Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local Brian Cole 6977292 email a9 april 1994 Gordon Sinclair greed weakens sense of loyalty in Case you haunt something disappeared when we we rent whatever happened to anyway whatever happened to employers who gave their workers jobs for life and employees who returned the favor with dedicated whatever happened to product player loyalty and singing god save the Queen in Public places whatever happened to the Quality that binds one to another q q q in search of the i drove downtown and hopped an i was on my Way to the inner Sanctum of my personal the venerable and esteemed what finally prompted my pilgrimage was a discussion i had earlier in the morning with two older gentlemen of my John Cholakis and John we were sitting in Tubby next door to metro John Thanos owns metro which is How we got started on As of the end of this Thanos will have operated metro cleaners for 40 business loyalty was big Back when Thanos when people shopped at Small neighbourhood stores because they liked the convenience or the people behind the counter and prices were about the John Cholakis family has owned Broadway florists even so he remembers the Golden age of great local business Bonds were forged Between Small businesses that had Little and others who had we used to do All our business with John Cholakis because during the depression the Guy who owned Sutherland used to deliver on his Cholakis reeled off a series of other local Small businesses Broadway florists used to do business with of which is around any if that tells you by the time the elevator doors opened at my gurus id already figured out what had happened to it had been replaced by greed and unions wanted management wanted the shopping mall went up and the decline and fall of neighbourhood businesses then multinationals replaced Canadian and loyalty faded like a forgotten having answered my own there want much Point in asking my but i was at his door so i Sank into the Large leather chair across from his big old Oak desk and asked Wiseman had a bulletin for loyalty Day in and Day he i see examples of people who Deal with businesses or professions without Ever questioning the Price tag because there satisfied with the people they Deal with and that More important than the they say Ive dealt with the same Guy for 20 Hes a Good Man and i Trust him and i know hell be Sqq q so loyalty still lives in but not As i remember forty years there were More family owned places where the owners acted like parents and their employees were treated like their mind the wages looked like but employers gave and employees gave workers were but today were but which Way would you rather have it i guess Loyal is a question for another you Are Loyal Arent you Marc free press Robert Smith school Grade 3 student Alex ethans Centre and friends Mark Earth Day by collecting trash on Oak recycling must make financial sense expert nobody is going to pay you for Good intentions by Brad Oswald staff reporter Good intentions and Green mindedness Are a waste of time and Effort if recycling Doest make economic says a spokesman for the environment and plastics Institute of during an Earth Day workshop that kicked of f a today waste reduction conference in Fred Edgecombe said yesterday that Manitoba is poised to make a big splash in the realm of Long As politicians and entrepreneurs do a reality Check before jumping in with both its going to take a lot of imagination to make it because nobody going to pay you for Good said Vic president of the institutes technical the Bottom line is that you collect anything until you have a Market for i think Manitoba has a tremendous because the infrastructure is really not Here yet to Deal with the Issue of curbside and household collection of if you do it theres a great potential for Manitoba to become a Model for North America and other parts of the demand he said the expansion of recycling in this province May mean collection of Reclaimable materials for shipment to out province markets or perhaps the development of recycling facilities As Long As the necessities of both Supply and demand Are the building of recycling facilities in Manitoba really depends upon an effective shipping the entrepreneur who builds such a facility will have to do the reality there enough feed Stock of constant is it available at the right and is there a Market for the product Hes putting out Edgecombe said Manitoban can learn from mistakes in other he said successful plastic recycling projects focus on specific grades of whether its the polyester fibres found in soft drink the High density polyethylene found in rigid containers such As detergent or any of the other five separate grades into which plastics Are municipalities that have said they collect All plastics have got themselves into a terrible because you end up with something that requires a lot of work to sort later he Rick chairman of the recycling Council of said a few such As Winnipeg based Nesco resources have been Able to create Niche markets for recycled but the future for reclaimed plastics remains one of the key problems is that Virgin materials Are still he As soon As recycled materials Start making economic As they do in the Case of then Industry will take Over and a Market will be intercity Bank invests in staffs cultural diversity the changing face of Canada can be seen at one Royal Bank Branch in Winnipeg that transformed itself into a min United nations Over the past staff to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the the Branch at the Corner of Sargent Avenue and Sherbrook Street became a Kaleidoscope of cultural personal banker Balbir Kainth what we Are doing is you wont see this anywhere Kainth you should see the faces of our clients when they come in Here and see their own really touches the Kainth staff members dressed in their traditional National decorated their offices with ornaments and pictures and arranged for ethnic restaurants to provide snacks for Kainth the Branch is located in the heart of the cites Core Home to immigrants from around the were All from different countries and its great that the Royal Bank can hire people from different ethnic backgrounds to Cater to the needs of the Kainth when you walk into this you hear All different when customers come their faces glow because they can speak their own Jeff free press Spanish employee Cielo Beltran serves open House launches police name change Winnipeg police Are throwing open the doors of the Public safety building tomorrow to launch their new offi Cial As of the Winnipeg police department will be known As the Winnipeg police service one of the first changes the department is undergoing As part of a sweeping re the name change similar to that adopted by most other Western Canadian departments in recent years was proposed in the depart ments restructuring plan As a Way to represent the coming shift to wards Community based tomorrows open House will in clude demonstrations of some of the departments specially including the computerized Finger print system used by the identification representatives of the bomb disposal crowd control unit and Ca nine unit will also be on the open House runs from 9 to 3 at the 151 Princess Marchi to decide if family can stay kids await Fate Batree Nathan staff reporter immigration minister ser Gio Marchi will decide monday or tuesday whether to make an exception that would allow a Winni Peg family to stay in a fed eral official confirmed the Case of the Olarewaju family was brought to Marchis attention on wednesday when he spoke at a Lau Rier club luncheon in the at that Marchi said he would look into the Calls of support for the family were heard from City Resi including a dozen Calls to the free press parents and staff from Gordon Bell High school where two of the Olarewaju children Are students collected 640 signatures for a petition asking Marchi not to Deport the the University of Winnipeg Stu dents association also sent a fax to John is a third year science student cruel action Olarewaju has raised her family she owns her own House and she very much wishes to John and his family Are his fellow students will come together to protest the cruel and unjust actions of the immigration said the the in Canada since was to be deported april they avoided deportation officials until Mother Felicia Olarewaju was arrested april 15 and the four children came out of hiding several callers to the free press expressed concern the family has been on welfare since but Feli Cia says the family was except for a two year Felicia Olarewaju arrived in can Ada on a student her had a work permit and served As a Church minister in Manitoba and the couples youngest Abra was born in the Only Ca Nadian citizen in the the couple separated in and in Felicia applied for refugee at that she was not Al Lowed a work her application was denied in custody hearing leaving her children with her Hus Felicia went to the United states and worked As a nurses in she applied for immigration into Canada As an entre she planned to buy a fast food Chicken restaurant in Winni her application was turned Down for Lack of in she returned to Canada for a custody she applied for refugee and was turned because she was unable to get a work she went on social assistance in in june she was summoned to an immigration at that she went off social hoping it would increase her chances for refugee she was turned and on 1993 was Given notice of she filed an which was denied this the family has since relied on do nations of food and Money from friends and Church Foster Mother not jury says n 1 Llaca trout1 mown f am n i by Brad Oswald staff reporter two weeks of testimony and just five hours of a Kenora jury last night found Irene Carolyn Fredrickson not guilty of had been charged in connection with the september death of William a six year old boy in her Foster m its a great Relief for said her Greg she took in a special needs child who was grossly the child everyone supported but the medical tests demonstrated that she had some explaining to were it not for the experts we were Able to shed have had a difficult sometimes you cant find the and cases dont have the same kinds of Happy end Dewitt had been in Fredrick sons Foster care for More than a he was removed from his parents Cus Tody in 1990 after reports of domes tic violence and substance experts testified Dewitt was a deeply troubled boy who had been subjected to horrendous trauma during his Early he suffered from attention deficit disorder and had frequently displayed self de Struc Tive Brodsky said the Case hinged on the testimony of a pharmacologist who said the toxic level of a Tihista t mine found in dewitts system Likely caused the brain swelling that led to his a Kenora pathologist determined the cause of death to be internal in juries and concluded that fatal rup Tures of the diaphragm and Sopha Gus were caused by a Sharp blow to the boys but Brodsky was Able to show that the pathologist reached his conclusions before getting the blood and bodily fluid which showed the High level of Fredrickson declined Bruce the boys said he intends to continue the civil suit he filed against Fredrickson and Keno Apatricia child and family in very he adding that he will seek a Public inquiry into the the people of this town stand up for a six Earold i Hope they can sleep at in never coming Back to this ;