Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Margo Goodhand 6977292 drive by shootings increasing on Winnipeg streets by David Obrien a 19yearold Man walked out of his Alexander Avenue Home and into a wait ing car to meet a Friend sunday moments he Lay seriously wounded when hoodlums drove by and opened it was just the latest in a series of drive by shootings and the worst out break of Street violence in the intercity in More than according to police and native i dont think its Over warned Glenn director of the Street gang prevention program for Thunder Bird a native spiritual and heal ing police investigators believe the shoot ing was Gan related and they Are look ing for parallels with two other drive by attacks in the same Northend neigh on saturday around a shot gun blast Shook the residents of a Home on Alfred a 19yearold Man received Pellet wounds to the head and was treated at about 15 minutes another shot gun blast awoke the residents of a Home on Logan no one was two other recent drive by shootings appear to be although they Point to a rising use of guns to Settle Dis Cochrane Cochrane and other native officials said there is More gunplay in the inner City than is generally even by houses and cars Are fired no one gets no pne reports it and no one reads about it in the Cochrane Scott head of detectives for the police services downtown Divi also said the weekend outbreak appeared to signal a new violent we Haven had anything like this in a year and a Bell now All of a sudden its picked he said he speculate on the reason for the increase and gang investigators be reached gone for Jeff de body Winnipeg free press it makes cents auctioneer Terry Wachniak Calls for bids yesterday on framed Stamps donated by Canada with proceeds going to the pennies from heaven Campaign for the Christmas cheer the Stamps were sold to an Anonymous phone bidder for coins donated by Abe Nussy coins collectables earned another the pennies total now stands at hospitals Likely to balance books funding spending cuts credited by Helen fall Dong Manitoba hospitals Are close to balancing their budgets the first time in More than a we intend to have a balanced year end with respect to All of the health health minister Dave Chomiak said or Brian Postl said the Winnipeg regional health authority is projecting a deficit for the year ending in March a tiny fraction of organizations billion operating the health authority has asked the province to pick up the Cost of unexpectedly High natural Gas Bills about half the projected deficit and Hopes to make up the rest by limiting expenses like drug costs and staff we Are already performing better than the system has performed in the last Postl crediting improved provincial funding and More aggressive internal budget monitoring starts in the Spring and spending is now reviewed monthly instead of he the health authority operating Bud get is million higher than last including funding for increased wages for Chomiak said at this time last Rural health authorities were Short Earl head of the Brandon regional health said Hospi tals used to be consistently underfunded at the Start of the which fostered a mentality that the province would cover when budgets Are set at appropriate regions can be held accountable for Backman the Brandon health authority is still negotiating with the province Over a shortfall Money Back Man said the province agreed from the Start was but which did not show up in the funding the Winnipeg Rha has a similar Dis Pute Over million and other including Burntwood in the Are in discussions Over smaller health authority spokespeople said they Are hopeful those shortfalls which they distinguish from True deficits caused by overspending will be fund Penny Sorensen of the South Westman regional health authority is projecting a shortfall of about which she said Manitoba health has agreed to take to the Treasury Board for in Mays provincial budget the nip promised that health services would have stable funding for the first time in a the tory opposition reminded the nip of that Promise during question period in the legislature claiming the Winnipeg Rha is project ing a deficit of that figure includes funding already committed by Manitoba health which will be delivered before the end of the according to Heather the health authority director of financial the total budget for regional health authorities is about billion province compared with billion the pre Vious according to Manitoba health closing out Sal liquidating entire Stock now Lee denture clinic 274 Smith Portage Braham Avenue 9434048 pwt Niland do Tuii to the Public sinn adopt All Conul Imu Ranci i i repairs while you wait Fin parking at pictures chairs lamps vases tables Corey design 329 Cumb Titanec at pm Gwi walk Caprice distributors 1821 Wellington at Berry Selling out to the Bare Walls entire Stock reduced to Clear All sales final shop today hours 99 125 Cochrane said he didst believe the shootings were part of a turf War Between the Manitoba the Indian posse and the Deuce the cites dominant Street but somethings definitely happen ing out he adding it could be Over unpaid debts or drug deals gone this the violence is not necessarily but that Doest mean the people doing it Arent in gangs Cochrane comments underscore the sometimes ambiguous nature of aboriginal their membership has been estimated at in plus another 500 outside the but the basis of that estimate and the precise nature of their organizations has never been made Trevor Prince said he grew up associated with the Indian posse As a place to but added he never participated in crimes As a gang for Many native he its possible to be of a but not in tries to find jobs for intercity natives in his work with a group called aboriginal youth with Ini the Man injured in Sun Days attack is not a gang member and Doest appear to have been the intended according to friends of the victim who didst want their names miners Union Points Finger in flin flon blast two hoses added to hasten cleaning by Tracy Tjaden Twenty minutes before a lethal encounter Between water and molten Copper sparked a fatal explosion in the flin flon supervisors decided to add two More water hoses to Speed up the process of washing Down the the shocking findings were revealed yesterday when the Union released its report into the 8 tragedy that killed Steve Ewing and left a handful of his coworkers recovering from severe while the intent was not to Lay the report details an incredible sequence of errors and oversights that contributed to the massive explosion at the towns main Hudson Bay mining supervisors in charge had Little or no experience working with dangerous molten workers were kept out of the Loop and there was an underlying push to make up for lost the investigation the blast was sparked when water used to Cool and clean the main rever Ber Atory Furnace came in Contact with molten setting off a series of the Furnace was being cooled As part of a regular every three years it is drained of molten demolished and completely perhaps the most startling finding is that a similar but smaller explosion occurred during the last shutdown in 1997 but was never it certainly would have Given this Crew a said Tom a health and safety recipe for disaster the report found the plan for the fur Nace was Down was never reviewed with the Crew doing it and in a Clear procedure did not few of the Crew or management on that night had done a shutdown creating a recipe for several of the supervisors had Little or no knowledge of their assigned tasks and incomplete Job procedures for those tasks gave them nothing for the report simply did As they were told and depended on their supervisors to direct them on How to do the tasks the planning process was flawed and the plans were certain procedures took More time than creating a Rush or under lying sense of being that what prompted supervisors to add extra water a decision one Union Boss Calls very Down time is Money and the company wants to be Down As Little As Possi said Bill president of the local United steelworkers of Hudson Bay has implanted into everybody mind that were a marginal company and if we cant do this faster and cheaper than everybody Well have no Choice but to shut its Basic knowledge by anyone in the mining Industry that molten Metal and water Are a lethal an hour before the explosion some workers and possibly some super visor noticed up to 30 centimetres water covered the Bottom of the appearing As Large puddles or a swim Ming at the nine hoses were being used in the area to Cool the Furnace and control dust but no one was monitoring How much water was building up or where it was two hoses were spraying into the fur Nace during and after the explosion but it could not be determined when or How they got turned the on interviews with 75 witnesses also said a crack was noticed opening in the crust of the molten material shortly before the blasts the Force of the explosion ripped off workers hard hats and glasses As hot molten mate rial and other debris flew through the the report reserves harsh findings for the actions of supervisors in charge of the botched calling on the company to immediately Stop assigning supervisors in molten Metal areas who have no experience or knowledge of handling the dangerous All discontinued clothing up to mitts Winter clothing Polar fleece vests 50 Mchill Ijjas just South Logan 95 1 ;