Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local january Section Brian email b1 Norrie standing in blocks by Nick Martin City Hall reporter former mayor Bill Norrie says Hes seriously consider ing taking on mayor Susan Thompson in the mayoral race this who retired in said in an interview yesterday that Busi labor and ethnic groups Are asking him to fill a perceived Leader ship vacuum at City they feel theres a Lack of is what in Norrie theres a real Gap be tween the mayors office and the big event Falls Flat patrons Knock yearn party by Stevens wild staff reporter Young people Are demand ing a refund after what was billed As the Ever new years eve event fell Short of its Advance patrons complained that the sat urday evening new years eve Cele bration at the Walker theatre was badly and that the music and dancing were Dis As people who attended the event say identifications were not checked at the theatres even though Many patrons were i think it was the most horrible experience Ive had on new years said Jennifer a Dis satisfied it was very Dis you move in one of the evenings promoters said there was no possibility of customers receiving a re fund on their other patrons said the aisle and lobby of the theatre were with far More tickets sold than the theatre was capable of handling for a dance there were just too Many peo said who asked that is last name not be people we did not feel that Why we Metal Detector Ryan said if there had been a fire it might have been difficult to get people out of the As patrons said there was no room to main attraction of the evening except on the the Atres crowded main stage and that most of the music was Shawn said people had to wait outside in the subzero weather while everyone passed through a single Metal Cohen said the advertised dance floor was just the main stage of the theatre and that the jazz located in the theatres lower was an unfurnished basement with no evidence of live one of the Jeanpierre said no one was going to get their Money if you dont like the in Zink Zink defended the entertainment and said Many of the problems with the evening were the fault of the Walker theatre he said the Walker was responsible for the single Metal for the crowded coat and opera Tion of the we just provided the Zink Walker theatre management was not available for Zink admitted the aisles and lobby were but said Only tickets were sold in a building with a capacity of there was plenty of Zink there was crowding in the crowding in the people like to be together like and he said the main stage was Large enough to he admit Ted the basement was but said a jazz band played two 45 in jute Exma Yor says Hes getting pressure to run again the opportunities with a 15 member Council Are but those opportunities Arent being Norrie but he said he Hast quite made up his its a major Norrie adding hell decide within two or three Thompson has said she will seek a second term As but Harry Lazarenko Mynarski and Al Golden vital unaligned with any of councils factions said yesterday a Well organized outsider could beat either Thompson or Lazarenko said the number the Media have done on Thompson would help who is seen As be ing far better at achieving Consen sus within Lazarenko it was Norrie who held office when the City and province agreed to share the Winnipeg jets and it was Norrie who oversaw Council running up huge Lon term debt that produces annual budget added who often clashed with the Public has lost patience with Thompsons failure to reach a Zero tax increase in three Golden several councillors Are rumoured to be running for but none have committed John Angus Norbert said hell decide Early this Bill Clement Charleswood fort Garry said prospective Candi dates May be doing some preliminary legwork to line up Campaign support but he insisted its silly to make a serious commit ment before apr Glen Murray fort Rouge has made no but said he wont run if former councillor Greg runner up to Thompson in decides to have another go at the Selinger said yesterday Hes unlikely to run for mayor this the Centre left Winnipeg the nineties coalition May nominate someone from the Community rather than a sitting Mur Ray he said win would sup port Terry Duguid North Kil Donan if he challenged Joe by visa Winnipeg free press with cat says he has never lived outside the province and wants to know Why medicare card was no no City Man told after province cuts off medicare by Alexandra Paul medical reporter a lifelong Winnipeg Resi Dent was told to pay Cash for medical care or leave a downtown clinic after Manitoba health rejected his medicare Cov Derek said he went to the Eaton place medical Centre last tuesday for treatment of an inn rear condition that has plagued him with nausea and dizziness since they ended up telling me i would have to pay for my visit be according to Manitoba i dont live Debre Cen the health department rescinds medicare coverage when residents move outside the prov but Debrecen said he has not he said he still lives at the same address where he received his new medicare card last when the health department issued new insurance cards his doctor and a senior health official could not account for the but one senior department offi Cial reached at Home said it some times happens that people lose their coverage if they change addresses within the province without notifying the without a current it is assumed the person has left the prov that an assertion that clinic staff adding it happens More often than the Public might Manitoba Healths director of chiropractic and optometry Doug said de Breens account will be investigated when government offices re open if there has been a in sure it can be straightened Hardy the charge for the visit would have been but its the principle that upset after attempting to reach health department he said he phoned a departmental emergency Debrecen said he was told that his Uncertain medicare status also Means he would be turned away by emergency Hospi Tal staff if he were involved in a serious that scared he staff at the downtown clinic con firmed the saying that the health department rescinded de Breens coverage in a letter when it refused to cover the Cost of a visit Debrecen made in the clinics policy is to refuse treatment to patients who dont pay until they straighten out the problem with the staff made it Clear they didst want to turn Debrecen if i had seen Derek out i would have seen said Ca sey who was unaware of the Issue until it was brought to his at Tention Debrecen said he did receive medical he said he went to a second doctor he has known since childhood for help later the same but he didst Tell that office his medicare card was Norrie leadership vacuum even though Duguid has remained Independent of the win caucus with which he of ten Duguid said he Hast yet decided if hell even seek another Council term next a lot of people worried there might be More Village i fears j cancers i linked residents of a Small town in southwestern Manitoba say they fear a connection among a Cluster of cancer including at least two deaths in the past they Point to three people with whose families live on the same Street in the Village of a Centre for hog and Grain Farmers approximately 80 Kilometres West of there Are a lot of people in the Village who Are worried these Arent going to be the Only said Ann whose son is one of the three people diagnosed with Macgregor is being hit quite badly and it makes you wonder if there is a transplant Dickinson cited another Case involving a woman who recovered from cancer after a Bone marrow transplant last As Well As two cancer deaths in the past both of those who died were one of them was the Stepfather of one of the children with Dickinson resident Lindsey Ferguson said the with a population of is banding together through service organizations to raise a per manent fund to help families cover expenses related to cancer the towns who would identify himself Only As Sam said he is not aware of any connection among the cases and knows of no research to investigate a Possi ble disabled want their say at Appeal rights group Hopes to help keep Lotimer in prison Byjah tharayil free correspondent a Manitoba disabled rights organization is the Only one in Canada seeking intervener status in the upcoming Appeal of Robert its president Theresa Leader of peo ple in equal participation inc Orpo or said her group Hopes to get Legal standing at latimers a peal to help uphold his was convicted of Sec on degree murder last november for killing his 12yearold who had a severe Case of cerebral Latimer whose Appeal is to be Gin in february received a life sentence without of parole for 0 years from a Saskatchewan court of Queens Ducharme said her organization wants to ensure that disabled people Are treated equally by the criminal Justice we want the same respect As everyone else and we want that conviction said we want the Law to protect the disabled so that people wont get off for com passionate Ducharme said she was shocked when she phoned the Saskatchewan department of Justice and Learned that no other group representing the disabled had sought such Ducharme said when she contacted other they said they would wait for the outcome of the Case before but Ducharme said by then it would be too How do you protect your rights unless you fight for it who was stricken with polio when she was eight years said her organization needs to raise for the court the Money would be used for be Gal and to pay for Ducharms nurse and two orderlies to help her on the if it can raise the the organization will be represented by Grant Mitchell of the Law firm Tay Lor and Mitchell has a 15yearold daughter with cerebral she so the organization has raised Only about but Ducharme is confident they will get the in very optimistic that Well get the i wont Stop until we get that Money and we uphold this said Pep was also granted intervener status in opposition to sue Rodriguezs bid to legalize our organization is not designed to be the National voice for disabled yet we seem to be said Pep was founded in 1981 by Duch Arm forty people belong to the or which is supported solely through private Tracy Latimer died from Carbon monoxide poisoning after she was placed in the cab of a truck and it was filled with exhaust since his Latimer has received hundreds of letters of pet is opposed to for ;