Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 saturday free june aboriginal women group honours select Manitoban writer wins native award by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter longtime correspondent for the free press is among a dozen aboriginal and Nonato original Manitoban honoured by a group that seeks to better the lives of aboriginal it Means an awful lot to com ing from such a Bob Low said yesterday from Ive spent Many wonderful years with aboriginal its really special to be honoured by a first nations he and four other no aboriginals will receive a Silver Eagle out standing citizen award while seven natives will receive a Gold Eagle outstanding citizen All from the indigenous women collective of Manitoba Lowery has written about the aboriginal people of Manitoba and their issues for one prominent individual he has written about is Ovide grand chief of the Assembly of first who will receive a Gold Mercredi nonviolence he was a budding lawyer in the Pas at the Lowery i phoned him one saturday for some he went Down to the got some information for me and put it on a bus to Evan program coordinator for the women said no aboriginals Are recognized because we feel working with them is an integral part to achieving Suc Cess in any project we Courchene also said the collective Doest celebrate just one Mercredi will be honoured for sup porting and promoting nonviolence in addressing social Justice the other aboriginals to receive awards Are Ann a retired red River Community College instructor and for her commitment to aboriginal women and their Perry executive director of the Virginia Fontaine memorial an alcohol rehabilitation Centre at Sage eng first for promoting health and Jenny a Brandon entre for her commitment to Community work and business Man Lowery Means an awful lot William George Deputy chief of the Opas kayak Cree nation in the for his work in advancing women issues in the Leon a Thompson High school for outstanding aboriginal youth Laura a longtime Mem ber of the women collective currently on the Board of the no aboriginals besides Low Ery who won a Silver Eagle Are David Liberal my for who did consulting work with some aboriginal chiefs before his election to for his support on aboriginal judge Edwin Kimelman of the provincial for his work on reviewing aboriginal families and the child welfare Alvin a retired court of Queens Bench who served on the aboriginal Justice sister Aline Gazaille of there a Point for her efforts in helping aboriginal the recipients will receive their awards at the second annual nation Al aboriginal Day dinner at the Indi an and Metis Friendship air Canada Andamo sign pact on hiring by Nick Martin staff reporter t t Tith less than 100 aboriginal staff out of air Canada president Lamar Durrett admitted yesterday the airline has no Way to go but air Canada and the Assembly of Manitoba chiefs signed an agreement yesterday setting a target of three per cent aboriginal recruits in any hiring Over the next five the Deal followed two years of negotiations after the am filed Canadian human rights commission complaints against 51 Federal departments Over their hiring in practical it Means Job opportunities in the transportation Industry for aboriginal said am grand chief Phil there Are very this is an investment in aboriginal in All Fontaine from ground passenger Check in staff and mechanics to pilots and flight message of death just a drink away Folkee press librarian Lynn m Crothers got a strange phone Call this it was from banker Cynthia who grew up in she was looking for one of my columns from 15 years i guess you could Call that a tribute to the but i didst really write that the Man who deserves the credit is an ramp officer named Dale Here it an open letter to from a police a a a the scene is a Long stretch of High Way with a Sharp it had been raining and the roads were a car travelling in excess of 128 Kwh missed the curve and slowed into an became airborne and struck a two of the three Young persons were hurled from the one into the the other on to the Road Way where the car landed on when i the car is resting on its an eerie Calm has settled Over the scene and it appears desert except for one Lone traveller who called he is sick to his the Driver is but in and unable to free himself from under the twisted steer ing the third passenger has almost stopped the and his Are covered in blood from an artery Cut by the broken Bone end that protrudes from his his breath comes in gasps As he tries desperately to suck air past his blood filled his eyes bulged and fixed on me Are has Only Means of telling me that he is terrified and wants my i feel a Pang of guilt and recognize him As a boy i let off with a warning the other night for an open Container of alcohol in his maybe if id cited him he be Here who knows he Dies soundlessly in my his Pale Blue eyes staring vacantly As if trying to see into the future he will never my mind focuses on a its the girl who was thrown into the i race to her with a Blanket but in afraid to move her head is tilted at an exaggerated she whimpers for her like a Little in the i hear the Wail of the ambulance winding its Way through the Rainy i am filled Gordon Sinclair with incredible i am sick with anger and frustration with parents and leaders who think a Little bit of alcohol wont Hurt i am frustrated with court rulings and other Legal manoeuvring that restricts my ability to do my Job in preventing this kind of the ambulance begins the Job of removing the dead and i stand watching As hot tears min Gle with rain and drip off my i would give anything to know who furnished those Young people with that i will spend several hours on reports and several months trying to erase from my memory the details of that i will not be the Driver will recover and spend the rest of his life trying to the girl thrown into the tree had her neck broken although she was voted Queen of the senior prom and most Likely to she will spend the next 60 years in a i am angry and sick at heart with trying to do my Job and being tagged a bad i Pray to god that i might never have to face another Parent and say your or your has just been killed in a car you ask Why did this happen it happened because a Young per stoned out of his thought he could handle two tons of hurtling it happened because an trying to be a Good bought for or sold to some minor a Case of it happened because you As parents we rent concerned enough about your child to know where he was and what he was doing and you were unconcerned about minors and Alco hol it happened As people you believe this sort of thing Only happens to somebody for your i Hope it Doest happen to but if you continue to regard alcohol abuse As part of grow ing then please keep your porch Light on because some cold Rainy night you will find me at your staring at my feet with a message of death for pm Ford Chrysler Hyundai jeep Accra Toyota Honda pont1ac Eagle inst Diu come Down and 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