Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Section Brian Cole 6977292 email Mike want personal relations skills lacking heavy transport Driver James Van Ginkel has every right to be peeved with the cites transit Hes got a class 1 licence and he wants to know Why a fellow who has a class 5 licence was Given preference in a recent bus Driver hiring there were 35 Van Winkels name was placed on a Reserve when he got to hear about losing out to a Man he considered he called the cites personnel office to find out Ive got nothing about being turned he but when i called the personnel i was told the other Guy was better that floored he Hast any heavy vehicle experience at Van who first applied to be a bus Driver two years said what really angered him was that when he said hed the personnel officer told him theres no sense in doing because you wont i gave transit director Rick Borland a Call to find out the reasons for taking on someone with a class 1 licence and the personnel officers attitude towards Borland explained that at one time the City Only hired Drivers with class 5 but in recent years it has been placing More emphasis on applicants with Good interpersonal who have had experience dealing with the there is an Appeal he its made up of me and the manager of personnel the remark that theres no sense in appealing was inappropriate and ill take that up with the q q q few things irritate me More than bureaucrats who cite confidentiality As a reason for not responding to a complaint made about this is a matter Between him and the was Al Plamondon were not talking health where records certainly Are were talking about a lost Cheque the provinces retail sales department had refunded Ray minkins wife after shed sold the family registered in her and purchased she endorsed the Cheque and her husband consigned As he was going to put it into his account that when he got to his Bank he find i called introduced myself and explained i was calling on minkins after indicating it was none of my he refused further id wanted to know Why hed told the car owner he had to wait six months for another Cheque to be Minkin went to the departments offices As soon As he realized hed lost the advising it to put a Stop payment on the As it it was found by a City Minkin called Plamondon the next Day to Tell him the Cheque had been i told him you can now lift the Stop notice and he said it was he haunt done Nice Deputy finance minister Charles Curtis later told me it have taken anywhere near six months to Cut a new All that would have been required was for Minkin to sign an affidavit promising to return the lost Cheque if it was victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy fax or email Mike Ward on the internet at Winnipeg Iree press local May Ken free press jets fan Christalee is joined by left to right Kristin Alyssia Amanda Hudzick with sign and Brent dancing in the streets by John Douglas staff reporter the fans were dancing in the streets of Winnipeg yester just seven Days after they mourned the Winnipeg jets in a funeral like they were brought out by the news that the jets Arent quite and that business and Politi Cal leaders Are working to save them by the largest estimated at about assembled at the Steps of the legislature to wave Canadian sing 0 blow air horns and chant save our some wore face paint and others carried yesterdays rally was organized by Rick who is still trying with Little Success to float his plan to build a combined Arenas Adi a convention but Many simply wanted to show their support for the team in the Only Way they business Rolls up its sleeves a1 at one Point around midday yesterday there were three groups of jets supporters demonstrating snarling As groups snaked their Way up Portage main Street and York Avenue police scrambled to Stop and divert at one Point there were 12 police cruisers helping steer one group of which included jets super fan dancing met at City Hall and then marched Down main Street urging passersby to honk in support of the nil fran most wore White jets hockey the jets dancing Gabe Long live the Barry Sullivan drove More than 40 minutes into the City with his seven Earold son to walk in the despite the shivering the boy managed a smile and a shake of his White pompom when asked about the possible resurrection of his i love the he when i play hockey on the ice i pretend in a Winnipeg Jet i dont want to be anyone Brad a 19yearold Stu Dent who went to All but three of the Home games this went right from a party to the streets yester dressed in a White Teemu be Lanne Stevens said the love of hockey was the Only thing that carried him through the Long if we want to be a major league City then we have to be major league he if we want to play in the big leagues then we have to pay the its time for everyone to pay that Susan a 23yearold wait said she was marching to show everyone what will happen if the jets really i make a living off people enjoy ing said the single Moth if there Are no there wont be any us Little people have been for gotten in All of heres your Chance to help the jets by Tony Davis staff reporter some people believe Chain letters can work miracles for those who heed them and pass them now three Winnipeg jets Devo tees Are hoping the Chain faxes they have been sending around the City might miraculously help keep the jets in with his wife Leslie and sports doctor Mike Mark Olsen has used the faxes to urge Busi Nesses and individuals to spend per ticket to attend a jets fundraising the hastily cobbled together event is scheduled to take place at the Winnipeg convention Centre at 7 the faxes Promise that several jets players will attend and there will be live and taped door lots of is a commercial real estate agent with Morden Kemp he says his wife came up with the idea for the social on we after All these peo ple in Winnipeg keep talking about How mad they Are that they didst get a Chance to Chip in to efforts to save the this is their what we Are after is the grassroots the Money raised from the so Cial will be put in Trust and then Given to whichever group manages to keep the team in if All deals fail and the jets the Money will go to the Winnipeg childrens tickets go on Sale at Selecta seat tomorrow team is ours Rural mayors say by Tony Davis staff reporter sure they Call them the Winnipeg but most Rural Manitoba mayors say the cites nil team really belongs to the whole that Why few had harsh words for a Filmon govern ment that broke a reelection Promise by upping its Ante in a Deal to save the last Gary Filmon revealed a Las minute pledge that would see the the province and the Federal government pitch in million each to build a new Arena in but during his election Cam Filmon vowed his government would give no More than most Rural civic like Thompson mayor Bill dont seem per Turbed about the premiers the jets Are Manitoba entry into the Comaskey Treyve helped to put Manitoba on the he said it May not always be but the economic benefits of the jets remaining in Winnipeg Are bound to have Ripple effects that reach even in Portage la mayor Glenn Carlson want Overly concerned that the Filmon governments sudden Generos Ity towards an Arena Deal might mean some stinginess Down the Road when Rural communities like his seek provincial help for their once in a while we have to pamper said Carl adding Many portages make the hour drive to Winnipeg to see the but at least one mayor was skating in the opposite direct i dont think Filmon would come and bail out the Dauphin Kings if we had said Dauphin mayor inky Mark said his team has eco nomic benefits for just As the jets do for win but when Dauphin City Council approached the province for funds to replace its 40yearold it didst get enough to Complete the now Dauphin is scrambling to find private investors to help finish the million pairs reunion Means a special mothers Day by Linda Quattrin staff reporter every year on her eldest daughters again on mothers Day Theresa Larabie finds herself in thinking aloud about the child she never now was a rebellious 14yearold when she found out she was she fought to keep her while her parents pushed but a judge agreed the child would be better off with a stable adoptive since that which she now agrees was the Best for baby Larabie has spent 25 years feeling the tug of the invisible umbilical i would say out 1 love Larabie her Green eyes Bright with my kids always heard i never kept her a and this mothers Day will be a particularly Joyful one for this energetic Mother of known fondly As Mother Teresa at the Waves of glory Chapel where she works As last Only weeks after taking serious Steps to find her the pair were reunited by a local support group for people looking to find Lon lost adopters and birth Larabie is one of the Lucky she found her daughter quickly and they get along like about others another 200 new names registered every still waiting to make connections through the provinces pos adoption but the system seems still to reflect the secrecy that often surrounded the unwanted pregnancies and forced adoptions of decades under the birth mothers Are not entitled to information about their adult adopters Are Given Only no identifying information and even that can take i guess they never dreamt the Day would come where so Many people would want to said Shannon a 26yearold special needs worker with the full support of her adoptive found her birth Mother earlier this Jim assistant Deputy minister of child and family insists changes to the system Are afoot As the department is currently considering How it can bring everyone interested to the Roy one of links Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press Larabie left with Lon lost daughter Majola sleuthing int holding his the whole in our is bureaucracy right to the nth said whose pitch for legislative loosening went to the government More than a year Leslie agrees the process should be More but finding where she fits ints her newfound extended family still racked by years of guilt and deep seated shame is proving an emotional in having a hard time just finding my place in All Leslie up comes mothers Day and its really ;