Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local september John Douglas 6977292 features Buzz Currle email City a3 Jeff debocww1nnipeo free press Francis still puts in three Hal Days a working with kids with learning old fashioned teacher honoured for work by Nick Martin education reporter they didst have learning resource centres when Betty Francis first set foot in Cecil Rhodes school in the kids Sang god save the King and Only spoke when the teacher called on them to the men were jackets and and the women never wore even on the coldest but her love of learning has remained constant Over 81 next the Library at the Weston neighbourhood school will be renamed the Betty Francis learning resource has been a a and for the last 23 a Volunteer at Cecil Rhodes she puts in three Hal Days a working one none with kids with learning problems in the learning resource Francis still makes the three minute walk to Cecil Rhodes school she took that Day in 1916 when she attended her first Grade 1 they had no kindergarten in those she the first song we Ever Learned was keep the Home fires to remind the kids of the soldiers overseas in the that school was i didst get into a classroom until Grade we sat in the she by contemporary school was she though no one gave it much notice Back Francis later went to Daniel Mclntyre High then to the old Normal school teachers col lege on William Avenue before abruptly finding herself at the front of the facing students for the first time in Wasagaming in Ever thereafter to be miss Only those whole known her Well and for a Long time Call her and Ever in front of she her career took Francis to Teu Melrose and Pilot it didst really strike her As nostalgic or strange to return to Cecil Rhodes school in Winnipeg As a she by the no one was around who remembered her As a and there was a move to a newer adjacent the classrooms she attended eight decades ago Are now the adolescent Parent after 11 years at Cecil Rhodes and six at Inkster Francis retired for All of one she was talking about her retire ment to the Cecil Rhodes Princi pal Valdine who quickly signed Francis up As a on a one none you can do quite a Francis i teach youngsters who have fallen behind because of and oth ers whole had a hard time learn we have quite a time trying to get them to Start to Francis Doest know anything about theres too Many of these i still do everything in my i dont walk around Safeway with a principal Jim Duncan said the staff came up with the idea last Spring of honouring and won Quick approval from the administration and the ceremony will be held sometime in mid october whenever a plaque is bettys an amazing Duncan she just loves Hacker wreaks havoc in Manitoba firm offers Reward for Saboteur after internet service disrupted by Glen Maekenzie staff reporter the manager of a regional internet provider has offered a Reward in the Hopes of catching the Hacker who Cut service to about Manitoban last Ron Dallmeier of Manet said yesterday when a Hacker attacked the operation last he or she effectively shut Down the system for several Dallmeier said the offender clogged up the system by sending in numerous packets of information with an erroneous return whoever did it sent in so much erroneous information the Router just ran out of he he said the system was also shut Down for part of and an investigation determined the hackers intended target was escape communications one of the operations Manet it was a major our worst hacking experience since Manet started serving Large numbers of Manitoban in Dallmeier an escape spokesman be reached yesterday for the attack has been taken very seriously and has involved Many Industry experts As Well As the Winnipeg polices commercial crimes the ramp and the Federal Bureau of the police have determined the Hacker was somewhere in the United Dallmeier he said he doubted the intruder wanted to try to take business away from someone but that the action should definitely be considered More than just a he said he believed the attack which he called attack was done to satisfy the ego of someone who just wanted to see if he or she could do and that it shut Down everything that would normally come including emails and web whose nonprofit opera Tion is at the University of estimate the financial loss or the were More concerned about our we could lose clients or fail to get new ones because of it would be like Manitoba telecoms system shutting Down for a people would look elsewhere for Telephone Dallmeier he said he offered the Reward because we want to make it known that this is a very serious we dont want people to think they can get away with he requested anyone with information about what happened to Call the Winnipeg police service commercial crime unit at Shoal Lake acid leak no risk City a fluoride acid leak discovered late last week at Shoal Lake poses no threat to Winnipeg water a City spokesman said last Jack a waste and water department said about litres of the acid leaked from an underground tank or pipes leading to it before the leak was Dis covered during a routine inspection Friday the acid was pumped away by sat urday morning and tests of Shoal Lake water and ground water at the site found no so Winnipeg Gers need not worry about their drink ing Marquardson he also noted the Aqueduct from Shoal Lake has been shut since 5 for routine work and will remain closed until so Winnipeg is being supplied with water from the Deacon Reservoir just East of the Eaton workers celebrate new life for retailer staff reporter Jonasson Miyoung left discards old name tags White marketing manager Bruce Wattinger and Leslie Enns look the staff at Eaton Down town store threw their old striped Nam tags into a card Board coffin and said goodbye to the dark Days of bankruptcy then they donned party ate cake and said hello yesterday to a new look and new life for the remain ing Eaton you say goodbye to the old and hello to the we needed a bit of Humour in situations like said Eaton downtown general manager Debra weve come out of court Protection now and were Back in we want to come out of it starting after kissing their old pins and making a about 400 downtown staff members pinned on new Royal Blue name tags with Gold coloured same design now used on Eaton weve got a whole new Point of Jonas Sonyoung said of the new we like them a whole lot Eaton first shocked the country 28 when it sought bankruptcy Protection from creditors after the 127yearold Canadian Chain admit Ted it had suffered heavy financial since Eaton has sold real estate and split pension surpluses with employees to raise Money to begin paying Back its last an Ontario court judge approved the stores new business which was also accepted by creditors last the company will begin paying Back million on the last few months have been Tough on staff who didst know if the store would remain were very Happy As you can said staff member Doreen whose Mother also worked at this has been Ray life for 25 As a Dixieland band played in the background and a magician entertained even shoppers Felt a sense of were treated to a two metre by on metre cake with celebrate Eaton forever sprayed in icing on its crucial that the store stay it would be like a ghost town if we didst have said Wilma i was kind of sentimental about Daniel from said Hes been shopping at Eaton since he was a Treyve evolved and its an institution in the will get a bit so six stores have closed and another 11 will close by including the store at Gar Den City Eaton downtown store will also get two More floors will close by the end of the the seventh and eighth floors have been closed since the restaurant will stay open on the fifth but the rest of that floor and the sixth floor Are slated to Eaton has had several inquiries about the empty including a Call but no plans Are finalised out of your weekend starts from per Day por Call your travel agent or Call budget at 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