at the city's Steelworkers' Hall. He was 72 years old at the time. Lambton-Kent-Middlesex: Bela Trebics Bela "Bill" Trebics was a Wallaceburg labourer and an instructor on workplace health and safety issues for his union, UAW local 251. He ran for the only time in 1997, improving the NDP's standing in his riding from fifth to fourth place and increasing their share of the vote to 5.44%. Manitoba Glen Hallick (Portage—Lisgar) Hallick graduated from Sanford Collegiate in 1983, and later received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba. He was a part-time employee of the Rural Municipality of Macdonald during the campaign.. Hallick had previously been a candidate of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba in the 1995 provincial election, in the rural constituency of Morris. He finished third with 1,158 votes, against Frank Pitura of the Progressive Conservative Party. In the 1997 federal election, he received 2,420 votes (7.20%) to finish fourth against Jake Hoeppner of the Reform Party. At the 2001 Manitoba NDP convention, Hallick was one of the most vocal advocates of a return to the monopoly hog marketing board system removed by the previous PC government (Winnipeg Free Press, 11 February 2001). The motion was defeated. Hallick is a freelance writer who has written for the Morris, MB. based Crow Wing Warrior and Scrathing River Post, the Headliner (then owned by Transcontinental Media) and currently the Carman-based Valley Leader. Martha Wiebe Owen (Provencher) Martha Wiebe Owen is a housewife and activist in Pinawa, and has been a candidate for the New Democratic Party at both the federal and provincial levels. She called for the NDP to promote more co-operation with small business at its 1994 national convention. She appeared before the Manitoba meetings of the House of Commons of Canada finance committee in 1994 and 1995, and engaged in a tense verbal exchange with committee chair Jim Peterson on the latter occasion. Owen supported Herschel Hardin's bid to lead the federal New Democratic Party in 1995. Owen has written letters in support of the Canadian Wheat Board, shorter working weeks, and a fair minimum wage. She endorsed the NDP's decision to offer parliamentary support to the Liberal government of Paul Martin in 2005, arguing that the arrangement would force the Liberals to pass good legislation. As of 2008, Owen serves on the Manitoba Council on Aging. Kathleen McCallum (Selkirk—Interlake) McCallum was a researcher