Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fri v Cost erts Gamble on water world faces True test in 44 pages vol 123 no 235 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post Tot get Post outside cily 750 in Ontario weekly Home delivery wkly Post in Winnipeg wkly Post outside City july City wont get share of bypassed recycling firm says by Paul Samyn staff reporter the arrival of the cites Long overdue curbside Recy cling program will not necessarily mean Winni Eggers will get their two cents Worth from the prov inces controversial recycling the contract awarded to Laidlaw waste systems to provide curbside pickup for recycled jobs irk b3 Homes will be and will not require any Money from the recycling Levy funded by a two cent tax on every beverage Container since it will not be drawn on works and operations committee chairman Terry Duguid said yesterday of the Duguid said the City Hopes to use some Money from the fund to compensate three Small recyclers who Are being squeezed out by Duguid also said the City could draw on the fund in the future to add to the list of materials collected at the that Money will be but the owner of one of the Recy cling firms which lost the bidding War to Laidlaw said the cites Deci Sion also shafts Winni Eggers who have been paying the two cent Levy for the past seven Jeff Golfman of Planit recycling said All the Money Winni Eggers have spent on the Levy will go to sup port recycling programs in Rural i think it is completely inappropriate and Golfman Golfman and representatives i str Onui refugee ride o and Are by were later collected by a in Convoy to be taken to Zenia in bosnian serbs through rebel held territory yesterday to a Central about refugees left the enclave after it frontline crossing 50 Kilometres South of they fell to serb please see Story on Page a9 pesticides meant slow death for Young Manitoba Farmer by Alexandra Paul medical reporter a Manitoba Farmer dropped dead after he was repeatedly exposed to Low Levels of nerve toxins while sowing canola seed soaked in the 22yearold mans death a year ago last Spring underlines Why a recent study found farming is the most dangerous occupation in his death was one of an average of six fatalities each year in Manitoba that Are caused by farm 75 per cent involving nobody knew what hit he was doing it quite said Ted chief occupational medical officer with the labor the mans name was not released but his death was tragic for his Russ Ellarea his elderly parents were he was going to inherit the Redekop an investigation by provincial workplace safety and health officers found the Man had spread pesticide treated seed in a farm Drill his Bare hands Over a two week period inf Troko All Day he was on the Wash his he ate his lunch Redekop idyllic farm life b3 he was slowly poisoning himself to death without knowing the critical thing was he loved Sunflower hed eat them All Day the canola seeds were laced with two common which contains lindane used in overt counter lice and counter which contains the deadly organophosphate it slowly got into his system until the Day he Redekop organophosphate interfere with the body production of an enzyme vital for Normal nerve Redekop suspects other farm workers Are routinely exposed to similar poisons that make them ill but Stop Short of killing in in 1992 provincial statistics show there were 193 injuries from various far related causes that required Hospital and the trends Are while injuries in other occupations have dropped 44 per cent to 73 per cent in the last 40 farming accidents have fallen a Mere eight per provincial statistics Redekop and the Manitoba College of physicians want to warn Farmers and doctors that pesticides Are lethal and medical symptoms Are the lesson Here is that it can in All All kinds of people have this kind of Redekop the cure for minor cases of organophosphate poisoning is to Stop handling the chemicals until natural Levels of the nerve enzyme twice in the two weeks before his death the Man complained to his parents of fatigue and poor the same flu like symptoms that Are linked to Neur toxin nobody put it together at the his parents thought he was just working too Redekop a week before he he was taken to Hospital with severe stomach cramps after drinking alcohol at a wedding classic symptoms of on the Day he he asked his Mother to drive him to the nearest he never made he was feeling sick and he asked his Mother to pull he kind of tumbled out of the car and into the ditch and he never Redekop he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Hospital shortly that what happens with the whole nervous system suddenly everything suddenly the player that hit me brought me a bouquet of former skater Heather Mcdaniel has paid her dues As a hockey including broken nose while breaking up a players Brawl in details on Page p3 today morning showers or Thun then tonight tomorrow mainly High sets Moon rises sets 845 details on Page b8 diversions rubes Ani sports record e lotto Bonus from the two other local recycling firms will meet today with the prov Ince to push for compensation for being forced out of the we started the we made it profitable and now we Are being Golfman he said his firm has set a deadline of 5 Friday for compensation and if none is Planit will close instead of providing its service until when Laid Law takes environment minister Glen cum mings said the cites decision to go with Laidlaw will save the program Money but expects some Money from the provincial fund will still be Cummings said his staff will meet with the local recyclers but he didst hold out much Hope for Bompensa City vote deflates spirit charitable status denied to Arena endowment fund by Stevens wild and John Douglas staff reporters City Council hammered what could be the last Nail in the coffin of spirit of Manitoba last night when it denied charitable tax status to its endowment the move led mayor Susan Thompson to pronounce dead the Deal to build a new Arena and save the Winnipeg but spirit members will meet to Morrow to decide if someone has a Rabbit we can pull out of our spirit of Manitoba chairman Alan Sweatman weve come up with a lot of tricks so but i dont have one this Sweatman said last were totally behind the eightball on this a motion to Grant charitable Sta Tus to donations for an endowment fund to help cover operating costs of the new Arena was Defeated on an 88 tie an amendment to ask the prov Ince to Grant charitable status was also Defeated when asked if the defeat killed the Deal to save the a disconsolate Thompson that would be a reasonable the doom and gloom of the Days vote at City Hall was peppered with some Neve Saydie and bitterness by others who Felt betrayed by a group of i dont know that they had to take this to but someone thought it was the High Road and some people on Council took the Chance to take their one spirit member said on condition he not be in really suspect of some of these Peoples the whole thing is one bad added another member in not this Council is a big they Are a walking the vote comes As sources say spirit has already met its Ismil lion interim target for the endow ment that Money was promised with the Assurance some sort of tax Relief would be Mark one of the Central figures behind the grassroots fund raising said last night he wants to keep i dont see it As he said weve got to sort this All the City was spirits last Hope for tax the Filmon government earlier refused Crown status for the which would have made do nations 100 per cent and the group did not even try to gain Federal foundation what is left is a myriad of tax Dodges through indirect nearly All would require a Revenue Canada ruling something that by Rutan River Murray fort Evelyne Reese Lillian Thomas Duguid faults would not come until after the 15 spirit of Manitoba president Cam Osier also offered slim Hope that the Deal could be saved by give everybody a few hours to think their Way through Osier but the implications Are Clear As of last Osier said he would report to Spir its Board of directors the swing vote was Jae Eadie a consistent sup Porter of the Arena until he questioned the need to have the City Grant charitable status when the province was not willing to do if the province does not believe its a Good Deal for their govern i dont know Why it would be a Good Deal for our Eadie said during the people Are beginning to think that we Are going to Grant a tax Sta Tus that no other business can re people Are beginning to get suspicious of anything that Terry Duguid North Kil a supporter of the Arena Deal until last blamed the mayor for the i think the City really embarrassed itself Duguid Council did not have its act to he suggested the province could still Grant charitable but Premier Gary Filmon remained steadfast yesterday in his refusal to Grant spirit any special tax status for its fundraising of weve already said no to that pro Filmon it remains no and it will be so if the City rejects then the City will have killed the ;