The Leader-Post from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada • 68

8 Classified The Leader-Post Regina Saturday, April 16, 1994 EDUCATIONAL PARTNERS Leader-Post photo by Bryan Schlosser Connie Wolbaum, a second-year nursing student at SIAST, a Grade 6 student at St. Michael School. The two schools are explains blood pressure testing to 1 1 -year-old Michelle Henty, educational partners. CP photo Hilda Daigle and her family want to be moved from their public housing project Eiafts winraffliri) unit if lhi? toons extreme east end of the city, not far from the municipal dump and just down the road from a supermarket. Housing spokesman Mona Rossiter said a pest-control service was dispatched to Daigles home and a tenant-relations officer will talk to the family.

If it warrants it, we will consider a transfer, Rossiter said. Daigle, who still recalls her childhood trauma, said exterminators need to hit more than just her home. She added: If I had to leave the baby on the floor this morning instead of in the high chair, he would have had it (the dead rat) in his mouth. I had a good mind to go into Housing and lay it on the desk. The family is now staying with Daigles sister.

ST. JOHNS, Nfld. (CP) Hilda Daigle says she is reliving a nightmare. Thirty-three years ago, Daigles infant sister was partially eaten and killed by a rat in her crib. Now a mother with an infant of her own, Daigle wants Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corp.

to move her family from their publichousing project, which is infested with mice and rats. I asked for a transfer, a shaken Daigle said Friday after discovering a dead rat in her living room, the latest victim of the family cat. There are rats all over the street. They're on peoples doorsteps and in back gardens everywhere. Claudette and Bryan Parrell and their three children live in the unit next to the Daigles.

Weve had mice here too, said Bryan Parrel. In the night time you can hear them in the cupboards. He said he has watched mice scamper across the kitchen floor on quiet nights when he sits alone reading. Im after tearing out our baseboards and putting new ones in, he said. They come in from the outside and go through the walls of the whole line of houses here.

Everybody up and down the line got a problem with them. Ive heard the neighbors say theyre sure rats are in the walls because it sounds too big for mice. But this is the first time Ive heard of a rat being caught in a house. Montague Street is located in the ttrCANADA VR1EFS Manhunt ends MONTREAL (CP) A five-year manhunt for a U.S. fugitive wanted for the grisly stabbing-death of his wife ended in Montreal Friday with the arrest of the man.

David A. Vieira, 42, known among the citys Portuguese community as the goalie of a local soccer team, was arrested at his central Montreal home. The arrest came a day after the TV show Unsolved Mysteries broadcast a story on NBC about the 1988 slaying of Alice Arruda. She was stabbed 24 times in her New Bedford apartment, about 50 kilometres south of Boston. P.E.I.

bridge OKd OTTAWA (CP) The 13.5-kilometre toll bridge to link Prince Edward Island to mainland Canada got the royal treatment Friday, clearing one last administrative hurdle. Gov. Gen. Ray Hnatyshyn proclaimed an amendment to the Constitution officially adjusting the island provinces terms of union with Canada. The bridge is expected to be completed by 1997 at which time the ferry will no longer be necessary.

Jail for nose-biter NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP) A man who boasted to bar patrons he was a rottweiler then bit off a portion of a mans nose was sentenced Friday to five months in jail. Joseph Baranyi, 29, pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm following the Jan. 21, 1993 dogfight at a city bar. The victim had spent the day drinking at the bar when he got into a scuffle with one of group of men seated nearby, court was told.

The victim received injuries to the bridge of his nose and his right eyebrow. After the scuffle wound down, Baranyi approached the already-wounded victim and told him he was a rottweiler and bit the mans left nostril. Baranyi then apologized, and after shaking hands to end the dispute, they sat down for a few more drinks as blood poured from the mans nose. Flood threats FREDERICTON (CP) Emergency workers were predicting a tense weekend along the swollen, ice-choked rivers of New Brunswick. Flooding has already forced families from several homes in the small community of Hayesville, N.B.

And warm weather and heavy rains are expected to trigger more floods over the next two days. So far, the major trouble spots have been on the usually placid Miramichi River in central New Brunswick. In the hamlet of Hayesville, about 60 kilometres north of Fredericton, 46 people had to flee their homes Thursday after an ice jam backed up the Mirannchi. One-third of U.S. renters cant afford apartment Hawaiis rental housing is highest WASHINGTON (AP) One-third of renters in every U.S.

state cant afford a one-bedroom apartment, a study released Friday indicated. The study, by the Low Income Housing Information Service, found more than one-half the renters in the District of Columbia and four states Hawaii, Illinois, Nebraska and New York cant afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment. The study was based on rent and income information provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The study estimated affordability as 30 per cent of the households income, a standard used for federal housing-subsidy programs.

As a result of high rent prices, the study said, an estimated 25 million households are either homeless, live in substandard housing, are overcrowded, or pay more than 30 per cent of their income for housing costs. Prices for two-bedroom units are even farther beyond the reach of low- to moderate-income families, the study said. Three out of five renter house The fair-market rent for a two-bedroom apartment is more than the entire Aid to Families with Dependent Children grant for a three-person household in all but two states, Alaska and Vermont, researchers found. In all other states, even if households spend every penny they get on housing, they still cannot come up with what it costs to find an adequate unit, the study said. Earnings need to be higher to pay for larger units.

In seven states and the District of Columbia, the fair-market rent is at least twice the total maximum AFDC grant for a mother and two children, researchers said. The Low Income Housing Information Service is a non-profit group that researches and offers technical assistance on low-income housing. It is affiliated with the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a housing advocacy group. The coalition expects to release a more detailed study in May. holds in the District of Columbia, Hawaii and New York cant afford a two-bedroom apartment, nor can one-half the renters in 14 other states.

Hawaii had the most expensive rental housing, ranging from $760 a month for a one-room efficiency apartment to $1,563 a month for a four-bedroom apartment. An estimated 65 per cent of Hawaiis renters could not afford to rent a two-bedroom unit, the study said. Montana was the most affordable, with rent ranging from $235 a month for an efficiency flat to $646 monthly for a four-bedroom unit Forty-four per cent of Montana renters cant afford those prices, researchers said. A full-time worker would have to earn at least $7.76 an hour in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment in that state. For families on welfare, the problem is even more profound, the study said.

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