Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 3, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg fret August hundreds of gulls swarm around Summit Road disposal by Dave Bonner in Winnipeg or in garbage demands attention by Miriam Mcvea its there on a Windy eddying on suburban Winnipeg sidewalks and it can be found in containers neatly lining lanes throughout the what is it its garbage one of those everyday things people think Little garbage plays an important part in our everyday its used in a variety of ways and collecting it has become big business in major cities of the in for garbage is mostly buried or in garbage is More than just it is something to be Recy cled and Rod director of the Winni pegs operations works and operations says the City collected tons of solid wastes last of that tons were burned and the balance went to Vari Ous Landfill one Landfill site is located North of Saskatchewan ave nue near the perimeter a second at the intersection of Spring Field Road and Lagimodiere a third is situated South of the perimeter on Brady Road while a located on Highway 8 about three Miles North of the is used mainly to dump Ash from the municipal incinerator at Maude Street and Henry ave nue where garbage is last the City received a re port from James Maclaren a consulting following a study on methods of resource recovery from a plan to convert garbage into steam heat for downtown customers was pro posed but the proposal was shelved because no capital is available and the funds Arent Likely to be available in the near Many Are utilizing or transforming solid waste into useable Metal and newspapers Are recycled to a Large old refrigerators and other Large Metal products Are sent to a private Metal shredder on Springfield Road where they Are shredded into Small much of this scrap Metal ends up at the Manitoba rolling Mills in in contrast to one City that effectively deals with the prob Lem of garbage and even turns it into an asset is in nothing is thrown approximately tonnes metric tons of refuse is processed this is composed of 50 per cent or Ganic 18 per cent four per cent each assorted plastics and Glass and three per cent the rest consists of various useless Romes garbage like win begins As the cites garbage trucks collect the the similarity ends the italian garbage vans dump approximately tonnes of refuse into two Gigantic trenches every Day which begins a complicated automated pro the rubbish is picked up by a huge steel scoop and transported by conveyor equipped with a control system that prevents oversized objects such As washing machines and mattresses from passing then the refuse is dusted and sorted sending Dif Ferent materials in their separate i for organic material goes in one Iron in an other and so each Type of refuse is then dried and sterilized and put through truck collects garbage on residential the special processes that transform them into new waste paper and cardboard Are sent to the paper and from there Are made into wrapping Iron is pressed into Bales and used for construction Pur organic material and vegetables the largest percentage of All rubbish after a series of reduced to powder and decomposed into Small cubes for animal the remaining organic material is used for plastic materials Are reduced to sheets and sent to regenerating in All other useless for any thing is incinerated and used to produce steam necessary for the entire productive Cycle and which re sults in considerable Energy water used various washing cycles is regenerated and re utilized in Winnipeg there Are several companies which prepare paper for Recy one such company is Monarch re claim 1240 valour at the Monarch paper is graded and prepared for coloured paper is de inked and Deco lored and taken Back to its natural it fore needs less preparation for Recy then the paper is baled and shipped to various one of the largest users is located in Mineso Glass recycling is done at some returnable bottles can be cleaned and other Glass products must go through a great Deal More before they can be cel Fibre industries in makes Good use of recycled the firm buys Recy cled newspapers to which chemicals Are making the paper firer which is then used for insula other businesses and companies have their own programs for Recy one such business is a nonprofit organization called Goodwill Indus 70 Princess there Are other branches of this located nationally and Goodwill recycles clothing and news papers and has been in the business for 48 newspapers Are shredded and put into Bales and sold to mainly for packing and shipping Pur it can also be bought on an individual Cotton clothing that is too worn to be sold As is made into rags and sold to Alan manager of Goodwill industries says Money made from these sales and the sales of other merchandise in the store Are used to pay the employees after one mans garbage is an other mans substandard subdivision okayed by Tim Haverluck the Assiniboine Garry Community committee tuesday night granted Hammerling of 1356 Mccreary Road the right to subdivide his 10 acres on lot 13 into two five acre despite a planning department report that his application for subdivision be one lot was to be used for a residential the other a Riding though agricultural District requiring a lot mini mum of 40 presently applied to Hammerling he was allowed to further reduce his property into two smaller planners recommended against Al lowing further subdivision because under the greater Winnipeg develop ment now under the Mccreary Road area is intended for future Industrial there Are two Cement plants in the the planners said allowing Ham merlins subdivision to proceed into further residential development ran counter to the general growth the planning report relented some stating the previous Assiniboine Park Community com Mittee Between 1972 and 1974 had Al Lowed eight five acre Sites to be adding that Assiniboine Park fort Garry not to allow Hammerling the same consideration would be committee allowing subdivision on the condition the lot intended to House the Riding stable limited to accommodating 10 in other Diane Westlake of 408 Wellington Crescent was denied an application to split a parcel of land on the West Side of Empire Between Roblin Boulevard and South Boine into two separate to be deficient in area As dictated by the areas a5 a category which limits lot size to five the present Westlake lot is already a planning department report told councillors to allow the a5 Standard to be whittled away any further would be to defeat the purpose of the greater Winnipeg development which had designated the Empire Street area As an area of limited Urban committee also Learned the area want serviced by a properly maintained Access Road nor with City sup plied water and sewer councillors heard from 11 area Resi dents strongly opposed to the West Lake application before they denied the facilities to be consolidated in new Transcona Complex b dw1ght Dubowitz the East Community committee monday night voted to relocate most of the districts now scattered throughout the into a new Complex at 1500 Plessis the in concurrence with a report from the City will result in the eventual disposal of three Sites in Transcona now housing facilities at 141 Regent Avenue 401 Pandora Avenue West and the Vulcan Avenue according to the the Plessis Road site will House the Community fire works and opera and Community committee As Well As a Cash Ier for tax and Utility two other properties owned by the City will be maintained 755 Hen Derson which will House the Community committee meeting room and the districts welfare offices and 545 Watt which will House the Parks arid recreation the move was strongly opposed by councillor Phil Rigutto who Felt the relocation would be an inconvenience to Transcona Resi in especially concerned with the move of the Regent Avenue Cashiers to the Plessis Road he right most of the business Section of Transcona is situated around 141 Regent residents have been using those facilities for Rizzuto was also against the disposal of the Regent Pandora Avenue and Vulcan Avenue in not in favor of this surplus he Well be need ing other facilities in and it May Cost too much to add on to the Plessis Road we need to use a bit of foresight Harold Piercy Henderson said disposal of the three properties would mean added revenues to the cites and maintaining the Sites would be a needless its my understanding that disposal of the Pandora and Vulcan locations would result in Between and from their he and that not even taking into consideration the property taxes these Sites will i know were concerned about moving traditional locations and the irritations it will initially but the purpose of East Kildonan Transcona the plan is to consolidate our scattered its an excellent and a Good balance of i dont think we can hold on to Over Worth of potential in other Community committee disagreed with a recent report from the supervisor of building inspections which said an abandoned apartment building at 352 Yale ave nue West was considered reason Able in appearance and not in contravention with the untidy and unsightly premises residents in the area had unsuccessfully tried to have the building saying it was a health Hazard and a danger to children play ing in the i cant believe any reasonable Man would Ever consider that build ing reasonable in Piercy either the building in Spector who wrote that report is or he never inspected the weve got a real problem said Anne Zorowski Miles this int the first time weve had trouble getting a derelict building perhaps we should Start looking at changing some of the Ive had administrators Tell me that More Teeth Are needed in the current Alf Skowron Elmwood said the question want whether the bylaws were but simply a matter of getting the right administrators to enforce the you people have been dealing with the health he Ive had better results dealing with the inner City health the health which Are have to go through too much red Jim Ragsdill Springfield said the decision handed Down by the cites supervisor of building inspections should not be and the final say should be Given to the commissioner of environment As to whether the building at 352 Yale is in reasonable the although approved by the Community was criticized by Why should we Appeal this Deci Sion he the building should have been issued a demolition order in the first and the owner should make the this were going to our servants and saying you Guys Are that liquor site gets tentative backing Assiniboine Park fort Garry by Tim Haverluck after six years of the Manitoba liquor control commission has selected a site for a new liquor store in a dry area up until this Assiniboine Garry Community committee tuesday night gave guarded assent to the location of the liquor outlet at the Corner of Roblin Boulevard and Dieppe Road in the Charleswood Square shopping Centre now under committee hinged its agreement of the liquor store coming into Charleswood on reception of a report Council lors requested from the manager of Winnipeg streets and transportation department to Guage what Impact traffic generated by the new liquor store would have on Roblin Boulevard and which traffic control adjustments would be required to handle the in creased committee hoped the report would be ready for the next Public before tentatively granting the zoning variance requested by architectural group for a liquor store in a Complex zoned cd a retail liquor store is allowed Only in a c2 zoning committee heard a planning depart ment report which supported the variance the report said the request want new and precedents had been set by previous area planners called the proposed site of the liquor store Ideal be cause of its Central location in the Community and its service by major Access the store be located in a primarily residential but in an Island of offices devoted to commercial and municipal the zoning variance request was opposed by John Hiligan former mayor and school trustee for the Rural municipal Ity of who expressed concern Over the danger of the increased Road traffic generated by the liquor store to be located in the Vicinity of the Dieppe elementary As a trustee in the 1950s who took part in the site selection of the Dieppe Hilgenga told councillors it was his responsibility and duty to oppose the liquor which he Felt would Compromise the safety of the schools he said half of the 500 children who attend Dieppe school Cross Roblin Boulevard going to and from and he forecast the proposed liquor store would increase the safety Hazard for these Hilgenga said am orc appropriate location for a liquor store would be on the 11 acres zoned in Charleswood for a shopping a parcel of land located Between Royal Road and Haney Street at Grant wh6se development time schedule was Wayne representative of said the admit native level of the Manitoba liquor control commission had recommended for the last five or six years that a liquor outlet be established in regarding the traffic problem posed by the commissions preferred site on Roblin Kimble said Charles Wood residents must now go to either Grant Park or Wes Twood liquor outlets to Purchase their talk about a traffic he Charleswood residents now have to Cross the perimeter High Way and Circle Back onto Busy Portage Avenue to reach the Westwood anywhere they he they will cause a certain degree of traffic meetings next week the following meetings of City Community committees and school division boards Are scheduled in Winnipeg next week 8 Parks and recreation West committee Winnipeg City East Community East Kildonan 755 Henderson 6 City Rouge Community meeting room main Winnipeg Conven Tion 375 York 7 lord Kildonan Community commit West Kildonan 1760 main 9 River East school school Board 589 Roch 7 10 executive policy East committee Winnipeg City by Delesic a game of inner tube water basketball is one of a number of water activities enjoyed by youths this week at the jaws 3 aquatics adventure program presented by the East Kildonan Transcona Parks and recreation Branch at the water Dodge Ball and Aqua baseball were other games included in the which operated from noon to tuesday through thursday f ;