Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local Lindor Reynolds Peter does a Harvest dance where does Peter Kaufmann stand on Winnipeg Harvest the answer is a lesson in political when i asked him on Kaufmann said he wanted to shut Harvest he abhors the fact that some Winnipeg Gers depend upon food his reasons were Kaufmann said Harvest competed with Small North end grocery stores and said people pull up in fairly Nice cars and go in and do their Kaufmannn analysis of har Vest ran in my 10 it included his numerous incorrect beliefs about the food then the dance jobs Roger Currie called Kaufmann on 10 to talk about the Kaufmann implied our conversation took place at an Antipoverty forum two weeks Currie astonished two weeks ago said i want at that our conversation took place Kaufmann went on to claim that Harvest had food that not fit for human consume Currie corrected but Kaufmann added its also food that other people Proba Bly buy anymore because the stuff is stale and if you donate to you should be i had Calls from Kaufmann supporters claiming id misquoted the i told them something they had it the conversation was taped and while Kauf Mann haunt liked the he want denying the Kaufmannn Campaign office did complain that id left out an important statement we actually give most of our food that comes out of our the bread and All goes Norbert foun its a Halfway House for people that come from the Kaufmann foods does give to the foundation and to an organization serving adults with mental Peter Kauf Mann supports some charities but he also said the food Bank is abused by people who use it to grocery shop and that its very existence threatens some Small grocery you can be generous and still dangerously by Kaufmann was claiming his store was a big Harvest at the May Oral his supporters handed out leaflets that claimed donations Are turned Over to Winnipeg har Vest at easter and at and at other times As the need Harvest records show that they have received Only three donations from Kaufmann All of them in 1993 items donated by one store had a Harvest Coin there is no record of any donations in 1994 or no corporate As for Christmas and we dont show anything along that said executive director David asked about the possibility of Anonymous Lawrence Kauf Manns Campaign director said i cant answer that on Kaufmann was on Csc radios he said my initial column was accurate but mentioned the foundation then he said my policy is that under the present economic conditions in we definitely need Winnipeg i too bad it took Peter Kaufmann a week of Public misinformation to get Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press Misericordia nurses protest Job losses at their in background is mayoral candidate Nick nurses want Mccrae to open up wards again by Paul Samyn legislature reporter the Manitoba association of registered nurses is calling on the province to reverse the wholesale overnight closing of Community Hospital emergency which it believes is compromising patient i think its a bad Marn executive director Diana Davidson Dick said we Are calling for the minister Jim Mccrae to Stop and take a look at whats going the associations decision to Wade into the growing debate Over emergency room closures comes after hearing alarm Bells from members of the professional licensing body for registered among the concerns outlined by the association in an 17 letter to Mccrae patient care is being compromised because of increased ambulance transport times and increased time in the waiting rooms at health sciences Centre and Boniface general hos people living near Community hospitals dont realize their Standard of care May be less than those people living near Hsc or there has been a great Deal of confusion among healthcare providers and the Public with regard to the the closures May pose additional costs to taxpayers because patients Are being shifted to More expensive treatment centres at the association is also disappointed that the province and hospitals paid no heed to a Previ Ous study on emergency services that called for a cautious and strategic approach to any Dick said Marn also fears nurses working alone in closed emergency wards May face a safety As there is no policy in place for support she int calling for All the emergency wards to be opened but instead wants Mccrae to revisit the decision in a thoughtful Way and reopen those that Are justified by Dick stressed that nurses Are raising these concerns because of their it is wrong to characterize this As a fear of Job its really because they Are concerned about but Mccrae remained firm on the saying Only that the Issue is being closely monitored while a review of emergency services is under he said he has invited Marn to be part of the but Dick said that came Only after the association fired off its letter to nurses rally to Shore up Hospital by Paul Mckie staff reporter under a steady rain on a Grey afternoon a group of Miseri Cordia general Hospital nurses held a rally to protest what they called the decline of their Community about 30 nurses gathered on the North Bank of the Assiniboine River in front of the Hospi Tal to talk about bed Job losses and emergency room wearing signs that read death by a thou Sand cuts and Reform not nurses paraded to a microphone and told tales of patient hardships caused by government cuts and emergency room after the they circled the Hospital with their signs for a couple of one nurse looked up at the sky when some one mentioned How Bleak it was she then turned to the its Bleak in she nurse Shelley Munro said she experienced patient hardship she recently broke her left leg and i came to the emergency room and the nurses could Tell i was in pain right Munro she said that within 10 minutes she was rushed upstairs to be but a problem arose last weekend when she banged her leg and it began to waited in pain Munro said was and she go to Misericordia because the or was she said going to health sciences Centre would have been useless because it was necessary to have her rays from Misericordia for compar Isons of her reinsured so Munro waited until the next Day to go to Misericordia and spent a night in pain worrying about the Sharon a nurse for 15 years who works on the general surgical said yesterdays rally grew out of concerns raised by nurses about the Lack of jobs for new nurses talked about lobbying the government for Early retirement she then came emergency closures and the rally just got Irwin nurses also talked about the threatened clo sure of the women health saying the newly opened breast cancer unit would remain open but gynaecology would be the administration knows How we were looking at informing the Irwin she had hoped for More turnout from the Community but realized the Low temperature and steady rain kept people Evelyn Foyle has lived in the area near the Hospital for 33 in a concerned said i dont think they should be cutting the Community we All support it one Way or nip hits Golf move Falcon Lake links under new control by Alice Krueger legislature reporter the Filmon govern ment has turned Over Falcon Lake Golf course to the same Money losing Crown corporation that oversees the operation of Hecla Island resort and Golf David Manito Bas Deputy minister of Nat ural confirmed yesterday the Transfer of the Falcon Lake course to Ven Ture Manitoba Tours took place this he said no changes Are foreseen in its Day today nor will there be any Job losses among the approximately 15 employ the move angered opposition who called it nothing More than a Book keeping game to finally put venture Manitoba Tours in the Hecla Island which has lost More than million since chalked up a further deficit for the year ending March the Falcon which has always made had been run by the natural resources department through its regional office in Tomasson estimated the Falcon course brings in Gross annual revenues of about but he was unable to say what its profit picture theres no apparent ratio Nale for doing other than to give Revenue to venture Manitoba said Tim nip tourism we would like to see Ven Ture on a sound financial footing and to see Hecla sur Vive in its own but this Doest actually change the viability of Hecla it just changes the bookkeeping of some Sale was also annoyed the government had remained silent on the Transfer when venture Manitoba Tours annual report was discussed before a legislative commit tee earlier in the Why didst they just Lay it out on the table what was to be lost by this is the Way were finally going to make Hecla Island financially viable he threat underlines climate of fear police surround Junior High school by Doug Nairne an armed cordon of police officers ringed a Winnipeg Junior High school for several hours fearing a youth gang was on the Way to carry out a reprisal shouting on it didst maybe it never would but the incident underlines the growing climate of fear Over youth gangs in and police have Little Choice but to take the threat of violence against children serious in these Type of incidents there is always the threat that something is going to happen so we have to take precautions and respond to said police spokesman Carl we always take a threat that involves a Wayne Glowacki Winnipeg free press police cars ring Andre Mynarski school after threat of reprisal school very the incident took place after a Parent called police at 11 to warn that Mem Bers of the nine deuces youth gang were planning a drive by shooting at Andrew Mynarski school on Machray Avenue Over the lunch police rushed to the school and began securing the six cruisers were positioned on the roads bordering the school Yard and the officers kept a watchful Eye on the passing the show of Force stayed in place until after and then one car stayed behind to Monitor the situation for the rest of the students at the school say a member of the nine deuces gang was assaulted by a member of the Chicano Boyz yesterday morning and the shooting was going to come at As a school staff and police said there has been problems with violence in the past As gang activity in the surrounding Community seeps into the school principal John Juck said his staff has worked hard to drive the gangs out but admitted it is impossible to control what Stu dents do on their own Jack said the people reportedly planning the attack Are not students at his Jack said parents and students Are upset when confronted by the reality of gang Active but staff has Little Choice but to Call in police when an incident like yesterdays threat takes perhaps the presence of the police scared off someone who was intending to do some he officers at the scene said the actual threat presented by youth gangs is difficult to but the worst Case Sce Nario always has to be planned v ;