Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free 1979 3 most summer Camp programs now coed by Laurie Streich while some summer Camps continue to program separately for boys and most Are either mixed or intend to become coed in the near and for Many families contacting the free press Sunshine that Means their children dont have to spend their summer camping vacation the move to coed Camps even extends to Camp operated by the Myca in the Lake of the which will probably make the change by next Bob the executive director of summer Camps for the said Camp Stephens has been a boys cyclists ignoring licence bylaw Winnipeg cyclists continue to flout the Law despite the cites attempts to tag unlicensed although 150 to 200 bikes Are Given the reminder tags every Day for Lack ing 1979 nowhere near that number of bicycle riders Are buying the City officials City Council spent an extra this summer to hire six students to scan the streets for plate less so since july armed with their own bikes and a Supply of delinquent the bicycle constables have been patrolling shopping centres and bicycle the tags attached to the unlicensed bikes list the bicycles serial number and remind the owner to Purchase the necessary no fining authority City bicycle department concede that the tags Are merely reminders and the constables dont have the authority to Fine unlicensed Only two City employees actually have the right to hand cyclists a and both workers Are too Busy trying to collect stolen bicycles to keep an Eye out for the unlicensed chief licence inspector Pratt estimate what percentage of City bicycles were in the City distributed netting a total of in since its right in the Middle of biking its still too Early to assess whether this years take will be Pratt greater Hope of return but at the 1057 Logan Avenue com Pound where the City houses its lost Bike bicycle Section head Joe Zajacz if there were More wed have fewer bikes Pratt said licensing is the Only Way an owner can be assured of having his Bike returned if it is Many Bike owners say there is no use in licensing their vehicle because it be recovered if but most stolen bicycles Are just borrowed and never returned by neighbourhood said in bicycles were reported of the bikes Reco Only 807 were returned to the owner through licence hydrant work Down the Drain fire hydrants May be out of order because City inspection Crews have too much else to says a report to the civic works the cites fire hydrants Are supposed to be inspected twice a inspection schedules were disrupted earlier this year due to the extreme demands placed on water works employees to repair Watermain Breaks and Frozen service the re port councillor Eldon Ross Lodge charged earlier this month that firefighters were finding More and More hydrants out of Sunshine fund Send a kid to Camp Camp for 90 but since 1970 after the Sale of the Owca Camp in 1967 and a decision in 1970 that camping was not a priority Myca has offered separate camping weeks for boys and Paterson the first there were Only 50 or 60 he that number grew year by year and now were completely Paterson said the decision to Inte be hrs free press grate will not be firm until the but its Likely Well be coed by till mean some major renova he but theres obviously a another possibility for the Camp would be to offer two girls sessions two he at Camp Stephens offers three sessions for boys and one for Camp Stephens is one of the few Camps within the Manitoba camping association which is still Camp in Turtle Mountain provincial Park near had tried separate programming a few years but the idea didst Jake the Camps Resi Dent manager said quite a while the attendance had dropped and the directors at the time thought separate programming was a Way to pick it he the reason it Neufeld was because its not they need each other to balance things quite a few of the kids at mixed Camps Are Brothers and families who contacted the free press Sun Shine fund for Camp sponsorships for two or More of their children found that their sons and daughters didst want to pedalling right on through by the look on her there were some tense moments for Leah As she made her Way successfully through a bicycle Rodeo obstacle course about 70 children Rode their bicycles through several different courses and took part in tests of proper bicycle safety at the Rodeo held in William Osier playground at Brock Street and Mathers be separated away from said receptionist Lynn the free press Sunshine fund was set up to help Send kids to Camp who otherwise afford it and has ensured at least 160 kids of a Camp Holiday this the free press and the Manitoba camping association Are participating in the fundraising drive to Send kids to the associations 44 the Camps Are All nonprofit and operated by donations should be sent to the free press Sunshine 300 Carlton r3c 3c1 or left the free press classified receipts will be issued and names of donors parents who want to Register their children Are asked to write the Manitoba camping 1483 Pembina r3t 2c9 or Call them on their special Sunshine fund Telephone line at donations 371 Oakview Gray Eagle Manitoba motorcycle club total to Reservoir repair Cost in millions the City faces costs up to million to repair the collapsing Walls of one of its three water City officials have advised Council lors that million should be invested immediately to install a direct feed line from the Shoal Lake Aqueduct to the pumping station at the Wilkes Avenue ultimate repair costs to the damaged Reservoir on Wilkes Avenue in Charles Wood could Range from million to depending on whether the City decides to rebuild the exiting Unco Vered cell or construct a new smaller covered the shifting of the Concrete slabs that line the Walls of the 40milliongallon Reservoir was first noticed during an Nual cleaning last a jus completed consultants report confirms that the Reservoir Bank was at the Point of imminent the report recommends that the Reservoir be immediately without clean to restore before reconstruction or repair can a pipe must be installed before freeze up this year so that water can be drawn directly from the Aqueduct in Case the Reservoir or its tanks have to be in the the City should Call for proposals for the reconstruction of the says an administrative report to be discussed by works com Mittee on costs of the revamped Reservoir would be borne under next years Capi Tal the Reservoir backs up water Supply for Winnipeg West director of waterworks Sandy pen Ryan said last month that the cites other two reservoirs would adequately Supply water unless weather conditions were inordinately hot and at Snow removal More private faster Side walk Snow Clearing and employment of welfare recipients Are among proposals designed to improve Snow Clear ing next speedier blowing of residential streets and lanes is not planned because of the High costs in a report to works administrators recommend the City con tract even More of its Snow Clearing work to private the work of private contractors met or exceeded that of City workers last states the report to be discussed last private contractors cleared regional streets in All of the cites six operations districts except the inner administrators now propose that about half of the major streets and a Quarter of residential roadways be come the responsibility of private con this work by City forces and the private sector could be fairly the report the City Call for tend ers on equipment rental rates rather than set a Standard per hour the lowest bidder would be the first on and the last off a if ratified by sidewalk plow ing would get a higher total costs of improving the Walkway Clearing operations Are estimated at about 40 More operators will be needed and sidewalk Clearing equip ment will have to be double shifted if the walkways Are to be freed of Snow four times a welfare recipients could also be employed to shovel walkways for the physically handicapped and to Clear Snow from around fire report hits transit losses on holidays Winnipeg transit should talk to Busi Ness and Union representatives before deciding again what kind of bus sched ule to run on recommends a civic an inappropriate decision to oper ate weekday bus service on Holiday july increased the cites losses by says the in it transit officials should consult the chamber of com Merce to determine what Days Busin esses intend to and of the Amalga mated transit Union should be contacted to discuss Holiday the report the report will be dealt with by the works and operations committee on City urged to protect Golden boy Enns wants stricter height bylaw so tall buildings wont spoil View Harry Enns looking up government services minister Harry Enns has asked the City to protect the Vista of the legislative building by setting stricter height limitations on new construction than those now in Force under provincial its ceded by anyone who comes to the legislative building that the build ing and grounds Are singularly attractive from every aesthetic Point of its a matter of attempting to preserve that the minister classic Beauty its rather a shame to obliterate the classic Beauty of the legislative build ing by steel and Enns he said encroachment of the building by High Rise buildings in surrounding areas was made evident to him during this Springs flood fighting when he had to make several trips from the Legisla Tive grounds by the City shelved its height restrictions for the downtown in 1976 when the province brought in its own tailored to allow the 15storey Woodsworth Enns now the province wants the cites bylaw buildings be allowed to go As High As 15 storeys if they happen to be As close to the 59yearold seat of government As the Woodsworth build Enns he added that 12 storeys for that distance was More in a new 16storey apartment at the Northeast Corner of Assiniboine Avenue and Kennedy Street is under construction by Quilico developments and should be completed Early next Quilico spokesman Ralph Schilling said the building was approved last february by both provincial and civic Schilling said the company shaved one Storey from the original but cant go any lower without reducing the number of units and losing when considered by Means of a sky exposure plane measured from the legislative the new apart ment Structure will impose less on the Vista of the Capitol than the Woods Worth Schilling could take place anytime High Rise developments could take place at anytime on other properties Enns although he want aware of any specific it is a highly desirable thing to protect not Only the seat of government but a very Large open space area in the said civic environment committee chairman Jim he said the City would probably just dust off the draft of a 1976 bylaw and Check buildings which have gone up Over the past three zoning bylaws outside the downtown area Are supposed to limit height of while downtown there Are no limits through said Ernst in dependent citizens election commit provincial based on the height of the Woodsworth now restricts Heights in the area bounded by Mary Roslyn Carlton and Colony ;