Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local october 1995 u of m strikers studying offer by Bill Redekop staff reporter a settlement could be near Between striking professors and the University of even As rhetoric from both sides heated up on the week the faculty spent the weekend reviewing a u of m proposal intended to ease professors fears they will lose academic the faculty had not responded As of Early last i Hope that were getting said Grant u of m faculty woman Dies fighting stove fire administration proposal Aims to ease academic Freedom fears association neither Side would give specifics of the except that it con Cerns article which outlines the process for laying off professors say they Are striking because of worries that the u of is proposed Layoff process could be used to get rid of controversial they say that would Compromise their academic the administration maintains it Only wants to Cut costs of programs with Low enrolment in order to have the Power to downsize the institution in a time of tight Bud i think its a smoke said administration spokesman Terry of the faculty claim academic Freedom would be Falconer said the administration gave professors a new proposal on Friday and is frustrated that the faculty haunt responded As of last its getting ridiculous sitting around our bargaining committee sat around waiting Fri saturday and sunday for a response on article he but Woods said it takes time to review the comprehensive pro we put some proposals to them and they Haven responded he was typical of the rhetoric on the with each Side accusing the other of halfhearted As the selection of a medi Ator appears to have fallen after several Days of the two sides agreed Friday to Toronto mediator Owen but that fell through because of a letter from the province that insists professors return to work before a mediator is professors reject the provinces if we went Back to the administration would have Zero incentive to be said Falconer said the administration wont disobey the he added the administration didst suggest the caveat to the but Woods said the administration Doest need the provinces of to agree to theres no reason in the world the two sides cant agree so Long As the province int pay ing for the he the 26 letter from labor minister Vic Toews says the appointment of a mediator will be conditional on immediate return to work of All members of the faculty association As a demonstration of Good Faith in the mediation by Bill Redekop and Glen Mckenzie staff reporters i t was a fire no one should have died firefighters a Dauphin woman perished this weekend in a relatively Small fire because she tried to Battle the Blaze rather than but her suite above a scooters photo studio in downtown Dauphin also didst have a smoke said Charles Irani of the Dauphin ramp Lena Mary formerly of was asleep in the suite about saturday when her seven Earold daughter woke her up to Tell her a fire had Irani said the girl fled downstairs but me Kish apparently tried to put the Blaze out and was overcome by the a renter in a neighbor ing suite also escaped without the Blaze was not big enough that the woman should have said Deputy fire chief Gary hol no Way she had All the reason in the world to get the fire never left the said hol while the fire gutted the the rest of the suite Only suffered smoke and water he the woman body was found in the she must have fight the fire because she got said but Why she went Back into the we dont know and i dont suppose Well Ever building owner John Pelechaty was surprised to learn the suite had no smoke that news to said Pelechaty said the fire depart ment inspects the building once a and the building was approved the last time the fire commissioner is sup posed to talk to him he he added the dead woman was not a and must have been visit he haunt yet talked to the Man renting the he said last the fire was apparently caused by a pot of grease on the Jeff free press giving it All Shes got Ruth a member of the senior citizens choir of sings her heart out As the choir celebrates its 25th anniversary with a she and fellow singers performed yesterday at the pantages playhouse agent misled buyer about Home House want All that owner finds by Wanda Chow staff reporter Tveter Owsianyk didst get a what he paid for when he bought his Tyndall Park House a year in the fall of he and his family moved into a new Home listed As Square he brought the furniture from his previous we found it didst he he soon discovered the Square feet included 390 Square feet of living space in the partially finished which has no no heat and its not built to in the House was just Over Square feet significantly smaller than his old that violates Manitoba real estate association which require that the total living area above ground must be measured separately from basement living said Douglas assistant counsel of the Manitoba securities last week at a Manitoba Securi ties commission hearing into the a Winnipeg real estate broker admitted to improperly describing the House when he listed Emil Guevarra of Greenhills realty also admitted to a number of other incidents in which he failed to properly Register real estate agents and file financial reports As required in his manage rial position As a Guevarra was ordered to implement a system to ensure the administrative breaches dont Hap pen again and was fined to cover the costs of the investigation and Owsianyk still Hast received any compensation for his the Winnipeg real estate Board is now waiting for Owsianyk to set the matters with the errors and omissions liability insurance pro which covers All members of the Manitoba real estate association disciplinary action if officials know theres a Poten tial lawsuit the Board will step Back and wait for the outcome before going ahead with possible disciplinary action of its said Taras Luchak of the errors and omissions has been waiting almost a year for Owsianyk lawyer to either file a claim or sign a waiver giving up his right to Luchak in not convinced that Hes got a he the fact remains that there was Square even if there had been an error in Owsianyk said he had hoped to Settle the matter out of court to avoid a Steep Legal but plans to file a claim Ken free press Owsianyk papers prove Home was measured birth Mother column draws Heartfelt responses i haunt anticipated an answer to the open letter i wrote two weeks ago to my daughters birth a few jays one it was it from Erins birth but that didst this is a response to your column thanks to a mom from Long your letter touched my heart i say to you and other adoptive parents out youre and thank almost 15 years ago i gave my daughter up for everything in your letter hit Home for every year she gets 1 wonder if she will want to look for i Hope she is Happy and i have never regretted my decision and i am positive it was the Best one for Gordon Sinclair both of some of us do hold our babies after they Are i even bottle fed mine for five precious i didst Stop telling her How much she was loved and would always be wrote a letter for her and Hope that she will want to read it if she has not and every year on her birthday i wonder what she is like and How she is spending her i am married now and have two wonderful every once in a while my boys will even talk about the Hal sister they have somewhere in the when and if my time it will not be an i will consider it an Honor that this person wants to see and i will owe it to the people who have cared disciplined and loved her for All these be proud of your Chil you have done the hard Job and they will appreciate it As they become Celine Winnipeg last year i was told i was this year i celebrated so years of i also found out this by searching past that my birth parents would also be celebrating 50 years i would like them to know that Mary Patricia their March was adopted november to perhaps the greatest mom and i have three two boys and a two of my children Are tears Are starting to Cloud my with i will i am thinking of you and yours this Hope the years have been kind to i feel but i Hope i am not Mary Patricia Gail Edna Charleswood i registered with the adult adoption registry in in received a letter from the Post adoption registry advising that the search for my birth Mother was she lives in married my birth went on to have other did not Tell them about my and had no inter est in meeting i cant begin to Tell you what that letter did to for 35 years i have had an a longing that Noth ing and no one could i have beaten myself up All my life for feeling the Way i asking myself Why i so desperately need to find my birth family when 1 already have a family who loves me and whom i the Only answer is i have to find just As i have to breathe and i dont understand Why i have no right to my Why should As Well As thousands of be denied the simple privilege of knowing who we or where we came from i have paid a very High All my for the Little bit of fun two people had in december depression is my constant i want nothing from but i do want the Chance to meet my or at least give them the option of meeting but first they have to know i signed baby Dahl there was another do you know someone named Pearl Brown who grew up in James she gave birth to a baby girl on july today the 71yearold daughter she never knew is seriously living in but still searching for her just one familiar face Shes never like the the stories Are ;