Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 readers forum Winnipeg free press it 4 q july 1997 m i w sexist marketing turns off female supporters of bombers f dont alienate football fans i am a 31yearold female Winnipeg Blue bombers i have been a fan for years and have on five or six games a this is the first time i have Felt my support of the bombers i respected Cal Murphy for his his for the game Here in i believe is was probably time for a coaching i was interested in the changes that Jeff Reinebold would bring to the i Felt hesitation about Early he arrived at the rally at the Winnipeg convention Cen tre on with an attractive Young woman clinging to his this annoyed the bombers wish to attract both male and female fans their new director of football operations makes a sexist arrival while listening to i became aware that the bombers pre game radio shows will take place in this establishment caters specifically to it is inappropriate for a Community based football club that Hopes to attract males and Young Middle aged and seniors to their to begin radio broadcasts from a business that promotes women As sex i am not trying to say that the bombers should Cater to my values As an there Are certain societal that they should consider As they attempt to develop a Community football i have supported this com unit based club for As have Many other this support from parents and older patrons will drop should these trends of catering to a segment of the popu lation i am certain that these marketing ploys Are an Effort to attract new but i would ask the Winnipeg football club to take time to ask itself this question How Many longtime supporters will you lose in this Effort is it Worth it Sharon Goertzen Gretna backup valve supplier thanked an update to those Winni Eggers who purchased a backup valve from me that was made available thanks to the efforts of de Bodnar of Home depot in Chicago i received a letter from him saying that the management presented him with an album of All the thank you cards sent to him from to quote i sat Down and read each i was moved to tears by the gratitude and the Heartfelt the letter was signed your Friend in de my thanks to the Many of you who took the time to individually express your Louise Barrette Winnipeg adoption Law violates rights i refer to the nip governments decision to permit same sex couples to what effect will this have on the children i can understand the homosexual groups wanting this it makes them appear More natural or Normal and perhaps some of them would genuinely like to rear but is that the right atmosphere in which to bring up a child inevitably this will result in an increase in homosexuality As we Are All the product of an interaction Between our genes and the Environ i can understand the silence of the some have been cowed into some Are intellectually afraid to appear and then maybe some do not it is one thing to legislate against unfair workplace discrimination or absence of dependents it is quite another to legislate that Homo sexual couples have a right to children should not be used As a Polit ical the welfare of the child is a child needs a father and a Mother for proper emotional devel permitting same sex couples to adopt is psychological child Canada condemns China for human rights i dare say this nip Law is the worst kind of human rights violation a violation of the innocent and Carman Carr should rethink political ideas it was with More than a Little sur prise that i read Jim Carrs put Charest to work for Canada free june it would appear that Carr has been Well schooled in lib eral if Why would he suggest that Jean Charest Lead the Quebec provincial liberals does he credit Charest with no moral Fibre some people do not care for and what about the especially v t How to reach us the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited or style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone in the Atlantic who voted for him Are they to be abandoned because Carr thinks it is the lib eral party which should reign in que Bec provincial has Carr considered that Charest might be Able to build a better and larger Provin Cial conservative base in Quebec i respectfully recommend that Carr take a Holiday and rethink his political especially the integrity of political Smith Winnipeg wicca reference disappointing i am once again disappointed with the free press reporting concerning wicca witchcraft tempts Faith june yet another article full of half truths and Why is it that the actual practice of wicca honouring the goddess and treating All of reality As sacred received Only two Short yet the sensational stereotypes teenagers run Ning amok conjuring doing spells to Force someone to love spacing out in stole the Lions share of the space i expect this kind of drivel from the National not from a serious Publica Tion such As the free if this is the Best and most Complete reporting the free press can then please refrain from writing about wicca Ever Colleen Mccarthy Winnipeg Ottawa leads in hiding information a measure of perspective is called for regarding the june 23 shameful thanks to the relative silence of mainstream it is not widely known that the systematic suppression of information has been the Stock in Trade of the Federal government for Justice minister Allan rocks new firearm control legislation if a Bill to suppress Public knowledge of legislation to come through close door Cabinet canadians didst even know the Cana Dian Security a Branch of Sis until our Federal statutes Are full of conditions limiting Public Access to information and we have a right to be have done Little to expose Federal suppression of information Over the dumping on Premier Gary Filmon now seems to be More than just a Little selective and youve missed the boat now for a number of years and prime minister Jean Chretien thanks Wilde Winnipeg keeping in touch with online news As a couple of Winni Eggers trans planted onto the big we want to thank you for the press it is great catching up with the love to see a More i depth format in the the one or two lines sometimes Only Are a keep up the Good missing those look Onnig summer evenings and your great Glen and Crystal duh be Hawaii Feng Shui plays major role in life this refers to a letter from Stuart Kaye try ancient Fonee june j4 As a i have had the Good Fortune and privilege to have lived in Southeast Asia for almost a Quarter of a Century where Feng Shui plays a very rational and a very Posi Tive part of the lives of a Quarter of the worlds it has done so for Many thousands of years and its Fol Lowers Are Western educated academics As much As people of the Fields and City Feng Shui is about being comfortable within ones both men tally and it is that a female fan of the Blue bombers objects to sexist marketing since Reinebold came to chastised sister supported your article Stony officials faulted in inmates free june 9 quoted the written statements judge Ron Meyers included in the findings regarding sister Carol Marie a chaplain at Stony Mountain among the statements made none of which even come close to describing the real was this one it is difficult for me to understand How a Church representative supposedly placed at the institution to minister to the welfare of the flock could turn her Back on a congregants who was by every indication crying out for the As judge Meyers so eloquently puts has something to we do not know what judge Meyers thought he heard during the but we do know what a search for a Scapegoat looks that inquest was not about seeking the if it sister Carol would have been recognized As the sensitive and compassionate lady that she she has never turned her Back on anyone in if Ever there was a place in this prison where a prisoner could go to find a listening direction in his life and spiritual it is the Chapel and these things Are made possible because of the chaplains and sister Carol Marie Peloquin had made herself Avail Able to every prisoner who has sought her she has Given counsel to prisoners and their families in times of she has worked hard to make a difference in the lives of prisoners and to give them Hope when they believe there is Little or none her door is never locked and we have seen her counselling others when she herself was suffering severe physical this is not a woman who ignored her she is someone prisoners can turn to when they Are Stony Mountain institution is a better place because sister Carol Marie Peloquin is Here and when she is we Hurt right along with the flock is completely in support of a lady they have come to Admire and James Motherall and other inmates Stony Mountain institution Way of passing on experience in one Way or is a feature of All cultures under the general heading of Folk it May be wrapped in Mysti but that suits a culture which reveres its ancestors for their Wisdom and the living Are Happy to learn from their ancestors successes and mistakes and do not regard their living seniors and those who have died As ignorant or has i am astounded that an particularly one from a department of could read the article in the free press on Feng to which he and dismiss the subject in such a trite and Cavalier fashion and with such a closed surely an Aca Demic can be expected to have an open mind and to inquire into a subject before making such com ment should be informed and should present rational arguments in support or Roger Gadd Winnipeg artists deserved funding Flap our imaginations Are sparked by what we feed our minds and some arts people do seem to enjoy offering up awful things local pair in funding free june in Case Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey have never the Jude Christian culture has never thought of sex As dirty or it was the god of both who said go Forth and Multi ply and gave us the gadgets to do it with and even to have fun while youre at it was when sin came into the world that people became body conscious and when god because with that consciousness came that certain body parts were to be kept covered from the general what god did not say was that we were to go on stage before thousands and exploit or make fun of said what a Why dont they poke fun at an ear real funny or a knee or a toe go cheers to Roberta Peters with her comment that this stuff has no Artis tic value Good for the National endow ment of the arts for saying no to this Mary Welch Roland doonesbury flashbacks by Garry Trudeau i cant survive without in i Only Hap Timz 10 bum this Mhz doonesbury flashbacks by Garry Trudeau irm Mcox ;