Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba A View of North Portage Avenue from Colony Street under the proposed Omni plex downtown Arena proposal leaves councillors lukewarm continued from Page 1 second look and last week heard a revised Winnipeg developers plan for More downtown hous they heard the new Case for the Arena As Well As the task forces Portage place concept which Calls for moving the Portage Avenue roadbed and building a Glass enclosed pedestrian mall on the South Side of the main the new Jet Fairweather group it is prepared to put up million for the redevelopment of Down but Only As Long As it includes an greatest life Hast said it wont invest Money downtown if an Arena int councillors councillors polled after the meeting were generally Cool to the idea of a new but the plan received support from senator Nathan president of the red River exhibition who said the group would be ready to take Over the existing Winnipeg Arena As a permanent Home for the Manitoba Amateur sports the developers say Only a new Arena will draw suburban Winni Eggers but it also wants to see Square metres Square feet of new retail space on the North Side of Portage Between Colony and Carlton the group is calling for minimum of million of Public m6ney matched with million in private the Omni plex plan retains the exist ing Portage Avenue roadbed unlike the task Force it Calls for a three level atrium shopping mall on the North Side of Portage Avenue with a Winter Conser Hyat Regency a new Union Centre and office Market housing behind the massive Complex would be 650 units of senior citizens housing and units of Market skywalk would connect the Bay and the Arena would be located on the Southwest Corner of Ellice Aventine and Edmonton Norrie said he favored the idea of a Large retail component in the Onmi plex one can be critical of the task Force report which Only provides for Square feet Square metres of retail he the other thing i found interesting today was the Extension of Central Park Green space to Portage this shows us where the downtown Centre is really Norrie but Norrie doubted the Arena idea itself would the Omni plex is probably not acceptable to most of the they necessarily agree on Square feet of retail space he Helen Promislow Donan Park said there Are too Many problems with an Jae Eadie whose Ward Borders the existing did not Back the plan unless i can see compelling reasons to the con i cant go for i dont think the people support it Eadie Harvey Park said the Only two plans which interested him were the task Force Portage place idea and last weeks Winnipeg developers consortium plan for More downtown the North of Portage task Force plan is the most creative and most imaginative of the Smith councillors said they would be Bas ing their decisions on the ratio of pub list private sector funding required for each As Well As provisions for housing and retail politically sensitive like moving the Portage Avenue roadbed1 or building a second Arena in times of also Are Likely to be factors anly two months before the nex Telec some councillors garage builder poorer continued from Page 1 old garage and built the new on monday months about 500 poorer and with the building 75per cent Wood got the cites answer letter from land surveys said it would not be in the cites Best inter est to Grant him a it did not he said he expected to be Able to Cross the property with no strings Wood said he fears he will be forced to plough the Snow and will not be Able to get out of the agree ment if he As he is angry at having to pay when five neighbors also use the a who asked not to be confirmed that at least five houses use the we dont Fly Over unless Wood agrees to the 13 Condi his building permit is invalid and his garage Al assistant head of City confirmed he said Wood ignored warnings last fall that he might not like the conditions imposed by the others who use the Lane will have to strike similar agreements with the City for their own Franklin because they Are currently Vio lating the bylaw which says no one can have a garage without adequate Access via a Legal Lane or asked Why residents have been allowed to use the Lane to this Franklin said the City looked the other Way because the old garages were built before the bylaw was draft last Wood said he received a Call from a City official whose name he could not the official hinted that the agreement could be amended so Wood was not fully responsible for maintaining the he adding that that is not lebanese troops storm ashore to attack militia strongholds continued from Page 1 the aircraft Carrier Dwight carrying about 90 Jet and a destroyer escort armed with guided missiles moved closer to the coast to support the marines at the Airport on Beirut Southern Robert spokesman for the Marine said that apart from a Daybreak burst of machine gun fire it was quiet at the marines main area of we were sprayed by machine gun said of the marines hit the but we do not think it was directed against no he said Marine guards at the embassy in the seafront eni Are Issei neighbourhood were hit by some fire but they too do not think it was directed at marines at the Airport fired several illumination rounds during the night after shells landed near their said warrant officer Charles the marines waged a 90mi Nute firefight with moslem militia men near the Airport while lebanese soldiers stormed ashore in helicopters and Landing Craft and attacked shiite and druse heavy artillery fire pounded moslem Western and Christian Eastern sections of the capital Early this state radio claimed the shells were coming from the Syria controlled upper men mountains East of the there was no word on casual but hospitals issued an urgent Appeal Over the radio for since the fighting 26 lebanese soldiers have died in the commander of the British David told Reuters news Agency today his unit had come under fire and shells had fallen 20 metres from its position near Beirut the attack appeared to be deliberate but there were no he a 155mm howitzer Shell landed close to italian troops at the italian pm but it failed to Battle shapes up for begin successor begin i cant go on Tel Aviv a a Tough Battle shaped up today Between candidates jockeying to succeed resigning prime minister Menachem a caucus of begins Herat party convened twice yesterday after the prime minister made Clear his intention to step but it failed to find a candidate or even decide How a new Leader should be begins Herat whose righting party dominates the govern ing liked feel a Quick Choice is crucial and fear state president Chaim Herzog could ask the opposition labor party led by Shimon Peres to try to form a new government if the liked is israeli Law requires that the government resign together with the prime a weary begin told his ministers i cannot go on any but he promised an answer today to their pleas that he delay handing his formal letter of resignation to the we pleaded with him to delay As Long As said Ehud a Herat within an hour of begins decision yesterday foreign minister Yitzhak and Deputy prime minister David emerged As the two Likely winners in the leadership Ariel controversial former defence minister and now min ister without is also consid ered a possible Israel television said Shamir had offered to give Levy the Post of foreign minister if he Steps out of the the liked has 64 seats in the 120 member the labor party has Law group urges tougher penalties for drunk Drivers Al Flay ask parliament to increase penal ties for those who fail breath Alief tests the government is also Leofi sideling lowering the blood alcohol level be Quebec up the Canadian bar association has urged wore sentences arid longer licence suspensions Drivers who kill people but the approved Amhe associations annual convention Here yesterday was consider ably from one presented the original Resolution 4rorri David Matas of Winnipeg a mini mum prison sentence of two years and a lifetime licence court tries video Solit Linued from Page 1 qui ferment for an impaired driving minimum penalty for first conviction is a Fine and for a second conviction a 14day jail company allowed to remain it Rah into stiff opposition from Law yers who oppose minimum sentences and Matas redrafted original Resolution was seconded Wirt Nipes lawyer Harvey whose 22yearold son Nathan was killed last 13 when a drunk ran a fed Light and hit his in a letter accompanying Pollock said had defended people charge with alcohol re lated offences since he began practising Law in he had Felt always that when they were acquitted he had accomplished something not Only for his but As lawyers we owe our first duty to the court and then our but we failed to recognize our responsibility to society As a he added bitterly although the system is supposed to work for the it is used really Only for the Benefit for the Pollock said 85 per cent of the personnel injury claims he has handled involved the heartache and the tragedy that these events bring Tox people has no he carnage on our highways must we lose More people through automobile accidents involving drunk Drivers than through harsher sentences Are he i see no difference Between a drunk going out into crowded Street with a gun and drunk driving on a the results Are but even the watered Down Resolution ran into one lawyer said he would lose clients if they thought he supported stiff sentences for people like another said the problem of drinking Drivers lies but he did not the Resolution is the second response in a week to Justice minister Mark Macguigan Call for Public opinion the Issue of penalties for drunk drink the Canadian association of of police last weekend urged tougher Macguigan said the government Don program Courdina or for the revitalization said the garment company will be allowed o remain in the building until renovations can be he said it will next Spring at the earliest before work is done on the Malinowski said he is aware of the 2ity engineers opinion that the build ing Isa but he maintained it is structurally sound and could be up provided Core area initiative program officials approve necessary the eviction of the buildings tenant represents the loss of a main Street which would be counterproductive to Marg improvement he he said the building considered to be a historically significant part of main streets but he conceded that his group Hast done an Engi Neering report on the Structure Mitch owner of the Gar ment said he has been in the building for 25 years and has no com he is eager to remain in the building As Long As the City 1 Haven had any problems he Hamilton of the cites land surveys and real estate department said the City issued an eviction notice earlier this but then granted bes boroughs request to continue occupying the even though the engineering report said eviction would be the Wisest Ham Ilton said the company argued that it would be hard pressed to find another suitable location if forced to Hamilton said he was Well aware of the engineers opinion that the build ing is a that could probably be said about a number of places on main he the City earned in rental income from the building in 1982 but paid out in leaving a net operating loss of the land surveys and real estate department does not consider it to be in the cites Best interest to continue a rental program for the property As the building has reached the end of its economical life and it is uneconomical to renovate due to the buildings condition and poor rental a civic administration report Mulroney seeks to attract immigrants to tory party continued from Page 1 the party does not have a Good history of attracting new Mulroney but the Best it can do is make itself open to strategy should be particularly effective in he what were going to do is at tract when youre at 40 per cent everything the party is Well Over 50 per cent in the and is running about 40 per cent in which up to now has been a Barren wasteland for the progressive unstated is a Strong feeling among elements of the party that old a shined maps who create trouble in caucus and say embarrassing things in Public should step Down and let Youn brighter people take one tory Here said that if the progressive conservatives blow this election because of internal which damages the party can forget about another Chance in Power for a Mulroney yesterday took Issue with a reporter who suggested he does not have any he promised Brian Kelleher of Csc radio National news a copy of his a compilation of his various but Mulroney said the Book is Selling out and he might not be Able to find he also said he is not worried about plans by the parti quebecois to run separatist candidates in Quebec and he reaffirmed his commitment to testing the cruise months steam room 8893441 Tuxedo q 560810 ;