Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Brian Cole 6977232 Inanc Ward Danielle finally gets ride to school Hast nor is it Likely she Ever but it has the bureaucracy that there to help her the eighty Earold was rushed to the childrens Hospital four weeks ago after falling from a second floor she suffered a broken leg and last thursday her took her just another event in the life of a Young redhead who just cant help getting into Shes a Downs syndrome child with a mental age half her does she remember All her dangerous escapades i strongly doubt being found by police near the Midtown Bridge after slipping away from Day care dashing into the water at Gimli and coming close to drowning wandering into a neighbors Yard in the Early hours of the morning being found naked after wandering off on another occasion letting herself out of her parents locked hotel room during the night and making her Way to a third floor swimming list goes Danielle was first introduced to free press readers in july 1992 after her Mother asked me to try resolving a runaround she was having with the provinces family services it was bureaucratic Penn pinching at its her court appointed guardians registered nurse her husband Gordon lost his Arm in an Industrial Accident and is now unemployed but being retrained receive a month from provincial welfare for the Childs for a Long time it was a have cared for Danielle since she was found abandoned As a made a modest they asked the province for from its special needs fund to buy a swing and a slide for their adventurous the previous year they requested a wading Pool and a tricycle and also were turned this its not so much income Security Penn pinching is there one taxpayer who would have begrudge this child to keep her from wandering off As opposed to the Cost of institutionalizing spending extra dollars Danielles recent Accident happened while in the care of a couple who Volunteer As a respite they we rent to but quite naturally her mom had second thoughts about her returning there when she was discharged from that what family services a in of a Day on the reason for Danielle staying with the respite family is that for the next month Shell have to be driven to and from school by Van until her body Cassis the respite couple have a the Kitche Kesis family services explored using a private but ruled it out As being too Danielles folks suggested they buy a used Van with provincial that was turned i called department spokeswoman Cindy Stevens to Check into the a couple of Days she got Back to me to say family services had come up with another Danielle can stay with her parents and the school division will handle her a Long haul not Danielles trip to school but bureaucracy Way of finding an obvious victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy write or fax 6977412 Mike hell look into Winnipeg free press local november 1993 Ken free press Kayu Maggii philippine Folk dancer Janice Quitania right helps ariane multicultural performers Aid earthquake Relief fundraiser it took Prem Bhalla All of three Days to line up a dozen multicultural performers for last nights Benefit concert for Indian earthquake it actually came together quite it was the cause that attracted them to Bhalla said before the fundraiser at the Walker he was unaware of any similar disaster Relief concerts being held the idea came a few Days after the 29 earthquake he by lamented the victims and damage were being forgotten by the a couple of my friends called me from the Community and said they like to they soon hatched the concert and Bhalla was on the phone to local the concert featured aboriginal hoop dancer George Bear and groups from various heritages including latin filipino and there All local people get an evening out and see Topflight said the proceeds Are going to the red Cross in and Channel it through the red Cross in other transport companies unlikely to follow motorways firms demise no Shock staff reporter coalition opposes building bigger Home for the jets new Arena chills thin ice by Dan Lett City Hall reporter anew coalition opposed to Public funding of a new Arena took the first step yesterday to galvanize Community the which Calls itself thin organized a panel discus Sion yesterday on the viability of nil hockey and the need for a new Arena a discussion which focused arguments against building a new Home for the Winnipeg Rosemary a representative of the Manitoba action commit tee on the status of women and an organizer of thin said the symposium and future events will seek to investigate alternatives to Public investment in a new Miguez said thin ice will make a submission to the interim steering which is investigating various financing options to construct a new panellists involved in the symposium put Forward a number of arguments and alternative analyses of the need for a new Arena and the benefits that might Spring from Lori administrator of the Logan Community said the debate Over the future of nil hockey in Winnipeg has ignored Many of the cites other priorities and Smith said Winni Eggers who Are ravaged by poverty and for will find Little Solace in the fact a Arena is being with or without the Winnipeg this City is in real said this City is just As Well known As the child poverty capital of Canada As it is the Home of the Winnipeg Smith also pointed out that if the jets Winnipeg will not disappear but will continue with Many of the same problems it had if the jets were to leave the we would be a City without a National hockey league we Are presently a City with homeless peo we Are a City with 250 food Jeff a spokesman for choir a social issues lobby said proponents of building a new Arena with taxpayer Money have overestimated the benefits and downplayed the potential Lowe said Public ownership of an Arena that is controlled by a privately owned hockey team will Only mortgage the future of tax payers to ensure profits for the Pri vate the Manitoba trucking Industry May be Down but not out despite news that a major local firm will be shutting its doors next observers officials at motorways a 40 year old National trucking company based in Fri Day that the company would be go ing out of business throwing 790 people out of work across West Ern Hubert chairman of Leysen transport said the re cession has hit local trucking companies hard but Hes confident Winnipeg can remain a major Hub for trucking in profits Are very Low right now but Well survive and when the coun try comes out of the so will said who Heads the Winnipeg based trucking giant that bears his Federal human resources minis Ter Lloyd Axworthy said a major re View of the trucking Industry in the Prairie provinces is under Way through the department of Western economic development in an at tempt to find ways to give the Indus try a he also said a deteriorating Road system has been a Factor in the slumping trucking Industry and Hes hopeful a Public works program aimed at improving the country infrastructure will give the companies an energetic it should substantially improve the transportation Axworthy Industry observers say the de Mise of motorways came As no sur prise and had As much to do with the financial difficulties of its Parent company As it did with a sagging local Federal the Parent company of had been trying to sell off the company for the past three years to help pay off a huge debt Federal has accrued from its other Barry a researcher at the Manitoba transportation inst said the bust in the local truck trucking troubles heres a Quick look at the recent history of motorways 1983 Winnipeg based Federal industries buys the company for 1985 Federal expands its transportation holdings and merges motorways with direct trucking a Large Eastern Canadian trucking firm to form the fourth largest trucking company in 1986 Federal spends Mil lion on new equipment for 1991 a recession battered Federal industries burdened with a debt announces its intention to sell off its bulk trucking division and put motorways on the auction 1992 motorways closes its Brandon terminal and lays off 12 october 1993 motorways chops More than 100 jobs in eroding the local workforce to about 80 employ november 1993 Federal announces it is shutting Down motorways effective Gordon Preece Winnipeg free press ing Economy appears to have Bot Tomed out and most Winnipeg based firms have seen a marginal increase in profits during the past Prentice said the demise of motor ways is regrettable because of its Long history in but its Good news for the remaining win Nipe based companies who will now have More Market to activists slam lumber store Greenpeace targets Beaver outlet to protest logging practices by Jon Jenkins free press correspondent i Dave free press protesters outside Greenpeace activists were Busy As beavers yester trying to draw attention to controversial logging practices on Vancouver islands Clayoquot the environmental group set up information pickets outside Beaver lumbers Regent Avenue try ing to persuade shoppers not to buy Wood products resulting from clearcut Beaver lumber is a major Cus Tomer of Macmillan the for Estry giant contracted to log in Clayoquot in All for said Beaver Cus Tomer Maryann Ive just recently bought lumber and i had no idea where it came in going to write Beaver a other shoppers that Greenpeace May have gone too far in its defence of the environmentally sensitive Len Scammell said hed bought lumber from Beaver in the past and he would continue to do so in the fun i think Greenpeace has really lost its said scam Treyve gone too another John said he thought the idea behind the demonstration was even if he didst agree with it for their this is As Good a place As any to have they sell a lot of lumber said but do you Guys really know any thing about Trees he 1 think you Guys Are going overboard on something youre not really aware the stores who declined to give his said the pickets we rent having much Suc Cess getting customers to complain about beavers Wood youngster risked life pulling men from River around town by Janice Oakley free press correspondent thirteen Earold Desmond Batenchuk didst give a second thought to his own safety when he ran 250 metres across thin ice to save the lives of his brother and Donald Batenchuk and Hubert both were skid oing at Poplar River last thursday when they hit a Patch of thin ice and plunged into freezing water Desmond and his Donald Batenchuk watched in horror As the two men disappeared into the water ahead of it was cold enough for a person to Desmond said of the water but 1 want thinking about that i was Only thinking 1 had to save with a stick in Desmond crossed the ice to the open where Doxrud was trying to crawl on to the his father turned Back to get help and warm i grabbed Donald and pulled him was pretty said when he realized Hudson was too far to be Desmond said he ran to gathered Sticks and tied them together to create a pole for Hudson to Hudson was in the water approximately one hour and 10 he had no feeling left in his body when pulled the three waited on the ice for George the eldest son of Donald Batenchuk to return with a Sleigh to transport them to the other Side of the Desmond is a said his Virginia he is so he put his own life in Daniger to save she Toje family was crossing the River in order to create new trails for whats on municipalities meet the 90th annual Union of Manitoba municipalities convention begins tomorrow at the Westman Centennial auditorium in a pre conference seminar on soil and groundwater Quality takes place at 9 followed by the opening of the convention at 2 it continues until Good works food and football Winnipeg Harvest will be at today Blue bomber game against the Hamilton Tiger cats collecting non perishable food for the needy from 11 Garra time is at Winnipeg trivia Challenge in a act of the provincial legislature divided Manitoba into counties for registration and 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