Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Movement on nth wives province takes major step to create new profession 11 unwanted attachments 52 pages pm m w i Ipi m Ai if Mai i no Winnipeg free press l v May 1994 Phil Cool in the face of 11yearold Joshua Henson shows off his startling the Wake up that one alarming Ball Cap by Bud Robertson staff reporter some kids might just stay awake in class Long enough to learn something if Joshua Henson invention Ever catches either or till keep them up Long enough to watch the end of their lat night television shows the very reason the Grade 5 student came up with the idea for his trigger released alarm baseball at watching i always fell explained As he showed of f his Asyet unpatented Wake up hat during Ecol inside Story another hat one with velcro b3 Highbury schools invention he his parents cant Tell him to go to bed just because he cant keep his eyes it Hensen said As he demonstrated his Gizmo at the vital a piercingly loud Batter operated Buzzer and Light fit onto the front of an Ordinary before switching it the user presses an interrupter switch connected to the As soon As the wearer begins to and his thumb eases off the that when the sound and Light show Henson said he first thought of some kind of watering therace device to help keep him awake next was a necklace with a Long Needle protruding menacingly toward the both ideas were quickly tossed and the Wake up hat sprang to this ones he adding he has had kids offer As much As for the but is the hat marketable it could said the who is also a Manitoba chess but before it hits the Hes got to get it to work every Accord May save 225jobs City gets Cement from struck firm Bybell Redekop staff reporter a Union Compromise last night May have saved the jobs of about 225 seasonal City hired to do Street and sidewalk they were idled because the City contracted for its Cement with a company on employees with Canadian Union of Public employ local had refused to Cross the picket line of teamsters Union employees at building products and Concrete Supply who have been on strike since August City administrators signed the contract because they Are required by Law to accept the lowest bid on tenders under the Cement contract was for about but last the teamsters and cupe reached an agreement that saves jobs for City workers and face for the under the City trucks will drive up but not the prop erty line at building com Pany supervisory staff will be Al Lowed to Load the trucks and drive them off the then the City Drivers can haul the Concrete to construction cupe agreed that its members will refuse to accept any Load that arrives in the company trucks the teamsters agreed not to picket any City work site that abides by the inside Story dispute ugly bylaw changes urged b3 we face Rick Ash business agent for teamsters local said after the meeting last he said his Union had no desire to see City workers Laid and he said that with some of the civic leaders we the City would Likely have contracted out its Concrete work and Laid off its Harry Lazarenko Mynarski said yesterday before the Union that repairs to the cites curbs and sidewalks would get done one Way or he said the City would contract out annual sidewalk and curb repairs to a Pri vate company unless the dispute was Robert president of the struck said the arrange ment worked out by the unions in their Wisdom was Fine with he said the contract called for the City to haul most of the Concrete with his company hauling Only when the City keep up with under its collective bargaining Cupes local 500 has the right to refuse to Cross a picket and can even refuse to handle products from a company where workers Are on Era stunned As Congress outlaws arms fed bans assault guns by David Macdonald Washington editor Washington president Clinton won giant killer status last night when he knocked out the mighty National Rifle association by getting an assault weapon ban through in the biggest lobbying Effort seen since last Falls Naftal Clinton threw his entire Cabinet into a fight even he thought he could not the vote clearly reflected growing concern about violent crime in it came just Days after gun control opponents appeared headed for easy defeat of the Bill by 15 or 20 fed up the american people Are fed up with teenagers armed with ak47s and with crazed loners who terrorize people and mow Down said Louise vice president Ai Treasury Secretary Loyd Bentsen and attorney general Janet Reno spent hours yesterday calling Capitol Hill off Era lobbyists gaped incredulously when the 435member House of representatives voted 216214 to forbid import and Sale of 19 semiautomatic military style the Senate has already backed a till be a hot Day in fort Yukon in january before the government takes my shouted Don the bras three million members had been lobbying lawmakers for the Era spent millions on despite polls showing 80 per cent Public support for a supporters and opponents agreed As late As mid afternoon yesterday that the Era would As it did a 1991 ban it was a stunning Victory for for the second time in six a stinging rebuke to the gun six months ago Congress passed the Brady which imposes a five Day waiting period on handgun the semiautomatic ban will not affect current it will not affect 650 other semiautomatic that Are widely available the bans target is assault rifles or assault pistols with two or More of the following detachable magazines holding More than 10 barrel shrouds to shield hot barrels barrel threads for silencers or Flash suppressors grenade launcher mounts Bayonet mounts folding stocks pistol audit catches firm mishandling Grants by Paul Samyn legislature reporter Steinbach computer firm has been Cut off from a provincial training program after a special audit found misrepresentations and financial irregularities in How it handled in but the Justice while recommending that workforce 2000 not do any More business with Larry Kehler or his said there was not enough evidence to open a Crimi Nal the government probe of com Puter consulting also Points out a serious Lack of monitoring with workforce 2000 including the programs inability to determine How taxpayers Money is workforce 2000 is a provincial the weather today mainly program to upgrade the skills of workers and unemployed according to the March 4 the investigation was prompted after workforce 2000 received an Anonymous tip that computer consulting was making special train ing offers to numerous that special offer allegedly saw computer consulting charge companies Only an amount equal to the cos sharing provided by work Force 2000 so that the firms got their training among the audits findings were that computer consulting issued two sets of invoices which were a very questionable and irregular business the audit concludes that both Kehler and the employers receiving training were negligent in the mis representations Low tonight tomorrow sunny throw snout the Sun Tofta Moon remt Seta on inside Ann in its not right and this govern ment Doest want to Deal with him Ever education minister Clayton manness while workforce 2000 has been under fire since a free press series raised concerns about the manness insisted the problems with Kehler were just an isolated manness said new monitoring procedures recommended by the audit have since been put in Kehler denied he violated any pro Gram what i did was probably give my customers More than they paid he nip education critic Jean Friesen said the audit is proof of fundamental problems with workforce its Public Money going into Pri vate training without any account Friesen Wolseley quote of the Day 7 believe god has Given me these gift a for a like any Bonnie Cornwall Cohoat Ysahel to Rajat nor but the mow of 10 aha a ;