Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free ouly local director invites detractors to help food Bank has its critics by Nick Martin staff reporter George Novotny sat monday with bundles of bread and other baked goods for the cites Hun Gry and and Winnipeg Harvest didst show up to collect the discarded food hed picked up from a Charleswood grocery Sun the week Harvest haunt made its monday pickup of the Sun Day goods until when most of the baking was no longer said an annoyed they Are taking their i not very Novotny its gotten very Why cant they work on monday its not a holi theres a lot of Good food being thrown he accused Winnipeg Harvest of working Bankers it was a mistake that Novotny got Winnipeg Harvest executive director David Northcott said yester his situation shows the difficulty that Harvest has in feeding the poor with a Small budget and dozens of con stantly changing Northcott we had a bread run said bryksmmnnipe3 wee press Winnipeg Harvest Volunteer Roy Keown with donated but Novotny somehow got missed with a skeletal staff working the Day Between sunday and the july 1 six Days a Harvest picks up leftover baking from More than 40 he Novotny is one of the rare private citizens who collects left Over goods on the Only Day Harvest is sometimes we do make Northcott it takes 75 people a Day to run Winnipeg har generally a wide Range of vol some of whom Are assigned to Community service by the what Little Money Northcott has goes to pay seven or eight workers who would otherwise be on that How we break the we have difficulty with some peo ple trying to learn its a perpetual motion machine of frequently changing Novotny is also upset Winnipeg har Vest Doest collect and distribute Dis carded fruit and or Cartons of eggs thrown out because one or two Are Northcott said the City health depart ment has been extremely helpful in dealing with baked but he and the City draw the line at outdated pro Duce that cant just because youre Doest mean you have to take the risk with poor he Novotny objected to Winnipeg har Vest passing on unsuitable baked goods to area hog Farmers after volunteers have gone to the trouble of collecting but that All part of feeding the Hun Northcott we lever and turning food not fit for humans into pig in return for donations of fresh pork several times a anyone who Doest understand just How Tough a Job Winnipeg Harvest does is Welcome to come and Volun Teer for a few Northcott Hes at pm Loans vans to transport flood workers general motors Canada has donated eight vans for the next two months to transport Young workers to flood cleanup Sites in Southern with the help of Federal the economic development Council for Manitoba bilingual municipalities was Able to hire about 180 Young people to help clean up flood dam age throughout the red River a news conference in Adolphe was told i personally witnessed the dam age caused by the said Hubert pm dealer in adding he was Happy that his firm was Able to help out with the councils flood cleanup the councils top priority is to co ordinate economic development activities in its member important notice to those affected by flooding red Cross suspends deadline for flood assistance applications the sofa then Palliser sat on his complaint in your family is anything like youve never by sent in one of those Warf to cards you get when you buy something youve probably had the Best of intentions and Laid the card or even filled it but you never seem to get to the Point of finding a stamp and mailing when something does go you have no one to blame but yourself when you get the runaround from a company that Doest want to honour its not so with Gerry How we keep great Berube told me weve had problems before so we make a Point of keeping absolutely and so when a retired brewery bought a leather sofa and love seat from furniture galleria for in he not Only promptly mailed the warranty registration he also saved the sales the manufacturers warranty and the sales which is last when he noticed a slight separa Tion in the leather on his Berube didst think hed have much of a problem getting it fixed under his with the manufacturer Winnipeg own pal Liser furniture according to the flyer Berube the warranty guaranteed lifetime coverage on Frame and five years on seat foam most importantly for five years on material and it should have been you would but there were com plications right from the first of furniture galleria had closed since Berube had last dealt with so the logical first place to go for help was not available to so Berube called up which referred him to the service department at Penthouse Furni which sounded strange to Berube because he haunt bought the sofa from but he did As he was and after a Dis Cussion to ensure the work was covered by be rubes Berube says he was promised someone would be in touch with Paul Wiecek him to fix the but the Call never came some thing Penthouse owner Larry Adelman is at a loss to weve always been willing to service anything with Adelman in Adelman said Penthouse handles All of Palliser warranty work in the theres no Cost to Adelman everything gets charged Back to me says if Berube was having a problem getting he simply should have called Penthouse but after waiting a couple of weeks for penthouses Call to Berube says he fished through his records and decided his beef want with Penthouse in the first my warranty was with Palliser so when i never heard i called and then he called again and eventually worked his Way up the Palliser Chain of command until he finally sent a letter to the pres ident Art asking for the letter went and even after some inquiries on his behalf by the provincial Consumers Berube was still no closer to get Ting his sofa nine months after he first noticed the that when i got i got defers Joan on the phone and she promised to look into last i called Back to Check on her we didst speak that but the same Berube says he got three Calls from and then the next a senior design person from the company came out to his House to inspect the the sofa was taken away a Cou ple of Days after that and Berube is expecting to get it Back either today or All fixed and possibly with some special clean ing solution thrown in for got a Story for us Call Paul Wiecek at fax at 697 7412 or write to 1355 Mountain Many Manitoban affect immediate suspend until further those who cannot meet during this extended pm consult with Community agencies to determine struggling to meet n red Cross will or assistance to red Cross will and social service Essing longer term of they have incurred heir Basic in phase applicants a loss of income that i mortgage or loan Community apr they Are deter who have received unable to meet Basic 1888 the red Cross assistance from to reap i the Cross Independent adv gov Canadian red Cri in Manitoba is m for More please Call Tollfree 1 and is administered by an sent natives from affected assistance those affected by flooding 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