Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba My i m to i Pfilf m s3 Winnipeg free october 1981 3 Cliff Ducharme connects the life support system of his to a dry cell Battery for the flight to user 1st for air Canada by Ron Campbell it was a first for Theresa do air Canada and the disabled yesterday when Vancouver bound flight 241 took off at from Winnipeg International of be came the first person requiring an inboard life support system to Fly As a regular passenger on an air Canada a and her were taking the three hour flight for a first Ever visit to her Brothers West coast it was the end of a two month wait for Ducharme and the culmination of efforts by engineers in Montreal to devise a special Respirator for her during the an air Canada doctor accompanied her on the flight to ensure that All worked though the airline often carries quadriplegic it is the first time for one needing a life support said Tony air Canadas Public relations chief in if All goes More such on Board life support systems will be built to meet he the system fits under a seat and can be installed aboard any of air Canadas he adding that future passengers like Ducharme May be Able to Fly on As Little As a weeks Schoen said the passenger must first have clearance to Fly from his or her the airlines own medical personnel need assurances that the disabled passenger can Fly and that there would be no danger in an future ticket applications from people needing life support systems aboard will be met on a Caseb Case Schoen said the extra expense incurred by her trip will Cost Ducharme she is paying the Normal Economy fare and sitting in a Normal Economy he said the Case required Clear Ance from Montreal head office be cause of the complications do Charmes request not because it involved a policy Maureen a Public awareness and research officer for the Handi capped consumer awareness project of the Manitoba league of the physically praised air can Adas she said the airline was quite open to the problems of the disabled at an August seminar for Winnipeg based flight attendants on the needs of handicapped by Pamela Fayerman a Man who led three police cruisers on a Chase through residential streets at speeds up Kilometres per hour was sent to jail for nine months yester Day by a judge who called him selfish and Donald Wayne was spotted by two policemen fish ailing his car on a downtown Street shortly after mid night april provincial court was As one of the officers stepped out of his Cruiser to approach the he off running 23 Stop forcing vehicles and pedestrians to get out of his path five and eluding police roadblocks three provincial court judge Frank commenting on the facts of the Case and funks previous driving record which consists of at least 10 serious charges since said Funk was a danger to the Public and deserved to be sent to referring to the fact Funk began attending alcoholics Anonymous meet Ings two weeks judge Allen said it proves he has Only recently recognized his if youre serious about you can do it in judge Allen told the sealed off for Winter the University of Manitoba Archeo logical dig in Bonnycastle Park will be sealed off and protected for the Winter civic executive policy committee was told environment commissioner Dave Henderson told committee the University has agreed to cover artefacts and structures so far unearthed with Plas tic the dig itself will be protected by sturdy planks and Snow fencing is to be erected around the site until re sumption of work in the Hen Derson the information came As part of a k Winni Plo Trcic press Progress report the committee had re Quested from chief commissioner Nick u of m anthropologists this summer discovered part of a Handhen log Structure below and outside the Walls of the 1835 upper fort Garry near main Street and Assin Boirie the newly discovered artefacts could be some of the most significant finds relating to Early Manitoba according to Gregory a director of the the cites historic projects coordinator will soon meet with monks to review a detailed University report on the staffing and funding of the committee was told the University has obtained insurance coverage for the project Crews and anyone who might wander onto the site and be but Henderson assured councillors it would be almost impossible for people to reach the excavation site during the really have to try and make an Effort to get across the Snow Fence and onto the site once the area is secured for the Winter he so knocks deficit Down machine in addition to the jail judge Allen also ordered that Funk be put on supervised probation for two abstain from alcohol and obey his life time driving shut off headlights Crown counsel Marvin Stern said the Chase covered four Kilometres of City streets in nine on the Arling ton Street Funk pulled into the oncoming traffic Lane and passed five in the North end of the he shut off his headlights and drove Down Back lanes to avoid when a police Cruiser was used for a Roadblock on Huron Funk drove around it onto the shortly after that he smashed into another when police spoke to he said he thought he was sober enough to Dri of i should have asked someone to pick me of i really blew he Stern said that at the time of the Funk was Only holding a conditional Drivers he said his past record includes two careless driving convictions and four speeding convict the Winnipeg symphony orchestras deficit was Cut to by the end of its fiscal year june but it int out of the financial Woods its annual general membership meeting was warned last although the so must be pleased and encouraged with the fact that Over million was raised during the last fiscal year in an Effort to substantially reduce the accumulated we must be cautioned by the fact that such funds Are not available on an annual so treasurer Murray Hilton told the meeting at Centennial concert the which started its 198081 fiscal year with a accumulated had once projected it could climb to million by the year 1 although the net loss shown at june 30 was the orchestras special deficit retirement Campaign reduced it to although we Are not Clear of our financial problems we Are much closer to being Clear than we were a year said Hilton Box office take Board president William Draper said fiscal responsibility and growing Volun Teer support gives us Confidence to be but the past has proven that we must be both deliberative and bold As the financial statement for a 13 month period to june 30 is changing its year end to june 30 from june 1 that the orchestra paid Only slightly More than on third of its expenses with revenues from its with a resulting million deficit on the basis of perform revenues from concerts totalled the 1980 Box office take of its performance expenses were slightly More than losses were largely covered by 258 in its Casino opera Tion and Grants from the Winnipeg along with in Grants from the Canada the Manitoba arts Council and the City of executive director Jack Mills said at the beginning of the season audiences were diminishing with frightening the orchestras interim Board of appointed by the provincial government in when the sos Board resigned and the orches tra was on the verge of last month said the orchestra must turn to popular music to win Back its Audi but the idea was rejected by both Draper and who maintain that the so is a classical not a Boston at the time of the resignation of the music director Piero Gamba resigned and Hast been the sos officers will be elected at the next Board it is considered unlikely that officers will be since they have held office Only since when they took Over from the interim Board of Trust Square changes studied Winnipeg executive policy commit tee has endorsed a recommendation to have the cites environment commissioner administer the design of Booths in old Market currently there is an absence of regulations relative to the Quality of construction of vending Booths erected in the the report due to this Lack of Booths Are generally of Low Quality in both design and in policy committee has recommended that the site of the for Mer Bijou theatre be included in old Market Square until the City finds another use for if the recommendations Are approved by the civic Board of commissioners will be instructed to prepare a separate budget to maintain the old Market Square Park and areas redeveloped under the squares Street scaling in the association agreed to pay the City at per cent inter est Over a 10year period for use of the the agreement was amended last year so payments would begin june last the association paid the City covering the period from june 1980 to no further payments were leaving the association in on april the association wrote the finance committee asking that its pay ment schedule be changed to Corre Spond with its a new 10year payment agreement has since been City examining bimonthly Billing the cites administration is examining the possibility of mailing Utility Bills once every two months instead of monthly in an Effort to reduce the Impact of proposed postal rate in other alternatives being considered Are group Billing and private delivery works and operations commissioner Bill Finnbogason will submit a report on the feasibility of the various meth ods to the committee at its next meet the Hydro and waterworks utilities currently spend about a year on mailing that figure is expected to double if the proposed postal increases Are Pickerel swimming Down red after growing in storm Ponds fisheries biologists pull in net to Harvest Pickerel raised in City storm water retention about Pickerel Are swimming Down the red River after a summer Long sojourn in two City storm water retention the reservoirs were converted this Spring to fish farms in a successful Experiment that May Lead to increased Booty for Manitoba said Scott a research scientist with the Federal Freshwater inst about Pickerel Fry from a provincial hatchery near Lake Winnipeg Sis were deposited May 20 in the two located at Bishop Grandin Bou Levard Between marys Road and River Harvest begins a group of biologists dropped nets in the on hectare Ponds and began harvesting the Pickerel or Walleye which had grown to 10totwelve centimetre he said it was necessary to reap the seasons yield before Winter set in and depleted the Ponds oxygen preliminary counts of the catch indicated a 50to60 per cent survival which is extremely High if you figure there is a 99 per cent mortality rate when they Hatch in the Camp Bell the Harvest was released in the red River at the boat ramp in vital Wayne free phes8 Pickerel fingerlings Are ready to be put into the red Park from where they would probably head North As far As Lockport and the scientist said in an inter it will be about three years before the Pickerel Are ready for fishermens1 nets while they have a better than Normal Chance of Many will be preyed on by larger fish before they he Campbell said he didst know if the new crop was a significant boost to the Pickerel but its better than putting Fry in the Manitoba Pickerel Are not in any but the population is some of our Prairie stocks Are just hanging said it is the first time in Canada that artificial Ponds were used to rear fish and the study Success could result in the use of similar reservoirs across the country for controlled fish product he researchers we rent certain the project would work or that the survival rate would be so Campbell we Learned a enough to Tell us How to construct and manage our own rearing he ;