Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 19, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november a3 where is rage9 Mast executive wants to know continued from a1 its very difficult to teach children whose stomachs Are the warning signs Are from the dramatic increase in demand for school feeding to the disturbing number of children one in five kids lives in poverty Here Are some statistics about child poverty in one in five children in Canada or million lived in poverty Canada has the worlds second highest rate of child poverty among industrialized second Only to the United states the income of the average poor family with children is the average income for All families with children is child poverty has increased 46 per cent since 1989 when the parliament of Canada pledged to eliminate the problem by the year 2000 Manitoba has one of the highest child poverty rates in at per cent for 1994 in there were an estimated children living in poverty in up from in 1989 that represents a Winnipeg child poverty rate of 24 per cent in 1994 40 per cent of those using the Winnipeg Harvest food Bank Are an estimated kids each month five times As Many families use Winnipeg Harvest now than in 1991 note poverty is measured using statistics Canada Low income cutoffs so the cutoff for a family of four in a City of Winnipeg size would be sources statistics Canada Campaign 2000 with learning disabilities and behaviour he where is the rage Why Are we so quiet As a nation when million of our children Are living in poverty said whose organization joined 400 school boards across Canada yesterday in speaking out on child politicians at every level Are going to have to place a higher priority on addressing this than in the Ellen chairwoman of the poverty committee for the social planning Council of said the solution lies in creating a social investment fund for children that would be similar to the Canada pen Sion plan or employment the fund would be financed by a special tax on Middle and upper income canadians and As Well As through corporate donations and a reorganization and improvement of existing child Bene the monetary goal for the fund would be two per cent to 2 per cent of Canadas Gross Domestic she the Money would be used to set up a three pronged Campaign to reduce child including a comprehensive child Benefit funds for a National system of Early development and childcare ser vices in every a youth endowment plan to help poor students Complete pos Sec Mondary training and the advocated by a National coalition of 50 groups called Campaign would have the potential of lifting children out of poverty within a Short period of she Jeff free press Macneil Richard answer reporters our barometer is showing this int getting any lets find a solution that Doest include food Mary president of the aboriginal Council of said an investment fund would be one Way to hold the Federal government accountable for its pledge to eradicate child there has never been As bad a time As in the last five years in the Urban aboriginal Richard because theres a food governments think the whole Issue will be but David director of the Winnipeg Harvest food said the growing number of such Banks is a symptom of Peoples there Are now 48 food Banks out Side of Winnipeg and 220 delivery Points within the forty per cent of those who use food Banks Are Chil he our barometer is showing this int getting any Northcott lets find a solution that does it include food a record number of children now rely on school nutrition said a superintendent in the Winnipeg school the demand is As High now As Ever Pauline superintendent for intercity said thirty five of the divisions 79 including some High now offer breakfast programs to hungry she other efforts to address the prob Lem in the school District include the division wide Nursery program which offers extra support to Young children a Mig Rancy program aimed at working with other social service providers to prevent housing prob lems that Force families to move As often As four times each year coun Selling and alternative school pro Grams and the development of a culturally relevant curriculum for aboriginal Channel Tunnel Blaze injures 34 Reuter France firefighters from France and Britain battled a fire aboard a train deep inside the Channel Tunnel Early today in which 34 people were reported two of them the the first major incident since the Tunnel Between Britain and France opened two years started last night in a truck on the train carrying a cargo of a civic official in the French port Calais said a total of 34 people were involved in the including Crew aboard the he said the two most seriously injured people were taken to Hospital in the larger French City Inland from the their lives were not in he six other people were taken to hos Pital in Calais and 26 were Given first Aid for varying degrees of smoke a spokeswoman for eur Tunnel said the train is still on it is being tackled by both the French and British firefighting the Tunnel was closed after the stricken freight shut the used to transport trucks and their was halted and evacuated Between 9 and 10 local it was believed to be about 20 Kilometres from the French end of the the fire broke out toward the Back of the 730metrelong which can carry up to 28 Large the euro Tunnel spokeswoman it is the first time the Tunnel has been closed for an we have had safety drills in the past but this is the first real she the passengers and Crew were evacuated from the northbound Tunnel to a Central service Shaft and then trans ported via another shuttle train Back to France via the southbound More than 20 fire engines gathered at the British end of the Tunnel near Folkestone and up to six French fire engines were reported at eur Tunnel said it does not know when the Tunnel will be opened for Pas Senger 7 seriously thought he was going to die9 continued from a1 when Steiner went witnesses say Linesman Glen Mclean reached him first and called for Carver Beausejour Trainer Darryl who was in the stars dressing room attending to another arrived on the scene moments he and Carver monitored steiners vital kept him warm and spoke to who Hopes to become an ambulance attendant or a Winnipeg police said he knew he was facing a life threatening Situa at first i seriously thought he Steiner was going to there was so much blood and i see exactly where the Cut but i move the Towel to said in glad Hes All Steiner said Hes still amazed that he made its because they doctors told me i could have bled to an eighth of an Inch Over and i would Steiner said yester Day from his Oak Bank i said to my Girlfriend that someone up there was looking out for their 4 Carver helped he kept me pretty Steiner Steiner was rushed to Hsc from Beausejour Hospital in the Middle of a it was so said steiners its such a its just a Miracle that he could survive something like Steiner said he remembers everything about the it just Felt like a punch in the i fell to the ice because i Felt out of but it didst Hurt at it was pretty said who expects to miss about a week of work and a month of Wielgosh said those standing around Steiner tried to keep his mind off the frightening Situa i dont know if he Steiner went into Shock right but he was totally Calm and actually joking a Wielgosh they had to Cut his sweater off and Ryan Wayne free press Carver Quick action saved a life was joking that he hoped he didst have to pay for Beausejour head coach Gerry Liske said Carver was known to the stars last season in different the ironic thing about this is last year Mark played for Lac do who didst have a just like we the stars didst have a and Mark was a real pain in the butt to Liske i guess something like this shows the Best Side of sport when someone can forget about what team they play for to help someone Carver used to Wear the Benny the Jet Mascot costume for the Winnipeg he is currently employed at the Gap in Polo robbers with shotguns hit store cantors grocery in the North end was robbed yesterday by two men brandishing sawed off shot guns and wearing about a dozen including staff and were in the store at about when the robbery the men escaped with an undisclosed amount of Cash from at the Corner of Logan Avenue and Quelch the robbers Are described As about 17 and 24 years Deal aids Virden Ottawa and the province signed a Deal with Vir Den yesterday that will allow completion of the towns new water treatment the three Way split aug ments million already committed by the three Levels of funded under the Canada Manitoba partnership agree ment on municipal water infrastructure the new facility is intended not Only to encourage Community expansion and new but also to allow existing Indus try to the Virden water treatment facility is one of 20 Pam i projects a proved so Safeway food drug Safeway food drug november 20 seniors 65 and Over will receive up 10 their total y Lelm w a pop wow up to a maximum Purchase of discount does not apply to tobacco bus event Economy photofinishing or electronic food drug applies Only to stores with inshore ;