Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 10, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Be fifty free press Winnipeg free november 1981 3 r mothers and children Pound the outside James Assiniboia Board crowd protests school closing children descend on Board in bid to spare Columbus from axe by Glen Mackenzie about 100 Columbus school parents and children demonstrated outside the James Assiniboia school division office yesterday to protest a Board decision to close the school in Shona Davidson of Kilmer Avenue said residents were reluctant to pull children from school for half a weve tried everything else we want the school Board to listen to rented buses who rented two buses to transport have repeatedly taken their Case to the school but you May As Well have presented it to the Davidson the Board voted in july to close Columbus next despite the recommendation of a committee of Par and school division representatives that it should not be closed until about 10 students held up a sign yesterday which read parents for better education want total area Columbus is to be consolidated with Robert Browning but parents want a review of the entire Westwood not just these two current enrolment at Columbus is 151 but this is projected to drop to about 80 within the next five division superintendent George said maintaining the two schools As they would Cost an extra a year by 1985 unless the division combines grades in the same reducing education Quali requiring students to walk an extra half mile to Robert Browning pre serves Quality education without in creasing Buchholz he said if the division maintained classes of 15 or less students at equity would demand the same student teacher ratio throughout the this would boost tax Bills by 10 to 20 he student teacher ratio the divisions Overall student teach or ratio is to counting Princi pals As but the Columbus ratio is to Buchholz Ron Benson of Connor place said parents accept that enrolment is de but believe the Board should have looked for alternatives to closing the Wendell a Columbus Parent who resigned from the area review committee after the boards said six months int Long enough to look at officer accused of urging witness to drop accusations v by Pamela Fayerman an 18ryearold Man testified yester Day that a Winnipeg police offered to buy him a motorcycle if he withdrew accusations of sexual relations before the officers trial on charges of Gross indecency i have admit it was sort of Hans John Taenzer Testi fied at the trial of James Norman an officer for 17 years and former president of the Winnipeg police two counts was suspended from the Force without pay after he was arrested March 11 and charged with two counts of Gross the charges Stem from events Between and March 11 of this who was 17 when the alleged occurrences took said that prior to a june preliminary hearing in and on numerous occasions right up until last Hanson pleaded with him to change his statement police because he was afraid of losing his family and who admitted failing an employment examination with the police department last said he was going to Bow to Hanson request until his Mother convinced him to hold Taenzer said Hanson arranged a meeting with the Law firm of Mccreedy so that he could talk to a lawyer about changing his police state he said Hanson wanted him to say that rags containing semen found underneath the officers car were actually from an encounter Taenzer had a female while using Hanson but he said he didst change his statement because his Mother disco Vered the letters and warned him he would be charged with perjury if he changed his 10 to 15 encounters the witness said the Law firm didst Bill him for the sessions because Hanson had arranged to pay for Taenzer said that during the period when he had Between 10 and 15 sexual encounters with he was Al Lowed to use the officers car to go to parties and borrowed about from under Cross examination by defence lawyer Al Taenzer said he had taken Hanson police association membership card from the car and kept it in his Wallet until his Mother discovered he also admitted using Hanson wife Gas credit cards on excursions with the officers Taenzer said he had asked to borrow Money from Hanson at numerous meetings with him last but the Constable repeatedly demanded that he withdraw his police Taenzer said he agreed to this on some but refused on Taenzer said he finally decided last week to stick to his statement because i didst want to go to jail for some thing he Hanson Taenzer said he met Hanson in through a he said Hanson later found out he had tried to commit and phoned to invite him out for a hamburger to discuss his after instead of taking Taenzer to his fathers Hanson took him to the flood Way where he masturbated and performed Fella Taenzer James free press under Taenzer conceded that his memory is foggy on some of the details of his encounters with he said it is possible his memory has been affected by Mari Juana Taenzer denied telling a friend7dur ing a discussion about his aspirations to become a police that he had a perfect in with the police depart ment As result of his accusations against Taenzer said he didst Tell his psychiatrist about his encounters with Hanson because he was scared and but Mcgregor scoffed at Here you were scared and but not too scared to ask for i suggest because Money was More important than your Mcgregor the trial before county court judge George Lockwood continues we were starting to ask intelligent but needed More time to find he Buchholz said an area review com Mittee is considering the conversion of James collegiate to handle grades 9 to 12 or grades 7 to 12 because academic enrolment now at is projected to drop below 300 by he said another area review com Mittee is looking at consolidating Charles school with Buchanan school because Charles is old and enrol ment at two blocks is falling the division has 22 elementary schools with an enrolment of about this compares with in 1972 and a projected enrolment of by Buchholz school Board chairman George Eakin said no action will be taken against parents or children for the missed half but i think there using the children As pawns in the he the Board faces a prob Lem with parents on another Trudy chairman of the Allard school parents said parental pressure delayed a Board motion which would have created a French immersion program at their school without consulting at a meeting last the Board apologized to Allard school parents for failing to consult with them before the education committee recommended an immersion program be established Sac vie said the majority of parents Arent but wanted to know what the Board intended to she said trustees rejected Columbus As a possible immersion school be cause it is open area and a regular school is needed for Eakin said the matter was left with the Parent if the Council opposes the program being established the Board will look for an alter Nate he she said parents dont object to but want information about How the program will be implemented and a guarantee that the English pro Gram will City orderly service hit by patients by Joe Rubin a handicapped woman served by a provincially subsidized orderly service says she has had to summon police and go to City hospitals because company employees have been late in arriving to assist her to the Theresa Ducharme and other Home care patients told a news conference yesterday that employees of Home orderly services limited miss some Are routinely late for others and Are often inadequately trained to Han dle handicapped describing the news conference As a publicity stunt for the Home orderly services limited manager Bill Watson said complaints about his ser vice Are Only two or three clients have Ever he provincial auditor William Ziprick is investigating the service in response to allegations by nip health critic Wil son Parasiuk that it billed the health department for Calls it haunt Parasiuk charged that the government does not Monitor the which has a monopoly on the service has staff of 16 the orderly service has a staff of 16 who help clients in and out of assist them to the washroom and at tend to other duties during the regular Calls Are arranged a Day in with some of the 300 patients served receiving help up to eight times a the charge per Call is paid by the who alerted Parasiuk to the said double Billing is often required because of poor office management resulting in two orderlies showing up at the same both get paid where Only one gets the she Elizabeth another disputed Watsons Contention that requiring patients to sign a form when a Call is made would not ensure Correct Bill Ings since some patients Are unable to sign their that is very strange since Home makers of continuing care services Are All required to have their work sheets signed by the very same people who use the orderly she needs lots of water a quadriplegic with a kidney condition requiring her to drink three litres of water said she has had to go to the health sciences Centre several times pass urine because orderlies did not come when they were individuals mostly complain to the and from what those gentle men Tell there Are Many con Semkiw the volume of complaints cannot be High because the Consumers of Home care Are totally dependent on that and have no where else to go for Semkiw said orderlies have brought trainees into her Home without her More than one orderly has told me that the office of Home orderly service has never instructed them to ask permission before bringing trainees into she one orderly told me that he was Given Only one morning of ont Ejob training and i use that word Loose then had to work with the clients on his she Watson would not give details about what requirements his employees must have in order to be hired or what training they Ducharme said company employees Wear no uniform except a shirt with the orderly service making identification a were at their mercy because of our she service users want the orderly ser vice company incorporated under the provinces Home care program in the Hope that the government will Monitor the the Home care patients said most orderlies Are capable and work Well under such difficult Semkiw said orderlies have quit be cause they could not tolerate the because they work on orderlies have crowded schedules and often work double Semkiw cited one Case where an orderly was booked at three Homes for the same she said orderlies Are often not Given sufficient information about patients they see for the first one orderly told me he was sent to a client who was deaf and they had to go through the embarrassing process of trial and error to discover that fact and learn How to false alarms windblown look wed plays havoc yesterday with plastic tarps on Bridge the being built to ease flooding problems from under construction at Sturgeon Creek on Portage the has been under construction for about a by Gregg Shilliday Winnipeg police Are worried about the High incidence of false Holdup alarms in the especially in Light of a serious Accident involving two poli Cemen responding to a false alarm Fri constables Bruce Thorndycraft and Chris Riddell were injured when their Cruiser collided with a gravel truck on Pembina Highway Friday an employee at Thunder Bird billiards on Osborne Street had set off an alarm Winnipeg police association presi Dent Cal Varey said yesterday that he hoped an unfinished internal police study on false alarms would be completed soon and significant recommendations these alarms can be a real for firemen As Well As for we have to do something about this Varey said that while the association was obviously concerned about its members he Felt possible solutions were the responsibility of the i am planning to ask the chief about this and see if we can Speed up the costs thousands of dollars Deputy chief Urchenko said yesterday that details of the report could not be released because it was he that false alarms Cost the City thousands of dollars in lost a 1978 Survey indicated that 95 per cent of the Holdup and burglar alarms handled each week were costing the City about a Urchenko said the problem was serf but added that police Are in a delicate position when it comes to answering false its a damned if you damned if you dont you get a series of false alarms from a place but How can you Stop responding one of them might be he said the department is consider ing recommending a users fee whereby an owner would be charged a certain amount for each false he said this might encourage owners to be More careful opening doors and More cautious around alarm its a question of people just have to be More an increasing number of North american cities have instituted some kind of penalty system for false alarms during the past few false alarms Are caused by two factors human error and mechanical studies have shown that these factors Are usually evenly ;