Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Do d Winnipeg free press october paged Patrick City editor Manitoba senators give nod to former editorial writer Dies at walkout supported by parents local by Allison Bray a on Day walkout tomorrow by daycare workers has left some parents scrambling to make alternative arrangements but none say they oppose the scheduled this whole walkout is very it have to be but i dont know anyone who int supporting single Mother Tammy said last Peshat said the on Day strike by the Manitoba child care Assoc a representing about Chil Dren at 250 of Manitoba 450 Day care has left her without Day care for her 3y2yearold Peshat said while she May be forced to take the Day off work and forfeit a Days earnings to care for her she stands behind the child care workers in their fight for higher wages from the stupid situation i think the whole situation is i dont have a College Educa Tion and in making More Money than they on childcare workers voted 85 per cent in favor of the on Day walkout to protest Low salaries paid by the the association said the average daycare worker receives a year and another is needed to bring their salaries up to acceptable Sheri said she also Hast been Able to make alternative a Transcona Man killed in Accident a Transcona Man died saturday in a traffic Accident near an ramp spokesman said David of Kildare ave nue was driving his 1978 Capri South on Highway 9 near Mcphillips Street about saturday when he lost control and the car rolled Over into a Vandenbossch was killed and his Paul of was taken to Selkirk and District general Hospital for Range ments but Hopes her Youn Ger sister can take the Day off school to sit with her three Earold a single Mother who works part time As a said while the strike has inconvenienced she understands Why daycare workers such As those at the River Avenue Coop Day Nursery her son attends Are its hard not to be but if it was my Job id probably do it she its an but they have to make their Point some Teresa said the scheduled walkout has also left her in banking on hoping let me take my son to she said of her Job at the provincial sheriffs Poganyi said while the walkout could be disastrous if it were longer than a she supports the Day care workers in their i volunteered for a at the River Avenue she i do that for a they really go through a Dianne said while her father has agreed to care for her child and two she Doest relish the idea of a if Premier Gary Filmon dealt with this in the first it Proba Bly have gotten to this she Mcca chairman Carol Draper said while she Hast received and verse reaction to the strike from she realizes it inconveniences Many of but this is a minor inconvenience compared to what May happen in the future if people continue to leave the Field due to Low Mcca executive director Dorothy Dudek said she expects about daycare workers and parents at a protest rally outside the legislative building she said Community ser vices minister Charlotte lib eral Leader Sharon Carstairs and nip Leader Gary doer have been invited to address the its an Opportunity for the child care Community to visibly say to Filmon that we wont be sweetgrass service Joe Mclelland shares sweetgrass smoke at an interfaith attended by about 80 was in Ojibwa service held yesterday in sacred heart the and English and ended aboriginal Unity alzheimer immunity studied by Alexandra Paul Canadian and american doctors Are conducting a study into whether Manitoba indians Are immune to alzheimer Indiana psychiatrist Kathleen Hall said the theory stems from anecdotes contained in a 1985 study that suggests there Are no natives in the province suffering from the my what if these people dont get it that would be said a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Indiana medical she said the doctors work could contribute to the search for a cause and cure for the memory loss Dis if there Are people who Are not prone to further studies into the mystery could give re searchers valuable clues on its cause and she Hall said past studies vary but the average rate of including in Western countries with no native population is six per cent of those 65 years and fifty per cent of senility in West Ern countries with no Indian Popula Tion is due to she unknown Factor a 1985 mental health con ducted by three Manitoba native found much lower rates of dementia about per cent natives in the same age she the same Survey speculated the Low rates were related to lifestyle or an unknown according to data supplied by indians May have dementia but i dont think they get she said the Manitoba study represents the cutting Edge of a new Field in memory related no one has studied the risks of from cultural or racial she the world health part of the United is also intrigued by the new Field and wants to study culturally related Alz Heimers risks in various parts of the Hall who has proposed a memory project that will include countries such As she Hall said the Manitoba investigation will focus on interviews of 205 native elderly people living on three Northern initial interviews among elders at one at the during the summer found no one with Alz she the other interviews will be con ducted at Norway House and Nelson House during the she another 200 nonnative elderly will be interviewed in Winnipeg for com she and the results will be studied and issued in a final report next funding for the work is supplied by the National Institute on Hall she is one of several experts on a team that also includes Cree speak ing researchers to conduct the inter views with the native the leading investigator on the International team is Hugh Hen a University of Indiana psychiatrist who will oversee Hall and her canadians include health sciences Centre neurology chief Neelan Pillay and Brian director of the University of Manitoba Community and Northern medical if evidence supports the then the team wants to Start another study to isolate Why native people keep their memories into old debate Lack riles tache voter by Nick Martin drunks blitzed on rubbing boozers along the Seine visions of traffic nightmares on and fears the Boniface police station could move All have tache voter Linda Leblanc sweating the 25 municipal but Leblanc complained this week that she cant find any forum to hear her incumbent Guy Savoie and win Winnipeg into the nineties challenger Greg be debate her the vital residents advisory group was the Only Community commit tee in Winnipeg to refuse participation in Csc information radios series of Allcan dilate town Hall neither candidate has heard of any de Bates being organized in the just worried in not working for any in worried about problems in our Leb Lanc she said rubbing alcohol abuse has invaded the users Are wandering intoxicated in the disturbing terrifying urinating and defecating on private residents Are afraid to use pathways along the beautified Seine River Bank near proven Cher Boulevard because of people drinking and begging for she despite rising she feared the prov Encher police station would be moved to the Leblanc taches residential character is being threatened by develop particularly Long Range Bridge plans across the red River that could make prov Encher a far busier major traffic police staff Don Peters said Friday that undercover officers have been unable to buy any rubbing alcohol in but said store staff might Only be Selling to customers they the police Are aware of More vagrants along the Seine but have had no complaints in the last two Selinger said one merchant on Provencher is Selling rubbing alcohol to its really upsetting the which fears the problem could spread As it has in the West Broadway Wolseley its just said rubbing alcohol int becoming the problem she thinks it Savoie said Winnipeg has problems when election Ever the City fixes up vagrancy controls Are lacking while society protects vagrants civil he said its no different than the Assiniboine and red the rights of the multitude Are being Selinger said a variety of old and Young people gather along the Riverbank to Community based bilingual policing could clean up the he especially if the main Boniface police station is moved to the Safe neighbourhoods is an Savoie said the current station on proven Cher wont be although it might not always be the Central police station for Savoie doubted Leblanc fears of proven Cher traffic nightmares would prov Encher leads to too Many he renovating the Norwood Bridge and twinning the Provencher Bridge with a York Mary Bridge would Force major improve ments to Dugald Road and carry traffic along Marion Street and Goulet but Selinger said More Bridge links to the Core could be intolerable for Boniface residents barely five minutes drive from Boniface could become an area that just passed through will it be turned into another High Rise fort Rouge Savoie blamed the Csc for failing to give vital enough time to prepare for a town Hall Public wont get involved residents advisory group co chair Glen Hewitt refused to discuss Why Boniface vital did not take part in the Csc i dont want to get too involved in that something were not prepared to Hewitt producer Gary Hunter said the Csc met All the vital groups con Cerns we were prepared to have a Modera Tor who could handle English and and Divide it into Boniface and there was a reluctance Linda Blanc and with empty alcohol Winnipeg tax rates near top by Radha Krishnan Thampi property tax rates in Winnipeg Are among the highest in Accord ing to a Survey of Canadian Munici Winnipeg ratepayers owning a House and lot with a Market value of about spent about More last year for property taxes than residents of 14 other Canadian according to an 18city Survey by the City of the completed last no said Winnipeg ratepayers paid on average last year in net annual property tax after the provincial tax that is More than the average property tax for the 18 according to the 1988 Edmonton with a population of had the third highest Mill after Ottawa population 747 and Regina population and the fourth highest average prop erty tax North York population one of the six municipalities of metro Politan had the highest tax at for a which an Edmonton official said compared with a Home in Ottawa at and Hamilton population at had the next highest tax rates of the Medicine population had the lowest property tax in in the followed by fre population with and popu lation at Edmonton population had the sixth lowest property averaging last year on an 000 the Survey residents in the City of Toronto population paid Only in average property tax last year for a comparable Home priced at Vancouver residents paid an aver age for a while Cal Arians paid for a the ninth and eighth lowest taxed cities in the ;