Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 6, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press 1987 Page 3 cancer specialist blasts pay equity policy not local Diane Houle and her husband dont have a car to drive because of disagreement Over the Cost of repair Cost feud Parks foreign car by Allison Bray a Charleswood Man whose 1986 Hyundai was battered in a recent car Accident says he is stuck with out a car As the Manitoba Public insurance and a foreign car Dealership feud Over repair Bernard said his car is out of commission with its front end crumpled from an Accident three weeks ago because Pic will not pay what great Plains Hyundai is asking for Houle said an adjuster at the West Winnipeg aut Opac claims of fice told him pics Auto insurance plan would cover minus deductible to replace the front bumper and damaged when his wife ran into another the Dealership is asking 25 per cent More for the Houle said when he went Back to aut Opac with the Auto shops Esti mate for he was told Auto Pac would not cover the repairs unless the Auto shop lowered its Hyundai is fighting with Auto Pac Over repairs and in sitting Here without a John the Hyundai dealerships general said All foreign car repair shops Are charging More for its not just our Frontier Toyota owner Jim Carey said import repair shops have always charged More for parts because they can Only get parts from Vancouver and must Stock them at their shops Here at a higher Ever since aut Opac Treyve always paid More for our he aut Opac used to pay the higher rate for As of june 1 aut Opac Only pays prices spelled out in a computerized list of suggested Pic president Robert Silver said the problem of foreign dealer ships charging More is not new to the its an Issue to be resolved be tween aut Opac and the he but in no circumstances is any aut Opac customer paying Pic spokesman Grahame Newton said the corporation will be meeting foreign dealers tomorrow to resolve the we recognize it cant be left like r Newton said any claimants who cannot get their cars fixed because of the Price discrepancy will be dealt with on an individual in the Houle said he contacted an assistant to municipal affairs minister John buckles who oversees who told him aut Opac would get the parts from out of the Why did i pay to aut Opac and not be Able to get my car fixed this have happened if i got private he unwillingness to pay cited for custody seen i on i recent appointment signals end of old source predicts by Radha Krishnan Thampi the Manitoba government has started to clean up its health depart Cabinet recently appointed Consul Tant Jay Kaufman to the new Job of associate Deputy health Cabinet sources said who will join the department this is being groomed to take Over Reg Edwards Job when the Deputy health minister retires Early next sources said Frank associate director of the Manitoba health services will be Given the Job of Misc executive Edwards acts As Misc executive Kaufman was a health department assistant Deputy minister in the Early Kaufman quit the Job a year after his appointment in 1972 following criticism from the tories that he Only had a Grade 12 Kaufman has since received a masters degree from Toronto York according to a senior Cabinet he will receive about a year in his new Kaufman appointment will Mark the end of the old boys club at the said one department source who attributed most of the current problems to de cock and Gordon who is retiring As Misc associate direct soaring costs problems include soaring health costs coupled with declining services As Well the current emergency department shutdown at Grace Gen eral until his Mccaffrey is being assigned to help in the reorganization of the department and the following guidelines set out by Michael a former Cabinet Decter has recommended direct involvement of the department in the running of the various health care programs which Cost Manitoba taxpayers billion a Decter has also suggested eliminating duplication of services and functions by handing Over most of my pcs administrative responsibilities to the a team of senior Cabinet aides has been working on revamping the department Over the last the idea is to eliminate the waste and to control the soaring health care Cabinet official you could say the shakeup has begun with the appointment of Kauf health minister Larry Desjardins May hand Over his port Folio to a younger Cabinet member this fall when Premier Howard Paw Ely plans to announce a Cabinet sources while most nip strategists would prefer minister Wilson Parasiuk to have the health Porto Parasiuk is reluctant to give up sources the nip strategists second Choice is Vic sources Desjardins refused to comment on the but he said Edwards retirement has nothing to do with the current problems at the he attributed current woes of the department to changing times and the archaic overemphasis on institutional Desjardins said it was he who asked Decter last december to Sug Gest ways to improve the provinces health care system and that most of the impending changes Are being initiated under his he complimented de cock and Mccaffrey for their dedicated service since the Early the minister added there was no pressure on Edwards or Mccaffrey to they Are leaving on their Desjardins sources said Desjardins wanted Decock to be appointed As Misc executive director once the Decter recommendations Are implemented in the next All other senior officials will we Are not changing Desjardins by Aldo Santin a 14yearold boy has spent 11 weeks in the Manitoba youth Centre because the province refuses to pay to place him in an appropriate Foster the boys lawyer Marty Minuk said the boy is a Ward of the Southeast child and family services Agency and has been in custody since he was arrested for breaking into a school in the boy could be released on Minuk but the Agency Doest know where to place the who cannot be identified under the Young offenders pleaded guilty to charges of enter and theft last week in youth Minuk said the theft occurred when the boy ate some potato chips and drank some pop while in the court was told the boy had one previous theft the Crown attorney was prepared to release the boy on probation but judge Marvin Garfinkel ordered him held in custody pending a psychiatric Garfinkel is expected to Settle the Case july Minuk said the boy had run away from 43 placements in six years he could qualify for bail but Hes run away from every place Minuk so there keeping him locked up in the Community services department officials refused to discuss the saying the boys placement is under Minuk said the Best place for the boy is at a Rural Foster Home operated by Macdonald youth he said the province wont allow the move because it would Cost More than other Foster Home Dave executive director of Southeast child and family ser said the boy has remained in custody because the Agency Doest know where else to put were going wait for the find Ings of the Rundle maybe that will help us find the Best place for said the had Al ready evaluated the boy and concluded the Best place for him was the Foster Home operated by Macdonald youth Rundle refused to say Why the Agency haunt performed a psychiatric assessment on the boy before his court we have plans prepared but in not going to Tell you about Rundle Ulysses executive director of Macdonald youth ser said he believes Money is a Factor in the Macdonald youth services charges per Day for Desrocher while other Foster Homes charge about per i guess they figure for that kind of Money the boy should be getting on Toone staff Desrocher Rundle said the Agency could have had the boy released on bail and placed him in a Foster Home but it would not serve any it would be easy for us to put him in a Foster Home but Hes a Rundle we have to put him in a setting that will help Hes Jeff free press Grace expects to reopen Ward by Allison Bray the emergency Ward at the Grace general Hospital will Likely reopen this says the hospitals Emer gency Alecs Chochinov said he will be conducting interviews with possible replacements today and tomorrow and Hopes to have four emergency doctors hired by the end of the anything could happen right but we Hope to get full operations As soon As possible and i dont think it could take too Chochinov said it is unlikely the Hospital will increase the starting salary of the new doctors in order to recruit the Hospital put its emergency Ward night shift on hold Friday after four doctors quit last month Over Low salaries and Long the four doctors gave notice in they would not be renewing their oneyear the notices came shortly before health minister Larry Desjardins announced last week the starting salaries for emergency doctors at Community hospitals would Rise to from resignations unlikely Glen director of emergency at Victoria general hos said while emergency doctors remain indignant Over higher salaries paid to doctors at health sciences Misericordia general Hospital and Boniface general the possibility of his staff quitting in the near future seems i think these things will Settle Down for the time Lowther said after meeting this weekend with three doctors who threatened to Lowther said the doctors Are suf Fering what he called a temporary morale problem Over Low salaries and poor communications with hos Pital while he does not have any Assur ances emergency doctors will not Lowther said they indicated they do not want to be responsible for further he said salaries offered to new emergency doctors at Grace would not have a bearing on whether Vic Toria staff will four emergency cases were treated at the Grace Over the said Hospital spokesman Dave Perry said the cases occurred be tween Friday and sunday night and were serious enough to require immediate medical attention by an emergency doctor on Road work stalls emergency Crews Portage Avenue construction is causing some delays for fire ind ambulance Crews responding to emergency officials we Haven had to do anything outrageous but it does cause some said Rick Winni Peg ambulance services operations Cieciwa said Drivers May have to go against traffic on a one Way Street if there is no but we keep it Down to a mini limited Access along the strip is a he but the depart ment is coping by dispatching alter Nate were used to congestion Down town he Winnipeg fire chief Jack Hender son said the construction is giving the departments communications dispatchers the most the main downtown station on Carl f ton Street is most affected by traffic he we Haven really experienced any thing serious As far As delays Are but obviously it imposes a bit of a police Dennis Toyne said there have been no major incidents to but obviously any major construction delays your to Dis Patch 1 Shady activity Darcy gets out of the Sun to climb under the bleachers during the women provincial fastball championships at Charlie Krupp fastball fans who chose to remain in the bleachers faced c temperatures under a hot r better off right where he Desrocher said the Home opened in March As an alternative parenting setting for very difficult he said the located near he Des has two of the pro Vinces most experienced youth workers on Desrocher said the Home is licensed for a maximum of four boys but there Are Only two there the Home charges More than a Normal Foster Home Desrocher because the staff members Are More we feel quite confident the boy should stay Desrocher but the government is saying they want additional staff for the kind of Money were we dont feel that update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free Seatbelt scrutiny nets 719 Winnipeg police say a recent crackdown on Drivers who dont use their seat belts has paid staff Don Peters said that since police started the crackdown on june 719 Winnipeg motorists received summonses for failing to use or have Peers also said 140 tickets were issued the first two Days this Drivers caught without using seat belts Are fined plus court division seeks funds Winnipeg school Board has taken the first step toward asking the Manitoba Public schools finance Board for about million to build the divisions first French Immer Sion High Board chairman de Kowalchuk Kowalchuk said trustees voted to Send a letter to the finance Board asking if it would be receptive to a formal letter of intent request ing he said the division could have As Many As Grade 9 to 12 French immersion students within four Churchill and Sisler High schools have French immersion pro Kowalchuk and can accommodate them As Well As their English language programs for the foreseeable he Many parents want a French High which would mean building a new school or converting an existing dealer claims Victory a Blackjack dealer says he has won a 90percent Victory in his fight for a smoke free Jerry Miller said the Manitoba lotteries faced with his Manitoba human rights commis Sion has decided to Cre ate smoking and nonsmoking sections at Winnipeg convention Centre said the decision Means he will have to work in a room which will have smoke in the nonsmoking students reinstated two red River Community col lege nursing students kicked out of their provincial governments on sorted program after they were accused of cheating have been read Mariana Assuncao said she and Gwozdz Kazimiera appealed the expulsions to the colleges discipline committee and were the two were expelled in Early june after being accused of cheating on a psychology Assuncao said both have now received a c for the adding this is the lowest Grade either received for any course in their first year of the Bike Airlift made a vital school division care taker known As the Paun Gassi Indian reserves Santa Claus has become a summer Santa As Mark Scott of who de livers Christmas gifts to the said he recently sent 135 bicycles who had appealed to the Federal transport department for said 41 bikes were flown up by the ramp and the rest by the South East tribal which flies teachers in and out of the Reserve about 200 Kilometres Northeast of ;