Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Fitzhenry 6977292 email saturday free press local Gordon Sinclair the stink is coming from one office a couple of weeks Back i phoned Lynn the new president of the Winnipeg Blue i called to extend a compliment and ask a i wanted to Tell Bishop what a Good Job Hes doing and How refreshing it is to hear some one at the top of the Organiza Tion who candid and open and willing to listen to the not All of this has happened since the bombers found themselves on the Brink of receivership and since they moved Cal Murphy out of the general managers away from the daily operations of the in the course of congratulating Bishop i gave him a tip on some required the Lions in Winter is a history of the Montreal it describes How and Why the canadians came to build a Model professional sports fran both on More off the sports franchises become it says on Page when the members of the sports audience in a Given area become committed supporters of that organization and buy into its future by accepting its past and supporting its pre the Book describes an organization founded on loyalty and where players from the past Are still once upon a Grey when i was a the bombers were a successful sports they had Leo Lewis and Herb Gray and Homegrown like Steve Patrick and George of course those were differ ent before televised nil before the Winnipeg jets and the revolving door rosters that diminished the bombers and the didst have to come to not if Cal Murphy had kept the teams tradition not if the club had been out in the Community promoting the something that Murphy didst even encourage when players volunteered to sign autographs at shopping Murphy was he showed the players of the present no More respect than he showed the players from the it want until Murphy was oust and the bombers were Des Perate for that the front office turned to Sud the alumni were being asked to go on to and radio and sell the which brings me Back to the question i asked Lynn Bishop that Day on the How much Money does Cal Murphy make Bishop said he Murphy has a confidentiality clause in his i reminded is a Community owned Bishop but the contract had been signed before he was then it occurred to the confidentiality clause is Indica Tive of Why the bombers have been reduced to begging us to buy season Cal Murphy ran the bombers As if it were his instead of if Lynn Bishop turns to Page 97 of the Lions in hell learn that the Montreal dynasty began on the Day Frank Selke took Over As general manager of the it was that Day that Selke issued his first order the one that would launch one of the proudest teams in pro clean the Selke this place stinks Lynn big shop the same but i suggest he take the san flush and Start wit the head coach full ii t i finns wont top up sewer policies by Treena Khan City Hall reporter City homeowners who already have insurance but want to buy sewer backup coverage now after the heaviest snowfall in a decade will be out of its like a Forest fire near your you cant just buy insurance when the fires 50 Miles said Ken a Wawanesa Mutual insurance Branch Winnipeg insurance still recovering from the floods of have Cut Back on sewer Back up insurance in anticipation of More floods in the next few this is a High risk Mitchell prior to it was easier to obtain but not Wawanesa and Many other companies adopted a policy last year not to allow policy holders to add to or increase the value on their sewer backup insurance Mitchell customers have to wait for their regular insurance renewal that policy change followed decisions to take sewer backup out of the Basic Home coverage pack Ages following the 1993 floods that left companies reeling with million in Mitchell sewer backup is available Sepa Mike free press everybody in fitness guru Richard not known for his strikes a pose in the water Fountain at Portage place shopping Centre Simmons was in town to attend wellness expo 96 at the Winnipeg convention please see Story on Page bloody death in wintry Alley detailed As murder trial opens by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter Leonard Charles Walstrom Drew his last breath As he Lay in a bloody Snowbank in a Back a court of Queens Bench jury was told i could see this person was still Richard Jones the breathing was Only minutes the 19yearold died from a Stab wound to the Andrew Ward has been charged with second degree murder in the death and has pleaded not Crown attorney Gerry Bowering told the jury that Walstrom had been at a drinking party at 867 Winnipeg during the Early morning hours of and Pau Vanekis was there in his opening statement to the did not provide details As to the motive for the alleged he said several of the people at the party will be taking the witness who lives a few houses was on his Way to work around when he stumbled onto the my first reaction this piece of Jones he said he noticed a woman in her Early 20s stand ing off to his he said she seemed somewhat detached about the it was As if she was taking in the scene and reporting to at what the situation he when Jones asked her to get a Blanket and Call an he said she replied theres no Telephone in the Home Ive come Jones said he ran Back to his House and called for when he Walstrom was no longer he said the woman had but another woman was now at the she was extremely Dis traught and kneeling by the person who had rarely for Between and for every in deductibles have also gone up to from that too much for Alicia whose Northend Home was ruined by flooding in we had the coincidence of being broken into the Winter of 1992 before the she and we had a big we lost a a chair and two were so High we cant afford flooding is certain said adding that she cant even Park her car in the garage because of water More than a metre deep in her Back there is no insurance for dam age caused by Overland flooding or seepage into the and that is expected to be More of a problem than sewer said City streets and transportation spokesman Jack warning went unheard senior heart doctor questioned infant surgery programs future by Alexandra Paul medical reporter a year before 12 children died after open heart a senior doctor at the health sciences Centre warned that the Price of budgetary downsizing would be at paid at the unless time is found in these hectic Days of major crisis in health to be increasingly compromised and eventually fail to meet standards and wrote George the former medical director of the hocs paediatric cardiac in a document filed with an inquest into the his 30page overview of heart services from 1983 to 1993 was completed the year he left the the inquest into the paediatric cardiac surgery program is prob ing the deaths of 100 children who underwent open heart surgery 88 from 1981 to 1993 and 12 in the year it was prophetic Collins was said a lawyer who represents families of children who died in its very Clear that he was fore seeing the future of the Saul Simmonds Collins made it Clear that he believed the program was Suc but he worried about the noting it must be decided whether such services should be provided in this with a maximum of 125 heart surgeries a there were too few surgeries to keep surgical teams in Collins there were Clear signs that the program was already suffering by children were made to wait for surgery because of a require ment that the paediatric cardiac sur Geon also operate on Collins noted the waiting list was the first to occur in five another problem identified in other documents filed with the inquest was a High mortality in 29 per cent of infants who had open heart surgery in 1989 far in excess of the 11 per cent rate at the Toron to Hospital for sick Collins traced Many of the prob lems to provincial underfunding that dated Back to 1986 the Cost of adequate surgical coverage by anaesthetists and per of unionists specialists to operate the hear lung been estimated at a All the program got was a so it spent Money it didst run Ning up deficits of As much As a Collins compounding the Money woes was a fragmented style of administration that meant doctors reported to four separate departments at Hsc Anes thesia and confusing even More confusing was the addition of a secondary reporting level that made the program accountable to another four sup port departments at the childrens Hospital within How can we possibly identify budgetary requirements any specific program within such an administrative Structure Collins he called for Radical restructuring to replace the system with line in which programs would report to a Small number of usually department by Hsc had reorganized its management Structure to reflect line but that still left a Gap Between department Heads responsible for childrens heart ser vices and senior one senior administrator Testi fied the hospitals corporate office knew nothing of the childrens heart problems until after the last surgery Collins Laid the blame for funding woes directly on the Doorstep of the provincial health boost fees for instance he noted that appeals to boost surgical in order to reflect the difficulty of working on hearts the size of were Dis missed As too another suggestion to pay the chief surgeon a fixed eventually adopted at the medical faculty of the University of Mani according to documents filed with the the contract to hire Jonah a Boston surgeon who arrived in february Guaran teed him a no matter How Many surgeries he flames devour House of death family relieved As murder site Burns to ground by Bill Redekop staff reporter the Wabowden Home where a woman and two Chil Dren were recently slain was burned to the Grousl Jearly yester ramp the Canada mortgage and housing Home had been left in the Road after family Mem Bers who were circulating a petition to have the House demolished blocked attempts to move it while the town held an emergency meeting on the Issue thursday the which was valued at about burned where it stood in a suspected arson around 2 yesterday As family and friends stood by and it was the common our who Art in said Glen a Friend of the slain woman Laverne her three year old daughter Jennifer Alyson Scott and Oney Earold Niece Jackline Christine Scott were stabbed to death in the Home on March late ramp halted their investigation into the Blaze after officials told them they will not press charges for compassionate the event is Over and All parties can get on said Roy Irwin Cial director of Canada mortgage and housing the Corpora Tion had wanted to move the House to another family and friends had kept watch on the House most of the night until after 1 when they left to said they received a phone Call a Little later saying the House was firefighters were first to arrive and found no one at the said you never know what kind of bad or evil is in a House like and the family didst want any More people to be Hurt by said the House was on a trailer when the family parked cars around it to Stop it from being moved on its just a piece of junk right now sitting in the Middle of the said Wabowden mayor Dennis the family Felt it needed to be destroyed so the souls of the dead could Milvor said the family was relieved the House was they said it was just like hav ing a weight lifted off their he the Healing Cem begin 1 Ken has been charged with first degree Mur Der in the ;