Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1981 3 Bidon Commonwealth games Winnipeg May bid on the 1990 Commonwealth games and try a new concept called the heritage games in the Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie announced Norrie said he has appointed Jim executive director of the 1967 Panama games held in to head a six member committee to study the feasibility of the it is to report in six the heritage or founding nations games would be held during a 15day Likely july 115 in 1985 or we might think of it As an athletic said director of private fund raising at the University of said he suggested the concept to the mayor about a year the mayor added that several sports groups also have Jim free press approached him with the about a month Daly discussed the proposal with Abigail director of sport and Confer red with officials of the Canadian Commonwealth games association in Mon he said he plans to discuss it again with Hoffman and with Canadian officials of various International sports bodies when he goes to Ottawa in a couple of weeks on University Busi Hoffman interested hoffmans initial reaction was one of but caution of be cause she cant speak for the Federal Daly he said the Commonwealth games officials were very but informed him that Kenya was interested in a 1990 Commonwealth games because Many of the 50 participating Commonwealth games nations Are third world we suspect they might beat us out in the struggle for Daly has the 1982 games and has them for the 1990 and 1994 events still Are but the 1990 location will be decided in so Winnipeg should Start preparing its bid Daly he recalled that the City began in 1958 to prepare for the 1967 Panama games in addition to the feasibility study committee includes Dave dry who ran for Canada in the 1959 Panama games and was in charge of the running events in 1967 who was in charge of rowing and waterspout in 1967 lawyer whose firm did All the con tract work for the 1967 games and Pixie president of the Mani Toba sports Daly said he Hopes to include Bill Neville and Manitoba fitness and Amateur sport minister Larry Desjardins on the committee and have technical expertise supplied by the City and the committee will review the state of Winnipeg athletic facilities built for the 67 games to see if they can be reused for the heritage games and the Commonwealth games where Possi both games would involve participation by thousands of just As volunteers helped stage the 67 pail am the heritage games would be a kind of local Warmup for the wealth Daly providing experience and training for the organizers and participating athletes would be from All the ethnic groups in Canada and in team sports 20 per cent of the Canadian entry would have to be existing facilities the heritage games would use win Nipges existing athletic facilities and the Type of sports selected would be those offering a Good Gate return from paying to Aid in Norrie said the heritage games events May be self sustaining or even make Money for the sponsoring organi to help draw organizers would have the option of naming taken to the cleaners passengers aboard this City bus were taken to the cleaners yesterday when the bus Driver swerved to avoid another there were no reported it crashed into a laundromat on Salter Street at Selkirk police said damage to the bus and laundromat was police 10 More nested for the hiring of 10 additional officers for the Winnipeg police departments crime prevention unit was approved yesterday by civic finance if Council approves the addition to it will add an estimated 840 a year to the police committee stipulated the depart ment will have to report Back in 90 on its plan to implement a crime prevention program and that the City Hall cites official delegation push its use in schools with the provincial police chief Ken Johnston said the 10 new to be added to the 10 bombers win committee tilt on stadium room by Ron Campbell the Winnipeg football clubs pro posed Blue and Gold room at the South end of the Winnipeg stadium property came a step closer to reality yester civic finance committee endorsed the clubs request that the the City lease it the required land for a year for 10 terms of the lease would be negotiated Between the football club and Winnipeg enterprises which manages the Winnipeg Arena and velodrome for the the corporation has expressed serious reservations about the football clubs pro matter considered civic executive policy committee and City Council will consider the mat Ter because the club wants to get the building up for the first Blue bomber football game in the clubs partner and financier in the venture is the red River exhibition which would use it As part of its annual we Klong summer fair in the Blue bombers want to sell 100 tables at a table in the Square foot where patrons could have meals and drinks before and after the 11 Blue bomber Home games and look out on the Field through a Glass North but Deputy mayor Jim a Winnipeg enterprises corporation Mem told finance committee there is concern that the Blue and Gold room would be used during wrestling and Rock music shows at the the corporation believes Sale of Beer and other food in the proposed building would compete with similar Concession sales in the which which account for two thirds of Arena bombers president Joe Wilder told the committee the football club wants to have the room open Only when there Are events in the in order to derive additional but he didst think there would be much Competition with Arena Beer and food because the proposed build ing would House about 600 people while the Arena seats i dont see there is much of a he finance committee made terms of the lease subject to conditions set out by the enterprises the corporation said in a 26 Resolution among other Condi dates on which the building would be open would be subject to corporation it also said that at the end of the lease on ownership of the building and lands would revert to the already in the be part of later police manpower requests he May make after negotiations Are completed with the police More people Are needed for the crime prevention unit because crime is in creasing frankly were losing Johnston it has become necessary to address crime before it happens rather than after the he and Winnipeg is sadly lacking in crime Deputy chief de who with other department staff officers assisted in the presentation to finance said there had been 135 break ins in the City since 8 last Friday and a lot of these could have been not Only property but crimes against persons have increased this year Over he to there were 19 slayings in the compared with 10 in the same 10month period last As there were 44 attempted murders com pared with 40 last year and 63 rapes compared with although attempted rapes were there were also 268 muggings to 31 compared to 257 in the first 10 months of last purse snatching were up to 164 from and 207 convenience store holdups compared to he said Winnipeg has had 44 robberies of Banks or other financial institutions this an Al time rec response times to crime reports Are delayed at times because the depart ment Doest have the resources to Cope with All the Johnston longer parking urged the on hour limit for free saturday parking at downtown meters should be extended to two civic finance committee recommended the cites saturday free parking sex designed to attract More people to downtown began 21 and runs to red stickers warning that a on hour time limit still applies have been attached to the 408 downtown meters in the test which runs from main Street on the East to Colony Street on the West and from Ellice Avenue on the North to Mary Avenue on the works and operations committee chairman John Angus said there were 54 time violation tags handed out 21 and 57 a 13 per cent violation John a director of the downtown Winnipeg association and chairman of its streets and traffic com asked committee yesterday for a saying one hour is not enough time to do he also conveyed the business associations request that the test area extend further South to include Broad he said that As of last the Mary Avenue meters did not even have the red free parking stickers on them and parkers were being ticket Revenue losses to the City from the Experiment have been estimated be tween and for each Satur Day and City Council made any Exten Sion of the Experiment conditional on financial participation by tax break considered Racquet clubs in Winnipeg will be exempted from the cites amusement tax if City Council passes bylaw amendments approved yesterday by civic finance the clubs in the past have lobbied hard for exemption from the which comes to 10 per cent of any admission Price of More than to avoid the they have broken Down playing times into units for which is because of the City collected no amusement tax reve nue from the clubs last compared with in we forced them into end running the said finance member Larry shortly before the committee endorsed the businesses charging More than admission for roller ice dancing or skateboarding will continue to be subject to the admission fees to nonprofit athletic clubs or to staged by nonprofit including political Par will be exempt from the finance committee chairman Abe Yanofsky said he had reservations about exempting Racquet but Council can still change the City took in in amuse ment tax in 1980 and to this licence fees May Rise a four percent increase in monthly licence fees charged to Mobil Home owners in lieu of property taxes was recommended yesterday by civic finance the fee for a Mobile Home measuring 400 Square feet or less by exterior dimensions would be compared to the present for larger the same rate would be charged for the first 400 Square then for each additional 100 Square feet or part com pared with the current if City Council the new recommended rates would take effect an administration report calculated the City would derive an added in Revenue in 1982 from the licence fee increase compared to under this years there Are 579 Mobile Homes located in four Mobil Home Parks in the world class sports stars to part of National teams fielded in the heritage Daly a title the feasibility committee looks at financing and does a facilities inventory during the next six Daly said he Hopes the mayor will be discus sing the concept with the provincial he said no budget has been estimate but there were financial problems with the 67 Panama Norrie said Winnipeg previously had no suit Able facilities for those games and had to build we Are certainly going to have to have a major stadium for the Commonwealth Daly he said this May involve enlarging either the Panama stadium at the University of Manitoba or Winnipeg adult crossing guards favored Winnipeg school division trustees voted yesterday to hire adult crossing guards for 21 schools next the Board rejected an administration recommendation that guards be hired at Only 11 schools for an estimated they voted to put an appropriate amount in the 1982 budget to pay for guards at these and 10 additional trustee Margaret Trott said the adult guards will not replace student crossing patrols now working at the Busy she said in an interview the guards will provide extra especially when Large numbers of students Are crossing Trott said some of the intersections have traffic but adult guards Are needed As City funds sought trustees also voted to ask Winnipeg police to help train the personnel and to ask Winnipeg City Council to help fund the the 11 schools recommended by the administration included John John King lord Shaugh Nessy Park and the 10 that trustees voted to add to the list Are fort lord nor River sir John Franklin and Tyndall trustees voted in september to have the administration consider the possibility of having a teacher aide accompany each Busload of schoolchild the administration reported yester Day that having an aide on every route would Cost about a year if they were paid an it recommended that contractors tendering for transportation in 1982 include such with the understanding the con tractor pay to train and super Vise them and also recommended that in the meantime the Board authorize the superintendent to negotiate with contractors to add safety assistants to help handicapped trustees voted to approve the recon with the addition that other students deemed to have need for safety assistants receive them begin Ning next in other trustees voted 4 to 3 against a proposal that the Manitoba association of student councils be Given to help pay the Cost of printing the associations defer decision trustees Luba Mary Kar Andy Robertson and Mira Spivak voted to defer decision until the matter is considered at the 12 education and student services committee meet Fedorkiw and Kardash said they fear parents May object to the fact the handbook contains information about such controversial subjects As birth control and trustees Brian Dixon and Iso Bel Sudol voted to pay the both Trott and Sudol said the fact the Board voted last july to pay the once trustees had reviewed the obligated them to pay the Money once they reviewed noteworthy Bank robber sought Winnipeg police Are looking for a Long winded robber who remembers to say please and writes Holdup notes that resemble Short the culprit in question is wanted for robbing the Toronto Dominion Bank at notre Dame Avenue and Sherbrook Street shortly before noon according to the Crook set himself apart from the average Holdup Man in the Type of note he handed a startled this is a his note hand Over All your but instead of leaving it at he expounded a please act Calm and i have a gun and will use act like this is a regular two thousand dollars will be the no alarms or i will after Reading the the Teller handed over1 a sum of police they say How much he but did say the Teller shortchanged him a after receiving the the Man ran out of the Bank and the Man was described As about 30 years five feet six inches with dirt blonde acne and buggy the police have no suspects in the but in View of the Holdup if they catch the culprit they May think twice before they ask him if he wants to make a ;