Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1982 Winnipeg woman lends an and Only an to lonely callers by Larry Hill a Winnipeg woman who describes herself As a professional listener has fielded a flood of phone Calls since she advertised her ser vice last there have been some people who think this is said who asks to be known by her first name this is not what in i set the record straight at the its strictly if they have a i will listen to them Over the the which also ran in mondays free said do you have some one who can sit and listen to your problems in person or by phone if Call Liz for an appointment at fee per in an interview said she has had a few strange phone Calls and has since chosen to drop the facet face now its strictly Telephone about 10 of 55 callers to Date have been she i guess they figured they were Burt Reynolds or something and that i possibly resist meeting said who tells callers she is happily but Liz said most of her whom she asks to Send fees Throat go the Are lonely people with no one to talk senior citizens account for Many of the genuine she one lady asked me to phone her up on Wayne Slowack Winnipeg free press Christmas said noting that she agreed to the one gentleman had been a to but he got married and figured everything would be Fine which is really the wrong thing to said a Mother of three children and a former he was a homosexual and he knew he now he is in the Middle of a divorce with his Liz said the Man talked to her for 30 minutes on sunday afternoon because he needed somebody to listen to i normally take the phone off the Hook at about 11 at said adding she puts it Back into service at nine the next it Doest seem like work to Home permit upsurge tied to assistance instant Park City workmen insert Trees into the Frozen ground at the site of Winnipeg Cor Earea Park at Portage Avenue and Carlton about 200 instant Trees will be installed As Well As an illuminated ice skating rink and Toboggan revised expropriation offer upheld province legally entitled to reduce offer to Core judge rules by Paula Martin the provincial government was legally entitled to shave from its offer to Core industries for a strip of land expropriated for the air Canada computer a court of Queens Bench judge ruled Justice Louis Denise said in a written decision that although the prov Ince originally made an offer of 000 As compensation to the Compa which lists businessman Al Golden As an an amended offer of could stand until a Bompensa Winnipeg school Board to spend on arts tickets for students by Glen Mackenzie Winnipeg school division will spend on Grants to arts groups next the biggest Benefactor is the Winni Peg Art which will receive others include the Manitoba museum of Man and nature Winni Peg symphony orchestra Royal Winnipeg Ballet Mani Toba theatre Centre Prairie theatre Exchange contemporary dancers actors show Case Manitoba opera association and the French language cultural program the administration also called for to be spent on other which superintendent Jack Smyth said could include events such As the Festi Val do but trustees approved an Amend ment from trustee Mary Kardash that this amount be raised to which Means the 1983 arts expenditure will be the same As this much of the Money is spent buying tickets for students to attend perform trustees also voted to spend from the childrens heritage fund in eight division schools on such activities As an Artistine Heschol program at principal Sparling school and a school store at Gordon Bell High the Board also received an administration report showing that night school attendance this year is nine per cent higher than in Smyth said this is reassuring be cause fees had been raised by 30 per to an hour for academic courses and to an hour for language and Hobby to better reflect program trustees also received a letter from who had written the Board asking that More emphasis be put on teaching the menstrual Cycle in biology but Smyth said it would be better to teach it in family life which has far More students than the biology Bill elementary programs said the division family life which is optional and varies in Content from school to school depending on parents includes human relationships and other aspects of family life besides in other trustees voted to offer a religious instruction program during lunch hour at Norquay trustees earlier voted to offer the but not during school so parents proposed it be held during lunch trustee Andy Robertson voted against saying it would not give students enough time to eat lunch ministers defend Cut in festival Grant provincial government decisions that have been blamed for the financial distress of the festival do Voyageur were made As a matter of nip Cabinet ministers said both economic development minis Ter Muriel Smith and lotteries minis Ter Larry Desjardins defended their decisions to Las festival organizers have blamed a in the provincial governments Grant for a budget Short it was Only after extensive renovations to a tache Avenue warehouse that organizers Learned the building would not be suitable for a govern men licensed Smith said the Grant was reduced from to because government representatives found some requests for Money Desjardins said he told the Winter festival organizers they could not expect to get an automatic Casino licence every Desjardins said he did not want to make any permanent decisions about Casino operations until he had received a report from judge Gerald who is conducting an investigation into Tion figure is determined under the expropriation judge Denise said the offer of for the located at the Northeast Corner of Portage Avenue and Carlton was refused by the company under a subsection of the but he noted the offer was accepted under another subsection which provided for immediate the acceptance of the second part is not an acceptance of the offer As a whole and therefore the offer was never it could be amended or changed by the he and ordered the sum to the province served notice of expropriation 9 along with the offer of compensation in the amount of that Core industries replied the offer was unacceptable and refused but requested payment of the sum be forwarded to it under a Section of the expropriation subject to the final determination of compensation to be paid by the offer withdrawn industries was advised the Money was being processed and a compensation hearing was scheduled for 15 at 2 ten minutes before the hearing the company was notified the offer was withdrawn and an amended offer of was to be Colin lawyer for Core industries said yesterday his clients position is that once a contract is it must be adhered he said the court argument dealt with a narrow technical Issue that revolved around the Powers of the province to Amend an a notice of Appeal will Likely be filed against the judges Macarthur hearings now Are with the provincial land value appraisal com by Paul Moloney government subsidy programs have been credited with causing a sixfold increase last month in the number of permits issued to build single family Homes in according to figures released by the 193 permits were issued last month compared with Only 32 in no Bruce Maybank of the Manitoba Home builders association said most of the turnaround is due to the Provin Cial government program which gives Home buyers a mortgage interest rate for five i would estimate that 85 to 90 per cent of that is attributable to the Homes in Manitoba May Bank the secondary impetus is the Federal he that the no vember figures were swelled by per mits which could have been taken out earlier if there had been less delay in implementing the mortgage subsidy announced a lot of sales from that earlier period Are being pushed into november and he youre now seeing the first wave of Success under the in 127 single family Home permits were also about six times More than the 21 in september saw 89 up from 44 a year while the increase in the last three months is impressive compared with last record High mortgage rates had virtually crippled Home building activity in the corresponding 1981 Peri your single family Market was dead Zero at this time last said Larry Loreth of the cites Environ mental planning and despite the recent the year to Date has seen Only 922 House building Down sharply from the recorded in the first 11 months of builders posted a comparatively Good year in 1981 because a surge of activity in the first half offset the second half were not going to touch those Fig ures this Maybank even at my Best our 1982 activity level will be Well below permits for construction of apart ment Are running Well ahead of last at 662 units to the end of november compared with 222 Over the first 11 months of demolition permits up apartment demolition permits Are also covering 221 units so far this year As opposed to 114 last building permits were issued to the end of ranging from Industrial and commercial build Ings to garages and this is Down 19 per cent from the permits in the 1981 the total construction Cost of the buildings approved to Date is estimated at a drop of 27 per cent from the million logged in the same period of society apologizes for abortion cartoon the president of the society Franco Manito Baine apologized yesterday for a cartoon which appeared in Manito Bas Only French language newspaper depicting Henry Morgentaler per forming abortions in front of a nazi death the cartoon was in very poor taste and i wish to apologize on behalf of the francophone Community to those peo ple who Felt that they were the target of the Leo Robert said in a publication of the cartoon in the 25 edition of la which is owned by the sparked a Contro Versy and Drew the ire of jewish Community leaders who feared it could cause an Antisemitic the society wishes to dissociate itself from any racial prejudice which might have been implied by the car Toon and Hopes that Manitoban will not judge the French Community solely on this unfortunate the state ment who is a survivor of the has vowed to risk prosecution and open a Winnipeg abortion clinic in the face of vocal opposition from antiabortion la liberte was founded by the of late fathers in 1913 and is the sole major French newspaper in the prov with a circulation of about women vow to help abortionist in fight a women abortion advocacy group says it plans to launch a drive to raise funds to cover Legal costs expected to be incurred by Henry Morgentaler in his attempt to establish Manitoba first abortion clinic in Ellen president of the Cana Dian abortion rights action leagues Winnipeg announced her organizations intention to form a defence committee for Morgentaler at a pro abortion rally last we know complaints will be Laid and charges will be acted Kruger told the rally of about 100 a Montreal doctor who has been tried and acquitted three times for performing illegal has vowed to risk prosecution to set up clinics in Winnipeg and attorney general Roland Penner has received hundreds of letters opposing the proposed Section 251 of the criminal code says abortions can be performed Only in an accredited Hospital with the consent a therapeutic abortion Kruger said her group is dedicated to having the Section repealed to ensure women can make decisions about childbearing for last nights meeting also Laid the groundwork for a coalition of women groups throughout Manitoba to lobby the province to support a City clinic and women right to decide whether to have an Seine River Board retires a trustee by Patrick Mckinley a former trustee whose appoint ment to an administrative Post was overturned in court has been re hired by the Seine River school Board to fill the same Job on an interim in an interview teach ers spokesman Ronald Ledoyen denounced the boards decision to rehire Maurice saying the decision monday was an insult to the judicial teachers and Par ruled invalid Justice Louis of court of Queens ruled in August that the boards original decision in june to hire Sala for the position was invalid because Sala was still a member of the Board when he applied for the Provin Cial legislation prohibits any school trustee from benefiting from a con tract with the Board to which he judge Denise said Sala could have avoided placing himself in a conflict interest position if he had resigned from the Board when he submitted his application for the assistant superintendents who has no previous administrative experience and was denied tenure As a teacher in the division before his election As a resigned from the Board after being hired for the administrative Post in his appointment was protested at a june meeting of the school Board attended by about in an interview be Doyen said the boards decision to rehire Sala on an interim basis will give Sala an unfair advantage when it comes time to fill the Post per Ledoyen said the Seine River teachers of which be Doyen is will discuss what to do about the boards Deci Sion tomorrow Ledoyen said the Board May not technically be in contempt of i dont think were going to accept this lying Denise ruled on hiring i think it the Board decision is a grossly indecent act to me its a fishy he Board chairman Roland Lavallee denied the temporary rehiring of Sala for the Job was intended to circumvent the court if we had intended to do that we would just have Given him the not opened it up to consultants hired Lavallee said the Board intends to hire a consulting firm to look for a permanent assistant superintendent and hopefully the position will be filled by the end of Lavallee agreed there is nothing to prevent the Board from ending up placing Sala in the position Perman he will have to satisfy the consulting firm that he can do the Lavallee said the Board needed someone on an interim basis to help prepare its Sala was Avail Able and he is capable of doing the he i i ;