Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 31, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Y building global Village Canada open cultural Exchange network Brandon weather o sunny with some afternoon Cloudy low17 details on Page c7 b Canadas not All Gravy affluent Mexico student learns to Cook and clean owling Survey takes flight knowing baby Boom shift share Issue May be option for its us should not dictate Trade policy former adversaries unite Rural stars bring talents to wheaties the Streak its wheaties est Ever no worries for former games president in Roll As diversions 03 in sports to 619156 sunday free press 75 tax included West Man Region March 31 1996 Ottawa to Cut funding for Job training by Dan Lett National reporter Ottawa the Federal government is cutting Mil lion from Job training and reemployment measures in Manitoba this year As it overhauls its labor the funding reduction for the 199697 fiscal during which Ottawa plans to introduce its new employment insurance represents a 10 per cent Cut from the previous regional officials from human resources development Canada said the Impact of the cuts will not be known until the new employ ment insurance system is fully implemented july legislation for the new system is currently before the House of critics claim the cuts Are part of a systematic Effort by Ottawa to offload labor Market training to the provinces and Pri vate both of which have shown Little interest in picking up the some fear the funding cuts will eliminate Federal programs that help those who have been out of the labor Force for some and such As immigrants and Young who Are looking for their first my biggest worry is that there hurting a lot of people up until had a Way out of a employ said nip my Bill Blaikie Winnipeg now youre blocking off that whole Avenue and leaving them with this completely betrays All the governments rhetoric on Ottawa provides funding for labor Market training from two sources the governments Gener Al Revenue and from the unemployment insurance which will be known As the employment insurance fund once the new system is in continued please see flood fear rises Grain moved from Valley after storm by Bruce Owen staff reporter the Canadian wheat Board is hustling to get Grain out of the red River Valley because of fears parts of Southern Mani Toba will soon be under those fears were heightened yesterday when up to 30 centimetres of new Snow fell overnight in Winnipeg and Rural areas throughout the extending up through the Well keep going until the weather said Adrian the wheat boards executive director of were going to try and get As much Grain out As we wheat Board commissioner Ken Beswick said the Agency Hopes to move More than tonnes of Grain out to Vancouver or Thunder Bay before Spring the soggy conditions will affect rail Beds and May prevent train travel or Block Farmers from haul Sno Clearing a Nightmare children on the Rise parents beaten but often to experts say by Allison Bray staff reporter Ken free press ing stored Grain to compounding the problem in the red River Valley is Runoff from North which is expected to be at near flood stage in grand officials there Are already planning to build a series of temporary Clay dikes to augment existing youre going to get a said Jim Camp emergency manager for grand Forks there is a lot of moisture in the Snow Between grand Forks and he said Pembina in North Dakota is expected to Bear the worst of the flooding As the red River is expected to Crest there at metres almost twice its Normal Larry head of the provinces water resources said flood forecasters will have done their analysis by late tomorrow to predict the extent of potential flooding in Man there will be flooding for he the province last month predicted High flood potential in Southern Manitoba Rivers and streams because of the heavy Snow which is As much As three times Normal in some this weekends storm was the largest in late March since the Agency and thanks to the City has nearly exhausted its Snow removal Bud get for City maintenance manager Bruce Mcphail said City planning Engineer Doug Mcneil said this weekends Snow will increase chances of pro longed particularly in Lowling such As in environment Canada says temperatures for this week Are supposed to be Well below nor climbing to a High of by Melissa Kirby from sister Adora Sharpe dig out on Burrows Winnipeg police say they receive three or four Calls every night from parents distraught Over abusive or Vio Lent behaviour by their children the most visible indicator of an increasing the abuse of parents by their own minor children is on the youth division Gary Shevvy Chuk said the parents Are typically seeking advice on How to Deal with combative children who have ver Bally or physically assaulted parents have been threatened with some times a door has been kicked sometimes the House has been its always been an Issue but the intensity has weve upped the temperature a said Ray a family therapist at the family Centre of who counselled 60 violent and aggressive kids last Ive heard of some extremely detailed plans to kill parents that could have happened without inter said Irmie a therapist at the Manitoba adolescent treatment Centre and member of its acute treatment and Consulta Tion one kid was so close to carrying out his plan that he just blurted it some of her Case histories an eighty Earold attacks his Mother with a two your while the father sits Back and children or adolescents threaten their parents with physical Vio Lence or weapons As they empty the family Home of valuables in order to buy drugs or kids terrorize and intimidate parents into submitting to their demands at knife Point or with threats of suicide or continued please see the freemen Deal in hate and fear Joe of Cerklewicz above shovels around car in Lane off Strathcona Street while Bert luit and daughter Jenneke right take advantage of the Ken free press new York time associated press two years neighbors around Here pitched in to save Casey Clarks life by donating equipment for a big farm the farm ers raised and Clarks brain tumor operation was a Suc now that same Casey wants to kill All of Frank one of the said Shak ing his head at the thought of the 21yearold holed up with about 20 others at a fortified farm con trolled by Montana while officials say the freemen run a forgery and financial fraud the movement is also marked by a climate of violence and by severe alienation from fam Ilies and the Jordans wheat Farmers casually Call it a the estimated number of people in the compound Rose to 20 on Fri Day when the Fri confirmed to Steve a visiting Salt Lake City truck that the fugitive Community included his former Gloria their Lightyear old daughter Jaylynn Gloria wards and her 10yearold Daugh Courtnie a lot of families Are ripped right Down the said Cecil Weed whose Long ago stopped speaking to her freemen Ralph and Mernett Clark Ralph Clark is cases continued please see Winkler recycler Eye plants in maritime by Martin Cash business reporter a Manitoba company that turns scrap tires into rubber Mats is set to spread its inno vation to Atlantic Winkles tire recycling is teaming up with the mennonite Central committee to develop two new recycling plants in new Brunswick and Nova Scotia at a Cost of about million its a Manitoba Success Story that combines the technological savvy of a private company with the Job creating values of the renowned mennonite were honoured to have been chosen from among so Many other said Dave president of tire recycling weve been putting out a finished product in Winkler for four and we sell it primarily rubber Mats and sidewalk and paving blocks As fast As we can make in the maritime we will be pursuing other products that we Arent currently making in win the production system devel oped in the Winkler Plant will be duplicated in the maritime on a larger scale and will Cre ate about 75 jobs in each contracts have not yet been signed in either but officials r Ruvii Lut from both govern ments acknowledge that they Are in negotiations with the Winkler Mcc called tire Recy cling Atlantic Canada Doug an official with Mcc in Atlantic is chief executive officer for the partner he said that macs involve ment in the Enterprise is strictly to assist in the creation of were involved because we want the payoff to be Peri end of said Mcc has been Active for about 75 years in Canada and around the world in creating economic activity that assists otherwise disadvantaged people in gaining mainstream for Mcc operates seed a program that provides business Loans of up to and training to Winnipeg Gers with incomes below the poverty level who want to pro Duce a product or offer a the partnership has already identified the town of West of Moncton As a Poten tial site for the Plant in that no location has been identified yet in Nova the tire recycling Enterprise May be the first time Mcc has taken such an Active role in a for profit it will invest of the million needed for tire recycling will put up another in and the two will hold 40 per cent of the equity in the the remaining million for 60 per cent of the company will be raised from investors through a private place ment of redeemable preferred were looking Forward to working with people who hold honesty and hard work As a major part of their said Elwood chairman of the government appointed Organiza Tion in Nova Scotia charged with developing that provinces solid waste management better than Bank foreign Exchange guaranteed corporate accounts Cus Ojini House currency ;