Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 14, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba E in to e r i in Ivi e in t i easy to read format Complete listings dancing to the top hard dedication off for dancers new album Art show has political video series profiles film kids Iffie the di9cov Ery but its an Outing Blue bombers bailed Dallas Drake an unhappy baseball playoffs Murphy savors memo Ries Rush Back in Blue Pilot Ritof to cd to fatal crash Federal Agency to study vac flights for flaws a4 priest Man charged disabled Volun Teer honoured mayoral Candi dates Book views on when no Means diversions Cross entertainment in sports record the weather partly High details on Page d16 saturday free press plus taxes of i0n0r lit outlying areas october principal accused of murder police probing patient deaths at Amant in late 1970s by Bruce Owen and Bud Robertson staff reporters a a Rural school principal who once worked As a Nurs aide has been charged with murder in the 1978 death of a severely disabled boy at win Nipges Amant and police sources indicate a second person May be saying they Are satisfied that at least one other person was aware of the True cause of although not involved in the slaying police believe the second person deliberately decided to keep quiet and they Are now trying to deter mine what if any charges should be in the deaths of More than a dozen patients at Amant Centre in the late 1970s Are under police investigation in the Wake of the arrest of the 36yearold school Ronald Leonard Brown was arrested thursday in Langruth and charged with second degree Mur Der in the death of 11yearold Ronald Lambert in the Early morn ing of March police said new information surfaced two weeks ago that led to the Brown worked at Amant Cen tre for several years from the Early 1970s to first As a Volunteer and later As an police sources cautioned they have no from witnesses or from the accused that other patients were the review of the other deaths is Sim ply they based on what we know about the Lambert wed be remiss if we didst look at the other an investigator Lambert was severely mentally handicapped and confined to a wheelchair and continued please see under the gun bosnian government soldiers fire a 122millimetre howitzer at the ser controlled town of Price Dor the barrage by government and croat troops forced serb civilians to raising fears of a mass exo dus from banja the attack threatened a country wide please see Story on Page less same ads say closures yield scanty savings by Allison Bray staff reporter Manitoba May ease reunions for families by Gordon free press columnist wily services minister Bonnie Mitchelson has placed a priority on reforming Man Tobas adoption a process that promises to make reunions Between birth parents and their adult children quicker and adoption is one area i think we can move on Mitchelson said of the review that is part of an Overall look at the child and fam ily services thanks to a mom a4 Roy the head of a nonprofit adoption support had been expecting some government especially since Alberta and British Colum Bia introduced Liberal legislation last in very Kading said of Mitchel sons the Laws Are so archaic in the its Mitchelson agreed that times have especially with the trend to private and even open where birth mothers choose the parents and even stay in Contact with their British for has but is about a year away from changes that would give both birth parents and adult adopters full Access to information on their but has included provisions that would allow either Parent or child to Block full disclosure through a declared continued please see emergency room doctors and nurses at Winnipeg five Community hospitals Are working less but still being paid what they were before their wards were closed at and that Means Cost savings from the controversial closings May not be realized for some i May Only be working 32 hours a week but i still get paid for 37 and a half hours a said Ron an emergency room doctor at seven Oaks general hos there really not saving any Money except for callbacks for lab fees and he each year the Hospital spends about calling lab and xray technicians in for emergency overnight Maier said because the province promised not to Lay off any med ical staff until it gets its proposed integrated system in place it still must guarantee the same num ber of hours the or staff worked prior to the because the hospitals Emer lives at nurses say a3 gency rooms have been ordered closed Between 10 and 8 Maier said he now goes Home around 11 or even though Hes being paid until 2 an emergency room nurse at the Hospital said nurses Are in the same everybody being paid the same As the Only thing were not doing is seeing the who spoke on Condi Tion of said that instead of actually or night Nurs ing staff Are answering phones or placating patients who often become hostile and abusive after being turned Maier said even if the province turned around today and issued it must still give the staff three months and if the province does not make any changes to its or closure or staffing the situation could exist until the doctors con tract with the province expires on june seven Oaks has Only one doctor on duty As Well As one emergency room emergency shutdowns too costly critics by Paul Samyn legislature reporter Kading in very the province is revamping Winnipeg emergency med ical services without the sup ports that previous studies recommended and it May even be adding costs to the the 1993 Lerner report on provincial emergency services stressed that any curtailment of emergency Ward hours be done in a carefully gradual and monitored the report called for a series of supports to first be put in place before emergency wards were Cut Back such As the creation of a Central trauma computerized dispatch system and a bed none of those Are in continued please see Mccrae Winnipeg teen a monopoly King Bartel Peter Hatten in Toronto by Paul Mckie staff reporter Winnipeg High school student Bill Bartel is on his Way to banking a Deposit on a Park place As the newly crowned monopoly Champion of 18yearold Bartel won an trip to Monte Carlo in 1996 where he will compete for a prize of the amount of Money in a game of Bartel became the King of Marvin gardens yesterday in Toronto after an unbelievably fast hour and45minute Boardgames this tournament was a lot the soft so Ken Bartel said in a phone interview last night from his Toronto hotel Ive been in a tournament that went that Bartel confessed to being very nervous when the tournament he said he started to relax after the first round but was still concerned about the Way things were going for at first i want doing too the Kelvin High Grade 12 student but he was the first of the five wheelers and Deal ers to get a set of properties and his Luck took off after Only once did he land on another players property that had those expensive rent demanding build Ings on its the Luck of the barters father Walter Bartel admitted in Winnipeg last but he was very pleased with his sons the younger Bartel has played the capitalist Board game since he was a but the real motivator was when he entered and won a Manitoba com petition four years that when he really got into his father after sewing up his Bartel broke away from the other four in the which was held on the trading floor of the old Toronto Stock Exchange while spectators sipped he never looked Back in the record setting capturing the National title after bankrupting the other players and winning with More than in Cash and property assets in the but he said it May take some time to get used to being a Boardgames i believe last time it was in a hotel it want like Bartel Doest know when in 1996 hell be going to Monte but Hes looking Forward to represent ing Canada and Winnipeg against 40 other countries in the world better an Bank foreign Exchange Raes guaranteed Corpora e accounts i torn currency a Schaut ;