Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May 1985 Page 3 Farmers wage Gap group Home head fears local multicultural group Secretary quits position the Secretary of the dissension wracked multicultural committee has resigned after earlier complain ing the groups political infighting had become Gladys Bentley handed in her res ignation at a committee meeting last Bentley said in the resignation letter she finds the Job too difficult and she said she will continue to sit As a member of the an offshoot of the spit tests show win honors by David Roberts the big winners at this years Manitoba schools science symposium Are plants and the history of three Winnipeg High school Stu dents took top honors at the symposium yesterday with their research on How plants How Teeth rot and How computers might revolutionize the three winners will travel to to participate in an Exchange of ideas with students from other Mychelle Mili Roy and Ian Macbeath travel to London for two weeks in a Grade 11 student at River East studied what happens when you put Calcium phosphate into test the cap04 acts As a Buffer against lactic which causes tooth a higher concentration of Calcium phosphate which is present in human saliva fewer visits to the who thinking about Stu dying dentistry at the University of said brushing with a Cal Ciu fluoride combination is a Good hedge against tooth a Grade 12 student at Johns Raven court grew rapeseed and tobacco tissues in artificial Roy found older like older did not grow As fast As Young two Auxin and also affect Plant Roy the higher the ratio of Auxin to the faster the plants roys Asin and Jaya said they were especially proud yesterday As both their Mili and her brother won Deb will go to next week to participate in the Canada wide science was the third major award Winner and is also a student at Johns with the help of a Macbeath did some reprogramming to change the Spac ing of musical from the Standard 12tone Macbeath created a 19tone system with inter Esting auditory he he travels to London with Roy and Kurbis in Shyamala Dakshinamurt of John Taylor collegiate won the free press award for her technical paper on the Structure of cancer citizenship Council of she refused to discuss her res ignation when but in an interview Early last week said she planned to resign because she cant tolerate political infighting within the Bentley said she was rudely re buffed recently when she suggested committee meetings be conducted in a More orderly she said one recent committee meeting degenerated into a shouting Bentley said some committee members have tried to discredit the citizenship Council of Manitoba by publicly questioning the handling of a Secretary of state committee member Dermot Rooney has also attacked the Man Ner in which committee meetings Are Rooney said in a letter to the committee a Small group is attempt ing to manipulate the majority of committee members for reasons of their he said an april 22 committee meeting was reduced to a fiasco following a presentation by Council president Olga Fuga and executive director Tom he said the main item on the Agenda dealt with controversy Over the Federal government Grant to hire a multicultural coordinator for the International committee chairman Beate a Mizrachi has said the Grant should be returned because the committee want informed about the Applina Rooney said the meeting voted to accept demons and Fugas explanation and apology about How the Grant was but he said committee members continued to debate the i personally will not be intimidated by any serving their own Rooney said in the a Mizrachi said Rooney com ments Are a smokescreen designed to divert attention from the handling of the a Mizrachi said the committee voted to accept Denton but at a More recent meeting agreed members could pursue the mat Ter if they As for Bentley a Mizrachi said committee meetings Are sometimes but Are con ducted former committee chairman Sally Macdonald said in a letter to multiculturalism minis Ter Jack Murta the Grant application was devised in rather a haphazard Way Macdonald said Denton has told the committee he received but she said Denton asked for 400 in the How much Money was actually Given out Macdonald asked in the letter to As the letter said the four committee members whose names appear on the application didst know about plans to ask for a Macdonald said the members Dis covered the Grant by Accident after the Cheque had been issued and months after the application had been Macdonald said if the Grant must be it will be a useful lesson to government bureaucrats not to As sume Peoples names can be used without their Navy honors a bugler plays last Post at Winnipeg Cenotaph in a ceremony yesterday commemorating members of the Navy who died at mayor Bill Norrie granted the cites naval Community the Freedom of the City the events were part of Winnipeg celebrations of the Royal Canadian navys 75th Golf club project takes priority Over Snake statue fundraising the lure of the links has led in Wood Community leaders to put their plans for a giant Garter Snake statue on Peter Reeve of the local government District of said efforts to improve the Inwood Golf and country club have forced organizers to delay setting up a formal committee and fundraising drive for the proposed Masliuk said Inwood has Only about 250 residents As often happens with civic a few people end up doing vandalism ceases a lot of publicity and extra help from Winnipeg police have put an end to the vandalism that plagued the Church of god for 18 John Murray he said the last incidents occurred easter just before he told the Media of the plight of his North Kildonan Murray said three local teenagers jumped the Fence to get on to Church property the following but update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free police were there to Nab no charges were Laid but the youths were he the Church 40member Congre gation is mostly Murray said he believed the vandalism was racially motivated be cause the Christian Reform which shares his Church parking want fingerprinting touted Winnipeg police have solved More than 100 crimes since the Young offenders act gave them the right to fingerprint a department spokesman Bob Bridgwater said about 100 juveniles have been fingerprinted each month since the Law took effect in april and 104 crimes have been solved because of officer reimbursed the Brandon police commission has reimbursed one police officer for his Legal defence against a citizens but refused to subsidize another who pleaded guilty to a Brandon mayor Ken Burgess who Heads the police said the commission voted to reimburse Ralph wat son for the he spent on a lawyer who defended him against a com plaint that he didst follow up on a Call about a Roisy the commission cleared Watson of any Burgess he said the commission refused financial help to Wil Liam who he said was charged with sexual Burgess said Dunton pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of assault and the commission decided that because of the guilty it compensate him for his in Legal Eye doctor to join exodus by Maureen Brosnan Judi a former head of ophthalmology at the University of Manitoba is the first Eye specialist to leave the prov Ince this partly Bec Atim a training program at the University medical school is being Gordon head of the department until he resigned in said he will leave Manitoba in a gust to set up practice in Annapolis who Practised in Winni Peg and Selkirk and taught at the medical said he was leaving partly because of the Lack of interest in continuing an ophthalmology pro Gram he said he knows of at least three other Eye specialists who Are consid ering leaving Manitoba this Ami acting head of ophthalmology at the u of said three Eye specialists have already resigned from the health sciences Krolman will be Laxdal said while two new Eye specialists Are expected to begin work in Winnipeg this Eye surgery backlogs and other prob lems will not improve unless the government comes through on its commitment to fund the program and revitalize the Krolman said he is relocating to Nova Scotia because that provincial government and Community Are interested in he also said he plans to retire in about seven we were looking for a retirement he we just think its a Nice place to Krolman said he had become disillusioned with a Lack of interest in ophthalmology on the part of the University and the Manitoba go he said the medical school pro which was cancelled after it failed to meet requirements of the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of Canada last was in trouble for some after receiving Only provisional accreditation for several the program was cancelled after a re View last the College based its decision on poor physical space and equipment allotted to As Well As poor outpatient facilities at the health sciences Krolman said the ongoing frustrations and problems had prompted his decision to step Down As program head eight years since his position has been filled by two acting including another doctor who also resigned in no one was hired full time for the they still Haven found a re he Laxdal said the government has promised to spend More Money to decrease surgery waiting but he said nothing definite has been he said a special committee set up to recommend improvements has not met since without a salaried ophthalmologist and improved working areas and Laxdal the Royal College will not consider reinstating the schools health minister Larry Desjardins said he expects a location for the new Eye surgery at either seven Oaks general Hospital or Vic Toria general will be announced within a couple of Gay rights faster fears for ends strike Phil free press by Maureen Murray homosexual rights activist Rick North sipped v8 juice and ate a bowl of Lime jell0 yesterday after failing eyesight persuaded him to abandon his hunger strike in its 59th said his Eye doctor told him he would do permanent dam age to his sight if he continued to starve he said last night he was seeing double and his vision was he said he first noticed the symptoms by yesterday after they had become the specialist was not Able to Tell him whether the damage was re but North said at the it can be corrected with North began his hunger strike on March 8 to protest what he called the nip governments disregard for the rights of he had pledged to go without food until Protection for Gays was included in the provinces human rights the province has so far refused to meet norths Ive lost the but not the North he said he made an abrupt Deci Sion to Stop starving himself be cause his eyesight was too great a Price to from the the thing i feared most was that my eyesight would be North who now weighs 140 said he shed 54 he said he has been getting phys ical examinations several times a week until his general health had been the Eye problem really caught me off i still have a lot of stored Energy and i thought i would have been Able to go a lot longer before my bodily functions degenerate North said he began taking Vita mins and drinking fruit juice at about 3 he said by 7 he was Able to eat his first semisolid a bowl of Lime North said he has not suffered stomach cramps or any other Side effects since he resumed North said although his bid to change the governments policy it brought the Issue of Gay rights before the North said he is More Pessi mistic about How soon the Gay Community can Hope to see a Law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual i just dont know i just dont a tire looking North Rick North pauses to rub Bis eyes during 4 i parents push for guard at death crossing a parents group says it appears someone will have to die before Winnipeg school division puts an adult crossing guard at a crosswalk where a girl was recently someone is going to have to get killed before something is finally done to protect our said Pau line president of Pinkham Community Gutowski said the Council has been trying for five years to get an adult crossing guard at Arlington Street and Alexander where a 16 year old girl was struck police said Grace Yablonski was hit in the Middle of a pedestrian corridor by a southbound car on Arlington Yablonskiy said both her daughters Kneecaps were crushed in the she said Grace had knee surgery and is still in intersection is so dangerous cars dont bother to she Gutowski called the intersection a death cars coming Down the Arlington Street Bridge Are going at 50 Kilometres an hour and they dont notice the crosswalk until its too Gutowski said parents in the North Winnipeg neighbourhood have been fighting for More than five years to get an adult guard at the Cross Emily rach said the parents group began complaining to the Board about the intersection after her then narrowly escaped getting rach said students from nearby Pinkham elementary school now act As foot patrols for younger children crossing at the Shelly who lives near the said she has voluntarily started acting As a crossing guard since Yablonskiy the corridor is too dangerous to be policed by a Grant she said if the school Hoard does not agree to hire a permanent crossing she is going to Tain her two who have to Cross at the out of de the Pinkham teacher who organizes the student agreed the Job should be once by Bent predicted someone is going to get killed at the location if something is not but Mario Winnipeg school Board said having an adult at the intersection is not the a guard helps the Chi Diw across the a Crau Iai Mart cant make cars he the real problem is cars he allowed to travel at Whf speeds in areas where there Are elementary i i i ;