Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 14, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Frit press May Page 3 disposal site hearings meeting local encephalitis spreading mosquitoes arrive weeks Early by Patrick Mckinley mosquitoes that spread Western Equine encephalitis have attired ill Winnipeg three weeks ahead of prompting concerns of an outbreak of the disease this City entomologist Roy Ellis indicated culex tarsal is the Type that can carry the disease from infected Birds to horses and human were found in City Mosquito traps about May the Date set a record for Early Ellis noting the Previ Ous record was May As he said analysis indicates Waif i wet May weather is associated with outbreaks of the sometimes fatal disease in so fat it is shaping up to be that kind of a Ellis also said canker Worms have started hatching in the City and leaves Are beginning to show the tiny holes that reveal the presence of the newly emerged the Hatch is about on Quarter finished and could be Well under Way in another week if the weather is he if there is an encephalitis out the provincial government May decide to launch another controversial Aerial spraying program to kill the disease carrying mosque he provincial environmental research said yesterday that in the next few weeks officials will hold their first meeting to begin assessing the potential for an outbreak this Sentinel Chicken flocks regularly tested for presence of the encephalitis virus will not be put out for about another he Manitoba last encephalitis out break was in when 18 people were the disease attacks the Central Bank closing to make Way for Portage mall after 60 years on the the Toronto Dominion Bank Branch at Portage Avenue and Kennedy Street will close june the closing comes 10 weeks before North Portage development takes Possession of the expropriated site to make Way for the Cadillac Fairview retail mall redevelopment Bill senior Vic president for Manitoba and Northwestern on said the Bank decided it would be easier for customers and staff if the Branch closed before summer moving is just a horrendous Job and it would have been too much to ask our staff to Cope during a period when Many people Are taking holi he it would also be More difficult to Contact our custom ers during the summer Scheldt said All 34 Branch employees will be redeployed and no one will lose a Job because of the the Bank told Cadilla Fairview it would be interested in relocating in the new mall to be completed in we thought we race group seeks status upgrading by Barbara aggerholm mayor Bill Nomes committee on race relations has produced a report recommending it become a commis Sion responsible to City a subcommittee of the mayors struck to Chart its issued a report yesterday it needs the extra stability and budget to be effective against Rac in any other structural the body would not appear to have sufficient the report the report follows criticism lev Elled last year at the some of whom complained then that the committee lacked a research staff and seriously damaging its Credi you cant be effective without resources or committee chairman Anderson said yes the committee is to conduct pub Lic hearings into the report and the recommended commission Struc scheduled Between May 22 and june Anderson said a commission Likely would be More involved in looking at broader race problems in the rather than at individual he said a commission would help eliminate the committees since it would receive a budget any other City and answer to Council its very unclear what the authority of the race relations commit tee is except that its tied to the mayors we can look at different prob lems but definitely we do not have a Clear mandate to he Anderson said a commission would report to and advise City Council As As work closely with provincial and Federal governments and that is a major but it Likely adjudicate complaints like other government he cases it handle would be referred to other such As the Manitoba human rights commis Anderson adding the commissions functions would not overlap with others the commission would have 20 members serving a three year including the police chief and City personnel general two members of City Council and the As the report recommended the City review its policies in five areas Law person contracts and housing and Community services and educational programs to reduce racial nervous symptoms include fatigue and disorientation the provincial government in 1983 conducted a controversial Aerial spraying Campaign Over about 30 communities using the chemical the province is awaiting a final report from a task Force set up to study provincial environment depart ment official Ken Plews said yester Day the report is ready for print Spray opponents showed up at a civic committee meeting yesterday to Call for tighter controls on the cites annual Mosquito ground spraying Rosemary spokesman for the Safe Mosquito abatement com told the cites recreation and social services committee Mac wants Advance warning cars sent out in front of ground spraying trucks to warn bystanders they Are routes should be preplanned so people can be warned of Spray Crews in their she Jodoin said the City should not be Selling its Spray program to the Public on the basis it will reduce the encephalitis she said spraying of chemicals in residential areas is not an effective control of the mosquitoes that can carry the Mac spokesmen told the com Mittee they want the City to reestablish a 100metre no spraying zone around the Homes of people who object to the City dropped the 100metre zone after City officials complained it was hampering the effectiveness of the cites Mosquito control pro a 30metre zone is observed if homeowners object to the Stravine in might have got some kind of priority in the new project because we were forced but we received no com Scheldt Scheldt said the Bank looked for a temporary location on Portage while the area is but find a suitable he said the Bank would try to maintain a presence on Portage by installing some automatic their site Hast been he Scheldt said there has not yet been a settlement for the expropriated land and which was constructed in Don publisher of the free yesterday another meeting is scheduled for this week to discuss expropriation of part of the newspapers parking lot for the North Portage Nicol said a meeting last thursday at Thomson newspapers offices in Toronto failed to produce an in addition to Nicol and four senior Thomson head office mayor Bill health and Wel fare minister Jake Epp and Arnold and Isadore of North Portage development were at the in the free press received an expropriation notice for a 15metre deep strip of property fronting Edmonton Street Between Ellice ave nue and the Alley behind at the time of the expropriation the land was to be used for a linking Central Park with a new Park on Portage How the most recent redevelop ment plans Call for retail shops along the East Side of unlike Many of the North Portage property owners facing exp Opria the free press has not been served with a Possession Date Jack director of the provincial land acquisitions said he Hast received any instructions As to when North Portage development wants the free press Nicol said the newspapers Posi Tion has consistently been that it Doest want to give up the he said the paper Hast attempted to put a Dollar value on the Nicol refused to say yesterday whether Thomson had its own redevelopment plans for the the owners of United army surplus sales at Ellice Avenue and Donald Street said the decision to move that outlet to the Grant Park shopping Centre on june 1 int directly related to downtown redevelopment Fred bog och said the company leased the premises on Ellice 10 years ago after a fire temporarily closed its main store at Portage and we always thought the two stores were just a Little too close the longtime downtown business Man said he want optimistic the Core area initiative would turn the area around and make the Ellice site attractive in the near to parking is the big without adequate parking it Doest matter what you put and in All the redevelopment plans you never hear too much about what they Are going to do about Ken Fulte press violinist Arkady Karpilovsky is accompanied by Len Kunchak on accordion at special mothers Day restaurant honors elderly mothers by Maureen Murray a Winnipeg restaurateur closed his doors to the Public for three hours yesterday and put on a mothers Day party for about 100 senior i did it because it gives me a warm feeling David Stitz of peppers restaurant on Grant Avenue Mary who will Cele brate her 100th birthday in octo said the dinner brought Back memories of parties Long it reminds me of the places i Only visit now in Cap part Dorothy said the Occa Sion will be memorable for her be cause of the violinist and the accordionist who were on music is something i said Scaife who also lives at Vista Park music was always a big part of my Stitz said he wanted to pay trib Ute to elderly especially those who May have lost touch with their Stitz said he contacted Many of the senior citizens Homes in Winni Peg and invited some of their Resi dents to too often our senior citizens Are pushed to the fringe of i wanted to show some of the Moth ers who were invited that they Haven been Stitz say How much the dinner Cost in not interested in the i did it because i wanted to do he Irene activity director at Nightingale nursing said Many of the Homes residents did not celebrate mothers Day with their it just blew me away when Stitz made the Swetz youd have to look pretty far and wide before youd find another Man willing to do a thing like said Helena who lives at Oakview Stitz said he is planning to hold a similar event for fathers he said next year he Hopes other businessmen will help him put on a dinner for at least guard pleaded of trial told by David Obrien two Stony Mountain prison guards pleaded for their lives shortly before they died of Stab wounds last sum a jury was told of no guard Rudy Frie sen was quoted by a colleague As Ken Mcdonald said he heard the other Joseph scream no no i Mcdonald said Wendl had been struggling with one of the accused killers at the Walter Daryle Frank and Donald have pleaded not guilty to two counts of first degree murder in the july and were attempting to lock up prisoners for the night when they were Mcdonald said he was Locking up prisoners in a different which consists of about 20 when he heard a scuffle behind he said he saw Kent hitting Wendl Over the head with an while Sinclair was nearby brandishing a Wendl broke free and ran for a stairway when Sinclair stabbed him in the Mcdonald and the fatally wounded guard fell Down a flight of Mcdonald said Sinclair then threatened him with the say ing in going to kill you he said he saw Friesen struggling with but did not see who stabbed Mcdonald said he was traumatized afterwards and worked Only weeks Between the time of the slayings and last when he returned full guard Roger Allec Testi fied he also was Locking up prisoners when he heard a noise on the dome a common area to which Sev eral cell ranges Are while Mcdonald said Gode was struggling with Allec said it was he said Friesen was try ing to hold Back who was armed with a he said he was about to come to Fri Sens when Sinclair waived a knife at he said Friesen broke free and stumbled to an holding his face in his he said he escaped from the dome floor Down the same stairs where Wendl he Wendl had a bad wound to his face and there was blood All Over his Allec said he later returned to the office where Friesen collapsed and pulled his body to an emergency Allec was unable to identify Gode or Hoard As having any involve but Mcdonald said he saw Hoard beside Kent at one Allec said that half a pair of scissors he was shown in court resembled the weapon he saw Sinclair Sinclair Jay asked court of Queens Bench Justice Patrick Ferg to take the jury to the prison to help explain the logistics of the judge Ferg refused the Applina six inmates in the prison at the time of the slayings testified last while there were conflicts in their the bulk of their evidence pointed to Kent and sin Clair As the main some of them testified they heard All four of the accused planning a riot City committees split on hotel development the Brittany inn has asked for More time to plan a hotel development on the site of a proposed City in conflicting decisions one City committee agreed to the hotels request while another voted to stick to the cites original plan to extend Central Park the dispute will have to be re solved by City Council later this Craig one of the hotel said yesterday the Brittany inn wants to build a 400room hotel by adding to its existing 86room building at the Northwest Corner of Carlton Street and Ellice the expansion would include a ballroom and banquet facility and new quarters for the stage West Pinner which is being expropriated for the nearby redevelopment of the North Portage but to carry out the the hotel would have to use land just West of the existing and that is the land the City wants for a half bloc wide Park in a Compromise Kush Nier told councillors yesterday the hotel is prepared to leave a 15metre strip to the West of the planned hotel for use As a in the hotel would pro vide an 18metre strip of enclosed Green space inside the hotel and would make the area accessible to the he some councillors said yesterday the hotels proposal offers the City the Best of both provid ing both Park space and a major hotel development that will provide jobs and tax but mayor Bill Nome made rare appearances at the cites Environ ment committee and its recreation and social services com Mittee yesterday to do Battle against the hotel Norrie said the City needs More Park space downtown than the hotel proposal would the hotels plan would destroy the cites Long held Hope of extending Central Park to Portage he he said it would be pointless to delay the Park to begin next for a hotel plan that is such a farfetched proposal that it May never Norrie said efforts to attract major hotel chains downtown have shown already that the Brita Wiy inns plan is we know that first of ail the Market will not sustain at this time a 400room and secondly that the Market will never sustain at any time a hotel seating people for he Norrie said the largest hotels in the City seat 750 or you Are planning another convention he told the recreation and social services committee voted to reject Kush Niers request that he be Given to july 15 to Complete the feasibility study on the committee member Larry Fleisher Heights told Kushnier the City would Only be leading him on if it gave him More As the City is unlikely the Park Norrie said two thirds of Council lors would have to agree to give up the Park proposal for the hotel to win the environment committee voted 43 in favor of allowing Kushnier More environment committee member Chris Lorenc said giving Kushnier More time should not Hurt the Park plan seriously even if Kushnier fails to put together a hotel As Council prepares to resolve the City officials have already called for tenders on the Jum illion Park development which is being funded by the City and the Core area initiative on land expropriated from a former tire ;