Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 25, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1985 Page 3 teacher society takes band Back to sudden snowstorm hampers we Pawley hires former nip my As native adviser by Mary Ann Fitzgerald former nip my Terry Sar Geant from an Indian re serve during his reelection Campaign to advise Premier Howard Pawley on native the premiers principal Secretary confirmed As John Walsh said Sargeant is among 100 applicants for a Job posted by the civil service com Mission for a senior policy advisor on native affairs to the sergeants monthlong con tract As special advisor to the pre who is chairman of the native affairs committee of carries a salary equivalent to about a Walsh we Are interested in having him Glenn free press work in the area of native affairs for a longer but not necessarily in the Job he civil service commission chair Man Paul Hart said the Cabinet requested a Competition for the Posi Hart said the Job Falls into a category known As a technical which is a political appoint ment outside the civil Hart said he was not aware a Short list of applicants has been screened for which sources said Are scheduled for next opposition Leader Gary labelled the appointment blatantly political and questioned sergeants credentials Filmon recalled Sargeant and nip la Harry had been banned from the Basterville re serve during the election Campaign Over the Issue of a no Reserve i am not so sure there is evidence he has Strong ties or relationships with native Filmon Manitoba government employees association president Gary doer said he was angered by the govern ments double Standard in approving political appointments while insist ing on a seven percent vacancy rate in the civil they Are hiring at the political level while they Are absolutely squeezing at the service for he the positions for two health inspectors remain vacant while highways minister John Lohman has hired an executive assistant in Environ ment minister Gerard Lecuyer has been allowed to hire an executive assistant and Pawley has hired doer said he was not disputing sergeants i think he has excellent Contact with the native communities in Man he government sources said Sar Grants Short term appointment May be to cover a period until the pre Mier makes his promised Cabinet perhaps shifting responsibilities for native Sargeant said he hoped his present contract will give him an inside track on the advertised Job but i dont really Sargeant dismissed the election incident As a bit of grandstanding to gain attention for the education Issue at he said he subsequently campaigned on the Basterville Reserve and although he never could Contact band he received 85 per cent of the vote in the he said he has had a fair amount of experience in dealing with Naas an i had 11 reserves in my in his Job with the Sar Geant said he expects to be involved in constitutional rights for Northern Hydro development train ing and and with concerns of the Manitoba Metis Sargeant contract Job Young tugs with Teeth gritted in concentration and tongues protruding for University of Manitoba students engage in a tug of War on their fort Garry Campus the reason for the snowy revelry was the University Celebration City tree replacement lags diseased Trees Bare thousands of official says by Patrick Mckinley the City has fallen behind in re placing Boulevard Trees lost to dutch Elm disease and other City officials said John supervisor of the cites forestry said there is a backlog of to Sites where individual Trees have been Cut Down and need to be adding to the pressure Are new City predictions of increasing losses to dutch Elm disease in coming Jansen said a lion reforestation tentatively slated to begin in should enable the City to keep Pace with future losses on boulevards and even reduce the but the plan does not include re placement of Trees in heavily Wood Les accessible Riverbank areas where the disease is most that is where our heaviest removals Are All the River Jansen we Are re moving thousands every the City has predicted it will have to remove As Many As dying or diseased Trees this year to halt the spread of dutch Elm times As Many last Jansen said once the disease has ravaged elms along the it is expected to move into bordering areas and infect increasing numbers of Trees on City one City councillor says he will propose that the City set up its own tree farms on Cit owned land to increase the Supply of replacement Harold Taylor whose West end Ward contains Many said private nurseries have been slow to prepare for the expected losses by increasing their stocks of disease resistant although disease resistant Jacan elms were developed at Morden Sev eral years Taylor said the fed eral government has been tardy in making Stock available to Nur growing Trees to Supply perhaps on Quarter of its own requirements would give the City an assured sup a wider Choice of tree species and a better he it would be a Way to be not totally at the mercy of these people private he hotel stuck with tax Cut ruling the Manitoba court of Appeal has denied a bid by the fort Garry hotel to Appeal a property tax reduction by the provinces municipal which hotel owners claim is too Justice Alan Philp agreed with the City of Winnipeg position that the boards decision is final under the City of Winnipeg act and the municipal assessment and cannot be the municipal Board Cut from the hotels tax arrears originally pegged at the Bill is for taxes dating Back to Harvard the company which owns the Broadway has maintained the building be taxed at All because it is Taylor said the City owns a Good Deal of surplus property throughout Winnipeg and could grow Trees in several he said the operation could employ students of horticulture or landscaping on a temporary basis during the for a Low Dollar you can get some fairly Good staff in Jansen said the re forestation program was originally slated to Start this but Nur series were unable to Supply enough Trees of sufficient the City has been planting about Boulevard Trees a year to replace Trees lost to Vandal car age and weath it has also been planting another Trees a year on streets that were formerly Jansen said he Hopes the reforestation program will permit the City to Plant perhaps an added Trees although he said much will depend on the availability of Stock from nurseries and the Taylor said the City is losing patience with the which has Frozen its Grants to the City for dutch Elm disease control at about annually for the past four this year the City is asking the province for to cover half the cos of stepping up the removal of diseased and dying Trees which can Harbor the Beetle responsible for spreading the Taylor said the government is co vering half the Cost of disease control in other parts of the but Only on third in we Are getting pretty cheesed off about the double he Sitters visiting rights appealed by Mother by Murray Mcneill the Manitoba court of Appeal reserved judgment yesterday in a landmark Case dealing with whether a former male Babysitter should have been granted visiting rights to a Young Winnipeg after hearing nearly three hours of Legal arguments from lawyers representing the Babysitter and the Childs chief Justice Alfred Monnin said he and his two fellow judges wished to prepare written he did not indicate when their ruling can be the Mother had asked the Appeal court to overturn a provincial court judges decision last August to Grant visiting rights to the former the who at one time was a close Friend of the applied for visiting rights under an Amend ment made in october 1983 to the Manitoba child welfare under the old Only a Parent could get regular Access to a the amended act states that in exceptional circumstances a court May Grant Access to any per son who has or ought to the Opportunity to visit a it does not define what is meant by exceptional one of the issues the Appeal court judges Are expected to must be wary at the hearing the mothers Carol warned the judges that provincial judge Larry rings ruling raises serious questions about the extent to which the state should get involved in such if allowed to it Means that All single parents who look to their friends for assistance must be Sharp she said the Mother has had Noth ing to do with the Babysitter since August neither she nor her current Boyfriend want anything fur ther to do with and she does not want her daughter to have anything More to do with the babysitters Barry said a social worker who prepared an accessibility report for judge described the Sitter As a better father figure for the Young Ster than her natural father or the mothers current judge ring noted the report in granting visiting but Sharp questioned whether the courts should be dictating to a single Mother who she should have As her Childs father the Case before you raises some very important Public policy consid she judge Monnin said there was no need to remind the court of the importance of the please dont Tell us we Are creat ing a we the chief Justice told Steinfeld that it appeared to him the child welfare act amendment was intended to to accommodate grandparents and other blood relatives who wanted to visit it was not he to include anyone and the judge noted the Babysitter had no relationship or kinship with the and was merely a former Friend of her and her this particular gentleman has no standing while the courts have ruled that visiting rights should be extended to there must be a limit to where it he the chief Justice also was critical of judge ring for ordering that an accessibility report be done for the original the state usually does not get involved in such matters unless the child involved is at he the child in this Case was under no risk he Steinfeld argued that under the amendment anyone can have Access to a child provided they can show exceptional circumstances such circumstances he because the Babysitter had been a close Friend of the and for a Brief period was an intimate Steinfeld said his client first met the Mother in june when the baby was five months and Over the next two years they remained with him babysitting on Many during a on month period when the Mother was working he had the baby stay with Steinfeld he noted the Man was never paid for his he did it be cause he loved the although he contended there was no evidence the child would be harmed in any Way if he were to be granted visiting Sharp argued that it would create confusion in the girls mind Over who is the father figure in her As she said if the former Babysitter is entitled to Access to the what is to Stop the mothers current Boyfriend from seeking a Cess rights at some future it must end she second Price Rise expected for milk by Barbara aggerholm Manitoba Consumers can expect a further increase soon after nex months two cent hike in the Price of Industry spokesmen the Manitoba milk prices review commission is to announce monday a two cent increase for a litre of to take effect the commission said the increase will Benefit Farmers and will be passed on to but some processors and retailers say they need an increase due to rising costs and shrinking profit were hoping we in turn will get Silverwood dairies general manager Laird Fraser said Fraser said the commission has asked processors to consider How they want to present their we will be asking for an in he i dont think we would be Happy with a the latest increase will mean con Sumers will pay 86 to 92 cents a litre for Fraser said in addition to a Rise in Hydro and fuel the company experienced a six percent increase in Carton costs at the beginning of the month and is negotiating a labor any increase would hopefully take place in Fraser commission chairman Paul Phil lips said he didst anticipate con Sumers would pay More than two cents above the february increase if processors and retailers Are successful in proving rising a flu percent increase for the consumer would correspond with the Rise in the consumer Price he but Speede emart owner Mel Cla Ven said he would need More than that to curb the loss he has experienced since milk Price controls went into i need a 12centalitre increase to make any Money at Claven adding he plans to meet with other Small retailers to plan their presentation to the Cecil general manager of Lakeland said he would oppose any increase to the processing Industry As Long As the practice of rebating processors say the practice of offering reduced prices on ice Cream and cultured products to retailers As an incentive to buy their has intensified in some there Are discounts of Over 30 per cent on the published Selling Price of ice Phillips said the commission is investigating complaints from some processors about the Large ice Cream Ian general manager of the Manitoba Dairy cooperative said he favors the governments monitoring of the since a Dairy the size of Manco cant afford similar in a Way it seems he we Are the largest Manitoba owned Dairy and the multinationals Are using Manitoba As a Battle things have heated freight firm closes doors As Many As 15 people could be out of work today when Manitoba cart age closes after 103 years in Busi a company spokesman said last its going to be kind of you after All these David a customer relations employee of the company for the past 25 Fay said the freight company opened in 1882 but was bought about seven years ago by Livingston distribution centres he said Manitoba cartage continued As a freight forwarding Divi Sion under the new he said he pinpoint the number of jobs lost by the since some employees Are taking Early retirement and some unionized workers May find jobs elsewhere in the Livingston theres just no telling How Many its going to Fay snowy walks deter officials say icy Steps and sidewalks Are posing a serious Hazard for Canada posts letter corporation and Union spokesmen said its a very serious said Gord health and safety committee member with the letter carriers Union of corporation officials estimate about carriers were injured on the Job last year and Nicholson says Winnipeg 500 members report As Many As 10 injuries a month due to the problem has prompted Canada Post and the Union to Colla borate on a program designed to remind residents to keep their walks and Steps Clear of ice and Canada Post spokesman Ai Skrumeda said the called ice is designed to Alert Resi dents to the hazards carriers face during their daily As he said residents should be aware of the costs involved in an including the medical lost wages and the disruption of mail Skrumeda noted that in some Canada Post will discontinue mail delivery to residences if officials deem the Walkway or Steps to be too he also noted that Canada Post has the right to take Legal action against residents whose negligence has resulted in injury to an employ he said he could not recall this having been done Canada Post has placed Post ers bearing the slogan and a picture of a letter Carrier slipping on an icy at All Post offices and Skrumeda said this years weather conditions appear to be worse than last year and he noted the Corpora Ion was anticipating an increase in Nicholson said he expects the conditions this year to be similar to last and believes the rate of injury will remain the ;