Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 24, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Special help needs increase effects of economic stress showing up in kindergarten trustee suggests by Glen Mackenzie Tough economic times Likely helped increase the number of Winnipeg Sion kindergarten children who needed special help throughout the school division officials the Early identification program annual report says tests in october and indicated per cent of kindergarten students had some compared with per cent of students a year but the report also said 861 or per cent of 198142 kindergarten dents still received help in compared with 98 or per cent of those enrolled a year teachers fight third pay Battle Seine River school division teachers Are fighting their third Battle this year to get wages from the school Ron teachers association said division Secretary trea surer Andre Chaput told him yesterday teachers wont receive their monthly cheques despite a contract provision that they be paid the last Friday of each Ledoyen said Chaput told him the clerk who makes up the cheques had been so teachers wont be paid on this would hit teachers especially hard because schools Are closed next week for the easter and some teachers have planned Ledoyen teachers last year negotiated a two year contract giving them an automatic 10percent pay raise this but they recently had to defend this against a school Board warning that the Board might Lay off 25 teachers if All teachers refused to take an eight percent pay hike teachers held their ground on this but their retroactive pay in crease cheques didst arrive until about a week division officials had said there were difficulties getting them Ledoyen said he was looking into what action teachers could take if the division violates the collective agree ment and Doest pay teachers on Canadas 1981 economic outcome was far from but 1982s was the worst since the great George Winnipeg child guidance clinic assistant said that while the deteriorating eco nomic situation May not have initially caused students times Are tougher and and people Are More the stress inflicted on families could Well contribute to or aggravate a Stu dents existing or potential emotional Penwarden he said the social problems Arent confined to the Core the sudden unemployment of a More affluent ent could produce greater family stress than to parents who May have been on welfare for some he trustee Mario Santos said he believes the effects of child Alco holism and other social problems associated with some families economic difficulties appear to be showing up in kindergarten social Cost Santos that while the financial Cost of a defaulted mortgage comes and the social Cost Santos and trustees Brian Dixon and Mary Kardash voted earlier this month to spend to hire 20 More teach ers and 10 teacher aides to Deal with social problems in division but the other six trustees Defeated Penwarden said the identification started in is designed to screen Large numbers of not diagnose each suspected he said 303 kindergarten students tested in the fall of 1981 required no extra help after being Paul school division research said in an interview Many physical problems Are As minor As Wax in a students or visual problems corrected by As Many children listed As having coordination difficulties were simply he the statistics didst isolate specific problems according to their but the report said 206 students were receiving some child guidance clinic help in the report also said of the students identified in the fall of 1981 As needing help got it from the classroom resource teacher or an in Devilish con Man shuns food for Lent photo of Clifford Maltby taken at in 1980 As he spearheaded bid to encourage Eldorado nuclear to build a uranium refinery near by David Obrien Clifford Maltby known to police As a smooth Allting apparently has undergone a miraculous conver Sion inside Stony Mountain Hes told prison officials he Hast eaten for the past 33 Days for pious and moral says he wont even think of food until april the end of the Christian season of which celebrates the time when Jesus Christ fasted in the wilderness for 40 Hes listed As a roman Catholic on prison while the fast has weakened Maltby is probably healthier than Many others his Robin Fause said his vital heart rate and blood pressure All appear Maltby weighed 112 kilograms 246 pounds when he entered Stony last since Hes lost about 18 kilograms 40 said he is Over six feet he could afford to lose some said adding he recommend similar crash Maltby was sentenced to 5 years in prison november when he was convicted in Saskatoon of defrauding naive real estate investors of he tried an insanity but doctors at the regional psychiatric Centre found his mental faculties in excellent an ramp spokesman in wan said Maltby has a lengthy Nal while awaiting Maltby went on an 11day fast in the Saskatoon correctional Centre to protest prison said a Saskatoon police department it was a new but he left such an impression on other inmates that they later joined in similar Ger working As headmaster Krause said if Maltby ends his fast on april he should make a Complete recovery without Adverse David Chorney of the ramp commercial crime unit in Saskatoon said Maltby was arrested in where he was working As the headmaster of a private Chorney said Maltby had set up a real estate office in with office equipment and a he then sold nonexistent property to investors for about 000 went to overhead and he spent the said Hes extremely intelligent and a smooth talking Maltby was moved to the prison infirmary two weeks after he claimed he had begun Krause said its a Good question whether he really didst eat for those first two Union blames hospitals for strikes strikes at three Winnipeg hospitals would have been avoided if manage ment had agreed to binding arbitration at the says a Union spokes George spokesman for the International Union of operating Engi said health sciences Centre management agreed to be bound by the terms of a provincial mediators re even though it had rejected binding arbitration disruption to health care could have been avoided entirely if arbitration had been he there were no losers and no win ners in these Smith we made some but not As much As we would have Smith said the 143 workers at health sciences Grace Hospital and Misericordia Hospital were Only fight ing for what already had been Given other Public sector he said the attitude of the provincial govern ment was a major stumbling Block in settling the Many of my members feel they have been betrayed by this govern Smith although the provincial government claims it is opposed to the six and five percent its actions prove he the settlement at Misericordia hos Pital provides a 13percent increase to the workers Over two based on increases of four per cent 1 this another four per cent july 1 and five per cent 1 next but Smith said 11 of the 22 workers will get additional wage adjustments which will increase their salaries at the end of the contract by More than 16 per the Union also won improve ments in vacations and other he at health sciences 40 of the 105 workers will see their salaries increased by 16 to per cent Over two Smith the others will receive 13 per cent Over two although an additional per cent Worth of fringe benefits also was negotiated for All the mixed feelings the same 13percent package was accepted by the 16 Grace Hospital with five of them receiving adjustments that will increase their salaries about 17 per cent Over the two Smith said there were mixed feelings in the membership regarding the settlement and he feels the Hospi tals offered inducements to just enough workers so that a favourable vote would be Hsc president Peter who maintained before the strike the Hospi Tal could not afford to offer any thing More than six and five per refused comment on the Misericordia spokesman Ted Bart Man said he was pleased with the terms of the but he say whether it will set the pattern for further negotiations with other groups at the health sciences Centre workers went on strike while the other two hospitals were struck March pm asked to probe Snow removal cutbacks Thompson staff Churchill chamber of Commerce has asked prime minister Pierre Trudeau to investigate transport Canadas cutback in Snow removal services at Northern Manitoba and Northwest territories since last Snow removal at Churchill has been Cut Back to 40 hours a the chamber said the runways Are weather h High l Low tit front front Winnipeg area forecast mostly Cloudy with brisk Southeast winds today and a High near Cloudy with a few flurries tonight and Low tonight near High tomorrow near probability of precipitation is 20 per cent today and 40 per cent tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly Cloudy saturday and sunny Mumm Muhm temperatures below Normal rising to slightly deaths above the Normal values of 1 and 40 Northern Manitoba mainly Cloudy with seasonable temperatures sunny periods and a Little Milder saturday and Normal High is Normal Low not cleared after 5 during the week and not at All on weekends regardless of Snow chamber president Jack Oconnor said that on one weekend a plane was forced to run Back and Forth on one Churchill runway to make a path in the Snow before taking on other he flights have been cancelled and Many passengers left the matter has repeatedly been appealed to Federal transport minister Jeanluc Pepin without any in its telex message to the chamber we Are appealing to you As first minister and ask you to look into this situation that we in the North think is a matter of life and speaking for the other isolated communities affected by the the chamber said a matter of a few hours waiting for a runway to be cleared could result in someone we can understand the need for government restraint pro but we certainly feel restraint should be exercised in a different we Appeal to your sense of fair play and Good it Cowan 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