Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May give us the clinic few hospitals opt for total smoking Parade pizzeria requires dough Standard and poors May give Winnipeg a Good credit but the new York rat ing Agency obviously didst consult local City councils environment committee was meeting last week when the councillors worked up an appetite and decided to Call out for pizza at City but committee clerk Bill Lyons had to phone 10 restau rants before he found one will ing to deliver on d d d this weeks contribution to our Hosay politicians Aren smart department comes from labor minister Al who must have bought a new the loquacious minister delivered an ominous bit of by Rea speak in the legislature this week when asked whether the Manitoba Telephone sys tem will continue competing with private companies Selling computer it is very important that we maintain a viable Corpora Tion to provide service to the people of and we Are concerned to facilitate the continuance of those operations and where there Are ancillary operations that complement the operation of that it would be fool Hardy to close our eyes to opportunities to facilitate that enrichment of the operations of the he you can say that Al but Odd Issie Coop has apparently discovered a magic Wand to reverse the sagging fortunes of Winnipeg deteriorating and the president of the North Portage development int about to let Pesky Little industries Stop him from waving the corporation has been wrestling with the problem of How to make the free press building fit in with a new mall and shopping District next its one City Council Lor said recently of the free press Coop was just beginning to unveil the corporations plans last week when he reached Over a huge scale Model of the downtown with a the end of coops magic stick hit the free knocking it across Carlton just outside his area of nothing muttered a re faced d d d City councillor Bill Neville was musing aloud this week when he was reminded of Philadelphia mayor Wilson Goodes defense of police who dropped a bomb to flush out some destroying 60 houses in the when one looks at Phila one thanks god for mayor Neville Nan the Canadian mental health which is being forced from its Edmonton Street offices by North por Tage has found a new the Agency Manitoba Divi Sion Hopes to move into an Ellice Avenue which currently houses a business advertising its service As Complete relaxation in a pleas ant and just who would the Cha be replacing a Massage Hope the association Doest rub anybody the wrong Odd last week we told you about an award the Manitoba Community newspapers association forgot when it doled out its goodies to Rural the response was under but heres two More it forgot to hand our award for Best headline to go with a Anont Estreet poll goes to the Opasquia times of the Pas for this Gem what do you think about senseless vandalism Flash of insight award goes to the scratching River Post of Morris for this Valu Able Nugget working water is quite different from working above ground and some people say the distort the new lutheran Church president criticizes to religion by Glen Mackenzie televised religion lacks the per Sonal touch of a live the president of the new evangelical lutheran Church in Canada said it is great entertainment for a lot of Donald Sjoberg it is a great show to but we prefer facet face Reli he said televised religion lacks such human elements As sacraments and a Coffee get together after a noting that Many television preachers Are born again he said such preachers always talk a lot about the number of people they have convert but i always wonder about the number they have scared to he me said lutheran churches have some televised religious but stressed they Arent designed As substitutes for a live sunday ser Church membership generally has declined markedly in recent he he said his Church membership has stayed about although Canadas Overall population has he thinks sunday shopping is a major Factor hurting Church Atten dance because it makes sunday no different from any other people Are dashing off to shop of work at a shopping he in not sure we can celebrate a service in a shopping Sjoberg is the first president of the formed this weekend at a merger convention of three Canad an synods of the lutheran Church in America and the evangelical lutheran Church in Canada formerly the Canadian District of the can lutheran talks had been held with the 000 member lutheran Church but Sjoberg said they foun dered Over the ordination of a policy the two amalgamated churches about 20 of the Church f30 clergy Are he said he has no idea if the ordination hurdle will be overcome to unite all1 three adding ill leave that to the next the new which will set up Headquarters in Winnipeg this will have about the two branches which cattle to Gether have no philosophical Sjoberg he said membership is concentrated in the Kitchene Waterloo Dave free press Bill Kerr has been Butcher to three generations of customers at Grosvenor meat but Hes closing times catch up to old style Butcher by Gary Hunter Butcher Bill Kerr was Able to meet Competition from a multinational grocery but a City bylaw requiring triple stainless steel sinks was too closed up shop at his old fashioned Grosvenor meat Market for the last time 39 years after opening for Busi the Bow tied who was serving the third generation of some of his River Heights custom said upgrading ordered under new health regulations was just too i would have had to put in triple sinks at the Back and another sink beside the and then have the Walkin cooler lined in stainless he pile of pork it would have Cost mini he you have to sell a pile of pork chops to cover Kerr said he has rented his store at Grosvenor Avenue and Stafford Street to a Young couple who plan to open a crafts i cant see anybody opening a Small Butcher shop anymore theres just too much he Dean head of the cites food Protection said the new retail food store bylaw passed in january int out of line with regulations in other Canadian it was designed to meet the changes in the types of marketing in food stores because Many places were getting into bulk Deli bars and things like he the bylaw was drafted in Consul tation with the Industry and Hast drawn much he were just talking to people about it the real push will come when we get copies of it the bylaw printed up and distribute Ted a member of the Manitoba committee of the Canad an federation of Independent Gro said he Doest doubt the new regulations will make it hard for some businesses to especially some of the smaller stores where maybe they just dont have the space for the new plumb Froese Kerr said he understands the need for health regulations in food stores and has had Good relations with health inspectors Over the i can see some of it makes never a complaint since opening for Ken said Hes never had a customer complaint and has never been cited by the health the Butcher said he Doest know what hell do in in 39 he he Neyer took holi Days and never missed a Day when i i afford to close up and then i guess i just got in the he Long after it went out of Kerr continued to keep the shop open six Days a closing wednesday when Safeway built a new store at Stafford and Corydon Avenue in the Kerr said he worried about the i was Here when they built a when they enlarged stand when they closed he i always managed to make a Liv Kerr has also seen the much ton Ier Hardy Buchanan grocery Kitt Corner from his change hands three times during his Only Joyce owner of Mcdiarmid has been on the Corner by about a last longtime customers were dropping in to Chat and buy up the Little remaining one woman cleaned out kerrs tissue while another scooped up the remaining Lamato an overhead sausage drying rack was sold to an antique dealer in world and Cana Dian maps that were a tide soap promotion 25 years ago went Cigar in the Corner of his Kerr said he knows Hes going to miss i like meeting ill miss the that will be the big unskilled worker wage Cut urged Small construction firms want hourly minimum for novices a group representing Small con tractors wants the Legal minimum pay rate Cut from to an hour for All unskilled construction work Paul Winnipeg housing rehabilitation general manag said an unskilled person off the Street working at a construction site gets a minimum an regardless of Mcneil said most other Job classifications set by the greater Winni Peg construction wages Board in clude rates from apprentices to experienced he said an apprentice with two or three years experience May get Only an far less than the one with no exemption gone Mcneil said Small contractors doing renovation work used to be exempt from this put he said the province changed the Law last september to specific Al jobs to Young people without skills by cover All who would accept less than an Mcneil said the move will deny City charged after blast injures Hydro workers the City has been charged with two counts of violating the work place safety and health act follow ing a mishap in which three Winni Peg Hydro workers were the Laid earlier this appeared on the provincial court docket for the first time no plea was entered and the Case was remanded to May the City has been charged with failure to provide a Safe workplace and failure to provide proper instruction to three workers at the site of the 10 the three were injured while breaking up Concrete in a manhole on Empress Street Between maroons Road and Rapelje one worker dropped a Jack Ham which Cut a Volt causing an explosion and two workers suffered Burns and the third received a Crown attorney Murray Conklin refused to disclose details of the Case until it is dealt with in the charges were Laid after an investigation by a workplace safety and health he said his group advocate wage cuts for workers now getting an but wants a new minimum rate for new work Geryon Winnipeg construction association said he believes Many contractors offer unskilled workers less than the minimum and it is accepted by the Greasley said at firms where the scale is he doubted anyone who can get an hour As an unskilled worker would want to become an apprentice and learn a Trade at an Mcneil said the provincial govern an advocate of equal pay for equal guarantee unskilled construction workers an hour when most unskilled work ers in other industries get in area of Southern Ontario where Many residents have German ances tors and in Western Leon executive Secretary of the lutheran merger said about 60 per cent of adherents live in Western Cana Sjoberg said this makes Winni Peg a Central he said he favors some fund ing for private schools but that full Public funding of All religious schools would be difficult cause of their the question of full Public fund ing for Ontario roman Catholic schools has caused considerable strife there in recent lawsuit derails Grant bundle Back in Ottawa by Julia Necheff Manitoba education depart ment has lost a Federal Grant because of a Winnipeg teach ers the department won the Grant to expand a work study program in four school but education minister Maureen Hemphill said she decided to give the Money Back because the lawsuit is i would not turn Down Federal Hemphill but the decision was Al though it would have been Nice to receive the the program be expanded while a court Case is the department was awarded fed eral funding to expand a cooperative vocational education program on behalf of four Manitoba school although the program was taken to court last Spring by a Winnipeg teacher who charges it violates the Public schools Hemphill said that when the department sought the it was thought the court Case was re she said that after discussions with the education officials believed he would not proceed with his court program evaluation there was a period of time where we thought it had been she subsequent to the teacher decided to she said the department also decided it needed More time to Evalu ate the the education department was the Only successful Manitoba applicant to receive a Grant from the cooperative education designed to give students work experience while still in school to improve their chances of a Hans president of the vocational Industrial teachers As said he is challenging the program As a private Mueller called the open to students who have completed Grade inadequate for not provid ing them with Grade 12 academic he said the who receive ont Ejob training four Days each learn Only vocational theory during their one Day at its nothing More than a condensed apprenticeship Mueller after which the Stu dents Are handed a Grade 12 diploma although they have Only completed a Grade 11 trial Date set the teacher said he applied to Manitoba court of Queens Bench for a judgment on the Coop program last Spring and a trial Date has been set for june he said he is arguing that because the student work stations outside school Are an Extension of the school according to the Public schools act they must be taught by certified Boniface and Western school divisions Are responding to the he an education department spokes Man said the three Earold pro used extensively throughout Ontario for several is new in Manitoba and the ground rules need to be worked assistant Deputy minister John Dyck said 89 Grade 12 students in two Winnipeg and two Rural school divisions Are Federal employment depart ment spokesman said of 104 applications from colleges and school boards across Only four came from Federal youth employment director Bill Poole said red River Community Assiniboine College and the University of Manitoba also applied for they were turned Down because they did not meet All the criteria by which proposals were ;