Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, August 25, 1999

Issue date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999
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Previous edition: Tuesday, August 24, 1999

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1999, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free August 1999 a9 commission wont fight mennonite rights ruling staff the Manitoba human rights commission has decided not to seek a judicial review of a Deci Sion upholding the firing of a woman from a mennonite in Manitoba human rights adjudicator Don Knight ruled that Steinbach Bible College was within its rights in firing Esther an accounting and Bookstore clerk who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Schroen was raised a and testimony at a hearing Early last year said that she led officials to believe she still belonged to that denomination when hired in she was fired two Days later when the col lege Learned while there was no question the col lege discriminated against Knight ruled that Manitoba human rights legislation provides an exception for a Bona fide and reasonable requirement at a Job for a certain religious last the human rights com Mission said it will accept the recommendation of its Legal counsel not to apply for a judicial review of the commission chairman Ken Filkow said in a news release the com Mission still disagrees with the adjudicators decision and will take Steps to ensure the decision is confined in a narrow Way to the specific facts and circumstances of the Schroen the commission will be formulating a policy position and will be seek ing legislative amendments to the human rights code to ensure that religious belief is not utilized to wrongly justify a narrow and discriminatory hiring Filkow Bulldozer mishap fatal an Man was killed when he was crushed by a Bulldozer he was transporting by truck on a Remote Bush Road in Northwestern Ontario monday Lynn was crushed in the cab of his Lowed transport truck when the Bulldozer Slid Forward from the charges in violent spat a 33yearold Shoal River Man has been charged with beating his wife and setting fire to their House following a violent Domestic dispute on Swan River ramp were called to the Home on the Northwestern Manitoba Reserve at about by a 30year old woman who had fled to a friends outside flood a plentiful Harvest by John Lyons regional reporter t Thile Many Fields in the Southwest we rent seeded due to the summer Hast been a washout for All Mani Toba crops in the Eastern and Interlake regions Are coming in above the wheat Harvest in those areas has been under Way for about two and is already at the Halfway the Harvest is in full Robert oilseed specialist with Manitoba said yester Day from wheat yields Are 45 to 55 bushels an which is slightly above its a different Story in the where the Harvest has barely there is a True line As you drive and you go from Harvest to no one in the Park West of he it rained most of greatly delaying those who did get on their East of Harvest is actually ahead of the average sched some wheat in the Interlake was being swathed in they had an Early Start with a lot of people in the Fields before May Park in less than five per cent of Western Manitoba wheat has been they dont have a whole lot to talk As far As Harvest is Park adding the problems run from the Southwest Corner of Mani Toba near Melita through to wheat covers More of Manitoba this year than any other farm ers planted million acres of million acres of million acres of acres of Oats and acres of flax this like about half the Barley in the East is it is show ing above average yields of 70 to 90 bushels per forty per cent of the oat Harvest is completed in the and yields Are also higher than canola Harvest is Only with about 10 per cent of the crop so yields and Quality Are report edly flax is still ripening and Harvest has not begun in the other such As Beans and traditionally have a late september Kinarney tries to close the curtain on algae its curtains for the Beach at Killarney after years of alga related problems for swimmers at the South Western Manitoba Lake a local group has come up with a unique that is to one giant a 235metre Long Vinyl drape has been suspended in the water around the Beach at Erin on the out skirts of the town of its thought that the curtain will keep algae blooms away from the swim Ming trouble no one can be sure if the erected last is work that because this Killar Ney Lake has had a rare Lack of algae no one could predict said Killarney town administrator Jim the curtain floats about 30 centimetres above the Waters it is anchored to the Bottom with Sand the Lake is less than five metres curtain floats will be deflated in and the cur Tain will spend the Winter on the Bot Tom of the then be raised again each it is in place and ready to go next Dowsett Killarney Lake is Home to Cabins and two and is a popu Lar fishing and swimming spot 75 Kilometres Southeast of the curtain is one of several Mea sures to fight the algae Dowsett another includes Clos ing culverts to divert Early Spring runoffs that often contain fertilizer and chemicals that May contribute to the algae he Many families Are left wondering 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