Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Home care services you can count Home health to phone 9873044 Winnipeg free press local january Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Charlene Barker and Larry Merrick watch traffic Speed by on Victor Lewis the traffic angers Many traffic causes noisy problem by Bruce Owen staff reporter Charlene Barker awakens to traffic and goes to bed with the basically youre getting traffic All the Linden Woods resident weve complained about but All they Tell us is that the Way it Barker said the problem is the heavy traffic on Victor Lewis traffic which was recently rerouted off Sterling Lyon there Are signs that say Victor Lewis int a truck but a lot of trucks ignore other mostly Condo and apartment Are also in just dreading the summer when were out on our Mir Iam Nixon the noise will be both Nixon and Barker Point the Finger at Bill Clement Charle Woodfort they said Victor Lewis was once closed to through traffic off of Wilkes Avenue because of with traffic routed Down Sterling Lyon but Linden Woods residents complained to Clement they didst have Access to Victor he lobbied for the Clement could not be reached for what it boils Down to is that the people in Linden Woods now save half a Nixon that All its hardly anyone uses Sterling Lyon Parkway Barker City traffic operations Engineer Mel Hirt said Clement asked for Victor Lewis to be but did not know the reason for the the decision was approved by the cites works and operations John Angus Norbert said if there is a the commit tee can look at the situation Grant spokesman for the Linden Woods Community said once Ster Ling Lyon Parkway is finished next the traffic problem on Victor Lewis should be its the Way it is now because the bulk of people in Linden Woods like he dents mean a can of Worms by Kevin Rollason staff reporter aluminium cans Are about the safest method to store food but Consumers should still watch out for ones damaged at the store or at a report provided by the cites health department states that canned foods have a much safer rec Ord than Home cooked but Peter training and re search officer with the food Tion division of the cites health de said his department is still concerned that Winnipeg Gro Cery trying to save Mon might be buying or keeping cans which should be thrown out As potentially a lot of dents on cans Are accept but some Parys showing a collection of bashed and dented cans seized from the shelves of City food outlets recently by health usually the cans Are Safe at the time of packing the damage comes further Down the Parys said cans Are damaged and contaminated when a grocery store worker punctures one when cutting open cases of canned food or when a person at Home drops a can and the seam damage under the Label goes an occasional series on Winnipeg restaurant once the Seal is cans be come perfect Breeding grounds for Salmonella and each can cause and botulism can also be found in but Only if there is improper Canning at the it int some thing which can happen in a can which becomes unsealed because it needs an environment with no oxygen to Parys said a shallow or rounded Dent away from the cans seam is usually generally if theres a Dent on the upper or lower seam or the Side the can be Parys Parys said health inspectors Check the condition of cans when they inspect grocery and convenience stores but we cant be everywhere All the people just have to realize dents in cans can be 3 free press Parys shows dented canned goods that could spell discard products that look damaged How can Civ umers when to buy a can a bargain pile or when health heres i tip list of what to watch for on outs pc of pen use Only a Fate to Dean with Teadt and youre sure the stain is not City orders chinese restaurant to install a new floor after a shutdown of almost two the health department allowed the new emperor Garden restaurant at 338 Ellice Avenue to reopen earlier this month As Long As it replaces its floor later this after an inspection in the health department shut Down the restaurant As unsanitary to allow the owners to thoroughly clean the premises and equipment and renew substandard floor Dean chief of the cites food Protection said there is no Hazard to restaurant patrons who eat there before the floor is re nobody will get sick because the floor is he but it will get dirty again unless its re so that Why he has to get a new the restaurant in the Savoy at 686 main was ordered closed for a few Days last month because of a cockroach infer it was reopened after an exterminator cleaned the the original food bar at 564 main Street was convicted for violation of health regulations in the restaurant failed to obtain eggs from an approved source on 11 and received a on it was charged with a second count of failing to obtain eggs from an approved source and was assessed a Fine last Section Brian Cole 6977292 email a13 City Aims at Lead in water Bald Santin staff reporter the City of Winnipeg is launching a Public information Campaign Over the High Lead Levels in its drinking water five years after it was first urged to do Over the next two a Tele phone hotline will be set up and residents will receive in their mail a brochure telling them about the High Lead Levels in their tap water and How those Levels can be reduced to acceptable Levels As outlined in International in the City will launch an Pilot study to test various chemical treatments of the water to permanently eliminate any threat posed by Lead Levels in the drinking minimizing Lead Levels is very de particularly with respect to Terry chairman of civic works and operations com you want to minimize it As much As possible and were advising residents on Steps to do the question of Safe Lead Levels had pitted the City administration against provincial health officials in a three year Battle Between 1990 and with each Side relying on expert scientific a provincial report suggested that thousands of mostly in the inner consume higher than acceptable Levels of Lead every Day and that running the tap for five minutes in the morning cannot eliminate the As had been previously a study completed by the prov Ince in late 1990 projected that if residents continue to drink water with Lead Levels of so micrograms per 500 children would develop lower pregnancies would be at risk of spontaneous abortion and 271 men would develop hyper the study recommended a Public awareness warning Resi dents of the threat from Lead and urging that morning be come but the cites a world re owned dismissed the provincial and International studies As and said there were no health benefits to be gained by Low ering the Lead Levels As recommended by new the cites water Supply is slightly when it sits in pipes Over some Lead is dissolved from plumbing research has shown that letting the taps run for about five minutes every morning will flush put the in Homes with Lead fittings connecting pipes to City morning Flushing cant re Duce the High Lead it has Long been recognized that Lead is a toxic substance that can have serious effects on Small Chil Dren and fetuses through prolonged Duguid said City officials eventually succumbed to provincial pres sure in late 1993 but saw a similar education Campaign killed by that years budget he said provincial officials were children most at risk from Lead in drinking water the City of Winnipeg will launch a Public education Campaign warning residents about the dangers posed by consuming water laced with High Levels of Federal health officials said research has shown that it is children who Are at greatest risk from exposure to Lead in drinking babies and children under the age of six can absorb upwards of 50 per cent of the Lead in drinking adults absorb Only 10 per More information can be received by calling the cites a1990 provincial study of Winnipeg water Supply found All Homes and apartments in Winnipeg have Lead Levels in tap water that exceed the National and International guidelines of no More than 10 micrograms per litre 10 some Levels Are As High As Lead Levels for most Homes with Coppe based plumbing systems can be reduced by hushing letting the taps run for three to five no amount of Flushing can reduce High Levels to Homes and apartments built before 1 i1 Homes with Coppe based plumbing systems less than a year old had the highest incidence of overnight High Lead ranging a Survey of drinking water Linda Silkowski Winnipeg free press angry that the Campaign and the Pilot project were killed for financial adding they threatened to regulate the water the initiatives were approved without opposition during the Bud get process last Duguid adding they were to begin Early this he said the Pilot study will examine ways to increase the hard Ness of the cites water to remove its corrosive Why did the judges Roar turn into a meow All right Settle before we get to today i thought id share a its from a compilation of student Ive chosen this one in particular because of our civics lesson the government of Athens was democratic because people took the Law into their own All open your last in that last Frontier of Liberal citizens turned out by the thousands to sign a folks thereabouts were hotter than a smoking police special because of a ruling by Manly a Par time judge from sitting on a Law enforcement review Agency Gordon Sinclair judge Rusen found a Brandon officer guilty of using excessive Force when he shot an intoxicated teenager who had been armed with two Kitchen weighing the Rusen found Jason Daniels had not attacked John Luteran or any of the three other officers who answered the Call to a Domestic dispute in what it came Down to was Rusen believed the Drunken Daniels Over four police not Only Daniels was within 48 the petition demanding Justice minister Rosemary Vodrey overturn Rubens decision had mind the woman who started it admitted she haunt read Rubens reasons for All that seemed to matter was John Luteran was a churchgoing one of the Good Guys who protects us from All those bad dudes out the like that seemed laughably politicians cant overturn a judicial Only higher courts this week in a Brandon hotel meeting guarded by half a dozen sheriffs and a Metal judge Rusen delivered his two letters of ouch and the letters were to be written by a chief of police who Doest believe John Luteran did anything wrong when he plugged Jason Daniels in the c considering the penalty options prescribed by lera dismissal to reduction in to loss of to verbal Choice was As Limp As his guilty decision had now there Are several t considerations judges look at when they impose the most important one in this Case didst concern Luteran it involved the message it sent to every other police officer who has the awesome responsibility of carrying a the Legal term is general penalty must be such that it deters others from engaging in the same or similar judge Rubens decision tells police officers even if they overreact and shoot someone when they All they have to worry about is a few words on paper that will disappear after two the question of is Why did judge Rusen the lion hearted Roar turn into a meow remember democracy is founded on an Independent judiciary that supposed to be protected and insulated from the pressures of the mob its not just about the will of the the whether they realize it or acted like a in his judge Rusen chastised them and in sure he would say the petitioners didst influence but no one can deny that he heard maybe the originators of the petition we rent so after and maybe that Blooper want so far from the class or should i say ;