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Mexican Maple Leaf workers on their wayBy Ron NickelBrandon SunThe first wave of 21 Mexicans will arrive in Brandon tomorrow and start work at Maple Leaf Monday.They’ll bring two-year work visas and will instantly create a new cultural community inBrandon.“It diversifies us, which is good,” said Mayor Reg Atkinson, who will greet the new Brandomtes tomorrow. “We want to get them off on the right foot. They’re here to make a living.”Atkinson expectsBrandomtes — a strong majority of whom are white — to welcome the newcomers.“I think they’re ready. I don’t think that’s a problem at all.*The key is everybody being willing to help them get adjusted.”Maple Leaf human resources manager Steve LeBlanc expects a second airlift of as many as 28 Mexicans to amve by March, once the company has hired them and applied for visas with the Canadian Embassy.The newest Brandomtes should brace themselves for a climate change. The mercury reached 18 C m Mexico City yesterday. Environment Canada forecasts a high of only -10 C inBrandon for the Mexicans’ arrival tomorrow.While in Mexico, the workers earned a training allowance plus credits that the company will use to supply them with winter coats, mitts, boots and toques, Transit transportation and an initial grocery supply.They’ll fly from Mexico City to Toronto, then Winnipeg today, where they’ll receive their first blast of Manitoba winter.Tomorrow, they bus into Brandon and attend a 1 p.m. orientation at Brandon University’s private dining hall with the mayor, Human Resources Development Canada and Maple Leaf officials.
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Jan 04, 2002
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