Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Brian Cole 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local january Mike wan insurer ignores doctors advice the reasons for cutting of a farm machinery workers Short term disability benefits after three months make absolutely no sense to me at Cliff Andersons doctors say he is unable to work at an Assembly Plant until he recovers from Eye surgery slated for next greatest life without seeking its own Independent medical maintains that his severe double vision condition Doest prevent him from performing most of his work at versatile farm it relied on nonmedical information prepared by inhouse rehabilitation counsellor Heidi she went to Andersons workplace last december to see for herself the kind of work he had to Anderson want invited to the gel disability analyst Adele Johnson then wrote versatile saying that based on this additional medical information the workers benefits had been we have not been provided with any objective medical evidence to support Andersons inability to perform the majority of his Job in had been provided with medical reports from Andersons physician and his Eye surgeon stating he was unable to it turns out the rehabilitation counsellor based her findings solely on subassembly work Anderson had been Given just a few Days before taking sick employed by the company for 14 his regular work was on an Assembly line attaching Large transmission tubes to exhaust i found out that the Job site she looked at is where the company had me putting Small bearings into Anderson my Eye had gotten so bad the company Felt it would have been dangerous for me to work at my regular using Han driven hoists and Power the company has told greatest it wont take me Back until doctors say i am 100 per cent Andersons medical problems began a year ago when he was diagnosed As having Graves an overactive thyroid condition that causes eyes to Given drugs to regulate his thyroid he continued working for four last he was still having trouble with one his Lam partially stitched the eyelid closed to allow him to rest the affected he was also Given he said his double vision became so bad Good and his own doctor advised him not to carry on working until his vision things had got he while my right Eye looked straight my left Eye pushed Forward and pointed towards the As Well As asking for my Anderson asked Union rep Len Rausch to obtain a Legal opinion from Winnipeg lawyer Lesley formerly employed by she now specializes in taking on insurance theres a reverse onus involved she told me greatest has to demonstrate he can go Back to they have to come up with proof and quite clearly they greatest spokeswoman Marlene who first told me the company was standing by its got Back to me to say the rehabilitation counsellor will be going Back to versatile to do another at Andersons regular place of victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy email Mike Ward on the internet at ten most wanted David Bascus wanted on a charge of trafficking in narcotics dating from Joseph big Hetty charged with aggravated assault after a Man was attacked last Oliver catch Way sought in a knife attack on a teenage girl at a party last Ernest Laquette charged with sexual assault on a girl Over several Wayne Milvor faces several charges in a 1993 assault on a teenage Frederick Pelletier wanted in a vicious assault on his common Law wife last Samuel Crawford wanted in connection with multiple offences against his Daniel Pillion charged with robbery in a downtown Winnipeg incident last John Rex charged with sexual assault and confinement in a september Garrett Walker wanted in a knife attack on the proprietor of a club last Hes a rough customer by David Kuxhaus free press reporter you never know who going to turn up at those lat night but you can bet the 38yearold owner of one of them is going to be keeping an Eye on the door after he received a horrific beating by one of his police say that on a 27yearold Man wandered into a Sherbrook Street hangout and got into an argument with the the hot tempered customer whipped out a 15centimetre knife and cracked the owner in the knocking him onto a he then pounced on the fallen slicing his ear in it required plastic surgery to when the victim stumbled to his feet and ran to the Kitchen for his attacker hurled billiard balls at eventually the injured owner was Able to escape through a Back the enraged Patron then turned his Wrath on the smashing a television set and a cordless phone before calling it a police say Garrett Rutherford is facing numerous charges in this who has been known to use the last name is with Black hair and Brown anyone with any information on his whereabouts is urged to Call Winnipeg crime stoppers at 7868477 or Manitoba crime stoppers at callers do not have to reveal their identity and crime stoppers will pay Cash for information leading to the arrest of Walker or any of the other nine fugitives featured David Anthony is wanted by City police after undercover officers were sold cocaine in two separate drug cocaine in february a narcotics officer bought Grams of cocaine from a Man he Portage Avenue the two decided to meet the next Day and another 14 Grams of cocaine were sold to the officer at a Pembina Highway Bascus was charged with trafficking but failed to show up for his court Date in april he has not been seen Bascus is with Black hair Patron lays vicious beating on owner of after hours club crisis stoppers Manitoba 10 most wanted and Brown Joseph Patrick is wanted by City police after a drinking party at a William Avenue address turned last june a 33yearold Man and a woman got into an she pulled out a pocket knife but he was Able to wrestle it from three other men then grabbed the 33yearold and repeatedly kicked him in the head and upper body until he was police say his nose was fractured and he had multiple injuries to his head and big Hetty is wanted for aggravated he is with Black hair and Brown he has a five centimetre scar on his nose and another one on his right Oliver Nelson is wanted by City police after a 15yearold girl was slashed and stabbed at a Pritchard Avenue House on police say a Man punched the girl in the face several he then grabbed a Butcher knife from the Kitchen and slashed her across the forehead and As she tried to get the attacker stabbed her in the just above the catch Way was arrested a Short time later and charged with aggravated police have been unable to find him after he failed to show up for his september court catch Way is with Black hair and Brown Samuel Clarke is wanted by City police after his a wife was threatened with death and an attempt was made to Kidnap her two Young Crawford was first charged in december 1992 with assault and uttering threats to kill his two months later he was arrested again and charged with making harassing phone Calls to he failed to appear in court and warrants were issued for his in april police were called to the woman Home after she told them her a husband took her two Young Crawford was charged with several offences in this incident but again failed to show up for he is with Brown hair and Brown eyes and has several tattoos on his right Daniel Christopher is wanted by City police after a downtown mugging in police say a 39yearold Man was strolling across a vacant lot when he was jumped by another Man who hurled him fac first to the the attacker ripped a necklace from the mans stuffed it into his pocket and walked Fillion was arrested a Short time he was charged with robbery but police have been unable to locate him since he failed to appear for his november court Pillion is with Brown hair and Hazel he has the words youth gone wild tattooed on his right Ernest Joseph is wanted by City police after a Young girl was sexually assaulted several times Over an Lightyear last he appeared in court and was released on condition he not be alone with children under age but in june he was discovered alone in a Home with five he was charged with breaching his a warrant for his arrest was issued when he failed to appear in court in is pounds with Black hair and Green Wayne Robert is wanted by City police after a teenage girl was subjected to a night of terror in an intercity the 16yearold girl was at a River Avenue apartment in november 1993 when two males handcuffed and gagged her with a they sat her on a bed while another female held a 23centimetre knife to her Throat and threatened to kill she slashed the girl across the and with another punched the victim numerous times in the the victim received severe facial injuries which required plastic Milvor was arrested later that Day and charged with aggravated assault and forcible he was released on bail and police have been unable to find him he is with Brown hair and Brown Frederick Lee is wanted by City police after his 21yearold common Law wife was bitten and stabbed in an attack last the woman eventually lost but not before calling when police the suspect had fled and Hast been seen police say he is extremely Pelletier is with Brown hair and Brown he has a circular scar on the right Side of his John William is wanted by City police after two women were locked in an apartment by a Man who then sexually assaulted one of on september the two women were leaving a local nightclub when a Man asked them for a after driving the Man to his Walker Avenue the women were invited but soon decided they wanted to unplugged phone when they tried to walk the Man pulled them Back and locked the when one woman tried to Call he yanked the phone away and unplugged but when he began to sexually assault one of the the other reconnected the phone and called Rex was arrested and charged with sexual assault and forcible he is with Brown hair and Blue two three youths arrested in robberies staff police arrested two men and three youths yesterday for a string of armed robber ies and weapons at police pulled Over a White Van at Aberdeen Avenue and Parr Street when Young men jumped out and two were arrested after a police three others were later inside the was stolen but haunt yet been reported police said they found a loaded sawed off the five have been charged with a number of armed robberies video 1001 on Ellice Avenue on rocket car Wash on Portage ave nue on mom and dads grocery on Mountain Avenue on new years eve and a main Street 7eleven on boxing Sheldon Emery 21 and jul in Brief Nior William both of no fixed Are in two 15yearplds and a 16yearold were also Bank robbed a Northend Bank was held up on Friday by two men armed with a Sil ver plated the both wearing Balayla went into the Royal Bank at col lege Avenue and Mcgregor Street just after police the armed Man demanded Mon no one was injured and the pair fled in a stolen car that was recovered a Short time tenacious Blaze Volunteer firefighters in the Pas fought for 15 hours to put out a fire which caused More than Worth of ramp the firefighters were called to Bernstrom insurance Agency on Edwards Avenue at thurs the fire burned All night and was put out Friday morning at about 6 no one was an ramp spokesman said the fire started in the but the cause is still under the two Storey Concrete building also included two apartments and two other House gutted a Man started a fire in his Boni face Home yesterday while he was soldering his bathroom Caus ing the fire spread from the second floor bathroom at 519 Archibald to a bedroom and the Kitchen Down stairs before firefighters brought it under no one was injury Ottawa to give residents tax Edwards says Byjah tharayil free press correspondent the Federal govern ment will announce in the next 10 Days that Gillam residents will get a significant break on Bills for Back lib eral Leader Paul Edwards said in Revenue Canada completed a three year study and determined that housing benefits provided by Manitoba Hydro to its employees should have been declared taxable in and 1993 As Well As in the fun that meant affected residents would have to repay As much As in Back but Edwards said Revenue Canada officials have told him Gillam residents will now have to pay Only Between 20 and 30 per cent of the Back but Curtis an assistant to the nip la for the Eric Roberts said when he talked to Revenue offi they didst give him any indication of a tax Edwards said he is going to Ottawa tomorrow to meet with National Revenue minister David Anderson to Nail Down Manitoba Hydro provides about 200 Homes for its employ the Back tax affects some 450 including some who have moved away from the town of Jeff who has been working at Manitoba Hydro for 12 said he would have to pay Between and if the Bill is but if it stays the ;