Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 12, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 40 pages vol 122 no 131 publications mail registration 0286 i free press get Post 60t get Post outside City in Ontario weekly Home delivery wkly Post in Winnipeg Post City april 1994 do lottery winners go wild with Windfall ont bet on it by David Kuxhaus staff reporter youve just won million to do maybe tear up the Highway in a new Ferrari or How about wiggling your toes in the White Sand of a Caribbean hideaway then you could always pay off those Bills and sock the rest of the Cash in the it May sound but that what most of the big lottery winners Are a Survey shows 65 per cent of people who have won or More Are banking their its a Little frustrating joked Marlene a spokeswoman for the Western Canada lottery which conducted the you sit them Down and int there something special you want to you know i dont think anyone has Ever even gone out and bought a Mercedes or a the lottery contacted 644 past winners for the Gockel said the most exciting Winner they could nato jets renew attack serbs Given Stern warnings by George Rodrigue dates morning news Berlin nato aircraft renewed their attacks on bosnian serb tanks and Artil Lery around Gorade yesterday after the serbs reacted defiantly to sundays air strike by two f the Pentagon said yesterdays strike by two Marine corps f 18s destroyed at least three a Mored personnel carriers and one in troops reported that a tank also was Secretary of state Warren Christopher later warned the bosnian serbs that the United states and its nato allies stand ready to act again if the air strikes occurred after serb gunners intensified their at tacks on Gorade Early yesterday Lyndall a spokes woman for the in High commissioner for refugees in said her colleagues in Gorade re ported indiscriminate shelling of the town one Shell reportedly blew out All the windows in the in High com missioners Gorade head Quad another wounded 200 people at a downtown refugee British Michael the in military commander in requested yesterdays nato air this time target ing some of the serb guns that were firing into the two f18 Hornet attack planes police restrain woman in Sarajevo protest that claimed in action is too too a photo were in the at bosnian they targeted a group of tanks and armoured personnel carriers on a Hillside South of Pentagon officials in and civilian Aid workers in Gorade reported that the serbs intensified their artillery fire for the next 90 minutes and threat ened reprisals against in doctors in Gorade said the serbs had killed 156 people and wounded 640 since they began their assault March reacting to the reprisal nato Secretary general Man Fred Woerner there Are far More than 100 aircraft Down there at bases in so i would warn anybody against the idea of Retalia in forces in Sarajevo went on red but in peacekeeping forces reported no attacks else where in Bosnia by late last in Gorade shooting dropped off later in the yesterday serb Lead ers bitterly accused the in of aggression against the serbian they broke off peace talks As Hartline serb nationalists accused the muslims of firing at yesterday attack three serb armoured personnel carriers and a truck were destroyed yesterday along the the nato air forces used Fais of a Marine corps contingent based in the fa18 combines the f18 fighter and the a18 attack and is used most often by the Navy and Marine nato air attacks marking the first nato attack on ground positions in the alliances 44year warplanes continued attacking bosnian serb forces in Gorade yesterdays led by two fa18 continued an Effort launched when United nations peacekeepers requested nato air Gradina metres serbian guns have a Clear shot into Gorade from Eileen Bob castello dying Man finally is heard Mitchelson overrules pays for talking computer As far As dying wishes Rob Martins want that stricken with Lou Gehrig All the31yearold wanted in his last year of life was a Laptop computer so he could communicate with 10yearold son and his caregivers at Deer Lodge his disease has progressed to the Point where he is unable to do much except blink his nod his head and wiggle his his works As Well As turned Down but social services refused the lease for a computer that would allow him to on welfare for the last cant afford it the social allowance act defines Basic necessities As such goods and services As Are essential to his health and in Martins the department decreed the following the need for such a device was not an essential or Basic need but rather one of contributing or enhancing Martins Gordon Sinclair after repeated requests and a phone Call to family services minister Bonnie Mitchel sons office two months the Case ended up before an Appeal last Friday both Martin and his social Lisa broke Down crying at the Appeal hearing when they heard a lawyer suggest that communicating want a Basic you dont expect things like this to be an said who works at Deer All smiles but Martin was All informed of the Case by new Democrat la Doug Martindale Burrows and confronted by the free Mitchelson overruled her bureaucrats and granted the funding Martin will have his Martin left with his social communications and the Appeal boards decision is its a pretty sad of Mitchelson said in an so i would like to make every Effort the communications device is paid Martins Story int he is one of Many Manitoban squeezed Between budget conscious bureaucrats from two overlapping and family in deciding to pay the monthly rental instead of the political Price of saying Mitchelson alluded to the while her department will help in this she the bigger question of which of the two departments should pay in cases like Martins remains an Issue to be resolved by the two i think we have to look at the individual circumstances and determine whats fair and just and develop a she the Martin Case also has shown what the absence of a policy can do to someone who is already dealing with the ultimate so painfully and so Back at Deer Lodge Centre Martin used the computer to have his it was the right the computers synthesized voice said for i thought if they would take the time to meet the people who they make decisions maybe the whole ordeal would have been find was one who bought a plane ticket to Australia to meet a another bought a most people Are really says they dont want to dramatically change their and they want to make sure theres plenty of Money around to Benefit themselves and their Winnipeg Ger Rodelio Tagle and his wife Felicidad shared the Windfall they won in february with their together the couple has 16 and each of them was Given chopping from top proposed consultant wants 52 managers Cut from civic works department by Dan Lett City Hall reporter the City should get rid of 52 works and operations manag ers and Combine All five districts into a consultants report has the ordered by Council More than 18 months concluded there were too Many Lay ers of management in the works and operations department for the ser vices it was As part of a plan to save taxpayers the report recommends that More responsibility be Dele gated to frontline and that redundant management positions be the five geographical works districts should be combined into one department that would provide ser vice on a citywide the report full savings from the new system could be realized within six months of full implementation which May require up to two total Cost of implementing the new system has been pegged at Mil Ron a consultant with Roy Jorgensen associates said Winnipeg management employee ratio is unproductive in some in some he there is a on Toone ratio with a District who should be supervising up to eight supervising just one assistant District John chairman of a steering committee that took charge of restructuring works and opera said the report represents a new management philosophy that councillors must embrace if taxpayers Are Ever to find if we dont find a different Way of doing were going to be tied to inflation level tax increases he Angus Norbert said the elimination of various layers of unnecessary management has been Long overdue and the consultants report should provide the impetus for pro found restructuring of the civic by he said he expects his committee to Forward its recommendations to City Council sometime this Terry Duguid North Kil chairman of the works and operations said that Al though there will be some Job More jobs will be protected in the end and civic services will be in Paul president of the Canadian Union of Public employees the cites largest Union said he is unsure How to re act to the report because it contains so Many unanswered moist said he is concerned that councillors still do not have a Clear picture of How this restructuring would affect frontline recommendations in the report included q creation of a customer services Section to help on a City wide the delivery of q reduction of branches within the new department to three main areas streets and transportation Wastewater and land Drain age and solid q the new system would Cut 21 Winnipeg association of Public ser vice officers jobs from manage ment and 31 additional jobs in administrative and technical classes for a total saving of quote of the Day i am Here and i am we Are just watching reports on television and we Are a veto Muranzi Ann ;