Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pressured for official testifies hug support to vote for to in a civic Plebs on the he liked about a charge by Smith lawyer Richard Char Protection Trow Page 1 be that Blair lies the distinction tween preschool Day care and a 1vate one of the issues the Early childhood education Jentre under Bill a private school Fering daycare services for pres Alers and which is not funded by of education will ire a Jie Charleswood Centre was arged wit operating a Day care thou a but successfully argued it was a private province is appealing that nil fhe instances Iti which officials id have Wield their increased will be the minister i to of authority where you tit Glt you rarely have to Smith ninety nine ibs out of 100 there is Complete problems Are usually worked out Ith the operating the she but the Amend Lents have been proposed to cover be unusual no one quite imagined what we id run into last she ing that parents were divided Iver care at the Charleswood other proposed changes in the station include blowing Orrys office to refuse an interim licence to a Day care while its permit is the refusal would be made if it was believed the children were end an d the requirement that a Check on daycare workers police records be a requirement for centres to Dis play their licences in a place where parents can see Robert of tire he knew it Cartier accompanied a society official on a speaking but believed the Law yer had volunteered his the Bill also included a charge of by Law firm founder Renald reflecting 52 hours at ail but Robert said he was unaware of any work done by Guay during that Guay charged the same hourly rate in a subsequent Bill of for to Robert but the society had never agreed to pay the lawyer an despite his protests that the organization had no Money to cover the Egal Guay pressured him for payment and began threatening court action by Early Robert As a result of the the society borrowed in february 1984 to give Guay Smith a partial payment on the he it was taken out of our line of he the Bottom line was to get Renald Guay off my every time i met he was always after me for Robert said the Law firms first a account dated May took the society Board by sur the covering Smiths Active prompted heated debate among Board members because they were not aware their colleague would be charging for his Robert i think some Board members were surprised and possibly a Little some members of the Board said there was no Way this Bill should have been submitted and there was no Way it should be Robert said he was personally disturbed because the Bill contained charges stretching Back to june noting there was no prior agreement Smith would be he said he told Guay the charges were inappropriate and it was in professional to request payment for work done almost a year claimed he had been informally assured by for Mer society executive director Lucille Roch the Law firm would be assuming funds were available from he he added it was quays claim of a prior understanding with Roch that helped convince the organization to Settle the account in september Roch testified earlier she had Given no such the body of Mary missing since last thursday was found yesterday in this retention safety Fence for Ponds dismissed continued from Page 1 Penman said it is used to receive Runoff after storms so it can be discharged at a slow rate into the sewer after a Foury Earold boy drowned in a similar Pond on Grandmont Boulevard in several groups of parents in the City demanded the Ponds be fenced off to prevent such at an inquest into the boys a judge ruled fences completely surrounding such Ponds Are not Penman said City Hall administrators at the time Felt the Ponds were no More hazardous than major City if we started putting fencing around All of these we May As Well also Fence off All of Portage Avenue and we might As Well Fence All around the Penman some of the first introduced in South Dale in Are used for recreation and others serve aesthetic purposes in newer Penman said it would Cost millions of dollars to Fence All the he said the Pond Banks have gentle slopes and a person could not accidentally fall in and if you were you would be walking into the Penman its not As if you would be falling into the he said Inlet and outlet pipes at some Ponds Are fenced off because there is a danger a person could fall into deeper the City installed Hainlink fences about two metres nigh at five locations after the 1981 Abe a member of City councils finance said last night he plans to look into the feasibility of fencing the Pond where Ellison Yanofsky said its proximity to the Hospital and the fact it is not used for recreational purposes puts it apart from other unfenced City drainage budget deficit slashing predicted theres a lot of Deputy finance minister charges continued from Page 1 in a discourse on budget Reisman predicted in his budget next will forecast a Federal deficit As Low As billion by about billion less than the current hell try to reach that goal by reducing Reisman the foolishness Reisman was talk ing about can be found in some of the billions of dollars Worth of so called tax expenditures deferrals and other Breaks to taxpayers that have been built into the system at the prodding of a lot of the boys in the finance depart i Call them tax expend i would Call them foolish said the brusque a career bureaucrat who was Deputy finance minister from 1970 to 1975 and who can remember when finance ministers worried As much about surpluses As but dont expect a Quick reduction in the he Tell you More about what there going to do than what there he adding that the budget will contain at least a Little pie in the who also acted As an adviser to Liberal Leader John Turner in the last estimated the government could Cut about 20 per cent of the somewhat More than billion it spends each year and not suffer any real theres a lot of he he said that As Early As 1968 the government found 200 areas where it could Cut on budget Day the government will do a few such things and people will he but that not where the big savings will this government likes to be pop he ruling out major cuts in social and welfare payments to the provinces and spending on theres not much the govern ment can do about interest pay ments on the National which is climbing above the he taken All those areas account for More than 70 per cent of government spending and leave Little room to there going to do some cutting Back on Reisman More will be done to raise and while Mulroney has said he does not want to raise taxes there Are a lot of things called tax the reason the government wont raise taxes directly is that it would have an Adverse effect on Canad Reisman Ira bomber wins in election Belfast a Hartline Par ties on both sides of politically divid Northern Ireland edged Forward in among those elected were a protestant who has said roman catholics should be incinerated and an Ira supporter convicted of bombing a City alter a count of three quarters of the Ulster television projected that sinn the Legal political Wing of the outlawed Irish Republican would take 11 per cent of thl vote in its first province wide election protestant Ian Paisley Mili Tant democratic unionist alignment with Brit Ain had captured on fifth of the 566 seats by the end of counting last when voting concludes the party is expected to have per cent More of the vote than it did in the 1982 elections to Northern ire lands provincial two newly elected sinn fein coun Seamus Cassidy and Chris Gopher were arrested in sep Arate incidents last police a press officer at Belfast police Headquarters said Cassidy was arrested in county Tyrone for allegedly assaulting a member of the Ulster Northern ire lands mainly protestant police the press who in accor dance with British practice refused to be said Cassidy was later released and the government has not yet decided whether to prosecute he said Neeson and two friends were charged with disorderly con they were arrested in Cook county and released pending a court appearance the sectarian Divide was illustrated by the massive Victory Given by a protestant working class District to George who recently spent 15 Days in jail for publicly declaring that catholics should be sinn Feins Danny said the party expected to win seats on All 17 councils it out of a total of 26 at the protestants official unionist party had 146 seats when counting stopped for the and the predominantly Catholic social democratic and labor party held 74 Gorbachev rated skilful says Kremlin chief Good communicator Washington a president George Bush says Viet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is a skilful competitor for president Ronald Reagan in trying to Sway world but that its too soon 40 determine what Impact the new Gremlin chief will have on Hes a Good com Nunica Bush said of Jurys still out As to what Hes going to i think ought to wait and we ought to be open minded about Reagan is known in some circles the great communicator for his ability to present effectively Juis arguments on television and at 54 the Youn Gest soviet Leader in miso appears comfortable in broadcast Bush wet with Gorbachev in Moscow after the soviet official he came communist party chief last March and expressed optimism then about prospects for improving in an interview push was asked to assess prospects now for improved there have been mixed Sig Bush and i just dont think we know yet enough what direction Gorbachev is going to go i think it ought to wait and see we ought to Bush minded about we ought to be sure theres no misunderstanding about our policy positions on Vari Ous he described relations now As being in kind of a holding period and said the United states would As a gesture of Good an apology from the soviets for the killing of Arthur the intelligence officer killed in East Bush met with a Small group of reporters in his during the half hour he fingered a number of he referred to the papers As he asserted South Africa is5 making Progress in moving away from racial segregation and said economic sanctions against the Pretoria government or breaking diplomatic relations would be counter reviewing a series of Steps by the South african Bush it All adds up to not not As fast As wed like to see but enough to make us feel that constructive engagement and pressing for continued change is better than some of the remedies that Are being in other push said he and Reagan Are strongly opposed to the govern ments policy of Bush insisted there was a differ ence Between the Way the United states should treat South Africa and the Way it treats the target of a recent Trade in one area theres he the the movement is in the wrong direct As far As were team Chevetta 1985 team firenza am Well Stock team Calais new introduction to the w j de Vickar i Volt your leasing pm bums omm Lenity Al c i v us Sulvy Youh leasing in bums ;