Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 27, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press december Page 3 women politicians held study youth Centre releases suspected aids missing woman found dead an elderly women was found fro zen to death yesterday after wan Dering away from the Norbert nursing Home on Christmas after a 20hour Winnipeg police found the body of Mary in the Snow on a Steep Bank in the rear Yard of a lord Avenue Home shortly before police believe she died of expo an autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of her body was found about one Quarter of a mile from the nursing Home where she had celebrated Christmas with other she was seen at 3 Oclock at a Christmas party Here at the and then 15 minutes later no one knew where she Boyd who coordinated the search from the nursing said before the body was the people from the Home called us immediately and weve been looking Ever police canine unit aided in the search yesterday for Mary who was found after searching during the after noon and police stepped up the search yesterday bringing in its canine unit and three snowmobiles to join the 15 policemen in a door to door before the body had been Campbell said police were not optimistic of finding the elderly woman alive after temperatures dipped to minus 15 degrees during the she want wearing Winter and when you consider the age Factor Well i dont think i have to say Campbell Chidlow had a history of wan Dering but Campbell said she never got very far before nursing Home staff found a lord Avenue resident said Chidlow must have wandered onto the red River and walked along its seeing the lights in the Homes at the top of the she must have tried to climb the Steep the resident City and for bus Sites Southwest rapid transit idea revived in mayors inaugural address by David Roberts Winnipeg transit has earmarked vacant City land for use As jump off Points in the proposed Southwest bus transit transit spokesman Jarvis Kohut said two parcels near in rails Letellier line in fort Garry have been set aside for Parkland ride parking Kohut said the near Bison drive and Markham has been owned by the City for some he said interest in the transit corridor was revived when mayor corridor would run from Southern u of m terminus to East Yards downtown Bill Norrie mentioned the idea in his inaugural address to City i had to go and dust off the he plans for a rapid transit corridor linking the cites Southern suburbs to downtown have been sporadically floated for Over a in May the and Federal government initiated the Southwest transit corridor the by de Leuw Cather Canada and Dillon concluded a route of dedicated bus lanes could be built along the Letellier line from near the University of Manitoba to in rails East Yards at main Street and capital Cost of the project in 1976 dollars was estimated at Mil Kohut said the most recent Cost estimate is Between million and you get to the Point where you look for the most cos effective alternative to trying to expand Pem Bina some relocation of the in rail line would be needed if the project goes Kohut we feel the two transportation lines would be in the a series of sparsely attended Public information meetings were held to air the study findings and receive input on the Monorail former mayor Steve Juba said he preferred a fixed tideway or Mono rail system Over dedicated bus at City councils the Cost of phasing in electrically powered vehicles was investigated in trolley buses were found to be feasible but More expensive than diesel the Southern terminal under re Vised 1981 plans remains at Bison drive and the proposed corridor would follow the Letellier subdivision North to Jubilee where it would Cross Over Pembina the corridor would continue North through the fort Rouge about 30 metres East of the in about 300 metres South of Osborne the corridor would pass under the tracks to the West some reconstruction of Donald Street and land acquisitions would be needed near the in main line at the de leu Dillon re port the bus Way finally would pass Over main West of the rail Way and into the in East Yards and Union stops would be spaced at metre intervals along the the authors of the report estimated minutes would be saved in travelling from South fort Garry to downtown along the As opposed to the conventional route along Pembina Graham Avenue be tween main and Vaughan is seen As a transit the entire route would be restricted to buses and emergency no private vehicles would be Al Lowed in the Phil toe press Happy hanukkah Kyla gets a Little help from Lisa Doob last night at Temple shalom As she lit the first Candle on the menorah to Mark the beginning of hanukkah or the festival of the Eleveny Earold Brian Doob lights his in food inspector thrives on complaints by Doug Speirs Victor Warkentin is looking for the local director of the fed eral health Protection Branch says one of his biggest problems is too few Manitoban Are willing to report cases of food we feel for every complaint there Are Many More out there that go Warkentin if people instead of throwing tainted food out would let us it would help reduce the problem even by not he Manitoban Are allowing potentially Haz ardous products to remain on store the health Protection branches Winnipeg office has handled More than 400 complaints about tainted drugs and cosmetics since april Warkentin predicted his Branch will investigate about 600 complaints by March the end of the 198687 fiscal that about the same As in each of the past two complaints Range from the disco very of unacceptable ingredients to spoiled food and defective package items Manitoban have found hard to Swallow this year include grass hoppers in cans of peas and Wood chips and insect infestations in a variety of baked Staples in a Metal Blade in pastry and broken knives in English in recent unpalatable Addi Tives have included a mannequins Finger in a bottle of a Lizard in a tin of crushed pineapple and a rat in a loaf of while Only a fraction of tainted food cases Are Ever War Kentin said it appears such contamination is occurring less the Odd things Are really on the he i would say eight years ago it want uncommon to have in excess of its getting better control whats happening is manufacturers Are developing better Quality control and those kinds of things Are not getting through As much As they used a major Gripe investigated by health officials during the festive season is dented food often sold by retailers at discount he that can be a dangerous Situa the regional director if a can has been dented along the people buy it and retailers sell those Are the kinds of things that you cant Tell if there Safe any while most unexpected additives present Little danger to Warkentin said some contamination incidents pose serious health the worst example of food contamination in Manitoba this year involved chocolate coins and medallions made in Belgium that caused an outbreak of the rare Salmonella characterized by severe abdominal nausea and hit six youngsters in Winnipeg and one in Carman earlier this that was the most significant complaint we Warkentin he said Federal health inspectors traditionally Are Able to verify about half the complaints of tainted that Doest mean the others Arent but it Means Only half can be verified or he complaints often cant be verified because the incident has been re ported too Long after the he few complaints of contaminated Medicine or Coset if Are he i dont think weve Ever had a frivolous he it takes a Heck of a lot of guts to Call More going on doll stay on Rolls by Doug Speirs City welfare offices have swamped by people seeking assist even though the number Manitoban exhausting ment insurance benefits is it has been welfare director Russ its been extraordinarily since this has been an extraordinary place to the caseload has quadrupled Over the past Tew on the while More Winn Eggers Are going on they Are staying on the Rolls for a Shorter i ii Simmonds said the average Atay on welfare is Shorter this cause Manitoba Job Market has improved and his Branch is getting better at finding them he said the increased turnover on Winnipeg welfare Rolls this will mean a substantial saving for the we anticipate Well save approximately in direct Ridill 1986 under our budgetary projection about million for the while the number of Winnipeg get s applying for welfare is feet Al officials predict the number of Manitoban using up Pic benefits will decline almost nine per cent Thil Wayne senior economic analyst for the Manitoba region1 of employment and immigration said his projects exha Stees by March the of the 198687 fiscal Down from record that a drop of or from the record Manito bans whose benefits expired in the last fiscal Manitoba had exha Stees in what it basically tells us Attis Point in time is that for the past the Economy has been doing Jim regional or of economic services for employ ment and the opened new welfare cases in the first 11 months of this about cases a that compares to new cases opened in the same period last about cases a in an average cases were opened each were opening an More cases a month than we did last Simmonds weve added two intake workers because of and in hiring two its busier than last year andr last year was Busy As the steady decline he there question the number of receiving civic assistance is steadily j of people who were enrolled on welfare in or per were Pic of cases enrolled last or per involved whose benefits had although fewer exha Stees Are being pressure is being put on City welfare Rolls by a growing number of Young people with Little work experience who Are Tov land the proportion of youth on Tance has been increasing out the past three its shot upwards almost in an arithmetical its fright for 64 per cent cites welfare caseload in was Between the Ages of 18 to compared to 54 per cent at the same time last year and 40 per cent in the service Industry Kitchen help about the Only place a Young person can find a Job right Simmonds Norm u of m economics said the drop in Pic exha Stees reflect a dramatic improvement Manitoba Cameron said because jobless rate has been fairly the drop Means Only there Are Short term and fewer the economist said some of Tobas Lon term unemployed Likely have migrated to Southern Ontario to seek Treller said the number of tees is shrinking in Manitoba this year largely because there were fewer Pic claims filed in the fiscal in claims were Down from claims in v ;