Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Jutte 3 Norrie town Hall meeting favourites mayoral contenders Joe Zuken and Bill Norrie were definite crowd favor ites at a town Hall meeting about 100 voters sweated in the Down town freight House Community Centre and politely applauded All of the Candi but reserved their enthusiasm for the two although Only serious candidates were invited to the Only two of the dozen William Gridzak and Alex Mitchell failed to show if voters we rent wearing Zuken they were sporting vote for Norrie and questions from the floor were directed at one or either of the two City Hall Dave free press the two candidates both said they would support increased civic involve ment in the housing and they were both prepared to consider relocation of the up rail marshalling Yards after the present study is but they clashed when Norrie told the audience that the Only Way City Hall could provide employment opportunities for Winni Eggers was to promote greater were not going to create jobs just by government said private and Public sector develop ment is an important employer in the Joe Zuken said Winnipeg Square and the convention Centre was a bad thing for the City of Well ask the 180 workmen at Portage and main now if its a bad said the cites Deputy mayor to Boos from some of the Norrie said Council has to create the sort of environment that will promote which in turn will create jobs to keep Young workers in Winni Zuken won the applause when he reiterated that the Winnipeg Square which he says Cost City taxpayers was a bad its a Concession to the that the ice saw there would be More than 180 men working if the provincial and civic Power of which Norrie is haunt Cut Back on capital works the councillor said the Only Way the City can effectively Cope with unemployment is to pressure senior Levels of government for increased participation in programs like the Community Home services just think what we could have done with million in the development of housing in the inner Zuken while other contenders promised to establish standing committees on hous ing if Phil Rte Roto said the City establish a housing program because it Doest have enough the Core area needs but where Are you going to get the Money from citizens said Harry Lazarenko promised to freeze tax assessments for five years on older properties undergoing that would promote improved housing in the inner City and Cost the City a i cant Tell you what id do until we have a housing and its up to Council to do said Don rail relocation also sparked with Ray Joe Smith and Don arguing that the Shef Broo Mcgregor overpass was a better alternative than rail Ray Brunka told the made we largely of the same residents who opposed construction of the Sherbrook Mcgregor to consider the traffic needs of their Neighbours to the North Side of the up rail if rail relocation was a vague probability within the next ten i would say go no Brunka but the City should proceed with the overpass in within six Mem Mimi hopeful on Arena Norrie says that show Biz Canadian actor Allen Stewar Coates looks in the Mirror at what is and recalls what was As hairstylist Shelley Horbas gazes at one of her More unorthodox creations Stewar Coates made the supreme sacrifice for his title role in the Rainbow stage production of the King and which opens july following a theatrical tradition popularized by eking Yul Stewar Coates will look clearcut for the picture in inset at left shows the actor the Way he looked before his appointment with the kids treasure Camp memory kids whole been to summer Camp never Stop talking about but Many of them cant afford to go these Are the kids Wholl Benefit the most from the free press Sunshine she talks about last years Camp All the time expecting to go Back this one Mother wrote of her Daugh she really enjoyed Sunshine fund the application for a Camp sponsor ship was received yesterday at the free the 16yearold girl has Downs the girls family want to provide the same Camp experience for her this but Lack the Money to do City rejects pact with bus Drivers Winnipeg civic executive policy committee yesterday turned Down a tentative agreement Between the City and transit raising the spectre of a strike in sending Back the negotiating team for further Deputy mayor Bill Norrie told reporters the two sides Are very close to a Norrie Independent citizens elec Tion Heights said which have been under Concilia have not broken Down despite the different Points of View at every two City councillors who Are not members of the committee said they expect the bus Drivers and maintenance workers to react bit Terly to the committees both Joe Zuken labor election and Cyril keeper new democratic said the committees main disagree ment centres on a sensitive travel time clause the transit workers have asked compensation for travel time the time a Driver spends re turning to a designated depot at the end of his shift is the equivalent of one half per cent in the two said proposed salary hikes were not Central to the committees a Union source said bus Drivers May consider the absence of the travel time clause More of an insult than anything else a slap in the Harry Atu has said the membership would vote june 21 on whether to accept or reject the last month the membership authorized its executive to Call a strike vote if and when Bob executive director of summer Camps for the said yesterday the Mother had applied to the y for a Camp sponsorship for her daughter and was referred to the Sun Shine fund since Hes not sure if there is Money left in the is fund for the Sunshine fund was established to sponsor kids to Camp who other Wise afford to go and to help when other sponsorship programs had run out of the free press and the Manitoba camping association Are cooperating in kids will be sent to the 44 operated by Volun which comprise the the association has set up a three member screening committee to ensure applicants pay As much As they can toward the Cost while keeping the names of those receiving subsidies con any surplus funds at the end of the camping season will be used for special such As improving and adding facilities for the handicapped at exist ing All applications for Camp sponsor ships should be directed to the Manitoba camping 1483 Pembina r3t 2c9 or through the special Sunshine fund Tele phone line at donations should be sent to the free press Sunshine 300 Carlton r3c 3c1 or left at the free press classified receipts will be issued and names of donors published donations 954 Mcmillan Barb Dale Kendel 11 Brookhaven 405234 Gordon 1752 William 120 Danbury 546 total to Paul free press Winnipeg Deputy mayor Bill Norrie expects that a joint announcement on added Arena expansion funds will be made today or tomorrow by provincial and Federal Norrie said yesterday in an interview prospects of extra funds from the prov Ince and Ottawa were still very in although a report from Quebec earmarking Federal lottery Money for the expansion was denied yesterday by Manitoba sports minister Bob theres a real urgency that we know As soon As Norrie the steels already going weve got to have an Early indication As to their Banman said he discounted reports of Federal funding approval on the basis of a noon hour Telephone conversation yesterday with Federal sport minister Steve he said Paproski assured him the Clark Cabinet had not yet considered the Issue and no announcement had been repeated that no final decision would be made until after a meeting of provincial and Feder Al the provincial minister said he expects this meeting to be called today or monday and held very the province is pushing for an Early session because word on Federal Aid is urgent if Winnipeg is to broaden its expansion plans beyond the Low Cost project now Well he Manitoba is concerned that a full consultative process is followed be fore committing itself to any Cost Shar ing the minister Banman said the province opposes the use of Federal lot Ocanada Money to expand Arenas for profession Al athletic use and will insist that any Ottawa contribution should be made from Federal meeting fails to resolve Power line controversy problems posed by a two inc thick Power line resting on the grass in a North Kildonan housing project Drew almost persons last night to a Public Hall for two hours but at the end of the the Cable was still on the grass with Little Prospect of being the line carries Power from a Mani Toba Hydro Over a City across a Lawn and to one of the six units at 1306 Molson Street which depend on it for the temporary line was installed two weeks ago when the six units were Cut to Hal Power by a faulty underground last Manitoba engineered Homes the City and homeowners each repeated claims they Arent responsible for maintaining the nobody knows who owns the evidently preventing Hydro from going in and making repairs because it requires a Purchase the groups involved endorsed a plan by Jim Ragsdill to ask the minis Ter for Don to order the Utility to find out what went wrong with the repair it and worry about who to Bill Hydro spokesman Earl Mills told the meeting the Utility want required to repair it because of an agreement it signed in 1975 with the engineered the contract states Hydro will pro vide Power to its but adds the user must maintain the line stretching from the transformer to the spokesman Grant Mcneil of engineered the said the firm ceased to have any interest in the line the minute the Homes were Hydro refused to provide residents with emergency Power two weeks ago when they noticed brownouts caused by the faulty underground it took one resident 12 hours of phone Calls before engineered Homes sent in an electrical contractor to Hook up the temporary homeowners have been told it could Cost about to restore Normal Larry Wilson rummages through a irate in search of in Cash lost on the Hes holding the he on the up rail Yards Norrie said the cites six month rail relocation study will probably take closer to one year to but despite unforeseen Norrie said he wont be asking the Federal funding the to can cel their financial i dont think that anyone can seriously think that anything is going to happen within one said Norrie after a meeting yesterday with study consultants and Federal transport department the study is already about one month behind Pilot Dies after plane struck tree a Pilot whose single engine aircraft crashed in Southern Manitoba yester died at 4 today in the health sciences he suffered Burns to 95 per cent of his body when the privately owned aircraft he was operating struck a tree on Takeoff at the Pilot was attempting to take off from a Landing strip on his farm near about 45 Kilometres South of ramp the aircraft was sometimes used for crop police and the Accident is under there were no passengers in the police and Hospital spokesmen Are withholding the name of the Pilot Pend ing notification of Cash blowing in wind what started As a Oneman Effort to recover a lost bundle of Money quickly turned into a spirited treasure Hunt involving More than 30 people on James Street yesterday at stake was in cold hard Curren which had been scattered to the winds after dropping out of sales manager Larry Wilsons pocket near James and Sargent who works for a Trade publication at Sanford Evans publishing cashed an expense account voucher wednesday and put the Cash in his when he got Home later that the clip along with the Money was nowhere to be Wilson turned up for work the next morning prepared to Tell his fellow employees the sad tale when he noticed his Money now lying on the he surmised that High winds had scattered the and set out to look for his lost loot with several other the search took them across the company parking lot to a Doc Load ing area of a nearby where Wilson found a Bill lodged against the Side of the nearby was a a and a workers in nearby factories and offices noticed this activity going on and resist the urge to join in the by late afternoon the Hunt was called and was presumed Wilson is offering a 10 per cent re Ward to anyone who finds More of the wayward Bills and turns them ;