Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Former patient returns by Ron Campbell doctors Tom Ken Larocque parents when the boy was just Over a year old that he would never Advance beyond the mental capacity of a two last working full time and living the life of a Normal returned to the Amant Centre to meet sister the woman he credited with helping him overcome his Shes the one who built me up and got me out of Larocque and to demonstrate that he did not Larocque brought with him a Childs wheelchair to present to the Centre that had been his Home for More than four the wheelchair Cost and was bought with Money from Side jobs Larocque did last such As paint ing up a fire engine in grand and repairing his father i care for All these kids Ken Larocque said of his old the Amant left 15 years ago Ken left Amant 15 years after spending years at the Centre before moving on to the Manitoba school for Retar dates at Portage la where he spent the next 11 Ken was adopted by Leo and Agnes Larocque in 1957 at the age of nine two years later when they signed the adoption papers it was apparent that Ken was at about a Ken began having epileptic seizures and Winnipeg childrens Hospital became a second mental damage was occurring with every we did everything doctors the Mayo clinic said the they told us the same As they told us Here will never have More than the mentality of a two year after Only two months at Amant the seizures said after progressing under the Tutelage of sister Desrochers at Ken was sent to Portage where his Progress about three years before being Dis charged from Portage he was coming Home on the bus for and working in his fathers body earning As Well As a reputation As one of the most Metic Jack Hirsch tries out Ken Larocque gift to Amant executive director sister Ulous and hard working employees even while living in he was working at a local garage doing cleanup and errand after returning he continued to work at the body shop full even after his father sold the business a year he now works for a Salisbury House where he does Dis washing and general he was Only Home from Portage about half a year when he got his own apartment on notre Dame Avenue where he still he also owns and operates his own a 71 Dodge Demon in which he installed a new brakes and Ball joints with a bit of help from his its got Chrome a stereo system and a hairy laughs his i told him to shave that Damn he Ken is Active in sports and Many social sometimes hauling speakers and tapes to socials and being a disc making a couple of Bucks Here and he saves it Leo he has loads of including a everybody likes he never forgets a an Ken had been excited about the presentation and a bit hesitant Over whether he could do it i got Over its not but i caught he Chile to drop out of Fol Lorama Community divided As rival political groups seeking licence for Pavilion by Shirley Muir Chile will not be represented in this years Fol Lorama As a result of a split in the local chilean with both groups requesting a licence to operate a As far Asim concerned there will be no chilean Pavilion this said Sidney president of the Community Folk Art Council of Ritter said both the chilean association and a breakaway group have re Quested a Pavilion both groups claim to be the Legal representatives of the Winnipeg Chil Ean he Ritter said he has been meeting with both groups in the past six weeks in an attempt to resolve the but blames one of the parties for unwilling Ness to discuss the Ritter said the Issue Between the two groups is but that he sees it As a political difference Between left and righting were not concerned with Politi Cal leanings or religious affiliations of any said were Only interested in the Folk Juan Argel and Franklin who left the chilean association to form a new said ritters assumptions Are its very wrong to say it is a Politi Cal All the people involved Are left maybe with the exception of one said Argel said the disagreement within the association is not but the main problem is that one family is running they want to have All Power Over the chilean Asso court building to Cost million construction is expected to begin this fall on a new Law courts building on a site immediately North of he present Law courts the Manitoba government has the government expects the project will probably Cost a total of including furnishings and when it is finished within two of the million has been included in this years with foundation work to Start this officials say staged contracts can be let in october or announcement of plans to build the new court on a site now used As a parking lot bounded by Kennedy Street and York was originally made in Premier Sterling Lyon said the build ing is part of a multimillion Dollar four phase plan to enhance facilities for the administration of attorney general Gerry Mercier said the new five Storey to be connected with the present Law courts building at Broadway and Kennedy will add 20 courtrooms to the court greatly relieving the backlog of the initial part of the court develop ment project on Broadway involved the Purchase and remodelling of the former ism 373 Broad it will accommodate 10 provincial judges Mercier said the family and juvenile court now operating in tue Boniface and North will move to 373 Broadway once the new court building is the old Law courts building and the land titles office building on Broadway will be renovated when the new building is the new building will include Energy conservation features and a 100car underground parking citation and dont want to accept other said both Argel and Mondaca support ritters suggestion that an open elec Tion be conducted with an impartial third party a poll of the Winnipeg chilean Community would determine who should represent them and sponsor the chilean Ricardo Secretary of the Winnipeg chilean said the a fact is interfering with internal already spent weve already spent getting ready for it int fair we Arent getting our last year we did the Pavilion and it was a said Klapp said the chilean association will approach the minister of cultural affairs and the human rights com Mission to protest the act of Dis Crimi unless the two factions Are pre pared to resolve their internal prob nothing can be Fol Lorama already print include the chilean Ritter said that unless something drastic Hap pens in the next few the chilean Page of the passports will have to be Winnipeg free july in mar cuts expected in City Yanofsky says projects already scheduled will Likely have to be Cut Back or deferred in order to pay for the Core area initiative Abe the cites finance committee said Yanofsky warned of the cutbacks after the committee received a report from finance commissioner Roy Evans outlining alternatives for the City to raise its million share of the five Trievel Yanofsky said he believes if the City signs the Core it will have to Cut Back or defer some current he stressed Flat once the City commits itself to the it will have to spend the i dont realistically think we can afford to spend that Money and maintain every thing else we have the report from Evans says the City could raise the Money through a Long term capital through the cur rent budget or through an arbitrary split of the the report sue gets borrowing Only for assets having an useful life and financing the rest on a Payas Yugo the report notes the first native would probably be better if interest rates were More h says the second would substantially increase Mill rates for the years 1982 but would eliminate the need to maintain the higher Mill rate to cover the program beyond mayor Bill one of the three architects of the told finance members they should be under no its the Core area initiative going to Cost us councillors will have to weigh whether its Worth the committee sent the report Back to the finance department for further comment on possible Mill rate in creases and possible cutbacks on Capi Tal medical research decline worrisome by Maureen Brosnahan fewer physicians Are pursuing Ca Reers in medical research and this could result in a slowdown in scientific says Henry Frie head of the physiology department at the University of although research Grants for medi Cine have increased dramatically Dur ing the past 20 years and Many scientific advancements have been Friesen said the remarkable decline in the number of researchers is worry it would be my concern that if the present trend is allowed to continue we and our children in our country will All be the poorer Over the next Quarter speaking to paediatric ans from Canada and the United states at the annual Canadian paediatric society meeting in Friesen said the Gap has grown and that its up to those in the medical Community to encourage the very few talented ads to establish themselves in the gaps grown in an Friesen said not everyone is suited to research but the gaps grown Between the numbers in practice and in Laboratory of 10 who try it maybe three will do it Well and stay with its like Art some will do it Well but not All will be per but he said the Small number of doctors going into research May be partly the fault of those already in the maybe were partly to were sounding doom and gloom on our own part and maybe Treyve heard he said the declining interest in re search May be for financial he said Many projects take years of work and often researchers Are never sure whether they will receive the necessary Grants to continue their the agony goes on year after he they get funds one year and not the that a very Uncertain he some will give up in frustration and Ive got it made if i go into he although the medical research Council of Canada has increased fund ing from research during the past 20 years from in 1955 to Mil lion this research is lagging be he Friesen said the annual inflation rate in medical research is about 20 per cent compared the 12 per cent rate in the consumer Price he blamed this partly on the declining value of the Canadian Dollar since research tools must often be the Cost of especially any thing depending on Energy goes up he he also said the time and regulations involved in finally seeing the results of a research project Are necessary but arson blamed for Devon fire last sundays fire at the downtown Devon court apartment Block was deliberately an investigation by the provincial fire commissioners office has in a report forwarded to the Winni Peg police department assistant fire commissioner Derry new ton said a flammable liquid was poured into a crawlspace storage area on the top floor of the five Storey apart ment and then set police said the fire is now under but so far there Are no the two alarm fire at the 70yearuld apartment 376 was discovered at about 85 fire fighters were called in to Battle the which was contained to the fifth Penthouse and roof about 75 residents in the 63unit Block were evacuated without serious in two prisoners flee police Are looking for two men who escaped from heading Ley jail yester Day by using a braided bedsheets to climb Over a Chain link Victor Daniel and Chris Gopher James were last seen heading towards the nearby Assiniboine police both were serving time for enter and theft and Arent considered temperature tropical for dip in Hudson Bay Churchill Church ills famed Dominion Day dip into Hudson Bay took place under Hawaii Beach Condi Penny co manager of the Arctic said the temperature was about 28 degrees the Beach was just like any sunny summer Shore any place in the a record 21 teams of four contestants each braved the dip into the where the temperature was Between seven and eight 1 a Las minute entry from the Pacific n airways Hercules division away with the Dominion Day began with a Parade with More than a dozen floats Contri buted by local businesses and the National harbours other Canada week celebrations in clude Talent bicycles races and special in mayor Don Mac lean said the feature event was an Allday Cricket match staged by the Thompson Cricket which is made up mainly of residents from the West indies and former mayor Brian Campbell and the Campbell North company gave the City its annual fireworks chief of Rodney of Nelson said it was just another working Day his Vas no High Flash singing of National and Hui with the new i dont think i know them and As far m 1 theres never been any copies of the new sent out to our cheap pins prick Yanofsky councillor embarrassed passing out cites souvenir can you Tell the calibre of a City by the souvenir pins it hands out members of the cites finance com Mittee believe you can and they Are determined to improve Winnipeg image by upgrading the cheap souvenir pins councillors give to we should be Able to get More for our finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky said tues Day after creating a Adoc committee to study the Yanofsky and Ric appointed to head the pin both attacked the Quality of souvenir pins being used by the they Are not very pleasing to the in they look very cafe said the finance committee chairman said the City spends about on souvenir pins each he said two varieties Are currently being Pur one is a multicoloured enam Elled pin with the cites Crest on the other is identical in but is a Dull Copper the second pin is the one under other cities pins nicer i was at a conference in Regina recently with councillor Nordman and we both realized that other cities have much nicer when it came time to Exchange pins with the other delegates i was embarrassed at the pins we had to pass Yasofsky said he and Nordman feel the pins reflect on the character of the City to a improving them could Only enhance the image of the he the Cost of new which will be reviewed by could be the key the enamelled pins the City currently uses Are More expensive than the cheaper for that the City does not give them but on a Large Yanofsky that the City should shop around for a better and cheaper souvenir the pins the other municipalities were giving out looked better than ours and we were surprised at How inexpensive they were our pins Are not anywhere near As Good As they should Nordman is to report on the Issue to finance committee at its next Yam sky suffers ;