Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1991 pages Brian City editor ground War could be Church to watch police on local Gas to Cost Homes Industry less Jett de free press picture of patience a heart and stroke foundation Symbol is yesterday As a prelude to the annual february assembled by fundraising canvassers at the Forks this years goal is nearly Centra applies to pub medical Transfer put in gear by Alexandra Paul hospitals were gearing up to Send patients out of province for treat ment As negotiators reported Little movement yesterday at the fourth Day of talks to end Canadas longest nurses were being told to make arrangement irrespective of the Boniface general Hospi Tal medical staff president Neil Donen said the number of patients waiting on Boniface lists for cancer and cardiac operations jumped to 80 Fri Day from 70 on Donen the list keeps getting bigger and bigger and they All have to be facilities with lengthy waiting lists for urgent surgery will Transfer patients no matter what happens at Day 28 the bargaining Donen and other Hospital officials there Are a whole month of sur Geries to be Concordia Hospi Tal executive director Sig Enns hospitals with Short lists will do surgery Here if the strike ends within a few officials if the strike were to be we would be Victoria general Hospital executive director Bernard Blais spokesmen for negotiators representing 89 health facilities and the striking who hit the picket lines new years said talks broke up at Midnight saturday and resumed at 1 Manitoba health organizations executive director Doug a Chan said Progress has been Machan said As Long As both sides remain in conciliation there is Hope for an end to the 28day Manitoba nurses Union spokes Man Bill Crawford said negotiators expected a Long bargaining session Hospital officials said stable patients Are the likeliest candidates for Transfer out of province so air ambulances reserved for emergency cases Are not being the timing of the transfers de pends on How successful doctors Are in finding surgeons and hospitals who can accommodate extra a officials its a Toto three Day Blais adding patients targeted for transfers Arent expected to leave until Manitoba health services com Mission will pick up All the including but approval must be sought prior to trans Blais said Victoria general has six patients requiring urgent cancer surgery out of a total of 50 patients backlogged on waiting at Misericordia general Hospital up to six patients Are being consid ered for transfers if the strike drags spokesman Ron Hill seven Oaks general Hospital assistant executive director Randy lock said physicians Are evaluating waiting lists of up to 30 cancer patients with decisions on transfers to be made late lapses show patients at new mom says by Aldo Santin Hospital management staff Are no longer capable of providing Ade quate health a new Mother has Megan Latouche said after giving birth to her new daughter its Clear hospitals Arent doing their jobs and the health and safety of patients Are at its Clear that management staff Are not used to the Broad Range of responsibilities that the nurses nor Mally i was scared that the staff were breaking Latouche gave birth to her Daugh 19 at Victoria t ukrainian sovereignty focus of rally about 200 members of Winnipeg ukrainian Community gathered at City Hall yesterday to commemorate their homelands Short lived Independence and show support for freedoms eventual we Hope our people can live in a free said Jaropolk who works in the ukrainian Catholic Bishops office in win but forces of evil Lurk in the background who want to destroy the people can suffer arrest and even Ukraine declared its Independence on and created a Republic a year the fledgling state was forced into the soviet Union in Lydia assistant executive director of the ukrainian Canadian said in an inter View the which have become an annual rein Force the idea of Ukraine As a Sepa rate nation from it is important to remember we have our own state and that we believe in Freedom and democracy for and the sooner the Hawryshkiw said she Hopes recent events in Lithuania and Latvia do general the repeated lapses in Hospital procedures were she and a Clear indication of the important role qualified nurses play in Hospital the nurses Are important and they should get what they a dance i believe that health minister Don Orchard is spending his budget in Hospital executive director ber Nard Blais said he was unaware of la touches complaint or any other concerning Quality of care at the complaints like that Are possible under Normal but i think Overall our service has been pretty Good during the Blais Latouche said As a result of the Hospital closing she was forced to spend the first night after giving birth in the hospitals birthing those Beds Arent suitable for sleeping there designed for giving Latouche there not there made of hard the following while still in the birthing she Hospi Tal staff tried to discharge even though she had not yet seen her Jeff de free press Latouche said she was not placed in a room until noon because of the bed she new mothers Are being kept in and wards with other a there were repeated violations of visiting hour she on monday she no one gave her despite complaints to three different i had to go out into the hallway and Latouche i was completely i didst know what they were going to you could Tell the nurses and everyone else Are she it was by Dan Lett the average Homeowner will pay More for natural Gas under a pro posed Centra Gas rate but Large commercial and Industrial customers will pay Centra Gas Manitoba for Merly ice utilities Manitoba has asked the Public utilities Board for a general rate increase this primarily to cover higher costs related to million in delinquent the proposed increase would see the average homeowners Bill Rise by per the company it includes increasing the fixed monthly charge by to and a cent increase in the commodity the rate increase would add be tween to to the average annual residential Gas Large Centra clients will see commodity charges drop by As much As per the fixed monthly charge for Large clients will Rise by to a total of Centra Vic president Tom Bell said that in calculating the rate proposal the company used a Cost allocation equation that tries to As sess any rate increases to the Type of client that is most Bell said it costs Centra More to service residential clients than commercial clients As a the average Homeowner is assessed a larger portion of the rate while Bell argued Gas Bills for homeowners have risen by Only five per cent during the last five he conceded larger clients have seen rates drop during the same at the heart of the proposed rate increase is the problem of unpaid on the province announced it would provide Centra with the legislative authority to lock off delinquent in its pub Centra argues that because delinquent customers could not be denied ser vice As the result of a Manitoba court of Appeal ruling two years paying customers devoted about of their annual Bill to service nonpaying As of Centra spokesman Mark Desrosiers More than customers owed million in unpaid up from Mil lion six weeks More than million of the total Are accounts that have been delinquent for 90 Days or he an unusually cold december and coupled with the seem to have accounted for the dramatic increase in delinquent a Desrosiers in terms of Cost More than delinquent residential with unpaid Bills after 90 account for of the about larger general ser vice with Bills delinquent for More than 90 account for the remaining million is covered by accounts 30 or 60 Days he Jenny president of the Manitoba Branch of the Consumers association of said most utilities try to hit residential Consumers with the bulk of rate increases because it is always More expensive to serve homeowners than commercial or Industrial Cli in the Case of natural she Centra faces an additional problem in that Industrial clients can bypass the Utility and negotiate Gas service directly with Alberta Hillard said there is Little Chance Centra will Roll Back its rates now that it has the Power to Cut off delinquent customers unless forced to by the fall hearings into Gas rates will probably determine whether that will she Desrosier said the company is pleased about its new but could not comment on what adjust if would be made to the pub proposal until More Consulta Tion takes place on the mechanics of its new Lockoff Veggie dolls nipped in Bud by Paul Samyn in a move sure to please potato the prospects for a bumper crop of Veggie dolls have been nipped in the the Manitoba securities commission has issued an in Vestor Alert regarding the pro motion of the cabbage Patch like dolls whose Heads feature a Cornucopia of including tomatoes and the Alert also advises against investing any Money in the manufacture and Sale of a Board game named the investor Alert comes on the heels of a temporary cease trading order the Mac issued tuesday against Lawrence Hunter and Lawrence Hunter promotions according to the Hunter and Hunter promotions have been dealing in securities when promoting the dolls and Board despite never having registered under the securities As the result of this temporary cease trading order any trading in securities by Lawrence Lawrence Hunter promotions or any of the associates or affiliates of Lawrence Hunter promotions would be the Mac Jan an Mac in said Hunter has been pitching the dolls and Board game since november and has raised in the neigh boyhood of legions have been a favorite target of Hunters promotional Banasiak Hunter remains convinced he will be Able to continue sowing the seeds for the Veggie environmentalists trash Green garbage bag pitch by Randy Turner a telemarketing operation Selling biodegradable garbage bags has raised the ire of local environmental and consumer Jenny Manitoba president of the Consumers association of said the group is investigating Environ youth which offers 100 Bio and photo degradable garbage bags for about the offer includes a Canvas shop Ping a sticker and a fridge mag we have a double edged concern about Hillard there Selling products Way above Market value and their environmental claims Are very Supe Valu was Selling 10 photo and biodegradable bags for last regular garbage a pack of were priced Between and Veteran Alex Zahorodna salutes during ukrainian not signal an end to the soviets policy of or Tad Kawycz said ukrainians have acted differently from people in the Baltic states by trying to first achieve a Sovereign state and taking their time to pursue the goal of Complete Hillard said the cac in Winnipeg had received several Calls about the which describes itself As a group of Young canadians ing environmentally Friendly prod As with All supposedly Environ mentally Friendly they Arent effective As they say they Hillard at least two environmental officials contacted by Environ youth solicitors have complained to the con Sumers Rick Manitoba hazardous waste said while the bags break up into smaller they do not disintegrate to i dont know what that does for the he i suspect there Are a lot of people out there paying a lot More Money than they should for a product that Doest do a hell of a lot for the these things do not John director of environmental affairs for gravure International it a Bio or photo de tradable bag has not been shown to work in a there using this biodegradable Angle to sell at a Premium said whose firm manufactures packing material for the and Canadian instead of one biodegradable you have a Bunch of Little its a very dubious Benefit for a Premium priced a spokesman for a Cal Gar based Tel marking company defended the before they open their they should try these Lukas a spokesman for great West ill gladly Send Down some Sample bags for Boland said the bags Are More expensive because they Are Topo theline unlike regular the biodegradable bags break allowing garbage to decompose in the Landfill he Petra head of the firms Calgary said the bags dont just there it just turns into Fine were not saying its a 100per cent she but its got to be a bit better than we have Boland said the Winnipeg Compa which started in employs primarily High school Stu dents who receive or for every package they the Winnipeg office was opened by Environ youth products founder Jeff Wheeler after the operation proved successful in Wheeler could not be reached for the Calgary established in has sold Environ youth products to households in that City Knocke the Selling pitch is strictly super she were not making a killing on were not trying to make a multimillion Dollar Compa ;