Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 30, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Ranf Winnipeg free press september paged Patrick City editor 20totwe cocaine haul is biggest Kansas sign Trade local Golden firm hit with big penalty by Terry Weber a vending company managed by Al Golden was ordered to pay More than in taxes and pen allies for failing to comply with provincial tobacco from what Ive listened those who Are operating provincial vend ing certainly Arent doing any thing to Cement Good relations with the provincial finance depart provincial court judge Ray mond Harris told present in court throughout the sentencing it seems from what Ive whatever bad blood its been going on for some Harris ordered the firm to pay a total of double the taxes in accordance with the provincial tobacco act and fined the company the maximum Al Lowed under the missed deadline earlier this Harris found the vending company guilty under the tobacco tax act of not remitting the tax on its tobacco Stock before july during that the Provin Cial government claimed the company owes on More than cigarette while the company maintained it owed Only on lawyer Richard Bea representing the continued to dispute the provinces but Crown attorney Murray Conklin noted the firm had failed to comply with a request by the province to Supply purchasing Harris warned the company to Start complying with provincial stat utes or risk ending up in court Stock seizure emitters store owner by Kevin Rollason a store owner fined for illegally Selling stomach bitters is angry that More than bottles of his Stock were ordered destroyed by a judge George co owner of the pay fair store at 878 main the first Manitoba store owner Ever charged with the said after court the judges order has Cost him More than you cant feel Good if you lost i dont agree with the i bought it legally through i didst bring it in if id Only had one or two i have but who was charged on said Hes angry the Provin Cial government never sent him any notice when the new Law came into effect on we got nothing and then the next thing you know the police were he its ridiculous to make something Legal herbal remedy Cekov said hed wanted the judge to let him sell the a Europe an herbal remedy for stomach ail to stores in Alberta or British Columbia where it is still Legal to sell it in grocery but provincial court judge Lawrie who made the confiscation order after Cekov pleaded guilty to the liquor control act want there illegal in this Juristic Mitchell i dont care about other they should have known they didst abide by the rules and Legisla they should have Mitchell also ordered Cekov to pay a Fine by 31 or face 50 Days in the Crown stayed a similar charge against Kiril a store last year the provincial govern ment brought in a Law restricting the Sale of bitters to pharmacies and by licenced at the Justice minister Jim Mccrae said he hoped that by clamping Down on the Sale of bitters it would control a rising abuse prob Lem by alcoholics looking for cheap Mike Ward victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy write Mike hell look into it when his column re Sumes Jon wbk press Nguyen Shivers on downtown Street to publicize plight of his orphaned immigrant Battles to free siblings from Vietnam by Dan Lett Long Nguyen May be running out of but Hes not running out of frustrated by bureaucrats and Nguyen yesterday took his fou year Battle to free his brother and two Sisters from Vietnam to Chi Minh City to the streets of Nguyen stood outside various Media outlets and office towers yesterday wearing a placard calling attention to his although its not an efficient Way to free his Nguyen said its the Only approach he has its worthwhile because if i get the Canadian people to realize whats happening then maybe they can do something about said the surviving members of Nguyen family brother and Sisters and 17 Are trapped by Vietnam communist Nguyen said he Hopes that if enough people hear of his someone influential will take up the cause and Cut the red tape that binds his Ngyuen said he escaped in 1980 to a malaysian refugee Camp and came to Canada a year but since establishing himself Nguyen said he has been unable to free his brother and a task that became More urgent in 1988 when his their Only remaining mom and dad were still supporting them but when they the others were too Young and didst have the skills to Nguyen Treyve got nobody to take care of no vietnamese citizen can apply to go to another country unless the communist government gives his name to a foreign he so Nguyen the vietnamese have refused to give the names to a Canadian external affairs representative who travels several times a year to Vietnam to hear immigration dealing with the russians is probably easier than dealing with the vietnamese he a year Nguyen thought there was a break through when he was informed the vietnamese government would release the names of his family to Canadian but that Hope faded when the vietnamese reneged on the Promise without he everything expensive the Cost of Nguyen Campaign is As Well As the costs of mail and phone appeals for he said he must Send Money to his brother and everything in Vietnam is Nguyen including it costs More than Vietnam Ese dollars to Send a letter to Canada and the average worker Only earns a one Dollar us equals about 500 vietnamese Nguyen has written to numerous external affairs minister Joe Clark and his staff even British prime minister Margaret Nguyen said he also has called the Canadian embassies in London and Nguyen said he phoned the office of the chairman of the communist party in Hanoi direct As soon As he heard what i was calling they Hung up on he Hsc alters operation in Nursery urine samples now in separate fridge by Patrick Mckinley the health sciences Centre has ordered changes in the operation of its intermediate care Nursery after complaints that cramped conditions were exposing babies to Hsc spokesman Jim Rodger said Hospital officials ordered the changes yesterday after confirming nip la Maureen hemp Hills Alle gation that Stool and urine samples were stored in the same refrigerator As medication and mothers staff also confirmed hemp Hills statement that Stool samples were being tested on the same counter where medications were Rodger stressed that not one Case of infection has Ever been linked to the adding we put that Down to extraordinary nursing techniques in a Lousy to allay he said Stool and urine samples will be stored in a refrigerator on an other and Stool samples will be handled at crib Side instead of on the redevelopment plans Rodger denied allegations cited in an Hsc report that the province initially turned Down a redevelopment of the Nursery in Only to change its mind and approve the project earlier this he said the approval on wednes Day was the first time the provinces Manitoba health services commis Sion had Given a definite answer to the Hospital on the Fate of the redevelopment in carrying out the redevelop the Hospital will stick As closely As possible to health and welfare Canadas guidelines for nurseries dealing with High risk he Hemphill yesterday released a re port prepared by Hospital staff which says the Nursery Falls Short of National guidelines in a number of most of them related to the prepared by the Hospi tals department of occupational and environmental says the Nursery provides Square metres of space per Bassinet about one Quarter the amount recommended in the National it cites cramped noise and a Lack of visiting and says oxygen and suction units Are Avail Able for Only 16 infants when the Nursery normally holds the Mother of a pre mature baby girl said yesterday that she cried when her daughter was transferred to the facility last after the baby had spent nine Days in intensive Beverly whose Daugher Jodie was born months ahead of said she was shocked at the cramped heat and Lack of visiting space in the Interne Diat care where Jodie lived for the next 44 the Hsc report says the Nursery lacks separate visiting space recommended in the National resulting in As Many As 26 visitors being crammed into the Nursery with the 19 infants and eight staff members per Murdoch said screens provide the Only privacy for nursing mothers on she had to line up with other mothers to wait her turn to nurse her she said the Lack of space prevented her from having other family members with her when she visited her that was the most trying problem because of the length of time Jodie was required to stay there and her need for family sup port when she was worried about her baby she Hemphill said she was disappointed with health minister Don Orchards Handoff attitude to Orchard told the legislature yesterday that it was up to the Hospital to address problems at the including staff turnover headaches that have led to five nurses leaving Over the Hemphill said to improve staff morale she wants a Job sharing which would allow nurses to Par time while still receiving a pro rated share of employee at the facility is staffed by full time nurses supplemented by casual nurses who Are not entitled to fringe she fresh air vent nurses complained last Winter that aesthetic Gas doors and car exhaust were entering the Nursery through a fresh air Rodger said the intake for the ventilation system was formerly located near a loading Dock where cars were left he said Security staff have been told to crack Down on cars idling in the area and the intake has been moved to the Rodger said he didst know How aesthetic Gas doors could enter the ventilation Hemphill makes later to child care group to map demands emergency session called after Filmon refuses private meeting by Catherine Mitchell the Manitoba child care association has called an emergency meet ing to Lay groundwork for a mass walkout after being refused a Pri vate meeting with Premier Gary association executive director Dorothy Dudek said Hilmons offer to have a government appointed child care advisory Council meet the association to talk about the Day care worker wage dispute is not Good Dudek said the associations 22 Hoard members Are being called in wednesday to thrash out the Bottom line demands the tory government must meet to Avert a walkout of some daycare workers next Filmon said yesterday he would not meet directly with the Assoc a he said the group can work through the newly established provincial advisory on which association president Carol Draper to resolve the wage dispute and discuss other the walkout could affect about children if who earn an average leave their posts at the 500 centres represented by the Dudek said no Date has been but a walkout could come around the Mcca Doest feel working through yet another governmental pointed Council will do it any she All the associations concerns were Laid before the governmental pointed child care task which reported Early this she but when family services minis Ter Charlotte Oleson made her Day care funding announcement last she completely ignored the request to bring workers average salary up to and was conspicuously silent on a Lon term strategy that might get workers to that level and Dudek the frustrated by Ole sons Pat reply that her hands Are wanted to put the facts before Filmon Dudek the Premier said the advisory Council can speak for the Mcca and will soon be Given a meeting with cabinets human services commit on which he and Oleson both Filmon and Oleson have repeatedly said the million the government sunk into Day care this year is but Dudek said the association Doest hold a lot of Faith in what the Council can do to push for More As the Mcca and a number of directors from Rural child care centres have written letters complaining about the councils Compo Dudek said the concerns Stem from four who do not represent any of the three chief daycare nor groups not specifically covered by such As native and francophone Oleson said the individuals Dudek complained about were chosen be cause they represented wide rang ing backgrounds in the daycare Field and had shown commitment through years of ;