Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january Page 3 Patrick City editor Bouchard spokesman denies Deal on cocaine addict gets 10 years for local no Miracle cures for crumbling Orchard says by Patrick Mckinley health minister Don Orchard faced with charges that the health sciences Centre is falling apart said yesterday he is no Miracle worker and cannot fix longstanding problems Orchard told the legislature a number of health facilities have been in need of major improvements for years but faced repeated funding delays under the former nip gov the conservatives have More than done their pumping Mil lion into improvements to facilities Over the past two he Orchard has been under fire since the liberals revealed tuesday that an 81yearold badly Hurt in a traffic died 30 while stuck in a stalled health sciences Centre elevator for 20 the Hospital first asked the prov Ince for Money to fix its elevators in the Manitoba health services commission agreed wednesday to provide the estimated at but Hospital spokesman Jim Rodger said the elevators Are Only one in a Long list of problems that need to be the medical Gas the electrical system and the nurse Call system All need Complete overhauls or he and Lou the hospitals head of emergency said virtually the entire health sciences Centre Complex needs to be Over hauled or said the prov Ince has budgeted million for capital improvements to the Hsc this year there is a limit to what taxpayers can spend All at once to improve health he i fully admit that in not a Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said Orchards record is to respond Only after a crisis she charged that he arrogantly ignores healthcare workers like Ludwig who warn that facilities Are falling Carstairs noted the province has yet to begin replacement of the aging Winnipeg municipal Hospi in spite of Lon recognized prob lems with heating and overcrowding of the hospitals elderly 85 extended care Beds sit vacant in Deer Lodge Centre while the province drags its heels Ken free press hot wheels firefighters Hose Down a flaming uni City cab yesterday after it caught Auto was completely a fire department spokesman and fire at Beverley Street and Sargent Avenue during the noon the the cause of the Blaze is there were no sex offenders victim welcomes ruling by Catherine Mitchell a victim of a brain damaged sex offender was breathing a Little easier last night after learning her assail ant has been sent to prison i Defini i feel great about the Winni Peg woman said when told Cyril David Green had been labelled a dangerous offender under the Crimi Nal in the 39yearold woman told a hearing on an application to declare a danger Ous offender that she has been a nervous wreck since he attacked her and her Boyfriend at their Doorstep in late the attack resulted in greens third charge of sexual assault that he had repeatedly been released on despite warnings to court officials that he had told social workers he would continue to Hurt people unless he was locked on the second Day of the crowns application before jus Tice John Scollin of court of Queens Green told his David to cease opposing the that he was dangerous and wanted to be locked full hearing under the criminal Scollin was bound to continue and give full hearing to the required i dont know How much Hope you go but i Hope you go in some he told taking Only minutes to make his court was told yesterday Green told his psychiatrist this month it was a Good thing he was shackled in leg Irons during the hearing or he would have pounded one of the during the the court heard repeatedly from psychiatrists who held Little Hope the Man could be rehabilitated that Green had told them voices echoed in his organically damaged brain telling him to Hurt Green suffered from psychosis and had fantasies that All women desired him which conflicted with delusions of persecution in which women would ridicule or laugh at court already serving a 10year sen tence for the first two greens third conviction in sep tember prompted the crowns application to have him labelled dangerous and imprisoned greens brain has been permanently damaged from a glue sniffing habit he picked up at age under Scollins greens incarceration will be reviewed by the National parole Board in three years and every two years after while Asper emphasized to the court that various social agencies had failed Green by bickering Over who should pay for psychiatric ser vices for the Scollin said from the testimony he heard he Felt society had offered a concerned hand to the Young the judge said it is easy to see that if All the hours various professionals spent helping Green were added he could be labelled a million Dollar after a Litany of offences As a Green was released to a Community group Home in during the few months he lived he sexually attacked and beat two mid leage women at noon hour he chanced upon on separate occasions while walking in the North end he was released on bail in Sepa rate hearings after being charged with the offences in Early he then attacked his third victim later that senior Crown attorney Bruce Miller said in november that he would look into Why Green was granted bail after each despite the Bank policy called unfair poor denied group says Glenn free press by Jim Timlick social assistance recipients in Manitoba Are being treated like second class citizens by Banks and other financial an advocacy group spokesman Lynn Martin of the social Assis Tance coalition said yesterday peo ple on government assistance often cannot open an account with Banks or credit unions because they Lack the required most institutions require either a Drivers licence or credit which Many on fixed incomes can not she it says were Seconder third class citizens and our Money is not Good enough for the she Martin said Many people have no other Choice than to Cash govern ment cheques at Cheque cashing which charge As much As for the she said the charge is Tough on Low income families that need every Dollar they can the Banks just wont Cash so where else do you go to get it cashed to pay your Bills Martin estimated there Are As Many As people in Winnipeg who Are being refused service by Banks and credit but a spokesman for the Canad an Bankers association denied anyone is turned away solely be cause they Are on social Assis the spokesman agreed that some welfare recipients Are pre vented from being issued an account because they Lack the proper but said unless governments Are prepared to Guaran tee All the cheques they Banks cannot afford to help people on social assistance any More than they already if a financial institution cashes a Cheque and it has been fraudulently who is left with the Bill its not the its the financial the spokesman said there is nothing preventing anyone from cashing a Cheque at the Bank from which it is he also said people Are turning to Cheque Cash ing firms because of the Cove not because they Are being refused by exorbitant fee la Jim the nip consumer affairs said the provinces consumer Protection act should be amended to prohibit any institution charging a fee to Cash a government issued Cheque and said he intends to introduce a private members Bill to that of Maloway Elmwood said some people Are paying an exorbitant fee to private some of whom charge More than five per Stephen president of Money Mart said Maloway figures Are Clark said his firm charges most custom ers per cent on All although the amount can be higher for new Martin talk outside Cheque cashing deciding How to use she the government is awaiting a re port on extended care Beds and other issues from the health advisory network it set up after taking Carstairs charged Orchard is hid ing behind the advisory network to avoid making Orchard said he will table the advisory networks report once he gets he said he expects it will be submitted Solvith owner funds firm new venture seeks licence by Pauline Comeau the owner of the Boniface chemical recycling Plant that exploded last year is a silent partner in a new hazardous waste venture now being reviewed by provincial environment an environment department spokesman confirmed Neil is involved with a numbered company doing business under the name Lowe coating and which applied 20 for a licence to establish a Transfer station for sol vent a Call for Public response to the the first step in the approval will begin tomorrow with advertisements in local new spa Dave coordinator of provincial hazardous waste said the company wants to establish a storage facility to Export wastes at 425 Turenne Street in the plan is much simpler than the solvent distillation system at the old Solvith resources 644 Rue he at Lowe would repack age the hazardous waste for trans port proof that other jurisdictions would accept the wastes would be needed before approval was Ediger an Ontario environment ministry official confirmed yesterday the department gave Lowe approval to Export within the last named As vice president and Gen eral manager on Lowes application is Bill company registration documents list Lowe As the business name of 2469007 Manitoba the numbered company lists three directors Neil Alvin Fisher and James Long and Webb were investors in not be involved1 in an interview Laird said Webb originally applied to the Manitoba environment department for a licence to operate a Transfer but withdrew the application when Solvith was destroyed june Laird then followed with an application under a company registered about eight weeks he Webb is going to be invest ing some funding but he will not be Laird who described Webb As a longtime said the former owner of Solvith will not be involved with the Day today management of the proposed storage he is not part of the management or the Laird earlier this a fire commissioners report revealed several fire code and other infractions at Solvith during the year before it was Des it also listed questionable safety procedures involving both the storage of waste and the use of the report also noted a Lack of coordination Between various regulatory and lax enforcement of government for the report noted the department of labor cited Solvith for a fire violation in three annual re views beginning in a spokesman for the Manitoba Public insurance which insured said no pay ment has been made to Webb for the loss of the mp1c officials refuse to confirm a statement by Webb last year that he had coverage on the facility officials at Pic said they Are still conducting their own investigation into the As is ;