Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1991 page3 Brian City editor ruling May set precedent for Eastern airlines cheques wont firefighter injured in Core Blaze one firefighter was treated in hos Pital for minor injuries suffered while fighting a Blaze in a downtown office building yesterday police said last Roy Smith said there were no other injuries reported in the which started in a storage room in the rear of a Delicatessen on the second floor of Somerset 294 Portage he said there was extensive dam age to Pumpe Nickles Deli and smoke damage throughout the nine Storey total damage is estimated at a spokesman for the company that owns the 71745 Mani Toba said Crews would work through the night to allow including Law offices and several government to open this Ted Charne said staff were at the scene last night assessing the dam its my understanding theres a lot of smoke he the two alarm fire was reported in the Delicatessen shortly after the alarm brought dozens of fire fighters to the City Core and caused police to reroute traffic on Portage Avenue for about an Winnipeg fire department Assis Tant Deputy chief Jim Baty said the which sent smoke billowing out rear was confined to the a shoppers concourse linking the second Storey of Somerset place to Eaton place was also damaged in the Baty the cause of the fire is under he this is a High mercantile area we cant fool he explaining the presence of eight fire trucks and four fire Rescue Lehi Jeff of free press firefighters use a smoke extractor to Clear Somerset place during fire shelter usage up 50 per cent by Ruth Teichroeb shelters for battered women across the province Are reporting up to 50percent increases in the num Ber of women and children who have sought help Over the last shelter directors attribute the burgeoning demand to everything from increased Public awareness due to advertising campaigns about wife abuse to the economic but Many shelters Are having a hard time coping because funding for staff has not kept Pace with the greater demand for directors Carole executive director of the 17bed genesis House in said the shelter had a 50 percent jump in the number of be nights one person staying one night last year compared to one of the factors has to be that we Are in a recession and people Are losing their Smith adding the shelter averaged 150 bed nights a month last year com pared to 100 a month in while financial problems like unemployment dont cause they increase the stress on families that Are already embroiled in violent patterns of she Campaign cited the provinces television and radio advertising Campaign about wife abuse last year also boosted Calls and visits to the she Smith and others Are bracing for another surge in requests for help when the province soon launches another three week Adver Tising the problem is that we dont get Money for any More Smith were just run off of our for the shelter Only has enough Money to provide one staff member from late afternoon until the following which int enough when up to 25 women and children May be she the 24bed Westman women shelter in Brandon has had at least a 30percent increase in the number of women and children seeking emergency housing Over the last director Karen Lewthwaite a total of 468 women and children used the shelter last year compared to 320 the previous we Are significantly busier the year Lewthwaite but our funding base is not sufficient to meet the increased demand and it is really hard on the problem is that funding is based on a per diem rate which can fluctuate dramatically from month to she making it impossible to hire enough staff to Cope with the busiest were still in discussions with the province about How to stabilize the funding for All the Portage women shelter is reporting about a 50percent in crease in demand director Ann Maxwell we know that some of that was directly related to the Layoff announcements at the cab Portage base and the Campbells soup Facto she in there was almost a 30percent increase in the number of be nights at Osborne director Marlene Bertrand the shelter had be nights last year compared to the pre Vious she the number of crisis Calls almost doubled after the provinces Adver Tising Campaign and about three months later there was a jump in the number of women seeking she love blooms for telethon volunteers i Bain by Bain Gair Jean Leblanc broke into live and in when Jesse Hodgins asked her for her hand in marriage during the Lions this is the first time this has Ever happened on the Lions foundation executive director Joyce Fitzmaurice they were both volunteers and they met one year ago working on the telethon and they fell in she now everybody wants us to get married on the said a Volunteer Security guard for the which the Lions foundation of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario uses to raise Money for various its a special moment that we shared with said a Secretary for the Lions with the War we wanted to make this a Happy moment for Hodgins the couple met during last years telethon and Hodgins said he conceived his plan to ask for Leblanc hand on to in after getting approval from the foundation and the executive producer of the Hodgins sought the help of Krc personality Bob at Washington introduced them in front of the cameras and Hodgins popped the i did it the old fashioned Way Down on one knee and with the ring in one he and then she started Leblanc said she knew there was a reason she was asked to go on but want sure what it i knew something was going to but i didst know what or what the 12hour broadcast on raised More than for the Lions Down More than from last years through All its fundraising the foundation raised Over million this we were very worried about getting preempted War coverage this said Nick chairman of the committee that approves requests for adding they were preempted by the ctr network he said the telethon raised Over last year and the foundation spent on medical equipment and including More than on support to transplant Waits for operation Moose jaw family nerves fray As open heart surgery delayed by Alexandra Paul open heart surgery for a three year old Saskatchewan boy has been delayed because of the 21dayold Manitoba nurses we should have been on a plane in an Mark narrower said yesterday afternoon from his Home in Moose living 500 Miles i dont give a Damn about the except where it affects he referring to delays in surgery to Cor rect a congenital defect in his sons the Harrower cancelled a flight to Winnipeg childrens Hospital after learning surgery scheduled for thursday to repair a Hole in Kurtiss heart had been delayed indefinitely As a result of the we cant wait to get this sur Gery Over to Tell you Harrower he described the which will not endanger the boys As health sciences Centre president Rod Thorfinnson said he sympathized with the but he Doest see that anyone has a Solu Tion to the in not sure anyone knows where it will he the Manitoba nurses Union yesterday accused health minister Don Orchard of stepping up intimidation Vera Union for the striking registered nurses and licensed practical said Orchard is using fax machines in his War of against the unions demands for a 24percent wage increase Over two a fax from Orchard Friday hospitals that was released by the Union said agreeing to nurses salary demands would result in the Alberta solution reduced Levels of layoffs and bed we Hope further information about the provinces fiscal Circum stances and the strategic decision by government to Deal with the Finan cial1 crunch will become Clear Over the next few the fax the statement is an apparent reference to a briefing finance minis Ter Clayton manness will give government and opposition members today on the provinces financial its More doom and gloom to intimidate Chernecki she called the reference to the Alberta solution using this scare tactic is ridiculous because there Arent enough nurses to go around right Chernecki the shortage has triggered temporary closings of intensive care wards and Rural emergency depart ments for the last she at the same Chernecki charged the Filmon government is boasting about tax Breaks for Busi they continue to starve the healthcare system while giving Mil Lions of dollars to their she adding nurses have filed unsafe patient care complaints since Hodgins pops live on nurses have rejected a provincial offer to extend pay give lpns an signing Bonus and boost registered nurses wages by a minimum of 20 per cent Over the next three they say the offer amounts to per cent plus pay now being enacted in some hospitals through prior Orchard could not be reached for comment in Moose the Harrower said they dont care about the politics of the nurses but they blame the nurses for the Mitchelson casualty injured councillor boarded by Hsc Don Mitchelson says he turned away from the health sciences Centre saturday night after suffering a painful shoulder injury in a hockey i thought it was weird because the Guys in the ambulance stopped and then asked me where id like to Mitchelson Henderson said i didst know id dered a Mitchelson suffered a shoulder in the first period of a hockey game Between news medial and politicians during Schmo key its very he Mitchelson said he was rerouted to Boniface general where he was treated and released i within an hour because the emergency Ward was unusually i expected but its the service Ive Ever had the i former Deputy mayor the biggest Mitchelson was finding a Hospital that would take him after he was checked into the boards at the Winnipeg with the nurses the clo Sest Hospital was Grace general but the emergency was shut he As the ambulance headed Down Portage a radio Sion said Hsc was diverting patients due to a casualty overload in its emergency Hsc spokesman Jim Rodger said the emergency department called for patients to be diverted twice during the weekend As the strike bound hospitals struggled to Cope with the temporary closing of gency services at maybe Grace gets heavier traffic because out in the West end int anything Rodger noting Hsc was not forced to divert cases during the week Misericordia general Hospital closed its Emer gency the Hsc emergency casualty Cen sus totalled 84 people Between 3 saturday and noon Rodger i dont know How Many were turned he Grace general reopened its Emer gency Ward yesterday morning after being closed Friday right and Satur Mil residential school files by Doug Thomas special to the free press a week after agreeing to look into complaints of abuses at Manitoba Indian residential the United Church has revealed some school record shave been Dianne executive Secre tary of the Church Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba said files for the Brandon school can not be As she said some of the Norway House records Are in Church archives and a search for the por Tage la Prairie schools records has not Cooper said school records were thought to have been left at the schools when control was turned Over to the department of Indian affairs in the Church agreed earlier this month to join a special commis Sion established by native leaders and the roman Catholic Church to look into complaints of abuses at residential the Indian affairs department we have and we think they might have or they May be in somebody Coo per said last we just dont know where they Coopers statement was sparked by a question during a Church forum last week from a minister who asked about the the United Church has started contacting parishioners and former teachers to try to locate the missing files or compile information based on their she these records were not lost with intent and we Are trying to sincerely address this Cooper the disclosure took native Leader Phil president of the Manitoba Assembly of by sur prise when he Learned of the Situa Tion while addressing the he said the loss of the files would not impede the Assembly participation in the we dont really need them any if they Are going to work by so can if a student could remember the teachers that should be proof enough of Fontaine i still believe they United Church officials Are sincere in their efforts to Deal with but if Indian affairs is involved in not surprised that the records Are a department of Indian affairs spokesman could not be reached for the United Church has set up a six member two of whom Are to Deal with the Fontaine caused a stir at the meeting when he issued a warning not Only to the people of but to All about a decision by Quebec provincial police to buy three German Leopard tanks to Han dle conflicts with indians such As the standoff at last we find that really i think that sends out the wrong kind he i thought we were into its obvious the government is not All that serious and cant be when asked if another conflict Between mohawks and Quebec police is Fontaine said latest action is Tion and the mohawks will see it As a As will All native people across ;