Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May Page 3 offenders choosing Community work pickets to drop placards on mothers my Parade John could be Crocus didst somebody once say you can judge a person by the company he keeps the weekly Cabinet Crary tells us highways minis Ter John Lohman will attend a May 14 meeting on National transportation the Agenda also says plot Man is to be accompanied to this meeting by who is fiddlehead fiddlehead is a Fern that is grown in new Plohmann special assistant John Klassen now dont laugh when i Tell you Klassen there is a person dressed up like this vegetable who is Traw Elling across i dont know if you can wait until monday i can get the details for Nan there Are several ways to raise funds this is not one of a Novice fundraiser was pounding the pavement on Arlington Street recently raising Money for kidney with some she knocked on her first in from the kidney she said to a generous looking gentleman who answered the would you like to make a donation the Householder replied no thank i have two healthy and in going to keep d d d this weeks contribution to our Hosay politicians Aren smart department comes from environment minister Gerard Lecuyer was responding in the legislature to a hardhat Ting question about everyone favorite toxic waste the answer is not As Sim ple As said who apparently is the minister responsible for i said we Are storing some of these substances in Manitoba and i suppose it Doest take any great speech to explain that storing Means were doing just that and on the other hand we Are doing More than it just goes to show that if it int one its unless its d d d councillor Don Gerrie May not take any wooden but he recently forgot to heed another adage never look a gift tree in the councillors arrived at a meeting this week to discover individual Colorado Spruce seedlings sitting on Courtesy of the Manitoba forestry a re minder of forestry the Riverview a Man of considerable was leaving with his tree in Tow when he saw it was with a True politicians Dis taste for anything not on the Gerrie promptly gave his seedling to a radio re who announced he plans to name the tree he also plans to let his dog water a a a the Manitoba Community newspapers association recently doled out its 1984 awards to Rural but theres one award it missed stamp out redundancy award to the Echo of Hamiota for this headline history from the if there considering a be our vote goes to prophecies from the d d d a reporter called the Indus trial and University projects Branch of the National defence department this he was trying to reach the John to ask about various High tech projects and is every time Rosss Secretary went to Transfer the the reporter was Cut we have these new you she there the latest just a ill try the Call went this is really Embarrass Ross Here we the Best r and d scientists in the country and these phones have us baffled i Hope you dont do a Story on the reporter was about to say it was a pretty Good Little but he was Cut trash shopping naturalist Denis Muldrew tugs at a shopping cart in the vital it was one of several such events Seine River yesterday during a Volunteer cleanup of the during the cites annual pitching anti litter wage subsidy list too much work by Paul Moloney the Manitoba government wont disclose names of businesses receiving jobs fund Grants to offset employee saying to do so would be too much Murray a senior govern ment said it would be too costly to compile a list of employ ers awarded which includes those in a program announced last the called Manitoba jobs and provides up to an hour for 20 weeks for each employee it can be extended to 30 weeks for employers who offer on the Job its too much Damn work and Cost to print the noting staff Are Busy dealing with Grant computer lists the Industry depart ments executive director of corporate and Community said computer lists would not be made even if the free press paid the he said jobs fund officials might have been More cooperative except that the free press recently published a Story on wage subsidy abuse which he described As Dishon the Story reported that a Winni Peg businessman was fined and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty last month to defrauding a similar subsidy pro Gram in 1980 and officials were quoted As saying they have no system in place to combat while conceding that the program cant protect against said the Story should have reported that employees now must sign that they actually received wages claimed by the other fund officials noted that there was no system in place to verify the opposition critic Frank John Ston Creek said the governments refusal to disclose Pames of businessmen awarded Grants to pay employee wages contradicts the governments self pro claimed policy of Public Money these Are the Guys that run around saying Freedom of inform the people should know every they use Public Money to Adver Hemphill warned no Bias Bygie Mackenzie a proposed government peace program in Manitoba class rooms should Tell both sides of the the president of Manitoba association of school trustees said Linda Mclntosh said advocates of a Strong military defence want peace just As avidly As do advocates of one theory is that you achieve peace by laying Down your Mclntosh the other is that you keep the peace by being so Strong that no one will attack no one wants the bomb to land on their education minister Maureen Hemphill told a conference organized by the Winnipeg coordinating committee for disarmament and other peace groups Friday she wants to have the effects of nuclear the arms disarmament and the peace movement taught in Manitoba Mclntosh said the teaching of such a Dicey political topic should be balanced and in clude the subject of delegates to the Mast annual convention in March rejected a Resolution advocating the Federal and provincial governments pro Mote opponents said they rejected it because they feared Mast would end up taking positions on abortion and other controversial not because they oppose Hemphill told the conference she planned to consult parents and children before her department drafts the Mclntosh said she Hopes trustees will be asked As because they will have to take some of the flak from opponents of the pro this is not the first time i have opened up the newspaper and seen what is going to be introduced soon in the she Tise these programs to make them selves look Good and then there not prepared to let the people know where the Money is being Johnston said he has been rebuffed for two years in attempts to obtain names of Small businesses which received loan assistance from the Johnston said the Federal govern ment routinely discloses names of companies awarded expansion he noted that was also the Case for a provincial Grant program which operated while he was economic development i know business people do not like but if there going to accept funds from the they have to agree to Johnston its Peoples Money and people have the right to know who getting if they government have done proper research on the if Treyve come to the conclusion its for the betterment of what Are they afraid of the Federal govern ment has announced it has approved 957 Manitoba applications to subsidize wages for summer Grant in a statement released last my George Minaker James said the amounting to almost will create summer jobs in the Minaker said the summer pm Pluymen experience development component of the Federal govern ments Challenge 85 program will create 103 jobs in his parking crunch forecast air Canada adds to problem by Catherine Mitchell air Canadas new building Tage Avenue will create a parking space shortage the Winnipeg parking authority chairman Harold Taylor said the authority has called for a comprehensive study of downtown parking Taylor said air Canada should have been required to build at least a single Storey underground lot when City Council approved construction about two years i guess in askance that we have a major building being built in the City without underground he by late All 850 employees will have moved to the new location from air Canadas former offices at the Richardson company spokesman Ted Morris Morris said the company surveyed nearby lot operators to help employees find parking but didst feel obligated to construct an under ground parking give numbers he refused to say How Many employees drive cars to work or How Many parking spaces were arranged for in not sure this is really a matter for Public noting that air Canada didst main Tain parking spots at its old Loca the company wants the workers to ride the Morris a spokesman for Eaton place said air Canada has arranged to have the 46 spots at its Small outdoor to the North of Graham Avenue at Carlton available for employees to lease Taylor said together with the North Portage development com not Only has air Canada eliminated Public parking but the employees will soak up existing i think theres going to be a parking Taylor he said a joint study by the cites civic properties and the streets and transportation departments will recommend How to conduct a parking demand study and what it will the recommendations Are expected in six he Taylor said the parking which controls City parking Struc Tures and will ask the North Portage development to foot a minor share of the study we feel theres going to be a massive parking demand Between them and air Taylor said statistics and information about downtown parking is 25 years but noted there has been a 10 per cent drop of City transit use in the last 20 a Survey done earlier this year by the free press found respondents wanted improved parking Down Multi storied structures offering free parking with proof of Purchase were among the suggested warehouse approved As housing Coop by Gary Hunter a proposal to turn a Market ave nue warehouse into a 27unit housing cooperative with up to eight suites for the mentally disabled has cleared its last zoning securing a Manitoba government mortgage and finding tenants want ing to live with disabled neighbors Are All that now remain before renovations begin on the six Storey great West saddlery building at 113 mar the Developer the conversion of the 75yearold Brick and Concrete build ing is being sponsored by the Prairie housing formed three years ago by the Canadian association for the mentally the Coop already owns 18 houses in David executive director of the Manitoba Branch of said his experience is that finding people prepared to be neigh Bors to the disabled is not a prob a bigger question is whether there Are people prepared to live Weatherow drafting list he said a consultant is putting together a list of potential residents by contacting people on waiting lists for other in the there is no shortage persons seeking sem Independent Weatherow said construction of apartments in the already gutted and sandblasted building could begin in with occupancy by year end but Are enough people willing to live downtown David and Karl Falk have plans for the old downtown with 37 including two bedroom Weatherow said less than on third of the residents will be most Likely we will have less than living either with roommates or in their own be we want to avoid is Large group Home or congregate Liv we would expect people who move into the Coop to undertake to be Good neighbors to the that would be part of their role As members of the he said without subsidies the one and two bedroom apartments would rent for Between and per with a Range o to per month for those qualifying for rent Tom director of the Manitoba governments mental health told the Canadian men Tal health association Manitoba Branch annual meeting yesterday the mentally handicapped most often Are faced with the Stone Wall of social prejudice and Nona Cep Walters said Community stigma still considers those with mental problems violent and danger understands fears he said he understands the fears of residents faced with the possibility a group Home for the mentally ill May open in their but the Media accentuate such and the fears Are usually proved groundless once the Home is Walters Jake Federal health and Wel fare told the association that Ottawa supports Community based programs and applauds the efforts of groups like the the City Centre fort Rouge Community committee has approved a zoning variance relaxing the of Street parking requirements for the Market Avenue Mike Bacon of the Core area office said it has approved a 10 per cent of the total under the nonprofit housing pro normally we finance to a Maxi mum of five per cent of the total project Cost but in this because of its we Are prepared to go to 10 per he Ken manager of the cores heritage said the Coop proposal is one of four warehouse Tor housing conversions that could get underway in the Exchange area this ;