Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 40 pages vol 122 no 132 publications mail registration 0286 press get Post t Post outside City 7m in Ontario horns to Fwy my Post in Winnipeg my Post outside City april 1994 sweat water canal City Aqueduct 75year sold by Bud Robertson staff reporter next time you sip a drink of Cool water from your Kitchen Stop and give thanks to men like William now Laboured Long and hard to help construct the Winnipeg which carries water to the City from Shoal near the Ontario he appeared at a 75th anniversary luncheon to Mark the historic him proud when i see said As he stood among Blacka Edwhite photographs of fellow workers holding shovels and pouring then in his Early the Young immigrant from Austria spent up to is hours a Day toiling in the hot levelling wet Concrete with a his cents an said he was Strong and energetic in those and he for him it was a labor of accompanied by his daughter and beamed with Pride yesterday when he visited a Section of currently shut for the officially opened on by Prince was an engineering Marvel of the covering 156 the project in today dollars took six years to Complete and is one of the longest covered aqueducts in the Duguid watches Rick Boychuk drink water from his hard hat during free press Shoal Lake Waw first reached City taps on april the Structure is beginning to show its with Large cracks appearing in sections along its while it has served us very Well the past 75 its getting a Little works and operations commissioner Rod Mcrae told a group of visitors to the Deacon which stores water from the and that is Why million will be spent Over the next 10 years to than a men quote Yards of Sand and gravel and More thaw Barrite of repair the aging said Terry chairman of the works and operations the City is also expanding the Reservoir so the Aqueduct can be shut for 15 Days a year for to highlight the aqueducts importance to the City is preparing an exhibit which Zubatuk to proud will open in Duguid when i see this attitude key to survival corporate restructuring leaves workers scrambling for new jobs by Murray Mcneill staff writer there like two sides of the same Elmer a married father of lost his Plant managers Job nearly two years ago when a Winnipeg pasta manufacturer Betty a married Mother of lost her Job last november when a Winnipeg printing firm closed its camera department and transferred the work to the United but while and share the experience of having lost their jobs because of corporate the similarities in their situations end that because within a Sac vie found another Good while Johnson has Given up Hope of finding another printing Industry Job and has returned to their cases illustrate the life when a company closes or reduces the fallout can be in this fou part business reporter Murray Mcneill examines How some Laid off workers Cope better than and what can be done to help adjust to life after Job toss All too different consequences that can occur in the Wake of a Plant closure or a corporate events that have become almost commonplace in local outplacement consultants who specialize in helping displaced workers say those who possess the right skills and the right attitude can often rebound quickly from a Job but its usually a different Story for those who Lack marketable skills or have worked in an Industry where opportunities Are the consultants Many of them have to change and it can be months or years before they get Back to where they entire families can be consultants Johnson said that because her husband her family has been Able to Cope fairly Well with her Job but she desperately wants to get Back into the so she has enrolled in a federally sponsored 10month business administration course at a career its scary not having a and its even More scary when you look at the she according to statistics of the approximately Manitoban who listed themselves As unemployed last year said they had been Laid and other Manitoban will find themselves in the same boat Over the next few University of Manitoba economics professor by Gonick Gonick says Canadian companies have been closing plants and relocating operations because there looking for ways to reduce their operating costs and become More and As International Trade barriers fall and the Competition continues to Canadian firms will keep looking for ways to reduce their Gonick my guess is that it the number of layoffs has probably peaked in terms of he but just because it has peaked Doest mean its car theft priority Pic looking at program to push ant theft devices by David Kuxhaus staff reporter tired of paying out millions of dollars in Auto theft the Manitoba Public insurance is looking at an incentive program to encourage car owners to install ant theft we haunt considered it before but its a priority now with the vehicle thefts Over the last 12 Pic communications officer bar Bro Dick from november to Pic had theft claims total Ling Over the same three month period last it paid out million on 573 people who Are getting their cars stolen Are getting frustrated and its costing our policy holders Dick she did not provide details on How the incentive program would saying it is still in the study were reviewing the pros and cons and looking at what constitutes an ant theft she add ing that she didst know when a Deci Sion would be Winnipeg police want aut Opac to give a break to car owners who buy ant theft As an average of 17 vehicles Are swiped every at that its expected the number of stolen cars will top before the year is Ron who Heads a two member Auto theft said that aside from taking the wheels off your ant theft devices Are the Best Way to prevent a vehicle from being we Haven had a car stolen that had an ant theft no matter what kind it he devices run the Gamut from a bar Beck when we asked for solutions to the car theft them at Portage an Der and one Reader please see inside Story on Page b3 for some of your that locks the steering wheel to More expensive Security systems that sound an alarm when the car is tampered Dawson said those two along with a device that locks the cars ignition Are the Best Way to it hat makes it pretty i much impossible to steal the he the Tab for that kind of peace of can run up to Ross who responded to a request by the free press for solutions to the car theft thinks a five per cent discount up to a maximum of would be enough incentive for motorists to buy anti theft if even 10 per cent of the thefts can be this program would be Maxwell it would make the streets safer for innocent victims and re Duce insurance Maxwell also feels that High risk vehicles such As late Model Gas and jeeps should be placed in a separate category and receive even higher quote of the Day the get took a lot of the fun out of being self Ana the get auditor made sure that the fun ended Juanita an Eastern Manitoba Marine appears before the trave log commons committee on detamaonpage01 the weather today 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