Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I r i r 0 Winnipeg free october 1981 3 i respect you approach promoted for arthritic children by Tom Goldstein Linda Elmhurst remembers the Day several years ago when she dressed her tiny daughter to go out and play after the seasons first she recalls her grandmothers horror that she would allot the who suffered from juvenile to play in the she said Shell die out Elmhurst Ken free press i said i have Joan Elmhurst played outside with her older sister that Day and she didst her Mother the Little girl came indoors Rose cheeked and a dozen years is Active in and is president of her schools student she still has clinical psychologist Beth Ziebell told a forum on juvenile arthritis yesterday that Linda Elmhurst did the right thing in letting her daughter play in the Snow despite the disease she has had since of the arthritis foundation and South West arthritis Centre of said children with the disease or any other chronic ailment should be allowed to live As Normal a life As its very easy to feel sorry for a child who she its also very easy and natural for parents to blame themselves for their Childs arthritis when in fact it is not their she a seemingly More callous attitude is beneficial for when the child gets she children use their parents As Mir she if they see helpless and that what they if they see competent and that what they Ziebell said the Best attitude for adults to adopt towards children with arthritis is i respect i dont feel sorry for i believe in your ability to to handle anything that comes she added such a positive approach is doubly important because the child cannot always avoid adults no speeding toward safety Winnipeg police cruisers were moving at High speeds yesterday during a new program to improve skills of officers for emergency the officers drove around pylons and tested their skills in reverse and while it seems the Only thing the police do with their cars was stand up the by Murray Mcneill inexperience and inadequate train ing and safety procedures were among the probable causes of an Industrial Accident in August in which a Young Dominion Bridge employee was a provincial workplace safety and health officer testified William Humiski was testifying at an inquest into the 4 death of Kevin who died after being crushed under a 924kilogram steel after hearing testimony from Humiski and six other Provin Cial court judge Howard Collerman adjourned the inquest to a later Date to hear evidence from five More wit Nesses who were not subpoenaed Ori genially to a Date is expected to be set next during yesterdays judge Collerman was told Minkus had been working at the Dominion steel Plant at 1500 Dublin Avenue for Only about a month when the mishap Ocas part of his duties As a Minkus was on the ground attempting to guide a cart which was being lowered by a Crane on to a set of judge Collerman was two heavy steel beams Lay across a rack built on top of the when the cart touched Down one of the beams then toppled off the cart on to Minkus who was standing to the Side of the judge Collerman was Humiski testified that during his investigation into the he learn railway tracks in the company corned there were no Hooks or safety mechanisms used by the company to secure the beams to the he said several employees also told him the cart Andrack system for mov ing steel beams from one area of the Plant to another had Only been in use for about one they claimed there had been several other mishaps where beams had fallen from the River East to Appeal property tax decision River East school division plans to Appeal a decision denying it a share of property tax Money on two develop ments lying primarily in neighbouring Transcona Springfield school River East Board chairman Allan said yesterday trustees voted unanimously to Appeal a recent ruling by the provincial reference at stake is which is about five per cent of the annual local property from the taxation data Centre and Kildonan place shopping the Boundary Between the divisions ran through the two although about 95 per cent is in Transcona the reference Board ordered recently that the Boundary be moved to reenders putting All the prop erty and All the tax Revenue in Tran Scon Springfield Rouse said his Board does not object to the property being in Transcona but believes on grounds of equity that River East should get a share of the the Appeal will be taken to county As prescribed by he matter How will react with you poor Donalda told the forum that she did not like it when her Mother began to Tell her to do it afflicted when she was the Young woman admitted she preferred it when her Mother coddled her at Reader she realizes her Mother did the right thing by encouraging her to do whatever she could on her Core Agency to help move residents out civic executive policy committee yesterday approved establishment of a residential relocation Agency to move people in the Way of the Logan Industrial part of the million Core area initiative revitalization there Are 110 residents now living on the nine hectare site bounded by Logan and Higgins avenues and Gunnel and Stanley about 268 parcels of land must be mayor Bill Norrie told the committee it is crucial the relocation Agency Start its work now and begin relocating the residents As soon As As proposed in the the future Industrial Park will contain new an Industrial technology training a business service Cen tre and perhaps a work experience offers of compensation must be for warded to landowners in the area with in 120 Days of the registration of the declarations of the owner is eligible to receive payment of about 90 per cent of the offer i Media then May Appeal the1 offer to the provincial land value appraisal com Mission and then to the an owner May take up to six years to submit a counterclaim for compel total shareable costs for acquit management and maintenance Are estimated at the relocation Agency will be located in the area and will consist of a maximum staff of one project two social two aides and two these personnel would prepare a pamphlet for Doort door distribution outlining the Industrial Park the expropriation process and the Relo cation and rehousing programs of then a general Public meeting would be held in the area to explain the program and to introduce the Agency personnel and explain How the Agency Doort door Survey after a Doort door Survey would conducted to assemble information enabling residents to be relocated optimally and of says the project authorization Agency staff would then begin work ing with those most eager to helping them find suitable alternate and this process would continue until All residents Are satisfactorily immediately after the properties Are they will be boarded All services and utilities will be disconnected and All Walls and foundations will be All basements and excavations will then be filled and the site committee urged to Survey workers probable causes for Accident cited inquest told new safety measures adopted after boy crushed by beam but no one was Humiski also testified that the Only safety training new employees received was several hours of generalized classroom plus what Ever they Learned from several Days of ont Ejob he said after completing his investigation he recommended the company introduce a number of new safety Mea the new which have since been adopted by the included installing hooking devices to secure beams to the and providing a More i depth training program for new Humiski said the company has also installed a new device for lowering the carts on to the the new device makes it easier to lower a cart directly onto the and makes it impossible for a Slinger to stand at the Side of a cart As it is being judge Collerman was told that Al though Minkus had been never to stand to the Side of a cart As it was being he and other slingers had been known to disobey the Rule because they Felt it was easier to guide a cart from the Side than from the where they were supposed to before the City can operate an equal employment Opportunity Ine qualities in the civic service must be coun Helen Promislow told executive policy committee yester but committee took no action on her request for to Send out questionnaires to civic employees to determine How Many Are handicapped and nonwhite pending a report from the Board of the which would be answered was suggested As one Way of getting around fair employment practices legislation which forbids an employer to ask about ethnic origin or physical very searching Promislow said the questionnaire was very an eight Page document including queries on marital number of first cultural Dis Abili Structure of work environment and jobs held with the chief commissioner Nick Diakiw told the committee the requested funds Are having been transferred tuesday from other Promislow also said that if Council wants to pursue the the position of program coordinator must be posted because an interim coordinator seconded from the City health department will be taken Back aside from these mechanical aspects of the the City should bulletin civic service jobs in areas frequented by the disadvantaged in Promislow she said general data show women comprise 20 per cent of the City work compared to per there is Only one woman in the top 73 management positions in the median salary for 40 per cent of the civic service women was a week compared to biweekly for 50 per cent of male she such matters can be rectified Only if positive action is taken to implement the cites stated equal employment Opportunity she pest control Van robbed of rat Poison Winnipeg police Are searching for More than 45 kilograms of animal Poison stolen from a Van wednesday night or yesterday a police spokesman said yesterday kilograms of a rat was stolen Between 9 wednesday and 8 yesterday from a pest control organization services Van parked at an apartment Block at 1245 Grant the Poison is m Fourby four Inch pouches and is marked he the Box also is marked he also taken was 20 kilograms of Avi Tro treated Corn kernels used As a Pigeon these were in the same Type of he As the spokesman said kilo Grams of in a 9by9bysix tee Inch Metal Container marked was also the spokesman said the Poison could kill a person who swallows malpractice Board proposed to hear complaints a malpractice Board should be set up to handle patient complaints and spare the reputations of doctors which Are sometimes unjustifiably ruined by civil says an Ontario physician and David who practises both Medicine and Law in said the Board would decide whether a physician was guilty of malpractice if make an award to the funding would come from the provincial health services commis Marshall told a session at the Mani Toba health organizations annual meeting yesterday that such a body similar to a compensation Board would protect the reputation of the otherwise capable doctor who makes a rare malpractice action is often like shooting a mouse with an elephant gun because it is capable of wiping a doctor he a malpractice Board would also Clear up the conspiracy of silence which exists when one doctor is called upon to testify against another in a negligence an alternative to civil the malpractice Board is present in some but has yet to be adopted in although a patient who believes he has been wronged by a healthcare professional has a number of options for Marshall said the instruments Are still too they dont take into account the Little Guy with the Little he noting that a patient who is forced to wait four hours for his doctor can hardly launch a Legal Marshall said the civil court is one of a number of ways in which the balance of Power is maintained Between the healthcare worker and the because any treatment is technically considered an the healthcare worker must have his patients con Marshall said he suspects that Many consents Are improperly obtained either the patient Doest ask about what Hes signing or the harried doctor Doest have time to a common abuse of consent is seen in some Canadian hospitals which require a woman undergoing amniocentesis to sign a form saying she will have an abortion if the fetus is found to be for a woman to consent to an abortion ahead of said mar is an abuse of common he noted a patient cannot be Exa mined without his citing a landmark British court Case where an alleged Bank robber was said to have been shot at the scene of the the Crown wanted to submit the Man to an operation to retrieve the Bullet so it could be matched to the the accused his Choice was upheld by the court and he was acquitted of the robbery fifty per cent of malpractice suits Are based on consent while the other half Are questions of mar shall said the Law penalties the health care professional for but not for bad results or mistaken judg if a patient reacts badly to a the doctor is not responsible for the results Only for his ;