Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Poster parents Winnipeg free november 3 into drowning by Paul Moloney Francis and Elizabeth whose 13rhonthold Foster child drowned in their Bathtub in Early Are exceptional Foster parents who greatly helped disadvantaged aft inquest was told provincial judge Arnold presiding at the inquest into Priscilla Sutherland Heird Rorri five people who called the konopaseks1 de Votion to children two child development who work with a Blind and deaf infant living with the said this Childs condition has improved beyond their expectations due to the couples All of the children there seem to be very energetic and Happy said Lois an occupational therapist who based her observation on 28 visits to the Konopasek fort Rich mond Home to work with the be always been tremendously impressed with the love and concern that Treyve Given to any child in their Croeker the kind of situation Ula is in is Marion a rehabilitation counsellor who also works with the Ula said the couple go beyond what could normally be expected of Foster parents in providing an optimum environment for the child to Frank aired her views in a letter 7 to the childrens Aid society of Winnipeg after being angered by Media coverage of the which has so far involved five Days of testimony in three sessions since a nextdoor Dorene had testified 1 that in her View the Konopasek didst adequately supervise their Oil the Day of the the Kono Paneks were looking after five Foster children and three adopted most of whom were under three years they said the child was left unattended in the tub after Konopasek misunderstood his wife instructions to keep an Eye on the Priscilla was found by Leslie pee the Ken Opasek 11yearold Fos Ter according to testimony yes Konopasek had instructed Leslie to watch Priscilla and another infant who was also in the Public made privy to old forts secrets by Manfred Jager artefacts uncovered from the re Mains of privies at historic upper fort Garry were displayed for the first time yesterday by the University of Manitoba archaeology they included Clay Bone wooden newspaper frag a Large Cannon balls and grape Greg a u of m Archeo logy professor who has led digs at the old fort in what is now Bonnycastle told a Public meeting yesterday bottle dated about 1848 thousands of items have been Reco me said most of the artefacts were found in two areas used As Combina Tion outdoor privies and garbage probably in items recovered included frag ments of a British newspaper prob ably from Birmingham describing the Shropshire stakes horse race run there on july monks he said there is evidence the dumps received most of the recovered items in when the British sixth regi ment of foot was breaking Camp to leave fort Garry for a new the regiment had arrived Here two years the upper fort was established in some 14 years after the Hud sons Bay company sir George had lower fort Garry built near the in had replaced the first two structures at the Confluence of the red and Assiniboine both known originally As fort Gibraltar and the last one later renamed As the original fort first fort Garry was abandoned and demolished in 1820 after repeated flood monks said yesterday his teams have unearthed considerable Stone and log Wall remains in the Southern most Quarter of the last upper fort which extended from the Assiniboine to the still remaining Stone Gate near historical including Early maps and suggest the Walls of the fort enclosed areas now co Vered by parts of main Street near the Bridge across the a Curling arid civic office build Ings at 100 main monks said no decision has been made on what to do with the structural remains of the which was modified and expanded to its northernmost limits in he said a major direction of re search in years to come will be to reconstruct the Way the Hudson Bay operated the fort on a Day today basis and what life was for those who lived Greg monks with artefacts from upper fort Garry changes urged in unsafe work Law worker should not have to fear employer hearing told by Doug Speirs workers must be assured of the right to refuse to perform unsafe tasks with out fear of employer the first of two Public hearings on work place safety and health was told last although the right to refuse danger Ous work is addressed in the workplace safety and health Falls far Short of being Model Dick mar president of the Manitoba federa Tion of told the a refusal to work not Only allows an employee to exposure to a Dan Ger but also May compel management to rectify an ongoing health and safety Martin about 150 citizens and labor leaders attended the hearing to present briefs and Call for amendments to the Legisla Tion governing workplace health and safety in under the which received Cabi net approval in an employer is required to so far As is reasonably the health and welfare at work of All his workers l but Martin said yesterday workers should be encouraged to avoid any danger regardless of its cause and to Boycott of Schneider meat products called to support workers demands by Brian Cole the United food and commercial workers and the Manitoba federation of labor have called for a Boycott of All Schneider meat products in sup port of 127 striking workers at the firms Boniface at a press conference Vern assistant director of the said the which will be supported with an advertising Cam will begin in Manitoba and could be extended across Canada unless the dispute is As Gerry Otto of the Manitoba food and commercial workers Union which represents supermarket employ said his Union will ask retail store owners to Stop handling Schneider meat if this the Union will ask its members to declare the Ontario based meat com pants products hot goods and ref use to handle kill and Plant Schneider processes and pack Ages beef and but the Marion Street Plant is basically a kill and Cut operation which Sells meat to retailers for overt counter workers walked off their jobs at the Plant 25 to Back demands to increase their base rate by about an hour in each year of a two year the company has offered wage increases of 50 cents an hour and a reduction in benefits which amount to a Little More than 50 cents an there have been no negotiations since strike and there Are none the Mil and the Winnipeg labor Council also pledged full support for the strikers Mil president Dick Martin said his organization is starting to take a larger role in strikes in response to the Tough bargaining conditions encountered by including those representing workers at Schneider and the strike bound Export packers egg processing also represented by the Harvey labor Council Sec said the strike Isa test of labor movement in this is one where were going to go All representatives of about eight other unions attended the press conference to voice support for the Schneider saying a fair contract was important to set the tone for their own refuse to carry out any act which endangers a worker should not be required to return to that work until he is satisfied the Job is he adding that employers should not have the right to fill a vacancy created by a refusal until the site has been inspected by a health and safety even after the inspector rules that the is Safe and the vacancy is filled by another he should be informed of the earlier refusal and the reasons for Martin Laurie an unemployed Carpen lashed out at the saying it suffers from several serious de regulations Todd said regulations must be drafted to implement the legislation dealing with the right of workers to refuse dangerous by placing this Section from the act into the regulations it would then be come a safety requirement for a worker not to proceed with any work pro Cess the person had a reasonable cause to believe would create an undue he but George who identified himself As a safety asked the hearing to what extent an employee should be allowed to refuse dangerous work if the refusal could endanger the the hearings Are to continue tonight in Robin testified Leslie confided to her later on the night of the death acting on Konopasek she entered the bathroom and found Priscilla play ing in the Leslie indicated she went away and returned later to find Priscilla in obvious Robin who was recalled to the stand said she had Given Leslie no instructions to watch the i ask a child to look after another she judge Conner lashed out at the free press for a Story yesterday based on proceedings the previous the Story said the judge had ordered Cas lawyer Doug Yard to Call a Cas official to court to explain Why the Agency haunt issued a document approving the Konopasek As Foster who called Colette goer Well of Cas to the stand said the judge haunt ordered him to do but had Only made a request to which he goer Well testified the formal approval letter want sent out due to a clerical wont restrict Hutt Erite land by Tom Goldstein the Union of Manitoba municipalities will not ask the Federal and provincial governments to restrict land ownership by Hutt Erite delegates to the unions 79th annual convention overwhelmingly showed their distaste yesterday for a Resolution to place limits on the amount of land colonies could possess and to require an area of at least 56 kilo metres Between the Headquarters of one Colony and the Only a handful of the 500 delegates voted for the the vote put an end at least for this year the which brought cries of racism and discrimination from its opponents and of equal Justice from its Public attention it came after Reeve Willard Mcfarland of the Rural municipality of Oak land tried unsuccessfully to withdraw the Resolution which Drew considerable Public attention even before he presented it to the convention the Resolution was condemned by speakers tuesday by about a fourth one margin before it was it was not debated again Mcfarland asked to have it with drawn yesterday because of the controversy surrounding he said no government would touch the resold he also accused the news Media of distorting the proposals which was to eliminate discrimination and Stem the continuing permanent withdrawal of land from the Market he said tuesday Hutte rites buy but never sell delegates voted delegates voted More than 21 against withdrawing the with some saying the municipal Union should not avoid taking a stand on the there Are 71 Hutt Erite colonies in owning about Hect ares acres of the colonies also lease an estimated hectares and pay property there Are about Hutte rites in the in addition to dealing with Hutt Erite land delegates passed a number of resolutions during the first two Days of the which ends on tuesday they asked the Federal government to impose harsher penal ties on convicted vandals and urged the province to adopt policies to keep Farmland available for agricultural rejected proposal the convention rejected a proposal to restrict elected municipal officials to maximum six year terms at a the proposal also would have required such officials to sit out one term before running for office under existing municipal officials Are elected for three year the purpose of the Resolution was to rejuvenate municipal but opponents said such decisions should be up to the they also said some municipalities Are Short of people willing to assume elected one Delegate noted that a Short time out of office is no Assurance that a politician would return with fresh As you our prime minister had a Little break in the action and Hes not a helluva lot better than he was the Delegate the convention also voted to have the Union express its dissatisfaction with current Federal government fiscal policy and to ask Ottawa to renegotiate the current Energy agreement with Alberta to bring it in line with its six and five percent in other Reeve Dave harms of the Rural municipality of Pembina was reelected president of the Union by betrayal by lawyer charged by Kevin Prokosh a Friend of former lawyer Jack Bass testified yesterday he was furious when he found Bass had betrayed him in a 1978 business Deal involving a College Avenue apartment Otto Kunz said he was approached by his very Good Friend Bass to join a Syndicate to buy the Redwood apart ments in he agreed to become an investor and paid to Bass for his Kunz testified he subsequently disco Vered the building had been bought by Bass earlier for i find this extremely the marketing manager told the we the Syndicate in fact had Pur chased the building from i Felt Bass had betrayed me As my Friend and As my Bass and two of his dal Las enterprises and Omar hold Ings Are charged with a total of 32 counts of theft and criminal breach of he is accused of mis appropriating More than from 14 clients Between 1977 and the former Law columnist for the Winnipeg Tribune and lecturer at the University of Manitoba has pleaded not guilty to All after learning of Basss involve ment in the Kunz confronted the the witness said he demanded to be allowed to quit the Syndicate and Bass repaid Kunz his initial invest ment plus a profit of the court was Constance another Syndi Cate also invested but never got her Money Back from the she the trial Winnipeg division teachers ask for 14 raise in oneyear pact Winnipeg school division teachers want a a percent pay increase in a oneyear collective a division teacher familiar with the bargaining to be presented to the school division said they also include a clause that All teachers be guaranteed 40 minutes preparation time a Day and that a minimum per cent of the approximately division teachers be granted leaves if enough the who asked that his name not be said the proposals dont look like very militant Type bar gaining because it does not appear the economic climate will allow for Jack Winnipeg teachers association confirmed the in formation supplied by the but refused comment on the proposals and refused to release any additional pro King said in an interview the trustees and teachers had agreed bargaining proposals be made he said the current collective agree which expires at the end of guarantees elementary teachers 30 minutes a Day preparation time and Board policy outside the con tract gives Junior High and High school teachers 40 minutes a King also said the current agreement says the division must allow at least one per cent of teachers take Sabbati cals of that Many he teachers in More than half the Winnipeg divisions have two year contracts guaranteeing them the 198 Cost of living plus per cent As a 1983 pay which is expected to yield about a i Northwest territories Council clerk hired for Manitoba legislature Post William bin clerk of the Northwest territories Council for the last 16 has appointed clerk of the Manitoba was the unanimous Choice of an Al party committee to fill the Post left vacant when longtime clerk Jack Reeves died last he will take Over the Job in the appointment was announced yesterday by Andy chairman of the committee which chose Rem Nant Over 25 other applicants from across acting clerk Gordon who says he had applied for the said yesterday he will remain As Assis Tant clerk a Post which he had held for 18 months before Reeves Mackintosh said he was not at All that remnant won the i know remnant and i like him1 and i respect him said the clerk of the legislature pro Vides procedural advice to the House speaker and All Las and administers the Day today operations of the Legisla a native of British Colum worked for the Federal department of Northern affairs in Churchill and in Quebec and Ottawa before joining the government of the Northwest tones in the Early he is a member and former president of the association of in Canada and a member of the society of in Commonwealth i ;