Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Public to be heard on plan Winnipeg by a Fig Battit Ftp pubic on posed Fryear Devido Pimmit plan titled plan Winnipeg will begin in sep Fob Ward of the City planning department said yet Tertany the hearings May continue in october and the a Broa spectrum develop ment scheme dealing with suburban eco Botnic development and several other is the product of More than two years of research by Ward and others in the City planning its purpose is to provide a set of almost 106 policies to guide the City through the next two school criticized spokesmen for Columbus school parents say they resent having been Guinea pigs in a school division Experiment in parental involvement an area review Carl a Columbus said yesterday an area review commit tee study presented to Kamesas Sini Boia school Board last Spring re commended a further study be done on the Impact of declining enrolment throughout the Westwood it also said Columbus and Robert Browning schools should be Consoli dated in because of projected declining the need to preserve Quality education and but the school Board voted last month to consolidate them and close Colum bus in after discussing the matter enrolment last year was 155 at co Lumbus and 205 at Robert but Board projections say that by enrolment would drop to 80 at Colum bus and 110 at the total of 190 students being less than the number at Browning last Board chairman George Eakin said yesterday an area review committee will be set up this fall to look at consolidating Charles 139 students and Buchanan 450 and he expects a similar committee will be set up to look at some Silver Heights area schools next enrolment levelled off enrolment has levelled off in the East end King Edward but an area review committee will probably be set up in a few years to look at that Eakin the review committee for Columbus and Browning schools included two parents from one from one no Parent adult from each school principals of both one teacher from each three school trustees and two division the two Columbus parents and the Columbus teacher wrote a dissenting saying both schools should operate until a study of the entire Westwood area says one should be Kummen said he want on the area review committee but had helped organize a steering committee at the school before the study the credibility of the area review process in our neighbourhood is Kummen he and Mike one of the Columbus parents on the area review said parents feel like Guinea pigs for the area review when the system should have been used on a much broader trustee George who voted against the gave notice tuesday that at a 1 he will introduce a motion to rescind the Fraser be reached for Kummen also said keeping both co Lumbus and Browning open would Cost taxpayers an extra or to a in a division with a 1981 budget of Eakin said Many division such As already have Trou ble paying their school but regardless of the the primary Issue is the Quality of and a Small school Means few options for he Eakin also said no Columbus student will have to walk More than about Kilometres to Browning and none will have to Cross a major three irishmen buy the Nia Kwa three Irish businessmen have bought the Nia Kwa trave Lodge Motel for More than Colm Madden of who has moved to Winnipeg to be general manager of the 20 Alpine said the new owners plan to upgrade the building and will keep on the Lookout for further investments in Madden said he and his two both from Northern had been looking at hotels in North America for some time with an Eye to buying although Madden said he has had hotel experience in Many parts of the the Nia Kwa is the Only one in which he has a financial he and his Colin Noble and Mima have had other hotel and restaurant interests in the he the bylaw enacting the plan received first Rudt by City Council under the City of Winnipeg the bylaw second and readings before becoming after the Public Council will whether or not to Amend the plan before giving it second and Ward said a Public awareness cant pain involving and a display rotating through regional shop Ping malls will precede the Public hearings held by the various Community plan Winnipeg was prepared in and Vance of the recently announced million Core area but the Fife be Petess Are Ward flan like the Core area stresses the need to Rev Tau lie older neighbourhood it the Eity and establish a Large reside in population in the downtown Aret another major policy ing to is suburban growth management and the establishment of an Urban limit to the policies Call for the Eity to approve Only new residential developments suburban which it feels can be economically Hie Urban limit also established in the drowned describes the physical limits outside which applies tons win not be approved for de Vetor metres requiring service by the sewer or water according to the plan also contains important new policies for the cites sewer and water in order of the plan Calls for the City to maintain the existing Quality of resolve existing difficulties in the system and finally to accommodate growth of the this represents a reversal of policy priorities a decade ago when the cites top priority in the area was to accommodate Ward said the reason for the reversal was the slow or moderate population growth rate the City and the province Are expected to show Over the next 20 drilling for Cool a Crew sets up a drilling Rig yesterday on landside Street South of Portage Avenue to search for water for the air conditioning system of the new Lions place senior citizens the test drilling will determine whether there is enough water in the area and if it is cold enough about Engineer Jim Whimster if test results Are he several Wells will be built to Supply the required litres per if the Complex will have to use More costly conventional air construction of the senior citizens Home will begin next seminar will give Public Chance to scrutinize progressives policy Manitoba fledgling progressive party will submit its party policy to Public analysis by labor and academic leaders from Mon Treal and Winnipeg at a seminar in party Leader Sidney Green has the to be held at the ramada inn on 12 and will Zero in on four major planks of the party plat form fiscal collective employment and Public Industrial it will be open to the Public with Advance registration through the party office or at a news conference Green also introduced three More candidates who will seek election for the formed in March by three dissident new the three new candidates boosting the party total to 22 Are d Merv former Winnipeg trib Une arts and graphics director and now a marketing consultant with Block Brothers realty who will run in Dalphonse a la Bro Querie Fanner and a former nip who will run in la d Adam a former Winnipeg City who will run in Unger said he was a former Liberal supporter and Fournier was an nip candidate in the last provincial elec Unger also noted there were some former conservative supporters within party asked How a party made up of such a Broad political spectrum could come up with definitive Green said that As an new Democrat he had to com Promise my opinions Between 1969 and 1979 far More than i do heading the seminar discussion in fiscal responsibility will be newspaper columnist Dian Cohen of whose column appears in the business pages of the free an economics professor at the University of Manitoba and a former Cabinet minister of the chinese along with Herb a special assistant to former nip Leader de Schreyer and now a Winni Peg lecturer and will be other fiscal the discussion on collective bargain ing will feature John head of the University of Toronto Industrial relations Ralph for Mer International representative for the teamsters and Terry Hercus of the department of business University of Manito Ruben Dean of studies at Johns and former Winnipeg chamber of Commerce president Norm Coghlan will take part in the panel on Green will Lead the session Deal ing with Public Industrial develop jew new fogging of nuisance mosquitoes set by Mary Ann Fitzgerald health minister Bud Sher Man said yesterday the numbers of encephalitis carrying mosquitoes Are declining another round of ground fogging began in Winnipeg last night to attack no viral mosquitoes which have hatched in Large numbers since recent heavy Sherman said the City had advised him ground fogging was to continue tonight on City Parks and Golf residential fogging in progressive stages will begin tomorrow Sher Man told a press the City is step because of the increase in the past few Days of so called nuisance mosquitoes non disease carrying Sher Man within hours after announcing the cites fogging Sherman was informed that a third Case of Equine encephalitis had been diagnosed in an adult male living in a Rural area near a spokesman for the government information services said the Man took ill m Early August and a positive diag Nosis has been the spokesman said the mans doctor Hast been Noti fied of the provincial lab Roy superintendent of the cites insect control said the ground fogging in residential areas will begin tomorrow night in fort Garry and Large the ground fogging program will continue next week in residential areas in the City in a counterclockwise said he said this latest round of Mosquito fogging had been made necessary by heavy Rains in the first week of August which have spawned Large numbers of Burkett said a Large emergence of insects was reported tuesday the City official said traps set showed an average of 40 mosquitoes each on wednesday night and an average of 126 each he said the Toler Ance level is judged to be 25 mosquitoes per the new Mosquito generation Hast time to become infected and to trans Mit encephalitis to Accord ing to health Burkett while the threat from the dangerous mosquitoes Sherman said it is a steadily lowering threat and he Hopes the health emergency called july 30 will be Over by some time next the provinces Bayogo spraying pro which has so far Cost Mil has resulted in an average kill of about 90 per but Sherman said Small numbers of infected mosquitoes survived and those in no sprayed areas Are still for this he precautions against being bit ten should still be As of the government haunt extended its spraying program to other but Warner minister responsible for the emergency measures said monitoring will continue and additional communities will be sprayed if sixteen communities had been sprayed by which be sprayed yesterday morning because of weather Condi was to be sprayed either last night or today if if it would be sprayed next Jorgenson noise at restaurant 1 picketed charged one of about a dozen shouting pick eters advocating the boycotting of a downtown Portage Avenue restaurant was charged last night with violating the cites anti noise bylaw and police threatened to charge the whole police charged Marnie of Winnipeg with the violation during a in Schour protest by supporters of the Industrial service technicians and Al lied workers Union after officers threatened the whole group with the same the pick eters stopped shouting the the Union has been urging the boy Cott of pantages 339 por and of victors Osborne Street at River both under the same the Union maintains former Vic tors waiter Jim Willows was fired in june because of his attempts to Orga Nize an Isth unit at the restaurant but management says he was dismissed because he refused to work the Day of his High school graduation his application for Job reinstatement was denied without comment this week by the Manitoba labor Board but Wil lows says he will Appeal the ruling to court of Queens Frain will appear in Winnipeg bylaw court 14 on the anti noise bylaw she said in an interview the picketing continued after she was charged until 7 when hordes of police she said a Man who identified him self As a sergeant told the group they would be charged with mischief if they continued Frain said she told him it was a Legal informational picket line and asked to see his super soon a Man identifying himself As the sergeants supervisor assured her he didst think there was much of a Case for a mischief charge if the group was she former mayoral candidate Ai Gold who owns the building that houses said he called police after tenants complained about the noise of the the Isth group will picket Vic tors this Frain charge Laid after fatal Accident a Winnipeg Man has been charged with impaired driving in connection with the cites 26th fatal fatality so far this police said that at about yesterday Thomas Archibald of 243 Battery was Riding his bicycle near his Home when he came into collision with a Van at the intersection of Battery Street and Burrows Choken was pronounced dead in Hospital a Short time the Driver of the Van was taken into he was charged yesterday morning with impaired driving and driving with a blood alcohol level in excess of the Legal the aged was granted bail and remanded without plea to next a Crown attorney told the court that More charges May be Laid against the Man before his next court appear the mishap was the 25th fatal Acci Dent recorded in one of the accidents took two during the same period last the City recorded 34 fatal accidents involving 35 a traffic department spokesman said car lessor Hopes Antiterrorist pupils fast learners by Kevin Prokosh the manager of a leasing firm Hopes manoeuvring a car travelling 100 through a tight 18wegree spin in order to elude kidnappers is a feat easily Tony Scotti will teach this Man As a bootleggers turn Many other fancy moves when he opens his Antiterrorist driving school later this month in while the driving can easily sail through his spins and Bill Norton Hopes scottish Stu dents get the hang of things in a scottish students will be using nor tons cars to race around the Gimli Norton is the manager of Holiday re Tacar and has leased scottish school a number of Buick Cen Norton said he is confident he wont get Back a Bunch of cars that look like they lost out in a demolition he had some second thoughts about his plan to lease the cars for scottish Antiterrorist i was Leary a bit at the begin he especially when he was told that in the United states the schools students face live ammunition to see How they react under i ill Stop explained some added insurance has been taken out on the cars and they have assured me there wont be any Bullet he Chris one of the people responsible for bringing the Scotti school to promised the students be taught any car ramming Gray said the students will learn the proper Way to take curves at High How to get Back on the payed Highway from a dirt Road or a ditch and How to get the most manoeuvrability out of a he said the cars wont hit speeds Over 100 because when Travell Ling faster than that the car is controlling you and not you control Ling the Gray believes the cars wont be handled any More roughly than nor ill bet you a car after weve used it will be in better condition than if a Bunch of the boys used one for a said a lot of peo ple who rent cars bring them Back in terrible lets face it if those cars come Back All within a few hours we wont be Able to get another car in this Norton said he expects the Emer gency brakes on his cars will be somewhat worn because of their use during no matter what Norton with the help of insurance Money Hes going to get the same car Back he leased out i might be sorry i did ;