Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press april Page 3 Brian City editor Nate funding matted Union Label attached to nurses Loc love struck Man disabled by court told a love struck Winnipeg upset by accusations he took Money from a class mates leapt from a moving leaving him permanently a court was told Crown attorney Rob Finlayson told court the incident occurred last 30 while the Christine and her Mark Andrew drove along Grant Avenue near Park Boulevard around Finlayson noted the pair began to argue Over Millis accusation that Steiner had taken Money from her Steiner ended the argument by leaping from Millis which was travelling about the accused didst did not slow Down and apparently Steiner May have been dragged foursome Finlayson the 21yearold woman was later charged by Winnipeg police after a witness to the incident followed her from the scene and took her licence he Steiner just Felt so bad he jumped out of the Millis later recounted to i was just so mad i came who suffered head possible lacerations to the brain Stem in the remains in Hospital and is just now making limited Finlayson the Crown added had been unable to talk or feed himself after the he is now Able to speak a few but still cannot the prognosis is that he will be in Hospital Finlayson who pleaded guilty to driving Over the Legal blood alcohol limit of and leaving the scene of an registered a blood alcohol level of at the time of her court was provincial court judge Wesley Swail is to deliver his sentence next this is an unusual Swail the Crown also noted that while Steiner has been unable to give his account of the incident because of his his friends have said he was madly in love with the defence counsel Joe acknowledging the incident was told court Steiner was largely responsible for his own its obvious in this particular he was the author of his own he noting there was no indication Millis forced the Man from the car or asked him to who asked Millis be Given a Fine for the also noted the pair were class mates at red River Community College at the time of the making the incident even More painful for the the gentleman who was injured was a Friend of that weighed seriously on he she is going to have to live with what happened to this gentleman for the rest of her parking permit proposal adopted by Janet Mcfarland residential parking permits for homeowners will be available throughout Winnipeg under a proposal adopted yesterday by councils works and operations the permits will allow members of an estimated households to Park on their streets for an unlimited time where parking is currently restricted to one or two the permits would Cost and be available from the streets and transportation the plan still must be reviewed by executive policy committee and probably the single most com Mon Issue i get phone Calls about is residential parking Donovan Timmers Westminster told the committee people want to know Why we dont have a program yet its successful in almost every other Canadian parking complaints four councillors from various areas of the including Down town and appeared As a delegation before the committee to urge help for homeowners in their Ernie Gilroy Daniel Mclntyre said residents of his area living near Winnipeg Arena and Winni Peg the health sciences Centre and the University of Winni Peg have Long complained about not being allowed to Park on their Greg Selinger tache said the problem has been particularly acute in the Boniface general Hospital people Arent Able to Park in their neighbourhoods All year Selinger there Are a lot of older neighbor hoods that need this kind of service to make sure the neighbourhood re Mains viable with the institutional uses in the he said residents who pay taxes should have the right to Park on their streets like other civic administrators wrote a re port opposing the plan because a Pilot project in an area near the University of Manitoba was a fail Only 11 of a potential 224 House holds signed up for parking permits Between october and the report Marcel Laurendeau University said he thinks the study results Are not realistic because it was done in the wrong part of Laurendeau said he believes response will be far better where the need for permits is mayor Bill Norrie presents award to Rose who came to the Aid of mauled City honors heroic citizens with awards a woman who helped Rescue a Young girl who was being mauled by a pit Bull terrier and a Man who saved a woman life after she collapsed because of a severe allergic reaction were among six citizens who received Winnipeg civic Merit awards mayor Bill Norrie presented the certificates of Merit for meritorious service in assisting a fellow citizen at a City Hall Rose a Library clerk at Shaughnessy Park was honoured for coming to the Rescue of Niney Earold Candace Allard who was attacked last november on her Way to Robert Boyce received a certificate for saving a woman who col lapsed during an allergy induced asthma attack on a Winnipeg Street in november Boyce picked the woman up and carried her several blocks to a Hospital emergency the other citizens who were Hon ored were Gary who rescued a Young boy who had fallen through the ice on the Assiniboine River Michael Mowat for saving a woman from an assault Mark Blais for saving a Man who set himself on fire and Joseph Potenza for giving car to a Man who had Bridge delay costs Mcrae warns by Janet Mcfarland the City would lose if forced to wait until next year to com plete construction on the Kildonan works commissioner Rod Mcrae warned Mcrae told civic works and operations committee that he does not know yet what kind of delay will be caused by the Riverbank manage ment committees refusal last week to Issue a permit to Complete the but he said he is worried about statements made thursday that there will be no Way of knowing whether the Bank is stable until after red River water Levels decline again in the a delay until the fall would Cost and there would be addition Al costs if the Riverbank committee forces changes to design or con he were in a hold situation right Mcrae he said Winnipeg has already spent close to to improve the stability of the Riverbank at the Bridge the streets department put fill on the Riverbank earlier in the construction but removed it when the Bank began to the department then put Rock caissons into the Bank to stabilize the department also switched engineering firms at the time because Mcrae said it needed different advice on Riverbank the City applied last week for permission to put the fill Back on to the but the permit was not the Riverbank committee has asked an outside engineering firm for another analysis of the Mcrae said he Hopes the analysis can be done in a week and results Are acceptable to the Rivers and streams authority who advises the Riverbank we Are very strongly of the Opin Ion the Structure is Mcrae told we do not see any impediments to engineers from the streets and transportation department and from the private engineering firm advis ing the department Are satisfied the Riverbank is stable enough to proceed with work on the i omillion Riverbank Engineer Don Kingerski said he is not totally con Vinced the Bank is Safe and could not recommend the Riverbank commit tee Issue a what youre seeing is a differ ence of opinion among profession Mcrae told the works commit he said the numerical safety fac Tor calculated on the Kildonan project is about As Good As you can get on Roger Young a member of both the works and Riverbank com said the Riverbank panel withheld the permit because Engi neers could not guarantee the Bank shift Young said members of the com Mittee Felt it would be safer to redesign the Bridge to have longer approaches than to proceed with the current design and spend millions to repair the Riverbank in coming its a question of spending some Money or a lot of Money he in a its kind of a Mcrae rejected Youngs re i take exception to any Sugges Tion that were building on Quick that its a mess or that its a Money he it is not a i think were faced with a Riverbank authority Engineer who Doest want to make a he said there can never be a 100percent guarantee that a River Bank wont shift and said Kingerski is too there is a risk in doing any Mcrae baby death brings Call to legalize midwifery by Paul Wiecek the death of an unborn baby earlier this month could have been averted if the Provin Cial government had heeded demands from members of the medical Community to Legal ize midwifery in a midwifery advocate has its hard to say for but if it was Legal and there was a code of standards this might not have had to Kris president of the Manitoba nurse midwife interest she said keeping the practice illegal is simply driving it underground and allowing untrained midwives to take advantage of unsuspecting incidents like this Are some times whats needed to Wake the government up to the fact that women want midwives and so if its going on lets regulate it and develop a code and some standards before theres another Robinson representatives of the Manitoba association of registered nurses and the Manitoba col lege of physicians and surgeons said yester Day they approached the government about the problem of untrained midwives in Manitoba recently and argued legalization might be one Way around the a baby was stillborn at the health sciences Centre april 12 after a who officials say has no formal was unable to per form a complicated delivery involving twins at a Winnipeg Home where the delivery Susan executive director of the Mani Toba association of registered nurses which supports legalized said the organization has been unable to find any record of the midwife in crime Joe Gallagher said yesterday Peter chief medical examine called police last wednesday to investigate the were investigating the circumstances sur rounding How it was this Childs Mother was brought to the health sciences Centre and the child was Gallagher Ken Manitoba College of physic ians and surgeons said the Mother had to be rushed from her Home to Hospital after complications developed during the Deli very of her Brown said the midwife who the woman hired to perform the delivery successfully delivered the first but could not deliver the second one because it was in a Jackknife Gallagher said the midwife and two other whom police still have to positively drove the woman to Hsc where the second child was delivered Brown said delivering twins is a risky procedure even for properly trained Gallagher said an investigation will take at least another week to he said much will depend on the outcome of the but a charge under of neglecting to obtain assistance in 242 of the criminal is the charge carries a maximum five year sen a charge under killing an unborn child in the act of will probably also be bureaucrats make life tougher for Mother life is Tough enough for Sherry a 33yearold Winnipeg Mother raising her four children on without bureaucracy making it the inconsiderate Way she was treated is nothing less than had Beer been the timid sort and knuckled under to the unrealistic demands of her she would be at her wits end by now trying to find another eleven Days that the notice the provincial department of economic Security gave her to leave her three bedroom townhouse on Houde drive and move into a Les expensive eleven Days can you believe that and that after the department agreed she could renew her lease for another no thought was Given to the fact that Shes recovering from a High risk having Given birth to her fourth child a couple of months and the department was Well aware of no thought was Given to the fact that her a boy of is a special needs student at a local Beer says he has severe emotional and discipline in part because of her marriage breakup last the department knew As Mike Ward she Doest appear to be the sort to knuckle i say Doest appear for Good while she sounds feisty and raring to who really knows her state of How close she is to breaking Down i and in darned sure her Viola and financial Betty in in left wondering if the consequences of telling her to find another Home by the end of this month Ever crossed their after unsuccessfully trying to persuade Newfeld and Miller to see she turned to me for last Newfeld told her it would be All right to sign a 12month lease on her Home at a rent of a her Alex checked with Newfeld and was Given the same i should Point out that the rental allowance for a single Parent of four on welfare is the department already had agreed to pay the higher rent was then monthly while Beer was going through her difficult when i spoke to the a i was told to get Sherry to just sign the new lease and submit a copy of Penner told i explained it had been increased to As of May that was somewhere around late Early they were aware of what we were doing and said that was As Long As they had a copy of the lease and it was so i sent it in to then last week i got a Call from Sherry saying the department had told her that she has 11 after they we rent paying any More Beer called me last wednesday and i started checking into her by it seemed the department had backed but Only a they said i could have two months to find another but i had to be out by the end of she they were counting april As part of the the next i got another Call saying by the end of Beer says she thinks the department should Honor its commitment and allow her to stay on for a Given her so do after everything Ive gone what with my High risk looking after four kids one a Twomoon Thold the other a special needs kid youd think they would see How hard it would be for me to but not Janice the departments Media relations got Back to me this week to say Beers problem would be while we have no record of confirming with the or confirming with that the lease was confirmed by our this client certainly has complications i with the special circumstances of her youngest so staff Are prepared to evaluate her Case ill be surprised if Beer is asked to break the pan while on the subject of bureaucratic let me Tell you about Stewart a City Parks last he was sentenced to one year in jail for impaired it was his third offence in 10 so nobody going to shed too Many tears for him and he accepts Hes served his time and recognizes Hes an after serving six he was allowed parole and lived in a Winnipeg Halfway House before moving Back his sentence ended last so Obrien asked his parole Ron for a letter to say he had completed his parole Ive talked to Ron Ducharme numerous times re the and his answer has been ill Send you the letter when i have Obrien wrote i need three letters to give to the motor vehicle Branch so that they can consider giving me a work permit to Ive got the other two one from the City of the other from the foundation of Manitoba but nothing from Obrien said hed sent Ducharme a copy of the letter hed written this is the response i got when i called the parole i dont mind giving him a but Ive told him he has to request this in Ducharme sending me a copy of a letter he wrote you int the leaving aside that this is the first Obrien has heard that he had to int Ducharms attitude absurd worse its totally victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy write Mike hell look into ;