The Toronto Star from Toronto, Ontario, Canada • 3

I OROS IO SI AR MUM HIMBER 14 lX A3 THE METRO PAGE "yji A a 7 xC I 1 A 1 A 4 4y wr orMtfTrfflmarffr' wis AO romNOSW Nap time: The Bathurst St day care centre enjoyed by Randi Mintz 2 getting ready for a nap and about 35 other kids may be forced to close Dec 15 if $125000 raised to stave off mortgage default says Rabbi Leon Edery the director Interest rates may sink day care centre By Dale Brazao Toronto Star Ark is linking And unless the Jewish communi ty and the North York day care centre of the same name can raise SI 25000 in the next few weeks its doors will dose to 35 children Dec 15 being done in by high interest rates" Babbi Leon Hdery founder and director of the non profit centre says "We af ford to pay the mortgage and the bank will foreclose on us" The culprit Edery says is a floating interest rate on a $300000 mortgage which has gone from 13 per cent when the centre oj ened two years ago to $2175 per cent "Our monthly payments have gone from $3000 to $6500 and there is no way we can meet them" Edery who stopped pay ments on the mortgage in June said in an interview yesterday "If we raise $1 2501)0 by Dec 15 closing our doors and the kids will be out in the street" Edery said the Canadian al Bank of Commerce told him that foreclosure procedures will begin next month on the centre located on Bathurst St near Ijwrence Ave unless he can i oine up with the money The building a combination synagogue day care and com munity centre caters predomi nantly to Jews but its doors and services are ojien to all eitiz Edery and a staff of volunteers have begun a month iong fund raising drive Anyone contributing more than $10(10 will get a plaque put up in the centre with their name Donations can be sent to the Or Ilamaarav Community and Chil Centre 2039 Bathurst St Toronto M6B 2B3 sign up to keep TTC fares down windfall is $600000 problem By Alan Christie Toronto Star More than 5000 transit riders have signed a petition protesting a proposed Toronto Transit Commis sion fare increase but their protests are likely to fall on deaf ears The five member transit commis sion meets Tuesday to discuss a recommendation from TTC chief general manager A If Savage that fares be raised in January The in crease could be either 72 per cent or 106 per cent depending on whether Metro Council kicks in extra money Se ven NDP members of City Coun cil were out collecting the names on petitions earlier this week and they along with Aiderman John Sewell will appear before the commission on Tuesday to argue against any in crease And City Council will likely vote next Thursday to oppose the in crease Borough of York aidermen Ben Nobleman and John Nunziata will urge council Monday to oppose fare increase and press the province to increase its subsity to the TTC Nobleman said the province should pay 25 per cent of transit costs an increase from the present 155 per cent and suggests! the federal gov ernment also provide an ojerating subsity "If (Premier William) Davis can find $650 million for Suncor he can find a few dollars more for the Nobleman said Sewell said in a letter to the com mission a fare increase hurts those with low incomes and those who take short trips He will ask the commis sion to report on the possibility of in creasing fares only during the peak hours and leaving off peak fares where they now stand But Savage in a report said seems inevitable that the TI has no option but to increase fares for next year" If there is no increase he said Metro Council's subsidy to the TTC would increase by S301 million to $769 million in 1982 The seven NDP aldermen Gor don Cressy Richard Gilbert Joe Pantalone David Reville Pat Shep pard Dorothy Thomas and David White sent a letter to a City Coun cil committee yesterday saying council "should endorse the position taken by more than 5000 transit riders most of whom live or work in the city" While Sewell and the seven NDPers are listed as deputants at the Tuesday commission meeting there was no listing for Toronto Mayor Art Eggleton Eggleton has said he opposes TTC fare increases but say this week what specifically he would do to fight them York borough Mayor Gayle Christie and some aidermen are at odds over how to sjiend a $600000 nest egg that accumulated during the recent 24 day strike by 450 municipal employees The money would normally have been used to pay wages and Christie favors putting it into short and long term certificates until next year when it can be included in the budg et But Aiderman John Nunziata wants the money put towards the re serve fund for sick pay benefits and Aiderman Ron Bradd says it should be distributed among projects suggested by community groups and residents On the other hand Controller Philip White says it should just be applied to next mill rate where it will show up as lower taxes for borough residents Eate of the money could be de cided Monday when York Council meets und hits 515000 Metro's Portuguese Canadian community has raised more than $15000 since Sunday to send two children with the rare skin disease epidermolysis bullosa to a West Ger man clinic run by Dr Pavel Kozak for treatment Organizers hope to raise S50OU0 to send Sandra Da Silva 3 and her month old sister Jennifer of Robin son St The hereditary disease which forms painful blisters and skin le sions is considered incurable by North American doctors Tears soften heist A bank robber became so unnerv ed yesterday when a teller at an east end bank broke into tears that he forgot about the $260000 de manded and fled with about $1400 in a small bundle of bills she gave him police said The man described a in his 40s and wearing messy clothing ran from the Toronto Dominion Bank at Danforth and Woodbine Aves at 130 pm and disapjeared in the direc tion of the Woodbine subway station Health centre grows A new and enlarged mini hospital was officially opened yesterday on the ground floor of St James Town Th health centre which has been operate for the past eight years by Wellesley Hospital has been such a success that it has been tripled in size to meet the demands of St James Town's 12000 residents about one third of whom are over age 65 401 tie ups near end Eastbound Highway 401 motorists face a final week of tie ups and slow downs before construction is com Gayle Christie: York borough mayor wants money to draw inter est 4T 7 d7 pleled by 6 am next riday The eastbound core lanes will be closed between the William Allen Rd and the Valley Parkway be tween 8 pm Tuesday and 6 ain Wednesday Eastbound 401 core traffic will be restricted to a single lane at Hollow from 9 a to 4 pm Wednesday and Thursday The core lanes will then dose be tween William Allen Rd and the Don Valley Parkway at 8 pm re opening permanently on riday Deposit snatched A thief who seemed to know what he was after dole a $3000 bank deposit from a woman outside the Canadian Imjteria! Bank of Com merce branch al Carlaw Ave and Queen St yesterday The vjApect thought to be about 18 got away even though he was chaMd through nearby lanes by a witness Volunteers needed Willowridgo Neigh borhood Centre urgently needs volunteers 18 vears of age and over to help with ts exercise programs for immigrant children adults and seniors Volunteers are asked to call any of these Inited Way Volunteer Centre branch numbers: Toronto 961 6888: Etobicoke 231 6521: North York 481 6194 Scarbrough 264 2308 Paintings stolen Two rench paintings recently bought in New York for $53000 have been stolen from a Vancouver man staying al the Park Plaza Hotel The paintings both water color landscapes by artist Maurice DeVla minck were stolen from the room of Torban Kristiansen Metro police said last night The largest is called Les Saules and Ire other titled Road through the Village Troubled East General fires top administrator By Bob Sutton Toronto Star Toronto East General Hospital taken over by the provincial government last June after an investigation into slipshod manage ment yesterday fired its executive director James I) Van Camp In a press release the hospital's provincially a)pointed supervi sor Gerald Turner announced that the board and he decided East General "would be better served by drawing on the services of a more seasoned and experienced executive director" In an interview last night from his Port Perry home Van Camp who has held the top administrative post for two years would not comment on the decision The release said his assistant Larry Thalheimer has taken over as act ing executive director and a search committee has been formed to find a re placement for the 35 ycar old Van Camp It added that a separate committee will an appropriate settle ment" with Van Camp Dr Glenn Bartlett chief of staff and a board member refused to com ment on the move and board chairman Gray Steele was unavailable for com ment 7 4 Ill 4 tfah Metro staff shake up rumored over crisis in home for aged James Van Camp: Top adminis trator loses job after two years in the post However Turner said in an interview that the matter had been under discussion and the decision yesterday was to go out and hire a "more senior" man He said no consideration has yet been given to a possible successor 1 urner would not say whether an departure was the result of the provincial probe findings but he stressed it would be wrong to view Van Camp as a scapegoat or the vic tim of a witchhunt He said the decision is one of several changes including a planned study to evaluate hospital facilities and programs for the next decade and an ongoing review of "the entire hospital organization structure" Turner said he couldn't say if there will be other changes in senior personnel at the 54 year old 667 bed hospital No joy Dr Morton Shulman whose allega tions triggered the government probe said last night: "I take no joy from this He was a decent enoueh man but the real problem with Van Camp and his staff is that they tried to defend the indefensible for too long" On the day the harshly critical government report was made public a visibly shaken Van Camp told re porters there would be no firings or demands for resignations as a result but he estimated it might take a year to bring about all the recommended changes Only last month on the very day an inquest jury recommended that the Ontario health ministry re evalu ate East General's emergency de partment the hospital announced expansion plans Medical mishaps The jury was looking into the death of a 25 year old diabetic Claire Moses who had to be taken bv an ambulance to Wellesley Hv pital because East emergency department was "out of service" be cause of overcrowding In June the provincially apjointed committee investigating medical mishaps and errors at East General cited many instances where the hospital failed in its responsibilities to jiatients The report said doctors overlook ed nine fractures a patient com plaining of chest pain was sent home and died of a heart attack doctors failed to recognize heart attacks in two other cases and a patient with advanced liver disease was not admitted The rej'ort noted that the depart ment with 71000 jiatients annually was one of the busiest in Canada Bartlett put much of the blame on antiquated facilities that were the result of provincial budget restric tions and said if any other hospital had been subjected to the same scrutiny as many errors would have been uncovered Ombudsman named When the report was tabled Health Minister Dennis Timbrel! took the unprecedented step of intro ducing legislation to appoint Turner who had been the executive director at Mount Sinai Hospital The rejort also calks! for the aj jiointment of an ombudsman to han die patient complaints In September Leslie Dutton who had been the community relations officer at List General for the preceding 11 months was named to the post Eric Willcocks who served 25 years as East General's executive director before Van Camp took over in 1979 said sorry to hear of it but had nothing to do with the hospital since I retired and so I can't say anything about what happened" Van Camp was assistant executive director for five years before he wa promoted BLOOD DONOR CLINICS for Monday School 21 1 Steefes Ave Notlh Yotk 930 to 1 130 a and 1 3 pm tlanvLrfe Centre 55 St 830 to 1030 a and noon to 4 pm By John erri Toronto Star A major shake up may be immi nent in the ujiper levels of the Metro community services department over problems in a home for the aged it runs in Newmarket The Star has learned Commissioner Jolin Kruger said yesterday that discussions" are being held with some staff mem bers Coroner Margaret Milton told a Metro Council committee on Thurs day that she has known for almost three years of potentially dangerous shortages of staff and supplies al the Greenacres Home for the Aged But repeated requests to her superiors for action were ignored she said Greenacres has been surrounded by controversy ever since the release last week of a Canadian Union of Public Employees rejort describing the home as in "a state of crisis" The rejiort said employees at the institution the largest Metro run home for the aged are severely overworked must contend with ver min infestation and lack adequate blankets and proper clothing for the 557 residents The community services commit tee has asked Sam Ruth executive consultant at the Baycrest Geriatric Centre to investigate and report in two weeks cn what is needed to solve the problems In an interview at the home yes terday Greenacres director John i Margaret Milton: The coroner says known of problems at Greenacres for three years but nothing has been done Palen refused to discuss the charges in the CITE rejiort However Palen said he agreed with the findings of a Metro review of conditions at the home released earlier this week The review said Greenacres could not meet the needs of its residents The majority are in advanced states of senility and re quire extended care Elgin Theatre to close tonight By Robert Sutton Toronto Star The downtown Elgin movie theatre will close tonight on Yonge St but a amous Players executive says still uncertain whether the jirovincial government intends to re store the Winter Garden a vaude ville theatre located on the ujiper floor that was clos'd down in 1927 Jack Bernstein vice president of amous Players said the govern ment served notice it would "exer cise its to dose the Elgin located just north of Queen St "But still awaiting a decision on whether they will go ahead with the restoration Bernstein said have to ask Reuben Baetz the minister of culture and' recreation" A GIT THAT APPRECIATES 4 IS APPRECIATED We would like to welcome you at Commonwealth Ballroom HOLIDAY INN DOWNTOWN 89 Chestnut Street Toronto UNDAY NOVEMBER 15 ONLYyj OPEN ROM 1 1 AM TO 7 PM gkjN TERMS: CASH CHEQUE VISA MASTERCARD AM EP Pre Christmas Sale vk PERSIAN ORIENTAL RUGS ONCE A YEAR ONLY WE ARE PRESENTING A MOST COMPLETE SELECTION AT WHOLESALE PRICES in the affordable Price Range of $10 to s2000 Our prices cannot and will not be beaten we guarantee Select for yourself or for your friends a 100 handmade work of art that will enhance any interior POINTS TO CONSIDER: Letter of authenticity with each rug Material craftsmanship guaranteed Money back guarantee Isfahan Oriental Rugs 101 DAVENPORT RD TEL 961 9480 PRESENTS.