Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june 1987 Page 3 use car fraud ruling South Africa orders Canadian local Parade stones gather no Masse one of ours was in last week listening to a Gaggle of government officials and producers gab about apparently trying to prove he is 10 shades of Federal Energy minister Marcel Masse kicked off a luncheon speech by citing this bit of Wisdom from his favorite Rock n roller to quote from Mitch jag you cant always get what you but if you try some you just might find you get what you just As weve always suspected a rolling Stone gathers no d d d at a legislative committee meeting last the tories were grilling nip Cabinet minister John Buck Laschuk Over the coverup of massive losses on Manitoba Public insurance reinsurance i tory Leader Gary Filmon noted buckles chunks version of the controversy differs from that offered by former Pic official Olafur asked whether he was Sug Gesting Sigurdson had been less than buckles Chuk spluttered i at no time have questioned we believe in we dont believe any politician has Ever met a u a we eyeballing the birthday announcements in last saturdays classified Sec Tion when we spotted a photo of Manitoba Mammoth finance Eugene Kos under the Pic of the Youthful looking remarkably like Beaver was this Cheeky Little ditty Hack then Yon looked so neat and to who could Hare foreseen youd become mean Gene the tax machine Happy a mean Gene with you As finance we figured things get d d Foj a reporter tingled Williex Cit ement last week when he received a letter from Manitoba Hydro with this in big Block on the Enve Lope news from Manitoba after he feverishly ripped it there was nothing so who if Hydro says no news is Good who going to u u conspiracy of the week for youll a parliamentary committee has been flooding us with great big envelopes addressed Quebec we put it Down to Bureau cratic but on reflect it seems we overlooked the sinister last just after the last bit of Quebec Bumph the Cal bounced Winnipeg the new West remember mayor the East to fill a void left by the demise of the Montreal nobody we Wanna know who knew and when d g g our Call of the week comes from a woman who was deeply moved by a recent yarn about a meeting that was being held to teach Manitoban How to grow Christmas was she interested in at tending did she want to wish us an Early seasons Greet Ings had she fallen off and was looking for another not we quote Why dont you reporters grow up youre a disgrace to the paper grow up Christmas is for g g we rang Toronto mayor Art Eggleton last week to see How Hogtown feels about the Deci Sion to punt the Winnipeg Blue bombers to Eastern we were handed Over to Eggleton who said the mayor be reached and we quote the phone in his car Doest work that poor have free press More than 100 bags of garbage were hauled from this West end Home after neighbors came to mans Rescue neighbors Rescue elderly Man living in squalor by Pauline Comeau Only a few weeks ago the Mere sound of Bills voice could strike fear into the hearts of neighbors who dared to approach his Creek Back porch to ask if the old Man was in need of last the same folks tiptoed through the doorway Call ing out greetings while bearing gifts of beef Coffee and scrambled lying on a rumpled his Long Grey Beard and hair neatly combed and splayed Down his Chest and across his the once Ruff 72 year old took hold of containers with fingers sporting inc Long Yel lowing nails and words offering Humble apologies about the on the threshold of the Arling ton Street House his helpful neigh Bors crossed paths with a cavalry of social health depart ment inspectors and cleaners cart ing out More than 100 bags of garbage during a today neighbors called the authorities when they noticed their somewhat but always mentally Friend weakening and that his Hydro had been shut simply getting into the House was an adventure for the first social services Crew to we could barely push the door into the Kitchen one piles of paper what stood in their Way was paper hundreds of pounds of news magazines and books piled from floor to ceiling with Only a narrow path leading to the stove and refrigerator and through to the rest of the mice scurried through the a Calendar in the Kitchen marked the Date about the time that Bills Mother one worker said no one has done anything resembling housework since her and this place int said Dan coordinator of the cites social services whose office handles dozens of Sim Ilar there is one House that weve been trying to do something about for a you could smell the place a Block no Normal human being could enter without a breathing Appart but this woman the owner has been assessed and found to be mentally she just thinks the Way she lives is Manitoba Public trustee Jayanti Raichura said if a person is just eccentric there is not much his office can Raichura office oversees the affairs of about Manitoban who have been declared mentally but because Bill and the woman described by Kosheluk Are Alert and Able to care for they Are not offered the services that can be they Are like Street bag ladies and living in their own Kosheluk but there is a Fine Lin of when you have the right to intrude on so Meones lifestyle and say it is not clean enough or Doest smell the Way we think it Bill when he says he is feeling Fine and Doest need much help around the he said he Doest mind that four men Are carrying out bags of stuff As he rests on his unmade i dont like to do in sure you can he has lived in the House since 1939 and has been alone since his Mother died about a decade he has seven Brothers and but chooses not to have much to do with he never angered by Bill the Lack of he Doest bother him angry about a Bill he didst agree he said he decided to ignore the grow ing pile of the former machinist has two pensions and some Money in the officials Bill will eventually be asked if he wants housekeeping help from Home care services and a hot meal each Day from meals on if a person refuses these ser vices it is their right to do Kosheluk but i think we will be Lucky this i think he has come to the Point where he agrees he needs a Little jail threat flayed Carstairs seeks probe of claims against Home by Heidi Graham Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs says the province should investigate claims that workers at a Pri vate Winnipeg group Home threatened a mentally handicapped resident with jail As part of his theres absolutely no question that to threaten an autistic with jail is totally Carstairs said in an the Only thing it would accomplish would be to terrify the Man and that exactly what they were trying to do terrify Carstairs said she plans to raise the mans Case in the legislature when she Speaks on the govern ments proposed amendments to the mental health it ties in with the whole question of what Are the rights of he mentally something which is totally absent from the the Issue was made Public last week after the free obtained minutes of a meeting at project a group Home operated for profit by Hydra House unbelievable group Home staff and provincial social workers decided uniformed police should intervene if the Man became involved in a crisis despite the objections of his one worker asked police to arrest the Man two weeks ago after the pair became involved in a struggle inside the the officers saying the Man had done nothing to justify being charged with a but took him to health sciences Centre to defuse the Carstairs said if the worker Hud convinced police the Man be he might have ended up in and that would have been she he would have been totally victimized in i find the whole thing autism is a severe disorder that affects victims ability to under stand their surroundings and often is accompanied by temper Carstairs said the mans Case also reveals some of the problems the province is encountering in deliver ing services to the mentally the who has been in health sciences Centre since the incident with police two weeks has been accepted into a new group Keith Cooper of childrens Home of Winnipeg said his workers Are developing a placement for him and Hope to have the Man in a new Home by the beginning of House dream shatters Man gives up bid to save building a dream of saving a historic Winnipeg House has been in throwing in the Wayne Wilson said in mentally and physically exhausted and in its obvious to me that the City and the province dont want to save the they just dont Wilson had hoped to save historic Penrose House from demolition by moving it from Bell Avenue to a site in but he said he could not get City and provincial authorities to Coop Erate and faced a Bill to move the 93yearold final Straw he said despite repeated Hydro and highways officials would not Budge on demands of As much As to move Power lines along the 30kilometre he said the final Straw came when City officials refused to delay or stage Street repair work on waver Ley Street so the House could be moved from the Waverley was the Only route out of the City for the mover because All other routes had underpasses or Bridges that would not accommodate the Queen Ann Estyle whose Mother and sister had lived in the said his wife and father had been working for childrens deaths cited in workers dismissal Wilson has Given up his dream to save Penrose weeks preparing it Lor the but on thursday they got together and decided it was on he called the who had offered the House for Sale for in an Effort to save and told him he could not go owner John who had set june 30 As deadline to move the could not be reached for comment 1 think they will tear it Down on july but it wont be Wilson he said he had created a Clearing in a wooded property he owns in Lorette and had built a driveway to the his he was to move the House to the site and restore it Over the next couple of it would have been More of a museum than a but the Joys of its by Catherine Mitchell a childcare Agency has fired a worker after an infant was returned to a Home where the child later died of the dismissal was made wednes shortly after the Community services department gave Central child and family services the find Ings of an investigation into How a second child died of Len chairman of the Agency said the worker was fired for poor the worker was blamed last month in a departmental review for returning Daniel Hector Felix to a Home identified by the Agency As a summary of the investigation said the worker didst consult a supervisor when he returned Felix to the the baby died in february 1986 of brain damage caused by violent Agency blamed the investigation also blamed the Agency for having critical faults in policies for dealing with High risk and abuse it said Central child and family services had an inadequate process for investigation and assessment of abused children and their families and lacked a system of accountability and monitoring of the reports tabled in the legislature May sparked heated criticism when it was Learned the employee continued to work for the Agency acid that he was involved in the Case of Twoy Earold Desiree Kozak died in May 19si5 after a brutal sexual assault in a Home under the jurisdiction of a second childcare the worker had been handling Kozakos Case when she went to live in the Selkirk Avenue neither the employee nor David Agency executive could be reached for com ment similar findings Rowantree said the summary of the review of the second death was similar in its findings o the including the actions of the the Agency has strengthened re porting lines of account ability and checks of Homes in which children Are being Rowan tree Community services minister Muriel Smith said the department did not direct the Agency to fire the As personnel matters Are dealt with on a local Smith said a summary of the re port on the Kozak Case will be made Public once the department receives information on what action the Agency is taking on the weaknesses found by the Rowantree said the worker was suspended without pay after the Felix death but reinstated during a Union Sandra Oakley of the Canadian Union of Public local 215j said the Union has decided to file a grievance Over tin ;