Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june 29, 1981 3 local United Cut in funding concerns clinic by Maria Bohuslawsky mount Carrel clinic has lost a badly needed nutritionist and May have to drop two programs because of funding cutbacks by the United Way says the clinic s executive director. Anne Ross said the North end clinic May withdraw from United Way after being awarded less than one third of the Grant requested for the 1981-82 fiscal year. The United Way s allocation of 000 was requested Means the clinic May drop its pharmacy and dental clinic in the coming year. Two killed in province on weekend a Winnipeg Man who died Early yesterday after a fire broke out in his St. Vital Home was one of two Manito bans killed acc Dently during the week end. Police said Donald Roland Perreault 49, of 305 Beliveau Road died about ., seven hours after he was taken from his Home suffering smoke inhalation. Cause of the fire which damaged the living room Kitchen and hallway is under investigation police said. Elizabeth Ann Evans 21, of Brandon died Friday afternoon in a car Accident in Riding Mountain National Park about 24 Kilometres North of Wasagaming. Ramp gave further details on the Accident which occurred about . Meanwhile a Grosvenor Avenue woman is in serious condition at Misericordia Hospital after being injured by a car saturday while crossing Osborne Street Between River Avenue and Roslyn Road. Sally Goodman of 811 Grosvenor suffered a broken leg and numerous fractures in the . Incident police said. A youth whose name was not re leased also is in serious condition at the health sciences Centre after his motorcycle struck a Hydro pole about Yesterday. Police said they believed the motor cyle involved in the Accident at Scotia Street and Smithfield Avenue had been stolen earlier from the Mcdonald s restaurant on main Street. Police would like to speak to a Pas Senger who was seen running from the scene shortly after the collision. The pharmacy fills about 100 prescriptions daily and the dental clinic has a four month waiting list Ross said. Both serve persons considered to be working poor or students whose parents cannot afford Medicine. The United Way said the clinic should fund programs with its own savings plus interest said Ross. However the accumulated from donations bequests and interest is intended to help build a new clinic in conjunction with the provincial govern ment she said. Ill do everything i my Power to prevent closing any she said but the new clinic is a priority. At a time when we re building these cutbacks Are a real encroach ment on our the provincial government has promised million towards the lion project. Nutritionist needed Ross said the clinic badly needs the nutritionist they lost because Many patients Are diabetics obese and by Pertense. As Well the clinic treats Many Young pregnant girls who Are prone to complications. United Way has supported a nutritionist for the last three years on condition that the clinic do a study establishing that persons who Don t have proper nutrition run a High risk of complications during pregnancy. Ross said the study was a Case of re inventing the wheel. Countless studies have been she said. She cited a British study which showed that girls under 16 had double the number of stillbirths than women in their 20s. Also an american study has shown that 50 per cent of mental retardation can be stopped by proper nutrition. However funding for the nutritionist terminated when the study was finished. Morley Globerman chairman of finance for the clinic said he thinks the United Way is not performing its Grant function properly. They re being he said it s not right to be so mount Carmel will Appeal the fund ing decision at a meeting with the United Way on july 15. If the clinic does t receive a significant increase it May withdraw from the United Way said Globerman. In that Case possible sources of fund ing Are fund raising events requests for donations and the rebirth of a women s auxiliary said Ross. Currently the clinic receives about a year from the provincial health department and Manitoba health services commission. Battle line drawn Over school taxes two greater Winnipeg school Divi Sions Are preparing to do Battle Over their Boundary line with about in property tax Money As the prize. At Issue is the Boundary Between Transcona Springfield and River East divisions which runs through the Feder Al taxation data Centre and Kildonan place mall at Lagimodiere Boule Vard and Regent Avenue. Todd Baraniuk Transcona Spring Field s Secretary treasurer said in an interview the line runs through the Bay and Dominion stores in the mall and through the Northeast Corner of the tax Centre. About 95 per cent of the two structures Are in Transcona Springfield school division he said. Baraniuk said Kildonan place is assessed at about million and the tax Centre about million. School taxes for the two buildings total about million so the amount in dispute is or five per cent he said. Baraniuk said the City of Winnipeg s assessment office advised the school Board in March that All the tax Revenue was being temporarily awarded to Transcona Springfield and asked that the divisions meet to try and resolve the dispute themselves. Transcona Springfield Board voted last week to ask the education depart ment s Board of reference to and move the Boundary to place 100 per cent of both developments and All the resulting tax Revenue in Transcona Springfield division. Allan Rouse River East Board chair Man said his division will oppose the Transcona Springfield application. There is Damn Way we will give them Transcona Springfield anything without a he said in an inter View. River East believes the Boundary should remain where it is and Transcona Springfield should collect the Revenue but give River East its share Rouse said. Wayne free press Beer swigging bikers ventured into dimly lit ring to drum upon each other in their hard times extravaganza. Bikers frolic Mth Beer and fists is cyclists Don gloves Down die in annual slug est Rick n., with Medicine bottle is weighed in by slim. Brawling can sometimes be a thirsty business. By Andy Blicq about 300 spectators jammed into a James Avenue warehouse yesterday for the annual blood sweat and Beers Battle Winnipeg bikers Call hard float like s butt Einy stung like a Bee find somebody in Winnipeg pret tier than crowed pretty boy Roy Toews after scrapping his Way to the top of the heavyweight class at the fourth annual slug est. Organizers admit their annual pugilist party May be illegal but say it would t be the same if they went by the Book. If you go Legal it would never come said Garth Somers one of the organizers of the event held in a naked Metal shed normally used in his Bailiff s business. The name hard times comes from a Charles Branson movie about Box ing explained Somers. The fights normally held on a farm outside Winnipeg were moved indoors because of unsettled weather this year. A regulation ring and Bell were rented for the event. Spectators stood around the outside of the ring or watched from two wooden lofts in the warehouse and the rumble of some of the 200 Harley Davidson motorcycles parked outside echoed inside the Metal building. Without incident while a police Roadblock was said to be set up near the fight site and police were seen cruising the area the event went off virtually without Inci Dent. Police spokesman contacted last night said they were unaware of the organized Brouhaha. Despite the fact organizers say they Stop the fights before anyone gets Hurt competitor Bill Fogg was shipped off to Hospital with a possible fractured ankle he suffered during a bout he won. But the rest of the 19 bikers and jocks counting the grudge matches who took part appeared to leave the contest with Only scrapes and bruises although the event proved Tough going for Many of the competitors who ousted with 16-Ouncej Regula Tion boxing gloves. The extra round killed gasped one fighter 23, As he sprawled on a repossessed restaurant seat moved outside the makeshift Arena to make room for the event. Two judges and a referee cast their votes on three one minute round bouts and competitors could Call it quits anytime. Participants received t shirts donated by Molson s brewery for taking part and winners in the Light Middle and heavyweight classes got trophies to keep. Spectators however paid to get in and brought their own beverages. It costs a Fin to get in to cover our Somers said. Some free Lance fighters who took part in a shoving match outside the warehouse Drew some of the crowd from the middleweight title bout but a pretty boy Roy Toews the heavyweight Butterfly sags in his Corner after win. Beaming Henley pineapple Jame son did t seem to care. The boilermaker 32, said pretty boy Roy his Roommate taught him a few tricks before he took part this year. Bikers their wives and girl friends some armed with i Stama tics cheered and clapped for the favourites As the a libations continued through the afternoon. Pretty boy s last year joked Carol Corley was the reason to turn out at the Amateur fights. A lot of these Guys will go out and party the night before so they Don t have to she said. They Don t want to go up against but this May be the last year pretty boy Roy who has had some professional boxing experience May step into the ring. I tried three times and i did it and that s said the bricklayer 29, who has taken the heavyweight class on All three occasions he has tried. And one biker who Only wanted to be known As vowed to compete again next year but in better shape. Next year i la come he said. I won t get As memorial service in France honors Winnipeg airman memorial services were held in a Small French Village earlier this month to pay respects to an heroic Winnipeg airman who died 37 years ago attempt ing to Rescue a Comrade trapped in their burning bomber. Stephie Holowaty whose brother an Drew Mynarski was killed during the Crew s 13th Mission on june 13, 1944, this month made her first visit to his grave in a Small cemetery near me Hari court France. It was the most spectacular thing i be Ever seen said Holowaty of the approximately people who paraded to the cemetery. It really was a update a weekly follow up to the news bringing readers up to Dale on stories that have appeared in the free press. Holowaty who returned last week from her european trip said numerous French and Canadian officials attended the memorial services along with Honor guards and bands from the armed forces. A plaque was erected to Mark the site where the bomber crashed in a Field near Gau Lampre said Holowaty. Among the souvenirs she brought Back from France was a Hatchet her brother used to attempt to free the rear gunner when their Lancaster was shot Down by a German fighter plane. For his heroism Mynarski became the 13th Canadian to win the Victoria Cross for bravery. The Hatchet will eventually be turned Over to the War museum in Ottawa. Airport plan delayed the master plan for expansion and development of Winnipeg International Airport won t be ready this month. Harold Bell of transport Canada who led the Winnipeg area airports systems study had hoped a version of expansion recommendations would be ready this month but apparently All facets have not been pulled together. A spokesman said position papers Are still being circulated and announce ment of the master plan will be delayed. The study recommended a to expansion the Federal Cabinet accepted the recommendation but did not approve any funds. Bell has said he looking for approval of a scaled Down master plan which will Cost about million. Unlike other Canadian airports Winnipeg s has received major funding for needed passenger terminal expansion and runway displacement to move the noise of Jet traffic to less built up areas. Optometrists seek raise the Manitoba health services com Mission Board is considering a request to reopen a two year contract and give 69 members of the Manitoba optometric society a raise. The society wants to renegotiate their contract to keep Pace with the prov Ince s 26 ophthalmologists who Are re presented by the Manitoba medical association. Optometrists Are non medical professionals who fit glasses to Correct visual defects while ophthalmologists Are medical Eye doctors. The Mma recently won a 15.5-per cent general pay raise from the Provin Cial government. The optometrists want about a four per cent raise As Well As an increase i the amount of services covered by the Misc. Currently the Misc pays for Eye tests conducted by ophthalmologists but not for tests conducted by optometrists. I ;