Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March Page 3 company vows to pay former Manitoba opposed Taw decision shocks Agency by Julia Necheff the Community education development association has been seriously jeopardized by the Winni Peg school boards decision to drop an with the spokesmen association executive director Bob Wood and Ceda president Betty Mclntyre said the boards decision thursday has Cut the Agency Bud get by almost a they said they were shocked when the Board passed a Las minute motion to no longer use the associations Community workers in inner City schools and have division staff take Over the 9 after the division Grant runs out the Agency will be forced to Cut six Community Wood the association was counting on the Board increasing its contract from to about he Wood said apart from the division it receives about in funding from United Way and other the Board decision ends a Long involvement with the divisions he we have had a 14 to 15year history with the school the association has workers in 10 intercity acting As Liaison Between parents and the Mclntyre she said Ceda workers also Are involved in other Community con Cerns such As housing and helping groups develop Community she said the workers have helped Community groups obtain More than in government trustees also decided to add 000 More to Community development for a fund totalling in order to take Over the associations fun trustee Mario Santos said an out Side Agency should not be involved in arguing workers should be More accountable to the Board chairman de opposed to the said he thought an outside Agency should be used in the schools to act As inde pendent education Santos suggested there was some dissatisfaction with the associations some people think Ceda did a Lestha optimum Ceda advocates claim the Divi Sion will not be Able to do the Job As Well As the association for the same amount of trustee Irene who strongly objected to dropping Ceda ser said the decision was pushed through with undue the motion was first raised during an i camera portion of the budget meeting on wednesday the second last Day of the budget de it was passed in a Public meeting the next Day by a 54 Haigh said trustees had insufficient time during the i camera meeting to consider the or Brown vows Battle to bring husband to Canada to join Sarrah top and ministers office reneged on Deal to Aid deported wife claims a Winnipeg woman says the Junior immigration ministers office has reneged on a Deal to allow her husband to come from Jamaica to join her and two Young its almost like they Are playing games with Sally Brown an immigration department spokesman said Gerry min ister of state for has refused to despite appeals from the Browns and their lawyer that he Honor the 1986 a naturalized Canadian said her husband Clinton Brown was deported four months after their 1983 in a january 1986 Ian an aide to admitted the visa office in Jamaica was wrong to reject Clinton Browns application for permanent residence in Hamilton advised the Browns Ken the Case would be reviewed and if the Retsuk was favourable Brown should withdraw her Appeal of the refusal to let her husband live in he told Zaifman immigration officials in Winnipeg were prepared to allow Clinton Brown to following the Brown withdrew the last month year later said she was notified that her Hus band would not be allowed to reside in Zaifman request to Weiner to intervene has been turned vowing she will not give Brown has filed another we wont withdraw it this Zaifman said he is angry his clients have been it is unforgivable when a minis ters office makes an agreement and a year later ignores Clinton Brown was deported in december 1983 for overstaying his Zaifman said while Brown had a 1983 summary conviction for pos Sessing stolen goods valued at under was not the reason for the immigration he could have let Brown leave Canada voluntarily rather than Issue a deportation Brown has just returned from a we Klong visit to her husband of six she has made Over the past in an attempt to bolster their time hangs heavy on his she because he can Only get Par time work because of his at tempts to leave the Brown said he is not the father of her and Veroni As far As they Are con he is they really miss especially boat shipshape after near disaster Prairie the 12metre sail boat a James family is taking to the Caribbean on the first stage of a South seas nearly foun dered off Cape canaveral last the Brush with disaster occurred during an Ocean passage to West Palm Beach when the boat started taking on alarming amounts of Larry Dunmall called on the coast guard for help when the boat became sluggish and hard to handle in 30knot his said she became concerned after going below and finding everything a result of water pouring through an unsealed Anchor she said although it was nerve racking trying to make port when the navigation system was knocked out and the coast guard gave a wrong Compass both Chil Dren bore up Well slept most of the and kept her Mother company at the update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free press Larry Dunmall stemmed the flow with clothes and after a few Days drying the Prairie Sailor was Able to this week it is bound for the Baha arbitration expected the Canadian Union of postal workers will Likely go to arbitration on behalf of 490 workers suspended for two Days during a work stoppage last a spokesman Dale president of cups Winnipeg said grievances have been Clark said grievance hearings that usually take three Days Are lasting As Long As he said he expects an arbitration Board will be convened in late summer or Early the workers were suspended for two Days and three others were fired after a on Day work stoppage last summer to protest Canada Post hiring casual arbitration boards ordered the three but Canada Post has appealed one of the arbitration Board cuts to be studied City councillors will take a hard look in May at a report recommend ing massive fire department Don Mitchelson Mitchelson Parks and Protection committee said committee members Are awaiting the arrival of Bob Lun former Edmonton police chief hired As Protection Mitchelson said they want to give the United fire fighters of and fire chief Jack Henderson time to study a consultants report and make the details of which were made Public in recommended cutting 140 fire department or about 14 per cent of the As Well As closing some stations and removing some equip ment from Bath service restored a handicapped vital resident who had to go without a Bath for almost three weeks when his orderly service was says regular ser vice has been Don who suffers from muscular had his orderly service eliminated when he was told it was too difficult for orderlies to lift him in and out of the Schwark said he bowed to pressure from provincial govern ment officials and got the Aqua lift device they wanted him to orderlies Are now coming three times a chamber issues lawsuit threat Over Mill rates by David Roberts the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce is considering taking the City to claiming differential Mill rates Force business to shoulder an unfair share of the tax chamber president John Doole said the decision will hinge on whether 1987 Mill rates Are Doole said some businesses could end up declaring bankruptcy if the benefits of reassessment do not flow through to like differential Mill rates have been in effect in other Western Canadian cities for a group of businessmen in Regina is challenging the ment of business taxes on constitutional Mccandless last commercial an Indus trial properties made up 33 per cent of the assessment paying j million or per cent of total City Fly i 7 71 realty x properties face Spray the Manitoba government has Given itself permission to Spray insecticides on 12 of its properties occupied by a variety of people including the severely the Young and the decision to Spray the Legisla Tive building grounds could place environment minister Gerard Lecuyer on record As being opposed to insecticide spraying Odds with his own Carl director of Environ ment control services for the environment said a licence to Spray provincial properties with Durban Methoxychlor and malathion has been it will be issued later this Durban 2e will be sprayed on the trunks of Elm Trees against Elm bark while the two other chemicals will be sprayed on the foliage of Trees and shrubs to pre vent fall the licence will allow spraying on the grounds of the Manitoba developmental Centre in Portage la Prai the Selkirk mental health heading Ley seven Oaks Centre for youth and the legislative minister opposed last Lecuyer angered his ing to have his Home left out of the cites Mosquito fogging his objection meant no fogging took place for 100 metres on either Side of his Cherry Crescent the Buffer zone established by his a month Lecuyer said he would have similar objections if the province were to Spray Public build he said he believes the risk of insecticides outweighs Short term Relief from in Montreal could not be reached for Orcutt said three weeks after pub Lic notice was the department has received no complaints or sub missions asking the spraying not be conducted on any of the government he said objectors have Little re course there is nothing anyone can do he if someone were to write in and say they were against spraying in general and that we should not be spraying provincial property it carry any weight we would go individuals living near the Sites May request the spraying near their property be he we will listen to individual re quests and weigh them out before deciding How much spraying will be done in that he in commercial property owners make up 30 per cent of the total assessment but Are being hit with an extra million in provincial school City councillors Are also leaning toward differential Mill rates to pre vent a massive tax shift on to residential property such a move will Cost commercial and Industrial property owners an estimated million in lost tax Bene Mike a Winnipeg lawyer with expertise in municipal said he would not be surprised if a group of businessmen Challenge Mill rate differentials on constitutional if the City lost in court and was faced with having to refund massive amounts of he said the province Likely would step in to prevent it by amending municipal tax in a differentials Are a fact of he what the charter would say about differentials is in even the income tax act differentiates Between different kinds of civic finance committee chairman Harold Macdonald said he Hopes that before anyone takes Legal action they make their concerns known to City in not the slightest bit surprised by Dooley Macdon Ald but in getting the feeling theres a lot of people out there who Are consulting their lawyers before their Macdonald Corydon said he favors a single Mill rate for com Mercial and residential but most councillors Deputy mayor Eric Stefan Soti Charles said the mood on Council is to have the commercial sector pay slightly More until municipal tax Reform can be accomplished by the end of the last commercial properties in Winnipeg were taxed at a rate of Mills while residential property was taxed at figures compiled by the City trea surer earlier this month show that with full differentials single family residential property would be taxed in 1987 at Mills and com Mercial at 35 using those Mill the owner of a House and property assessed at would pay about in 1987 taxes while a Corner also assessed at would pay about excluding school if a single Mill rate of was applied to All City proper both the shopkeeper and Home owner assessed at would pay about in Doole said the business Community is tired of watching civic and provincial politicians tinker with various property if the final result is going to be the City or province Bastard izing the tax then whats the Point of reassessment he woman to file complaint Over search by police officer a Winnipeg woman says a Plain clothes detective barged into her Home without a search warrant sat urday night to look for her i was scared and Connie said last this Guy comes to my door at about says he was an and just forces his Way in Mcdonald the woman said the officer searched the main floor of her West million bequeathed to create charitable foundation a number of City charitable organizations want to be considered for Grants from a foundation to be established in the name of Thomas a Winnipeg accountant who died last november leaving an estimated million to Robert an executor of the said he has told the groups to submit applications which will be considered once the foundation has been established and Money has been made available for Dis Filuk refused to speculate which charities Are Likely to get a partner of Sill in the accounting firm of Streuber Fiske and said he expects the foundation to be set up this but it will be longer before any Money will become available for local he noted that the income from the not the actual Prin will go to the died 18 of natural causes in his downtown a native of he amassed a Fortune through shrewd investments in the Stock he was described by friends As a private Man who did not drink or smoke and lived his main interests were his work and the Stock he never married and had no although he has three surviving relatives a sister in Law and two nephews he chose to donate All his wealth to Sills friends said he gave away More than million to various charities during his his last will and drawn up last stipulated that All the proceeds from his is million in about in Bonds and about in and about in other assets were bequeathed to the executors and trustees of his it further stipulated that the executors and trustees Busi Ness partner Norman and the Montreal Trust were to use the proceeds to create a private charitable fund to be called the Thomas Sill it stated that it will be up to the executors to decide which charities receive funds from the Filuk said the amount of Money that will available for the foundation will not be known until All aspects of the estate Are including completion of Sills final tax return and a determination of what estate taxes May be while that should be completed this he said it will take most of the summer to Complete the groundwork for the Filuk refused to speculate Why Sill chose to establish a private rather than leave his Money to an existing organization such As the Winnipeg it was his wish to establish a foundation and that is what we will Filuk end ignoring requests that he either produce a warrant and identification or when i told him to he raised his hand As if he was going to hit me and spy husband warned him if he did not he was going to Call a lawyer and that is when he she she said she called who confirmed the Man was an officer and provided her with his badge a police spokesman said that unless police have reasonable and probable grounds for believing a suspect is at a particular they would not enter the if a Guy was seen at a that would give us reasonable and probable Bryan Kramble k ramble said he could not confirm or deny any of Mcdonalds allegations because he has no Way of finding out what i think theres probably a bit More to it than what Shes telling he and if Shes got the officers badge number she can go to the Law enforcement review Agen Mcdonald said she was going to Lodge a formal complaint with the Agency i i i ;