Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 20, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Winnipeg free november lending a helping hand programs to Aid welfare recipients obtain needed skills for Job Market by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter t t Tarp is coming to its not the radio station immortalized on its a program designed to put some social assistance recipients to work under the Banner of readiness and says Ken Shep Community and family services director for the salvation Sheppard was referring to a Community partnership agreement that will see is of the Agency clients pre pare for the Job Market through liter Acy life exploring careers and personal recruitment is under Way and the program is expected to be off and run Ning by the end of Sheppard told a press conference Linda Manitoba education and training said the Agency will get for its 21week which will see participants working at Sites like salvation army Thrift shops and finding jobs in areas such As ship Ping and Ware House and food services Sheppard said a client May Well find employment before completing the making Way for someone else to enter another is social assistance recipients will be recruited for a 29week program to be run by the family Cen tre of to which the govern ment has committed participants there will be trained As income family support mar cel family Centre executive said the Agency will be Able to place them because it knows its own turnover a family support worker provides help to clients such As single parents with children at Home who need Assis Tance with housekeeping chores and other a support worker wont take a Job from any Home care Baril the programs Are but Mclntosh said she believes both will be successful enough that funding will be continued for More participants at a press conference Manitoba association of school trustees representatives joined some social activists in calling for a National Campaign to tackle child Mclntosh said her department currently spends million helping at risk of which million goes to Winnipeg school she also said the provincial child and youth a group of officials from various government depart ments that is looking at child got moved from health to Edu cation because schools were hiring nurses instead of teachers to help some Mclntosh said part of the child poverty problem stems from Ottawa not accepting its responsibility to help Urban and part of the Solu Tion to child poverty lies in Job training programs like the one announced yes Wayne of Flag Gloria and Rhonda Garrioch prepare baking projects give Rise to Christmas presents Gloria Cook is going to spend the next few weeks baking cookies and earning Money to buy Christmas presents for her Cook is one of four inner City women who will be baking dozen Shortbread cookies to be included in food hampers used by the Christmas cheer it helps me out at said a Mother of three it helps me get gifts for the its hot in the Kitchen in the base ment of the Andrews Street by but Cook likes the Cook is one of about 40 people who will receive temporary part time jobs As a result of the third annual Christmas Lite local investment towards employ ment As a result of the the Andrews Street catering cooperative will receive to bake the Janice Goodman of the Andrews Street family Centre said each of the four Cooks will receive just Over the minimum wage for about 100 hours1 the rest of the Money will go toward ingredients and she the launched yester will Channel donations for the Christmas cheer Board to four inner City who will use the Money to prepare food for the hampers distributed by the Board during the festive Nee Chi foods will be the source of a variety of canned goods this the native women Transi Tion Centre will bake boxes of Christmas a co opera Kakiw Coosa will provide wild the superstore great gifts t a form for less gifts under Soso Casio sf5580 128k organizer x 8line lighted display daily phone directory expense manager 34096 instruments indigo 256k organizer x 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Trade Marks used under licence by Staples Staples Staples is a registered Trade of used under some items May nol be exactly As business depot 1996 addicts stories Mirror to society by Manfred Jager Urban life reporter the life stories of alcoholics and drug addicts and of those close enough to suffer with them May be among the More reassuring and encouraging tales youll Ever ask Lois Francis and Velma har and Tell you that precisely the Point of their new the stories simply had to be Francis and Harland did that in if nothing changes nothing changes personal stories of the human Spir a 190page volume compiled under the auspices of the addictions foun Dation of Manitoba and launched at arms Christie House family Centre one thousand of the books have been they Are for at Christie through Coles the Book Mcnally Robinson Book Sellers and a number of other Book stores throughout the a former feature writer for the free press weekly farm and a counselling say they Felt the stories had to be collected and told for several reasons they hold a sociological Mirror to society face they show How people reclaim their lives and some Happi Ness they demonstrate that there is help for the asking As soon As people admit they need got lives Back these stories show How people affected by the addiction of others managed to get their own lives Harland if nothing changes in Peoples nothing can change in their Harland said in an interview Dur ing the Book she said both addicts and their loved ones must experience a form of break if denial continues for an addict and acceptance of suffering for the per sons sibling or then nothing Harland denial is relatively she How Many alcoholics have you heard to Tell a Friend that he or she can quit any time they want and that therefore there really int a problem just saying so Doest make the problem go the unhappiness rages the people with the Addic Tion Are always the ones whose unhappiness overshadows everything in their admitting theres a prob Lem and there needs to be change is very difficult and very Francis said the life stories in the Book Are about people who took their lives pure and simple people who Are reclaiming their right to be around Manitoba Deloraine sunday shopping nixed the Deloraine and District chamber of Commerce has said no thanks to sunday shopping in town this Christmas but the 25 members at their last meeting did agree to open thursday nights till one major retailer said scheduling staff for extra shopping hours on Sun Day meant having too few workers available during busier another said most store operators prefer to Reserve sunday As family Melita Board gets new Leader the Antler River school division Board has elected Lynda Ham Mellas to replace Gary Man of the year in Deloraine in moved to Brandon last an election for another trustee has been called to fill the vacancy in Deloraine paper Marks Milestone the Deloraine times Star is begin Ning its 110th year of continuous pub the first edition of the Deloraine weekly times and Turtle Mountain and Souris River Gazette As the paper was then called came out copies Are still available on Boissevain gravestones toppled eight gravestones in the Boissevain cemetery including one placed there 90 years ago have been pushed police Are Boissevain Channel stays on air despite a 50 per cent Cut in funding from Westman the Boissevain residents operating the local Access Channel have decided to press it will now receive about a the biggest shortage we have right now is said Art pod Jan of the Boissevain Media commis better known As Access ;