Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturdays Winnipeg free press local news Section Brian Cole 6977232 b1 september 1992 exam under study Bald Santin education reporter trustees in fort Garry school division Are stay ing one step ahead of an Gry parents by considering Divi Sion wide exams for students in senior Board chairman Brent pooles said the move was prompted by an outcry from parents this theres been a lot of concern from parents about getting Back to basics and questioning the adequacy of the Currick pooles they have touched a and quite its about the Board set up a committee of trustees and administrators to assess the merits of the assessment acting superintendent Jean Beaumont said the committee will determine the advantages and disadvantages of division wide exams students in the same Grade at All schools writ ing the same exam for each subject and submit a report by pooles said parents Are concerned that there Are no Stan Dards for children graduating from High he said Divi Sion wide exams Are seen As an answer to that Parent Daphne who pulled her children out of the fort Garry school system this said she was both sur prised and delighted at the this Means there will be greater focus on the Currick spokesman for parents for Hanson said Many parents Are concerned that their Chil Dren Arent learning in c adding that division wide exams could be one test of a schools effectiveness in presenting the compulsory Only one suburban school i has division wide exams for its senior most boards have compulsory exams in All courses at the High school but the con tent of the exams varies from school to some school divisions in Winnipeg said they Are also study ing the one of the propos als recommended in a two year old education department White answering the on High school re but at least two City school boards have ruled out any move to division wide officials from Assiniboine South and Winnipeg school Divi Sions said they Are satisfied with having individual schools set up their own compulsory sex neighbors fear drinking to resume booze raided by Stevens wild staff reporter Aitel stands with piece of broken door after Early morning frustrated landside Street residents plagued by an alleged booze can Are not con Vinced the place will be forced out of business despite a sunday morning raid by Winnipeg a total of 76 people were on the premises when armed with a search conducted a predawn raid at 409 landside police duty Paul Lamotte said 16 cases of Beer were seized in the along with two Pellet pistols and a steel several knives and Metal Mohamad has been charged with a number of liquor of including unlawfully Selling i unlawfully keeping liquor for and permitting drunkenness on his weve shut the place Lam Otte said of the alleged after hours drinking residents of a housing project across the Street at 400 landside say they have been complaining about the place since Aitel moved in in Early aug Are worried constant parties will soon begin Lamotte said Aitel is not allowed to have any liquor on the premises As a condition of his a single Mother of two who asked that her name not be pub said the place usually got hop Ping shortly after 2 and ran until eight or nine in the every Day of the it always began when the bars she i can almost time at the lights go she said she had seen As Many at 140 people waiting outside on the Street to get limousines and taxis wait out Side while patrons partake she Lamotte said the raid was con ducted sunday morning because the time was the neighbor said she is one of Sev eral residents of the housing Complex who have asked to be relocated to a different in scared for in scared for denied he was run Ning a booze saying he simply has three or four parties a Fox run infects thousands with Hope volunteers turn out in City for fundraiser by Dan Lett staff reporter when Heather Taylor looks out Over the dozens of volunteers in this years Terry Fox she sees a lot of Taylor also sees a lot of vulnerability and a lot of like Many who have Given their time to organizing the Terry Fox Taylor has lived through the pain of losing family members to first it was her then a brother inlaw last summer and this a Cousin has been diagnosed with the dreaded while children with painted faces laughed and scurried about and brightly Clad shrines beat their Drums for a crowd in front of Lipsett Hall on Kenaston Taylor said its hard to dispel a nagging feeling that theres no Way to protect yourself and your family against you want to be so protective with your family but its hard not to feel a sense of said her Fivey Earold son James tugging on her right we eat Well and we exercise and we do whatever we can to Stop this thing but theres no Way to protect yourself although the focus of the Terry Fox run is normally on the thousands of participants who raise pledges in memory of the cancer crusader and his Marathon of it is one of the distinct features of this event that there Are almost As Many Volunteer organizers As the Terry Fox run prides itself on avoiding commercialization or High profile administrative the run in Winnipeg yesterday Drew nearly participants and More than More than were expected to participate across the province in an event that raised More than last Colleen provincial director of the Terry Fox foundation said 44 of the 330 events in Manitoba had reported by last she said the 44 events alone had raised up about 25 per cent from last and she expects the Overall Manitoba total to exceed last years Plumton said the main Winnipeg run had raised by last with More pledges last the main Marc flee press with her husband and children has lost family to Winnipeg run raised while some become involved out of philanthropic motivation others like Taylor come to the event with the desire to Stop the pain that they and others close to them have suffered when a loved one succumbed to there int a Day that goes by that i dont think about my Taylor said of sister Jane a promising pianist who played with the Dow child blues before dying 10 years Rob truth a Canada Post employee who helped organize the corporate portion of the said he began his involvement As a runner and gradually moved into the organizing end of Plumton said the which is held in the fall because Fox himself requested relies so heavily on volunteers because spreading the feeling of Community and True Charity is just As important to organizers As raising slashing latest incident of violence at City clubs around town by Dan Lett staff reporter press Yanick recovers f ram slash when Dale Yanick left the Diamond club at the Garden City inn Early yester Day he was attacked by at least two unidentified men in the parking one of whom slashed him with a the 21yearold James Man now has 35 stitches across his its just numb right but the pain will Proba Bly set in said Yanick As he rested at Home yesterday i Haven really focused on what happened last it happened so the knife attack is the latest in a series of violent Many involving concealed that have erupted inside and outside Winnipeg night clubs Over the last Winnipeg police have asked for tougher liquor licensing Laws to control the consumption of alcohol at such of Yanick said he was leaving the Diamond club about with his Girlfriend when he was ver Bally accosted by a group of men in the parking Yanick said he did not see any of them in the night he said one confronted him and challenged him to a promising to kick the expletive out of me right Yanick said he tried to avoid the Man at but when he they had in a Short fight and by apparently friends of the be came i was walking away and some Guy came from the Side of me and slashed my said who expects to miss nearly two weeks of i looked around and another Guy pulled a knife and another Guy pulled a when i saw i ran to the thunderbird restaurant and called the Yanick was taken to seven Oaks general Hospi where he was treated and released later yester Day ij4 ;