Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 29, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba winning reef press need a solution for math problems the weather As it or Many Cloudy. 60% Chance of showers. High 8 Low 5 All grades a 3 locations evenings amp saturdays the University of Manitoba bosons football team has captured the Canada West University athletic association in regular season title / cd 7 ""76639 Back from the Brink of ruin Curling clubs Roar to life rebound from financial ills by Bruce Owen aggressive membership drives and Confidence in Winnipeg a Economy have brought some of the City a Curling clubs Back from the Brink of financial ruin. What has also helped is the City a stable Job Market and a willingness by Many people to Fork Over membership fees instead of sticking it in the Bank. A a we re getting Back Guys we Haven to seen for five or six years a says Mitch Thra Pasky club Secretary for the Victoria Curling club on William Avenue. A Money Isnit As tight As it once was. A few years ago their jobs weren tas solid but now things have what a also changed is that membership is up at the vie where 18 months ago that Wasny to the Case. In fact the free press reported then the inner City club pay its Bills specifically its taxes after six consecutive years of losses. Tarapacky says that Isnit the Case now. By going after new Revenue including More sponsors and More internal fund raising the club is in better shape than it has been for years. Membership is also up. A we done to owe Money to anybody a he says. He added the local scene is quite competitive to attract curlers a perhaps too competitive a when it comes to ice rentals and membership rates. Ice rentals vary from rink to rink and membership rate average about $150 to $175 a year. Its not just the vie that a turned the Corner. Other mostly Volunteer based Winnipeg Curling clubs like Elmwood and Assiniboine memorial have seen marked upswing in membership. At Assiniboine the menus league is full and the women a league has seen increased membership. Continued please see membership growing a2 Granit Curling club detox rating /a2 Sage eng workers next Stop Phoenix staff help plan conference feds to pay $900,000 Tab by Bill Redekop Kin Gigliotti i Winnipeg me press the storied Granite club continues to draw curlers. Membership is a a oks As Curling clubs in the City enjoy a rebirth Many of them rebounding from the Brink of financial ruin. The Sage eng treatment Centre under fire for taking staff on a Caribbean cruise this month is receiving an additional $900,000 in Federal funds to help organize a conference in Phoenix the free press has Learned. The Virginia Fontaine memorial treatment Centre in Sage eng has been Given $300,000 per year for the next three years to help prepare for a conference in 2002. The event is called the Healing our spirit worldwide conference which is held every four years. Health Canada awarded the Money for the Healing our spirit conference. The Money is in addition to the $7.2 million health Canada gives the Centre annually to operate. Paul Cochrane an assistant Deputy minister for health Canada is the bureaucrat closest to the Sage eng Centre. Cochrane and his wife were part of last weeks Caribbean cruise. He was called Back to Ottawa mid trip when the controversy erupted at Home Over the cruise. Cochrane is on leave with the department. His son has worked at the Sage eng treat ment Centre in recent Summers. Cochrane a assistant Aline Dirks is coordinating the Healing our spirit conference. She and her husband were also on last weeks cruise. Jeff Pender a health Canada spokesman said Canada has traditionally supported the conference which began in Edmonton in 1992. The conference targets youth solvent abuse. A obviously a fair bit of travelling is involved in hosting one of these events a Pender said. Representative the Sage eng treatment Centre has been chosen As Canadas representative at the conference. The treatment centres main responsibility is to co ordinate Canadas involvement at the conference along with a departmental working group. New zealand hosted the last conference. The conference is to address the devastation of chemical abuse among indigenous people around the world. Elders and health care professionals Are among those attending. Continued please see Sage eng a2day picks up Speed on Rocky Road by Paul Samyn and Helen falling Penticton a it was an Odd Way to begin a political race. When prime minister Jean Chretien finally fired the election starters pistol last sunday Stockwell Day Wasny to even in the starting blocks. While every other political Leader was off and running the Canadian Alliance Leader was nowhere to be seen As not even an election Call would interfere with his commitment to honour the Sabbath with his Faith and family. And on monday when he finally got into the race Day had trouble hitting his stride. The first stumble came when the president of an Ottawa High tech company told reporters he returned North from the United states to Start the firm because of Canadas Strong business climate. It was a sound bite that seemed to undermine everything Day had just said about the brain Drain while standing next to him in his first scrum of the Campaign. Next Day had a brain cramp at Niagara Falls wrongly stating that the great lakes flowed South As he tried to make a Point about canadians being forced to the United states because of High taxes. In Between there were signs that Day and his Campaign team did no to entirely have their act together. It was almost As if they were obsessed about lining up backdrops for his photo Ops but putting Little Effort into the message he was delivering to voters. Plus the Liberal reality Check team was having a heyday at the expense of Days credibility. Continued please see Day a5 a a Federal election i inside i pm avoids stumbles a4 ind faces dilemma a4 i Clark keeps smiling a4 i Dueppe slams Al cuts a5 Battle just begun in Burnt Church a tiny min Kmax Reserve of 1,200 people on a forgotten Shore of Canadas East coast was catapulted into the National spotlight this summer. It started when the Burnt Church first nation in new Brunswick voted to manage its own fishery following two court rulings on native Commerce rights. The first ruling a year ago in september saw the supreme court of Canada uphold a 1760 treaty allowing East coast natives to earn a moderate living from year round fishing Hunting and gathering. A second ruling from the supreme court limited the right by granting Ottawa regulatory Power. Ottawa responded to the reserves Paul actions with weekly fisheries department raids seizing thousands of lobster traps. But behind the headlines lies a bigger Story of How Burnt Church became a lightning Rod and Why the Battle has Only just begun. Today in our sunday Magazine reporter Alexandra Paul a who was raised in the maritime and accepted into traditional native circles a brings you the View from inside Indian country from the land she still Calls Home. See Page 5th annual Manitoba Art expo featuring the Art of Over 50 of Manitoba s finest artists. No in is Nib no Iron it of 7 artist Cooperator Assi Nib Oia Downs a Winnipeg Manitoba Tp&Quot&Quot&Quot&Quotvy->4 v admission $6.00 kids 12 amp under free a acres of free parking Manitoba watch for the Art expo show guide in the Winnipeg free press on saturday nov. 4 or available at the Art expo on Friday nov. 3 ;