Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press b4 John 6977264 business Little chateau on the Prairies to ii i hour Cha Kun october 1995 plan offers Hope to Reserve kids by Wendy Cox Canadian press Ottawa Jason Riddell pulled himself out of the Wel fare Hole one govern ment pay Cheque at a after spending More than half of his 22 years on the he got a Job with no picking up Fine paper for recycling from Down town the Federal government which funds no sort and More than 175 similar programs across the country paid him per week for six in Little More than a Riddell went from no sort to a full time contract with the human resources department and to working for a courier i know what it Means to make an honest says dressed neatly in jeans and a Polo shirt with a vivid Tattoo of a Cougar running up one i get up every morning and i want to the programs funded by the human resources department Are aimed at helping disadvantaged youths get into the labor Market or Back into human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy announced that 16 new programs aimed specifically at aboriginal youths living on reserves will Start next too Many aboriginal people Are losing Axworthy citing statistics that show up to 60 per cent of people on reserves Are illiterate and the suicide rate among native youths is 10 times the National the programs Are taking a slow Over the next four years he government expects youths to take but there Are an estimated unemployed youths in two Manitoba projects received Federal in Portage la a program sponsored by the local Canada employment Centre is helping adults and Young single parents get skills they need to find decent and allow those who have jobs improve their chances of finding something in another Pilot project called target u is helping to get University and College graduates off unemployment or out of Deaden jobs and into satisfying the which vary across the last six months and pay about per those who successfully com plete the program Are eligible for government Grants to Start their own go Back to school or pay off a student Joe free press Park son who sell around the never expected their sport fishing company to grow so family reels in orders by Martin Cash reporter Manitoba has always boasted some of the Best fresh water fishing in North but when it comes to the manufacturing Side of the fishing the line has been com ing up empty until the last few that when a South korean immigrant decided to expand his Winnipeg fishing accessory importing business into a full line including rods and recognition Young Soo Park and his son Donald have a burgeoning fishing Rod and accessory Busi Ness with a growing recognition for its Brand name sen Sun which Means live fish in we chose a word that sounded japanese because the Japan Ese mean Quality in the fishing Rod said Don Ald and that the Market seng Sun is rapidly breaking into the High end sport fishing Busi Ness where rods and reels sell for several hundreds of dollars particularly inde sen Sun fishing rods earn Praise for Quality pendent Are looking for a Quality product at a Price Point that will allow them to make some Donald that the merchandising strategy sen Sun is when prices on some of the big name fishing rods Are discounted at the retail Independent fishing and tackle stores Are hard pressed to com Brent manager of skinners fishing Centre in said seng suns strategy works for the Price is right and the Quality is pretty maybe the Best part of Thompsons comments on seng Sun is that skinners is not really influenced by the fact the sup plier is from sen Sun stands up very Well in the said Terry general manager of sir warehouse sports Treyve come a Long Way in its a very Good Quality a key Factor in increasing Export cur 65 per cent of seng suns million sales Are destined for foreign while the elder Young travels Southeast Asia keeping tabs on the 22 factories in 12 different countries that Are making components and parts for son Donald manages the company head office and warehouse in win Nipges Inkster Donald is basking in a Sale to a Brazil Ian distributor shortly after meeting them at a major fishing Trade show in Las vegas in and last week the company inked a million in the form of a convertible from vision capital that will hopefully help the com Pany double its sales volume this year and continue to expand in the years our order Book is already 80 per cent ahead of last Donald were confident Well grow in the now with this Well have no problem filling All the line of credit along with the vision invest ment comes a new banking arrangement with the Toronto Dominion Bank that will allow for a larger line of credit and greater ease in setting manufacturing we think the Parks can build this into a much bigger Compa said vision Tom along the maybe they can bring some manufacturing and jobs to the Deal with vision gives the provincial venture capital operation the option of converting its investment into a 25percent ownership stake in the company in five i never thought the company would grow to this said Young Soo Park when reached at his hotel in this Deal with vision comes at a time when we have a Good Opportunity to we Are Selling All around the tourism enjoys Best year in nearly a decade forecaster Calls for surge in 96 As business traffic increases by Felicity Munn Canadian press Montreal thanks to the weak the Cana Dian tourism Industry is coming off its Best year in nearly a the Good times Are expected to continue in but growth will be slower As the Dollar an Industry conference heard yes the Dollar up to this kept More canadians Harry French of the conference Board of Canada said in an inter View at the tourism Industry association of Canadas annual they spent More Money on travelling in Canada and they spent it this versus previous on travelling in Canada by air rather than by Domestic air travel by Leisure travellers jumped by 15 per cent this year a dramatic turnaround after four straight years of ticket sales for domes tic air travel Rose 10 per at the same Domestic air fares dropped by 10 per obviously theres a correlation French Domestic air fares Sank to an average of about after climb ing steadily since when the average fare was around the Institute forecasts that Leisure and business travel in Canada will grow by Between four and five per cent apiece this in terms of pleasure the num Bers Are the highest since for the prediction is a More modest growth rate of per cent As the Dollar said director of the boards Canadian tourism research inst incentive for the next couple of years were going to see a gradual increase in the Dollar from 74 to 75 to 76 he there wont be those huge fluctuations that weve seen in the Dol Lar that have made it an incentive for foreign tour operators to Book in making its 1996 the Institute ignored the possibility of a separate Quebec because we just have no Way of predicting what the implications of a yes vote would French a Quebec government study released last month suggested the provinces tourism Industry fears it would be hit hard by problems with new presses stall Globe and mail delivery staff is problems in Brandon delayed delivery yesterday to up to Globe and mail subscribers in Manitoba and production officials at the Brandon Sun the Midwest printing site for Canadas National newspaper said yesterdays edition was not printed until about delaying and possibly missing some that More than four hours later than nor the delay was the result of technical problems associated with bringing new presses on line in a backup sys tem also experienced some the official admitted there May be further delays through out the week As the new service is brought on although he said everything should be work ing properly by the end of the web Sites make Home exchanges easier the other someone asked me what i found use Ful about the i began to answer in Broad Gen musing that there was a lot of really 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