Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba Monday March 14, 2005 City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 family notices b6 City & District b1 Outlook the Green party in shambles a look at the week ahead in and around Winnipeg 7 executive members quit to protest disruptive influence of dissidents auditor general to speak auditor general Sheila Fraser will speak to the Canadian club of Winnipeg during a Lun Cheon Tomor Row at the Winnipeg convention Centre 375 York ave. The event is scheduled for noon to 1 30 . Fraser will discuss the misconceptions about her role As auditor Gen eral talk about key findings of her latest audit reports and share thoughts on How the work of her office makes a difference for canadians. For More information Contact the club office at 488-0242. Katz & co. Wrap up budget mayor Sam Katz and his executive policy committee will put the finishing touches on this year s operating budget today at a 9 . Meeting. Up for Dis Cussion will be the Fate of the business tax Cut. A Host of inner City activists Are expected to demand that the City honour its pledge to contribute to a successful housing fund. Hear All about Sylvia Sylvia Kuzyk of sky to news is the Fea tured speaker As the inspiring women a luncheon series continues thursday. Kuzyk will talk about her life and Why she chose to live and work in Winnipeg. The event is scheduled for 11 30 . At the hotel fort Garry. Tickets Are $50. Con tact Christa Richard at 697-7064 for More information. Discover ukrainian roots Brian Lenius a founding member of the East european genealogical society will discuss tomorrow night How to Start discover and record your Ukrain Ian family history. He will take questions on anything pertaining to ukrainian family history. Lenius is a Well known speaker with experience in ukrainian polish and German family history in Canada Ukraine and Poland. The event is scheduled for 7 at the holy family nursing Home 165 Aberdeen ave. Admission is $5, or just $3 for members of Alpha Omega alumnae. Greyhound bus hearings the Manitoba motor transport boards hearings on amending Grey hound bus line routes continues in Northern Manitoba this week. Hear Ings today will be in Leaf rapids and Lynn Lake in Gillam and split Lake tomorrow Nelson House and Thomp son on wednesday Cross Lake and Norway House on thursday. For More information Call 945-8912. Learn at Oak Hammock Oak Hammock Marsh is hosting the annual Snowbird Beach Days on Satur Day and sunday at the interpretive Centre on Highway 220 just North of Winnipeg. Discover Why Many Manitoba Birds Migrate for the Winter. Meet their Southern friends with the Parrot club of Manitoba a display. The annual Beach party also features horse drawn Wagon rides. Got a news tip or Story suggestion Call the free press tips line at 697-7292, email it to. or Send a fax to 697-7412. ? compiled by Kevin Rollason and Jason Bell by Dan Lett a bitter dispute in the ranks of the Manitoba Green party has triggered resignations by Leader Markus Buchart and a majority of the party a provincial executive. Seven of the 12 members of the executive including Buchart resigned sat urday night to protest the disruptive influence of a group of dissidents who wanted the party to take a More Radical approach to pressing issues. Buchart said the dissident group did not support his attempts to move the Green party into the political main Stream by seeking election to the Provin Cial legislature. Instead dissidents wanted the party to focus More on protest not on electoral politics. Some of the dissidents organized unauthorized events and made unauthorized statements on behalf of the party on issues that had been declared As outside its mandate Buchart said. I Don to know what they really wanted said Buchart. It still baffles me. There Are some people in the party who lean More towards the placard waving protests. Many others in the party see us As a serious political party that is trying to win other party members suggested the conflict within was itself sparked by Buchart a heavy handed control Over the party. Continued please see Green party b2 nervous chess players face off Kelvin High edges team from River East the Manitoba High school chess championship yesterday afternoon. I moved my King away from my Pawn and he took my Pawn. I lost everything after Daniel just 12 and already a sea soned chess player figured he lost his focus just for a second As onlookers crowded around his table inside a University of Winnipeg classroom. By Jason Bell yet just As in All things in life there was a lesson to be Learned after get Daniel Oberton reached Forward his Ting thumped in chess. Fingers ready to Budge the Black King i guess it was the stress said the on the chess Board in front of him Grade 7 student at Laidlaw school in when suddenly his hand retreated. Tuxedo who fought gamely to the end visibly frazzled the youngster before succumbing to an older oppo leaned on his Elbow and ran his other nent. When you do stuff like that you hand through a Shock of curly Brown learn from it. Hair a puzzled expression etched on that a Why i like chess so much. His face. Its fun and you use your brain a then finally he made his move. Daniel and 47 others were indeed it was not his Best. Giving their cranium a workout yes i made a big mistake right near the Ter Day in the All Day 12-team Champi end said Daniel minutes after suf on ship that pitted school against Fering a defeat in the opening round of school. Instructor uses yoga to help kids focus Shaughnessy students learn How to breathe i a Here to teach you yoga. Who by Carol Sanders knows what yoga is she asked. Stretching and breathing replied one in the heart of Winnipeg a North end student. Eight year Olds like Courtney Mccallum Sohal said she a taught hundreds of Are learning ancient Wisdom to help them school children and even More adults How do better in school and Deal with their to relieve stress and focus. The yoga negative emotions. Instructor with the Art of living found the Grade 2 student at Shaughnessy Tion said the non denominational non Park school recently Learned yoga med profit organization is reviving ancient station and breathing techniques along vedic techniques to teach people How to with dozens of other students in grades 2 become Calm while energizing their minds to 5 to help them relax and focus. And bodies using yoga and meditation. After lunch the energetic students the students Are instructed to lie on the burst into the room with sitar music play floor and place one hand on their Stom ing where instructor Kiran Sohal wait Ach and notice what happens when they de wearing a White Cotton shirt and pants breathe. Then they sit Cross legged with with a Bindi ? a coloured Dot ? on her their hands on their Knees Palms up. Forehead. They stopped in their tracks took off their shoes and sat on the mat continued covered floor. Please see breathe b2 its the first time in More than 10 years the Manitoba chess association has hosted the event. We Felt it was time to resurrect it said association president Blair rut Ter whose 15-year-old son Alex Hogeveen Rutter competed on behalf that a Why i of . Bruns Colle like chess so Gate. Much. Its Rutter said notices were sent to fun and you school divisions use your across the province. There seems to brain a lot be a renewed inter ? Grade 7 est in chess partic student Daniel ulary with kids in Oberton school he said. Kids Are starting into organized chess at a really Young age. its a game you can play from six to 96.? by Days end a team from Kelvin High school with Sasha Amaya Suarez Trevor Vincent la Zhou and Graham still came out on top. The fantastic four edged a team from River East collegiate by just three and a half Points. But winning was secondary. Just entering the championship was the shrewdest move of All. For some players the first taste of Competition provided some nervous moments and lasting memories. Games yesterday were timed mean ing players had to Battle not Only the opposition but the clock As Well. Each had 30 minutes to make their moves. For Rose Chang 16, the strict enforcement of the rules was a Little unsettling. The clock really messed me up said the Grade 11 student who usually plays during the lunch hour at Kelvin High school. I really rushed and made some moves i wish i could take Back. I think id rather play without All that pressure.?. Courtney Mccallum in a breathing exercise conducted by Kiran Sohal during a class of yoga of breath at Shaughnessy Park school ;