Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 14, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cites efforts to assist Steen family backed being taken by the City to financially assist the family of the late Robert Steen have been encouraged by the provincial members of the provincial Cabinet have assured the City they will support efforts for a City contribution to the Trust fund set up for the late mayors sources said under the City of Winnipeg the City does not have the Legal authority to pay the mayors funeral sex the cites old charter contained a sunny today Cloudy tonight High 27 Low 8 specific provision allowing the City to pay funeral expenses for any Council member who died in the new act allows for Council to make with the con sent of the provincial to a Community if the cites Legal department finds the May 13 funeral can be classed As sources said the finance commit tee will recommend a Grant be made by the City to the Trust there is currently about in the childrens fund which officially closes cheesecake poster girl Loni Anderson and crazy deejays turned Ohio radio life into a to in tests of ground beef by Pirn Faye min meat other than beef Lias been found in nine per cent of 44 ground beef samples obtained from grocery stores in the Prairie results of a Federal department of consumer and corporate affairs investigation there Are still 18 samples to be tested by the department but preliminary results indicate charges May be Laid under the food and drug the act specifies that it is illegal to sell or advertise any food in a manner that creates a false impression regarding its Stan regional manager of the consumer fraud Protection said in an interview that pork and poultry were found in four he said it is possible the pork and poultry components got into the ground beef through contamination from meat Grinders or from blood on cutting it will be another two weeks before the investigation on Prairie meats is the meat samples were see mixture Page 4 june free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Wayne free press Sherman vows action on care for aged by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba Community services min ister Bud Sherman says he Hopes to take recommendations to Cabi net this summer aimed at improving conditions in the provinces 526 guest in an interview and in the legislature Sherman didst Rule out provincial licensing of the but gave Strong indications he would like to avoid that route to upgrading standards if investigative reports by the free press have disclosed that Many retarded and mentally ill people Are living in squalid and sometimes unsafe conditions in unregulated guest Homes and boarding houses in Winnipeg facilities to which Many Are directed by government pressure was mounting from the opposition in the Legisla City Hall and from agencies in the Field for government in the Sherman faced de mands from Transcona new Democrat Wilson Parasiuk for an investigation into living conditions of these guest houses with a View to entering the licensing and regulation of at City Council councillor Joe Zuken demanded emergency action and civic environment com Mittee chairman Jim Ernst said we May have to take the Bull by the if they the government Well have to set standards and Regula Yhetta Gold of the age and Opportunity Centre called for licensing and closing them int the the solution is to raise she after an 18month cataloguing of guest Homes housing people and intensive study by his Sherman said we Are ready now to study the results and accept advice As to what might be done to ensure Stan he added he wanted advice from his the City and peo ple in the labor minister Ken Mac responsible for provincial fire safety said officials of his department Are working with Community services officials to prepare Stan Dards if they go into the permit Busi he said enforcement of fire safety in the Winnipeg Homes is a civic response health standards Are split in Juris diction the City is responsible in the inner City area and the province in Winnipeg see some Page 4 poor food and care cited social worker found Man lying in urine soaked bed Dave free press ambush Marilyn Sawatzky front did not hit she was hit by a cold blast from coworker Trudy schroeders water the two University students Are toiling to make a Garden out of a junk Story on Page kids never forget summer Camp trip when the initial thrill of being out of school has a Camp vacation can be the one thing that keeps the summer from for Many kids a Camp experience is the highlight of the Gerald Mirecki supervisor of outdoor recreation at the Jame Assiniboia Parks and recreation Branch said its an important Opportunity for every something they never for he i still remember my first Camp Mirecki said kids find themselves with Little to do in the City during the Camp he provide a Chance to meet new friends and seek different challenges in a non competitive there Are children in the James he they All need a Camp but some dont make use of sometimes moneys the but it Doest have to the free press Sunshine fund was established to provide a camping experience for Sunshine fund kids who otherwise afford the fund is entering its third and has raised More than Means at least 80 kids will be assured of a rewarding one or two week vacation at Camp this the free press and the Manitoba camping association Are participating in the kids will be sent to the associations 44 a the Camps Are nonprofit and operated by donations can be addressed to the free press Sunshine 300 Carlton r3c 3c1 or left at the free press classified receipts will be issued and names of donors published parents who like to Register their children Are asked to write the Manitoba camping 1483 Pembina r3t 2c9 or Call them at the special Sunshine fund see fund Page 4 by Steve Pona copyright Winnipeg free 1979 a Man was left lying in urine soaked sheets for a week in a Winnipeg guest Home providing housing for mentally ill and retarded when visited by a social he had sores on his Penis and lower the Case is one of Many involving guest Homes and boarding houses for Hospital a three week examination by the free press heard Many More complaints of inadequate As Well As unhygienic poorly heated unsafe and one Case of suspected the provincial mental health care Home program keeps a list of More than 25 substandard guest but because of a Lack of suitable alter a those Homes continue to House persons with mental while the number of such Homes represent Only a Quarter of those in the Susan a former Home finder responsible for residential said they Are also the largest and account for As Many As half the patients in the referring to the resident of the Furby Street White said his sores were caused by Amonia in his soaked in urine for a week he was and nobody changed his nobody checked hed been like that for a she Shirley another former to me finder who now works in British explained in a recent inter View that once a Home is listed As no additional placements Are made there and other hospitals Are although they May still continue to refer Many of these Homes Are often dirty and poorly sent to live in squalor part 2 some she Barbara another Home finder at the health sciences remembers an old Man and woman who were brought into the Hospital from a guest Home in february in absolutely disgusting condition the worst she had they were their upper dentures had not been they were Dehy they had bed sores and could not stand by Landlady indifferent we estimate How Long they were in that it was Boult were not using that Landlady any More her attitude was one of Ted coordinator of men Tal retardation for the Winnipeg admitted a Good Many of the Homes on the mental health list were sub Stan sure in but what can i do about it he who conceded that Good intentions have failed to keep the place ment program from becoming a Mere dumping maintained the government is at the government is not prepared to pay the Money required for that level of Zuchowski this assertion was not challenged by Lloyd director of the provincial office of residential he admitted see inadequate Page 4 an old Man whiles away his time sitting in front of a dining room window in the guest Home where he inside today the life of the sword the combatants chopping at their opponents with slashing Bamboo known As Clack against face and guttural yells signal this is japanese fencing with links to the Art of swordsmanship Practised by the Samurai War the Manitoba Kendo club is a focal Point for about two dozen diehard souls who have a taste for participation with a differ fleeing future Shock a provincial government Promise to solve car mans flooding problems could Stem the tide of disenchanted residents Selling their Homes to avoid future Carman mayor Doug Fletcher figures Many of the families who have considered Selling their Homes May change their about 300 people were told tuesday by local my Jack Murta and la Don Orchard that both Levels of govern ments were negotiating a formula to finance a solution to the flooding Fletcher said while Many of the people went to the meeting sceptical about the possibility of a solution to their they came away with renewed Hope that something would be peace Hopes in Cyprus the prospects for peace on the divided Island of Cyprus seem better today than at any time since the turkish invasion five years peace talks Between the greek and turkish communities will begin Friday though they Are certain to last for if not the momentum is building amidst a mood of muted growing Opportunity fuel shortages and trucking problems that stall the northward flow of fresh vegetables from the United states could be an Opportunity for Manitoba growers to expand develop storage facilities and add new local vegetable growers if Kennedy in sure the president must have been mis senator Edward Kennedy said yes i think what he meant to say was that he was going to whip but that not what others heard president Carter say and they say he said it twice if Ken Nedy ill whip his ass vol prepare to feel the draft the draft is prepare to savor or suffer the sixty eight players were picked about half the players Cho sen were taken because the drafting clubs Winnipeg Edmonton Quebec nor piques and Hartford whalers had to take but some Talent was available and the four new teams stumbled Over each other in a made scramble for their the jets seemed though one wonders whether names of Lindsay Dave Hoyda or Mark Heaslip will Ever become household words in 43 22 31 54 6 Jumble 42 47 to 2 winners Western express for 2931912 3892041 3889712 3590091 3972431 other scores football Cal exhibition Toronto 1 4 Hamilton 9 baseball american Toronto 92 California 810 Cleveland 6 Oakland 4 Detroit 7 Seattle 3 Baltimore 8 Chicago 7 Minnesota 8 new York 7 Boston 1 1 Kansas City 3 Milwaukee 5 Texas 4 National Montreal 4 Atlanta 1 Houston 4 Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati 4 new York 1 san Diego 3 Pittsburgh 2 los Angeles 9 Louis 8 Chicago 3 san Francisco 2 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