Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday free october a5 naivete Hope found caring about kids in need is says survivor of system by Allison Bray staff reporter Kris Bohemier was Only nine years old when she first ran away from her adoptive parents she spent the next six years on the with extended family and in and out of 17 different group and Foster now said just one per son a Foster Parent took the time to develop a genuine relationship with they remain close one of the things that really bothered me is that i never Felt like i was listened to or cared she said yesterday during a panel discussion on kids in care at the North american Confer ence on the starved Many nights i Many nights i froze sleeping in bus she i Felt rejected by my biological by the adoptive Par All the Foster i always Felt that i always Felt to she started snorting cocaine and shooting up other when i was feeling really Down or drugs and Alco hol were my Way she they were always there for Kris showed up at school one Day with bruises on her Courtesy of her child and family services apprehended her after her Mother told police to take her a she take we dont want Kris when she ran away from Home the first no one called police or came looking for that gave me All the messages i she they were never there for at school she was labelled a problem child and she lived up to the but nobody was concerned enough to find out she the police we rent willing to she when she was on the officers discovered her partying with a Bunch of older men and they did they said it was a family situation which involved too much she when she was she was kicked out of the House for being Kris said that was the makeup Call she needed and cleaned up her life for the Sake of her but when she turned to Osborne House for Refuge after being battered by her former was turned away because she was Only 17 even though she had an infant and a toddler in her life has turned around and she is working with girls who share similar Back grounds at mar Mounds roots and wings mentorship articulate and enthuse she Hopes to attend univer sity and continue working in the i want people to know they Are Good people and just because they came from an abusive family or have alcoholic parents does it mean they have to be like that she she says there we rent Many like her in the system when she went through 4 Rel heres a Bond you cant i get from someone who Hast experienced a chaotic its not something you can its not something you can read kids can see through know it and sense it and feel despite funding cuts to social a dearth of services for kids in need and an already overburdened child welfare sys Kris said one Factor can make the difference Between a successful intervention and a failure someone who genuinely cares about the child in its a sense of Hope that you can pubic institution Joe free press Caroline assistant professor at the of family hands out pamphlets to passing u of m agree to meet by Cameron Dueck free press correspondent striking professors and the University of Manitoba Board of governors Are set to meet a faculty association spokesman said yesterday that labor minister Vic Toews called the meeting at the associations urging to restart negotiations Between the two today is Day 5 of the professors faculty negotiator Robert Chernomas said there is no specific Issue they want Toews to but this is one Way to get both sides Back to the bargaining we called them on Friday inviting them Back to the but so far we Haven heard anything he Terry Vic president of adminis said getting together int that we phoned the conciliation officer to Tell him Well go Back to he and now it is up to the conciliator to bring the two sides he said faculty representatives had called administration directly instead of going through the conciliation which he said is i guess it sounds like they want to bar Falconer willing to Deal Chernomas said Ufa is willing to agree to a Deal where faculty members can be Laid off eight months after the Board of governors decides to shrink a department if they first investigate the necessity of the Chernomas also repeated that the faculty association is willing to hand the dispute Over to an were assuming administration will refuse to do because the arbitration would probably be in our he Falconer said administration is not inter ested in binding that approach might be appropriate with some kinds of Dis but the University conflict concerns More than he administrative control is also on the the University is also concerned that arbitrators will not take into account the Finan Cial limitations of the the University is looking for a change and binding arbitration usually goes with the status Falconer David u of m student association said he is not in favor of binding in not sure that binding arbitration is the in uneasy about having a third party who knows nothing about the University Mak ing the decision for Gratzer As the strike drags i think the two sides will become less but in an collision kills one one woman is dead and another in critical condition after two cars collided four Kilometres North of Blum Enort at 2 Eva of Winnipeg was killed in the Headon collision on Highway Martens two grandchildren a and a were the other Merence Daig from the pm of Anne is in Boniface s wants you to win tickets to a fund raising new just happens at the cast Elike hotel fort Garry october 1995 from pm until 1 am enjoy a haunted evening in the Castle like hotel which includes live entertainment by psychic Crystal Ball Jennifer Hanson readers silent auctions hot hours a oeuvres tickets to the event Are per person and Are available at the hotel fort the Prairie Oyster cafe or by phoning the hotels halloween hotline at 9428251 or 18006658088 to drop off your address and phone number to the hotel fort 222 or Send a fax to deadline for entry is october one entry per winners will be chosen by random draw and will be 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