Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba In u Winnipeg free january 3 Winnipeg free january inmates Job shuffle draconian restraint measures Low firm a Winnipeg jets fan whose car was towed from the Polo Park shopping mall last night says he was not permitted to Check his car before paying the removal Ian Cassels said he was one of at least m people who went to the vehicle compound of Hiway and metro towing in Boniface to retrieve cars that had been removed from the parking lot during a jets Louis blues under the cites towing motorists Are permitted to Check their vehicles before paving the ing and storage Cassels said when he teachers offered freeze by Julia Necheff school boards across the province have not offered teachers a cent x a years con say spokesmen asked to Check his vehicle before paying the he was this is a Little bit he said Early this Here it is the coldest night of the year and they Tow away your car without any head Ding he did not see any no Park ing signs on the Jim operations manager for the towing denied motorists were prevented from checking their vehicles before paying the saying this would be against the he said Hiway was contacted by a Polo Park official and ordered to remove a number of cars from the shopping centres parking Rempel said the company has towed cars from the lot during three jets hockey games this Cassels said there were about 40 angry motorists crammed inside a Small Shack at the compound on Nicol Street and about 20 More standing in frigid temperatures out Side trying to get he said he shared a cab to the compound with three people from Lowe who also had their car towed one Man paid for his towing charge and then Learned that his car Battery was Cassels would you believe the leeches said it would Cost him for a another Motorist paid his Bill and then discovered his front licence plate had been torn Cassels he was also concerned that the Tow truck Driver May have damaged his front wheel Cassels said he was particularly angry because there was just one Tow company employee in the Shack taking Money and another guarding the compound John president 01 me Manitoba association of school said yesterday that All boards Are aiming for Zero percent salary increases for Johnson attributed the trustees hard line to provincial government the poor state of the Rural econ omy was another he because Farmers net incomes have dropped by 55 per cent in the last year and the number of foreclosures has Johnson said Mast adopted its salary position after finance minis ter Vic Schroeder warned Public institutions last october to expect a freeze on provincial Grants for the coming although the government relented slightly on announcing a two percent increase for Johnson said teachers should not hold out Hope it will be passed on to even if we get a two percent increase Doest mean we have two per cent for he the extra funding will cover Only Cost increases that divisions cannot such As fuel and he a Mast negotiator said there is a wide Gulf Between what the boards Are offering and what the teachers Are Craig Wallis said teachers open ing salary demands have ranged from six to 11 per cent in Manitoba 54 school but Manitoba teachers society spokesman Art Reimer accused the boards of widening the negotiating economic welfare coordinator for the said that while the majority of divisions Are offering no salary some have asked teachers to accept a pay Cut of up to 10 per Reimer agreed that tight Provin Cial funding has had a major Impact on the with the two Kerry free press a would be Motorist on Victor Street finds a Battery boost and Extension Cord icebox like Arctic winds Send Mercury freeze cars an Arctic High pressure system building across the Prairies dropped Winnipeg overnight Low to at 5 today enough to freeze Bare skin in less than a minute and Knock cars out of the icebox like conditions were expected to continue today with environment Canada predicting a High of about and another overnight Low of about a weather warning was still in temperatures Are expected to Rise slightly but will re main extremely the Arctic temperatures Are being compounded by an icy Northwest which has been gusting to 24 youre experiencing a very rapid rate of with the temperature and windchill fac Milton Mcmahon of environment Canada said in an interview last Mcmahon said last nights temperature was expected to be the lowest since when it reached the temperature dropped to on the coldest night in Winnipeg recorded history was on Winnipeg want the coldest Manitoba landmark last is land Lake was reporting a Low of last night and Mcmahon said it was expected to hit Mcmahon said this Winter has been a cold but say whether it was one of the coldest in recent As so Many Are Likely to he said the mean temperature for december was which is about lower than Normal for the Winnipeg police say there were no reports of injuries due to the cold percent ceiling on school the Patrick Mckinley i Cumey transit garage ventilation costs set at million general climate for contract talks has been he i have no doubt that its going to be a difficult bargaining Reimer were not on the same Wavelength with the it seems to he said he thinks it is still too Early in the negotiating process to determine How firm each Side the positions Haven been tested he bargaining has barely begun in most of the provinces school Divi Many have had Only two or three negotiation sessions where Ini tial positions have been Reimer said one agree ment has been signed in the Pine Falls school giving teach ers there a four percent raise in 1985 and five per cent in discussion at that kind of salary level in other divisions would Settle negotiations across the province very he aside from salary both sides agree that working conditions continue to be an ongoing Issue at the items under consideration in Many of the negotiations Are class preparation leaves and sick officials ii its Crown attorneys and de Fence lawyers have been slow to consider punishments other than prison terms for says the director of a program promoting alternate Clarence Epp of alternative sen tence planning said the Justice sys tems Long tradition of handing out jail sentences is hampering the efforts of his we have a system that really has established a pretty Clear path for handing out prison Epp about 55 people at a Manitoba ventilation equipment Worth million must be installed at three Winnipeg transit garages to bring them up to health and safety Stan the City has been transit director Rick Borland said concentrations of nitrogen dioxide that exceed provincial health standards have been found in Tran sits fort James and North main storage the garages Are used to store the cites 535bus Borland said readings at the fort Rouge garage have identified Nitro Gen dioxide Levels twice As High As the allowable provincial the Gas is a component of diesel exhaust Borland said provincial officials have not issued a formal order re Quiring the City to upgrade Sentila but they Are aware of the Ivan a workplace health and safety said the City must do the we have had dealings with them and they know they have to fix it and Are moving in that he Borland said transit has succeeded in reducing the Levels by running its existing ventilation equipment at full capacity and telling Drivers to society of criminology luncheon if you keep doing things based on you keep on that its difficult to introduce changes in a system determined to maintain whose program suggests alternative sentences to the courts in cases referred by defence lawyers and probation said he is not convinced that prison sentences deter offenders from repeating their warm up buses for Shorter readings close to it times the provincial Standard have been obtained transit spent a year ago to upgrade ventilation in another part of its fort Rouge the work was carried out in a bus servicing area after workers complained of severe head aches and burning at the an amalgamated transit Union official said the Union also was worried about possible links Between nitrogen lung disease and Mark chairman of the unions safety and health commit said yesterday similar problems exist in the storage area of the Rouge garage and in two the Union has been aware of the problems for seven or eight he its the same Purdy in the last couple of years we have been pushing and pushing and pushing and now we Are seeing the Light at the end of the just in the last couple of years we have seen Progress Purdy said the work carried out at the fort Rouge servicing where buses Are checked and appears to have solved the problem in looking for evidence that it really he theres no evidence one Way or the Epp said judges mainly base their sentences on those in similar handing out prison terms when an alternative May be More a Propri Crown attorneys and defence Law yers have also been reluctant to consider no prison lawyers dont prepare very far ahead to speak to they May not think about alternatives to prison although the servicing area was the most serious Borland said ventilating storage areas at the three garages will be much More costly because of their combining All three storage its a huge area that we have to he you could put a few woolco stores in generally the Only times we have the problem Are twice a Day when we have a lot of buses getting ready to go on the As Many As 100 buses at a time May be warming up in the fort Rouge garage around 6 and 3 the transit director Borland said the existing ventilation systems were installed when diesel exhaust pipes were located at the Bottoms of the buses now exhaust upwards and the old sys tems Are just not capable of removing the he said transit plans to install new intake ducts for the exhaust increase the capacity of the ventilation fans and add Aires change units to bring in fresh the work should be completed by next Winter if City Council approves the project As part of its capital budget next he Borland said the problem is not As critical in summer because doors to the storage Sheds can be left such options include combinations of Community service employ ment psychiatric treat ment and counselling for drug and alcohol he Epp said the proposals his staff prepare Are not easier than some of the proposals Ive pre pared have been More onerous than the sentence actually Epp told the meeting that prospective cases for alternative penal ties Are carefully a proposal May then be entered As part of an offenders pre sentence 700 per Tri ambulance Sparks protest by Paul Moloney six Rural municipalities which pay the City of Winnipeg for ambulance service Are being asked to absorb a rate increase that would bring their Cost to per a spokes Man said theres just no Way is said Don councillor for the Rural municipality of if they were going to be reason you have heard a word from Matheson made the comments after health minister Larry Desjar dins told representatives of the six municipalities that the province wont bail them out in their Amu Lance fee dispute with the at no time had we Ever was i about to accept the responsibility for running ambulances in Desjardins said in an the City has threatened to Cut off ambulance service to the municipalities 28 if they do not agree to pay the full Cost of operating one but Matheson said this is excess Ive in relation to Rural demand for the he said an ambulance makes an average of trips a but the municipalities account for Only about 150 trips or five per cent of the Matheson said it was unfair to expect Rural taxpayers to pay 100 per cent of the Cost to obtain Only five per cent of the theres no Way our ratepayers would stand for this kind of and in answerable to math Eson the Cit based ambulances now provide service to the municipalities of East West Macdonald and Francois which have a combined population of about when a Call is received from one of the an ambulance from an Adja cent City area is sent under the cites the municipalities would be charged 000 a until the province has provided per capita Grants total Ling to the which they turn Over to the but Desjardins said the provincial Grants Are merely designed to help and that it was reasonable to expect the municipalities to pay More out of their own these people were he they got the Best of service and it didst Cost them a they got All that service for that Damn Desjardins said the fee the City wants to charge is too theres no Way either them or us could pay it Doest make he i think the City is trying to hold them up to get rid of it the the municipalities Haven submitted a specific proposal to the minister adding that up to now they took the View the City was not it came out that they didst really think the City would go through with so they didst do a Damn he they were under the impression the City was just now there nearly Eric chairman of the cites finance said the Rural areas have been receiving a free while City taxpayers have been forced t6 pay million a year for the if All were getting from the Rural municipalities is their per capita provincial then their taxpayers Are paying he Stefanson said the City believes it needs the 11ambulance Fleet for Calls within its if the municipalities want the service they should therefore pay the full operating Cost of an additional he said the City has offered to soften the blow by phasing in the under this the charge would be in the first in the second and full payment in the third Matheson said the municipalities have had offered to match their provincial Grants and pay the City a combined total of a but this was not accepted by the school Gas cleanup planned school Divi Sion will take Steps to reduce Carbon dioxide Levels and other potential hazards at an elementary a spokesman said Doug employee relations officer with the said a cleanup plan will be drawn up immediately for Assiniboine the ventilation system will be examined and repaired where it is found to be he a workplace safety and health inspection wednesday found High Carbon dioxide Levels in three class the gymnasium and the principals the department recommended improvements to the ventilation sys tem and vacuuming areas that con Tain hard Asbestos Kurtz said a meeting to discuss the problem was held yesterday be tween division school and a government safety officer and employee represent although Carbon dioxide Levels were above the allowable there is no health danger to students and they wont be moved from the Kurtz the maximum guideline for car Bon dioxide is 800 parts per but Kurtz said the level Doest become a Hazard until it exceeds some areas of the 64yearold school were found to contain up to the province has Given the Divi Sion 10 Days to draft a cleanup if it Doest find it it will Issue an order to have the appropriate work school principal Peter Carney said the Carbon dioxide Levels in class rooms get progressively worse Dur ing the suggesting that ventilation int Levels in the hallways Are he Carney said More Energy yes Focient windows installed at the school two years ago Are keeping out but Are also contributing to the Carbon dioxide former City worker sues Over disability benefits a Winnipeg Man who says he was forced to quit his Job As a City maintenance worker because of in juries from an ont Ejob Accident is suing the City for refusing to pay him full disability in a statement of claim filed in Manitoba court of Queens Edward Kafka says he was forced to quit his Job in september 1979 be cause shoulder injuries from an Accident 10 years earlier rendered him permanently although he asked the City to give him another Job that was less physically his supervisors said nothing was available and told him he would have to resign or be the statement of claim our program is designed particularly for people who would otherwise face Epp we Are not prepared to work with people who Are a real physical threat to we have refused other referrals of people who Are not going to respond to Community us Epp said in an interview Many of those who get into trouble with the Law have an unstructured lifestyle and dont respond to a prison Enas it says the City refused to acknowledge that his injuries were work related and insisted he want entitled to a disability pension be cause he had after several years of pressing his City officials finally acknowledged last year that he was the document but they have refused to pay him the annual disability pen Sion to which he is agreeing to pay Only it Kafka is asking the court for a declaratory order that he is entitled to full disability he wants them paid a statement of defence has not been filed by the since the alternative sentence planning program began in october it has received 65 Case refer rals and made 23 proposals for alter Nate sentences to the of 13 have been i dont feel bad about that Type of Epp to my two of the 13 have been involved in further criminal of but we dont supervise the cases Epp said the program is negotiating with Ottawa for funding to work with Young ;