Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba T Winnipeg free june free press floating fundraisers Cheryl Froese is surrounded by the More than zone in Winnipeg involved 100 volunteers balloons released by the Canadian mental health inflating and releasing the balloons and was designed to association the held at the fun draw attention to the associations fundraising Quarry hours firms fear ruin by Aldo Santin Quarry operators in Stonewall say they face financial ruin because of a ruling from the clean environment commission that has restricted their hours of the commission recently announced that five Quarry operators in Stonewall will be restricted to a 6 working Day and will be prohibited from blasting before 9 and after 4 the commission ruling also pro Hibits the quarries from operating on sundays and statutory Ive had to Lay off six men be cause the Shorter hours has eliminated one Dick presi Dent of Mulder construction materials the Shorter hours Means we wont be Able to meet our contract obligations and that going to Cost us a Day in penalties on our the Quarry firms had been operating 20and 24hour Days for the last six years but a Stream of complaints from nearby residents prompted environment minister Gerard Lecuyer to have the commission hold a Public hearing on the a residents spokesman welcomed the ruling even though it fell Short of their demands for a 12hour working from 6 to 6 Appeal filed we can live with Bruce Sabatini it will give us a Chance to wind Down from a hectic work Day in it will be a lot better than what we had whose Home is within 800 metres of two Busy said the noise of the gravel crushers often would Wake residents at two and three Oclock in the Mulder said he has filed an Appeal to and Tony owner and general manager of Riverside gravel said he will Appeal the commissions at least they could have allowed us to work until 10 Deger that would have Given us two eight hour shifts and kept our men he said most of the Quarry staff Are seasonal employees who need to get As Many hours of work possible before the Winter sets our men will go to other quarries where they can get longer he life threatening fire situations cited in chiefs defiant stand against Aid ban Winkler fire chief John Elias says he is prepared to defy a town Council order not to answer Calls in a neigh Boring municipality if he believes someones life is in Elias was told by Winkler Council in late May lie must not respond to Calls in the Rural municipality of Rhineland unless its fire departments ask for weather precis Vlahon High pre Itura Tow cold final warm from Winnipeg area forecast increasing Cloud winds North 25 High near Cloudy winds North Low near mainly Cloudy High near probability of precipitation is near 20 per cent tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mostly Cloudy High near Low near mostly sunny High Low Northern Manitoba mostly sunny High Low mostly sunny High Low Northwestern Ontario mostly Cloudy High Low mostly sunny High Low but we have much Superior equipment and More equipment the closest department should automatically answer the if there is a life threaten ing Well Elias the disagreement Between councils in Winkler and located about 100 Kilometres Southwest of was sparked by a Bill submitted to Rhineland Council by Winkler for a Bridge fire last Rhineland Council determined their fire located in Gretna and Plum were capable of handling the Small they refused to pay the Bill and then told Winkler they were not financially responsible for any Rhineland Calls Winkler responded Rhineland Reeve Jake Schroeder they want to charge us just to come out and have a Schroeder if they get a Call they Are quite Welcome to answer were just not in the he Winkle is Bills have been paid by the citizens who he said Winkles brigade in Plum Coulee would be Able to respond to Calls As fast As any Winkler detach the two brigades Are about 10 Kilometres Elias said that in the 20 years he has been a member of the Volunteer fire they have always answered when Rhineland citizens he Are submitted because taxes support Only local fire Winkler Secretary treasurer Arnold Kuhl said the real Issue is the education of Rhineland Rhineland should be teaching their citizens who to Call when there is a Kuhl were going to lose customers because we cant Supply material and were going to lose our staff because we cant give them Mulder said the order went into effect immediately and it gave him and his competitors no time to make necessary the Appeal will ask the minister to extend the hours of operation to 10 or 11 Mulder Sabatini said the residents anticipated the operators would Appeal and have requested a meeting with Lecuyer before he makes his Deci a spokesman for Lecuyer office said the appeals wont be considered until a 30day time period has the residents dont have any sym Pathy for the Quarry Sabatini because they consider the operations an intrusion into the Basic agricultural lifestyle of the but Mulder and Deger said most of the complainers Are new arrivals to the area who were aware the quarries were in youve got City people who have moved out on to the Edge of a gravel pit yet they still want to be Able to hear the crickets at Mulder it Doest make any three residents had occupied the Rural municipality of Rockwood Council offices for 90 minutes in april to protest Wii at they consid ered was the municipality support for the Quarry police ended the occupation by evicting the High school students using drugs face Tough penalties Pelly Trail school Board plans to crack Down on High school students caught drinking alcohol or using illegal the Russell Banner reports that trustees have approved a policy suspending students for at least five Days for engaging in either activity during the school at extracurricular activities or at activities sponsored by the school it is part of a discipline policy which also includes guidelines for dealing with students who dam age school property or leave school during the trustee Ken Nakonechny said Board policy requires the Divi Sions seven schools to apply the same sort of discipline that would be applied by a firm and judicious Nan Winkler a heat wave and widespread Public disobedience of a water rationing ordinance forced town Council Here to pro Hibit residents from watering their according to the Pembina Louis a Manitoba water resources Board spokes said the towns million litre water Tower and Reservoir would have run dry had the ban not been Loewen said residents must have thought recent rain was sufficient for them to ignore the the Lawn watering restriction upset at least one Harvey Friesen said he spent sodding the Lawn of his new Only to find he had to truck water in to keep the Lawn j d d Selkirk two residents spent 11 hours clinging to their Small boat after a storm trapped them in the red the Selkirk Enterprise reports that service station owner Dick Willows and his had their boat overturned in a and the boat became entangled in a fishing the Willows were forced to cling to their overturned Craft the were Able to swim to Shore in the the couple was taken by ambulance to the local and then a d d the Pas a special Moose Lake Indian band election held because of irregularities in last years contest has produced a new dateline Manitoba a weekly Roundup of provincial giving readers a glimpse of events in Rural according to the opa Sittia Jim tobacco received 25 nosing out Ralph Nasteka pow and Russell who each had 22 Marguerite Sanderson received 19 while John James easter trailed with the previous election was Over turned by the Federal Indian affairs department because seven no Reserve residents voted in the d d d Washow Bay a Farmers spokesman in this area North of Riverton says the Manitoba government has backtracked on a reelection the interlace Spectator re ports that Farmers spokesman Herman Weik said that while the province has committed Mil lion to a massive drainage up grading this Falls Short of what Premier Howard Pawley and agriculture minister Bill Uruski promised in Weik said work on the project has proceeded at a snails no agreement has been no Money is available and there has been no talk of Money for he said Farmers became concerned after Reading a news Story quoting Uruski criticizing the Federal government for not participating As far As the banners Ottawa was never involved in the Uruski has since said the prov which tried unsuccessfully to get Ottawa to pay for part of the could Only come through with million Over a seven year Felix conservative my for Selkirk in said the province has no business pointing the Finger at the tory Federal government when Ottawa never gave a commit witnesses expect at conference about Jehovah witnesses Are expected to attend the groups District conference opening Friday at the Winnipeg convention convention spokesman David Len sch said the three Day event will focus on major problems affecting humanity and 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