Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 6, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Anni Winnipeg free april 1983 3 As warmer Spring weather a Many Winni Eggers will be come itchy in anticipation of an annual problem the Little buzzers Are expected to begin hatching this City Entomol Ogist Roy Ellis said Ellis said the annual plague will not begin to pose a problem until next were not expecting them to be too bad in the City of he but he warned an anticipated warm Spring could create a higher risk of disease bearing mosquitoes such As the culex which carries Western Equine Ellis said annual larva Riding operations will begin near the end of the in addition to the chemical sprays used in past the City will Experiment with Ellis said Winni Peg will be the first Canadian Munici Pality to use the no chemical which was registered with the govern ment Only last Ellis said it is too Early to Tell How heavy the infestation of summer mosquitoes will a Spring rainfall of three to five centimetres would guar Antee a major beginning in late May or Early the insects would become a problem in july and he and if they become too great a the City will Ellis said the controversial chemical Bay on is still a potential tool in such insects King Little buzzers expected soon the use of Bay on has sparked past uproar in the including last sum under existing the City must simply file an environmental Impact assessment if it wishes to use the chemical in ground fogging opera the province wants the right to veto City the City has filed its objection to that Ellis said the City also has malathion and Methoxychlor at its disposal to use gushers Waters from swollen Sturgeon Creek boil through culverts flooding South of the new Bridge built to prevent flooding at Woodhaven Boulevard the Creek has caused Over Portage nooning meter Reading plan creates stir labor officials balk at scheme to give pasties Hydro workers duties by Brian Cole the letter carriers Union of Canada has upset Manitoba labor officials with its decision to support a Canada Post plan which could result in layoffs among other unionized the Union says it will cooperate with a Post office proposal to have letter carriers read Utility meters while making eliminating the need for workers now doing the i dont think much of Dick president of the Manitoba federation of said i cant condone one Union taking employment away from members of another unions surprised spokesmen for the Canadian Union of Public which represents about 29 Winnipeg Hydro meter read and the International brotherhood of electrical which represents about 22 Manitoba Hydro meter were surprised to hear letter carriers had agreed to the after saying they would protest such a they refused further comment until they could discuss it with their National executives and representatives of the letter Robert letter carriers Union said in a bulletin to members last month the Union was cooperating with Canada Post because utilities could use a port Printer to do away with new English hebrew Prog gets mixed parental reaction by Glen Mackenzie Winnipeg school trustees delighted one group of jewish parents but disappointed another last night by approving an English hebrew bilingual pro trustees voted unanimously to establish the program this september because parents of 29 kindergarten and 27 Grade 1 students in River Heights asked for the Manitoba Public schools act says a Board must provide instruction in English or French if parents of 23 students who can be grouped in a class ask for the Law allows for 50 per cent instruction in hebrew or other heritage but Doest specify student a division administration report yesterday said the divisions practice has been that it May establish a program if parents of at least 25 elementary students want City to ask province to dip into Job fund the province will be asked to dip into its Job fund to save a City training program aimed at getting people off welfare the cites recreation and social ser vices committee voted yesterday to Appeal to the provincial government and to employment minister Lloyd Axworthy for funds to continue the which trains former welfare recipients to renovate in a report last City officials said the 18month training which involves 84 May have to be dropped later this month when the trainees finish the first six months of their so far the program has been funded by the Federal government and the Core area initiative but technicalities in funding guidelines appear to Rule out further funding from those City officials officials said snags were revealed when they tried to line up funding for the final 2 they were told to get further funding under an existing Federal Job they would Likely have to fire the 84 trainees and Start again with people who have exhausted their unemployment insurance to get More funds from the Core area they would have to guarantee the workers would get permanent jobs when their training is a further complication arose after construction unions complained about the an hour trainees Are under provincial construction workers must be paid nearly three times As a provincial Board is to Rule on the trainees wages later this a separate administration report said the program would Cost this of which almost covers teachers and a teachers the balance for a carpet and minor a school is to be determined As part of the South Winnipeg while the boards move delighted parents who want it also poses a threat to parents of about 950 students attending four jewish private officials of the Winnipeg Board of jewish education yesterday asked Winnipeg school Board to consider Tak ing Over their four Ramah talmud torah and Joseph Wolinsky Evelyn the jewish boards Public relations said her Board faces a deficit and May have to close dispute Katz also said the boards current dispute with its teachers is one More pressure on the Winnipeg school Board voted to have its administration look into the although trustees also said the provincial government would make the final decision on such a Michael an English he brew bilingual program said it appeared to him the jewish boards approach to Winnipeg division was an filth hour attempt to submarine our he also said his group Doest oppose their Katz denied her group wanted to Stop the bilingual although adding the jewish schools program has More religious Content than a bilingual pro Gram the loss of this mail volume will jeopardize the jobs of our who Are already facing the effects of lost business due to the recession and private courier Canada Post has been talking to utilities across the country about using letter carriers to read and last month embarked on an Experiment in to see if such a propos Al was in the Markham letter carriers record meter readings on a known As a port print As they travel their daily carriers return the recorders to the Hydro office at the end of the the information is processed Over night and Bills Are ready for carriers to pick up and deliver the next the port Printer also is capable of processing Bills on the thereby eliminating the need to return the recorders to the Hydro office at Protection Mcgarry said the National executive considered the effects of the proposal on meter he the Protection of letter carriers takes precedence because meter Reading want a prime Job function of those members who would be Mcgarry also said the National executive would meet the Canadian labor Congress and Canada Post to assist employees who lose their jobs should the plan be while the letter carriers National executive seems set on moving ahead with the local officials seem to disagree on the Ron president of the unions local said thinks the Union wont allow members to read he said Mcgarry letter was incomplete and there is a lot More to weve never done that before and i dont think Well Start in ground fogging it will also test an artificial Plant extract which is fatal to the City also expects a severe problem with fall Chancre Worms this Ellis the Cater pillar larva has a voracious appetite for tree preferring old Elm and most deciduous Trees May fall prey to the Ellis adding the problem could be one of the worst in it is expected to be serious within a mile of the Assiniboine and Seine it will get worse toward the Centre of the City and diminish toward the he Chancre worm eggs will Hatch late next month and the insects will go through their orgy of eating for about three Ellis said the City will begin spraying infected areas toward the end of gaming House allegations thrown by Kevin Prokosh a provincial court judge dismissed a charge of keeping a common gaming House against Bingo enterprises yesterday on grounds the Crown did not inform the accused of what specifically it did judge Winston Norton accepted a defence motion and ruled the information outlining the charge was invalid As it did not provide sufficient detail of the offence or when it judge Norton said it is fundamental that the prosecution comply with of the criminal which sets that an indictment include sufficient detail of the circumstances and reasonable information on the act or omission to be trial aborted the decision aborted the trial this week against the which oper ates Buffalo Bingo Palace at 455 Mcphillips and its Joseph Marois and Vince the company and owners were charged almost a year ago with keep ing a common gaming House be tween june and March immediately after the Crown attorney Neil Cutler said he would recommend to the attorney generals department that it be i dont think there is anything wrong with the the prosecutor if i thought there was anything wrong with i would Lay a new ruling climaxed a Lively Squab ble Between Cutler and defence Law yers Hersh Wolch and Sid we sincerely dont know what my clients Are alleged to have Green told the How did they keep a common betting House your Honor Doest know that we dont know debate outside court he pointed out that the charge raises the possibility of committing any one of an infinite variety of Active based on the one could easily said the that the accused were bookies taking bets on the Crown contended it is not required to provide defendants with particulars of a charge on an information or an after the the lawyers continued the debate outside when asked what the charges in Cutler said profits from the Sale of Bingo sheets and Nevada tickets to the charities running the games were raked the lotteries and gaming licensing Board Grants Bingo licences Only to charities and it is illegal for promoters to earn profits from the a provincial review of lotteries and commercial bingos by county court judge Gerald Jewers found Buffalo on an investment of had profit before depreciation of 000 during the 12 months ending May it All comes Down to charged theres no other Rea son for the for the keeper of the gaming House to be the game itself must have something illegal about said the Hospital bedroom Homelike by David Obrien Tony and Ginny Oreilly were forced to watch from a distance As their Foury Earold son slowly died of cancer in Boniface general a few weeks before his death last the Oreilly took Christian Home so he could spend his last Days with his in his own Home instead of a Hospi Tal the frustration of not being Able to spend More time with Christian during his 18month stay in Hospital inspired the Oreilly to raise Money to establish a special room for critic ally ill Homelike the Christian Oreilly room was opened at Boniface the furnished room has a Homelike ing a bed and color television set which allows the parents of a critically ill child to be with him 24 hours a Oreilly said they wanted the room partly As a memorial to their but especially so that other children could be As comfortable As possible while in hos the Oreilly raised through a social and donations to help pay for the while other groups and businesses Don ated the George Collins of the hospitals paediatrics department said the room is an important addition in the treatment of Long term care paediatric parents want to be with their children at this time and children Are not As afraid and respond better to treatment because they feel at Home in the Nonin Stith tonal he Board to keep school if province pays Winnipeg school trustees yesterday reaffirmed their desire to keep Robert Smith school going the prov Ince supplies the their decision was prompted by a letter from Tony Manitoba Public schools finance Board chair who sought an Assurance that if the government pays the estimated to fix up the the Divi Sion will use it As a Public the divisions South Winnipeg re made Public in pro posed four options for fort Rouge and River Heights elementary one of them called for closing Robert one advocated it be made a French immersion school and two others said it should be kept open As an English the Board voted to assure fre Chette the school would be used As a school if Board chairman Brian the Lone said he justify using tax Money when there Are so Many empty classrooms in River Heights and fort he also said the final Cost could be to trustee Mira Spivak said she sup ports continuing efforts to have the province but warned she support spending million of tax Money on the trustee Mario Santos said he sup ports the request to the government because the safety of Young children on their Way to school is Linda Robert Smith parents Council said she was pleased the Board still wants to keep the school vandals Cost City last civic report by Pat Mckinley vandals destroyed at least Worth of City property last year and civic officials say that because Many cases go the actual costs May be much Park transit buses and parking meters and traffic signals were by far the biggest targets for destroyers of Public according to a report presented yester Day to the cites recreation and social services i Deputy City treasurer John Chale said he believes it is the first time the City has pulled together a detailed listing of the losses suffered by various departments through the report says the greatest damage was inflicted on Park buildings and which incurred in damage at vandals but City buses came a close receiving Spray painting and other damages Worth at least the police department fared better than most City vandals inflicted Only in damages to police offices and City officials said the lost to vandals May not include Many routine such As replacement of broken actually resulting from Vandal Chale said the report presented yesterday is part of an Effort to keep More detailed records of losses caused by the City also set up a committee recently to look at ways of preventing one organization that already has a prevention program is the Manitoba association of school and Keith the associations loss prevention said yesterday the program May have Cut vandalism in Manitoba schools by half since it was Thomas said insurance claims in 1980 indicated about million in dam age to Manitoba but losses attributed to vandalism have now dropped to about million a Thomas said that under the schools have installed protective screens on alarm systems and floodlighting of vulnerable but he said even More important is an education program in the schools aimed at discouraging youngsters from engaging in there is nothing More important to a kid than his Drivers he and the program Points out the added costs All Drivers pay for insurance because of vandalism on it also Points out that some judges have suspended the Drivers licences of Youthful he related crime prevention programs also have involved bringing convicts into the schools to describe conditions inside a Thomas Jim administrator of Secu Rity services for the provincial govern said individual departments Deal with vandalism and i dont think there is any Central place that keeps track of i think its fairly Well controlled at the moment in most he ;