Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 province Winnipeg free press thursday june 24, 2004 old truck cranked for Winnie film role Colin Corneau / Brandon Sun Cpl. Keith Smith polishes 1916 truck that will be used in movie. Milne. Nipes to Quebec in 1914 that he it. Harry Colebourn moved from transferred to the Canadian army his Home in England to Canada in veterinary corps and purchased a 1905 at the age of 18. After becom Small Black female Bear cub for ing a veterinarian Colebourn $20 from a Hunter who had killed moved to Winnipeg where he her Mother. Joined the 18th mounted rifles As a Colebourn named her Winnie militia officer before being Sec after his Hometown Winnipeg. Ended to the 34th regiment of Cav he died in Winnipeg at the age Alry later renamed the 34th fort of 60 in 1947. Garry horse in 1912. It was on his journey from win Brandon Sun Seine River teachers get 4% raise education officials fear bargaining precedent by Nick Martin s Eine River school division has Given its teachers a four per cent annual wage increase ? potentially setting a precedent that will drive up education costs. Education officials said yesterday that teachers through out Manitoba will Likely cite the settlement when they bar gain new contracts ? just As teachers successfully did several years ago when mystery Lake school division in Thompson awarded teachers a three per cent raise then Manitoba teach ers highest raise in a decade. But officials yesterday also blamed the doer government for driving up teachers salaries through forced amalgamation ? in each merged division All teachers now enjoy the higher wages or benefits from each clause of the new partners for Mer contracts. In some merged divisions teachers from the lower paid for Mer division May have received a two or three per cent increase just to catch up to their new colleagues and then they All have bargained a three per cent raise. As school property taxes have soared across Manitoba trustees have cited rising costs that Force them to raise taxes or Cut staff and programs ? and teachers salaries make up about two thirds of school division budgets. A senior official with the Manitoba government employees Union said yesterday that no other Public sector worker in the province is getting More than a three per cent raise. Seine River superintendent Roy Seidler said his Board agreed to a four year contract that gives teachers four per cent increases phased in in each of the first two years and three per cent in each of the final two years. Meanwhile Winnipeg school division trustees have approved a two year Deal that moves the Winnipeg teachers association from lowest paid in the City to tied for second among the six metro divisions. Winnipeg gave its teachers three per cent a year but added a 0.4 per cent increase in increments that will bring wed a teachers to the level of teachers in the amalgamated Louis Riel school division Winnipeg trustee John Orlikov said yesterday. At the end of this process Well be paid what Louis Riel teachers Are being paid Sta president Dave Najduch said. Both Orlikov and Seidler said their teachers had fallen behind neighbouring amalgamated divisions and the divisions had to catch up so they could recruit and retain teachers. Seidler said Seine River a trustees recognized they might be accused of raising the bar on teacher salary increases but accepted the teachers argument that they a fallen behind nearby amalgamated divisions. Brandon ? a Crank Start 1916 truck will be taken out of Shilo a Royal Canadian artillery museum to appear in a Winnie the Pooh movie. This truck is the Only one of its kind running in the country i believe said Rick Sanderson Royal Canadian artillery museum director. For us its Good the four wheel drive Auto co. Truck which was originally used to carry ammunition will have a role to play in an original pictures and Power productions Ltd. To movie a Bear named Winnie being filmed in Winnipeg at the end of the month. The 88-year-old truck will travel on a flatbed truck to Winnipeg. The museum has Lent production companies artefacts in the past but this Marks the first time it will rent out a vehicle for movie making. Its exciting. It helps toward restoring some vehicles says museum curator Clive Prothero Brooks. The Money from the Deal will enable the museum to restore the trucks Oak wheels which Are Cov ered with solid rubber tires. Although the two seater truck which has a Gravity fall fuel sys tem still runs not just anyone can drive it. They re extremely difficult to drive Sanderson says. Prothero Brooks says hell be on location to get the old truck started and show the actors How to oper ate it. The joint Canadian and British production will also rent a 4.5-Inch howitzer and an 18-Pounder Field gun As models for the movie and perhaps also As props. The to movie which Prothero Brooks believes will eventually be aired on Csc will Tell the Story of the real Winnie the Pooh who was later made famous in books by . Dave Dveris Howie Whatman Glen Miller Grant drowsy Jack Campbell Lynne Macphail Millar Don Hughes Julien Lacroix Shayna Kemel 1459 Regent ave. ? 661-8181 Bill Isaryk de Howell Shaun Campbell Bob Dion 1-800-708-Park 36 Mth. Lease $1000 Down plus taxes. ? 48 Mth lease w/2000 Down plus taxes. All incentives to dealer plus taxes. Open Mon. & tues. Til 9 00 . 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