Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg fret Satoff August methane Winni Eggers who live and work near of fief Landfill and dump Sites do not appear to be concerned about the possibility of methane Gas migrating to their we Haven had any said Muriel a Southall Street resident who lives in the first House built across from the Margaret Park Landfill the area was covered Over about 17 years ago and now serves As a soccer and baseball Grace another Southall Street said the City tested her property for Gas several years to seems everything was she the Corn and other vegetal btes in Rogers Garden become progressively Shorter and smaller toward the Fence separating her property and the former Landfill we were thinking of having the soil she even the radishes dont seem to turn and anyone can grow it could be that we just dont have a Green a report by the cites Landfill environmental the department which monitors former landfills and dumps for methane Gas buildup and has found significant Levels of the explosive Gas at and just outside the Margaret Park testing program head Tony Kuluk said yesterday no Gas has been detected in Homes around the the City is in the process of designing containment barriers to be installed around the Periphery of the Margaret Park and Kimberly testing probes Webb service manager for red Patch taxi company on Cole ave adjacent to the Nairn and Elm Wood Landfill said City inspectors periodically sink testing probes into the garage because the cab company has been built on piles sunk into it is possible the Gas recorded by the City is from the backfill and not the adjacent he newer buildings erected near former landfills and dumps have had special containment monitors and vents one such Structure is the Shell Canada Home heating fuel office on Warman Road built about three years ago at the Periphery of the Boniface i company agent Gord Hatton said a plastic apron was installed when the building was constructed and the City monitors the methane every few there have been no prob by the Boniface school Board located on the Boni face Landfill has been expropriated by the City because of the High methane Levels recorded the building is due to be vacated by the Landfill environmental Section report noted that significant methane readings have been taken in 15 of 24 inactive Landfill former Sites which registered High Levels of the Gas include the Bonner cad Boro Road Mcphillips Street and Charles Wood Road South and the River Shaftesbury Boule Vard and lot 61 no measurable Gas readings have been detected at the Northeast Brady Summit Road Active land fill site although Gas read Ings above the lower explosive level have been obtained in probes within the City hires a staffers firm for Job by John Sullivan a Calgary firm hired to do a study on Winnipeg future recreation needs is headed by a former civic officials confirmed gut Parks and recreation planning director Gunter Schoch said he saw nothing wrong with hiring professional environmental recreation consultants to do the Jack former manager of regional recreation ser a Jofs for the is a partner in the its definitely an advantage to have him because Hes not Only familiar with All of the facilities but with the hundreds of different groups As Seh Oeh there was no tender Call for the which will be financed by a provincial lottery the Parks payment asked six or eight different firms to Mike proposals within the limit and four Sci cych in addition to Underwood Eleuan interdisciplinary systems tem Pleton and Damas and Smith submitted Pehosh said interdisciplinary stiff have come from the firms Calgary while the Pamas and Smith proposal was made in con Junction with a Toronto in actual the Only really local firm was Underwood he the expected in or Early will include identification of deficiencies in or oversupply of recreation facilities and services in the City an4 Swap Sajons for the setting of o fitness Trail opens Blind athlete Shep Shell has a workout on new equipment yesterday during ceremonies opening the Assiniboine Park fitness the Trail was designed by the City to provide disabled persons an Opportunity to take part in outdoor fitness and Leisure medical workers awarded pay boosts totalling 24 by Manfred Jager an arbitration Board headed by Dau Phin lawyer Oliphant has awarded 800 medical technicians and therapists pay increases totalling 24 per cent in a two year retroactive to april the arbitration award handed Down yesterday awards the workers a 15 per cent wage increase in the first year of the and nine per cent in the second the award directs that All contracts will expire March As suggested by management the Union had asked for contract termination on the award affects employees of win Nipges Victoria and a the health sciences Centre As Well As Bethesda Hospital in Stein flin flon general Gil Lam Lakeshore District care system in Ashern and Lynn Lake the Pas health com Anne Westman regional Laboratory services in Brandon and Thompson general the workers went on strike for wage parity with registered nurses from May 21 to june participants in an Al night bargaining session june 7 agreed to an immediate 15percent pay hike pending the arbitration the Manitoba paramedical association originally sought pay increases of 44 per cent Over 21 the Hospi tals offered increases ranging from 30 to 36 per cent Over two Bob chief negotiator for the paramedical refused ment on the arbitration Brian assistant executive director of Manitoba health organizations and chief negotiator for said he Felt the management position was essentially upheld by the Tion Siegner said pay parity Between the technicians and nurses would not have been realistic because the last tinted salary increases for nurses statute a a Market anomaly brought seven Grace pharmacists get pay increases of seven pharmacists drop eyed by Grace general Hes Ijlal have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement which will give them per cent in pay increases by the end of next As the agreement provides the hospitals assistant pharmacy director with an hourly pay rate Al Bernard president of local Manitoba food and com Mercial workers said yesterday the new contract is the Best his Union has Ever negotiated with an employ Brian assistant executive director of Manitoba health organisations for employee relations and the Mariage nuent representative during said the pharmacists had been the lowest paid in the they were the Only pharmacists in the settlement brings the Grace hos Pital pharmacists into line with other such professionals in this Siegner said Christophe said the hourly rate for the assistant pharmacy director at Grace is the highest paid to any Hospi Tal pharmacist in is probably the finest Settle ment we have Ever the Union president said the assistant director of pharmacy at Grace general Hospital will earn an extra during the we of the bringing her income to 350 by the end of the about by an abnormal nurses Short discussing the pay parity demand of the the arbitration Board report said in part for the most technologists work in laboratories in the health care while registered nurses Are involved in providing health care in the wards of those the technologists need in the carrying out of their Deal with those who Are ill to any great nor is it necessary for them to Deal with the families of patients the facile on the other the registered nurse is responsible for dealing directly not Only with those who Are but with their loved ones As most assuredly it can be said that the emotional Strain upon the tired nurses must be greater As a result of that fact legally bound because both labor and management had agreed june 7 to be legally bound by the arbitration Oliphant said in the it is Ray View that arriving at our this Board should arrive at an increase in pay that comes As closely As possible to the increase that would have been tinted Between the parties had negotiations been successfully the Board report said the arbitrators found that Between March 1980 and March of two year the Cost Price Index for Winnipeg registered an 113 per cent in the year 1980 the Cost Price increase was u per cent and the in crease in the Gross provincial product Over the previous year was 98 per the conclusion is that there was no real growth in the province of Manitoba in but rather negative growth to the extent of minus per Winnipeg lawyer Harold titration Ward nominee of the Hospi signed the award As while Winnipeg labor lawyer Mel Myers signed saying he did not concur with the receives by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the province has agreed to lease a Block of land bounded by King and Princess streets and Rupert and James avenues to the Winnipeg Chinatown development 1981 a nonprofit organization formed to rejuvenate the cites announcement of the Cabinet approval in principle a 99year leasing arrangement for the nominal fee of a year and payment of taxes on the land was made by Urban affairs Gerry Mercier the Cabinet decision Only partially clears the Way for a multimillion Dol Lar Chinatown plan proposed by the development the City of Winnipeg has been asked by the province to make a similar lease of lands it owns in the Block to the corporation and to relinquish any interest it has in the provincial Mercier told a press indicated support mayor Bill Norrie want available for comment but Mercier and Joseph chairman of the development said the mayor has indicated his support for the do says he Hopes City approval would come by Early allowing a Start sometime next year on the Chinatown development Mercier said construction would be expected to begin within three years of the signing of the lease do said Federal immigration minis Ter Lloyd Axworthy also to the three Levels of govern ment Are involved in the Core area development Mercier said the leasing arrange ment was proposed by the province in recognition of the needs and aspirations of the chinese it will further supplement the provincial commitment to the Core area he the chinese Community originally formed a committee to petition at the Core area development hearings last year for a revitalization of the development corporation was incorporated this the land involved in the proposed lease to the development corporation was expropriated when the former nip government proposed to build a new Law courts building on the the current conservative government chose instead to renovate the ism building at 373 plans for the Chinatown development include Low income housing a Community service a Public underground Commer Cial storefront components and chinese do and Ken a director of the development the corporation is a nonprofit Agen but do said efforts Are being made by the City and business interests to woo investors from Hong Kong for the commercial development there is a tremendous interest in Winnipeg i am quite confident a number of people will come into the said during a trip recent trip to the far Norrie had talks with Hong Kong investors and had entertained potential investors do refusing to put a Price tag on the total development and restoration of the Chinatown do said the com Mittee wants to proceed cautiously the potential is very but i cant predict the he said the first step would Likely be the development of Low Cost Wong said the corporation Hopes the housing can be financed through the Canada mortgage and housing Cor and possibly the Manitoba housing and renewal Core area signing claim hit Manitoba Urban affairs minister Gerry Mercier yesterday strongly objected to a claim by Pierre de Federal minister of regional economic expansion that the Winnipeg Core area renewal agreement was to be last there was no arrangement for sign ing the Core area Mercier told a press de during a visit to Morris said he came to Manitoba prepared to sign the agreement be tween provincial and Federal gov but found it haunt been approved by the provincial the Federal Cabinet had approved the agreement a week Mercier said the matter will be dealt with in the next few the Urban affairs minister said fail ure to sign the agreement int up work on Core initiatives he said a consisting of Deputy Urban affairs City commissioner Nick Dai kit and Jean director Gener Al of Dree in is now searching for a general manager for the Mercier also said consultants Are at work detailing plans for the North Side of Portage their report is expected next Doug Kinley nursing school head Doug former coordinator of the intensive care nursing training program at the health sciences has been appointed of the Hsc school of Kinley replaces Jessie Hibbert who left the position after six years to move to Medicine a graduate of the Winnipeg general Hospital nursing school in Kinley obtained his from the University of Saskatchewan in 1975 and re turned to teach at the he also obtained a from the University of Toronto in Friendship Centre members occupy offices at the Pas by Greg Bannister by Greg about 40 members of the Pas Friendship Centre general membership occupied the centres offices at 3 thursday and announced their Tion to hold the premises until next saturdays Board of directors Gerald spokesman for the group occupying the said president of the Friendship hag tendered his resignation earlier yesterday when asked tip so by the general Moran could not fee reached for an ramp spokesman p the yesterday confirmed he Tad Beard the first Street Centre offices had been taken he said police hid not involved themselves in Kajjy its an internal disagreement and not a police the spokesman said Fenner said the occupation was the end result of two months of Tion on the part Jone Genera member ship with the manner in which the Board of directors was operating the Fie said the through a series of had been reduced to nine members instead of the 1 its Constitution Calls he said the membership considered the Board to be incapable of running the affairs of the Fenner said the dissatisfaction peaked when the Board suspended the centres executive director Archie Anabess on june 8 pending an investigation into allegations i financial investigation was carried out by the Secretary of states department and the provincial depart ment of Community and Corr regions and Jeared a Bejus of any wrongdoing Board of directors insisted on Resig Najmi despite the investigations Fenner provincial and Federal government authorities would Only acknowledge a review of the Friendship centres financial affairs had been carried Fenner said the general member believing Anabess to be cleared by the were outraged by the boards insistence on his he said the general membership rein stated Anabess to his position thursday at the same time the offices were occupied and the presidents Resigna Tion called i ;