Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Lindor Reynolds mayors dont sit on thrones before you cast your vote for mayor on remind yourself of one thing youre voting for not the difference if you made someone King of he might have fairly extensive the quite Sim this int readily apparent when you listen to the Campaign promises of the Candi most of these vows cant be delivered by the mayor Bryan Terry dug ids communications is Blunt when describing the Power of the the mayor is Only one vote on you need nine votes to carry anything on Council and therefore the mayor has to bring eight other people along with and that the reality of the in a Campaign news Confer Duguid called for a Levy on property owners living in outlying inter Esting but one Duguid himself said should be handled by the whats Dunlop says the Levy was just a device to get the real Issue is Good planning and making the province live up to its response could Duguid deliver on the Levy suggestion if he were elected but it got people which was the real Peter Kaufmann has vowed to eliminate the business he says it would take 10 years the mayors term is three and would involve contracting out some of the cites work As employees retire or the existing civic contract would be Kaufmann sees this combination private and pub Lic sector workforce As saving enough Money to pay for the lost business tax could Kaufmann accomplish his scheme alone and he Doest plan in going to form a mayors party that will have Between and people from every Ward in the till be on we will have phone Banks and we will work the Peoples the mayors he would give him direction and help councillors realize what Public opinion is on key Kaufmann did what a candidate should do he took a solid stand on a volatile its up to you to decide whether or not he can pull it the last time she Cam Susan Thompson promised to freeze property she this Thompson has soft Hoed the major calling for a crackdown on on crime and saying Only that she will continue to try for a prop erty tax after a bumpy first Shes realistic about the Power of the in addition to being Able to appoint the Deputy the acting Deputy mayor and the chairmen of the standing com the mayor also chairs the executive policy beyond thatt the Powers then lie in the relationships you says Ive worked on forming relationships with other mayors in Canada and around the with other Levels of government and with the Vari Ous groups within the comm a lot of your Power comes from the people and How they support this City of Winnipeg is not a if you elect a Candi Date solely on the basis of their Campaign believing they Wield supreme Power Over City youre in for three Long years of Winnipeg free press local october 1995 baby burned when remedy goes wrong by Treena Khan staff reporter a seven Eskold baby was severely burned wednesday when a Home remedy went Carl Shier of the Winnipeg police ser vice said the Childs Mother tried to soothe the Colicky child by blowing a hair dryer on the after seeing a television and for the doctors Book of Home the phone and the woman went to answer leaving the running hair dryer balanced on the Edge of the the vibrations from the dryer knocked it into the Shier and the hot air burned the the boy was taken to the childrens hos Pital with secondhand third degree Burns to is per cent of his body and will require skin Shier the family told police he was in Good condition Shier said it is unlikely the Childs Mother will be charged because there was no intent to harm the paediatrician Lauri Alto said hair dryers have been known to temporarily relieve some Colicky As Well As people with other such As its not a but it confuses the when the brain is overwhelmed with sensations and is flooded with it takes it off the pain at least for that moment hopefully Long enough for any medication to kick he but in the doctors Book of Home remedies does not recommend using a hair dryer for Colicky several remedies in the Book include cutting Back on cows carrying the baby in a running a placing the baby in a car seat next to a running clothes and placing a hot water bottle or heating pad on the baby in what causes Colic int known for Alto whatever works for your child for As Long As its not Alto the hair dryer May have been a Good but you have to be dont blame the Ken free press Bessie Tom left hugs Floyd at reunion at Winnipeg International pain eased As parents see twins after 25 years by Paul Mckie staff reporter for a few minutes yester Day Moses Tom forgot the pain of losing his twin daughters 25 years ago when he hugged them for the first time since they were taken his wife and the rest of the family were at Winnipeg International Airport yesterday afternoon to meet Naomi Braxton from Ottawa and Nicole Floyd of the twin who grew up together in and had never met their birth parents until yester in until five years ago when their older sister Pauline big George began searching for the the women didst know of their native family from Ontario big Grassy which is 80 Kilometres Southwest of i dont know whether in angry or said its the first time Ive seen the Braxton arrived first with her Louis and their five Montgold in stunned she her family gathered around Braxton said she has talked to her family Over the phone Over the last few easing the emotional Shock and awkward Ness of being reunited after All these when Floyd arrived with her three Earold daughter the whole family gathered around and tears flowed for its admitted in not the Type of person to blurt out my but in really the crying will come later in but As the family swarmed the Tom stood off to one the Joy of the reunion once again tinged with the bitterness of his loss 25 years i am not rightfully a he said looking Over at the that was taken away by the they Are my Chil Dren As far As flesh and blood but not by it was 1970 when the twins were taken away from Tom and his he said he has never heard a reasonable explanation for Why it harbours bitter Ness because of what the Chil Drens Aid authorities told her and her sister about their through childrens Aid they told us a lie and said our parents were not capable of taking care of Braxton closed ers May reopen province could reverse decision Well be official says by Alice Krueger legislature reporter the province is prepared to reverse itself in the com ing months and reopen Emer gency departments at some Community hospitals overnight if the need Manitoba Deputy health minister said describing the current state of emergency services in Winnipeg As in John Wade said the system will be in flux Over the next few months until the government gets its proposed Inte grated system in place by Well be flexible in the interim if theres areas of need that Arent being it Doest mean that we would not reopen a Community Hospital if there is a he the chief adminis Trator for one of the cites Community hospitals John Mcfarlane of Grace general hos Pital said he believes its just a matter of time before lives Are endangered because of the overnight More resources promised Wade said the province will put More resources into health sciences Centre and Boniface Gen eral Hospital emergency departments on a temporary basis because of the extra traffic created by the closure of the five Community Hospital emergency weve got the Security net in place i dont believe anybody will be the Deputy minis ter adding the government will Monitor the system if were finding that a lot of whats occurring at health sciences Centre and Boniface Between the Midnight hours Arent real emergency trauma but other then dont you think wed be Wise to think about identifying a Community site for that in quite flexible about if you make mistakes you have to admit to them and Well wades comments followed another Day of opposition questioning on the decision to close emergency departments at the five Community hospitals during the at Issue yesterday was a protocol issued by the health department setting out the procedure when patients arrive at a closed Community Hospital emergency the protocol states that a designated Contact person must be Avail Able to explain emergency depart ment hours and where to get alter Nate the document says if the person is unable to drive to Hsc or or requires immediate they Are to be treated and an ambulance called to take them to either of the two trauma nip health critic Dave Chomiak called the protocol ludicrous and another indication that the government closed the emergency wards before it had any alternate plan in if that designated person is an emergency doctor and capable of giving then Why Are you closing them in the first place he if there not capable of giving then How can they pro vide any assistance to someone who comes in who is a heart attack or major trauma patient Chomiak said the instructions Are unworkable and theres nothing in place and now there trying to make an unworkable policy stay together with Binder he health minister Jim Mccrae was not in the House to answer Chomi aks but his Deputy min ister said the protocol was Only a that the protocol we but what were in is an evolving Situa Tion that not necessarily the final he Wade said the object is to make sure there is someone responsible on duty preferably a nurse during the night in Case a patient shows i feel an experienced nurse practitioner would probably be the kind of although ill take advice from anyone about he i dont want that to be a Security guard or something like and if there were something that presented that required acute attention of a there is usually somebody covering the he but Mcfarlane said his facility has just an admissions clerk on duty overnight because the government wont provide funding for a he said the clerks Job is simply to redirect patients to Hsc or or Call an ambulance to take them Filmon oks logging permit for band by Alice Kruger legislature reporter Awe Klong protest by natives from Pukatawagan paid off yesterday when the Filmon government granted them a logging permit so they can build 50 log announcement of the oneyear permit to Cut on a metre allotment came after a tense confrontation yesterday Between about 40 Pukatawagan residents and Premier Gary Filmon in the hallways of the legislative build the temporary permit covers an area on which Recap Manitoba currently has cutting but natural resources minister Albert Driedger said the company has Given its the minister also pledged to review the permit after the year is up to see where youre at and determine whether an Extension is its a Good chief Ralph Caribou of Mathias colomb first nation said adding he expected protesters would head Home to get on with building their no Homes according to band people Are crammed into Only 177 More than 165 families have no Homes and at least 50 fam Ilies have left Pukatawagan because of insufficient in certainly grateful that Hes prepared 1 to do a Little bit of work with Caribou certainly that the amount we Are to build in one season maybe hell give us another permit for the following year and Hope fully every year after the chief said the band already has its own so All that remains is permission from the Indian affairs department to arrange they have to give us their bless ing to borrow lie about 70 Mathias colomb Mem Bers camped out in teepees at the Forks Market All week to draw attention to the Lack of Treyve been in the Public gallery of the legislature daily As opposition new democrats pleaded their until yesterdays the Premier had maintained the housing shortage was Ottawa responsibility and that the Pukatawagan residents should take up their Case with Indian were residents of Why Are we being ignored Joyce Bear demanded As the delegation moved in to surround Filmon Fol lowing yesterdays question Peri ;