Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 1990 Page 2 Richard provincial editor Virgin Forest stand Cut Graysville special the sound of saws cutting one of the few remaining stands of Virgin Timber in Southern Manitoba has local residents at first i thought they were just cutting out when i realized what they were i just Felt said Pam who lives Down the Road from the my is those Trees being Cut were Here Long be fore Graysville is about six kilo metres West of logging and milling operations on the 32hectare stand of Basswood and owned by Robert began in april after Mclntyre approached Fin Mac lumber of owned by Jim an estimated Trees have been downed to huge stacks of Cut Trees roughly 500 cords Are being shaped into lumber at a Mill on the Mclntyre agreed his actions have raised a few eyebrows in the but said cutting the larger some of which Are an estimated 100 years was Neces sary to encourage the growth of younger with dutch Elm disease in this All have to be taken Down said the Grays Villeareal its a Large chunk of land that not Worth breaking for crop but that Doest change the fact that i have to pay taxes on the land looks devastated but its appearance will he give it one summer to re cover and it will look Neihbors May not approve of the Joanne Strong when i realized what they were doing i just Felt resident logger cuts 100yearold tree in stand of Forest near development plan and has no Juris diction Over private he that offers Little Solace to people just cant understand Why its being stowes logging but theres Little that can be said Dennis Derkson of the Rural municipality of its private he the municipality Doest have a Rural in just sad Treyve done i wish they never come its private land and i guess they can do what they but i dont think Trees should be private Hospital cuts service As my quits practice physician fourth to leave Gladstone since 1985 firm offers prescription for optimism by Lorna Dueck special to the free press Steinbach the Ontario drug company Trimel has Given Stein Bach a prescription for Community leaders Are brimming with enthusiasm about mondays announcement that a pharmaceutical manufacturing Plant will be built the mayor likens the excitement of the announcement to Christmas morning and the credit Union is already counting Money it Hopes to its like Christmas i think everyone in town feels that its a great mayor Ernie Frie sen were pinching ourselves that its really credit Union manager Dennis Guenther estimated the payroll for 80 employees at the new Plant will be More than million a i predict the spinoffs will be they have to be enor Guenther to Stein this is considerably bigger than the planned Federal virology research Centre is to the first thing that comes to mind is he these Guys wont be buying Homes therell be a need for higher Stan Dard these people will have two the payroll spent Here will automatically boost the longtime Steinbach businessman Bill Giesbrecht said the boost to the towns tax base would be Treen 1 dont recall Ever getting an announcement this big in town till be quite beneficial to Gies Brecht real estate agent Vic Penner said research his office did indicated Many of the executive employees May commute from but he said the Trimel announcement will bolster a sluggish local housing Market even the positive once the word gets will help the negative prices Here have tailed right off and not gone up in two or three Penner the housing Market is depressed right now and it needs a real shot in the this May do Steinbach chamber of Commerce president Phyllis Penner described the news of a drug manufacturing firm for Steinbach As a real a Feather in our a lot of hard work has gone into till bring in a lost of people from out of town and All the labourers will be from Penner As a Small business i take it As a real Wes Reimer said the announcement is the answer to some thing Council has wanted for a Long this Means there will be jobs our Young people can apply for when they leave the Steinbach regional secondary Reimer kids coming out of school will now be Able to stay in Steinbach if they want weve needed Trimel president Eugene Melnyk described the labor Force for the Steinbach Plant As an even three Way split among highly skilled work floor personnel and admin when the Plant is completed next Melnyk it will operate with full staff for six months before it is open for to enable the health Protection Branch of health and welfare Canada to give it a rigorous by Randy Turner Gladstone Hospital officials were forced to shut Down emergency ser vices yesterday after the town lost a doctor for the fourth time in the last five the 20bed now left with Only one full time also began restricting acute care services to Lowrick Janet executive director of the seven re Gions health increase the risk Well still be offering acute care provided we have Tele phone backup from doctors in Nee Pawa 24 hours a Goertzen emergency patients will be taken to Neepawa and Portage la Prairie which Are 30 and 40 minute drives from respect Goertzen acknowledged the loss of emergency services would in crease the risk for the in arrangements have already been made for the Hospital to receive a temporary doctor for a two week beginning May were desperately trying to cover the time period after that with temporary Goertzen adding that Hospital officials would continue efforts to find a full time Goertzen said Drew who began practising in Gladstone eight months was leaving the town practice because of the Long working hours and Lack of armful is the fourth doctor to leave located 150 kilo metres Northwest of since the Hospital was also forced to Cut off emergency services in 1986 and when the town was left with Only one its very frustrating to have to continually be looking for phys Goertzen but at least this time i have More names of doctors to follow up Marcel manager of physician placement for the Manitoba health services could not be reached for comment Goertzen noted that the doctor shortage facing Rural Manitoba hospitals is As critical As she noted that like Many other Rural is constantly struggling to attract and retain in she the Rhc was formed in the Early 1970s after 16 physicians came and left town in a period of eight this is not something new to the town of she adding that it has become More difficult to find replacements in the last five the instability of medical services in Gladstone has led to a decrease in local patients Are increasingly travelling to Portage or Nee Pawa for she seven regions Board member Cor Dell Barker said the decline in local patients makes it More difficult to attract its kind of a catch22 Barker when doctors come and its hard to develop that Trust and that people dont like to change their doctor every six months or a establish system Barker and Goertzen said the regional Centre is develop ing a proposal to establish a system of three or in glad Stone and the Sandy Bay Indian under the the doctors could be paid on either a guaranteed salary or Feero services Barker the proposal would have to be approved by the Manitoba health services Barker added that the Board must establish a system More suited to retain or the shortage will its not a problem that going to go something has to he East Paul planning in limbo by Terry Lulash Nyk special to the free press East Paul a change in provincial legislation has left the Rural municipality of East Paul scrambling to find a new planning District to talks with the neighbouring pm of Springfield ended with both councils voting against forming a joint plan Ning East Paul Reeve Don Melnyk we have been talking for a while and we realized that we were just not compatible municipalities to form a planning planning districts regulate development in Rural development in East Paul and parts of the Rural municipalities of Springfield and tache is currently controlled by the City of City planner Asim Roy those additional zoning areas were set up to protect Winnipeg from unchecked development around the perimeter of the Roy but Bill to take effect is changing All Melnyk he said the province decided the Law governing the additional zone around Winnipeg had become redundant because most municipalities around the City had already opted out and joined other planning Dis we were Happy with the Way things were or we would have opted out a Long time the Reeve now we have been kicked out of the City planning department by the provincial government and we have to find some new planning District or form one with some Melnyk said the Cost involved in developing a planning District with Springfield played a part in his councils decision not to in not sure of the exact but it would be we feel it could Cost our taxpayers less if we looked Melnyk said his Council is exploring All the options before making a we Are not going to Rush into we did not want this to it is going to Cost us More than the we now pay the City of Winnipeg to do our so we Are going to shop for the Best one of the More attractive options is joining the Selkirk and District planning Melynk Selkirk mayor Bud also chairman of the Selkirk planning said they would Welcome discussions with East plans shelved for regional Library in Morris Morris special the Valley Library foundation has been forced to Shelve its proposal to establish a regional Library Here for the town and Rural municipalities of Morris and the Board now is looking at establishing a municipal Library which might eventually expand into a regional chairman Bud Stu Winisky the town he had supported the regional concept but the Rural municipalities were concerned about raising property taxes to fund the deaths classified death widow of Cantor Moses William of Sarah of widow of Harry Andreas husband of Alexandra of East husband of Anne Kolo gins husband of Isabel William Hus band of Carol Christina of win widow of Francisco widow of Nicholas Anne 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