Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 1996 coming up already that Perky gang of to friends is everywhere in the entertainment can All this overexposure Lead to an unfriendly backlash see tomorrows free digest they May be Poison Calgary Canada Safeway is recalling a Brand of chocolate Truf Fles after receiving an Anonymous threat that some of the sweets May have been the recall includes Safeway select mocha and chocolate Raspberry which Are made for Safeway by the tout Sweet company of the Calgary based grocery Chain removed the product from shelves moments after the threat was the warning came in a letter to a Safeway store in the letter had a British Columbia said Safeway spokes woman Toby an investigation is under Consumers who bought the chocolates within the last week should return them to any Safeway husband of Emily Cyril of Killar husband of Mabel Victor husband of Bernadette widower of Olga husband of Helen Herbert of widower of Hazel widow of Matthew Therese of of Hus band of Alice Shirley wife of Ernest Robert husband of Muriel widow of Albert Nemesio Brendan widow of James John husband of Eva husband of Ethel widow of George classified death notices c6 pick 3 winning number yesterday was Winnipeg free press 1355 Mountain Avenue Manitoba r2x 3b6 circulation Home advertising editorial photo sports business Reader All departments from Manitoba outside 8900 Blue sky free net you can reach the Winnipeg free press on the Blue sky will need a personal a Modem and telecommunications use the following set Tings data bits 8 Stop bits 1 parity terminal emulation at the Login Type guest or your Blue sky your Modem internet email City letters to the letters Canada Post sales agreement 563395 recycled newsprint is used in the production of this newspaper loss of continuity in care expected with privatization by Alice Krueger legislature reporter Winni Eggers with longstanding ties to their government Home care workers Likely will have to adjust to someone new once the service is turned Over to private hands later this a government offi Cial the Prospect of losing that continuity of care is raising anxiety among clients like Barb who fears Shell be forced to put up with substandard care from inexperienced workers whose employers Are just in it to make a the Home care nurses Are great in used to there such great emotional support and you dont get this from private Agen said the vital Cit ing a Litany of complaints about fillin workers from the private Ames is so upset Over the privatization proposal that Shes Appeal ing to Premier Gary Filmon to intervene and abandon the Home care attendant Sharon Brandt says Shell pump Gas for a living before she goes to work for a private Home care com Pany for much less than her cur rent an hour another a registered nurse who asked that her name not be said she May As Well be checking groceries at the super Market if the privatization pro As the wage goes i cant help but think so goes the said predicting privatization will result in a revolving door of workers who Are always on the Lookout for a better if in working for an you can bet in looking for another Tammy general Man Ager of the provinces million Home care said theres no Way the government can guar Antee clients will continue to have their same nurses or Home care attendants once service is contracted out in four zones of the were going to try to encourage the successful vendors to recruit our nurses and Home care attendants and Home support workers As Well because it will make their life easier for patient she Mattern said it also would be in the companies Best interests to snaffle up those government workers with the right some highly specialized like those trained to Deal with people on Are in Short Supply and so could conceivably wind up in the same Mattern she conceded there is no Way the government can dictate to private Home care companies who they should hire or How they should deploy their her comments contradict earlier statements by health minister Jim who has said Home care clients notice any differ ence once the service is the government says Only about 110 government nurses and sever Al Hundred casual Home care work ers will lose their but that most will be hired by private con tractors like we victorian order of Drake Medon or other companies that take Over the delivery of the Manitoba government employees Union puts the Layoff figure at More than whether these people pick up other jobs or not is Ngeu spokesman Ken Hildahl he said most Home care workers Are often Middle aged and single and trying to support one or two children on their in some cases they will be forced on to welfare some will be forced to take a 40 to 50 per cent salary decrease because out of desperation have no were reducing these people to poverty Mattern stressed the govern ment is not shutting Down its Home care operations and that Only about 30 per cent of the work currently done by Home care attendants in Winnipeg will be turned Over to Pri vate virtually All of the nursing services will go to Pri march19 Winner Ioan Harasyko ticket mattress factory direct to you Oam bunk rollaway sofa bed mattress bed mrs 86 95 restore bedding 1 o tie Hind 7 Fie Kings Hole 2nd great location 1391 James 7837574 wild Bird specially seed store All about bats educational books tapes Bat houses pocket from Only j ton voice numeric pager voice beep in touch now at 639 Portage at Sherbrook 78431601 Mumm on month free with this Aoi i unreserved auction Sale at Kayes auction House 263 Stanley March 21st at viewing at same Day of Sale thru trustee will sell the following 7ibm computers modal 30286 Prim ers 2ibm typewriters 34drawer letter size file cabinets 10oflice chairs set of Golf clubs Ria vhf camcorder rec thru secured creditor 26 High Back lounge chairs 4wooden High chairs 72 sealer tables 29wood caboose style chairs single compartment sink 6 steam table older top Load Coke 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continuing to be employ ers for 70 per cent of the Home care she for that she exist ing staff Are being Given three options continue to work for govern ment Home care work for government and Pri vate companies As Many casual employees already do stay in the geographic area and work for the private pointing to major growth in provincial Home especially in the last Mattern said the governments rationale for contract ing out part of the service is to help it manage the increased about Manitoban currently receive some form of Home were just not Able ourselves to do it the official were bigger than the size of a Community Hospital in the City and yet we really Haven devel oped the infrastructure for that in the its providing More intensive and were also trying to shift to a More reliable and responsive service delivery Ron Winnipeg franchise owner for we care Home health services which Hopes to land a con tract for part of the said past surveys have shown the biggest concern among Home care clients is Over continuity of the 1 thing if i want to have a client annoyed with the service we provide All i have to do is Send a different face every and it works every he but there int continuity he although the government has yet to Call for Hoppe said his company is hoping for a Chance at some of the he brushed off government workers complaints that they could see their wages drop any where from 48 per cent to 63 per cent if forced to work for a private he said the difference in wages int All that significant once deductions like Union dues Are taken into government Home care workers classified As homemakers currently earn an com pared with the we care rate of an figures supplied by the Ngeu show a government nurses aide makes an while the average Industry rate is an licensed practical nurses and registered nurses with the government program earn and an hour com pared with the Industry average of and its a personal affront because i will Likely have to leave the province where i was born and Gordon a nurse with government Home he lashed out at the Filmon gov accusing it of ghetto in ing workers by forcing Down wages to a level that for some will wind up being below the poverty there just obliterating this group of people for no apparent he i am humiliated and said the government will still be there As an and that will have some Impact on the wage Holt enters news Hall of Fame Canadian press Vancouver a for Mer reporter and columnist with the Vancouver Sun is becoming a member of the Canadian news Hall of Simma Holt of suburban who will be 74 next said yesterday she is very i thought i was dead pro because nobody give me a id rather get it now than Holt began her career in journalism when she wrote freelance articles for the Winnipeg free press while studying for a Bachelor of arts degree at the University of Toronto Sun columnist Peter founding editor of the and retired Csc Anchor Knowlton Nash Are also being honoured at a ceremony May 4 in Holt joined the Sun 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