Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Detected at Park who live and work near former Landfill and dump Sites do m appear to be concerned about the possibility of methane Gas migrating to their we Haven had any said Muriel a South ail Street resident who lives in the first House built across from the Margaret Park Landfill the area was covered Over about 1 years ago and now serves As a soccer and baseball Grace another South ail Street said the City tested her property for Gas several years it seems everything was she the Corn and other vegetables 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 to could be that we just dont have a Green a report by the cites Landfill Viro mental 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 Shaftsbury 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 but 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 vices for the is a partner in the its definitely advantage to have him because Hes not Only car with All of the facilities but with the hundreds of different groups As there was no tender Call for the which will be financed by a provincial lottery the Parks apartment asked six or eight different firms to make proposals within the limit and four Schoch in addition to Underwood median int Erdise a binary systems formerly Tern Pieton and Damas and Smith Schych said interdisciplinary staff to Tow have come from the firms Calgary while the Damas Anc Smith proposal was made in con Junction with a Toronto in actual the Only really local firm was Underwood he the expected in october or Early will incline identification of deficiencies in or oversupply of recreation and services in the City and suggestions Tor the setting of Winnipeg free trem 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 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 Nipges Victoria and Gener Al 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 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 in 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 had offered increases ranging from 30 to 36 per cent Over two Bob chief negotiator for the paramedical declined All comment on the arbitration Brian assistant executive director employee relations at Manitoba health and chief Goti Ator for said he Felt tie management position was essentially upheld by the arbitration Siegner said pay parity Between the technicians and nurses would not have been realistic because the last negotiated salary increases for nurses statute a a Market anomaly brought seven Grace pharmacists get pay increases of seven pharmacists employed by Grace general Hospital have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement which will give them 413 per cent in pay increases by the end of next As the agreement provides the hospitals assistant pharmacy director with an hourly pay rate of f Bernard president f local Manitoba food and com Mercial workers said yesterday the new contract is the Best his Union has Ever negotiated with an employ Prian assistant executive director of Manitoba health organisations or employee relations and the management representative during said the pharmacists bid been the lowest paid in the they were the Only unionized racists 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 this is probably the finest Settle ment we have Ever the Union president the assistant director of pharmacy at Grace general Hospital will earn an extra during the life of the bringing her income to 330 by the end of the about by an abnormal nurses Short pay parity demand 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 in the on the other the registered nurse is responsible for dealing directly not Only with those who Are but with with their loved ones As most assuredly it can be said that the emotional Strain upon the registered nurses must be greater As a result of that fact because both labor and management had agreed june 7 to be legally bound by the arbitration Oliphant said in the it is my View that in 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 tilted Between the parties had negotiations been successfully the Board report said the arbitrators found that Between March 1980 and March of this year the Cost Price Index for Winnipeg registered an 113 cent in the year j980 the Cost Price increase was u per gent and the in crease to the provincial product Over the previous year was 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 arbitration Board nominee of the Hospi signed the award As while Winnipeg labor lawyer Mel Myers signed saying he did not concur with the Chinatown development receives boost by Mary Ann 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 for a 99year leasing arrangement for the nominal fee of a year and payment of taxes on the land was made by Urban affairs minister Gerry Mercier the Cabinet decision Only partially clears the Way for a multimillion Chin town plan proposed by the develop the City of Winnipeg has been asked by the province to make a similar lease of lands it owns in Tjie 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 corporation 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 seemed 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 corporation 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 refusing to put a Price tag on the total development and restoration of the Chinatown do said the com Mittee wants to proceed by the potential is very but 1 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 and possibly the Manitoba housing and renewal Mercier no 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 signed 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 holding up work on Core inia Tives 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 in detailing plans for the North Side of Portage their report is expected next bankruptcies Rise 13 in Manitoba by Chris Smith Manitoba bankruptcies were up 13 per cent for the first half of the Federal statistics Manitoba recorded a total of 524 bankruptcies by the end of pared with 463 for the same period last in 96 bankruptcies were up j4 per cent from last junes figure of Winnipeg chamber of Commerce president Jack Hignell blamed the in crease on the general economic Mal aise in the fuelled by the almost weekly increases in interest rates during the past few the Federal Pon Symer affairs depart ment superintendent of bankruptcy for Manitoba was unavailable for com ment on the but he had said earlier in the year that Many of those Wing had named interest rates As 9 major Hignell said cant in All honesty blame the increase on High interest but they have done their the Economy Hast been doing gangsters ail year he and he would have expected the Mani Toba figures to have been Manitoba has stood up fairly Well in a less than buoyant Hignell but added that the july and August figures will be interesting cause they May indicate the combined effect of the postal strike and the High interest the june statistics released by the bankruptcy office Are the most recent but the july figures Are being compiled and should be ready the june figures for Manitoba show 75 consumer bankruptcies and 21 Bush Ness the yearly figures to the end of june show 432 consumer bankruptcies and 92 business British Columbia and the Yukon both show decreases in the number of Bank nip cies for the first six months of the while the rest of the provinces recorded nationally there were nip cies consumer and business in the first six months can pared with for the same period last in june there were total bankruptcies compared with in the National business bankruptcies amount to More than million in As declared by the the Federal statistics state the Ity of the bankruptcies were to the Trade and service followed by transportation and i a ;