Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free january builders wary of Grants Many Winnipeg building contractors have become leery of under taking projects involving Federal and provincial Grant we will not quote on a Federal residential rehabilitation Assis Tance program Grant or a Provin Cial Buyan renovate said Dave Watson of the Home improves its nothing but Dan and Debbie Davis of Rutland Street said one of the ongoing prob lems they faced in trying to get work done with government Grants was convincing contractors to i think we phoned just about every contractor in the yellow said Many of them just we rent interested in coming but when they heard it involved a government the Davies have spent 20 months trying to get Worth of repairs done to their Telephone Calls yesterday to City contractors illustrated their prob spokesmen for four companies All said they refuse to bid on projects involving government Grants to their reasons included having to make Many bids in relation to the amount of slow payment and the Lack of any Fallback should a Job turn out to be More Complex than it first i did 150 to 200 estimates last year for government work and i think we got two said de president of four sea sons we refuse to do them it just int Worth George who has about 20 employees in a company that been in business for 23 said he got out of Grant work a couple of years ago because of the amounts governments were willing to you just do Quality work on the prices they would he Dan and Debbie with daughter Are tired of repair Grant snags Grant delays trap homeowners continued from 1 ment the even with the extra the Gas Bills for their Home Are running about a month this Davis last when tempera Tures dropped to Davis said his wife and daughter moved to his Mother Laws Davis said he decided to go pub Lic with his problems this week after being told that yet another inspection this time by Canada mortgage and housing had found another Worth of needed foundation the firs time Home buyer said he was told that until he agreed to do the work pay for it him self Grant Money to his current contractor would be Davis said the con Bentley Home is refusing to finish the work until it gets some of the Grant Davis said he Doest have for the repairs and Doest think he should have to spend any More Money at this Laporte said yesterday a letter was in the mail to Davis explaining that the Worth of new repairs has been reduced to Laporte said Marc is also pro posing that this work be paid for through yet another Aid so Davis have to come up with any immediate hell be Able to pay it off with a loan through Manitoba Hydro at a Laporte when he gets this and if he agrees to there be any More said this experience has changed his political before this program 1 was now in boys buried alive under Snow pile Iury Limi continued from Page 1 Tompkins said he has been unable to do manual work since the Acci which also caused him Back pain until he received corrective surgery in who has a Grade 8 said he lacks the skills to hold Down a desk he said he took out a student loan in september to study psychology at the University of the Board refused to pay his Way through a two year child care course at red River Community he the boards letter said Tompkins rehabilitation assistance payments were stopped in september 1982 be cause he was Tompkins said he was unable to accept several jobs the Board found him in 1982 because of his foot injury and resulting Back its impaired my ability to he adding his doctor still advises him to avoid walking More than 15 minutes at a Tompkins said he missed another Job interview when an unexpected Cash shortage delayed his return from a visit to he said he asked for an Independent medical checkup in the sum Mer of but want allowed one until september they said there was nothing wrong with me and i could go Back to Tompkins he said he Felt the two doctors the Board chose were biased because they had treated him a third doctor chosen by Tompkins went along with the he said Tompkins record shows he received compensation benefits of be tween and a week from november 1980 to july Tompkins said he is still unable to but has been refused further compensation since receiving a 500 Cash settlement a year ago to replace a Small monthly continued from Page 1 who has a form of muscular dystrophy in his was at the Bottom of the pile under about two metres of i was he said in an interview at his Home last 1 didst think wed get he said the cold had caused his legs to but he did not although the boys knew they were in they said they never gave up at one Kenny and Robert said they started praying that god would get them shortly april Karpen in and Bernie Werner broke through the Snow and dug out the Heads of Kenny and Jason had Al ready been partial dug april said she knew her brother May be in trouble after Bernie Tele phoned shortly before and asked for april said she told Bernie her brother was at the Snow about four houses away from the Karpenick but Bernie replied that was impossible because he had just been there and the fort had been covered in fresh then i remembered the tractor had gone by the Back Lane about an hour april recalling her feeling of april would have been in school during the afternoon luckily for the she decided to skip classes yesterday and was Home when the phone both teenagers immediately realized the boys May have been inadvertently buried i just ran out the she by the time she Bernie had already dug out Diana and Denise 11yearold twin Sisters who live in the neigh also were april said she threw herself at the Snow trying to dig and kick her Way to her she noticed some which turned out to belong to with in he and Kenny had the Snow cleared away from their shortly firefighters and ambulance personnel arrived and continued digging until Shawn All parents said they were Terri fied when they first heard their children had been Marilyn Windsor said she Learned of the mishap when a boy came to her House and said Kenny had been Gene Karpenick said april Tele phoned her in a panic with the you always hear about these phone but you never think youll get she Windsor said she thought the City should take action to prevent similar accidents from happening she said tractors be allowed to dump Snow in where children Are most Likely to flight Tab since 1 continued from Page 1 the government said 23 that government aircraft Are sacred instruments of travel that would Only be used to improve government not for frivolous there there for productive and Are recognized As there not there for there not there for reasons of personal there there for reasons of the Mulroney Cabinet ran up about in flights Between 17 and including Al most to Fly Wilson to Florida and Backoo meet who was vacationing flights Between 1 and mid january totalled about the Cost is calculated on the basis of an hour for Jet stars and for according to trans port several flights were for 10 hours or More and included several destinations on schedules vastly More convenient than commercial airlines could but there Are still a few cases when cheaper transport Likely would have been available and almost As transport minister Don Mazan Kowski and two others flew to Toron to and Back 1 at a Cost of when air Canada flies Between the two cities Many times a Mazankowski and an aide flew to Toronto and Back again the next Day for another it Cost More than to Fly youth minister Andree Champagne and one other person to Montreal and Back tory front runner Miller ses Quick election continued from Page 1 off the speeches with the claim that the next tory Leader would remain in Power in Ontario to 1995 and he noted that he and his three competitors agreed on building the trimming government regulation and spurring private in what is the Issue is the Way to achieve those goals and choosing the right the one Leader who the province believes can do the Grossman he did not say Why he could do it better than the but he urged the crowd of to accept that he was a True conservative just As his a former Ontario Cabinet had my Grossman fought on the streets of my constituency to beat the communists who had held Andrew Riding from 1943 to earning sustained he continued for the past 30 years we have placed the Flag of Freedom and conservative Opportunity on the Flagstad of that few pundits Are predicting Victory for and even one of his insiders predicted privately that that he would lose to while Grossman lifted a righteous Finger against Tim some say will place second on the first but snatch the leadership before voting ends today delegates that Japa koreans and taiwanese Busi Ness competitors were no More intelligent than stressing Ontario need to Export More developed Timbrell singled out the foreigners and said i Tell you these people Are no smarter than we they Are no Norrie ready to meet with review committee continued from Page 1 a filter Between the City administration and politicians and has been Given too much the City of Winnipeg review committee is to make recommendations to the provincial government by on How the cites govern mental Structure should be among other it is looking at the Powers of the the makeup of City Council and the Structure of the to both Norrie and the Board of commissioners have refused to appear before the committee be cause of a dispute with committee member Alan director of the University of Winnipeg Institute of Urban Norrie said yesterday he will Likely appear if Artinise agrees to refrain from Public comment on City affairs until the review is the dispute arose after Artinise criticized the City for dragging its feet on updating its 23yearold tax assessments and proposed that Legal Aid Manitoba consider suing the City to Force it to Norrie claimed at the time that Artinise could not review City affairs on the one hand while engaging in a Public confrontation with the City on the Norrie said he and City officials plan to meet with Artinise in the next week or so to ask him to clarify his he said Arti base gave assurances at a meeting earlier this week that he now recognizes the cites we certainly had a very Amica ble Norrie if Artinise is proceeding Down the Road that he appears to be on that would in All likelihood meet our i Hope that we can find some Way to come Back its very important that the committee have some input from More capable have no More than our people in when i become Premier i put the world on notice that Ontario Means thanks to his current agricultural the 38yearold Timbrell impressed Farmer Fred at least you have to him the difference Between a cow and a Lewis Timbrell urged that governments size be trimmed and that the be eliminated along with acid Raim and the four provincial Cabinet minis ters have taken pains to avoid the thorny Issue of instituting bilingualism in but Miller and Mcmurtry won applause by making efforts to include a few words of French in their Dis i Promise to work in the French Ridings of Ontario and i understand the problems of said who made no other men Tion of the provinces linguistic minority of some Miller said ontarian would go to the polls within a few Short weeks or then he predicted when were through with the opposition be holding their caucus in a phone on a night like the whole world wants to be the Indus try and Trade minister seen As leaning More to the political right than his oppo promised to eliminate taxes for Small renew for protect the Cut Down acid curb improve health care and boost free attorney general Roy who Many delegates say is in last opened his speech by saying that he wanted to talk about Vic the 41yearold Toronto politician gave a More impassioned speech than the and said his majority government would have to continue to be sensitive to the aspirations of our strongly diverse society in order to win again at the at the same its very important to celebrate the duality of our he said in 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