Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 29, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Section Brian Cole 6977292 Winnipeg free press local december wont escape Vodrey says b1 by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter provincial court judges will no longer be Able to escape disciplinary complaints and penalties by resigning or retire Justice minister Rosemary Vodrey announced yesterday starting even if a judge signs while a complaint is being pro the proceedings May continue if its in the Public As the provincial court act will now allow the possibility of re covering the Cost of an inquiry from the former the provincial government amended the Law this summer after judge Bruce Mcdonalds Resigna Tion halted a hearing into his con duct last the hearing had been prompted by a free press series about the judicial systems inaction on com plaints about Mcdonalds court room Mcdonald resigned just As the Manitoba judicial coun cil was to begin extensive hearings into complaints dating Back to 1969 and ranging from racist and sexist remarks to harassment of court other amendments change the Way complaints about judges Are dealt with and add Public Laurel Hyde of an Agri cultural has been appointed to the judicial inquiry while Winni Eggers Marilyn who works at Thomson funeral and Allen Mack Enzie have been appointed to the judicial but Waltraud president of the Manitoba association of women said she wanted to see More Public representation than the one out of three on the Judi Cial inquiry Board and the two out of six on the judicial if the government is really fitted to seeing Justice the Public needs More input into the pro she Grieger said she wanted to know Ken i Oliotti Winnipeg free press Wendy Loly of the fort Whyte Centre tosses an old Christmas tree on a pile to be recycled into fish Chip in a tree for some Garden mulch Byjah tharayil free press correspondent wondering what to do with your Christmas tree the City of Winnipeg has an answer with its lets Chip in recycling residents can drop off their Trees at one of eight Parks around the City up to the Trees will be run through a machine that converts them into Wood Chip mulch for Flower the City asks you to ensure your tree is All lights and City forestry official Larry Baker said Trees will be chipped from 10 to 4 at Assiniboine Kildonan vital Park and the fort Whyte bring your own the last Day to bring in a tree is the which is in its fifth has recycled More than Christmas keeping 350 metric tonnes of waste out of Winnipeg the City expects to mulch about Trees this the fort Whyte Centre will Recycle a few of the Trees it collects into Homes for Wendy who is in charge of the program at the explained that Park workers will tie weights to selected Trees and place them on the Parks Frozen in the when ice starts to break the Trees will sink to the creating a shelter that fish because our lakes Are they really dont have any natural places for fish to said so the Christmas Trees will do this Trees can be dropped off at fort Whyte Whittier Assiniboine Kings Shames civic Kildonan and Kiliona Park Milvor Avenue Pennington staff sitting tight As retailer goes into receivership by Kelly Taylor business reporter it will be business As usual at Winnipeg Pennington stores despite a court order throwing the clothing retailer into receiver trustee Robert of Rich Ter and partners Courtay pointed receiver for the Canadian Chain said operations will continue at All 110 stores while he meets with creditors and tries to find a there has been some interest expressed by various people who Are interested in buying parts of the company and continuing the name he in Pennington owns five Pennington Large size shops and two Pennington wearhouse it employs approximately 70 Fulland Par time staff we rent talking to the Media yester but one manager said theres been no immediate word on Clos not that weve she Pennington has been flirting with bankruptcy since november when it sought court Protection for a restructuring under the companies creditors arrangements yesterdays move came As a result of creditors requests to lift that Protection and a petition for receiver ship filed by Hosier phantom Indus which is owed about Pennington president roman Woroniuk said in a Telephone inter View he had been trying to Avert yesterdays action by Selling some of the assets of the time ran the creditors he retailing in Canada has been going through a re structuring and and we happened to get caught in the mid Woroniuk said Trade suppliers Are owed about while another million is owed to miscellaneous mortgage holders Are owed million and theres a million to claim landlords now have for he also said there could be another million or so for Severance in Case employees Are let Woroniuk said staff will just have to sit tight while everything is set a leading retail Ana Lyst said any buyer Able to avoid Pennington Pitfalls would find a business Treyve got a Good piece of Busi Ness if somebody could do that and be said Maureen Atkin senior consultant at John Williams consultants in Treyve got quite a name and that should be Worth something right the backgrounds of the members of the Public appointed to the it really is there needs to be knowledge and the changes follow 1989 recommendations by the Manitoba Law Reform commission that there be a three step process to Deal with com and a Clear division Between the investigative and adjudicative a complaint will now first be received by the chief provincial court judge who will try to resolve recommend a More appropriate course of or refer it to the judicial inquiry the judicial inquiry Board made up of a designated court of Queens Bench a lawyer rep resenting the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian bar and a member of the Public who int a lawyer or judge will then try to resolve the dismiss or bring a charge of misconduct to the judicial the judicial Council can recommend several including removal of the device disarms lethal Gas researchers at a offset to Start work on professor says by Alexandra Paul medical reporter Winnipeg researchers Are set to begin work on a device to convert deadly Carbon monoxide Gas into harmless Carbon a University of Manitoba professor said this is truly a major break through in Carbon monoxide Poi chemistry professor by Man Gesser the chief Benefit of the invention would be its use in Homes to prevent Carbon monoxide every Home that has a Gas Furnace will have it Gesser adding he envisions a filter screen similar to dust filters used today in Winnipeg catalyst the filter screen would be impregnated with Gold and a porous substance to create the catalyst that would work with the surrounding its very simple and very effect Gesser other than maintenance to re move dust from the it would need less attention than Carbon Mon oxide detectors that Are now being produced for the he these detectors Are but you have to look at it or hear a Little Bell from but this thing can work even when you Are he Gesser has recently returned from where he observed the conversion prototype in action at the Osaka National research it transforms the color less lethal Gas into Carbon dioxide using an oxidation the pro Cess is triggered by the action of oxygen in air on Gold that is combined with porous such As Iron Silica alumni num compounds or the International scientific Community has been reviewing the Japa Nese work since 1991 through a Vari Ety of articles in including catalytic science and technology and catalysis Gesser said that under his super a Bachelor of science student will be replicating the japanese work with a catalyst system that combines Gold with titanium Dion Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press Gesser major breakthrough in Centra Gas vice president of customer services Rob Fennell said although he was unaware of the it sounds promis if there was a system some Day that could eliminate any potential wed be interested in look ing at Fennell in the people can ensure their safety by opening a window when they Light fireplace blazes that May trigger the monoxide reports show that each year in an average of one House hold is so badly poisoned that the occupants must be treated in the latest David Mcinty and his Mother were flown to the Minneapolis Hen Pepin county medical Centre with near fatal Carbon monoxide Poison ing Mclntyre improved yesterday and was listed in satisfactory Condi his Mother was still listed As serious in intensive Tilting at bureaucratic windmills a 1994 retrospective almost time to ring in the new so heres a sampling of what happened in 1994 from this Little Corner of the january greatest life reviews Garry Saunders file and reinstates the hear transplant recipients retroactive to the week before Christmas when it ruled he was fit to return to even though his heart surgeon and doctor stated otherwise february the province backs of f prosecuting Martin Erlichman Down with multiple sclerosis to years refusing to pay a default hed parked in a disabled metered spot behind the motor vehicle Al Branch on Portage Erlichman had argued that the disabled dont pay for parking in the City of officials maintained the parking lot want in the City because it was owned by the March second world War Veteran Howard Parry pays a lawyer to recover when the department of veterans affairs wrongfully deducted the Cash from his pension after he left the Lodge Centre to move into his own the Eva clawed Back the saying it had held his old room open in Case he changed his mind he said he april a woman complains her Foster child int included in a province funded program that helps parents improve the lives of their mentally disadvantaged children by providing voice computers and other electronic speech training social services later reverses its perplexed bureaucrats there trying to figure out How to implement equal division at source of Federal government benefits Between spouses after marriage months after it became june landlord Paul Piasecki has to pay a former tenants water Bill under a City of Winnipeg this and Simar cases Are now being investigated by the cites july Lack of communications Between aut Opac and Manitoba Justice department results in a car Vandal paying restitution to the wrong victim damage to the car was about damage to the actual victims August nomination for the years terminal Rump Ness award goes to British Columbia ramp officer Terry Unk who ticketed Manitoba tourist Robert Stenhouse for tinted car there illegal in Manitoba september a seven Earold boy holds police and child and family services workers at Bay with a tire Iron because he wants to live with his grandparents and not be returned to Foster october University computer teacher Paul Stephen and thousands of other arthritic Manitoban must wait More than a year for join replacement this province has the worst record in Canada november Thompson r makes Calls to foreign based 1900 lines totalling More than Over a period of three its says the father must even though the Crown corporation failed to inform him he had exceeded his monthly credit two unemployment insurance officers order Harry Shapkin to repay in overpayment months after an investigation determines he was eligible to receive benefits Happy new year victim of pm injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy 697 74m or email Mike Ward on the internet at ;