Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 3 City grapples with problem of hazardous wastes by Tnge Borg ovens fire step erased closing of the City of Winnipeg mime rate has the City asking How to dispose of hazardous wastes now handled by the in a report to civic works and operations the administration suggests the City Send f Active solvents and waste Oil to the Lime Kiln in dispose of dead animals and Hospital wastes in Landfill Sites and store toxic Chemi cals and pesticides until a new if Ciru orator is action must be taken As the Al of hazardous wastes is a growing problem in the report these types of wastes have been and still Are often disposed of with Little knowledge of thought As to either the she Fiterm or Lon term effects on human health and it of the wastes produced by print Oil and electrical and chemical storage and distribution 50 per cent have been handled in the cites sew age treatment plants and so per cent Atixhe City incineration is the most widely used and most economical method of the report closing of the cites Maude Street incinerator was recommended As of my i of Torti year to avoid the expense of More than million for pollution Cott Flat quire by the provincial clean environment Council has put of its decision for a replacement Energy recovery Plant that would Bant garbage to produce awaiting agreement from fed eral and provincial governments to share in the million an interim measure for disposing of some of the hazardous wastes has been prime Oil has agreed to pick up 80 per cent of the cites waste Oil and solvents for a period of five years for use in the Faulkner Lime animal carcasses and Hospital wastes can be disposed of in sanitary Landfill although incineration would be toxic and solvents can Only be disposed of by if the City incinerator to the chemicals must be stored until a proper Means of disposal is the solution to the problem of disposal of hazardous materials is construction of a facility which could accommodate toxic Micides and the report the administration recommends the City once again attempt to Gam provincial and Federal interest in the new incinerator Winnipeg administrators Are assured that the disposal of radioactive wanes is net causing any health responding to charges earlier this year insufficient safety the City works and operations Mem says in a report that the City disposes of radioactive wastes tinder regulations set out by the atomic Energy Centre monitoring the disposal of radioactive wastes through the cites sewer system or the City incinerator is not practical or necessary because the wastes Are rendered almost harm less before the report radioactive water based wastes used at the University of Manitoba and at several Winnipeg hospitals Are stored until the radioactivity is reduced to twee Levels fld disposed of in the wastes Are burned at the cites incinerator because they Are highly flammable and with plans to close the Winnipeg the City has arranged to dispose of the radioactive material of an interim basis to prime Oil it physics for the Manitoba Canter treatment and research foundation will appear before works and operations committee on monday to vide further information on disposal of radioactive deadline for installation of the required ant pollution controls in the cites incinerator is Barbara Cansino choosing a University in certainly in Manito the general Rule has been for High school students to attend University in their Home the reasons for this Homegrown attitude Are most Matito ban High school students attend University Here because of tradition or finances or Stu dents often dont know of the choices the advantages of one University Over Anita president of moving to and John principal of Johns Raven court school in have attempted to remedy the Situ they have just published a guide to Canadian from the introduction by messenger this guide is offered to High school their parents and guidance counsel lors to Aid students in the selection of an appropriate University pro while universities today Are recruiting there exists no Independent source of objective comparative material on Canadian the guide includes 29 Steps from Choice to things to Check on your visit to a general info descriptions and analyses of 44 Canadian some focal Points programs sports student the idea for choose was hatched when Anita Woods Daugh a Grade 12 Stu began to consider says Wood Shes been thinking about going into Law for a number of we started in Quiring around which would be the Best Way to get information on the Best school to on which were the recognized universities in that whole area is a Grey in my 20 years ago when i went to they sent out calendars to prospective now they cant afford Conse anyone who interested has to go to a or to a guidance or Leaf through calendars in reference depart there was nothing the Stu Dent could take at the same time John Messen Ger had been touring Eastern universities with some of his students with the idea of writing up each University and building a file for Raven court Wood told messenger do All that put it together and ill publish the result at the Angus Murray and its sold at Eaton and says messenger the Basic criticism that can be made is that its a Little uneven from University to University we really tried hard to be a major thrust of the Magazine is to let the student do the deciding and not an attempt to steer students to universities that we favor i think that there is a need for a consumer Type guide that has a hopefully More objective perspex Christmas shopping part of a series chocolate bees and truffles chocolate bees and truffles have their place in if not a daily place and not in most this is because they Are too expensive to buy or too disgusting to they qualify As gourmet and therefore make distinguished Christmas even if the recipient likes his bees hell feel flattered to have been thought and last a Long chocolate coated baby bees Are available at third for a so Are chocolate coated Grasshoppers Cater pillars and ants Eaton also has which Are fungi dug up by for a ounce the seafood set will like Romanoff Sturgeon Black caviar from for 1 28 Grams for 2 57 Grams a tin of Nakagai Kushihashi seasoned red clams on a skewer at or Bai Tam Sazae Kushi Sashi to Shell at a at the governors table in the Bay cherries in Brandy in a Glass Boot Are an old Plum pudding is uninspired Stu dents of English literature May be inspired by Shrewsbury and oat Flake biscuits from in the Bronte and Molly Malone will like cockles and mussels at a smoked hair Tail stuffed squids octopus in Oil and Romanoff Black Sturgeon caviar from for one 28 the House of 158 Spence has baskets of cheese from to for you get Lavache cheese and for you get tinned barbecued and things like Hardy 167 Stafford has Quail eggs for 98 cents a wild comb Honey for Copenhagen Marzipan for Natu ral whole chestnuts for a they also have Patum the gentleman relish for biscuits and canapes in other Anchovy Pate with butter for and colonial Garden All natural gossip Tea with Rose 32 Tea bags for five Small 534 Waterloo at Corydon have chocolate fantasies a chocolate pacifier for big a hamburger or hot dog for simple a Charlie Brown or cookie monster for the a Telephone real size for the teenager and a Volks Tennis Saddle Etc Etera for everyone for lovers chocolate lips at 65 a touch of 486 Academy has Godiva sup posed to be the Best in the for example hat boxes for and a wooden Box with a brass plaque and one Pound of chocolates for the 129 Osborne has All kinds of teas and coffees munchies and 25 differ ent fruit Flavoured and Fla voted coffees which smell and taste like Orange wild the they also have Martini Flavoured Candy olives a Jar of peanuts with a Peanut Jar top the same with Jelly Beans and jul big week next week is the big week for the Andrews society of this year the caledonian women club is More thrilled than usual about its annual Andrews pin the guest speaker will be the Duchess of wife of the 12th Duke of daughter of sir Ian Colquhoun of her Grace arrives in Winnipeg at will stay at the hotel fort Garry until there will be a reception at government House on at the thurs Day evening in the hotel fort she will reply to the Toast of were really quite thrilled at getting says Cale donian Secretary Agnes Grey she Speaks quite a lot on the her husband was touring the states last they had a fire at the it was very there in the process of restoring the the Castle is inverary Scot Tish Home of the Dukes of Argyll and the Headquarters of the clan the men have invited sir Andrew Euchrist of Lanark Shire to be the guest speaker at their 108th Andrews pay Din Friday night in the Winnipeg ours is a says publicity chairman Charles Mckelvie if the Duchess is a pretty smart look ing Gal we might let her sir Andrew is a Diplomat and the author of cod wars and How to lose Winnipeg free press november 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Mirno it leaves you breathless photos by Dave Bonner facing loss of their jobs Are left to right Community club caretakers Ernest Archie Mason and Stan jobs for welfare recipients keep project province urged by Tom Goldstein negotiations Are under Way be tween the City and provincial govern ments to extend Winnipeg Community service worker project which provides work for marginally employable welfare a provincial government source said the province is considering the cites request for a years Extension of funding for the which began last december and is to expire in three the source declined further com but said the project is of the Type on which the Lyon govern ment had Frozen funding earlier this year As part of its restraint pro City officials also declined com ment on nor would they speculate what action might be taken should the province refuse the fund ing the 1978 Community service worker designed by the City Wel fare involved a Grant shared equally by the City and the participants in the program per form nonunion janitorial functions inside Community such As waxing washing Walls and keeping washrooms work normally done by in some the project workers provide the Nec Essary Security to enable Community clubs to stay open during the Day when other staff is Bob president of the Ori Oles Community said he is contacting other clubs for the purpose 5day garbage Cycle a report says the cites administration has re commended that the City adopt the five Day garbage collection Cycle schedule for commercial buildings and apartment the five Day Cycle was begun june 1 of this year As an Economy measure to eliminate collection Crews Prevol iday in a report to civic works and operations the administration enthusiastically endorses the refuse collection saying that Winnipeg residents have come to accept although complaints were frequent at the outset of the trial run of the pickup Cycle Calls decreased As the program the administration in the five Day collection Cycle has reduced the confusion that existed earlier during fou Day weeks when residents were unsure what Day their refuse would be picked the report some complaints were received about the change in pickup Days when the collection Day was moved Forward because of a for getting the change in the some homeowners put their refuse out on the Street one Day although having refuse sit out on the front Street for a Day has been the incidence of this has de creased As people get used to the Cycle the report to help residents understand How the Cycle the cites operations divison sent staff to the Homes of residents to explain when their refuse would be other such As Calgary and which use the same method of have indicated that it takes about 12 to 18 months to get residents familiar with the potential savings to the City with the five Day Cycle through reduced overtime hours is about a with an additional saving of a year by contract ingot indicates the the administration also urges the City to expand the present five Day Cycle to Small commercial establishments and As an eco nomic of drafting a Brief to present to City Council to save the Liptrot said some including Lack sufficient funds of their own to continue employing the former welfare Bob the City welfare department social worker responsible for the Community service worker said other clubs have talked about hiring the workers but so its mostly just Marvin said the primary purpose of the which evolved from the planned employment program started in the was to provide a stepping Stone to the regular Job of the 65 former welfare recipients including four carry overs from Tilte planned employ ment involved in the project since last 14 have gone on to other while another 10 dropped out for health reasons or were fired because they didst work All but one of the remaining 41 participants Are married with families to two of the work ers Are one of whom is the average length of time project participants spent on welfare during the past five years is months and their average education level is Grade the project initially involved Community clubs in Winnipeg inner City but was expanded into All six involving As Many As 40 centres at one Marvin said he is helping the soon Tob unemployed workers find new adding some Are looking on their have turned Down goo paying he he also said some of the older Guys in the project carryovers from the planned employment pro Gram who have held jobs for an average of four or five years Are facing the psychological difficulties of anyone about to lose a Job held for some the old program included eight Allol whom were Given the option of entering the Community services or finding alternative people think these people work Tor the Marvin adding he is trying to get them hired Marvin also said the current participants would he out of the program even if it is adding they All were informed at the Start that they were going into a project which would end in these Guys were Well aware the project was coming to an end it was something that was Emp a he repeating that the projects main goal was to get marginally employable welfare recipients into the Job who is this Man israels prime minister is Shar ing this years Nobel peace with egyptian president can you name the Leader what Canadian City recently elected John Sewell to succeed David Crombie As mayor for what baseball team the National leagues most valuable pave play think you know the answers want to take a guess and out then turn to this weeks news quiz on Page 10 of today free the free press publishes the quiz each week it is available As an important part of its Peri education its a challenging Way for Stu dents and other readers to test their knowledge of current events try the news qui ;