Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Osborne House a casualty in move to avoid deficit Owca ends 4 major services cuts 11 staff members 3 by Cecil Rosner the Winnipeg Owca is terminating four of its services and cutting 11 staff members in order to avoid a projected budget deficit this a statement from the Agency Fri Day said the following services will be dropped Osborne a Refuge for battered wives the widows consultation Centre a full time counsel Lor at the Yucas Webb place head quarters and a social action Marilyne executive said the cuts and other internal reorganization Are necessary to balance the 1979 she said the Owca will still have to contend with an accumulated deficit of built Barbara Cansino a principals protest talk about Ostrich like adminis students Are being bussed and flown Here from other coun tries to see the eclipse while we keep ours indoors and draw the says the note from the the note is attached to the january directive from the Winnipeg school Divi Sion superintendents de regarding the solar 26 to a to All principals from Pollock re the eclipse february 1979 although i have had conversations with Many people relative to my letter to you dated january the last paragraph still represents the direction to follow i am sure you will take All Steps necessary to ensure that Stu dents parents Are informed of the advice we have received and that no school initiated program is planned contrary to this in reply to questions that have been the following Steps must also be taken morning recess should be held indoors or scheduled if the Choice is for Early care must be taken to have All students indoors before the eclipse information about Safe time will be made available at a later will have to be made to keep students in school until about this time has to be checked As this applies to All schools having Dis Missal times before or what Ever time the eclipse is Over and includes Home economics and Industrial arts drapes will have to be lowered or drawn Over win Dows facing the Sun to prevent accidental exposure during the classes for students have been cancelled for that no i service programs should be scheduled for february All staff have the responsibility of doing their utmost to protect Stu dents at school from possible injury according to the advice Given to us by the City of Winnipeg health department and the Manitoba medical i am sure you realize that we have no Choice but to take All precautions in this i am also sure that you will interpret the seriousness of this situation to All i might add that the Board of trustees supports the decision in a teachers lament one Jame Assiniboia teacher has said that several teachers want the children to stay at Home for the but cannot say so because of the Many children who have working underdogs what is it about chartered accountants More to the what int it the personal ads in the new York review of books Are the Best place to locate the 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Doest reek of mid dle class and if the new yorker thinks pc on a purse is what must the lefty Louie new York review of books feel about the same purse yet the new York review of books does not come out of this Bourgeois initial thing smelling like getting Back to their person Al the whole new trend is to As in the last career woman mentioned who is looking for an professional in the same Issue Sam notes his passions As classical d Washington ism seeks Beauty genuine d needs tic and d another a professional from is interested in purposeful rela d is seek ing woman of similar d pretty Wasp seeks unusually reasonably con tented professional Man 3545 who succeeds in new As yours Hogate of Winnipeg wrote in a letter this week dear Cansino you Are Correct about even a simple commonplace set of initials like can have differ ent meanings for different to some polite people Means Canada Post to other people Means confusion plagued report drafted to solve childrens Centre woes a plan to boost staff morale and prevent a decline in the Quality of patient care at Winnipeg childrens Centre was to be discussed today at a special meeting of the centres the meeting will consider a confidential 13page drafted be cause changes Are the report made 10 specific recommend notably that the childrens Centre should be Given More Auton be renamed the childrens hos and should remain within the health sciences Centre relocated at seven Oaks Hospital or else Manitoba health minister Bud Sherman said last summer he was prepared to move the childrens Centre to seven and Amend the health sciences Centre act in order to improve staff other recommendations in the re drawn up by Winnipeg Psychia Trist member of the Hsc along with the hocs 18member child care in clude changes in the health sciences Centre act if necessary to achieve the desired objectives in child health increased budgetary Freedom for the childrens and More Power to those responsible for child health care to make important Deci appointment of an onsite full time administrative officer located in the childrens a reassessment of the situation in april if the recommendations Are up during the period the services will be formally terminated by the Board of directors at the groups annual meeting on Mon at that a task Force will be created to investigate appropriate utilization of the Owca building to reflect the actual needs of today and of the Keely said the services could be revived if alternate funding is Osborne which came into existence six years served As a Refuge for wives who had been abused by their it was often in financial difficulty and has threatened to close on numerous occasions in the occupancy rates in the House were declining in the last few Keely a total of six staff members there will lose their the widows consultation Centre provided widow widow counsel Ling for women mostly in the 4555 year age it employed three staff and had been operating for five mostly with the help of a private Grant which has not been the Agency statement said the main contributing Factor to the deficit was the Cost of maintaining their which includes a gym five floor residence and Large Utility Bills and maintenance costs have been rising dramatically in the last few and the annual property taxes add an additional to the Winnipeg free press february 1979 City news 2nd class mail registration number grim off it leaves you friends of mans Best Friend say not create the irresponsible owners face no bite enforce dog lovers urge by Ingeborg Boyens Winnipeg Doest have a dog prob it has a people City councils two member committee re viewing the dog control and licensing bylaw was told in what became an Allday about 70 dog lovers including a veterinarian and the dog Catcher from told the committee that the Best Way to solve the problem of roaming dogs and their evidence was to enforce the existing bylaw rather than change after hearing about 20 presenta the civic and hoc committee reviewing the dog bylaw agreed changes to the City Law should be Gordon speaking on behalf of the associated dog clubs of Mani said his membership would be the first to agree that Winnipeg has a problem with dogs running at but we have a people not a dog said adding that people who let their pets run free have no respect for the the Law you have is a Good he dont change it every City in the world has this said dog columnist Fred tougher bylaws wont eliminate just As Speed limits dont Stop said there has to be More efficient work on the part of the people who Are supposed to be enforcing the he Winnipeg must enforce its bylaw 24 hours a Day if it Hopes to solve its said John Pound supervisor of the Rural municipality of the cites dog catchers seem to spend All of their time in Coffee he the Only Way to control dog prob lems is to increase the number of responsible dog catchers in the he last almost summonses were issued under the City bylaw and 280 dog owners were applying some of the suggested restrictions such As limiting the number of dogs per restricting their and stiffer neutering requirements would Only serve to affect the responsible dog said former City councillor Florence Pierce said there is no Point in raising licence fees to limit the ownership of As irresponsible owners dont even buy veterinarian Webster said the City is licensing Only a Small portion of Winnipeg dog estimated at at least of those dogs we rent licensed last said Don Gerrie the suggestion to limit the number of dogs per household is As it would further deter dog owners from licensing their said web Elizabeth of Riverton ave was the Only person to Call for tougher a mans Home is not his Castle if neighbourhood dogs turn his Yard into a she she suggested that owners be fined for not accompanying their dogs with shovel and of 65 Wildwood said the committee should be developing education programs to Tell irresponsible dog owners about the councillors will be meeting with health and police department officials within the next month before reporting Back to civic finance committee with recommend rail Yard overpass opponents plan Las ditch relocation push by Ingeborg Boyens Winni Eggers pressing for relocation of the downtown up rail mar shalling Yards have far from Given despite this weeks City Council decision authorizing capital funds for construction of the Sherbrook Mcgregor opponents of the rail Yards Over pass said Friday its still not too late to follow the examples of de Lethbridge and Moncton and move the without the intervention of the Canadian trans port including Lone Mani Toba Liberal la Lloyd said Friday they will be taking the matter up with senior Levels of government in a Las ditch attempt to convince them that relocation of the Yards is in the Best interests of the this is not just a question of How you get from the North end of the City to the said this area is essential to the whole development of the redevelopment of the 200 acres of railway property to allow for some Industrial uses could provide Des Pratel needed jobs in the inner said director of the Institute of Urban Edmonton director of City plan Dave told a seminar audience Friday at the University of Winnipeg that he sees no reason Why Winnipeg use Edmonton approach to relocating its two up rail Edmonton scheme is projected to Cost the City Only million in direct compensation costs to the railway and in foregone the approach assumes the City will undertake Only a monitoring said while the rail Way retains title to the property and develops it in accordance with the cites if Winnipeg were to proceed with a scheme similar to the first step would be to determine the Market value of the 200 acres of land to be said but since Edmonton annual growth about per is very similar to Winnipeg it can be assumed the relocation scheme would be just As attractive to up rail in he and if Winnipeg followed Edmon tons it could be known within a year whether relocation was actually he i guess i find it hard to believe that in you can study rail relocation since 1966 and still Bandy about figures of to Mil said Edmonton relocation is expected to Cost about Axworthy said that up rails hesitation to move the Winnipeg Yards might be eliminated if the City presented hard facts and Fig ures that attested to the profitability of developing the Axworthy said he expects a delay before the final approval for the construction of the Sher Broo Mcgregor overpass is the province still has to Send the Federal government a list of projects to be funded under the Urban transportation assistance program and Canadian transport commission officials still have to approve the detailed design of the in the Winnipeg could be examining the feasibility of Relo Cating the said the Axworthy said he would try to raise the matter with prime minis Ter Trudeau when he comes to Winnipeg next provincial Urban affairs minis Ter Gerry Mercier said in a letter to the City this week that the province views rail Yard relocation As a desirable alternative to construction of the Sherbrook Mcgregor Over but Lack of additional Feder Al funding prohibits moving the he radioactive waste treatment proposed the civic Board of commissioners has recommended that Low level radioactive wastes normally incinerated be treated at the North end water pollution control Centre until a new incinerator is civic works and operations com Mittee will consider the step along with a recommended phasing out of the cites incinerator on april seen As an interim these wastes would be stored prior to Dis the cites initial plan upon closing the incinerator was to have the wastes mixed with used Oil and burned at a Lime Kiln at near Faulkner area Council upon discovering the Oil burned at a nearby Lime Kiln would contain Trace elements of radioactive resolved to Stop the City officials dispatched a leading scientist to the Rural but Rural councillors we rent convinced the wastes could be safely the Council were most courteous in their Arthur hoi Loway of the Manitoba cancer treat ment and research foundation but it appeared to me that there was nothing that would completely allay their misgivings about this pro the scientist Alan head of the radiation Protection Section of the has advised the City no health Hazard will be created ;