Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba History tradition filled Byvik Neuah Pew streets in Winnipeg have the the the International flavor of Selkirk changed somewhat from my Day of taking the 90 the Street has not lost too much of its old look As a new Community of native Metis and Southeast asians share space with ukrainians and other Folk of Central and Eastern european Back sparked by an indomitable pastor Henk the third annual North end a program of sidewalk Popcorn and will be held on the Street today to Debruyn feels the Celebration will allow the Selkirk Avenue develop ment association to show that Sel Kirk Avenue and the surrounding District Are Worth he Hopes that in the excitement of something will be done to polish up the maybe benches for people to rest a he Selkirk Avenue has been polished up a new senior citizens Resi Dence stands out sharply among the new store Many of the old have passed on or gone out of if you look you will see signs of Long ago emerging from the peeling of Retikis department a North end fixture for countless and holy ghost Church polish Are among the old timers still holding their you still see youngsters scurrying to the Parish school in the but the list of places that have disappeared is changed after War the Street remained virtually unchanged until after the second world Peters anglican which shut its doors earlier As the Anglo Saxon population moved else was the first to go it was a wooden Structure built before the first world the Parish eventually relocated in South River the old Young mens Christian association building at the Corner of Powers Street also was in the Myca ceased its North end operations and Pauls College acquired the in if my memory is the jesuits assumed control and father John hol land was the Holland remains at Pauls on Grant no longer does he Hammer French verbs into Grade 9 the last time 1 shared a moment with he remarked that he was the office going for the mail and enjoying his daily they rightly named a Street after him in Pauls moved from Selkirk Avenue to the old Manitoba College on Ellice Avenue 52 years the Palace a very popular neighbourhood movie did not Vive the onslaught of television and closed its doors the which i Only visited once As a Small was located near Mcgregor it went dark a Long time Banks still there the Queens which featured jewish films and i live stage also closed after the second world Kosher Butcher strange Little shops with entrancing photo the lined the the Banks Are still the coners moved their hardware business in the 1920s from main Street and Atlantic Avenue to Selkirk Avenue and became a there will be some Wholl remember the Universal athletic it offered physical exercise of All kinds to Young people in the depression the area produced Many Fine ath Mickey Basss Maroon athletic club was not exactly a hangout for Mickey sponsored the Maroon name in especially in which his was a Superb older North end Winni Eggers will re member with affection the doctors who had their upstairs offices above the myriad names such As Westlake come to our own particular North end Sheppy still practising family Medicine although his Scalpel is started out in private practice on Selkirk Avenue in four rooms that served As living examining room and the Young resident from old Josephs two blocks found his first weeks fees amounted to two jewish people fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe found a measure of we Vince Swant Ottawa to pay full properly tax by John Sullivan the provinces want Ottawa to pay full local taxes on Federal eliminating exemptions which have Cost Manitoba at least in potential Revenue and the other prov inces the demand came at a today Winnipeg meeting of provincial ministers in charge of municipal affairs with Ottawa coming under heavy fire for scrapping a million a year Aid pm Guam for local Community improve the ministers condemned the Deau government for backing out of joint federa provincial Aid programs to such As the Cana Daman Toba North lands agreement in favor of unilateral projects by Otta calling for full local assessment of Federal land and Manitoba municipal affairs Doug Gour Lay said Ottawa now sets the value on its own property and shortchanged the provinces on the Grants it pays in lieu of property the Federal government refuses to be assessed on some of its holdings and the provinces cant Appeal under Federal pastor Henk Debruyn in front of of Retikis department tolerance on the Street bit by Small businesses began to the Street acquired one of the first feeder lines of the Street railway but we had to change at Mcgregor Street for the the Doub Leender piloted in turn by Jimmy Bill Fitz Mike Reg Bob Tom dependable Public servants of a Lon passed i knew them occasionally being allowed to pull Down the trolley As the Motorman pulled out the controller and changed Winnipeg never has had better transportation than those steel giants which ran from River Park Down Selkirk who knows that entire por Tion of the Core area As his thinks Selkirk Avenue has a lot still to offer in the Way of Commerce and Community it already has its we want the Federal government to be treated like any other Gourlay told we dont feel that an unreasonable Nova Scotia Jack Macisaac will take the tax Reform proposals to Ottawa this fall As head of a ministerial Winnipeg will lose about this year in municipal and school taxes because the Federal government wont pay Grants in lieu of taxes on about Worth of land and buildings within civic Peter Swan Lund of the cites assessment Branch said most of the loss is in Jame Sassin where Ottawa refuses to be assessed for million in runways at Winnipeg International most of the other exempted property is in Swanlund the government does pay full Grants on another Worth of prop erty in the including the Federal the Airport the fort Osborne Barracks and facilities for the Canada mortgage and the Freshwater fish marketing Board and the Swanlund noted that a Pap no business tax 6n any of its which would amount to 1144 per cent of their fair rental deputydirect6f of the provinces municipal assessment say How much messed Federal property there in Mani Toba outside the City or How much it represents in lost Grant but Arbuckle said the current ment on All Federal holdings is Ottawa pays full assessment on million of it or about million in but is exempt from school taxes on the other million mainly armed forces bases which provide their own school changes to Federal Law last year will impose full assessment on defence is but Arbuckle said a still refuses to be assessed on a Long list of these include the Fence around Stony Mountain wharves and communications towers and pole reservoirs and storage roads and railway Bridges and dams and water or sewer reacting to Ottawa threat to pull out of share Cost programs in favor of direct Federal programs for municipal Gourlay said the move comple Tely ignores the responsibility of the provinces and municipalities to decide the local Patrick Binns of Prince Edward is land added that there is going to be chaos if Ottawa funds programs helter shelter across the country and forces the provinces to adjust their programs duplication and dual bureaucracies Are he Macisaac ridiculed recent state ments by Federal regional economic expansion minister Pierre de Bane that Ottawa withdrawal from the Community services contribution pro Gram was prompted by a Lack of Public recognition for its if its Flag waving and recognition they Well give them All the credit they said the Nova Scotia min Well be glad to dedicate every new sewer and water system to Gourlay said the Manitoba govern ment certainly will have to participate in making up the million lost to local projects when the Community services program was capped last Western five tickets Worth each and five Worth each were picked in the Western express lottery draw wednesday 1 the tickets Are 3872073 and the tickets Are 1197579 and there Are prizes of for tickets with the last six digits of the top for the last five digits and for the last Ottawa nine winning numbers were chosen last night in the win Tario weather h High l Low or Nurt cold front worm front the number is four numbers Worth Are 070605 and other winning ticket numbers 36175 2834 045 Winfall City Calendar University of Manitoba horticulturists will hold a Field Day from 1 to 5 sunday at the East end of the Campus follow signs along the Campus perimeter the display will enable the Public to see several Hundred varieties of annual and perennial vegetables and turf grass from around the Bernie Wolfe swimming Pool located at 95 Bornais Street in the East Kildonan Transcona area is closed for annual maintenance and repair until tourist Alert the following people Are asked to Call the nearest detach ment of the ramp regarding an urgent d Morris Sanders of driving a 1978 Brown Gumc pickup with a camper top from Saskatchewan to d Roger Iron child of Prince travelling across Canada in a d and Fred Brant from flin travelling in the Duck Mountain area in a 1973 Ford pickup with a Small d and Paul Halterman from travelling in the Thunder Bay and Manitoba area in a 1980 Grey Honda Accord the City of Winnipeg East Kildonan Transcona Community notice of meeting notice is hereby Given that the East Kildonan Tran scone Community committee will hold its regular monthly meeting Date August 1981 time place Community committee chamber 2nd 755 Henderson Highway to consider regular business of the All interested residents Are invited to councillors Transcona Ward Miles Macdonell Ward Henderson Ward Springfield Heights Ward Elmwood Ward Community Telephone Norfolk 1oo433 main r3b 1b3 2o4 9431531 one year term 23 years guaranteed investment certificate truck clearance member Canada Deposit insurance corporation Winnipeg area forecast sunny with occasional Cloudy periods Chance of an afternoon or evening High today 28 to Low tonight near variable cloudiness with occasional thundershowers tomorrow and a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny monday and temperatures a Little above or near Normal read Ings of 26 and 12 throughout the Northern Manitoba mainly sunny monday and temperatures near Normal readings of 22 and Northwestern Ontario mainly sunny with Normal Tures of 24 and 11 throughout the temperatures Canada and world deaths classified death National 18 Vancouver 20 Calgary 26 Edmonton 25 Regina 30 Winnipeg m Thompson 26 Wofa 26 Brandon 30 Dauphin 27 Thunder Bay 27 Toronto 26 Ottawa 27 Montreal 27 Halifax 18 International 26 Minneapolis 24 new York 26 Boston 24 Amsterdam 19 at cens 32 Berlin 20 Helsinki 16 Clifton 26 Lott a Madrid 32 Moscow 22 u 15 13 13 14 11 16 is 15 8 16 14 17 8 13 12 14 10 22 12 13 17 h Mil 24 14 20 18 20 18 Tel 30 24 resort spots los Clear 24 19 Las fair 39 30 Clear 41 36 fair 29 26 Cloudy 32 26 Cloudy 30 25 Cloudy 30 24 32 25 fair 32 25 Cloudy 31 24 Cloudy 32 25 temperature 20 last Wabish record in 1886 in 1895 total for april 1 to 19 Normal of 323 notre Dame Hus band of Alma Lillian of 1776 Pembina High formerly of 907 Garwood Kenneth Laurence of 31 Porset suite husband of Loraine of 19 Elmo Daniel of husband of Norah Caroline Eileen of 1460 Bannatyne of 133 Burrows husband of Rose Charles of 478 Montrose husband of Constance Glas of White husband of Alvina Frances of formerly of Winni widow of Bill of 530 Renfrew widow of James of Gar Den of Iris of 984 it main wife of Maurice of husband of Petty Edna Jean of husband of Terry Harry of husband of Laura of widower of Angele Julian of Portage la husband of Mildred Amadee of 286 map Eglen of a of 65 Barber husband of Anne sister of daughter of Louise James of 110 Arnold husband of Ruth of 261 Goulet suite 541 widower of Claudine 1981 d150 6 4 As Low As to choose from various equip and size 1981 d50 sports As now As 7899 ask about negotiable finance rates we will overpay for your Trade f of Tim 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