Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg press March Page 3 woman family seeks millions in traffic ticket fighters halt i by Barbara Robson this Winters snowfall has been welcomed by but it May cause headaches for Winnipeg insect control City entomologist Randy Gadawski City remain hopeful that Mosquito Breeding grounds will be scarce again this year after last Summers be most of what will happen this year will be determined in the depending on the vote decides transit Union leaders Fate Winnipeg transit Union executives were to know this afternoon if they have a mandate to remain in members of local 1505 Amalga mated transit Union cast their bal lots last night and this morning during special meetings on a vote of Confidence following allegations last month that executive members were violating a Union bylaw by keeping unused expense Union president Harry Claydon said he and other executive Mem Bers would resign unless they received support of two thirds of the Claydon and other executives admitted the practice has been going on for several adding that it is consistent with Union several Hundred members packed a Union Hall on Higgins ave nue last night to hear Claydon explain the unions policy on travel few members were willing to state their position before the of those that All sup ported in voting with the said a female bus Driver As she entered the Well change the bylaw and be done with Harry Claydon prayers for precipitation Bug City entomologist mine Capri Narl Antiri said but the amount of snowfall we have now certainly Doest help the an Early Spring with Little rain would help a great he the City is gearing up for its annual attack on the winged in some areas of the Breeding was substantial last despite the dry Gadawski were fairly confident now in thinking that a lot of that Breeding came from Back Yards tin discarded tires that sort of he the City is currently planning a Public education Campaign to encourage Home owners to eliminate such Breeding by the end of last years Mosquito the Bug control program was Able to return More than to City Gadawski this years budget allows for an attack on Mosquito the City will Spray and fog with the same chemicals used last Gadawski but one used in past has been dropped from the cites Gadawski said the chemical was not As effective As others the City has in a recent Public notice of insect control which May begin As Early As april Winni Eggers were invited to submit this is More or less our environmental assessment right Gadawski said of the is a Good we need i transit Union rank and file listen to president Harry second from and exc Arrier jailed for credit card by Terry Weber a retired letter Carrier who used 22 stolen credit cards to Purchase Over Worth of Gas and merchandise was sentenced to three months in jail its a sad provincial court judge Frank Allen told Edward As he passed there is no doubt general deterrence must be considered in this Mowchan pleaded guilty to four counts of mail theft and 22 counts of fraudulently using credit Crown attorney Rob Finlayson told court Mowchan began stealing the cards from Canada posts Graham Avenue station in july and continued until last during that a postal employee for 29 made about 500 different purchases on the by the time the Francois Xavier Man was caught he had purchased Worth of goods mainly from Gas restaurants and department stores on the stolen three Banks out about Worth of the items were recovered at the time of the leaving the Banks which had issued the cards the Toronto Dominion the Bank of Montre Al and the Royal Bank of Canada credit card holders Are Only responsible for up to when their cards Are this is a very serious Finlayson it would appear this was done out of greed rather than Finlayson also noted Mowchan had a Good paying Job and could have afforded to buy the items on his these Arent things he needed to Finlayson who appeared in court without a was unable to explain what prompted the spending i just dont know what got into he in just very sorry for what Ive i have brought shame and disgrace to my family and my friends As a i just want to get this Over pick the pieces up and get on with my he added he was forced to retire from his longtime Job because of the partial solar eclipse Given failing grades by student viewers by Glen Mackenzie a 30percent solar eclipse yesterday failed to excite Many of its viewers at the Manitoba planetariums i thought the dinosaurs were More inter said David a Annes school student whose class toured the Mani Toba museum of Man and Perrins who watched the eclipse on a special screen set up for the were also Une cited by the celestial Joshua said he had expected More from the which he described As nothing More than watching a dark Ball Cross the Edge of a brighter one on a television with a few passing Clouds tossed in for it was really just like watching Televik not like seeing a 100minute phenomenon in the Ross Kathy a teachers aide at the said it was unfortunate the group did not know the show was scheduled because students could have Learned what it was about before someone just came in to where we were he later trained to become a real estate agent but had his licence suspended when the allegations came to i ruined my he Allen said he took into consideration of chans vow to repay the lost Money when deciding the but added the court also needs to Send a message to the Public that such acts wont be Mowchan said he would be Able to repay the lost by the end of the Allen added the Man had Given the Post office 25 years of faithful service before the incident and had a clean criminal rec Mowchan will be allowed to serve his sen tence he was also placed on supervised Proba Tion for two years and ordered to perform 300 hours of Community service Durine that Phil free press the 30percent eclipse didst pack enough punch for some and its on in three Tetrault we had to ask what it Rhonda who is visiting from grand said she and Friend Margaret of University decided to spend the Day at the museum and View the it reminded me of full eclipses in my school when everybody had a Little cardboard Box with mirrors to see it without hurting their Campbell Len a United Grain grow ers said he watched the eclipse partly because be feared it might be the last he will see Kernaghan also said he thought it would be better to View it at the planetarium than risk watching from a especially with yesterdays poor weather and the possibility the eclipse could damage his Andre an environment Canada said despite interference from a few Light the visibility of the eclipse was reasonably planetarium producer de Barker conceded watching a partial eclipse underground on a Blacka Edwhite to screen int the most spectacular Way to View such a he also agreed an eclipse such As yester Days does Little for scientists or the rest of the Community a spokesman for the provincial Environ ment which receives the Public said Only one letter had been sent from a Homeowner seeking to have private property exempted from Mosquito spraying and fogging homeowners can ask for a 30metre Buffer zone around their property for Spray pro Grams and a 100metre zone for Gadawski female guard found slain Trail of cartridges leads to victim by Heidi Graham a Trail of spent gun cartridges led an elderly Man to the body of a slain female Security guard yesterday i found the first one a Little ways Down from her apartment and picked it but didst think anything wrong had Hap said Raymond who lives in the same apartment Block at 239 Colony Street As the slain but when i found the second and i knew something was the slain an employee of inner Tec securities consultants had recently been working the afternoon shift As a Security guard at the Winnipeg police said the woman died of a gunshot wound and that a 35yearold male resident of the same building was arrested in fort Rouge shortly before noon the whose name has not been re is scheduled to appear in court this said he was returning to his apartment from breakfast when he saw the cartridges and followed them to the partly opened door of suite where last Cartridge was the door was open about a so i looked i saw a her lying on the he adding he initially thought the woman might have passed i saw the blood but t stood there for a while and realized there was no sign she was breath that when i saw the Stone said he immediately called police when he realized the woman was it was sure a you dont expect something like this to More than a dozen including de started arriving at the scene by Many residents of the which houses a number of senior citizens and University said they did not know the who had been living there for less than a but who lived just Down the Hall from the dead woman said he shared Coffee with her on at least three i got to know her when she knocked on my door wanting to borrow he after that we just got together and Chat Ted once in a Stone adding the victim did not seem to know any other of the blocks Stone said he didst know the Man who was arrested but said he doubted the slain woman was seeing in not sure she even knew this Guy they arrested and in pretty darn sure he want her he adding she often spoke of a Boyfriend who lived in another part of the runaround exhausting for sick woman two Winnipeg doctors say Bianca Evans is incapable of pursuing any Type of occupation because of nerve damage caused during a diabetic coma 18 months but the health and welfare department has denied the 31yearold Mother of two a disability based on the opinion of its own medical officer who sits behind an Ottawa desk and determines who is who int sight a former typesetter with a Small Winnipeg publishing says that during her fou Day a breathing tube that had been placed in her Throat punctured a it caused some severe nerve damage and in most of my nerves will fail to so Evans who has to take painkillers daily and has to be helped by her husband and children to dress now faces the Prospect of a lengthy Appeal it make More sense for health and welfare to have its own doctor in each province and actually examine disability claimants sure it agreed Daniel the departments regional he claimants do get that Opportunity when they make a final Appeal before a Mike Ward special Board in before people like Evans have to Appeal to the Federal health minister for permission to appear before a review made up of Lay a Stewart tells that could take up to two sometimes it int just a persons medical condition that Pur medical officer takes into he it is How the act recognizes that condition As it affects someones ability to work for could a disability ultimately Lead to death for Evans to she must be suffering from a disability which is both severe and according to the Canada pension Means that a person is incapable of pursuing any substantially gainful occupation by reason of a physical or mental health and welfare has a written report from Edward plat saying that Evans is incapable of pursuing any kind of Jeanmarie huot agrees and has stated that the woman expected Date of recovery just cant be when huot confirmed i i phoned health and welfare and passed on this Evans so now they have two doctors telling them the same hurts opinion was provided when the woman was sent to him by the unemployment insurance commission after Evans applied for sickness when she asked the commission for hurts report so she could Send it to health and an officer told her it was confidential and be it took two weeks of her badgering senior commission officials before they agreed to release it to health and but Only if she signed a i signed the but now Pic says it has to write to Ottawa for permission to release the report because they cant get hold of Hes on vacation until the end of the it makes me wonder if part of health and welfare disability pension rationale is that if youre fit to put up with this kind of bureaucratic youre Able to be gainfully add i know Canadian immigration officers have to be Ultra careful these Days Over their vetting of migrants and and i agree that their workloads have increased dramatically because of tougher new but i dont buy the excuse offered by local immigration officer Ron Beirnes that there so hard pressed one of them cant pick up a Telephone and Call someone to say their visitors permit has been particularly when that person has been Given a four week Sharif Ahmed a Pakistan had been in visiting he went to the Canadian High commissioners office last september to obtain a visa to spend a two week vacation with his Winnipeg Rais who Heads the political science department at the University of Hes been employed there since 1967 and became a Canadian citizen in Sharif Khan said he showed an immigration officer a valid Pakistan a i airline proof of travel funds and a roundtrip airline ticket to paid for by his the people at the visa office didst believe i had a brother in even after i showed them All the things that Are required of an he wrote he was told his Story would have to be checked two or three weeks went with him checking regularly to see if they had word from he telephoned his who got in touch with local immigration it was the first they heard of professor Khan according to when London received confirmation from Winnipeg the immigration Section waited for Sharif Khan to he his brother hed Given up on the lot of his phone number was on the so he asked them to Call him once they heard so Why an official have telephoned we cant do things like Beirnes sounding somewhat were just far too getting a runaround victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy give Mike Ward a hell look into ;