Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 15, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday february 15, 1979 39 Fence proposal sent for study by Terry Beeler a request from the Winnipeg hebrew school 427 Matheson Avenue to have a Chain link Fence put around a nearby Park for the safety of playing Chil Dren was referred to the lord Selkirk West Kildonan subcommittee on Parks and recreation. The request heard by the lord Selkirk West Kildonan Community committee asked that Matheson ave nue be closed to increase the safety for children at tending the school. However school representative Marilyn Kass explained to councillors the request As written on the Agenda was incorrect. What the school was in fact asking for was a Fence around the Public playground adjacent to the school. The school has encountered other problems and this is just another one to be solved miss Kass said. She said the school wanted a Fence with two Gates both facing the school so school patrols would be Able to usher children across the Street. In response to a committee question miss Kass said the school has about 300 elementary students and two morning recess Peri ods. One half of the elementary students would Proba Bly use the playground during each recess and possibly All 300 would use it at lunch. Councillor Joe Zuken leg Norquay said he was sympathetic to the school s cause but did t want to risk another confrontation with residents because of their reaction the last time the school had asked for the closure of Matheson Avenue. The request for closure of Matheson Avenue had been made to the committee last year and had provoked Strong resident protest. Miss Kass said a Parent had proposed a Chain link Fence As an alternative to the closure at the time of the closure request and the school was merely trying to implement this. She said the school would be willing to pay for part of the Cost. Coun. William Chornopyski nip Mynarski suggested some agreement with residents of the affected area should be attempted since the playground is Public property. Coun. Mike o Shaughnessy ice Kildonan Park said he would like to see the Chain link Fence proposal before the recreation subcommittee during its meeting thursday. He said the subcommittee had a priority list of what s needed in the Community and if this item fell near the top of the list he would like to see the matter proceed. Recreation Roundup this report on recreational activities in the Winni Peg area is a regular feature of the Community news pages. Prepared by the staff of the City Parks and recreation department it includes items from recreation departments in the six Winnipeg Community districts which Are cleared through the Public relations office of the Parks and recreation depart ment. City Centre fort Rouge a leadership workshop sponsored by the City Centre fort Rouge Community Parks and recreation Branch will be held in the Weston Community. Four training workshops have been planned to help Lead ers with skills and resources they need to give Good leadership. The weekly sessions which begin feb. 18 and run each sunday to March 11, will be held from to . At the Bluebird senior citizens Lodge Lith floor 99 Keewatin Street. First meeting is titled. Meetings bloody meetings. Registration with a fee of is limited. Contact is Nelson Rajotte 775-1866 res or 774-2218 Isaac Brock Community Centre 715 Telfer Street will sponsor its annual three Day Winter carnival tomorrow saturday and sunday. In addition to a carnival Queen being crowned the club will have a variety of games and social events. All outdoor rinks in the City Centre fort Rouge Community with the exception of Laura second Mayfair Park principal sparking Wolseley and the Centennial Library rink will close for the season feb. 24. West end memorial Community Centre will hold its annual Winter carnival on feb. 23 through 25. Activities begin at 7 . Feb 23 with games of Chance a refreshment Garden and a 10-year-old hockey tournament and teen Ball tournament. Sat urday activities include a bake Sale continuation of the hockey and teen Ball tournaments children s skate races and snowmobile rides. Sunday events feature an adult Broomall tournament women s grocery scramble and games of Chance. Laura Secord sport and recreation association 1 Ruby Street will hold a Winter carnival tomorrow saturday and sunday. Events include Sleigh rides costume contest skating races and Broomall and hockey games. Assiniboine Park fort Garry fort Garry Community club s annual Winter car Nival gets underway tomorrow through sunday on the grounds at Oak Enwald Avenue and woo Grove Street. Admission is free. The carnival features games of skill and Chance or All Ages Snowshoe Cross country skiing Toboggan and skating races Novelty hockey and Wingette games Jam pail Curling and the finals of the 14-year-old invitational hockey tournament. Lord Selkirk weft Kildonan the Manitoba lifeguard Competition will be held at 6 . Feb 24 in the North Winnipeg Centennial Pool. Teams from pools throughout Manitoba will compete for a Chance to participate in the National Competition. No admission charge. A Golf program is scheduled to Start feb. 26 at Machray school. Registration is underway for the one hour classed designed to be a Benefit to golfers of All Levels of ability. Equipment for the five classes will be supplied for those who need it. Community recreation news for this column should be forwarded through the Community Parks and non ton managers in the six City districts to the office of Ron o Donovan Public relations officer Lor the City Parks and recreation department. Events should be reported to the Community managers Well m Advance Tor inclusion in this weekly report. Mario Cote of Levis qua., gets the Royal treatment at a Winnipeg roller rink from Kathy Maisey left and Michelle Champagne both students at Bellveau Junior High school. The two Winnipeg girls were among 25 Bellveau students who participated in an Exchange program with Quebec last week. This week the Winni Eggers hosted 25 students from la Belle province. Roller skating was one of the Many outings for the Quebec students. Community committee move opposed variance at Odds with action plan rezoning plea for St. Norbert nearly Defeated by Tim Haverluck a rezoning application by guaranteed Homes limited for a 336 dwelling unit subdivision in St. Nor Bert Between Oakhill Boulevard and Ducharme ave nue was nearly blocked at the Assiniboine Park fort Garry Community committee meeting. A dispute Between City finance department researchers and trustees of the Seine River school division Over the most accurate method of computing the production of school age children to be generated in the proposed guaranteed Homes subdivision appeared to be the main obstacle. However committee granted conditional approval to the Developer s submitted plan Over the objections of the school division. The division wanted the project scaled Down to 210 individual dwelling units. A detailed report on projected child population by the finance department contended that each dwelling in the guaranteed subdivision would produce an average of one child per household. Trustee w. H. Loewen contended that the subdivision would generate More students than the divison could afford to support. He feared the Quality of education in the area would drop As a result. With supporting statements from the Transcona Springfield and River East school boards the City re port found existing Winnipeg subdivisions with a similar mix of single family detached duplex and apartment dwelling units As the planned project in St. Nor Bert on the average generated less than one child per dwelling unit. The report noted that indexes used in the past by school boards to anticipate future enrolment Fig ures for their divisions had decreased dramatically during the past five to six Loewen argued councillors were taking a quite unusual stand based on the City researcher s report saying it was the business of the school Board to predict enrolment and that they were better equipped to do so. Referring to the study based on 1976 figures Loewen said he was afraid the subdivision would produce at least one child per household and that was the figure the school Board would accept As Correct. By Nancy Birks St. Boniface St. Vital Community committee approved a precedent setting zoning variance tuesday despite the opposition of 125 residents. The variance produced four lots from the two existing lots at 33 and 41 Newport Road South St. Vital. The lot areas Range from .95 acres to about 1.13 acres. The variance is contrary to the proposed St. Vital perimeter South action area plan which designates the property for two acre residential develop ment. The action area plan has yet to be referred to City Council for final Reading. A City report said land holdings in the area vary St. Boniface St. Vital Between .9 and 21 acres but the prevailing lot size on the West Side of Newport is about 2.5 acres. Mrs. Barbara remnant 41 Newport Road said she and her husband c. A. Remnant made the application in order to will the property equally among their four daughters. We do not want the property to go out of our she said. Mrs. Remnant said the committee had granted similar applications and they previous applicants Haven t lived there barely a lawyer Ross Nugent representing the applicants said the area immediately around the property has been developed with approximately one acre lots. The remnants he said Are Long time residents. They bought the property about 30 years ago. While 125 residents re corded their opposition none of the opponents were in attendance. Six persons registered approval and three spoke on the Rem Nants behalf. The administration re commended the application not be granted for several reasons including the pro posed action plan s restrictions. The proposed lot configurations Are irregular with two lots fronting on 20-foot wide Access roads. A study produced Evi Dence which suggested local ground water could not sustain development West of St. Mary s Road at a one acre density. The municipal Board recently ruled that two acre Rural residential develop ment be allowed in the area. Coun. Lome Leech Seine Valley said. But in this particular Case i Hope there is room for he added. Although he supported the application coun. George Provost Langevin warned councillors that they were opening the door for other requests which can t be turned Down. The application was approved subject to approval of a consent plan. Coun. Robert Bockstael tache asked that his dissenting vote be recorded. Most students require some special Aid at school Assiniboine South Board told committee school meetings next week the following meetings of City committees Community committees and school division boards Are scheduled in Winnipeg next week monday feb. 11 environment committee East committee room Winnipeg City Hall 1 . East Community commit tee East Kildonan offices 755 Henderson Highway 6 . Assiniboine South school division school Board offices 3401 Roblin Boulevard . Tuesday feb. 20 finance committee East committee room Winnipeg City Hall . St. Community committee Community offices 2000 Portage Avenue 5 . Winnipeg school division school Board offices 1577 Wall Street 8 . St. Boniface school division school Board offices 50 Monterey Road . Wednesday feb. 21 Winnipeg City Council Council Chambers Winni Peg City Hall . Thursday feb. 22 executive policy committee East committee room Winnipeg City Hall . St. Vital school division school Board offices 255 St. Anne s Road . By Sherryl Friesen eighty per cent of Stu dents will require special assistance during the 12 years they spend school the Assiniboine South school Board was told at a special meeting tuesday. Or. Eila Lamb Deputy assistant superintendent of student services told the Board she has prepared an extensive working paper that defines student ser vices and makes recommendations for program Ming and personnel development to meet Stu dents needs Over the next five years. It s the first time such a study has been undertaken in the division. Her report shows that be fore 1970, students were generally divided into regu Lar classes and those need ing special help. To accommodate of both groups the school system developed two sets of educators including special education classes for the learning disabled such As the occupational Entrance program presently used in the division. Or. Lamb said this be comes a problem when Stu dents who would t necessarily need a special learning program experience learning problems and can t find support. School superintendent Steve Dvorak compared it to staying at Home with an illness until one is sick enough to go to the Hospi Tal. Within the past .10 years a new Model for special Edu cation programs has been developed that includes organizing services to suit individual needs. It proposes teachers be Given special assistance and materials for meeting special students needs within regular classrooms and that students not be labelled and placed permanently in special Educa Tion classes. The problem with pull ing a child out of his peer group because of poor performance is that he be comes earmarked and it is difficult for him to break out of that isolation. The child loses the skills he had in dealing with his regular said or. Lamb. She recommends including diverse instruction within regular classrooms in kindergarten through grades i to 9 and referring fewer children to place ment in special classes. The school administration will continue to look at the proposals seeking additional input from the Board staff and specialized school staff before bringing final recommendations to the Board. Photo in of Rev this week s festival do Voyageur includes some Fine Craft exhibits. Leblanc above demonstrates French Canadian two Finger weaving at the St. Boniface museum 494 Avenue. Newspaper group to Honor youths four Manitoba youths will be honoured in Winnipeg feb. 23 when winners of the first Manitoba Junior Citi zen awards Are announced during the 60th annual convention of the Manitoba Community newspapers association sponsored by the Mcna and the Pioneer group of companies the Junior citizen awards were announced in september 1977, with the first qualifying dates to run from july 1, 1977, to june 30, 1978. Manitoban Between the Ages of six and 18 Are eligible for the award. Nominations were accepted from Manitoba residents through association newspapers. Scheduled to be announced at the association s Semi an Nual meeting in the fall of 1978, it was decided to hold the presentations Over for the 60th annual convention. The one Day convention will be held at the St. Regis hotel with the awards luncheon and the anniversary dinner and dance to be held at the North Siar inn. Stonewall Argus publisher and president of the association Merv Farmer will conduct the business sessions. Ian a. Mackenzie publisher of the Portage la Prairie graphic president of the Canadian Community newspapers association will also take part in the objects will be marked to deter theft in schools by Wayne Glowacki in accordance with the Winnipeg police department s crime prevention program Norwood school Board has adopted a policy of marking objects that Are the property of the schools in order to deter thefts. There was no debate on the decision by the four trustees who attended the meeting this week. The Board also decided All students from Kinder Garden to Grade 12 should View the solar eclipse on television. Television coverage of the event is to last from 9 . To . Blinds Are to be drawn and students will be kept in class throughout the eclipse period. Student trips to Greece and Quebec were approved by the Board pending parental consent and insurance coverage. The Public schools finance Board increased the 1979 budget for the division to trustee Frank Kennedy said budget for 1979 total about million. The division has arranged meetings for students with businessmen in the Community and University graduates to provide students with some idea of what to expect in future Job opportunities and Post secondary education ;