Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba U i the province Winnipeg free press january Page 2 Julian provincial editor free press burned store disrupts daily Reserve life Paul incoming president of the veterinary medical urges More hiring freeze hurts Farmers lab woes anger veterinarians by Gladys Terichow special to the free press Otterburne a hiring freeze at the Manitoba veterinary pathology Laboratory in Winnipeg is raising the ire of the provinces 230 Veteri the memory of waiting nearly a month last Spring for test results from an Alberta lab while his client was losing a month in Poten tial income is still vivid in Paul schneiders million dollars if the tests had been done in Winnipeg we could have had the results in a instead of a said a Veteri nary consultant with the landmark feed group we Are working with aggressive Farmers who have Over a million dollars in equipment and were trying to deliver the Best service possible but we Are working with a crippled he understand the Cost of disease prevention and Are willing to pay High user but inadequate staffing prevents the Winnipeg lab from introducing some of the sophisticated diagnostic tests becoming routine in neigh Boring who will be installed the Manitoba veterinary medical association president later this said his association is lobby ing the province for More medical by the numbers Tell the he explaining Case accessions in creased 87 per cent Between 1980 and the 198889 fiscal year and tests increased 187 per when the current fiscal year ends he expects the number of tests will have in creased More than 200 per director of veterinary services Jack Mcphedran said the staff had been reduced from 28 in 1982 to 26 in although the workload has increased steadily the staff has remained constant at the move towards automated equipment has helped the staff per form More tests but with a projected increase of 20 per cent in 198990 Over the previous Mcphedran said the lab urgently needs More we put in a request for three medical technologists last he they talked nicely to us but that As much As it has amounted the labs deteriorating services affect All said noting lab tests deter mine what ails livestock raised for food As Well As zoo farm poultry and its the Only lab in the poultry he had purchased equipment that would enable the lab to do the Elisa a rapidly expanding area of diagnostic tests to detect the presence of Dis ease without clinical they bought the equipment for the but even then there were problems finding people to do the tests just doing routine tests takes All their routine which traditionally had a turnaround time of three to four Are now taking two timeliness is Schneider its everybody Nightmare to have an outbreak of an infectious its already coming to a bottle in not sure what will happen in april and May when the demand will be much it could be critical this veterinarians Are angry that user fees Are increasing but the Money generated by the lab is not being used to improve Mcphedran said 80 per cent of the operating budget is recovered through user within three he 100 per cent of the costs will be overspending the Revenue is sent to the trea sury which directs the Money to the departments that identify the greatest the lab received a 30 per cent increase this year 198990 fiscal the first increase in six Mcphedran it allowed us to catch up were overspending our budget that the he will have to reduce services or get More its As Plain and simple As he you cant do 20 per cent More tests for the same Schneider said veterinarians fear if More funding and staffing Arent made available the Manitoba lab will have trouble keeping its High calibre the Poul try he recently accepted a position in British co the position is still Mcphedran said the lab is still one of the Best in the country but Schneider said in terms of services available it has slipped from second place 10 years ago to about eighth by Bob Lowery special to the free press Thompson plan loads of food from Thompson Are putting food on the shelves for the 700 Shamattawa residents who lost their main store i a fire on new years but now the residents face a critical gasoline it affects every Home where peo ple depend on using snowmobiles to travel 30 to 40 Kilometres to get firewood to heat their said band councillor Bennett he noted the annual Gas Supply brought in Over last years Winter Road has run a plane came in from Gillam last week with about enough Gas to last two redhead that run out and we can see Snow mobiles sitting Idle All Over the com another consignment of gasoline is on order but it has been delayed because there is no plane available to Fly it Shamattawa Leonard Miles me Morial drop in Centre Sells Gas at a in the redhead everyone is scratching around try big to borrow Wood from their neigh a lot of people dont even have enough Gas to Start up their Chain saws they want to use to Cut the Wood they Shamattawa chief Sam Miles commented its been a very Tough situation for our especially in the very cold weather weve been shortly after the the Bay store staff opened the store in a heated but at the it was so crowded that Only five or six customers could get i the store while the rest had to wait their turn outside i the Miles redhead noted the warehouse now is better organized and there is space inside for All the Bay plans to rent the drop in Centre to use As a retail currently two local carpenters have been hired to build shelves and counters for the temporary which May open later this the Bay also operates the local Post office and the carpenters Are also constructing the pigeonhole Miles said these temporary arrangements will have to continue until a new Community which the Bay is investing is completed in the next year or the Bay will also take out a Long term lease on space in the Centre for its new in the numerous games and other activities normally scheduled for the drop in Centre Are to be held in a nearby building or at the Abraham Beardy school gymnast court hearings moved Bennett said provincial court hearings will also be moved temporarily to the after the school was completed in the provincial judges asked that the court be moved to the school from the drop in Centre at that was cold and Inco Nve the Shamattawa band refused this saying that it was unacceptable to have court hearings in the new school that Aims at raising the aspirations of the the band agreed to make a number of alterations to the drop in which improved the heating and brought it up to the required now we have no alternative but to allow the court to be held in the redhead according to what the ramp Tell if court is not held on the everyone on the docket would have to Fly to Gillam at his own expense for court we n Way cleared for Selkirk arts Centre big 3 showdown Ford Chrysler by Terry Lulash Nyk special to the free press Selkirk there is renewed optimism that the Selkirk Community arts Centre will receive enough Money in 1990 to finally open in the old Post office Lenore arts Centre said the three Levels of government have been reluctant to Grant the group Money because the building had not been designated a historical building until this it seemed that we were always waiting for one government or an other to support this now that the Selkirk town Council has designated the building the senior governments Are reexamining their Clouston Selkirk mayor Bud Oliver said the delay was partly due to the fact the town did not have a commit tee set up to study possible historical building he said once the committee was established the designation was quickly the redbrick building was built in 1905 As a Federal government the arts Centre will House offices for the Selkirk and District arts Council As Well As meeting rooms and offices for nonprofit the main floor will be a gallery and sales a cafe is planned for the Clouston estimates the project will Cost about when renovations Are to the arts Centre committee has raised around we have been fundraising Nick Els and dimes for 10 years to Reno vate the old Selkirk Post office into an arts Clouston she said the nonprofit group has asked the triple s business develop ment to develop a Complete project it has been hard Job to get this Centre this year i believe we Are finally going to see our dream come Clouston general motors indoors at the convention Centre january 41410 Headon crash kills Man a Thompson Man was killed and four other residents of the same City taken to Hospital after a Headon collision Between two pickup trucks saturday a Wabowden ramp spokesman said Brad Joseph was driving South on Highway 6 about two Kilometres South of Wabowden our mistake photo outlines on Page 3 of yester Days paper incorrectly identified the site of the photo As Grant West in the photo was taken at Golden West at saturday when he collided with a truck driven by an other Thompson the Man was taken to Hospital in Thompson and then transferred to Winnipeg for further the spokesman he said a woman Riding i had dads the wife of the Driver of the other truck and their grand daughter were treated in Hospital and the spokesman said the Road was icy at the time while visibility was cars and trucks driving on the Highway kicked up a lot of deaths classified death Norman husband of Bertha husband of Doris of husband of Doris Ethel wife of Gordon Marie of Jean John of mor wife of Michael of widow of Jack Grant of White husband of Harriette qui of Clande son of Reginald and Muriel of Pilot widow of Viktor of husband of Helen Lucy wife of Earl husband of Audrey Lester Hus band of Anna of widower of Lena Mary widow of Maurice slim husband of Gertrude Donna wife of Patrick Jacob of widow of Robert Alfred husband of Katrin Irene wife of Albert Scott wife of Stephen Stefania widow of Matthew Sadie widow of cars trucks vans annul pm Cataga bin dog tug or Tow your old vehicle in for Down payment Loo Bob Kozminski Jack ey5tone 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