Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Easte Winnipeg free press april 1990 pages 1322 Chuck features editor skateboard Mecca boasts two world Road map tops list of popular government publications by John Lyons with More than titles a year to its the Manitoba govern ment must be among the most prolific authors in the the province publishes some popular titles and some More obscure but none of them could be considered a bestseller in the True sense of the because most of them Are Given the most popular a and the Winner is the 1990 Provin Cial Road you gotta find your Way some copies of the official Highway map Are being distributed this says Henry spokesman for the department of highways and trans theres no provincial publishers Clearing House or brochure the month reports and other publications Are not released through any Central each department publishes its own flooding the Market last year with English and 214 French and that not count ing the 12 volumes of the Mani Toba government publications monthly which Are published simply to keep track of All the other says Paul head of technical services for the Legisla Tive folders in contrast to the eve popular Road the province puts out a Host of Low distribution folders and which Dole out information on government departments or offer helpful bureaucratic insights into various aspects of among the other Les requested provincial publications last year were 156 legislative 64 new Bills and about 150 policy about 100 scientific reports and umpteen tabled and session Al Neilson most technical and Legal papers come with a with no Central publishing Agen it can be difficult to compile a precise tally of the top 10 yet it appears the 1990 Manitoba vacation put out by travel would pick up an easy second spot among Freebee govern ment there Are 000 copies of the 88page color Bro says Terry spokesman for the department of licence third on the list would Likely be the sport fishing guide dont go fishing without this Handy Little Booklet has a print run of and is Given to every person who buys a fishing says Don Keith of the department of natural even Pierre Berton would be envious of travel which wins hands Down for the most Best there Are English copies of the pamphlet Welcome to placing it fourth Overall in the tentative top 10 when the 500 500 German and 250 Japa Nese versions Are added other colourful brochures and booklets from travel Manitoba most with self explanatory titles include the fifth place Manitoba fishing and Hunting adventures 1990 Lucky tourists and would be visitors will get a copy and the seventh place spectacular Parks and outdoor adventures 1990 Are in natural resources fall Hunting guide had a distribution of last edging out travel Manito pamphlet trend started with 1883 crop bulletin a Century with Manitoba government pamphlets in their there was no need for a 12volume listing of provincial the first widely available pamphlets were Likely crop which began in says Paul Neil head of technical services at the provinces legislative the upbeat june crops and livestock bulletin 1 stated its goal was to convey to the Public accurate reports of the acreage under cultivation the Prospect of the crops from month to month the average and aggregate yields har vested the number and condition of livestock and other matters affecting Farmers All was not Well with the crop the fourth printed later that hit a sombre an attack has been made on the reliability of the crop bulletins is sued from this read the the 1880s also saw numerous publications extolling the Virtues of clean Prairie the Federal government and the railways not the province put these in an attempt to lure settlers Happy homesteaders spoke out in the 1886 Booklet what settlers say of Manitoba and the Canadian published by the Canad an Pacific i was always delicate in the old now i am As healthy As a said settler most homesteaders remarked that Manitoba want unbearably but whats there to do in the Winter Mcconnell passed the feeding Reading the and teasing the i i or Bas Parks brochure for sixth the lines begin to blur at the eighth space on the travel Manitoba puts out of its events guide and an additional of the companion Winter for a total of Keith estimates natural resources puts out of its various Parks brochures every the department of education issues a 50page bimonthly Maga Zine to mostly teach for a total of a the department of government services has printed a total of 000 copies of pamphlets in its series on the emergency measures Orga but obviously a risk taking have Only picked up since the majority of provincial departments dont play in the big leagues of Manitoba heritage and recreation spokesman Estelle sures says her department Doest track the pamphlets it puts and has no idea whats hot and whats the department of Justice has let one of its most popular booklets the family Law guide is out of Date new ones will be printed hopefully in this fiscal says spokesman Linda the department of finance Doest put out colourful but does publish the More austere provincial budget and Public a the department of Urban affairs is a a veritable Lone among bureaucratic it puts out no no Pam its sole publication is its annual which has a Low press run of about we dont have a he Kuva lot of interface with the Public explains administrative officer Bob booklets Deal with a wide variety of we Deal almost exclusively with the City of annual reports and committee re ports generally Are printed in Low the most widely Distri buted committee report was from the provincial task Force on Meech Lake Many pamphlets will never num ber More than press runs of to Are often considered big a steady the Drivers sees copies distributed every among lifestyle or health aids information is Given out in several pamphlets by at least two health and More than copies of a1ds related booklets have recently been wife abuse information is also widely about 000 copies of various pamphlets on the subject were released last year in publications Are on file for View ing at the legislative Library on Vaughan and Many Are at Community How suggests letting your fingers do the the government of Manitoba Section at the Back of the Telephone directory contains list Ings on pamphlets and Publica Telephone directories glad you last year the Crown corporation Manitoba Telephone system printed Rural Manitoba phone Winnipeg yellow and Winnipeg White that even leaves the Highway map lost in the world political changes worry travers by Kenneth Best the Stamford advocate a conversation with Mary travers is much like listening to the musical Trio in which she is a Paul and there is passion in her voice whether she is talking about the recent political events in Eastern the music she has performed with Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow for almost 30 or about the most recent queries from her 4yearold but there is also an informal which immediately makes you feel there is nothing More she would rather do at that moment than Chat for a this same style helps travers convey the feeling that when she leans into if i had a it is As though Shes singing it for the very first the every is new every night because we dont sing stuff we dont travers said in a Telephone interview after arriving in her new York apartment from her Home in West we Only sing songs we believe the object becomes to make that song live and i think one of the things that marvellous about the three of us is that we really have always had an understanding that if you allow yourself to become you kill the she the Trio rarely have the Chance to become bored with their because they have maintained their involvement with world making their debut in Greenwich in Paul and Mary came of age in the turbulent their sound helped to reinvigorate modern Folk music and stir the nations social conscience in their debut Paul which included the if i had a the groups version of Bob Dylan Blowin in the wind was an Anthem for the peace and civil rights setting the stage for its personal involvement in those that involvement even with the groups most recent no easy walk to Freedom whose title track deals with the anti apartheid movement in South and the independently released singles by Stookey and Yarrow that address events in Al Salvador and the emigration struggle of soviet to been quite a couple of travers said about the recent events around the world in Eastern South Africa and Central she has her own cautious i think historians would have been Able to say that the most dangerous time is the time in which things begin to loosen she certainly Mikhail Gorbachev is seeing that and the South africans will see it after a very Small crack in the Berlin Wall to bring us a total dismantling of the travers explained that her concerns in Eastern Europe Centre on the fact that the changes there Are reviving historic concerns among the poles and who have always been concerned about the Security of their it is thrilling that there is this open admission that communism Doest but one is also anxious because what is emerging is a lot of old she German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Doest seem to want to say anything about the Borders with it seems to be an endemic problem for As Well As Eastern at the same travers said she has not fully embraced the results of the recent elections in in encouraged that they had a free i am not encouraged in the sense that i have a feeling that Nicaragua voted for it was not a fair denunciation of the sandinista she to its Knees the has brought that government to its Knees through the Contra War and through an economic the country is in dire straights i think the people of Nicaragua voted in the Hope they could end the end the War and hopefully get the kinds of financial promises Panama i dont think they Are going to get it when it comes Down to the is facing a certain moral responsibility to Aid the Eastern bloc plus our traditional where is the Money going to come from travers said the soviet unions economic problems in from its arms race with the United which also if you look on any City Street in you will see that it also did serious damage in the she we cannot have a War on drugs without a War on we cannot be competitive with the japanese unless we Are willing to invest not Only in the economic but in we do not have a skilled workforce in a technological entertainment ;