Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Masked Man local entrepreneur takes aim at nil goalies b5 32 pages vol 122 no 35 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post get Post oils de cily 75e in Ontario weekly Home delivery 25 wkly Post in Winnipeg wkly outside ally january new Pha Macare Cut Parent says by Brad Oswald staff reporter an unannounced change to Pha Macare will Deal an other blow to families that de Pend on prescription says a Winnipeg woman whose child has a serious asthma a 22 provincial Cabinet order increases deductibles under the prescription drugs Cost assistance act by about 10 per from to for seniors and from to for those under age effective and for those under age the amount recoverable also drops from 70 per cent to 60 per that will be really devastating for parents of said Kim a member of concerned parents of children with which represents about 150 families in the who is mildly said her six Earold daughters asthma is classified As moderate to severe and requires daily Medica the family pays Between and a year for asthma treating drugs and other Medica that Means the change which will hit Manitoban in 1995 when they submit this years receipts could reduce the amount claimable by Lachute by More than things Are already very said we really have to budget for the medication As it Crook of the Manitoba anti poverty organization said the changes to Pha Macare amount to an added tax on those least Able to there we wont Intro Duce user fees at this we just wont cover or wont rebate half the things we used the Bottom line is that the system is not going to work for people As Well As it she health minister Jim Mccrae was not available for comment yester Liberal Leader Paul Edwards said the Pha Macare Cut is one of several that suggest the Filmon government will eventually eliminate assistance to those who depend on prescription its part of the ongoing process of gutting this he the deductibles have been last year they put in an april 30 deadline that meant hundreds of people missed drugs have been relisted and Are no longer Cov and now there reducing the up photo Gold for Canadas juniors Canaan juniors celebrate their hear stopping win yester fourth world championship in five the Noname Mon Day Etfer swedes in czech few predicted Icker proved a motivating Force for the Young Tournai this hardworking team of nobodies would collect Canadas ment officials named Jamie Storr top goalie do lines drown in school Boundary Battle by Doug Nairne staff reporter Stonewall on the first Day of hearings into redrawing Manitoba school division Interlake residents set a tone that could be repeated across the province change other Divi Sions but leave ours Allan Reeve of the Rural municipality of said any move to shift territory from Rural divisions to Urban divisions will not be Well received by his Beachell said he has been told consideration is being Given to amalgamating parts of the Interlake inside Story Tough task ahead for Norrie 83 school division with the neighbor ing division of Many people moved to this area to avoid having to Send their Chil Dren to a Large City he Earl Phillips of Teulon residents which provides accommodation and support for 120 native Stu dents at Teulon High said a larger division will mean a less responsive our concern would be that if the boundaries Are changed in the inter Lake school it will Lessen our ability to provide speaker after speaker made it Clear they dont want Boundary re form to affect their Interlake Divi Sion though most also lauded the fact that something is being done to address the future of the 56 school divisions and districts in former Winnipeg mayor Bill nor chairman of the Manitoba school bound Aries review said he want even talking about closing a school in a town creates a tremendous psychological he when education jobs Are lost in a Community it is a tremendous Stonewall is the first of 19 communities the commission will travel to before submitting a report to Educa Tion minister Clayton manness in the review is intended to address 118 issues outlined in the commissions discussion document including How Many divisions there should How big they should be and How they can be run More of during her presentation fran Fredrickson of the Interlake Divi Sion said an appropriate size for a Rural division adjoining Winnipeg is Between and raw sewage alarms Hamlet study spurs Calls for sewer system for heading Ley by Randy Turner staff reporter Jeff free press son Jason health first dangerously High Levels of raw sewage have been found in heading Ley prompting Calls for the construction of a modern sewer and water system for the Rural municipality of heading Ley health inspector Marvin Bugyik said a recent by the local raw sewage in almost every ditch North of the Assiniboine theres definitely sewage in High Bugyik i would say the risks were pretty the study found bacteria counts in water in the ditches ranged from 50 to bacteria organisms per he an acceptable level is less than one organism per he said some of the sewage probably overflowed from septic Fields flooded last provincial health inside Story spirits taxes Low b3 officials said the High Levels suggest some residents might be dumping raw sewage into the ditches rather than paying to have their holding tanks David a spokesman for the provinces environment said traces of sewage were found in areas where no leaks were found in nearby septic theres Only one that for Wotton heading Ley administrator lome Erb said the study reinforces the pressing need for an adequate sewer and water were very fortunate there Hast been Erb its unacceptable in this Day and heading Ley residents interviewed yesterday said they were not aware of anyone dumping they agreed the problem must be you know theres a problem because you can smell especially in the Linda Dorge adding that her two Young children Are not allowed to play in the they stay far i dont even let them play in the Dorge is one of a growing number of residents who wants a sewer and water system in the which separated from were willing to pay higher taxes for she the health of our children is More when it gets Back to the health what other choices do we have heading Ley Reeve Jarl already taking Steps to investigate the possibility of establishing a sewer and water system to see if the dollars and cents make sense to them the environment department officials Are increasing inspections on businesses in the Tim Sale of the Manitoba medi care Alert coalition criticized Mccrae for making the change without any Public this is one of the first Concrete pieces of evidence that Mccrae is Cut from the same cloth As or its health Reform by in which Reform really Means Cost he it certainly gives the lie to my craps commitment to funds Bosses probed rom believe Bison managers stole million from program legislature reporter an ramp raid of several Winnipeg premises netted thou Sands of documents As part of an extensive fraud investigation into a controversial immigrant in Vestor ramp search warrants show the mounties suspect Bryan Dudek and Kye Wong of stealing million from the Bison fund of according to ramp Dudek and the self appointed managers of the directed million from the fund to a company they owned in violation of the Immi Grant investor program the ramp allege Dudek and Wong used the Bison fund to finance losses in their own private which in turn owned Chichis and arbs restau the restaurants in which they had an interest have since gone into the paper Trail uncovered by the ramp also shows Dudek and Wong wrongly made in Short term investments without explanation and overpaid themselves in management fees by at least the Bison fund was one of the in vestment programs flagged in a audit conducted for the province last year by Del Crewson Crewson concluded the integrity of the Canad wide immigrant in Vestor program had been jeopardized by the operations of the Mani Toba Bison was supposed to be invest a troubled program Lakeview ignored funds freeze no decision on return to b2 ing in Export oriented industries ensuring Lon term jobs in it was also mandated to provide a reasonable return to its 60 who chipped in each and were awarded landed immigrant i Crew sons report suggested investors who bought into the Bison fund will get Little More than their the Day the audit was the province announced it was bail ing out of the so called Cash Forvis the audit led to an ramp investigation of the Bison fund As Well As a project related to the Lake View group of in the raid last the ramp seized dozens of file boxes and computer disks from a Winnipeg accounting Bison fund offices and other companies related to Dudek and the head of the ramps Commer Cial crime unit said the seized rec ords will be used As part of its ongo ing this is a Complex investigation and it will take some weeks and even months to sort out and to determine whether charges will be Don Svendson said who was bosons presi and who was the funds could not be reached for Bison fund investors have since had the courts appoint a new manag Drew quote of the Day there is a limit sometimes to being a boy prime minister Chretien says a review of Canadas peacekeeping role in Bosnia is a Good details on Page a5 the weather today increasing afternoon Clouds High Low windchill up to tomorrow mainly Cloudy with a 60 Chance of Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on Page d4 inside Ann in sports to ;