Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Abbi prep August s by Maureen Brosnahan John Sinclair received overwhelming supp6rt As president of the Winnipeg childrens Aid society yesterday after Only two members voted to have him resign from the 30member the motion to remove who was accused last week of acting independently of the was introduced by native social worker Richard Fol Ster and seconded by Harvey there were several drug sold despite warnings remaining stocks of the morning sickness drug Berle tin Are being sold locally and across despite warnings in two recent studies that it can Lead to possible birth de the drugs Merrell Dow pharmaceuticals voluntarily halted production of Bende tin june 9 because of the Large number of Law suits it was the company denied any risk to women or their children in taking the Federal health department Man Jean Sattar said in an interview yesterday the Canadian government int Overly concerned about the prescription drug and will allow stores to sell any remaining the government is doing the she weve investigated Bende tin very thoroughly and found no Sattar said from her Ottawa we were never Able to find a significantly higher incidence of birth de the drug package already contains warnings about possible effects of Tak ing the Sattar the two federally financed studies reported increased rates of a stomach pyloric among infants whose mothers took the food and drug administration is alerting doctors to the studies through its publication drug bulletin which also noted that a third study found no link Between the drug and birth Bernard head of the obstetrics unit at the health sciences said yesterday doctors have been notified of the halt in production by the he said the drug was used quite extensively in the Binns said he knew of no major complaints in Winnipeg regarding the use of one of the Side effects of taking it can be but this is common with anything contain ing he neither Binns nor Sattar knew if any of the lawsuits against the manufacturer originated in Folste had written a letter to sin Clair and other Board members ing him of making decisions without consulting including reinstating Betty As executive the Board had voted she remain away from the Agency until september ing a management Schwartz was granted a four month medical leave of absence last Folster said after last nights meet ing he was disappointed by the tack of support for his motion but that he would abide by the he said he would continue to voice his concerns about the boards i know 1 have a lot of there is no Way i would concede that 1 made a he i am going to continue on the Board and act As a responsible Board Smith also said he would support Sinclair As some of the Board members were obviously concerned about his Sinclair actions of the but they said lets give him a second sir with said Sinclair also apologized for comments he made about him week when he accused him of being an nip complaints reiterated the Board also heard a preliminary report from the Toronto based management consulting firm which is conducting the Agency although Board members refused to discuss the a source said it reiterated Many of the complaints documented by the boards Adoc co Niit tee last the which spent More than 70 hours interviewing Cas reported management of the Agency was unethical and High handed and that staff was operating in an atmosphere of fear and it recommended the executive director be removed from her the management report yesterday also urged interim changes at the society including a recommendation the Board unite to improve the Agency rather than engage in continuous in it also recommended the Board cooperate More with the prov Ince which provides it with almost million in funding each accepted unanimously the Board unanimously accepted the preliminary report and the Sugges a final report is expected in the next couple of five native people were nominated and appointed to the Board during yesterdays meeting and 100 persons who had applied for member ship in the childrens Aid society were they will be allowed to elect a new Board next last Spring a controversy erupted at the annual meeting when it was recognized that the Board had never accepted members even though it is in the Cas until now the Only members were those who were on the the result was that Board members were the Only ones Able to nominate More Foo care services urged by civic committee civic recreation and social services committee wants the provincial government to explore the possibility of providing More Foo care the committee yesterday adopted a civic administration recommendation which said such services should be expanded because too few health agencies Are Able to provide the administration prepared a re port on the matter following a com plaint by the age and Opportunity Centre and clinic Community health Centre that More services Are particularity for senior the report noted the citywide need for Foo care is increasing As the senior citizen population it said Lon term planning is required to meet demand for the service which can Only be provided through the provincial healthcare the City used to provide Foo care but closed its two clinics at the end of last City environment commissioner Dave Henderson said the which began in was discontinued because it had outgrown itself and because it was being abused to a certain he said the City had More pressing uses for its adding Foo care services Are available from other the service Cost the City about 000 a year and required the equivalent of one full time nursing it reached Only about 600 of the roughly inner City senior clinic says it has been providing Foo care service to More than 200 patients a care Home owner Archie Martinson stands outside his empty since social workers removed the care Home in vital will be close owners not told Why action was taken by provincial government by Manfred Jager the Manitoba government has moved to close a residential care Centre for senior citizens without telling its owners Why the action was the Annes Golden age located at 561 Annes Road and owned by Archie and Myra mar had 12 guests at the beginning of the by Early yesterday had been transferred to hospitals and nursing Homes and two had returned to their one with an Assur Ance of substantial Home care service from a City the action was taken by provincial department of Community services and corrections social workers who started obtaining family permissions tuesday to move the 12 said that when he called Ludwick director of the departments residential standards and licensing Gorski told him the official shutdown Date was but refused to elaborate he said id be getting a registered letter telling me Why the government was shutting me once 1 have i have 10 Days to i tried to find out what the letter but was told to so now i know i guess in bankrupt that what it Martinson says his wife and three employees have lost their Community services minister Len Evans said his standards and Licens ing Branch decided take immediate closing action following a recent com move More quickly it was from a previous employee of the residence and substantiated All our it was at that Point that my officials decided to move a Little More quickly than i had a memo on the matter on my desk this he Martinson bought the residential care Home for six years the single Storey building just South of Bishop Grandin Boulevard is 16 years old and has a capacity for 20 residents at Annes Golden age Lodge paid a month for semiprivate accommodation and Board Pri vate rooms were a for we offer three meals and a snack at daily room a change of bed sheets every week or More frequently if super Vised dispensing of medications and so on and so he Evans said the government has tried for some considerable time to get Martinson to upgrade his care Home to meet provincial standards for such but without Suc the facility has never been licensed by my but at tempts were under Way to see if up grading and licensing would be Evans the people in the residential Stan Dards and licensing Branch came to the conclusion that acceptable Stan Dards just be so they moved and placed the 12 Resi dents in other Evans said he was informed by his officials that Martinson had been Given until july to upgrade both care standards and physical but failed to do much to be desired i understand there was inadequate and staffing at Annes Golden age that inappropriate care and treatment were provided and that the physical facilities left much to be he Evans said he understands from his standards and licensing officials that there Are about six More private residential care Homes in the City which cause the government Martinsons Otto said he would take the Manitoba government to court Over the closing and will be filing a statement of impossible to Tell where the truth was by Kevin Prokosh although hostile witnesses Cost the Crown a murder Case the prosecution is virtually powerless to combat reluctance of those called to we dont know what More we could have senior Crown attorney Wayne Moshkowsky said we cant torture or beat a murder charge was dismissed against Joseph Richard Laquette tuesday at the end of a today prelim Inary hearing after Crown witnesses changed or forgot their two witnesses had earlier refused to be sworn to Tell the truth and were even when they agreed to be interviewed by the he found their evidence knifed at party was charged with Sec on degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriends nor Man the was knifed during a party in the backyard of his Charles walk Home May when the Case concluded we were left with contradictory and untrustworthy testimony from people who simply dont seemed concerned with Justice or the Fate of a dead Moshkowsky it was impossible to Tell where the truth the Crown believed it had a Good Case against Laquette based on state ments made by eight or nine witnesses who were at the stabbing but the prosecution get the witnesses who were relatives of either the accused or the deceased to repeat their previous based on the the Crown did not even ask provincial court judge Arnold con Ner to commit Laquette to trial and the judge dismissed the its unsafe to Send anyone to jail on the strength of the Type of evidence these witnesses mesh Kowsky we Are dealing Here with people from what court of a peal Justice Joseph Osullivan once called the margins of civilized so oaths and Trust have Little meaning to these he can you imagine people refusing to Tell the truth often the Crown can circumvent hos tile witnesses with physical evidence and but in the Chartrand Case there were Only Moshkowsky when they altered their evidence the crowns Case col thank god this Doest happen very he Ive Only seen it happen once in my 10 in that Case two men were acquitted of murder in the handcuff drowning of Thomas Robert West in a key Crown witness who had told police in her signed statement she had watched one of the accused murderers push the victim into the Assiniboine River later testified she could neither recall the incident nor telling police about the Chartrand murder file will re main but no further investigations Are planned by the Winter program designed to create jobs for Manitoban the provincial government Hopes to create at least new jobs under a Winter employment program announced yesterday by minis Ter Mary Beth the known As the Manitoba employment action will run from 31 to next March it is designed to encourage private sector Farmers and non profit agencies to create new jobs for Manitoba unemployed by offering government wage for registered businesses and the government will pay 50 per cent of a new employees hourly wage to a maximum of an nonprofit and Community Organiza including school universities and Indian band councils and service and Charita ble will receive up to an both categories of employer also will be eligible for a Benefit allowance of up to 10 per cent of the wage Dolin said employers must provide each new employee with Between 30 and 40 hours of work per or 300 to 800 hours Over the course of the 20week those requirements were included in the program to assure that its not just a very temporary Job and that it does give them a sort of leg up on permanent she she noted that the Winter ment program is modelled after an other temporary employment program of the same name that was in effect earlier this As of july about 350 to 400 of the approximately persons who were hired under that first map program were Given full time jobs with their i think that a very Good retention she particularly in View of the fact that Many of the nonprofit organizations involved have set Bud gets which do allow them the luxury of creating new full time Posi Dolin said the government has allocated million More for the Winter program than was spent on the earlier the program is being funded through the governments jobs opposition labor critic Gerry Mer Cier Norbert said in a later interview that although any program that provides some help at providing jobs is the Type of employment being created by map and other similar programs is primarily of a make work Treyve got to look at the Long term and the permanent jobs that Arent being created by the private and which in fact Are being Mercier sugar firm told to report by 1 on plan to get rid of odor by Rod Edwards the clean environment commission has Given Manitoba sugar until i to get the smell out of More the firm was told to report by that Date on How it intends to rid parts of South Winnipeg of foul doors emanating from a sugar beet refinery at 555 hero this stall was planned Well before this complained business Man Michael who told the commission yesterday customers at his fort Garry supper club Are often turned off by putrid doors from the company waste disposal Brousseau was one of More than 150 people who demonstrated their objections to the smell before the three commission at Public hear Ings tuesday and he accused the sugar company of being a poor corporate citizen and insensitive to Public the company requested adjourn ment of the hearings to give it time to reply to recommendations on its future operation made by the provincial environmental control services i among the recommendations was one that would have ordered the com Pany to begin this Winter to remove ill smelling matter that is left Over from the processing of sugar residents of fort Garry have been particularly vocal about the smells which have been worse than this year because of the a petition signed by 360 residents of fort Garry was filed with the commis Sion Cyril counsel for the com said the delay also will provide time to see whether the Federal govern ment will help financially or otherwise in alleviating the Federal transport minister Lloyd Liberal member for Winni Peg told the commission he would try to secure help from Ottawa if a solution is Complex and the main problem occurs in summer when sugar production waste is poured into huge lagoons for the waste cannot be handled in the City sewage mixed with Calls for Strong action against the company were some urging caution in Case an unseasoned decision led to the demise of the local Indus Dale chief of the land utilization Branch of the agriculture said the Plant provides a Market for 450 Farmers who produce about tonnes tons of sugar beets a a fort Garry resident who says he Doest find the Plant odor said the sugar tweet Market puts million a year into Farmers millions More Are paid to labourers who work in the employees of the Plant and those in industries dependent on Kenneth an environmental offi cer in the air pollution control said recommendations to the commis Sion would require the company to ship the production wastes Back to the coun try instead of storing them onsite for he said later the firm could find Many including covering the lagoons and using solar heat to dry them or trapping the methane Gas and using it to heat the i i ;