Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 5, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pm feb Katy probe of airline and to despite refunds by noetic Boughton the Ted Etal consumer and corporate affairs department will continue to investigate aft if Canada seat Sale advertisement even though the airline has paid about to each of three customers who say the and misled them on the Cost of plane fates from England to Joe District manager of the department in said yester Day the investigation is in Progress and although air Canadas move May or May not alter the course of the inquiry it certainly would not Stop Federal Community upgrading Grants set the City of Winnipeg will receive million under a agreement for Community improve ments in the province announced last Federal Northern affairs min ister Jake Epp said the Federal funding will be applied to 56 projects in the City Between and Epp told a press Winnipeg will receive million payment May 1 and the balance after May the agreement signed in August pro Vides for a Community services contribution program to replace the former federally operated neighbourhood in municipal infrastructure and municipal incentive Grants pro Grams and will disburse approximately the same amount of Epp Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie said the 56 projects submitted by the City had All they included Mil lion for Community improvement pro Grams for the Chalmers Matthews Avenue and Daniel Mclntyre areas of the the province recently announced it would also provide additional Grants of up to million for programs in these three in addition to the million for financial help amounting to million has been approved for 128 Rural municipalities local government with another million previously committed for projects in Thomp Portage la flin Steinbach and the cites pleas for Money net civic hoping to get More provincial funding forthe City this left a meeting with Manitoba Cabinet officials yesterday with Only a increase in the Grant for the Winnipeg ambulance we didst come away with a but we Laid the groundwork for future said mayor Bill Norrie after the close door the mayor added the province was financially Hamstrung because of inadequate Federal i guess what we both basically need is More Norrie a number of City councillors have criticized the provinces Block Grant for 1980 As Council has resolved that such annual funding should be at least the mayor said More talks would take place after the City sets its next five year capital Winnipeg ambulance commission chairman Jim Ragsdill was disappointed in the size of the increase in Provin Cial funding for the is that All we got Ragsdill Heights said when in formed of the the commission had proposed the province share equally the estimated subsidy the ambulance ser vice will require this the increase would boost the provinces contribution to about leading the City to cover the remaining since the inquiry has Dette said the Winnipeg Branch is obliged to continue the investigation and write a when that is the departments Legal Branch in Ottawa must then decide whether the matter should go to the attorney Gener als in Early air Canada advertised seats from Winnipeg to London at with the message that you cart buy tickets for your family and friends and bring them Here to but when three Manitoban tried to do just that for seats from London to they found they had to pay about another because of the sex Attlee ph6ss change Fate on if Canada has since agreed to pay the three customers the difference be tween the advertised and actual yesterday at least tyo of the three customers received their Margafet of cooker said she is Satis fied to receive the but she thinks its important Tor the Federal department to continue its investigation so that a similar mistake wont happen in the i think people should know that if they go to a company of this size they can depend on what it she Helga Weiss also was satisfied to receive Cheque and said she would hot press the matter but Weiss f chuckled a Little about if Canadas careful Choice of the which accompanied the Cheque apologized for the trouble caused by the incomplete advertise ment f still think it was misleading even though they have not actually admitted that it Bow Kef the refund was made after Joyce Public affairs assistant for if Canada in said the airline cannot reimburse the difference be tween the fares because it must collect mayor opens heart drive Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie officially proclaimed Donald Street heart drive yesterday at a ceremony to kick off the Manitoba heart foundations 1980 fund about volunteers will go Doort door next week to help raise the foundations goal of in 65 per cent of which is earmarked for heart opposing views presented on preserving Bank building by Ron Campbell disagreement on the architectural value of the Bank of Nova Scotia build 254 Portage was featured yesterday As opponents and proponents of its preservation appeared before civic environment Dimitrios Styliaras of the University of Manitoba architecture faculty said the banking Halls pseudo re Naissance style can be found the world it is a pretentiously designed build it was designed to appear More than it its Corner dome was added purely As decoration and serves no functional he his University of Manitoba col appear ing on behalf of the Manitoba historical recommended the building be listed for preservation of the exterior and certain Interior the dome and the excellent Terra Cotta facade were mentioned As prominent aspects of the although architecturally it is a bastardized so Are the British parliament buildings in Thompson he said that to provide an incentive for preservation of such government tax Breaks should be allowed and the owner should be prepared to take a lesser degree of profit than in other important option Peter Anker of general manager of real estate for the said to list the building for preservation would eliminate an important option for redeveloping the he said the Bank Hast decided what to do with the site since moving just Down the Street into its new regional head office in Winnipeg Square at por Tage and main a couple of months the building has been appraised Sev Era times and is Likely Worth million As a development but would be Worth a lot less if the City mandated its to list it for preservation would affect the Sites value to the Bank and the Banks bargaining position and would discourage Anker he estimated the building costs 000 a year to heat and excluding lawyer Michael Mercury said the City derives in annual property taxes from the site now but would get considerably less if it was on the historical buildings preservation the fronting 88 feet along Portage and 130 feet along is Ideal for redevelop ment and could easily support a 000squarefoot building with lion assessment compared to the present the original five Storey building was built at a Cost of the fare approved by the pc fetish and Canad Afi Tony manager of Public affairs of air Canada in said Krentz was but he i think we made a mistake and that Why the refund was made dont think it was he but it did not clearly state that theres a difference in Price if Yow pay for a ticket the other Way London to Schoen said the decision to refund was made by air Canadas advertising people in Mike advertising gift for for air Canada in yesterday refused to comment on the saying it was an airline it want my but he hastened to add that 1 do not run misleading advertising on of we occasionally run a misleading its it occasionally we make a those errors Are immediately the advertising director also refused to comment on whether the complaints or investigation would make a differ ence in How future air Canada seat Sale advertisements Are drawn news by Andy Becq a crowd of about 80 persons yester Day questioned Winnipeg school Divi Sion trustees about the possible closing of consolidation of sir Sam Steele elementary at a meeting in the school gymnasium at 15 Chester parents and area residents asked whether predictions of declining enrolment Are accurate and grumbled about provincial funding for private As a Large number of elderly citizens living in the area Are replaced by Young school enrolment May pick up claimed one but trustee Les Slingsby said school figures show declining enrol ment a loss of about 100 to 120 Stu dents a month in Winnipeg is expected to provinces decision when one woman asked Why private schools receive provincial funding when some Winnipeg schools May be closed because of High costs per student As a result of Low Slingsby said the decision to fund private schools was made by the provincial govern not by the school when the question was passed on to la Russ Doern who was in the he said the policy of funding for private schools was implemented by the Lyon admin in not going to speak on behalf of Sterling other residents questioned the boards decision to repair other schools in the area when sir Sam which is in Good is being considered Slingsby said that action has been taken rightly or wrongly by the Board in the kindergarten indicative associate superintendent Bill Donald told the residents that when falling enrolment forces a school to cancel in the years that follow there will not be enough children to fill classes in upper if the problem of declining enrolment is left for a few years there will be no children left for you to think he trustees also answered questions about a working paper approved by the school Board which outlines proposed policies on closing three parents with children in the school and three area residents were selected to join a committee division teachers and the school principal to examine problems facing the according to the working the school facilities planning committee will examine the Impact of decreasing enrolment in their look at facilities and programs and hold Public meetings to gain area Resi within six will report its findings to the school Board will then make a final decision on what should be done with the similar committees will be struck at Ellen Douglass and Argyle As a result of High overhead Are candidates Ifor closing or following the meeting at sir Sam two women who asked not to be named said residents from around the school Are determined to keep it were going to were really going to said one of the were going to keep the school i one woman said closing the school would be Tough on the neighbourhood because Young families wont move into the area when there is no close elementary if theres no school there not going to she father Waits for secrecy Wall to crack there appears to be no crack in the Wall of secrecy surrounding the Canad an embassy staff from Tehran which harboured six american diplomats for three months until they were slip out of Iran last week using Canad an John Lucy of Winnipeg father of Roger the first Secretary of the now closed Tehran embassy said he has had no communication from his son since receiving a Telephone Call from Geneva last under orders from the department of external affairs in Roger Lucy arrived in Geneva and has been instructed to keep his distance from the press and the weve heard a Winnipeg said in an inter View he merely said this Geneva was where he when asked when his son is Likely to return to Lucy 1 expect Hes going Back to Ottawa 1 dont know if Hes still in Gene Lucy said perhaps his son has not spoken to the press to give him time to write his report on the but Lucy said he and his wife Celia Are looking Forward very much to seeing him when he old Market Square group to donate Streetcar the old Market Square a group of businessmen the redeveloped Albert Street came to4civic environment committee yesterday with an offer and the said association president Don is to donate the cites last remaining number As an information Booth and rest Centre to be situated in the old Market Square Park bounded by William and Banna Tyne avenues and King and Albert the request was that the City buy the former Bijou theatre now land scape and Light it and allow its use As an open air summer following it could possibly be developed As an enclosed year round he association treasurer Richard Walls City Hall notebook i told environment committee the site would provide an important entranceway from main Street to the redeveloped Albert Street area to the Mcgillivray said it is an historic site As the location of Winnipeg first which was built in although now filled with the original jail cells and Gallows in the basement were never destroyed and could be he Mcgillivray said the association acquired the Streetcar Early last year for solely for the purpose of giving it to the the private owner had wanted to transport it to his Falcon Lake cottage for use As a tool after some renovation and installation of plexiglass windows to prevent Mcgillivray the old Streetcar could possibly be put on the Triangle Park by the end of this sum environment committee took no action on either of the defer ring the entire committee Agenda until next replacement of the faulty Wilkes Avenue water Reservoir moved one step closer yesterday when civic works and operations committee threw its support behind a the matter must be approved by Council As a that decision is expected at tomorrow nights meet if the necessary approval is work would begin in april with comple Tion expected before the end of this under the a two unit Reservoir with a total capacity of 30million Gallons would be built on the site of the existing North cell while the South cell would be used for extra studies have shown the existing Facil Ity is in danger of collapsing because of deteriorating soil reconstruction also would risk damaging the existing in the new roofed facility would eliminate the contamination caused to the existing uncovered Reser voir opened in 1959 by Ani Mals and the civic administration has been asked to determine whether the City will get a Good Deal in its Purchase of four hand transit buses from the Only bid it received on the maybe were paying too or not if Skowron if the bid is in not going to Skowron and the works and opera Lions committee approved a joint bid by Shelle Globe of Canada and mar cel Dodge of for the four to be delivered within six Shelle Globe supplied the nine buses currently used by a a no action was taken in civic Environ ment committee yesterday on propos i als to tighten the cites 1975 Massage parlor after hearing delegations on other subjects for most of the the committee decided about defer the entire Agenda until next Mon Day since committee Mem Bers had other appointments they had to the proposed Massage parlor bylaw amendments would bring sensitivity awareness studios under the scope of the eliminate the out Calls whereby Massage parlor Plo yees leave the premises to service customers and would regulate the dating and escort service business councillors passed the Massage Par Lor bylaw in the Hope of eliminating sex from Massage or body rub but have encountered 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