Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 23, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Changes seen in regulations covering pools by Gregg Shilliday a provincial health inspector who examined a Transcona apartment Block Pool before and after two Young boys drowned there last july said yesterday that he be surprised if operating regulations for sem Public pools were changed As a result of the in an interview following the adjournment of an inquest into the drown Ings of Shawn Allan Horvath and Jason Lee both aged inspector Don Ness said the drownings led to a lot of discussion and a lot of Strong feelings within his something happened that we All feel bad he we had to look at the regulations and ask Are they in the Best interest of the pub Lic the inquest was told monday that the apartment Block Pool at 120 Prevette Avenue met provincial safety require signs were posted and a Fence disclosures await bylaw amendments landlords who dont comply with cleanup orders wont be named until the City amends its building civic environment commissioner Dave Henderson said City Council voted 16 to Post All closing notices issued to property but Henderson said City Law yers must first examine existing build ing bylaws to determine what changes must be City solicitor Nestor Bodnarchuk said he will ask for clarification of the Council resolutions he said it is unclear whether it applies to the cites health department or the department of environmental both of which Monitor building because the provincial health department also enforces these standards under the Public health discussion with the province May be necessary to Amend the the Manitoba landlords association has opposed the disclosure arguing there Are already sufficient bylaws to enforce building sanitation the policy was passed by Council without discussion on whether existing bylaws would have to be Deputy City medical health officer Doug Luckhurst said the City has placarded 113 buildings As of four of them in the City gives out about mandatory housing orders annually which cover the spectrum of repairs and Only about 120 premises Are actually closed and Pla carded each year and about 30 land lords a year Are taken to court for contravening housing Jim free press with a lockable Gate was constructed around the judge Arnold Conner was also that a requirement for life guards at sem Public pools was deleted from provincial regulations after Dis Cussion with apartment Block owners last Ness said yesterday that he expected a departmental review of the regulations within the next couple of he added that he Hopes the government will be advised on several alternatives to the current the manager of the Block where the boys drowned told the inquest she had asked provincial inspectors if a life guard was required and was told Bernice Huff also told the inquest that even though she knew no tenants used the she never considered permanently Locking the Gate to the she was asked if she had thought of providing a master key to tenants so that Pool use would be restricted to she replied that she didst because it was not a provincial Regula Huff that since the drownings such a new lock had been installed and master keys judge Conner adjourned the inquest until 5 after expressing dissatisfaction with a Lack of medical Evi Dence on the deaths of the two he said he wanted assurances that delays in transporting the children to Hospital by the Winnipeg ambulance service would not have been a Factor in later revival attempts at the on judge Conner had expressed serious reservations about an ambulance delay of 10 minutes in trans porting the children to nearby Concor Dia Seffler fief wheelchair Whiz attorney general Gerry his foot in a wheels through an obstacle course in front of health sciences Mercier was one of several people who guided a wheelchair through the course As part of wheelchair awareness which ends lawyer denied claim by Pamela Fayerman a county court judge yesterday Dis missed a lawyers claim of in fees against a ruling that he had never been judge Coleman also expressed puzzlement that lawyer James Rose had pursued the claim in county court rather than Small claims judge Coleman said Rose failed to prove that he had Ever been retained by Roxann and even if he the judge Rose would Only have been allowed about a Quarter of the alleged debt because of the Small amount of work Rose told the court that he bought Bertrand Sellers Law practice after he died in and took control of All Sellers one of those files was the lawyer claimed that in he was retained by Barr Over the phone to forge ahead with the work for which she had initially retained but Barr denied she Ever retained Rose to act on the which involved the recovery of a violin from James Croft and son the store had apparently lost the woman instrument after she took it in for Barr insisted she had repeatedly asked Rose not to do any work on the but she said the lawyer went ahead and struck a Deal with the store to give her a replacement violin Worth i didst want that i wanted my own Barr i told him just leave its theres nothing you can the lawyer acting for Douglas argued that the onus was upon Rose to prove he was retained and failing More weight should be Given to Barrs he added that with no written proof of a the court should Rule in favor of Graeme chief executive offi cer of the Law society of said in an interview following the Case that the society has no rules requiring a lawyer to get written confirmation of a clients approval in such Circum such proof is Garson Garson said he will request a Tran script of yesterdays proceedings to review the he told me he killed two Bunn trial told woman testifies accused told her he was coming to say goodbye and was going for 20years by Steve Pona a Winnipeg woman testified yester Day that Dennis Clifford accused of murder in the deaths of two women at a Pritchard Avenue told her in december he had killed two people and was going for 20 Shirley Ann who said she was the Mother of bunns told a fireman jury she noticed what appeared to be blood on bunns Arm when he came to her residence at suite 441 Spence on Bunn took her into the Kitchen and told her he was coming to say Good Bye and that he was going for 20 sheepskin he told me he killed two she said Bunn began to cry and she went Over and held sheepskin added that Bunn had had a Little too much to who was testifying during the second Day of bunns court of Queens Bench said she didst believe what the accused had told i thought it was just drunk she was charged with second degree murder after police discovered the bodies of Ida and Phyllis in a three room House at 625 Pritchard Avenue on a pathologist has testified that kit cheeses injuries were consistent with Stab wounds and Kee Sicks with Man Ual sheepskin said Bunn had come to her residence with another Man shortly after 10 on 12 and told her he had been at the mall i thought he had a Little bit of blood on his right around his she under questioning by defence coun Sel Sheldon sheepskin acknowledged she had been on a Drunken Binge earlier that week when she sometimes forgot Pinx suggested Bunn could have said he was afraid police might accuse him of killing two people he didst and sheepskin but she maintained she had Only had one Beer and remembered what he told me in the kit a former cab Driver identified Bunn As the Man he picked up with two native women outside the Occidental hotel just after 6 on he said he drove them to 625 Pritchard Wayne who drove for uni City said the accused tried to Flag him Down at a red he said he waved him off because he had another but returned a Short time Ciszewski said the Trio had two cases of Beer on the court was told Ciszewski could not pick out the accused from among 10 mugshots he had been shown by to Ciszewski said when i seen him in i recognized him right off the Justice Benjamin Hewak noted after Ciszewski identified Bunn in the prisoners Dock that the accused appeared to be the Only native person in the Norman Burr testified he found a beige Wallet under a bedroom Dresser in the Pritchard Avenue the Wallet contained a paper certify ing Bunn As a registered Indian under the Indian act the Birdtail Sioux band Well As a late pass from the salvation army social service dated Bernard Wilgosh has testified he was present when the Wallet was opened and recognized the name As that of a Man picked up and detained earlier that morning following an Inci Dent outside sheepskins Constable Randall Mcconnell told the court he was called to 441 Spence Street at about Midnight and spoke briefly with sheepskin before asking Bunn to Bunn walked away Down he Mcconnell said he was again called to the residence 15 minutes later and found Bunn in the custody of other sheepskin testified Bunn had broken a window at the House and had been arrested and Mcconnell said he didst notice blood on any of bunns clothing the first time he saw but the second Bunn had a Cut on his hand which was bleeding Mcconnell said the Cut was consistent with him having broken a Bunn was treated in Hospital and then lodged in he the trial trustees told busing policy forcing parents to hire taxis miss Blue bomber finalists five finalists in the miss Winnipeg Blue bomber contest tried on Coats yesterday which Are More suited to weather conditions during the they Are left to right Bennetta Karen Cindy Karen and Tracey Winnipeg school divisions new bus ing policy has forced some parents to have their children transported to school by Norma director of the health sciences Centre Day said yesterday parents who drive six kindergarten French immersion Chil Dren to Sacre Coeur school every morning also collectively pay about for a taxi to bring them to the Nursery for the she told Winnipeg school Board this is cheaper than paying for a special trip by the bus firm contracted by the school which she said charges monthly per child Mccormick said the school division policy is especially Tough on working adding that per cent of Manitoba children aged three to six have mothers who work outside the of Tecumseh also said she and other people in her neigh boyhood Send eight no kindergarten children to a private Home on West Gate so they can be picked up by the bus and taken to Sacre Coeur and returned to the West Gate House after she said parents had great difficulty convincing division administrators that the children picked up there rather than at Mulvey which would have meant crossing Busy Sher Brook and Maryland trustees have received Many letters and Telephone Calls from parents angry about the fact they had Only a few Days notice that the Board would no longer be providing Doort door pickup ser vice for the immersion Board chairman Mira Spivak said that while trustees voted last May to abandon Doort door no Deci Sion on an alternative was made until the situation has proved to be a bit More difficult than any of us anticipate but parents have been terrific in accommodating themselves to the Spivak in other the Board voted yesterday to hire a filipino elementary school coordinator on a three month trial basis to serve As an interpreter Between the school and adults who do not speak English pay formula possible by Glen Mackenzie education minister Keith Cosens said yesterday he will ask the provincial Cabinet to discuss the possibility of establishing some formula for school trustees pay but who met yesterday with an eight member residents delegation opposed to Winnipeg school division trustees pay would not say whether he will argue for or against a Cosens also would not say whether the government May use retroactive legislation to overturn the total 51per cent pay raise Winnipeg trustees have voted themselves this but Cosens said any change would require an amendment to the Manitoba Public schools act and cannot be done until the next legislative ses members of City councillors and school trustees set their own but provincial Las raise theirs according to increases in the consumer Price Index and the average Industrial Cosens said that while Las can set a Good no one has to follow Victor a spokesman for the residents told reporters his group will keep the Issue before the Public and encourage people to run for office in the 1983 school Board elec i think at that Point we will have the ultimate last Kuzyk said after the hour Long meeting with ;