Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january paged Patrick City editor impaired Driver jailed in Panda visitors spent million in my police Ponder patrolling pathway on bicycles by Janet Mcfarland Winnipeg police will be siding and snowmobiling to Collar criminals if chief Herb Stephen gets his the chief is considering mounting officers on snowmobiles and Cross country skis to patrol a planned pathway along the Assini Boine the department is also consider ing creating a permanent Assini contract decision reversed by Janet Mcfarland Winnipeg race relations commit tee has decided to tender a consult ing contract Worth up to rather than have part of the Money go to a firm owned by a committee prior to a meeting of the race relations committee mayor Bill Norrie said he was uncomfortable with a plan to award a contract to an Ottawa firm that had arranged to subcontract part of the work Back to a local the local research us communications is run by com Mittee member Irene on the it would not be an appropriate procedure to Norrie said in an if youre giving a contract to a member of Council or to a Volunteer member of a there is a perception that there is somehow a preference being there should not be any kind of a bid from a committee even if it is denies conflict Karasick said in an interview yesterday she saw no appearance of conflict if her company did the the project has not been awarded to me or my she it would be awarded to Lead ers Canada of Ottawa and leaders would hire me to do some of the leg work and Karasick said she does not believe the connection is too simply because in not being hired by the client at in being hired by the company As a sub con Karasick did not attend the race relations meeting the committee agreed unanimously to Call for tenders rather than award the contract to the project to study employment equity in Winnipeg firms has not been approved but it would be paid for by senior Levels of govern ment with some private sector con the cites race relations Noordin Harold said yesterday the contracts value has not been but he estimated it at Rampersad had made preliminary arrangements for leaders to do the Boine Walkway patrol of four offi working 10hour shifts and keeping in touch with handheld some of these walks Are not normally accessible to our patrol Stephen said you have to come up with innovative Cross country weve never tried that really will be in a report prepared for the cites Parks and culture com Stephen said the depart ment will research potential trouble spots on the pathway and estimate the personnel required to patrol the role of the police in this area must be highly visible and Mobile in an innovative the report the City plans to build the walk Way along the North Side of the Assiniboine River Between the Forks development and the Osborne Vil depending on the popularity of the the use of Snow Al terrain vehicles and Cross country skis will be considered along with foot Stephen he said police Are already using snowmobiles and Al terrain vehicles Wayne free press firefighters Battle Blaze that caused damage to Greenlea Cove fires cause damage to two Homes two fires yesterday caused an estimated damage to two Winnipeg a Winnipeg fire department spokesman said a Blaze that broke out at 15 Greenlea Cove about caused dam age to the ceiling and contents of the basement and main floor of the cause of the fire is under invest the spokesman said another which started about 8 at 2350 Hallama caused about damage to the joists and Kitchen cup plus smoke and water damage a blocked Chimney caused the he no one was injured in either the spokesman Block parents face funding crunch by Janet Mcfarland the Block parents of Winnipeg have encountered a funding crisis and Are asking the City for an Emer gency Grant to keep its office the association needs about before the end of its fiscal year in or it will have to close its office and scale Back Vic president Tony Keck said yes were in the midst of a fan out for funds right but we have a Keck this is Caus ing me a few Grey hairs at this the association received in Grants for the current but had to rely on its current fundraising drive to earn an additional needed to cover he in past Large donations from private organizations have kept the Agency from having to undertake Large scale in years theres always been something that came up that produced the to we need to make it to the end of the Keck this time its just a bloc parents spokesman Tony Keck says the group needs before the end of March Block Little slower getting to the association s Bank account had less than in it last Keck and it costs about a month to run the were in a tight he i can see our Way to just having an answering machine and that not a very Good Way of running an we just have to avoid Ernie Gilroy Sargent who is chairman of the civic finance said yesterday he will support the request for Emer gency i think Block parents is a pretty Well respected organization and their chances would be pretty Gilroy said during an my guess is it will be met with pretty there Are approximately Volunteer Block parents in Winnipeg whose Homes Are available to pro vide emergency assistance and temporary the association also runs education campaigns in schools and in addition to Money to tide the association Over until March Keck said he will also ask the civic finance committee on tuesday for increased funding in 1990 to expand the pro when you drive around the City you dont see very Many Block Par ent and that is a great concern to he the number of Block parents has declined from in 1987 and the office has eliminated its full time Volunteer Keck the total request to the finance committee will be in additional funds for the 1990 fiscal which ends March to catch people who Are breaking Laws on the Bob commissioner of pro Parks and asked the department to study the Walkway after meeting with representatives from the Core area the police department and three City departments i Lunness report of the meeting said most complaints and problems encountered along the riverbanks occur during dusk and darkness concerns include the presence of partying youths and Stephens patrol plan will be submitted for approval by March the Walkway will be partially constructed 1990 and will be completed in the Public is expected to begin using the partially completed path this yearly Check urged after deadly leak Lazarenko asks study of proposal by Donald Campbell apartment owners should be required to have their heating systems inspected annually to guard against accidental Carbon monoxide Poison a Winnipeg City councillor and if landlords fail to hand in a inspection certificate to id like to see us have the right to go ahead and order the said Harry Lazarenko Myn one Man another is in a coma at the health sciences Centre and several others were treated and then released from Hospital after deadly Carbon monoxide Gas drifted through an aging apartment Block in Lazarenko Northend Ward Early Christmas this could have been very Seri Lazarenko that one Man passed away is bad enough but the whole Block could have the councillor said he will Call for a report on the viability of having the inspections carried out under the fire code or by the provincial labor departments mechanical inspections closer tabs he said the annual inspection and certification of boiler and Gas fur Naces As Well As ventilation systems would Force landlords to keep closer tabs on the condition of their build Lazarenko said he will also ask the labor department for information about checks done on the College Avenue building and others in his Ward in recent an Ontario company said this week that its recently Deve loped Carbon monoxide which works in buildings in the same manner As a smoke May have helped prevent the death of Ronald the Carbon monoxide warning de vice is capable of detecting the Gas at Low said Robert president of Asahi electronics the heart of the sensor is a Cata Lyst with polymer coating that is moisture proof and activated Only by Carbon the device was developed in association with atomic Energy of Canada it has been offered to major Gas utilities in North America to pass on to their Consumers for either a lease of a month or at a retail Price of Elliott said More than peo ple Are poisoned by Carbon monoxide annually in North he said of those cases result in most accidents Are caused by faulty hot water invented Gas Heaters or blocked he Elliott said the product was offered to intercity Gas c executives in Toronto last but the Utility rejected the ice spokesman Brian Farley said his company believes it is up to individuals to decide whether they want to install a Carbon Mono Ide Detector on their we dont provide products for customers to use in their Farley properly installed Gas equipment along with proper ventilation does not produce Carbon the building code does not require the installation of detection equip no other Utility in North America has yet agreed to buy or lease the Monitor for its Lazarenko and Gloria men Delson Kildonan Park said they would like More information about the product and suggested they would support a bylaw calling for the use of such Alert program Cut Short by Paul Wiecek Winnipeg annual Holiday Blitz on drunk Drivers ended five Days Early this year after the police Mobile breathalyser truck broke Down for the second time since the Campaign began in late electrical similar to the ones that forced the Aler Mobile off the Road for one Day in Decem sidelined the truck tuesday prompting Winnipeg police to throw in the Towel earlier than its become a recurring prob Lem and we decided with so Little time we might As Well put it in the shop and get it fixed police traffic Brian Kramble said Kramble noted the Alert Alco hol level evaluation Roadside test ing program was slated to wrap up sunday he said the program will be launched again in the be ginning with the May Long week in the he regular patrols will be keeping an Eye out for drunk and suspended Drivers and will conduct random spot rewiring fails Kramble said officers working in the Alert truck smelled burning wires late tuesday night and decided to shut the vehicle Down and return to police Headquarters Down Kramble said a similar problem developed last but the mechanics thought they had fixed the fault by rewiring the truck with a heavier gauge it didst but Kramble said he was pleased with the results of this years crack Down on impaired out of the almost vehicles stopped since the program began in late police tested 791 Drivers and charged 72 with impaired driving and driving with a blood alcohol level Over another 32 motorists had their licences temporarily in 26 people were caught driving while suspended and 44 vehicles were impounded under the provinces new drunk driving legis in the Alert program caught 125 Holiday revellers drink ing and As Well As 78 suspended French language court delays attacked by Terry Weber continual remands have Long Pla Gued the French language court sys tem in Boniface but the problem has received virtually no govern ment a Winnipeg lawyer charged its been a problem for a Long lawyer Maryjane Bennett said in an earlier this Bennett announced she would Challenge the constitutionality of the Frenchman Guage court system in Winnipeg on behalf of a client who has waited about 1 years to have charges of assault and break and enter the whom Bennett refused to was charged in August but still Hast come to French cases in Winni Peg Are handled by a single Provin Cial court Lea who is forced to Bow out of Many because of a possible conflict of Duval is married to Robert be a lawyer with Tiffaine la one of the largest French speaking Law firms in the Bennett said the nip government pledged to beef up the system in Early 1988 after the retire ment of provincial court judge Robert who also sat on French the government at that time had planned to put another judge in the system to work with she those plans ground to a halt when the Pawley government was voted the Filmon she has yet to tackle the need for another French speak ing provincial court she Many cases Are being remanded for wait ing for a judge to hear they Are being remanded and remanded Bennett its become a headache going to do Bennett added the constitutional asking the charges be quashed because her client has been denied the right to a speedy trial under the charter of rights and was the Only alternative to resolve the she also said Many clients Are being forced to either have their cases heard in English or switch to lawyers at other firms to have their matters dealt Manitoba Justice minister Jim Mccrae said he and provincial court chief judge Kris Stefanson have discussed possible solutions to the but have not come to any Mccrae said the biggest problem facing the province is that the fran co Manitoban Legal Community is tiny and conflicts May be Una void when you realize that the Franco phone Legal Community is very conflicts do he its Clear the province has a responsibility Here and we will make sure the province carries out its constitutional the Issue has sparked concern among government opposition critics who say the province needs to look at the problem immediately to ensure French speaking citizens Arent being denied their right to a prompt ;