Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local july John Douglas 6977230 features Jim car email a3 Joe bryk9mvinnipeg free press Marlene Reguly Waters plants at Munroe Avenue Shes sad its mentally disabled to lose Flower shop Winnipeg operation Wilts under financial landlord pressures by Bud Robertson staff reporter squeezed from All a greenhouse and Flower shop that provided training for peo ple with mental handicaps is Clos ing for Good at the end of the it is not an easy said Marilyne chief executive officer of an organization that provides vocational training and employment for handicapped but she Saida number of press ing factors including mounting increased from larger greenhouses arid an eviction notice from their new landlord forced the Board to close the effective july the 540squaremetre which operated on land owned by Willnia employed eight clients and one full time it also hired Between five and six casual employees during the sum the clients will be placed in another Marlene who has been a seasonal worker at the greenhouse for the past five said she is sorry to see it its disappointing and its said adding it must also be sad for the clients who form friendships while working at the the which opened in 1988 As a wholesale operation and added a retail store in has never made Keely it already has an accumulated loss of she and this years Spring flooding Hast by the end of the Green House has normally made about half its Revenue for the this it has managed to Pullin Only 28 per although Short for work and social opportunities receives provincial Grants that were once available to sustain such operations have dried up Over the compounding its the greenhouse is facing Ever increase ing Competition from new and expanding greenhouse operations such As a hardware retail giant that recently opened a 900 Square metre greenhouse in the the greenhouse tried set Ting up three kiosks around the City last but even that didst everybody and his dog is Selling plants in the said and to make Money the greenhouse would have to at least double in but even if had the Money to expand which it does organization received notice from Jelden a giant window and door manufacturer that purchased Willmar win Dows earlier this that it has until 31 to the organization decided that now would be a better time to cease its greenhouse Keely Metis Leader ready to face Challenge president Heads emf in disarray by Nick Martin staff reporter Chartrand David Chartrand used to take a lot of ribbing from his teenage buddies Back in Duck Bay they go fishing or shoot Pool on the weekend while he headed off to Manitoba Metis federation meet my friends used to get mad at that i was stuck going to a Chartrand said with one of his frequent Hearty laughs As he sat below a portrait of Louis delighting in his recently elected position As president of the you learn As you you pick up Chartrand said with a at 37 Chartrand is a 20year vet eran of emf hell need to Call on that expert the last two emf Ernie Blais and Billyjo de la were ousted by their boards in squabbles that went to theres a new threatened Legal Challenge to the May 15 emf elec Tion from disgruntled presidential candidates Rick Mckay and Robert with de la Ronde finished second by a wide margin to Chartrand even farther Back were Mckay at Brian Beach at Maurice Cyr at Robert Chartrand at 492 and Bill Flamand at Chartrand has no illusions about the difficulties hell face in trying to restore stability and credibility to the the emf has taken out a Bank loan to consolidate its some of which Date Back a one of the he Tiest debts is owed lawyer Thomas who now resumed a massive emf land claim that Chartrand predicted could get to court in the fall of Chartrand said if everyone declared his or her Bas Metis population could hit a Metis is essentially any one of mixed aboriginal and euro Pean now on a leave of absence As director of the provinces aboriginal court worker Chartrand lamented that his new duties will probably Force him to give up his presidency of the beat the streets literacy pro the emf receives million a year from Ottawa to provide training programs and million a year to repair and manage houses in Rural Mani but Chartrand said the emf cant tap into the training budget to run its and nets no More than As a property Ottawa provides a but the province pulled of its Core funding earlier this Core funding is vital to paying his seven regional Vic presidents full time salaries of so they can devote All their time to the he Northern and native affairs minis Ter David Newman said salaries for Vic presidents Arent his notion of a top membership fees were invented for that kind of he my funding preference would be on a project project weve challenged them to come up with creative directly of Benefit to the Metis people of address compelling Spe Cial Mary the president of the aboriginal Council of Winnipeg and a said Chartrand is going to drive a hard but he under stands Urban Metis senator Elsie Bear of Selkirk is a big Hes Hes a really great the emf will get Back to where it was with Chartrand said most people dont realize that Metis Are treated far differently than members of first nations people dont like the word Dis but we Are we Are our own peo fingers crossed after new transplant by Andrew Maxwell for the free press Cory Connell gets his third set of lungs3 to e the first Manitoban to undergo a double lung transplant is recovering from his second lung trans Plant this Cory underwent his third surgery in 24 hours saturday As i doctors tried to Stop bleeding in his Chest cavity following a transplant per informed his Mother said last were really said Joanne once he gets a nights he will be Able to fight a Little Connell got the word Friday morn ing that an appropriate Organ had been harvested and was waiting for him at health sciences War Dekker the family has not been told any details about the she All we know is it was a healthy lung Pink and working two surgeries were required to Stop Chest bleeding following the latest she adding her son lost almost two litres of blood during internal theres lots of for that the third set of lungs in she Conneus first groundbreaking Dou ble transplant was performed in seventeen at the he was the youngest Canadian to undergo such an his lungs were damaged during a House fire when he was the latest transplant was needed because three years ago his system began to reject the transplanted the Success of this procedure is Crit since his remaining right lung from the 1991 operation is not w9rk ing at full War Dekker when the rejection he remained functional for a but was put on a waiting list 10 months ago after his health slowly before the he was very frail and confined to a wheel War Dekker experiencing rejection three years after a transplant is but Doc tors say anything can she theres no Way of knowing sometimes it starts on the operating her son was fading in and out of consciousness War Dekker but he recognized his including wife the two married this past Valentines she never leaves his War Dekker on a ventilator and in critical but stable condition last now has the potential to live a Active his anther were keeping our fingers Connell with wife Shalene Success is i i i the bases Are loaded i for a grand slam event 1013 at Quarry Park in Stonewall c0fflf out and Thor on Loam Manitoba North of Winnipeg by i i on Highway 7 i for Canadas m crowne son b do in Soa Frice ;