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Personalities behind the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce (1991-1993)

Steve Childerhouse (1991)
“I was the bad cop, and Sandy (Hopkins — incoming president) was the good cop,” says Steve
Childerhouse, who admits as Chamber president he was often in “attack mode.”
The memory is painful, but relations with City Hall soured after he was accused of calling the mayor a liar during a rally on the steps [...]

Personalities behind the Chamber of Commerce (1980-1985)

Gerald Reimer (1980)
At the age of 42, Gerald Reimer became the youngest Chamber president in its history up until then and one of the city’s biggest boosters.
Reimer has said that Winnipeg is a great city, yet it is somewhat sad that the media in those days did their best to tear apart the  city rather [...]

Gabby relieves the Adventure

Delgado was a university student in Veracruz when he first met the Starkells nine years ago. Jeff Starkell, who had come that far with his brother and father, had just returned to Winnipeg, convinced that to continue the canoe trip would be suicide.
Their first attempt at crossing the Gulf of Mexico had nearly killed the [...]