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1 WIN A SILVER OX Metro news digest i 7 i Polluting firm gets more time to settle fines Crippled officer wows Hill Street I Armenians to honor Chretien at dinner Armenians will honor Jean Chretien during a $50 a plate din ner riday night at the Armenian Community Centre at Hallcrown Place in North York The former Liberal cabinet minister will be presented with the Outstanding Canadian Award in recognition of his and uncompro role in resolving the con stitutional crisis and his and in public service Proceeds go to the community scholarship fund geared to university students studying history political science and jour nalism Visitors allowed back after nursing home flu Bendale Acres a Scaborough nursing home that was closed after an outbreak of the Norwalk flu has lifted a ban on visitors The home for the aged has had no new cases of flu said George Coleman gener al manager of Metro Toronto Housing Co The home was closed for two weeks after 60 residents and 15 staff took ill The owner of a Scarborough company has been given two more weeks to work out a payment schedule for more than $60000 in pollution fines Even if the issue is resolved by then Metro is going to court May 1 to deal with BEST Plating Shoppe Ltd an electroplating firm run by Sam Siapas May 1 is also the dead line the Royal Bank has given Siapas to have the matter settled before it cuts his line of credit to $25000 His credit has already been cut to $50000 from $100000 BEST has been fined 53 times Metro has applied for an Ontario Supreme Court order that would allow officials to close down his operation and possibly jail Siapas North York employees to learn courtesy skills About 300 North York city hall employees are going to get a crash course on how to deal courteously with the public People who tele phone or visit city hall our customers and they should be treated as Mayor Mel Last man told the board of control yesterday in urging support for the $9000 program Seneca College and Bell Telephone will conduct a series of half day seminars at city hall increasing concentrations The province strictly regulates the handling storage and disposal of PCB waste But the Ontario Ministry of the Environment has failed so far to approve method of destroying the chemical which 'is desirable since there is always the possibility of leakage once stored! The Ontario Waste Management Corporation a provincial agency has proposed high level incinera tion for heavily contaminated material as easy as rest testing a Perma oam mattress Rest Test a Perma oam foam on foam mattress and foundation sleep set Easy enough Then fill in a ballot for your chance to win a gorgeous Givenchy silver fox fur coat styled by Simpsons The Room Or one of five elegant Perma oam sofa beds Nothing could be easier ull contest details available at participating retailers PERfilA OAM The feeling in sleep Contest period: March 1 May 24 1986 BORIS SPREMOTORONTO STAR On his feet: Nepean police officer Ronin Easey gets out of his wheelchair with the help of two therapists yesterday as Hill Street Blues star Kiel Martin left lends support mate Jordan was caught with 800000 litres of wine products con taining the potentially cancer causing substance Jordan presi dent Richard Mitchell told The Star outside the inquiry Sing Gen said he talked with Parker about ethyl carbamate con tamination in Jordan products several times between January 1984 and October 1985 but Park er told him that he would receive direction from senior LCBO offi cials He said Parker called several times to register concerns about the levels of ethyl carbamate found in Jordan ports and sherries levels of up to 2400 times the only known standard at the time for the chemical in beverages was thinking these levels were high and I was hoping some direc tive would be given to me to take (the contaminated products) off the he said The inquiry was told Sing Gen was awaiting written instructions from LCBO general manager Jack Couillard although Couillard had already retired bed nursing home where 40 beds are reserved team including physical occupational and speecn inerapists a neurupsyunuiugist a clinical psychologist and other recreation and academic specialists He is expected to return to his soon to be renovated home in Nepean by June where therapy on a smaller scale will continue Last Christmas Easey had difficulty sitting in his wheelchair and understanding a con versation This Easter with assistance he took a few halting steps then delighted his wife with a 12 foot walk THE TORONTO STAR TI 1URSDAY APRIL i 1984 7 Toronto Hydro finds toxic PCBs we said spokesman Jack Jannoway of East York Hydro think any reason to spend all that money just be cause Toronto does" Representatives of the local utili ty in Scarborough North Yor(k Etobicoke and York as blunt but admitted they had ho plans to undertake anything more than cursory tests as the trans formers are brought in for repairs There are 35 all PCB transform ers sealed in rooms in Toronto buildings and probably hundreds in other buildings across Metro thought we were on top of the PCB problem and it was a shock to find that somehow some time over the years the pure mineral oil we thought we bought for the overhead transformers was Peberdy said Toronto Hydro is the oldest utili ty and has probably the oldest equipment which is gradually being replaced However even when replaced by newer equip ment the old transformers will Joe left on poles until a solution to the disposal problem is found Three year program It will take three years to test all the transformers The older ones contain 50 gallons of mineral oil and the newer ones 10 gallohs Each cost about $1500 PCBs were an attractive indus trial chemical for 40 years until 1980 when new uses were banned after concerns about health and the environment PCBs decompose very slowly in the environment is hoped this will make our coastlines The depots which cost $600 000 each will be at Bluffers Park in Scarborough and Humber Bay West in Etobicoke Stationed at each will be one 119 metre (38 foot) patrol boat staffed by two marine officers Until now the marine unit has had to deploy all of its 16 patrol boats from its headquarters on Toronto Harbor to make regular patrols along the waterfront and deal with emergencies at the far ends of 56 kilometre (35 mile) shoreline Metro parks commissioner Bob Bundy said the stations will pro vide better service to boaters Scarborough Controller rank aubert said a dangerous has developed at Bluff ers Park because there ade quate patrols aubert said the depots were supposed to have been built last year but were forced out of capital budget by the high cost of the new main headquarters on Quay stations are very necessary to assure the quality and quantity of surveillance in the he said The two depots are part of a $45 million dollar construction project aimed at revamping the marine buildings and includes the construction of a $35 million ma rine headquarters on Toronto Har bor BLOOD DONOR CLINICS for Today North York General Hospital 4001 Leslie St North York noon to 4 pm Befl Canada 393 University Ave 9 to 1 130 am and 1 to 330 pm DeVry Institute of Technology inch Ave North York 10am to 4 pm ManuUfe Blood uonor cumc Bloor St 9 am to 730 pm North tower 7th floor Royal Bank Plaza 200 Bay St 9 am to 5 pm St Gregory's auditorium 194 Sim coe St Oshawa 1 to 8 pm for riday Shoppers World 1530 Albion Rd Etobicoke 130 to 830 pm ManuUfe Blood Donor Clinic 55 Bloor St 9 a to 4 North tower 7th floor Royal Bank Plaza 200 Bay St 9 am to 5 pm Dixie Mai 1250 South Service Rd Mississauga 5 to 830 pm A Turner High School 7935 Kennedy Rd Brampton 130 to 830 pm along city streets By Tom Kerr Toronto Star Toronto Hydro has found high levels of toxic PCBs in supposedly transformers on hydro poles in residential areas of the city There is little danger to the pub lic but a spokesman said the utility is spending $7 million to test each of the 17000 transformers on city streets to see how many are pol luted with the man made chemical that has been linked to liver nerve and brain disorders in humans and cancer in laboratory animals But no matter how many trans formers they do find contaminat ed there is no plan to remove them unless they begin leaking be cause they are as safe up the pole as anywhere was a shock and just by hap penstance that we discovered sup posedly pure mineral oil (used as a coolant) was contaminated with hydro public relations chief Blair Peberdy said in an interview yesterday like to get rid of the contaminated material but we because the provincial gov ernment yet approved any method of destruction or disposal of Surprising number A surprising 10 per cent of the first 2000 street transformers test ed show levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) ranging from 50 parts per million to 200 parts per million Anything over 50 parts per million is considered dangerously contaminated nnp in 10 nnlllltpd should be sounding alarm bells in and thus get into the food chain in the environment ministry about every other municipal said Metro Councillor Tom Jakobek 9 Toronto Hydro commissioner know we have a problem but we need provincial action to clean it So far Toronto is the only Metro municipality to embark on the expensive full scale testing for PCBs in the overhead transform ers found any contami nated mineral oil in the odd tests By Paula Todd Toronto Star CORTLAND NY When crippled Otta wa police officer Robin Easey met actor Kiel "Martin who plays police detective John (JD) LaRue on mu Street Blues Easey could resist showing off Holding the arms of two therapists and with help Easey wobbled and then stood up yesterday something doctors pre dieted never do again after being shot in the neck during a foiled bank robbery in 1984 It the first time Easey got out of his wheelchair been standing for a few minutes at a time since late last December 5 but it was the first time done it for a star his favorite television show and performance was He grinned Martin grinned And the crowd gathered at Highgate Manor nursing home where Easey is undergoing treatment fought hard to control the applause been warned would startle the 32 year old father of two Martin summed it up for them I get shot in the line of duty I get tostand up and go home He But I find a man far more intelligent and able and aware of going on than I expected inspir ing for me as a human Shot in neck Easey seen Hill Street Blues (the only television show he watched besides the news) since Sept 1 1984 the day Rob ert Gagne shot him in the back of the neck after the officer and his partner also wound Zed in the leg surprised a gang of thugs bent on robbing an armored car Gagne 30 is serving two concurrent life sentences for at tempted murder fzx nflnrrn rtnn tie Easey eventually awoke blind and suf Easey was paralyzed by a bullet in 1984 and is at a clinic in New York State fnrinrt rtHndrinorOCIC UlmOn TPC1I ITAfl WOPTl H1N Ivl lug Vjuaui JfJU kvoin tiroc rionrivfwl rtf AYV0PT1 Doctors predicted less than a 1 per cent for head injury patients undergoing unique chance that Easey would ever enjoy life or be therapy in the Neurologic Center at Cortland aware of his surroundings 29 year Nestled in this pretty farming community old wife Glennis refused to believe it and yes of 20000 about 40 miles south of Syracuse show was just one more payoff for Highgate Manor has played an essential role the woman who fights valiantly for her hus in recovery His wife after much re recovery search was forced to leave Canada to get the very pleased to have Kiel here He special range of therapy provided by the New knows happening and very Medico Head Injury System here Glennis Easey said New Medico is a program that lets patients Martin snent most of the dav signing auto progress from one facility to another as they granhs and cheering up patients at the 200 recover Easey works daily with a 12 member LCBO provided no help to winery inquiry told By Darcy Henton Toronto Star The Liquor Control Board ofOntario never told an Ontario win rcry how to deal with contaminated wines despite repeated requests for direction a royal commission rhas been told And when the provincial gov ernment pulled six Jordan and Ste Michelle Cellars products from zsale months later a distraughtwinery official phoned the liquor board to complain about the han idling of the matter the inquiry into the marketing and testing of Ontario liquor heard yesterday Desmond Sing Gen Jordan tech nical services co ordinator said he called LCBO lab director Allan Parker about a week after theproducts were removed from saleto ask why guidance that was promised never came He testified that he told Parker: Allan I am done with Parker has testified Sing Gen ac cused him of him Although the LCBO gave Brights Wines two years to reduce its stock xjf wines containing ethyl carba 2 new shoreline police stations to safeguard pleasure boaters Metro police are launching two 'satellite marine stations in Scar borough and Etobicoke to make Metrovs shoreline safer for recrea tional boaters 'The new stations will improve 4he marine ability to respond Ho emergencies Staff Sergeant Bob'Cornish told The Star depots will enable us to haw natrol boats east and west of the central he said 1 liSnn i Xu 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