Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local houses passing Gas test by Sheilla bean most Manitoba Homes insulated with urea formaldehyde foam and tested by the provincial government do not have unsafe Levels of formaldehyde a provincial spokesman Adrian head of the Insu lation testing program for the Provin Cial environment said 25 per cent of the 600 or 700 Homes tested have formaldehyde Gas but they Are not at dangerous very few Homes have a prob he a level is the level at which 95 per cent of the population does not have an Adverse this level has not been determined in Canada because the problem is so new and because people react differently to the in he the Safe level in Many Europe an such As is parts per test backlog Jackson has a team of seven people who carry out the by Early they will have tested about but Jackson said he has a backlog of about 400 phone Calls from people who want their Homes the surveyors use the Drager Multi Gas Detector to track Down formaldehyde the Drager is a handheld pump with a Glass tube con Taining the Surveyor Breaks the tube close to the insulated perhaps near an electrical the formaldehyde which is slightly heavier than comes Down the Wall and is sucked into the the Drager can detect a level of parts per Jackson said if the Drager Regis ters a level of parts per million at a floor level electrical then the Surveyor can assume the air in the Middle of the room ambient has a level less than parts per a dilution Factor of exists Between the electrical outlet and the ambient there have been Only a few Homes with ambient air of or he Jackson said he thinks this is a fairly accurate solutions sought dont crawl around the floor sniffing at electrical he another the Cea 555 air has been used in 50 it is More sophisticated than the Drager and can detect a level of parts per the National research Council is contracting about 20 companies to re search solutions to the insulation prob at a total Cost of Clark Lowrey is director of the arc information and coordination which was set up especially to Deal with urea formaldehyde foam in he said a contract with a Winni Peg company will be confirmed within two but the negotiations Are being kept some of the companies Are look ing into neutralizing the foam while still in place and some Are looking into chemically vaporizing the but we dont want to go around raising unnecessary High he theres nothing too terribly exciting at the Gerry free press Winnipeg free october 1981 3 Jim free press its lonely at the top Pete Herbert of Herbert standing on scaffolding in the repair Job done by his the Job including chemical cleaning Rotunda of the legislative inspects the painting and of Limestone pillars stained by roof leaks Allman House am by Pamela Fayerman former City councillor Eldon Ross testified yesterday a House owned by Winnipeg lawyer David Pearlman which was rented out in 1977 to welfare recipients was one of the worst in the Brooklands area and deserved to be de a City councillor from 1971 to made the comments Dur trial told ing the defamation trial resulting from Pearl mans suit against the Pearlman claims a Csc radio Broad cast on March defamed him by referring to him As a slum landlord who had no principles or con Ross said when he was first elected he realized that Brooklands was a forgotten area suffering from rapid deterioration in he said he received dozens of complaints from citizens about the property Pearlman owned at 11 Tentler Ross said he never viewed the Interi or of the but did drive by it often and added that neighbors were complaining about the untidiness of the exterior of the Ross said attended a Community committee meeting in at which it was decided to give Pearl Man 90 Days to rectify the condition of the houses Interior and As the welfare department was instructed to get the tenants out immediately because Ross Felt the faulty wiring in the Home could cause a i get very annoyed when i see these conditions in our particularly when no action is i asked a welfare officer to remove the tenants w i u n Vicin c la Iii ivc City takes count of unheated Homes the cites department is try ing to determine the number of Homes which Are currently unheated because Gas Bills have gone Ron Winnipeg social ser vices said yesterday his department is in the initial stages of compiling the information and will report shortly to City officials and greater Winnipeg Gas although he refused to provide Fig Hooper said an allegation that 700 Winnipeg families have been without heat since the Spring is exaggerate the claim was made monday night by Anna a financial counsellor for the Community consumer credit counselling at the organizations annual Woods said yesterday she had been told by a social worker that a list of 700 or 800 people living in unheated premises had been turned Over to the City welfare department last she said she had 20 or 30 some of whom Are not welfare living without she said she was trying to remedy the situation with some Peter spokesman for greater Winnipeg also disputed the figure of saying it Likely was several weeks the number is quite a bit less than Goodz adding he could not be More is that there com 20 or 30 a he the reason ing Back on at the City and Gas company have an agreement that the welfare depart ment will be informed whenever the company plans to Cut service to a customer for nonpayment even if the family does not receive social Assis the department then investigates to determine Why the Bill was unpaid and to ensure no undue hard ship is Transcona Spring Field wins Boundary fight fort Fin no a n1 j i Transcona Springfield school Divi Sion has won its Boundary dispute with River East plus the annual Cash prize that goes with Charles provincial reference Board said yesterday the Board has ruled that All the property tax Revenue from the Kildonan place shopping Centre and the Federal Taxa Tion data Centre should go to Tran Scon Springfield the Boundary line ran through both although about 95 per cent of the property lies within the Board ordered the line moved to reenders thereby putting both properties entirely in Transcona Springfield Board Secretary from 1967 to 1971 and since said this is the first Case he knows of where the Board has had to decide Between two divisions sharing major the Only similar Case he recalled occurred in the when the Board ordered a former school District North of Rose do Lac divided geographically and its assets split Between Duck Mountain and Turtle River Transcona trustee George Marshall said in an interview yesterday the Board of reference must decide a Simi Lar Case Between Transcona Spring Field and Boniface but Transcona will be consistent and will not oppose Boniface having total jurisdiction and All the tax reve nue because 75 per cent of the property in question is in Boniface he Todd Transcona Spring Field said the property in question is the All fab building components operation at 1755 Dugald Road and that Transcona Springfield stands to lose about a year in tax immediately so that if anything Hap it rest on my con science As an elected Ross said he was sued twice by but neither of the suits have been in both of the state ments of claim filed As Pearl Man accused Ross and other City officials of attempting to fake and contrive an Issue in order to justify demolishing the in other Peter Carlyle the freelance journalist who researched the Csc series on substandard housing which is the focus of the said that during the course of his interviews with City he Learned that Pearlman had a reputation of being difficult and Carlyle Gorge said Pearlman intimidated officials with the threat of after the March 7 Pearl Man went to the Csc to give notice of his intention to sue for defamation and to listen to a tape of the Carlyle Gorge said Pearlman was and grossly abusive when he met him and seemed to have an idea that we were persecuting Pearl mans Wilf de asked Carlyle Gorge if Pearl mans emotional state surprised him in Light of the fact he had just been called a slum i suppose if the facts were i would understand his being but i was convinced we were on firm he All i can say then is i Hope that it never happens to de Graves Manitoba medical researchers Hurt by Lack of my says preparing for Winter Winter is rapidly approaching and inhabitants of Winnipeg have their own ways of this Squirrel on a tree near government House is Busy feasting on by Joe Rubin the expertise exists in Manitoba to fertilize test tube but funding to research such projects is says the University of Manitoba medical schools head of obstetrics and gyn Ecol addressing a lecture sponsored by the canadians for health John Tyson said a fixed percentage of Manitoba healthcare budget should be dedicated to medical re search and he called for More imagination and innovation in the Way re search is also chief of obstetrics and gynaecology at the health sciences said per cent of the healthcare budget is earmarked for in the fed eral government funds research on a per capita As a 87 per cent of the million awarded in 198081 by the medi Cal research Council to obstetrics and gynaecology work was spent East of the Ontario Manitoba because of per capita Tyson a number of his colleagues will wait several years before their projects Are to fund on a per capita he is to miss the we Are missing the Challenge to do Quality because the generation time Between research and clinical application is about six governments Are sometimes impatient about funding scientific Tyson said medical research has been shown to improve the Quality of health care and the opportunities for such work Are unlimited in Manito for he the expertise currently exists in the province to perform in Vitro the pro of Medure which led to the birth test tube baby Louise Tyson estimated that Between 000 and is required to do the necessary preliminary experimentation compared with about million for research which Lead to the first such to encourage research locally would prompt cottage industries and result in revenues which could in turn be ploughed Back into the Tyson Lay workers May get pay the Catholic health conference of Manitoba is investigating the possibility of reimbursing individuals who pro vide spiritual help to patients in Hospi the conference voted at its annual meeting yesterday to look into compensating Lay healthcare workers if there is a Large demand for an organization composed of 18 healthcare institutions and about 70 personal the conference is devoted to maintaining the Christian healthcare philosophy in the chums meeting was held in conjunction with the Manitoba health organizations 13th annual conference which begins about health care workers from the provinces hos personal care Homes and Community health centres Are expected to attended the conference which has As its theme enabling the keynote speakers include sister Thomas More professor of history at Silver Lake College in wis who will speak on ways to Cope with loneliness Jeffrey director of a program for children with development who will describe the Community based program for autistic children and Evelyn of the University of Manitoba department of social and preventative who will speak on the limitations encountered by those who exercise ;