Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday March 15, 1978 9 fire Laws to be kept with wrings Lowther by Phil Rodgers the provincial government s decision to allow the Manitoba school for Retar dates at Portage la Prairie to fill 28 staff vacancies will make it possible for the school to meet fire safety regulations the school s medical director said tuesday. Or. Glen Lowther said he was told this week that the government has lifted it freeze on hiring at the school. It s quite satisfactory the most we could sex with the school s staff complement at 717 the same number As at the time the freeze was introduced last autumn he said he was confident that a method could be found to either meet existing regulations or to devise an alternative which would be satisfactory to the provincial fire commissioner. He said the school will propose the development of a Mobile night unit based in the school s main building which would be Able to get to any unit where there was an emergency situation. This would enable the school to keep a smaller night staff but in a More effective form to handle emergencies he said. I m sure the fire commissioner will decide what s Best for the otherwise he said More daytime staff including some in administration would be put on the night shift which under the fire regulations requires one staff Mem Ber for every 15 residents. Lowther said the 12 positions which do not require posting nursing aides and assistants and dietary laundry and hous ing staff should be filled within a week. Issue to nip caucus Las urge group Homes new democratic party Las who visited the por Tage Home for Retar dates tuesday will be proposing the party fight Lor More group Homes for the mentally retarded when their Cau Cus meets today. Russell Doern Elmwood said he feels the party should take the Posi Tion that the 200 inmates of the Home considered to be in a position to Benefit from Community residences should be moved. Doern said he will also argue the Home must main Macmaster rejects delay in flood pact the Manitoba government has rejected requests for a six month postponement in implementing the Northern flood agreement compensating five Northern Indian bands for damage caused by Manitoba Hydro developments Northern affairs minister Ken Macmaster said tuesday. Groups and individuals fearing its Impact on recreation and Hunting made the requests. I am advised the agreement As it now stands protects the rights of not Only the Indian communities affected but of All resource users including Hunters and fishermen. All matters of policy regarding resource use and development remain the sole and Complete responsibility of the provincial Macmaster said in a statement. He said the province can t unilaterally postpone the agree ment which Ottawa Manitoba Hydro and the Northern flood committee representing the Indian communities also signed. However former mines minister Sidney Green says the clause protecting All resource users is ambiguous. I think the conservatives Are trying to fool both sides. They can go to the indians and say one tiling and they can go to the people of Thompson and say Green said Only the Indian bands who Are voting on the agreement today could postpone it. Tain a staff ration of one staff member on duty at All times for every 15 inmates As required in the provincial fire code. Both Doern and Jim Wald ing vital said staff members at the Home told them improving fire safety conditions and in creasing the staff inmate ratio to meet the provincial fire code would Cost Between and million. Doern said that instead of spending an immense amount of Money on Struc Tural improvements to the Complex the government should spend approximately million to improve fire safely conditions and use the additional funds to establish Community based group Homes. Walding said he was pleased with the govern ment s recent announcement that the staffing freeze at the Portage Home had been lifted. He said the freeze had been false Economy because the nursing staff was forced to do work generally done by less skilled labor and work Many overtime hours. The problem is compounded be cause Many workers asked for time off rather than pay for overtime hours worked. For israeli victims of terrorism the Winnipeg jewish Community Council the Canadian zionist federation Midwest Region and the Winnipeg Rabbinate Are sponsoring a service to honour the memory of 37 israeli citizens cruelly murdered by terrorists this past weekend. The memorial service to mourn these tragic and needless deaths will be held thursday March 16, 1978 8 Rosh synagogue 123 Matheson Avenue guest speakers will include Dan Ronen Deputy minister of education and culture state of Israel Al Omson president Winnipeg jewish Community jewish Congress Sid Ritter chairman Canadian zionist federation Midwest Region. Or the Canadian zionist federation Ullfig Nipes jewish Community Council. Affiliated with Canadian jewish Congress Mcbryde predicts welfare Rise firms on the Block minister confirms by David Lee Northern affairs minister Ken Macmaster said tuesday the word is out his department is ready to sell several Small companies in Northern Manitoba established Pri Marily to train and employ natives. In an interview Macmaster con firmed a free press report that the government wanted to dispose of the firms set up by the former new democratic party administration to ease chronic native unemployment. Mcmaster said his department has received inquiries from employees of several firms and interests asking if they Are for Sale. He said he was most certainly ready to con Sider any offers. The word is out that if they want to get out from under the govern ment then i say you Macmaster said he could not con firm whether specific arrangements have been made concerning any of the firms because he did not have the files with him. Officials of his department have refused to talk to reporters on the matter. Macmaster agreed Sale of at least one company Misti Creek log Ging co. Ltd. At Cranberry Portage was very but he said he did not think it was at a stage where he would soon seek Cabinet approval. A government source however said the department has an order in Council for Cabinet that awaits Only the minister s signature. It would approve Misti s Sale to its general manager Rick Frowen. Macmaster also confirmed that employees have expressed interest in buying ath Apap builders at Cran Berry Portage Young s Point Wood working and Cabinet at the Pas and min ago contractors at Thompson. The minister said discussions with the employees have so far remained at the department level but officials Are aware of his readiness to consider possible Purchase offers. In a statement later tuesday for Mer nip Northern affairs minister Ron Mcbryde said he was concerned about How the government will Dis pose of the companies. The last estimates i saw for min ago show that the equipment was Worth More than the government s said Mcbryde whose department started min ago and most of the other Small firms. I Hope the conservatives get full value and Don t just give it away to their the la for the Pas also said he was worried that the government would add considerably to Northern Manitoba s welfare problem if it closes More of the publicly owned firms. 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