Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 24, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba top news Winnipeg free press thursday August 24, 2006 a5 let children Pray at school pastor says leave us alone rights commission urged Bissett celebrates pouring of Gold Brick by Trevor Greyeyes Bissett ? the pouring yesterday of the first Gold Brick since 2001 brought excite ment and the Promise of a new beginning to this Northern mining town. Spirits were High As a throng of people Gath ered for the ribbon cutting ceremony at the san Gold mine Entrance. Sandal Clad investors mixed with politicians and employees called up from the deep Bow Els of the mine to witness the event. The seeds of doubt will be vanquished with the pouring of the Gold bar said san Gold investor Brian Curtis who like Many others drove the 260 Kilometres from Winnipeg to see the Gold poured. San Gold corp. President Dale Ginn said the Gold Brick ? about the size of a Standard building Brick but weighing 750 ounces ? is valued at about $500,000, depending on the fluctuating Price of Gold and the purity of the Gold poured. He said the company would be pouring another four to five bricks yester Day which would then be shipped to a refinery. For Many people in the Community reopen ing the mine also Means work for them. For Anthony Moar 31, from Nisich Awa Yasik Cree nation the Day represented the completion of a Circle from him to his dad who worked As a Miner. He was hired in january As a heavy duty Mechanic apprentice working 14 Days on with a week off. When asked How far Down in the mine he worked a co worker leaned in and said we re so far Down we re knocking on the devils Rod Bushie former Assembly of Manitoba chiefs grand chief has been involved As a Liaison Between san Gold management and the local first nations. With 120 out of 200 employees aboriginal Bushie said san Gold management believe in hiring locally because that helps out the local Economy. The mine has opened and closed several times under the ownership of various companies. San Gold founder Hugh Wynne engineered the Purchase of the Bissett Gold mine from Harmony Gold the worlds fifth largest Gold producer which had closed the mine in 2001 because of poor Gold prices. After raising the needed capital Wynne and Ginn bought the mine in 2003 at a fir Sale Price of $4 million in Stock and $3.6 million in Cash. San Gold immediately set to out to reopen the mine. Gold Selling at the time for Between $250 and $300 an ounce has surged Ever since breaking $700 us an ounce earlier this year the highest level in a Quarter Century. Ken Gigliotti / Winnipeg free press above Mill manager John Hutchison car Ries the first 750-ounce Gold bar. At left Anthony Moar a heavy duty Mechanic at the mine got time off to enjoy the festivities. Ken Gigliotti / Winnipeg free press by Nick Martin l eave the kids in win Kler alone to Pray in their classrooms in peace the pastor of Winkler mennonite Church urged the Manitoba human rights commission yesterday. Leave us alone ? we will be Fine pastor Bernie Thiessen said yesterday. Its the Way its always been done for the past 100 the commission has told Garden Valley school Divi Sion that its belief and Mission statements violate the human rights code because they speak of a partnership with the Church and of practising Christian principles. The commission also says that daily prayer and scrip Ture readings in the divisions schools which include one school in Plum Coulee and two Hutt Erite colonies violate the code and Public schools act because they Are held during school hours in the classroom and Force non participants to leave the classroom. Thiessen said there is no Neutral ground on religious exercises in schools. They Are violating my rights if they take religious exercises out of the schools he said. If everyone attending the schools in Garden Valley takes part no ones rights Are being violated Thiessen said. The Winkler High school has had Complete participation by All students in the religious exercises a Parent activist said yesterday. We believe parents in this division want to have their children participate in open ing exercises. It enhances our schools not takes away from it said Connie Driedger past president of the Parent Council at Garden Valley collegiate. Driedger said a form goes Home from school each Spring asking for parents signatures. We Contact the parents who have not signed she said. We have full support in our schools from our education minister Peter Bjornson was not available yesterday but a senior aide issued a statement the pub Lic schools act makes allowances for both religious exercises and religious instruction upon petition by parents. The act sets out guidelines As to How and when such religious exercises can occur however the decision is largely left to individual communities and school divisions As to what is Best for their Stu dents and their nevertheless provincial guidelines issued in 1993 by then Deputy education minis Ter John Carlyle specified that religious exercises must occur outside the instruction Al Day that students choosing voluntarily to take part should go to a location elsewhere in the school ? rather than requiring non participants to leave the classroom ? and that schools and divisions should not themselves Orga Nize parents to sign the petitions required to conduct exercises. we want your views should Garden Valley school division be forced to change its religious exercises what if anything should they change email your responses to 3rd location recreational vehicles liquidated opening soon real cheap 655 Pembina Hwy. 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