Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Why not pay your rent by phone please Call 958rent Apex realty 7368 Winnipeg free press local Section Brian Cole 6977292 email b1 january Paul Mckee Are that a Holiday is needed like most working the first thing i did when i returned from the new years Holiday was figure out when i had another Day sit because Ive done the the next official Day off for the working people of this land is april that three months that 13 that almost 100 were left to toil away through the most miserable part of the year without a single Long what makes it doubly hard is that weve just been through Holiday starting in april with the easter weekend there Are holidays every Canada the August Long labor remembrance Christmas and boxing Day and finally new and then its actually worse for Many technically there Are Only seven statutory holidays in boxing Day int a Gimme and the August Holiday is a civic remembrance Day is governed by a separate Law in but everyone gets it i hear you employers out there saying that its about time we shirker had a Good string of working Days so something will actually get All that Holiday stuff hurts no wonder Canada lags behind the United were a nation of layabout while our american friends happily toil but guess what workers get 12 statutory holidays a canadians generally receive nine but again Only seven Are statutory in maybe our american friends Are better workers because there better i hear those voices we have to work harder up Here to be More Canadian workers have had it cushy for too Why dont we just All get to work and Stop counting when our next Holiday comes up id love to see the Absentee rates at this time of the i bet somewhere around late february those rates go through the How productive and competitive is that there May not be any official but that wont Stop people from taking much needed mental health its not hard to persuade an employer that youve got a cold when its if that cold Only happens on a monday or a people need a break to tackle their jobs in a productive and meaningful they aint going to do that if there dragging their Butts around for almost four but there is a for years there has been talk just talk about giving canadians a Long weekend in the name bandied about is heritage who the Heck cares what its called just give it to i know in not alone in you people out there feel you need a midwinter break let me know How you feel so that if nothing else in not suffering by if misery loves company maybe the whole miserable lot of us can make it to and just if we yell loud enough some people out there will take surely our politicians can put aside the Fate of the nation and the crumbling Economy Long enough to give us a Day but they better make it april 14 is a Long Way 1 dont think ill make come to think of i think i feel a bit of a cold coming you can email Paul Mckie at or Call Fumat Mec Waits for Axworthy by Nick Martin City Hall reporter Manitoba entertainment Complex May Bow out of meetings wednesday and where it was expected to show City Council and the Public its plans for a new Mec chairman John Loewen said yesterday there is no Point meeting with City Council until human re sources minister Lloyd Axworthy makes a commitment on Federal funds for the a spokesman for Axworthy said the minister has no plans yet to meet with anyone on the Arena Issue and there is no indication of an imminent announcement on mayor Susan Thompson had planned a special meeting of Council late in january to pick an Arena but that was contingent on Mec tabling a business plan concluding that a new Arena and the Winnipeg jets Are financially in the she she plans to hold a private seminar for councillors to examine the Impact of a new Arena at the Portage East site North of the Forks which is Mecs preferred site or alter a across from the Winnipeg convention Centre on York both Loewen and Thompson have requested meetings with Axworthy when he is in Winnipeg next Mec is tentatively scheduled to meet City Council behind closed doors on wednesday afternoon and with executive policy committee at proposed Tofy Council my tongs on Winnipeg jets and a new All but tuesdays Are tentative 1 chief commissioner Rick Frost presents an analysis of the nil labor agreement and the Arena situation at a close door Council 2 members of Manitoba entertainment Complex appear at a closed door Council a Public session that subject to us having something to Loewen councillors have been Adamant the City will not contribute new tax but some Are willing to con j before february Friday Mec presents its plans publicly and councillors hear delegations at an open meeting of executive policy 24 executive policy committee will make its recommendations Public at a special meeting of City 25 debate continues at councils regular monthly meeting if no decision was reached the previous Sider donating land and Council holds a closed door meeting tuesday afternoon to hear chief commissioner Rick frosts analysis of the National hockey leagues tentative Settle ment and its Impact on the future of the jets and a new a spokeswoman for Thompson said yesterday that both Loewen and jets owner Barry Shenkarow will Brief Thompson and Frost on the Deal before were hopeful the whole proposal will Start next Loewen if Mec can table its business plan with Council the special Council meeting on an Arena site would Likely be held the City needs specific answers on the Cost of removing a Hydro Sta Tion from the Portage East and whether the land beneath it is con said who favors the convention Centre de spite reports Mec has ruled it Ashley shown with her father was rewarded for saving grandmothers girls Quick reaction to fire saved Home Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Bud Robertson staff reporters Ashley Rogocki Doest quite know How to react to being called a hero by her friends at i kind of dont know what to shrugged the 12yearold chief pegu is Junior High school whose Quick thinking May have saved not Only her grandmothers but her family East Paul Home As last Ashley was in the Kitchen of her family Home when she heard a smoke Detector go off and the terrified scream of her 81yearold wheelchair bound Tannis coming from another Lester had been leaning Over a Candle to blow it out when part of her clothing caught after seeing her grandmother frantically trying to extinguish the flames with her Ashley ran Back into the filled a Container with water and doused Lester with the fire had also spread from her grandmother to the once her grandmother was Ashley put out the fire on the floor As this Ashleys bravery on was rewarded when she received four the main citation was from the provincial fire recognizing Ashleys heroic taken without regard to the risks to her own Ashley also received a Gold municipality pin from East a certificate from the fire and a certificate from Liberal my Ron Ashley said her is still recovering in the health sciences Centre Burn Ward after receiving second and third degree Burns to the upper part of her just Happy to be hero prefers god to get the credit by Tony Davis staff reporter the january Issue of the Canadian edition of readers Magazine read by million people Winnipeg Carpenter Larry Heppner out to be a hero for saving a drowning Souris but they got the wrong he even though the lieutenant governor of Manitoba also awarded him the Johns ambulance meritorious award for risking his god was the Heppner says hed just As soon step out of the hed like to get the divine Side of his Story it was when Heppner and his family stopped in Souris to see the famous swinging they had just begun a Quick picnic when this seven Earold girl came running to us and said that her Little brother fell in the River and he says he told his wife to Call an then followed the girl to the spot where she had last seen her Fivey Earold j saw some so i peeled off my jacket and i jumped i didst know it was so i just about lost my Heppner find the so he clambered up onto a Dock and scanned the Muddy he saw More and jumped in he found i thought if i had to dive i might get cramps and i make it Back to the Transcona resident an 11yearold boy watching said to go for it one More he made a deep and about three metres Down in the murky he found Joey Heppner had taken car training 13 years before but hed never had occasion to use i Laid my hands on Joey and i i speak life into this body in the name of Heppner continued when he checked for a it was an ambulance arrived a Short time then it was my turn to Cave said who began shaking like crazy from Joey Melnyk is a healthy kid still living in and who believes in says that what happened that september Heppner the wrong penalty leaves lawyer fuming Crown threatened to shoot she says by Alexandra Paul staff reporter a defence lawyer who complained to the provincial Justice minister that a Crown attorney threatened to shoot her is angry that the mans penalty is a today Winnipeg Legal Aid lawyer Gail Macaulay filed a formal complaint against Crown attorney Neil Cutler last citing the threat to shoot her and alleging harassing behaviour Overa two year on the first for harassing con the civil service commission decided to do an outraged Macaulay on the second where he wished to shoot they decided he needed a whole get Days Macaulay said she received no explanation for an eight month delay in the complaint pro a decision on the penalty was reached i absolutely cannot believe i think in Al most More shocked than when he threatened Macaulay personnel matter Justice minister Rosemary Vodrey declined to be Deputy Justice min ister Bruce Mcfarlane said the Issue is a personnel matter that he could not comment on except to say it was handed to the civil service commission for an Independent Cutler said Hes grieving the penalty Asun his suspension period was yesterday and he denied threatening Macaulay and ref used to discuss the Issue Macaulay wrote in her letter of dated june that the threat was made in a May 11 phone Call when she called Cutler on a routine Legal although Cutler appeared reluctant to give me the he did not appear to be the letter at this cutlers tone sounding extremely frustrated and he choked theres Only one Way to Deal with you and you know what that is there was a pause As if he could not get the words out of his then he the Only Way to Deal with you is to shoot upset Macaulay said she was shocked and deeply i did not believe it to be a she wrote Cutler later left a message on her answering machine excusing his remarks As a Macaulay but she said she took the Call particularly in Light of repeated comments she said Cutler had made to her Over a period of two he was always using those words there is no dealing with even when we were not working on the same Macaulay citing instances where she described cutlers behaviour As nip Justice critic Gord Mackintosh a praised Macaulay for bring ing the complaint this is a shocking allegation and it runs so contrary to the spirit of Zero tolerance for violence against women in this the tragedy Here is the Way the department has refused to Deal with Tho ;