Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local Section Brian Cole 6977292 b1 april 1994 Nice Guy deserves pension break Nice Guys finish often the int it just like Lyman who worked 28 years As head of applied science at red River Community about two years a number of College departments closed and staff were Laid Ross want affected by the provincial government but some of his staff one teacher was told he had to Transfer from Winnipeg to replacing an instructor at the Assiniboine Community College who was to be Laid he was a family Man with three Young one requiring special attention due to a hearing Ross the Transfer to Brandon would have created them much needless to the family experienced severe mental anguish when the announcement took so to help aged decided to take Early the teacher got his Job and the Brandon educator stayed a thoroughly decent shortly before he signed a civil service superannuation Board document that would give his two thirds of his pension for life if he nine Days into his she died of a heart Ross went to the superannuation Board to inform them of her death and request the pension be reverted to his life at that he had yet to receive his first the Board said it As a Ross lost 10 per cent of his a week Ross suffered a heart i ended up having a quadruple bypass and spent much of my time being rehabilitated from my so i didst pursue the pension that was two years Ross recently remarried and decided to approach the Board this time requesting that his second wife be included As the recipient of the pensions two thirds i was informed that my pension could not be changed from myself and former he since i cannot have my present wife included on my i feel my pension should be reverted to single on the advice of a pension Ross intimated there had been exceptions made in the he appealed the boards decision to Darren the minister responsible for the civil service because of the circumstances Early retirement helping out fellow employees my wife death nine Days into feel that this situation warrants special he wrote the who asked the Board to review the wrote Back to say he overturn the decision because the civil service superannuation act Doest permit a change of beneficiary where the retired employee has selected the option that provides a lifetime Benefit to a surviving if the superannuation Board were to permit your request for special it would establish a precedent that would create an inequity As Well As additional Cost to the plan which would have to be shared by All inequity additional Cost what unfairness what extra expense another How often does what happened to Ross happen id Wager not too if at victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy fax 697 or email Mike Ward on the internet at fear for child Moi s safety by Stevens wild and Bud Robertson staff reporters a chronic child molester May have picked the wrong boys to hang convicted paedophile David George Whyte out of jail on pro Bation was taken into custody for his own Protection after he was assaulted and his car and House on Clayton drive were his lawyer the 30yearold Whyte pleaded guilty yesterday to breaching Proba Tion by being in the company of Young police said one of the boys is from a family with friends in the los bravos motorcycle Whyte pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault in the same he will appear next month on those Lou Spado of the Winnipeg police youth division confirmed that Whyte was assaulted saturday night and that his car tires were but Whyte did not want the Inci dents investigated and refused to press Spado there is some indication that there May be some friends and associates of a motorcycle gang who May be friends and associates of the childrens Spado but Spado said there was no Evi Dence linking the gang to the Inci Spado also rejected the notion that police had taken Whyte into Cus Tody tuesday for his own he was taken into custody for the Protection of children in the area Spado there Are allegations that Hes he had breached his Whites Jill said in an interview that she was concerned for Whites safety in the Winnipeg remand Crown attorney Janice Lamaitre told court that in the latest Whyte became friends with the two neighbourhood allegedly touch ing one boys genitals on the outside of his and repeatedly touch ing the other boys Lamaitre asked for a sentence of four to six Whyte will be sentenced next Duncan emphasized that while Whyte was admitting the breach of he denied the sexual of he is going to accept the inevitable jail she Whyte was sentenced to a two year term of probation in 1988 for Ken free press Man on the spot Tow truck Driver Jim Borsboom prepares to right a truck following a two vehicle Accident at Provencher Boulevard and Rue Des neurons yesterday the Driver of the truck was taken to Hospital but was later couples visits deliver More than hot meals by Bud Robertson staff reporter once a Margaret and Walter Buhr bring a few minutes of companionship and a hot meal to Many lonely Hutins along their meals on wheels you get attached to some of the people you deliver said Margaret who began volunteering with her husband 15 years when he retired from the Hudson Bay its Nice for them to have somebody drop by and were Happy to see its a very easy Volunteer i its also a very important if meals we rent delivered to a lot of these they would be looking for nursing after loading up with hot meals prepared by staff at Victoria in general the couple visits Between 12 and 18 clients along their fort Garry Buhr is also a responsible for setting schedules and assigning other volunteers to various we have some tremendously committed said meals on wheels executive director Jean some of the organizations volunteers work five Days a week delivering hot meals to seniors and Hutins around the were Wendell free press Walter and Margaret Buhr Load up with hot meals for entirely dependent on she Buhr also spends time helping out at the childrens knitting clothes and Manning Book fairs to raise Buhr said she has always been involved in Volunteer and this is something she and her husband can do it gives a sense of added her 79yearold a Salute to Volunteer week cause of boys death disputed Kenora testimony concluded yesterday in the Man Slaughter trial of Irene with evidence from a Winnipeg surgeon that six Earold William Dewitt Likely died As a re sult of damage to his Victor de Korompay opinion that brain swelling caused dewitts death contradicted testimony by other medical experts that internal including ruptures of the oesophagus and were the primary dewitts body was found in Fredrick sons trailer Park Home on an autopsy deter mined the cause of death to be inter Nal and the Crown has argued that commit Ted the assault that caused an orthopaedic sur Geon specializing in traumatic injun said he could not determine from information provided to him whether the boys brain was dam Agio by blows to his head or a toxic in jury level of Antihistamine found in his under Cross examination by Crown attorney Richard de Korompay confirmed that injuries to the brain Are not commonly treated by orthopaedic who Deal specifically with muscular and skeletal touching three boys Between the Ages of six and 11 in Whyte pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault after touching the genital areas of two and was Given three years of supervised during which he was ordered to stay away from last Whyte spent two months in jail for breaching that probation at that Spado called on the Justice department to print the names of convicted Pedo philes in newspapers and put their faces on closing arguments will be presented to the seven division changes Touchy panel finds Rural opposition Bald Santin education reporter Rural Manitoban equate changing school division boundaries with the death of their says Bill chairman of a Provin Cial commission studying the is but the Manitoba teachers society urged the commission yesterday to create somewhere be tween 14 and 20 Large divisions out of the 54 school divisions in the students would get increased taxpayers would contribute More equally to Public schools and teachers would receive More of the resources they said its president David Norrie said in an interview that even in Winnipeg and other Urban creating larger school divisions is seen As widening an already Large Gulf Between the common people and the he said a common theme among the 270 presentations to the Manitoba school districts boundaries review commission hearings has been a belief that the local school is the last tie holding Many Rural communities people relate a change in boundaries to the loss of local to less influence on the school the for Mer mayor of it was a fear that was first expressed on the hearings opening Day in Stonewall four months ago and repeated almost without change at each of the 46 other hearings held across the prov but Norrie said he expects some division boundaries will be adding that changing demographics warrants some Revi the commission was appointed last july by former education minister Rosemary who cited changing demographics and technologies and education Reform among the factors that prompted a review of division its mandate was to address 118 questions posed by the Filmon government on including How Many divisions there should How big they should be and How they can be run More of the commission will present its findings to education minister Clayton manness in joining Norrie Are Norwood school trustee Brenda Winnipeg lawyer Ian Joan co owner of the Thompson citizen and Manson Reeve of tit the commission headed into its final two weeks Start ing a series of hearings at the Winnipeg convention some boards trying to pick own partner Bald Santin education reporter some school divisions Are considering amalgamation rather than waiting for the province to impose a merger with an unwanted weve got two options go out and make an arrangement that is suitable to both sides or Al Low the cards to fall As someone else determines Ron superintendent of red River school the red River division has be gun talks with Seine River school division that could Lead to a merger of the two spokesmen for Norwood and Boniface divisions told the boundaries review commission recently that they prefer an amalgamation Between them selves and adjoining rather than being forced into a merger with other but vital division told the commission it Doest want to merge with let alone its closest in the the superintendents from three Interlake area Divi Sions explored but their trustees rejected the creation of the new Franco phone school Board has affected some Winnipeg and area Divi Sions red River and Seine River Are losing schools and Stu dents to the new some educators have Long questioned whether Norwood the smallest division in the City with students has Ever been now that its losing one school and 400 the questions have been raised the same questions Are being asked of red which will see its enrolment Cut in Down to 600 but spokesmen for All boards said merger talks were not prompted by the new francophone Board but by the appointment of the boundaries review com Norwood trustee Ron Char Trand said his Board Hopes to find some Cost savings in discussions with Boniface and Perron said red River trustees merely want to give their Stu dents a Good adding merger with Seine River might be the eventual he said red Rivers goals for the immediate future Are to Pur Chase services from Seine River that it cannot afford on its ;