Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october Page 3 band counts on pact to boost fish Man jailed six years for slaying local funding fight traps student by Allison Bray a 10yearold emotionally Dis Turbed boy spends his Days wander ing the streets instead of attending school because the provincial and Federal governments refuse to pay his education a Winnipeg school division trustee Neil a treaty Indian and Ward of Southeast child and family services in Poplar Hast been in school since he was placed in a Winnipeg Foster Home last Jan trustee Jim Frey said last bruces Foster parents tried to enrol him at Isaac Brock school in september but the division refused to accept him because neither the provincial education department nor Federal department of Indian affairs would subsidize Frey he wanders the streets during the Day or hangs around the Isaac Brock Community that no Way to help a child in who is prone to violent is also several years be Hind academically and would re quire a teachers aide at a Cost to the division of Between and 000 a he not a resident the responsibility of funding Resi Dent students who live within the division rests with the education while native nonresident students Are funded by the Indian affairs but who lives in is not considered a resident because his guardians Southeast child and family services not reside within the said school Board chairman de Emil regional director of Indian said the depart ment has withheld Federal funding because of an amendment to the provincial Public schools act in the amendment excludes treaty Indian Young offenders or those under the care of a social service Agency from being resident students while nonnative have the because of the change in Legisla were not sure we have the responsibility or authority to make the he the Board voted last night to continue preparing a pro Gram for Bruce until it decides next week whether the boy will be admit Ted to Isaac Brock the Board rejected a motion by Frey to admit the boy and pursue the funding question through Legal we have considerable concern but the Best thing to do is go slow and think of the Best interests of the boy As Well As any future trustee Susan Currie were quite prepared to provide educational said division superintendent Jack trash pickup report rebuts Union claims Marie is pleased bus Stop to be moved away from his luxury car lot on car dealers Saab Story heeded by Gerald flood a luxury car dealer says he was stunned yesterday when City councillors finally heeded his Saab i cant believe Lou owner of cars it just went through As smooth As can Marie said he had been trying for 15 years to have the City move a bus Stop from in front of his Portage Avenue car where he Sells imported Saab automobiles Worth to he said that Over the years usually youths waiting for have vandalized More than 500 cars on the lot and caused an average of about damage each he said the on As Many As 10 cars at a became so fre quent that insurance companies cancelled his it was but with a de so really i still dont have coverage because the damage is never More than a Lehi he Marie said he repeatedly appealed to the City to move the bus Stop 30 metres West from the front of his Saab lot to the front of his Mazda he said the move would not greatly inconvenience transit riders but would solve his prob because the Mazda autos Are inside a building while the Saab Are Marie said that in the most recent attack monday Van dals gouged Marks in the paint of a Saab 9000 s and shattered the Windshield with what appeared to be a shot from a Pellet he said that on one occasion he caught youths scraping paint from a car and asked them they said it was because the Damn bus didst he Brian a Public service investigator with the said the bus Stop had not been moved in the past because the amount of room at the new site was below transit standards for turning into and out from the works and operations commit tee approved the change without comment transplant computer search launched inform at inn in nation to the it will save 3 lot of foot to by Kathleen Engman Manitoba has started a nationwide computerized waiting list to help doctors match gravely ill patients with donated transplant for we get a heart donor Here we sign on and immediately get a list of potential said John director of Manitoba transplant heart transplants Are not per formed in but if a Manito ban died and donated his the computer list would help find a suit Able recipient in Toron Montreal or where the surgery is Jeffery the computer list will also include information on patients across the country who Are waiting for and possibly pancreas and lung time is precious for doctors trying to find the right patient for donated and the new Organ waiting list owl will trim hours off the which has previously been done by he City to sell Leveque House site for by Shane Minkin City councils finance committee yesterday approved the Sale for 000 of the Joseph Street property on which Leveque House Simaco investments is buying the property at 729 Joseph and has asked the zoning be changed from r2 two family residential to multiple family the company is owned by the Simard with Raymond Simard listed As its Accord ing to companies Branch Raymond Simard also is a director of the Caisse Populaire de Boni face and Boniface Lead Cor a federally funded eco nomic development Simaco owns adjacent located at 735 and 737 which it wants to Combine with the Leveque lot to create two residential building the company purchased the Adja cent property in 1985 for the vital Community committee approved the Simaco proposal last suggesting Leve que House could be moved from the site and at the Simaco planned to destroy the historic House to make Way for new housing that it wanted to build on the the once on the Manitoba historical society build Ings conservation was gutted in a fire last fire officials and police suspected arson in the Early morning which caused an estimated the property was acquired by the City in 1980 when it was put on the buildings conservation Etta whose family occupied the House continuously from the 1870s until has said the City offered peanuts for the she said that when she sold the House to the officials told her the House was Worth she re fused to reveal what the City paid for the in civic environment com Mittee recommended it be removed from the conservation but sever Al extensions of the deadline were it will save a lot of foot for should be used within four hours of removal from the donors said who helped organize which Are transplanted in should be used within 48 hours of he Jeffery said 55 Manitoban Are waiting for kidney but it is unlikely that owl will shrink that since there about other people waiting for that transplant across the computer list will help doctors Send the organs to patients in Grea test need because they will be listed in order of he owl will also provide details on the physical size of the waiting a and their blood and tissue where for liver and lung trans Plant the size of the donor and recipient must be but in the Case of kidney trans the major Factor is kid Neys of children under six years Are earmarked for he owl will not contain information on which Are transplanted in he Cornea operations do not involve the same time restrictions and donor recipient Matching criteria As the other he by Gerald flood Union arguments against contracting out City garbage collection were trashed in a report from the cites administration among other it said if workers Are running on the As the Union claimed they Are forced to it is because of a policy allowing them to go Home for the Day when their work is it said that despite the Union claim that workers run in violation of safety no such concern has been raised with a safety com Mittee that includes six the administration tabled at a works and operations com Mittee meeting also disputed other charges made by the Canadian Union of Public employees at a meeting three weeks cupe had said garbage collection would be More cos effective if the City Cut its to heavy management it said there is one administrator for every refuse including the Union also said the City appeared intent on contracting out All garbage pickup in violation of promises to maintain a 1971 ratio of 72 per cent City collection to 28 per cent the Union said the ratio had fallen to 55 per cent City and 45 per cent private by 1985 and the latest move to contract out garbage pickup at Elmwood residences would Cut the ratio to the administration said the unions figures indicating there is one administrator for every employees is it said the Union inflated the number of manag ers and did not include temporary workers in its Given those the ratio is one administrator for every the administration it also said the Union used Docu ments that contained a warning that data in them was unrealistic in arriving at some of its it said no data exists for the 1971 garbage pickup but estimates indicate it was about 67 to 70 per cent City versus 30 to 33 per cent it said that based on actual the ratio remained virtually unchanged in it said the Union could conclude the ratio will fall to 5050 Only if it included in its calculations Container which the Union has urged the City to take Over from private the which dismissed a total of 14 Union included a letter of apology from the Union for mistakenly stating the City could save million by having civic employees do design the administrative report precipitated a failure by works and operations committee to make a recommendation on whether the City should contract out the Elmwood a deadlock developed after councillors Harry Lazarenko Norquay and Magnus Eliason Redbone asked that the decision be postponed three weeks so the Union would have a Chance to respond to the cites councillors George Marshall Transcona and committee chair Man Jae Eadie Deer Lodge re that led to a second vote on contracting which also was under committee tie votes Are so the Issue was sent to executive policy committee without rec Disney warns Developer by Doug Speirs a City businessman will find him self on a Legal rollercoaster if he attempts to recreate Disneyland on the outskirts of a Disney official warned Disneyland lawyer Joe Shapiro said it would be illegal for anyone to duplicate the theme Parks attractions without first negotiating an agreement with the Walt Disney based on the report the Winni Peg free press gave to us of the mans we would take Legal action to prevent him from doing what he and we Are completely confident the Legal action would be Shapiro we Are familiar with Canadian Legal doctrine and there is no question that a party cannot copy our attractions without our con the senior Vic president said from but businessman Hugh who has vowed to build a lion Disneyland style theme Park on the Edge of the said he wont be deterred by Disney Legal Disney thinks it has this super magical Power Over they dont scare said owner of Imperial paint and supplies we researched Trade names and he what copyrights has Disney got on buildings they cant copy right they cant copyright we cant use Mickey but theres nothing stopping us from using Ricky earlier this the cites plan Ning committee voted to allow Shir Ley to apply for zoning changes needed to develop a 65hectare theme Park to be called Imperial enchanted the promoter told councillors a number of whom were openly Skepi has taken out options for 112 hectares of land near the Junction of the Tran Canada and Perim Eter highways and plans to build the which would be a copy of Over five to 10 cyclist Dies in Hospital after collision with car a cyclist died in Hospital yester a Day after an out control car smashed into him before hitting a pickup truck and careering into a ditch North of Donald of Regent ave had been on life support sys tems in the intensive care Ward at health sciences Centre with serious head John of said he was driving into Winnipeg along Henderson Highway shortly after 6 monday when an oncoming car sideswiped his Baker said he veered into the other Lane to avoid a but the car struck his ripping the rear bumper and bending the Back Bakers truck blew a but he was Able to regain control and Stop to Aid the fallen he said he made certain Bilan kept breathing until an ambulance arrived a few minutes the out control car had continued to travel North in the southbound Lane after it hit the cyclist on the shoulder of the two Lane passengers of another car stopped and pulled a Man out of the car in the he said they took him to a nearby House until police a Selkirk ramp spokesman said the Driver of the a 27yearold Lockport was Given a Breatha Lyser test after the he refused to divulge the staff Earl an ramp spokesman in said charges will Likely be residents of tiny Street Battle prostitute invasion residents of a tiny North end Street say an invasion of prostitutes has transformed their private lives into a sordid i feel Alex Swiridenko said last for 30 years this was a Nice quiet then three years ago the prostitutes selected our Street to meet their custom Swiridenko said every night As Many As dozen prostitutes Parade along the residential Block on Mac Donald a three lock Street South of Higgins Avenue and East of the main Street he said they have no shame and ply their Trade even on Sun Day when hundreds of people flock to the Street to attend services at two churches on those people come to Church and already the prostitutes in the summertime were out in bikinis walking in front of the he said that like him most residents of the Street Are at nighttime we Are afraid to go on the he its full of prostitutes and pimps trouble he said that a prostitute has threatened to have him beaten up by a and another time he disco Vered sugar had been poured into his Gas tank and had to pay to have it he said vandalism to the dozen private Homes has become common and on two occasions someone has broken windows in his he cannot open their windows in the All the time there is swearing and Yelling and whistling and customers hollering and their radios going he said Hev took a petition de manding the City Force the prostitutes to move out to his neighbors and to the churches and obtained 300 he when he took it to mayor Bill Norrie simply turned it Over to police chief Herb who wrote Back saying there is nothing the police can he said they prostitutes have they Are free to walk on the Street and make All kinds of Trou but we who pay we have no Magnus Eliason Redbone yesterday asked City officials to look into possibly turning Macdonald into a one Way Street to discourage Cus Tomer he said a similar move reduced male prostitution problems on a Lane off Assiniboine Avenue near the legislative the busiest Street in Winnipeg is that Little he Joel who owns a reve nue property on said he has had a number of elderly tenants move out because of the prostitution he said if the City wont take it should expropriate All the properties and turn Macdonald Over to the 1 know this for he if they were on the mayors Street they would be out of there pretty ;