Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june Page 3 Potash plan interests South korean Manitoba nurses reject local update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free press Manitoba to delay hearings on Accord Premier Howard Pawley says Manitoba will schedule its Public hearings on the Meech Lake constitutional Accord Only after the com Mons and Senate committees com plete their Cros Canada it depends on the timing of the conclusion of the other two hear Pawley adding theres still no indication when the hearings would the Senate hearings Are expected to begin within a couple of Pawley said the Manitoba hear Ings would Likely take place Between september and weve our own priorities to Deal Pawley the Premier also said he has no idea when the current session of the started in late will it depends on the How Long they want to Pawley adding the opposition might want to debate contentious measures such As the proposed provincial takeover of ice utilities the human rights Bill and the final offer Selec Tion clause in a labor Ward change wanted Winnipeg school Board will go to the Public this fall with a proposal to change Ward Board chairman de Kowalchuk Kowalchuk said the change would move Ward 2s Boundary South from Portage Avenue to the Assiniboine adding about electors to the Ward and increasing Popula Tion Equality Between the divisions three he said trustees believe this will win More acceptance than a propos Al three years ago that current boundaries stay the but that Ward 1 South of Portage have four trustees instead of and that Ward 2 be Cut from three trustees to with North end Ward 3 to retain its three Kowalchuk said the change would be made after Public hearings and could be implemented for the 1989 school Board he also said the which debated for More than a year whether to hire a special inner City us has decided to do but the official will be ranked below a regular assistant Charity needs space a spokesman for a soup Kitchen that must vacate the Broadway Optimist Community Centre by the end of August has issued a Public Appeal for space in that Cliff Mcmurtry of Harrow United an agape table said the which helps More than 250 needy individuals every must find at least a temporary site for september and a permanent one by the time Winter Mcmurtry said that while there is enough Money for operating sex the program cannot afford expensive he said the program is the response of Winnipeg churches to the cites and that the Hearty soup served there is the Only daily meal some inspections on target the Manitoba department of highways and transportation mandatory truck inspection pro Gram is on a spokesman information officer Candace Holmstrom said about of the trucks and trailers in the province have been inspected since the program started May Holmstrom said the which requires annual inspections of trucks weighing at least kilo is part of a National agree ment Between provincial highways ministers to promote trucks must be inspected twice a trailers once a she transit route upheld Winnipeg transit officials have recommended the Aberdeen Avenue bus which Drew complaints of noise from be Contin a move a residents spokesman said apparently ends their a transit planning spokesman said a study sent to lord Selkirk West Kildonan Community officials re commended the route be continued because ridership is especially among elderly Audrey of 1076 whose petition garnered More than 200 said she Doest expect to continue the Ofree press Gilbert Park children play on an electrical transformer because of vandalism at their vandalized playground called threat by Shane Minkin children living in the Gilbert Park development play in garbage on electrical transformers and on Glass littered Concrete be cause their playgrounds have been a Mother of five it Breaks my said Gil Bert Park residents association spokesman Sandra i recently had to pull three kids out of the garbage bins because i was afraid they would get bit by she said she is terrified to let her children outside to its a Glass covered Concrete Jungle out she its not Safe at the she have no where to play because the designated playgrounds have All been destroyed by they look like Aztec Bevan said she takes her Chil Dren five blocks away to North Wood Park to but its too far away for most of the smaller children to walk so they Are forced to stay in a reporter who visited the development saw Barefoot children playing on Glass covered on electrical transformers and on nearby building Bevan said she has complained to the developments the Winnipeg housing manager Keith Moffit said while he sympathizes with the childrens there is Little that can be he said one play made of was Cut Down by another play containing a swing was uprooted by vandals from its Concrete he Ive got prices to replace the play area and it is Over As of this Point in i Haven got the Moffit he added the authority spent More than last year to re move Graffiti scattered throughout the 254home the ones that Are suffering be cause of All this Are the but i cant keep up with the vandalism that being victim faults Pound for failure to Nab biting pit Bull terrier Bauerlein says rabies shots might have been a Winnipeg Man says City officials failed to Nab a pit Bull terrier that bit even after he located the dog for Dean said if officials had gone quickly to the address he gave them they might have found the dog and he might not have to have rabies Bauerlein said he was angry with officials i did their Job for them on my he said the female dog bit his leg june 10 when he was delivering soft drinks to a store at Warsaw Avenue and Cockburn circling i was going into the store and the dog came up from he it looked like it had death in its eyes when it came around the Cor it ran around and it kept looking at it was circling like a Bauerlein said the bite broke the skin on the Back of his i think that dog should be he said the Day after the he went looking for the dog and was told it lived on the third floor of a Jessie Avenue apartment Bauerlein said he provided the address to health officials that Day and in a written complaint to the City Pound the next he said the Pound did a licence Check on the building and told him there was no record of a pit Bull terrier Sandy a City medi Cal health said the Pound went to the but was told the dog had been sold to someone in the Campbell said he advised Bauerlein to have shots in Case the dog was Bauerlein said he does not relish the thought of having the which come in a series of five taken Over a four week he said he went to Grace Gener Al hospitals emergency department the night of the in Case there was a risk of a doctor notified Margaret Manitoba director of communicable disease he he called saying there was no need to worry because rabies is rare in she said there Hast been a Case of rabies in Winnipeg in the past rabies was confirmed june 1 in a cat whose owner lives in a Annes Road apartment fast said later she meant there haunt been a Case of an animal becoming infected with rabies in she said the cat became infected outside the cancer care sought out of province radiologist asks hospitals to ease wait for Manitoba patients by Kathleen Engman a radiologist has asked hospitals in Regina and Thunder Bay to treat Manitoba cancer patients if they cannot wait up to five weeks for radiation Kamal director of radiation oncology at the Manitoba cancer treatment and research said the hospitals have agreed to take those none has been sent Malaker he said a patient is put on High priority when he has a relatively advanced disease which is Edward associate director of radiation said no patients who Are in pain or who have fast growing tutors must the psychological suffer ing other cancer patients endure when they wait is he Baral said he believed the mental state can affect physical he said he finds it very difficult to explain to patients they must Baral said although a wait of two weeks would Likely not affect the patients recovery he could not be so certain about longer Long time if were talking four or five weeks its very difficult to this is a pretty Long Malaker said the situation is not but we dont live in an Ideal if you feel the patient is really worried we give them the option to go to some other he a Manitoba health services com Mission spokesman said the prov Ince has a reciprocal agreement with other and would pay for transportation and lodging would not be he Baral said cancer patients with deep seated such As those in the face Waits of four to five weeks for their treatment would be per formed with a High Energy linear Baral adding 37 people Are on the foundation waiting list for that As eight cancer patients Are on a list with a wait of seven to 10 Days for treatment with a Low Energy machine that treats other such As those in the head or another 18 people Are waiting for seven to 10 Days for Cobalt treat which is used for tutors that Are not As such As those in the the rate at which cancerous tutors reproduce depends upon the Type of tumor and where it is local he Malaker said breast for can take six months to double in while lung tutors can take four or five hours extended Malaker said the situation was improved somewhat when the foun Dation extended its treatment hours last Baral said the foundation must acquire More Malaker said the government has promised to fund an additional High Energy linear which will Cost million to he said it will be at least a year before the equipment is in opera diners anger lingers Ingroup blasts secrecy on bout of Salmonella by Aldo Santin a group of in rail employees says the provincial health depart ment withheld vital information on a major Salmonella the employees and their guests were stricken with what they thought was food poisoning following a dinner party last april at the Winnipeg Canoe while two of the group of 35 had their own physicians confirm the illness As the employees say the health department never confirmed the health department officials finally contacted us about two weeks after the Les one of the dinner they came Down and interviewed everyone who found out what we ate and How but we were never told that we had Salmo he said 18 employees and guests got sick after the Thompson said he was upset to learn the incident became Public Only recently at a food borne ill Ness Andy another in rail pm said health department officials should have gone Public with their information immediately to prevent another Margaret director of communicable disease said there was no intent to withhold information because the department Doest have a policy on releasing such several Days theres no reason to release the information unless the Public is at fast the health department became aware of the situation several Days after the she after a pregnant woman who had attended the dinner gave birth fast said it took several More Days to narrow the cause of the Salmonella to the she said investigators then scheduled interviews with everyone who attended the dinner to confirm their we try to do the investigation As quickly As fast but we didst find out about this out break until Well Gibson said his symptoms Nau diarrhoea passed by the time he was inter viewed by the health he said it was his own doctor who confirmed he had been stricken with Gibson said everyone affected assumed they also had Salmonella be cause of the two confirmed he said he is upset More than 14 months because the department kept the incident fast said Standard procedure is to circulate the test results Only to those who ask for wed assume that if you were ill youd ask for the she but we certainly go Back and Contact everyone once our investigation was Pauline Chambers said her doctor suspected the symptoms associated with Salmonella poisoning induced her labor three weeks baby healthy who attended the Din Ner with her said her baby was born four Days after the Din the baby was Chambers but both she and her husband were ill several she said the Salmonella bacteria remained in her system for three months despite treatment with Peni Rod Richard said he missed eight Days of work and lost 15 in not a very big Guy to begin a sales information i was Bent Over Dou ble in pain for a couple of Days and 1 had a bad Case of i went from 165 to 147 my Cheeks were All caved when i came Back to everyone thought 1 was dying for the club want at Jim chief of food investigators later tied the outbreak to a Kitchen employee who brought the disease into the he Chris the medical officer who led the said most people had symptoms for a few Days while others had prob lems for about a Greensmith said the department Doest go Public on such incidents to protect the business sometimes these things happen despite everyone Best Pecau ;