Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tefr Peg Post i Legal action May be option for Borger foes by Pamela Fayerman a citizens group which won a lawsuit against Borger industries says Legal action is one of several options the group will pursue unless the City reimburses its Legal the concerned citizens of a group of Windsor Park and South Dale for the past two years fought to remove Borger industries Asphalt mixing Plant from their the group was successful when the supreme court of Canada let stand a mice nibble Council treats mice have invaded City Hall in search of the cookies councillors keep in their Coffee by most of them Are nowhere to be but at dodging traps and Poi they Scurry around All three Levels of the Council building in search of chocolate covered digestive weve Only Ever seen one one Day it ran across the Deputy mayors said councillors Secretary thank god Pearl Mcgonigal want there so darn difficult to you weve done Taylor weve put up traps and Poison but they just keep we even stored the cookies in some ballot but they nibbled their Way through the plastic i Fust Hope its just mice we have Taylor placed a discreet notice in the councillors Coffee room instructing cleaning staff to Check the Kitchen cupboards each night for a dead mouse she Hopes none of the councillors will be subjected to the sight of a dead mouse during one of their Coffee weve stuffed the holes in the cup boards with steel but it Doest seem to be there appearing on All three Levels of the James free press Manitoba court of Appeal decision that Borger violated zoning last month group petitioned City Council to the in Legal Bills and other but City Council referred the matter to the executive policy committee which referred the matter to the finance yesterday the finance group referred the request to the and hoc committee on the group is not expected to receive a reply until cow president Evelyn Reese said the members Are City Council obviously knew there was a Grants committee and they should have sent it there they seem to be confusing issues reimbursing us is not going to set a we went to court to clarify City bylaw because the City was lax in implementing its own she said a suit against Borger Indus tries or the City is one the group might also hold socials or go door to door for deserve but our lawyers deserve to be we have Only Given them about so far and we still have a balance of about finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky admitted councillors had Al ready decided before the meeting began against making a there Are some important policy implications involved weve asked for a report from the administration and Well get it Back by the time we meet some councillors Are stalling because of fears the group will turn into a vigilante says George pro Vost he said the group should Reform under the Banner of recognized Community committees or residents advisory noting that the group has already applied for Provost said while he thought it was a Good idea for residents to familiarize themselves with City he did not favor an ongoing vigilante group As a watch i was the one who originally encouraged them to group together and take Legal but if they Are Al Lowed to retain the they made through fund raisers and incorporate they could easily become a group of working on the time outs Tom Edwards makes Las minute adjustments to new yes Hope to get the boards lights working for tonight scoreboard at Winnipeg stadium stadium employ game Between the bombers and the Toronto group Home ruling put off members of the cites environment say they favor requiring social agencies to win approval of neighbouring resident before establish ing group Foster but a formal decision on the Issue has been postponed until the committees next meeting while Bill Neville Tuxedo Heights said earlier this week the committee should take the Lead in promoting group other commit tee members said they Felt neighbors deserve to have the right to Neville said it was a cop out to make group Homes in residential areas subject to Public hearings where they could be Defeated through misunderstanding and prejudice by Neville sympathized with the views of several agencies who appeared be fore the committee to say the Public is often unjustifiably opposed to living close to group experience with the conditional use approval process has shown that it is next to impossible to obtain Community committee approval to locate in Many areas of the said a Brief submit Ted by the social planning Council of in calling for leadership by Council Neville said what we have to address Here is questions of questions of understanding and quite frankly of Jim Ernst Grants Mill said neighbors have legitimate concerns which they should be allowed to express through Public hearings on group Home i can clearly remember a fellow coming from Dominion Street asking what do i do Ive got four girls and in living next door to six 17yearold juvenile Ernst added his parents live close to a group Home in James for six 15to 18yearold girls who attract Young gentlemen and some of them Arent he said a Young girl in the neighbor Hood was attacked by one of these men so its not All its not All prejudice and its not All Misander Jim Moore Wood said the Public might be More receptive to group Homes if there was provision for a full Public if we allow Homes right in an area where therell be Builtin hostile i think wed be doing the program More harm than Moore introduced a motion that group Homes of up to eight children be considered a conditional use requiring a Public hearing of the Community amusement tax criticized the cites 10percent amusement tax is unfairly applied As moviegoers must pay while Winnipeg jets fans Are mayor Bill Norrie said yester the unfairness could be removed by either scrapping the tax or applying it to jets but its unlikely either will he the problem is the while has become deeply in he the City relies on Revenue from the tax and conversely the jets rely on their tax Norrie said he favors eliminating the which last year Cost movie patrons but this is no longer a practical it could mean an increase in property a move which would be strongly he by the same the jets would resist losing their special which Norrie said was originally granted As a Means of helping the team become movie theatre operators have argued the tax is discriminatory and should be the introduced in has also come under fire from profit oriented Racquet because of uncertainties Over its terms of a three Man body set up by finance committee late january to review the tax has failed to meet an april 30 deadline for submitting a blocked in separatists Back As oilmen slow Day Cameron of Dromore looks at his lemonade stand and wonders if the Price is two teenage girls walked right past his stand yesterday on Wellington Crescent and ignored Cameron just has to wait for a few customers with a big in fragrant sum Mer nights Are As rare As the which is probably Why Only eight peo ple showed up to near Douglas the head of Western Canada spout Western separatist doctrine Mon Day the news Media we rent fooled by this lacklustre response from the pub is dammit the assembled cameramen and reporters thronged to the just about outnumbering the which accounts for the great photo in yesterdays paper of Christie rating and gesticulating before a sea of empty seats at the Marlborough a less uptight group would have voted to reassemble downstairs in the comfy Oak panelled Ambi ence of colonel that the trouble with fanatics they have a great Deal of trouble adapting once the ground rules Are swept audience of two t i can Only imagine the scene in where Christie attracted an audience of allowing for the hot air outside and inside the Marlborough that eve in surprised at the Lack of interest in Chris ties in the Herald editorial writ ers grumble about Albertas status As a Colony of upper bled of its precious Given nothing in discarded when its resources run that the same thing Christie at this very the bulwarks of our Economy cattle and big Grain Are quaffing 12yearold Rye and gnawing beef and talking about free Trade with the same conviction As let us they we can use our natural advantages to compete across the Border with american producers in a consume Rich american Why should we suffer under a Tariff system designed to keep the inefficient manufacturers of the East alive Chris ties not the Only one who believes our of living would improve 30 to per cent if the West and the North separated from the rest of let those Eastern bastards Paul Sullivan freeze in the dark is still the Clarion Call of thousands of Quebec has chosen to stay in confederation by the skin of its it wont be Long until British the Yukon and the Northwest territories Are faced with the same its the forces that move the two great new solitudes East and West Are fundamentally Ontario is in the same shape As the rest of the industrialized free it lives in a fools wealthy in but poor in the thick gooey currency that really but Albertas Boom is unlike the Dusty Sheik Doms of Alberta already has highly skilled people and a highly developed it has such a head Start on the rest of the who knows where its going in Western separatism is no its the next in the last few Western canadians have voted for the quiet revolution the that All Western conservatives think a lot like Western at least Pri in there talk ing and As Long As they theres Hope for the its hard to believe the future of Canada rests on Joe Clarks but it at least As firmly As on the shoulders of Pierre who rep resents the other great but who can say now Long it will he before a great Western separatist Fig ure emerges he or she will probably come from one of the established in the manner of Quebec Rene and will offer westerners the same hard Choice Levesque gave Quebec sticking with the Maple Leaf a Symbol Only sparsely represented in Western Canada or striking off on a course to a Brave new at that Point in our Well have More reasons to go than to if anytime at All in the other Western you cant help but be struck with the fact that Western Canada is indeed a Small More self sufficient and self contained than Quebec will Ever the people of Western Canada have a lot in common with each a fair amount in common with their Ameri can and nothing in common at All with the people of Toron to used to be a place to go before Calgary and its Only Here in poor Little Manitoba where the two great solitudes thirty Miles East of the great forests of the Canadian shield give Way to the Plains of the its a breathtaking piece of confrontation and represents the responsibility of Manitoba in this National identity Trudeau scoffs Pierre Trudeau scoffs at regional yet against the hard nosed but compelling Little calculations of the Douglas Chris ties and the Peter he offers Only ideas wont fuel the gleam in the Eye of the average Westerner when he absorbs the Cost of confederation to the Christie says confederation has Cost the West billion in lost Oil Revenue in the last eight i know Farmers and ranchers and miners who can add their own legitimate lost the Canadian idea is a Good better than the Quebec or the Western or the Northern it absorbs them and offers a grand vision of Freedom and Prosperity in a world increasingly devoid in for those who can accept the its still a Majestic and heartrending i Trudeau made a mistake when he took de Schreyer and ceremonial Zed we need him droning his Canad an vision around the Espy Mutt tonal Coo Ference table with the other nine pre not muttering platitudes about a Liberal nirvana on a shaky Canada Day ;