Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Woman on Road gather names postal protest by Penni Mitchell Adair Conlon has been on the Road a lot Ever since the Post office announced its plans to increase the Price of a firs class letter to 30 the Sioux Lookout woman and her two children have been driving the family Blue Van around Northwestern Ontario encouraging people to sign a protest Peti pc spill cleanup under Way cleanup of a poly chlorinated biphenyl spill from an explosion at Manitoba Hydro Radisson converter station is expected to be completed by the end of the a Hydro spokesman said Don Comstock said estimated dam Ages of were caused by the explosion thursday which resulted in leakage of about 36 Gallons of Environ mentally dangerous pc coolant from one of the Gillam stations six Capaci the explosion occurred in the stations switching Yard which is built on a Landfill the chemical soaked into the Sand base which covers the Comstock said the top 15 centimetres of Sand in the spill area will be collect sealed in barrels and taken to Winnipeg for the polluted Sand will then be Send to a dump site in a government environmental officer is on the site supervising the Comstock said he Doest expect the spill will pose any Hazard to the Public because the Yard is fenced and the station is located in a pretty Remote area on the outskirts of station supervisor Cliff Turner has estimated it will take two weeks to repair the damaged Conlon usually Parks along the Side of a Highway or at the Sioux Lookout Post office and Waits for people to notice the signs on the Side of her when they they usually come Over to sign the but occasion ally Conlon tries to stir up attention on one such she visited dry Den and drove through town honking her a police officer pulled her Over and asked her to Stop but before she was on her the officer had signed the another time she and the kids stopped a great lakes bus and con Vinced everyone on including the bus to who plans to bring her petition to feels taxpayers will be paying the Price for inflation if the 30cent stamp becomes a reality while our government legislators Are arguing Over the legality of the Constitution and ignoring the eve rising costs in our Why should we pay the increased Price of the stamp to thirty cents because the Post office lost funds due to lengthy strikes she suggests 23 cents Conlon says a reasonable rate for a firs class stamp would be Compa Rable to a recent increase in the an 85percent Conlon is Way too a Days work for Conlon is 50 Signa people have suggested she take More Radical measures than circulating a but Conlon Hopes the petition will be enough to make the govern ment Stop and i dont intend to be a she id like other people to do the same although gasoline expenses for con ions crusade Are Shes determined to solicit support for her cause until when the new not yet approved by the Federal govern take but Conlon int taking any ill keep doing it with whatever Means we she sted Union official accuses cupe brass the former head of a Canadian Union of Public employees local in Toronto is accusing the National organization of antiunion activities and intends to make his Case known to delegates at the annual convention beginning in Winnipeg Don former president of local 767 comprising Ontario housing corporation says cupe is guilty of unbelievable intrusion into the internal affairs of an affiliate Trade Roach said he and a number of other local officials were ousted by cupe after the local was placed in a form of trusteeship three years officials were accused of improper management of but an ramp and taxation department investigation turned up no evidence of he the National organization has been harassing and obstructing the Toron to based local Ever since it decided to organize housing workers in other on Tario centres in the Early Roach he said the National office saw this As a threat to its and opposed the locals but Cupes Ontario regional said Roach was ousted by his own membership who asked the National office to step he said a civil suit is currently pending against Roach and a number of former local officers concerning their handling of Roach actions pose no serious con Cern to convention he Good Medicine Winnipeg free october 1981 3 Ken free press blurring of values lamented social change has blurred the Boun Daries of right and says an american it used to be that the like was always said Harriet but the so Cial compact which clearly established right and wrong has been she a san Francisco area teacher who lectures widely on was in Winnipeg for a discipline conference sponsored by the Boniface teach ers interviewed after the Burt said polls have consistently found the Public ranks discipline the 1 problem in roman a Windsor Park collegiate said Boniface teachers also consistently rate discipline and motivation their two most important students have re placed the biblical Golden Rule with rip them off before they rip you he Clear consequences Burt said proper discipline requires Clear Clear consequences for Vio lations and Clear rewards for Good but she also said each school must decide what rules Are Cul Ture and values differ from place to place so the same rules dont apply to All she Many parents have turned to private schools As an answer to the discipline problem in Public Burt said private school teachers also complain about discipline but the problem int As severe As in Public Only 24 per cent of schoolchildren come from families where one person works and the other stays Home full said As surveys say up to 48 per cent of students come from single Parent Odwazny said a 1960 study found students ranked teachers and friends As the most important influences in their but a 1980 study found that teachers followed parents and television in he said in an inter id Eanna panting a student at Grant Park High works out with 15 other members of the he said the fact students have 1 Akus 1 rack club at Kildonan Park the club works out six times a week at various watched five years of television before outdoor weather the Medicine Ball is used for starting school forces teachers to be come Duncam a woman who offered a re Ward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her daughters killer says there Doest appear to be any reason to continue offering the the Reward into the 1975 killing of Donna Hale was put up six months ago and expired at Midnight cannons who has requested said yesterday the killer is probably out of the country by she is going to ask police if she should continue to offer the police said the Reward stirred up some we got a few but when we checked things out nothing Ever materialized one Way or the Connon was found bludgeoned to death in the Bathtub of her Home at 14 Blue Spruce Crescent on she died of severe brain damage after being struck on the head several times with a Queens answer awaited officials in Brandon expect to learn this week if the Queen will come to open the annual Royal Manitoba update a weekly followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free Winter fair next fair general manager Harvey car Roll said officials have received a letter telling them their invitation will be answered this the City and fair jointly invited the Queen in i dont know How you put pressure on to Speed up the Carroll he said that while he would love to see the Queen any member of the Royal family would be the fair will take place from March 29 to april next year Marks the Centennial for both the City of Brandon and the via report due by 25 the Federal progressive conserva Tive committee on via rail cutbacks expects to have its report ready by Sinclair member of Parlia ment for Yor Peel and his party Trade and Commerce said the Liberal governments planned cuts Are scheduled to take effect in the conservatives want to make sure their report is ready before he said in a Telephone interview from the five member pc committee held Public meetings throughout Canada from 12 to 29 after transport minister Jeanluc Pepin announced that several via rail routes would be the Canadian transport commission had ordered the routes be maintained because the commission found them to be in the Public but Pepin said the government has the Legal authority to ignore and Over ride commission Bill new democratic party for Winnipeg Birds charged that the conservatives were hypocritical in holding the hearings because they planned to make cuts when they were in Power in but Stevens said that charge was based on a study dated which had been initiated by the Previ Ous Liberal the conservatives formed the government after the Federal Legal action considered a Winnipeg Nursery school operator is contemplating Legal action against the Winnipeg school Nancy who runs the learning tree Nursery in sir Sam Steele had intended to Start a private school for kindergarten to Grade 6 there in Dyck did not sign a lease for the space but said she believed it was Dave executive assistant to the Winnipeg Divi Sion said the division had committed itself to continued operation of its adult education program in part of the Dyck said negotiations Between her and the division Are still going she estimates her expenses for Legal and consulting Advertis ing for teachers and other expenses have totalled about Dyck said she currently pays a month to rent two rooms for her Nur Sery school at sir Sam she operated there last but the year before used space at Sherwood Assembly of a pentecostal Church on Talbot team deals with Rise in suspected cases of child abuse Jim free press team probing child abuse meets at childrens they Are from left coordinator Betty social worker Bob police Marshall Chiborek and Richard by Maureen Brosnahan childrens Hospital Winnipeg has been dealing with at least one Case of suspected child abuse or severe neglect a Day since mid August when a full time coordinator was appointed to handle Suph Betty the new coordinator and the Only staff member of the health sciences Centre to be assigned to Deal with child abuse on a full time said there have been 47 cases referred to her since these have come from teachers and school guidance police and other childcare some have come into the Hospital for other reasons and have been referred to Currie for further these were not All abuse cases but they Are All children in need of protect said Ken director of the child development clinic at the Hospital and who has been involved in child abuse cases for All were neglect at a of the 47 10 were sexual abuse and 37 were approximately half the cases involved males and 32 of the children were older than two this is a new said Jeanne kurd of the child development until Many of the abuse and neglect cases being seen at the Hospital had involved she were not trying to say theres been a massive increase in child abuse and but As the professions begin to get their act were seeing he kurd said its impossible to Tell if the cases represent an increase since its the first time the Hospital has made a concerted Effort to keep track of the children that Are coming into the hos and handling the cases by using a multidisciplinary team made up of a a police a social worker and a worker from the Chil Drens Aid new system unlike the old one person is not responsible for All the she under the new protocol devised in the a Small team will handle the Case starting almost immediately after it is curries role is to set up an examination of the child by one of seven paediatricians and then have a social worker interview the child and the within 48 All of the including the police and the childrens Aid have completed an initial assessment of the Currie and the team of four professionals then sit Down to discuss further in some charges May be Laid and the child May be taken into custody by the childrens Aid so under the old system there want any consistent Way of catching said Rob a medical social worker at childrens Hospital who spends about 80 per cent of his time dealing with child abuse and neglect in the some cases were channelled Only through the childrens Aid society or the Hospital and there was Little official coordination among the various this meant that some repeated child abusers were Able to slip through the it got to be sort of hit and miss at Richardson it relied largely on the memories of the individuals now if its a repeating Case we have More coordination now things Are More by our presence Well indicate to people that were not just in there to screw up families and take kids Richardson said As the medical and social childcare workers become or judges and lawyers must also learn More about child abuse and the effects it has on he said its frustrating to try and explain to the Legal profession the medical and emotional dangers of cer Tain situations Only to find they thrust a child Back into the same situation with Little Assurance that things will in ;