Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local Brian Cole 6977232 a9 january Gordon Sinclair or teens touching kindness bag Job 1was sitting Over a lat night wine with a buddy this week when the talk turned to the most significant local Story of the the Call for baggers at Jamie my buddy and he got the he got the Job i repeated in is my buddy that not his real but Hes really Nice warm Bright and but there Are thousands of kids out there like him and this week they were at the Grant motor inn lining up by the but mostly to bag one of the 140 so How did he do it my buddy face lit let me Tell you the he q q q that a wonderful Safe ways or director Toby Oswald said i see her face Over the phone but i could Tell she was beaming almost As proudly As my the kids that would be just what we were looking Oswald Jamie was fortunate he had a Story to but i thought about the majority of the the ones who walked away without its Oswald her voice suddenly there were 803 the first 760 the second and yesterday Safeway was expecting another 500 applicants for the Union most of the jobs will go to students or others who can survive on the Par time nature of the but the bagging positions hold a because virtually All the grocery chains new employees will Start baggers Are the last people most customers Deal with and its vital for Safeway when they put the groceries in your car and hand Back your shopping cart they leave a Good customer service is what people who shop at Safeway pay a Little extra and the addition of baggers is sending a message that Safeway knows service is its bread and butter to stuff another cliche in the that Why there beefing it i asked Oswald what it was Safeway was looking for in its new separates the baggers from the applicants who get were looking for a certain Oswald someone you know will do the but is Able to do above and beyond the because a lot of times customer service involves above and beyond the which brings us Back to the Story Jamie told at his they asked him about customer my buddy taking a sip of and Jamie told him about the time when he was Selling ice Cream on his Dickie Dee what happened was this Young boy bought and paid for an ice and As he was taking it out of the the ice Cream fell on the id never heard the my buddy so i what did you do and he i gave him another ice Cream and paid for it my buddy took another sip of he was really glowing int that a Nice Story he i was we talked for a while about the moral of the kindness is returned and Good things happen to Good you theres another lesson in this my buddy theres so much Good about your kids you dont mayors pass puck to nil by Dan Lett City Hall reporter mayors of four Canadian cities fired the puck into National hockey league com missioner Gary Bettmann end of the rink hoping to per Suade him to save hockey in Small Market mayor Susan Thomp son said with assists from the mayors of Calgary and Quebec Thompson said she was Able to persuade Bettman that it was Essen tial to keep the nil in smaller Ca Nadian the mayors requested a meeting out of concern the league was not committed to keeping professional hockey in such following a lunch meeting with Bettman in Thompson said in an interview that the crush of Media at the meeting seemed to catch Bettman off guard and rein Force the importance of the mayors it was a very Good initial Thompson we got a sense that the nil and Bett Man were equally concerned about keeping hockey in the smaller Cit although Bettman offered no specific comments on salary Caps or Revenue Thompson said the commissioner was sincerely committed to doing what he could Wendell free press Don Kamins works at Central controls of new multipurpose Stony Mountain jail officials celebrate opening building police reporter Stony Mountain it was no prison a few doors Down from some of Manitoba most hardened officials celebrated the opening of a new jail building yesterday munching on poached Salmon stuffed with Moose two types of shrimp and a delicate rum Flavoured cake for while the menu was lavish and the new building corrections department officials stressed they Are not throwing away Money at a time when taxpayers Are being asked to bite the Pieter Deputy commissioner for the Prairie said the new multipurpose which will House inmates with special probably looks a lot More lavish than it actually Devink that most taxpayers probably Arent going to be Happy about the regardless of what the building looks Stony Mountain Warden Art Majkut said the new 80cell building will House suicidal inmates who have broken prison those who need to be new inmates and those awaiting Transfer to a maximum Security to ensure the Long life of the league in smaller Canadian she said the nil commissioner was especially impressed by the in tense interest of local and National Media which descended on Edmon ton to Monitor the Thompson said Bett Man was Adamant that the smaller markets learn to compete with larger ones in drawing getting corporate support and providing world class facilities for their she said Bettman offered to be come personally involved in Winni pegs contentious Arena debate in whatever Way he can to ensure a new building is part of the future of the Winnipeg Thompson said Shell ask him to get involved locally if she feels he could help smooth out the details of any agreement for construction of a new Arena or a change in ownership of the Ontario eyes Teale Case ban breach red River students among few in City to hear prohibited details by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter the Ontario attorney Gen reals office is remaining mum about an alleged Viola Tion of the Karla Teale publication ban by two College students in win Barbara a ministry said yesterday that while the ministry will continue to review All potential breaches of the publication ban and potential con tempt of it will no longer com ment on specific there is a court order in place and we have a responsibility to enforce the court Krever its in the interest of protecting the right to a fair Krever noted that not Only Are several Media outlets appealing the ban in Ontario Appeal court later this Paul Teales preliminary hearing Date on two charges of Mur Der has been scheduled for on red River Community College students Neil Hiebert and Craig during their noon show on the close circuit Campus radio allegedly broadcast excerpts of american Media reports detailing the slayings of Kristen French and Leslie on orders of Manitoba Justice Winnipeg police have begun to investigate the alleged breach of an Ontario judges publication police spokesman Eric Turner said yesterday two officers have been assigned to investigate the Al Tony red River Community College said in a release that the College has completed an internal investigation of the the College is satisfied the Stu dents acted Knowles College students Are among the few in Winnipeg who know details of the a sur vey conducted yesterday while american Media have for several weeks violated the ban on in formation that came out during Karla Teales manslaughter sen and at least one american newspaper was sent to the Centen Nial Library before being none of the two dozen Winni Eggers surveyed downtown admitted know ing details of the trial covered by the publication i understand the purpose of the but after its Over the whole Story better come Tom Jensen said As he browsed through books during the lunch Betty a Canada Post said the publication ban should be people have the right to Wahl obviously theres something they dont want the general Public to Mary Anne Hoover said the whole Justice system is at risk because of the All people charged would be Able to i cant be tried fairly be cause its been reported this opens up a whole can of sex assault claim proven to be false by Heather Mclaughlin free press correspondent a 19yearold woman who claimed she was assaulted by two armed men at a univer sity of Manitoba parking lot will be charged with Public u of m officials were initially sceptical of the woman complaint when she failed to report it to any one on Campus and identified an Iso lated parking lot used mainly by not visitors to the As the site of the the University last reported sex Ual assault two years ago was also dismissed As a u of m vice president Terry Falconer con a Young female student was also charged at that time for her false Falconer the woman facing charges in thursdays incident cannot be identified until her 28 court appear Winnipeg police spokesman Eric Turner she was released by police yesterday on a Promise to appear in court later this our investigation has deter mined that the incident never took place at Turner the woman apparently made up the Story of the crime out of some desire for he she called police at thursday from the University of claiming she was at tacked at 7 the same evening in a parking lot on the u of m the Young woman said she was sexually assaulted and knocked unconscious by two fat one armed with a knife and the other with a Farmers seek marketing Powers by Larry Kusch staff reporter after listening to two politicians dance around issues for nearly 90 minutes Wawanesa Grain Farmer Gregg Downie help showing his i understand youre in new portfolios and you Haven had a lot of time to get completely up to he told Federal agriculture minister Ralph Goodale and f provincial agriculture minister Harry but in the last hour and a half Ive listened to about As much political rhetoric As i care to listen to in a whole the Westin hotel packed with Farmers attending the annual meeting of the Western Canadian wheat growers erupted in the farm lobby group says its frustrated at How successive Federal governments have been to enact the marketing and transport policy changes they think they need to make their farms More they want More Choice in How they Market their wheat and and they want to see government deregulate the Grain transportation Industry so that its More efficient and less a sore Point with the association was the loss last fall of their right to Market Barley directly to the United the Canadian wheat the Mulroney government had passed a Federal order Council last summer giving Farmers the Opportunity to sell directly to but the Prairie wheat pools had the order quashed in the in one of his first decisions As agriculture Goodale announced that he would not Appeal the court Farmers urged the minister to allow a plebiscite on the Barley marketing they also passed a motion that they be allowed to Market wheat to the United states without having to go through the wheat Goodale was noncommittal about a farm adding that careful consideration would have to be Given to the wording of the question As Well As to who would be eligible to i dont anticipate making that kind of decision in the near but i dont Rule out the concept of a farm he ;