioner Rick Frost has publicly chastised the cites race relations coordinator for saying the City is Only paying lip service to its affirmative action i read with some concern what i consider to be unsubstantiated Rhet Oric contained on Page 21 of your annual Frost said in an april 9 letter to Harold Ramper do you really believe that the Way to improve working relation ships is to imply that the City is simply paying lip service to the goals which we mutually share Frost his letter was included in a meet ing Agenda released to councillors last it is to be discussed by the civic Community and race relations committee at a meeting in his 21page annual report to released earlier this who is answerable to Council through mayor Bill asked for better policy direction from the committee and civic administration on employment of Visi ble minorities and we cannot afford to pay lip ser vice or to attempt to deceive the Public with empty promises when the City is not fully complying with its own policy on equal employment Rampersad report there has to be a More improved working relationship and delegation of authority and a Clear line of distinction drawn Between issues dealt with by the office of equal employment and the race relations the report Rampersad was not available for comment although sources close to him said he stands by his he and Sharon the cites equal employment Opportunity offi dont get along sources have said in the they also said Rampersad didst get any help from the administration in preparing his Frost said in his letter that since his arrival a year he has co operated fully with the race relations committees requests for info also responsible for the cites personnel said his administration has been addressing the Issue in an open and constructive i must say that your state ment that we must not attempt to deceive the Public with empty promises when the City is not fully complying with its own policy on equal employment Opportunity is a much greater reflection on your professional judgment than on our corporate Frost admitted like other municipalities across Cana has some distance to go before we will have achieved a Complete balance in the civic workforce which reflects the but we Are not in the business of deceiving Frost the chief commissioner said that last up to per cent of new recruits to the civic workforce were visible and aboriginal people constituted per cent of the Farmer blames interest rates continued from Page 1 ing Back his ranch contacted a half hour before his auction was to Eyjolfson said he was having a hard time believing it was its quite 1 didst think wed Ever be Selling things out he sometimes you get cold but the Economy is such that if you keep chugging youre Only kidding he already sold his cattle last fall and Laid off his four full time pm Keith a Minnedosa Farmer and director with the National Farmers said Many of the Farmers Arent being forced out but have simply grown they see no end to a decade of depressed farm he the auction sales that Are going on now Arent people 65 years of but 40 and proven and there not people in deep financial but they see their equity eroding and so there Mak ing the Choice and getting proven blamed Ottawa fiscal policy of High interest rates and a Strong Canadian Short of moving Farmers on to re this is absolutely the fastest Way to destroy Rural 1 think the fiscal policy goes the furthest and fastest towards restructuring Rural proven Wawanesa Farmer Gregg Downie estimates that interest charges alone will Cost him More this year than in when the prime lending rate was 11 per it is per cent in sure there Are Guys out there who have decided that farming not going to get any better in the next three to five said Gary who farms near Elgin in the hardhat southwestern Don an auctioneer in Rose do said there would be even More Farmers leaving if land prices we rent so its a very poor time to get out because the land values Arent a lot of Young Farmers would like to get but they he april the farm auction month is always a bumpy time for the farm auctioneers farm auctions drop off in May when Farmers Are Busy Only to resume again in they Stop completely in july when the summer fairs begin in Rural before starting again in the the combined with the troubled farm Are hurting farm equipment trans Canada agro of near the Tran Canada Highway weigh scale outside is the latest outlet to Reg Atkinson of Atkinson implements in said his business is Down 50 per cent from last despite opening a second dealer ship this a lot of people phone us and ask for a Price on an item because there on their Way to an he but some auctioneers feel the number of auctions is no higher than in previous Stan of Fraser auction service in said farm auctions May have been higher in april because the Cool March got the season off to a slow but a Check of farm auction ads for March 22 this year compared to the same time a year ago showed auctions were actually up about 30 per cent for that period caution called key to survival continued from Page 1 the reason for the Sale Here yesterday was More Ron and Lucy Ramsey want to retire after 40 years on their just outside the Village of the Ramsey raised four children and built most of the buildings on the and now they want to the farms been Good to Lucy Ramsey and despite the trend to bail not everyone Here was speaking doom and for contends that while there Are Many who have Given Many More have held things Are not easy on the he its very tight in both the Grain and livestock Busi but a lot of people have survived by tightening their Belt and watching what there to there has to be some optimism out Rankin we need moisture to make things he if everybody sold out of where would they go who would look after the land while their opinions May Rankin and Wright have a huge stake in this Are Wright operates a mixed farm near Boisse vain and Rankin does the same outside in a Farmer from the Bottom but we have kept the business if we didst have the auction and that the sad in his Hopes to someday pass his operation to one or both of his teenage perhaps that is Why these partners never seem to get Over the uncomfortable feeling of being forced to conduct auctions for their friends Good Farmers they have known for it hurts when i see my friends in trouble and have to sell Wright you Only Hope you can just do it the auction Good enough for them to have something to come Home but after seeing too Many close friends Wright has lost the hunger for More i sure Hope were not As Busy next he Money int i dont want our whole Community Well always have a Well have some people that my and i always want it to be my bicycle Sale secret judgment sealed court official matter of life and death continued from Page 1 Day by a judge in Southam is attacking the decision to hear the Case in secret and to Seal the file As an infringement of the constitutional guarantee of Freedom of the the Case May never have been made Public had a Southam reporter not heard rumours of it last weekend at a Law the court then confirmed the hearing took but gave no on the material presented to the it appeared that maintaining secrecy could be matter of life and death for certain individuals involved in the the court spokesman adding the court has Power to make a secrecy order to protect vital interests in appropriate the supreme court has been a Strong proponent of openness in court news that it conducted a secret hearing raised eyebrows across the but most Legal observers concluded the court must have had a Good reason for doing what it i Trust those and the Public respects the court and has Confidence in the said Toron to lawyer Clayton but its impossible to keep that Confidence if cases Are held in total i find it impossible to imag Ine a circumstance where total secrecy is Ruby said the court should at least have announced it was going to hold a secret Kaplan said the government should become involved not be cause the supreme 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