Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 05, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Has its pluses Ashern students learning two courses at a time numbers Rise i recycling is up in a big Way in the province stay afloat Jeff Fassero pitched eight shutout innings As Seattle beat Baltimore 42 yesterday Brandon weather mix of Sun and Low details on Page b12 sunday free press october inside 664 flee Blaze on ship a fire raged through a cruise ship off Cyprus yesterday forcing 664 people to flee in lifeboats and Heli copters Hunt on for donor Steve who saved his own life by offering his Bone marrow for anticancer needs a compatible donor in Case his leukaemia returns warm Century forecast the consensus of leading experts on global warming is that the 21st Century is Likely to be a warmer one than this one we need Grey cup game Winnipeg needs the 98 Grey cup but before a final Deci Sion is made we can count on hours of rationalization and even Nam calling at City columnist Scott Taylor predicts Boyens rejoins family enlightening and always that Ingeborg who joins the free press family of editorial Page beginning Boyens will appear on the free press editorial Page every commenting on a wide variety of issues with the perspective of a female baby this is Boyens second tour of duty with the free she was a reporter with the news paper from 1979 to her column appears on Page today in your City province run for the cure five Kilometre of Roneki run or Canadian breast cancer foundation Winnipeg convention Cen tre nobody but everybody laughing conference on Humour and Gas station 10 to 4 music from Eastern Europe Johns 135 7 and Index local Canada world in life net Reader Aid Ann to lotto Bonus o 6191566 Hal Harvest in Valley rain took heavy toll on most yields by Bill Redekop staff reporter the Harvest was Short and Sweet for most Farmers except in the red River where yields were slashed in half by Spring floods and summer in most our yields Are about half of our peas were 100 Pel cent drowned said Christine who farms with husband lome near 75 Kilometres South of the farm couple had been optimistic when flooding receded just in time to allow them to seed but then hectares in the red River Valley got nailed with two mid summer the water just get the water just sat in our she the reason was flooding had stripped away up to 20 centimetres of their right Down to the hard soil scientists who inspected the Fields told Joe free press Gordon Grenkow tills part of his hectares near pipeline Road on cites Edge that meant summer rain soak Silt had also built up in ditch preventing weve been told it will take us 15 years to bring Back the soil to what it was prior to the she about hectares were affected on their about 200 hectares that we rent flooded had decent the Hambling will file crop insurance but its acknowledged that coverage int very High for the Type of seed crops they we intend to do everything we can to Hamblin in the flood wheat yields were slashed to an average 2025 bushels an and As Low As 15 Accord ing to preliminary continued please see City workers jumping to retire Early by Bill Redekop staff reporter the City of Winnipeg pension plan is allowing employees to retire with full pensions As Early As age with taxpayers paying the the City pension plan is so engorged with Money that Large numbers of employees Between the Ages of 48 and 54 Are jumping at the Chance to i know a few people who retired in their late said a City who Falls into the category of Early my Boss retired at and another its pretty retirees reap rewards in More the 200 employees under retired from the City in the past five nearly 40 were just 48 or for 1995 and per cent of new retirees were 54 years old or the figures do not include emergency services personnel such As some of the Early retirements were encouraged by offers of Severance packages to downsize civic govern but much of the trend is simply due to the cites it was one of the first pensions to waive age penal ties a decade in other an employee can retire with full pension As Early As age if he or she has 30 years by the Federal govern ment pension would slap a 25 per cent penalty on employees retiring at age leaving an employee a pension of just 35 per cent of last the provincial pension Doest allow anyone to get a pension before age for Blu and White Collar its very said pension consultant Hubert Frenken of the cites pension Frenken is a former statistics Canada pension that a lot of years that person is drawing it has to Cost for a 50yearold male is expected to live More and a 50yearold woman another according to updated Canadian mortality Bill City commissioner of finance and said the number of civic employees retiring before age 55 is relatively and the pension can afford the vast majority of people retire on age he continued please see aboriginal artist sees eagles where others see bricks Russell students murals in demand by Nick Martin education reporter most people look at Walls on Selkirk Avenue and see bricks and Graffiti Richard Mano Skeesick sees wolves and Northern and what Mano Skeesick sees in his mind is soon transformed into brilliantly coloured images on Walls from Arlington Street to main the Grade 12 student at rus sell vocational school has already painted five enormous murals along Selkirk and has been commissioned by the Selkirk Avenue business improvement zone to paint As Many As 20 since i was a Little i liked said who came to Russell from Theresa Point intending to study that before Art teacher Tom Roberts spotted some of Manoa Kee Sicks work in the Art room and recruited him for what was at the time a group of 10 Young aboriginal artists at the school creating works to revitalize the Mano Skeesick has proven to be the Best and the most in said Hes painted the freight House on Isabel Street and even the Pool area of the Sheraton among other its worked into a Nice summer Job for said who joked that Hes now become the Guy who delivers paint to his working i have a truck i didst have a truck before we started Mano Skeesick said he tries to visualize what would work on a Wall then does a sketch for the buildings own his Favourite is the aboriginal funeral a spiritual depiction which took five Days of some of it while hanging upside Down Wayne free press Mano Skeesick Roberts stand before Selkirk Avenue mural from Tjie its out of my image its where i want to Mano Skeesick said he uses paint brushes and an Extension pole almost five metres As Well As some of the Walls Are pretty they sometimes ask me to paint on the paintings Are later sprayed to protect against both weather and last Mano Skeesick was honoured at the aboriginal youth achievement awards As artist of the he Hopes to go on to study Art at the University of Roberts himself is being honoured in Montreal next weekend by the Canadian society in Art education for his innovative approach to Art despite his heavy workload on Selkirk Mano Skeesick and other Russell students will be available for indoor Art projects Over the Roberts he what peo ple dont realize is we dont do them for its a about two thirds of the Money goes to the Roberts but paint for a Large mural can easily Cost i mens or i i Coats or parkas s995 exceptional in clothing far since 1911 at 17 Winnipeg ;