Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba July saturday free press local july John Douglas 6977292 features bu22 Currie email a3 Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press police search for body police divers search yesterday for the body of a Man who went missing in the red near the Louise thursday Lawrence is presumed drowned after he jumped in with three friends to Cool police called off the search last night after their efforts group picks ant gang coordinator hiring process turns off candidates by Doug name police reporter Transcona residents get Pond by Aldo Santin and Allison Bray City reporter homeowners in South Transcona Are breathing a sigh of Relief after the province announced this week it will provide funds to Start the construction of a storm retention Urban affairs minister Jack Reimer said he convinced the Provin Cial Cabinet to Advance the City million from next years capital half the Money needed for the the storm retention Pond is seen As the Best Means to prevent the annual Spring flooding in the caused from Runoff from Neighbour ing Farmland in the pm of not a year has gone by where there Hast been Reimer said it will eliminate a lot of worry and anxiety every year with them residents worrying if get water coming Down the streets or residents in the afflicted areas be Avenue resident Anna Myszczuk was born just a few houses away from the House she currently lives she said her earliest memo Ries consist of the annual Spring flooding in the affecting hundreds of As soon As the Snow we were under she Myszczuk basement has been flooded three times since she said she started getting vocal in 1993 when the area suffered horrendous problems with sewage backup from abnormally High amounts of every year we put up a sign say for Sale lakefront but Myszczuk said residents soon got fed up waiting for something to be its about time they did she said of the it just seems it takes someone to Start screaming before something Hap her Dan weve been lobbying for it for about 20 he but Regan said now he can rest a bit in he May even put in an office in his he has been Loath to build until now for fear of but Regan said he wont take any chances until he sees what next years Spring Runoff Andy a City land drainage planning said construction work on the Pond should begin by Nagy said detailed design draw Ings still must be produced and con tract tenders put we will get the Pond finished this year which should alleviate most of the flooding Nagy adding widening an existing ditch system that will Drain the new Lake into the Seine River and the installation of remaining drains will be finished next the project had been championed by area Ward councillor Shirley Tim Rudolph shortly after she won she gave the project a twist when she convinced the Manitoba water ski association to get the Pond is expected to be the site of training and practise trials for the 1999 Panama the water ski association had been using facilities in which will be the site of the sports games How the association plans to make the South Transcona Pond its Perma nent Home after the the cites first gang prevention coordinator has been selected and is currently negotiating a contract for his three year tenure in the sources but both the first Choice of the hiring Glenn and the runner up Wendy say the lengthy selection process and political interference has turned them off the in interviews this both sail they will Likely decline if they get a formal i dont think i want this Job any Cochrane Ive been work ing with government for 15 years now and they cant seem to do anything including Cochrane was angered that news of his selection had leaked to the and initially denied he had applied for the he later admitted he is in negotiations and is waiting for a for Mal contract sources familiar with the negotiations said they Hope to have Cochrane under contract next week and on the Job in Early they said that if both Cochrane and Huggan turn Down the More people will have to be and it will be several months longer before the Job is the gang prevention coordinator position was advertised More than four months ago and the deadline for applications was april nearly 300 people from across Canada candidates were selected by a com Mittee consisting of Mary Richard of the aboriginal Council of Neil Lewis of the salvation Winnipeg police chief David Cassels and John Prystanski Point Huggan said she was last inter viewed on june and a month later still Hast heard anything Back other than through reporters who have called it appears to be a very political process and in not sure that i want to be involved at this she Ive been hearing tons of rumours that Glenn is the Choice but nobody has bothered to Tell me one Way or the a provincial probation offi cer who has extensive experience working with Young gang members was an Early Favourite to be she is currently working with the choices ant gang in sources say Cochrane didst even apply for the Job at and Only entered the running when he was approached by Cochrane recently finished a term position with the aboriginal and is the president of the Board of directors of the social planning coun cil of worked in a variety of administrative positions in the hiring committee members said Cochrane impressed them with his upfront attitude and Street knowledge of the gang police Tom who is doing the administration for the selection said the process is moving along As quickly As but agreed that the applicants who were Short listed May be getting frustrated with the there Are some qualified people out there who Are probably wondering what is going but we Are still in the selection he the gang prevention coordinator position was created in March when the Federal government provided in annual funding for three years under the Winnipeg develop ment the funding will also pay for an the coordinator will answer to an advisory committee made up of government and Community and is expected to provide direction for the various agencies dealing with gang homemaker goes to the in Calgary woman lodges complaint Over financial discrimination by Kim Guttormson staff reporter t t then Stefanie Sodja made a decision to stay Home to look after her she didst think shed be punished for but stayathome mostly Are financially discriminated and a Calgary homemaker has lodged a com plaint with the United i Sodja because i stay at Home and get nothing for if you work you can deduct your daycare and i Haven even reached a Point where i really realize i cant contribute to a Calgary resident Beverley a mar ried Mother of has lobbied the government for two asking Why women working in the Home Are not Given equal status with those who work a former teacher who chose to stay Home and raise her said she had a rude Awakening after finishing teach ing to become a a Cheque she wrote want there were problems with credit cards and she contribute to the Canada pen Sion her husband was not allowed to pay her a salary for her work at if she used a Nanny or Day the government would allow her to deduct a child each year until the age of she moms at Home can Only deduct about a year until the child is seven years Sodja says there is also social discrimination against stayathome if someone else raises your you get a she As she tried to get her Young out of the Kitchen if you people think youre just sitting at eating i mind being exhaust options my kids Are really important and its important for me to be the one to look after but sometimes i really think what i do is after prime minister Jean Chretien had a didst he i wonder if she stayed at Bryan a constitutional expert with the University of says Smith would have to exhaust her Canadian options filing complaints with both provincial and Federal human rights the in is Likely to look at her i View it As conceivable that there is some plausible basis to argue under the current framework there is a Case against Schwartz he said a similar Canadian Case that the in ruled on involved native women who lost their native status after marrying White its not but its a moral unpaid work performed by women has been valued at trillion us a statistics Canada found that women per form two thirds of the 25 billion hours of unpaid work done in Canada in Sta scan estimated the Cost of replacing the unpaid work of a woman at Home with a least one preschool child at a in spokesman in new York said the Smiths complaint would be looked the in contacts the government named in a sends it a copy of the Alle gation and awaits a said Dino Del Vasto of the committee on the elimination of discrimination against Phil free press Sodja with and open every Nile til 9 pm All Day saturday free year on the internet 1c internet 1996 Gnu Sierra so ton 4x4 Stock 01606 vortex 5700 v8 4 Speed automatic Abs Driver Side Irani Tow split front Bench air Box limited slip Locking stereo with clock and balance of factory 1996 la Stock Sedan litre v6 4 Speed 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