Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 15, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba Call i 958rent Apt realty Fiona Sinclair carpet offers flying for girl a cop pulled me Over saturday i was in just grabbing a few when this of duty police officer of my acquaintance stopped me near the Candy what were you trying to say in that Story he q q q my police not referring to saturdays which i thought spoke for it concerned a vital Mother and father on social assistance who called the newsroom Friday hoping that someone could donate carpet for their basement Lorelei Young said she and her husband Archie have a six Earold who has cerebral the doctors say Kayla cant she cant but if she could Kayla would probably ask for the carpet Kayla has spent most of her life in a wheelchair but just recently has Learned to the problem is the tile on Concrete basement floor is not Only Stone its Rock hard and that rough on a Little girls and even tougher on her head when she Falls after agreeing to try and i decided to do a Goodwill choosing at random from the yellow pages i called a series of carpet dealers mentioning that i was with the free them Kaylas Story and asked for a i called six in All and got six different versions of the same my unlisted Home phone rang saturday it was Roy Poltronetti of Avanti one of the places i haunt called his 16yearold daughter Gianna plays water Polo with which is Why he had my Home number and How he got to be first in line to he said it was a lot of carpet but promised to talk to his supplier and see what he could do to there were More Calls waiting at the one was from a wholesaler who didst want his or his company name he said there is always extra carpet kicking around and he was surprised no one had helped he offered to Check with his Boss about a Young carpet dealer named Gary Shnier he owns surface floor fashion Centre and big bobs Cash and and Shnier seemed More angry than surprised at my Zero Fornix batting our business has been out of control since the summer i personally brought in six installers from everybody in the City has been making big there flooded basements that needed Shnier said something else id be Happy to help where do i Send the carpet q 0 q Back in my police pal was suggesting that maybe these carpet stores were constantly being hit up for donations and maybe they had to draw the line he made reference to the of and then he said they say give till it maybe its starting to i agreed with my police its what youre supposed to do when a cop pulls you but i pointed out As Shnier was the carpet Industry had just experienced a flood of business that was literally so it have Hurt to give a Little Back to a Little girl whose needs and Joys Are so and to answer my police pals is what i had been Yiying to say in the Winnipeg free press local november 1993 Section Brian Cole 6977232 b1 trustees cling to strap some school divisions ignoring advice to scrap it Byruth Teichroeb social issues reporter almost 20 per cent of Mani Toba school districts Sanction the use of the strap on Chil Dren despite being urged by Provin Cial school trustees five years ago to abolish physical Jerry director of the Manitoba association of school said 10 of the provinces 56 school districts have retained the right to use the strap even though Mast recommended in 1988 that Corporal punishment be we Felt the time had come to abolish the Macneil boards Are autonomous and do have the right to retain this the chairman of the Board of mor Ris Macdonald school division said that although the strap is rarely most parents still support physical the Community i represent would not want to see it taken away As a form of Lionel a school trustee for Lowe its perceived that a Lack of discipline is a cause of the problems the youth Are in division superintendent Larry Mccrady said the strap Hast been used for at least three years and was used before that Only when other methods As a principal would usually Check with the Childs Parent before using the he parents in Duck Mountain school division Arent ready to abolish Cor poral punishment even though the strap Hast been used in a a school official its like having an antique car and not using Syl the Divi Sions said in an interview from parents Are leave it there in Case we decide to use but Waldo superintendent of Agassiz school division in said the Only reason the division has a Corporal punishment policy on the books is that it Hast gotten around to repealing when its i expect it to be Klassen Keith director of the child guidance clinic in said Corporal punishment allowed Meres a list of school districts that allow Corporal punishment agassis school division Beausejour Boundary school division Dominion City Rhineland school division Altona Morri Macdonald school division Morris Midland school division the Best reason to get rid of the strap is that it Doest i dont believe in the use of pain to Black Joan a University of Manitoba family studies Marc free press intent Spectator Lesley Halley watches from a second Storey window yester rage at 125 Bole the which caused an estimated Day As firefighters Cut through the roof of a neighbors is under native female Soldier cites Pacli harassment by Doug Nairne staff reporter a native Soldier who was jailed for shooting in the direction of a Superior in Croatia claims Shes been harassed to the Point of having to go to Hospi Tal with a nervous a lot of things happen to her that i think Are uncalled said a co worker of Beverly Heimbeck people Are always making jokes about her and laughing about Heimbecker this and Heimbecker that to the Point where Shes scared to be at but military officials say the sol Dier is refusing to accept responsibility for her and deny there is any a Mechanic attached to the second battalion Princess Patricia Canadian Light has served in the army for the past 18 she said she has been subjected to race and gender related harassment by coworkers since she arrived in Winnipeg a year ago As one of the first women sent to the some of the men i was working with were aware that i was getting promoted and they we rent too Happy with the fact i would be supervising she some of the Guys still have a problem with the idea of women working in a com Bat Heimbecker alleges she has repeatedly heard Indian jokes at work and been ridiculed and laughed at because she is she claims the harassment stems from an incident when the battalion was in Croatia in which she stole a i shot in the direction of a Supe rior and tried to flee from the Cana Dian Camp before being Heimbecker said the harassment intensified when she returned to Winnipeg after serving 30 Days in prison for the shooting and being demoted to private from the rank of acting master a military spokesman said Heirn Beckers complaint will be invest embattled Metis Leader vows Legal fight to keep Job emf paralysed by Board efforts to oust president by Glenn Cheater free press correspondent the embattled Leader of the Manitoba Metis federation vows he wont be forced out by a group of and Ernie Blais is wilting to go to court to fight for his Job As i consider myself to be the president at this Point in he theres no doubt in my but Blais also admitted yesterday his organization has been paralysed by efforts by its Board of directors to dump him from the Job he won in an election Only a month the Metis Leader said he can no longer get into the federations Northend Headquarters after his rivals had the outside locks changed but Blais said the dissidents dont have Access cards that would allow them to enter the administrative a spokesman for the dissidents group said the Board met yesterday and will announce its newest Battle plan at a news conference today in the federations off the Board continues to meet and its business As David the federations annual meeting was the scene of fierce infighting Over the weekend and broke up yesterday with Blais insisting Hes still in he said the Board was acting outside the federations rules when it voted 139 Friday to remove him from his the dissidents argue Blais has acted in a High handed manner and refused to meet them in the but Blais said he will be asking the courts to make a Quick ruling that would allow him to resume control of the its offices and business the federation employs about so including social workers and people who run its housing and property management he theres no How else can you resolve it the Assembly resolve the Board obviously cant get together to resolve Blais a lawyer and federation member who describes himself As Neutral also said the attempt to remove Blais was not the Emfs Constitution requires Advance written notice before holding a meeting to remove a the motion requires a two thirds majority to pass and it can Only be based on clearly defined said Lionel chairman of the Pas Region of the none of those conditions were met by fridays ouster he Jeff Debozy Winnipeg free piss Blais no doubt in my mind Carman Duck Mountain school division Winnipegosis Brandon school division Brandon fort la Bosse school division Virden front let school division Northern communities rolling River school division i said strapping a child is intended to cause either pain or we cant hit hardened criminals in prison but we can hit Durrant everybody protected but computers Aid wary immigrants transit Maze made easier by Bud Robertson staff reporter to a newly arrived few things Are More daunting than hopping on a transit bus to go Many can barely speak let alone figure out maps and How to get from one bus on to but a revolutionary education pro Gram being developed could soon end the Nightmare for thousands of would be transit riders across Cana the computerized learning sys being developed by the Cana Dian Urban transit association in conjunction with the Peel Board of education in involves Handson software programs and generic the system is intended for use at Community agencies and transit departments by Early said Beatrice coordinator of the transit literacy barriers for Canadas Cash strapped Tran sit it Means the potential for an explosion in ridership said who is attending Cutas annual conference and Trade show that began Here and for those who Are new to can Ada or Are mentally the system could generate a level of Confidence and Freedom they May have never thought she these people dont have Drivers some Are never going to get she while some handicapped adults have Learned to get from one Point to another by they May be afraid to risk going somewhere said for new the problems associated with dealing with mass transit have never been adequately she statistics show that 40 per cent of canadians read at a Grade 3 while 60 per cent of immigrants can not read above that level in a Grant from the Federal government helped pay for the first phase of the three phase depending on How much communities wish to information systems could involve setting up computer terminals in bus shelters and providing information by Way of words or a Pilot project ran earlier this year in where five out of 10 adults dont speak or under stand English the reactions of both users and transit Drivers who tested the sys tem were said Many found the colourful graphics and programs so entertaining they didst want to Stop using the compute she ;