Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba J j 5 ii pm co Winnipeg free september vandals suspected in fire vandals Are believed responsible for a fire last night spotted running from the the formerly which heavily damaged a vacant warehouse due for demolition Mccurdy Concrete and fuel is now owned by at 1063 Sargent firefighters said youngsters were United refrigerator parts the fire is under Trust company wins Battle Over Bill Stonewall couple must pay mortgage firms Legal Bill or lose their Home a Stonewall couple is making arrangements to pay a Legal Bill in order to head off foreclosure on their Home that was initiated after a Mort Gage company received their Cheque for payment of Vancouver based first City Trust incurred the Bill when it had Winni Peg lawyer Robert Doolan Start fore closure action on the Home of Robert and Pat the company insists that the seniors must pay the while the seniors feel it is they contend the mortgage company contributed to their arrears problem in the first place in any had received their Cheque before initiating Peter first cites mortgage collections said in a Tele phone interview from Vancouver that the company did not Cash the seniors the couples Douglas told the free press that first City was wrong in going ahead with the foreclosure after it had received payment for the Yard has advised these Nioras to pay the Legal fee because it would Cost them much More to fight it in court even if they for his admitted there have been communication but he said the seniors brought most of the problems on Pat senior said she and her husband had made the monthly payments since the mortgage was taken out in late but they missed last january payment because of Finan Cial she said Money was tight because she was leaving her Job to take a truck Drivers course so she and her husband could become a Long haul truck driving having missed the january the seniors submitted a february Che que for which the company used to cover the january this meant the couple was then in default for the month of the March payment was applied to the february but it was Short by because the couple misjudged the property tax portion of their Mort Gage at this first City considered the couple to be two full months in because was owed for March and because the payment applied to february was Short by Bergin said he could have initiated foreclosure at this he said Canada mortgage and housing which the requires that foreclosure begin after two months of by the seniors were behind on their mortgage payments by the company mailed a letter dated april 15 to the couple giving them 10 Days to bring the account up to Date or face senior said she didst receive the letter until May she mailed the company a Cheque covering the arrears plus one Cheque each for May and the company received the payments on May 20 and that same Day instructed Doolan to Start the Che ques were turned Over to the lawyer uncashed and returned to the the foreclosure started when the for Mal notice of Sale was drafted june 1 and served on the couple later that because the company refused to Cash the cheques covering the arrears and the May and june it took the View that the seniors were five months from february to the seniors received a letter dated june 9 demanding payment by Cash or certified they paid the out standing amount with new cheques and the mortgage was then in Good stand the sole remaining problem was the Legal fee owed Doolan told the free press he wont drop the foreclosure until Hes vacant houses headache for Lions Manor let Down by one demolition contract the officials of Lions Manor today Are shopping for another wrecker to Knock Down four vacant houses the Manor owns on landside the houses Between 320 and 328 bought for a new building to be constructed by Lions have become a headache for their owners and for neighbouring landside Resi Jake executive director of Lions said last Charity status Given moral campaigners opposed by women we have had no matter How tightly we Board them we have had Suderman a fire monday in the apartment Block at Furby Street and Portage also owned by Lions has increased the anxiety of landside Suderman a contractor hired by Lions Manor was to have demolished the buildings but the deadline has passed and the vacant buildings Ken free press by Penni Mitchell Renaissance International will have one distinct advantage Over other inter est groups lobbying candidates in the next provincial election its Charity according to a Revenue Canada charities an organization is disqualified from using its Charity num Ber when it becomes a lobby but Renaissance a self de scribed righting fundamentalist is going ahead with plans to publicize moral report cards on Candi dates in the next provincial at least one Manitoba organization which has been refused a Charity num Ber believes Renaissance has an unfair advantage in wooing Money from sup porters because of its Tanya a representative of the Manitoba action committee on the Sta Tus of claims Revenue Canada is biased when it decides who qualifies for the the action committee has applied for a Charity number on several Occa but has been Lester because part of the groups Pur pose is to change Renaissance enjoys a Charity status which awards tax Breaks to businessmen who support the groups ultraconservative there were Les Ter the action committee provides an alternative to the philosophies of re according to but Renaissance charitable status has brought them wealth and society is the real because they Arent getting both sides of the Louis a charities examiner with Revenue Canadas Charity and nonprofit organizations said a lobby group cannot get Charita ble status because the tax department cannot be sure the statutory changes it proposes would Benefit the groups activities have to be for Public huot but the line Between benefits to one group and to society a Large is a Fine he Renaissance Manitoba does not have a Charity number of its but its Renaissance the group is currently embroiled in a court Battle with Revenue which maintains the organization no longer qualifies for charitable tax Sta Ken founder and president of maintains that Renais Sance Manitoba is an educational group and lobbying politicians is one of its Renaissance on the other is a religious Charity and service Agency to the pro Freedom movement in Canada and else he but opponents of Renaissance Mani Toba say the various Renaissance groups Are one and the except for tax hotels asked to help in fight against we had a building committee meet ing tonight and tomorrow we will be looking for a wrecking Suder Man the houses and apartment building were bought Between december and May of this year and were vacated by the end of tenders Are to be called shortly for the new 288suite Structure which Lions Manor is building on the landside Suderman prostitutes could become a bigger headache for Winnipeg hotels if plans to Force them off the streets go the head of the cites vice squad said Clark Peckover told Mani Toba hotel association delegates the police department has urged City coun cil to pass a bylaw similar to one in Calgary which would get hookers off Winnipeg he said prostitutes have moved Here from other cities with Tough Laws and wed like to Send them Back where they came but Peckover conceded that this will inevitably drive them into not ing that three juvenile girls were charged last week with soliciting in a Winnipeg Peckover asked hotel owners to co operate with police in dealing with the problem particularly the distribution of cards by representatives of escort services which he said Are often fronts for Herb general manager of the Northstar said he and other major Winnipeg hotel owners have been trying for about two years to Stop escort service employees from slipping cards under hotel room Lagrange said guests often blame management for the problem and have said they wont stay at the hotel the Northstar has hired two Security but Lagrange said they cant thoroughly police a 30storey hotel the he said boys As Young As have been he said most Are aged Between 25 arid f Peckover said police have beet ing charges against the card dist risk but Are not proceeding with Theta until the supreme court of Canada rules on whether it will hear an Appeal against a recent Manitoba court Appeal decision upholding Handbill and poster the vice squad head said 1981 tics on prostitution charges Haven been Hes certain that its increasing in the dont want stigma Alex hotel association said while some people be Lieve hotel owners receive a Kickback from were not Type of a i dont want that neither would any other hotel Morley a Neepawa hotel representative who chaired a discus Sion on Rural owners said prostitution int a problem for hotels ii Small Manitoba the Rural session dealt mainly with liquor Malkoske said least 75 per cent of the average Rural hotels Revenue comes from compared with about 25 per cent for a major Urban fir safety training planned for hotel staff by Sheila bean a fir safety training program for hotel personnel is in its final planning assistant provincial fire com missioner Herman Thiessen told Mani Toba hoteliers Thiessen told delegates to the Mani Toba hotel associations annual convention that hotel staff and firefighters need to become More familiar with each firefighters would be More efficient if they Felt familiar with hotel premises and guests would feel More confident if hotel employees showed concern and knowledge about fire regu he Bill Brandon fire College outlined to the Mha Mem Bers Steps they could take to prevent fire he said fire prevention is Worth the expense because the Chance of a Busi Ness reestablishing itself after a major fire is Only Between five and 20 per he added that even a supposedly fire resistant hotel is theres no such thing As a building that said even if its made of steel and the things that Are added to that Frame still he urged the hoteliers to install fire proof carpeting and reminding them that 44 people died in a years Day fire in in 1980 after a lighter was held up to flammable probably the biggest starter of fires is careless Hewitt adding that people cannot be prevented from smoking everywhere you must provide a where smoking is permitted or smote somewhere Dale a visitor from Minn esp told delegates that fire inspectors never confirmed the cause of the Blaze that destroyed his but i have 100percent knowledge that the cause was a burning it was Over a Halbmillion Dollar fire and we lost an Turner said he has opened a new Motel since the fire and installed extra safety including direct alarm lines to the fire department from heat detectors and whatever it it was Well Worth he Caron House opponents unite historical society Verna Van with Rene feels Caron House is an important piece of Winnipeg by Cecil Rosner a group of Charleswood residents angry Over plans to preserve Caron House decided yesterday to hire a lawyer and seek an injunction to Stop the about 75 residents of River West Park attended a meeting yesterday organized by Max Leader of a group which opposes restoration of the 76yearold Brick Structure South of the Assiniboine River in Many in attendance referred to the building As a an eyesore and something which detracts from property values in the situated within a 20acre City Caron House is one of the last remaining traditional farm houses on the the Charleswood historical society has received permission from City Council to restore the with Federal and provincial funding it plans to rent the renovated House to a suit Able tenant and open it to the Public one Day each the City bureaucrats would like us to forget about this and go Zoldack but this is one Case where the Middle class will not give up and go Zoldack said there have been three petitions from area residents protesting expenditure of funds on the he said they object to a provision which gives the historical society the House for a year for 15 years and exempts it from school and property were told it would take to tear it Zoldack i think maybe we could have a Bee and do it a lot one who said so estate claimed the driving prospective Home Cuye the another Man who in the area for seven years Are wasting our time trying to a raffia this a group of people at tier meeting agreed to contribute Money lawyer and try to Stop the tet Gnal society from Verna Van Roon spokesman for tiie historical said yesterday renovations to the building Are quarters she said a tenant has been found who the Home once it is approved by City Van Roon said she could Qew under stand Why there was still so much fuss about the because been ample Opportunity to the last time it was the project was 25tol v Jim an opponent of Caron House told the rest merits they could still try to pressure City Council to reverse its he saw the original decision to approve to Ftp restoration came after a successful lobbying Effort by the historical Zoldack also urged people at fee meeting to lobby the the pre their member of parliament employment minister Lloyd Axworthy to Stop the ;