Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd g Winnipeg free november 1981 Gerv free press Jill financial difficulties May Force the Owca to sell its building on Webb place next by Manfred Jager financial problems May Force the Young women Christian association to sell its building on Webb place next year and move to smaller president Margaret parsonage said parsonage said that within the next Fourt six months the Yucas Board of directors will have to consider the option of Selling the building in she said spiralling costs of operating the organizations women residence have already forced cutbacks in other if we went to the sell the reason would be that running the building has constricted our other operations in recent the Owca president but at the same time we dont want to leave any doubt about the fact that the Owca is in Winnipeg to we Are Here to serve the Community not Cut Back on we have had to Cut Back on services for women in recent we want More social More More crisis inter More widows the Webb place building was opened in on the site of the is former demolished in mortgage parsonage said the with rooms for 144 residents up from 110 Beds in the old building Cost close to million and still has a mortgage of at six percent the province pays half the mortgage and in Grants per year if we run a which we have Over seven or eight she still and we might decide to rent the place or sell it and rent portions of it Back for our service pro it will be up in the air for a Little while were in the process now of studying the whole situation and a report will go to the Board and to the according to Vera the organizations National there Are 57 Yew associations in of which 33 operate we look after working single battered rape unskilled and retarded recovering drug abusers and alcohol teens in trouble and some senior to name just a Debues parsonage said Winnipeg women who helped raise Money to build the Webb place facility need not worry that the Owca is packing it in As far As Winnipeg is its just the were planning to become More Active in the occupancy of what parsonage Calls May have to sell official says our modified hotel operation has continued at reasonable Levels since the building opened 12 years operating Revenue has consistently been outstripped by overhead sex we now require the girls who take residence with us to look after their own rooms and we were Able to eliminate two full time salaries and save some Money that when youre faced with an annual tax Bill of your Sav Ings have to be a Little More substantial to make a operating the Resi Dence alone Cost the Owca last year and ended up in the parsonage this in things Are a Little better and Well probably be Able to Cut the annual deficit in if things stay the wed be breaking even in the 1982 operating parsonage said reducing the residence deficit would still Cut into the Yucas annual operating budget of million which the Board wants to use for service oriented that Why we must consider let Ting the building she 37 rent increase Cut to owner considers closing by Maureen Brosnahan a five lock apartment Complex in Brandon housing 181 tenants of them elderly May be closed if a provincial rent Rollback order is simple its manager said Norman Mennie said the owner of Richmond Oaks Monte Natheson of is seeking Legal advice on a rent arbitration Board ruling which reduced a 37percent rent hike to five per cent just four Days before the 17 provincial the which saw rent in creases of a month Cut to or was announced by conservative Leader Sterling Lyon at a rally in Brandon three Days before the elec the rent increases would have taken effect in asked what would happen to ten ants in 10yearold Complex if it is Mennie said i dont it will be Gary Manitoba director of said the decision cant be directly but he added that owners can take Legal action to ques Tion the boards jurisdiction or its method of handling the any decision handed Down by an arbitration Board is binding and not subject to Appeal in any Julius he said if Natheson does Challenge the boards proceedings in there is a possibility the mat Ter could go before another arbitration Mennie said the hefty rent hike be came necessary after a 13percent mortgage on the about per was renewed in Mennie said the new oneyear Mort Gage was negotiated with Canada per manent mortgage at per he cant Mennie said of Hes losing a last month during the election Cam a group of elderly residents from the Complex met with nip Leader Howard Pawley to protest the rent rent controls Pawley promised to reintroduce rent controls which would Aid tenants but allow respite for owners faced with High mortgage interest Mennie charged that Lyons pre election Rollback was politically Moti he said the arbitration hearing was held on a monday night and the decision was announced a Day before a conservative rally in the we would like to know if the new government will do he How can they expect an owner to operate an apartment suite with a a month loss Mennie said the Complex was operating at a slight loss before september and has lost since he estimates it will lose about a month with heating costs this Winter if the ruling there int going to be the Money out of it to pay the Utility he also said property taxes on the Complex have jumped in the past year and a proposal to increase water rates by 45 per cent is before Brandon City Council City Calendar building the new Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie will speak on building the new Winnipeg revitalization of the cites Core at a breakfast and dialogue to begin at 10 sunday in Shearey Zedek reservations Are not Atlantic Garden City United Church will celebrate 60 years As a worshipping Community on sunday on that Date in a group of dedicated pioneers held their first worship service in Atlantic United Mission on the same former members and friends Are weather Conda forc Catl h High l Low invited to attend the a service will be held at 11 followed by a reception and reunion at 2 at the 721 Atlantic Charleswood Cross country ski club will hold an open House and registration Day from 2 to 5 sunday at Pembina Trail recreation 820 Charleswood the club offers ski lessons and a program of group ski activities in and around the the University of Manitoba faculty of science will present Hanuka Christmas science magic show from to and 3 to 4 sunday in the University armes lecture theatre room fort Garry childrens 157 Rupert will hold its 12th annual pottery show and Sale from 10 to 4 saturday and the House is a nondenominational Montessori Nursery school for children from different social and economic Back proceeds will help fund the Nickel workers meeting a Canadian Nickel workers conference will be held in Thompson Friday to discuss support for the strike of Inco metals co now in its 10th delegates Are to arrive from United steel workers of America local 6500 in local 6220 in port local 8126 in Shebandowan and local 6166 in attending will be Dave director of steelworkers District six in Ontario Len director of District three in Western Canada Gib also of District six Eugene Manitoba area supervisor and Al the Thompson staff month end Sale Winnipeg area forecast Clearing tomorrow occasional Light Snow flurries today and High today near Low tonight near High tomorrow near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba Snow flurries mainly sunny saturday and temperatures near Normal rising to a few degrees above Normal readings of 6 and 16 Northern Manitoba Cloudy All three Days with Snow flurries Friday and temperatures a Little above Normal readings of 10 and Northwestern Ontario Snow Clearing saturday and mainly sunny temperatures near Normal to a Little above Normal readings of 5 and temperatures Canada and the world Cash Back plan on All 1981 1982 am jeep vehicles 1982 spirit 7399 less Cash Back now pay Only 6899 1982 Concord 4 8499 less Cash Back now pay Only 7999 1981 Eagle sx4 8399 less Cash Back now pay 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