Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 15, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg free october 1989 City Centre fort Rouge civic election 89 the candidates hopefuls Call for More police by Nick Martin the inner cites West end is fed up being used As Winnipeg dumping ground for slum housing and the smell and dust of the Public works its time to get some More police into the walking beats on sidewalks Long overdue for candidates in Daniel Mclntyre and notre Dame wards the City has designated the inner City As a says Daniel Mclntyre Independent candidate Colin the Union representative and nip member has been endorsed by Winnipeg into the nineties expenses have been Cut to the Point that such As garbage collection and Street clean Are on term Daniel Mclntyre incumbent Ernie a 41yearold insurance the slum landlords Are just going crazy the housing is absolutely Trigwell the City is in bed with there using our tax dollars As a pot of Gold to subdivide the suburban Trigwell said breaking Are ram Pant and residents Are afraid to go out and an Independent candidate and backroom said Winni Peg needs an Urban native strategy involving All Community agencies meeting with native groups to deter mine local the City could improve its housing Stock through a neighbourhood improvement concept that included the Public works and other de Gilroy we should look at it in the context of a neigh not just Gilroy said City workers dont reflect Winnipeg multicultural Char especially an almost exclusively White record store owner Art Potvin wants a tax rebate for businesses affected by Street in some that May be a Young people in Daniel Mclntyre need sports facilities and bus trav Ellers should have a weatherproof Transfer depot somewhere Down said a 35yearold in the major Issue is revitalization of notre Dame declared new Democrat Alan who has held the Ward for 26 the Core area and freight House upgrading Are under but the Parks system and infrastructure need said the retired railway there was a Large amount of Money Cut out of Street reconstruction in the has organized neighbor Hood watch programs in Weston and wants More of in a Strong advocate of Community based polic we naturally need a mix of people from different ethnic the absolute number one Issue in our area is the City Yards and its said Joe a social worker who lives in fort Garry but is contesting notre ill live or die on that the local residents Are very aggressive about moving an Newransky would move the works Yard next door to a gravel but cant suggest any appropriate the Brooklands Library Ana Pool have to be retained to preserve the fabric of the Newransky he wants to see More natives and filipinos in municipal retired boiler Engineer Joe figures City staff should be work ing a lot the Independent notre Dame candidate said he would convert por Tage place into a medical he said he Doest go there and believes the Twoy Earold Complex has been open for 10 but he says his wife tells him there Are few shoppers and there Are a lot of stores boarded Wade Trigwell Gilroy Potvin Newransky City Centre fort Rouge Paul free press Timmers defends Wolseley dont mess with worse Leys character around Westminster Independent incumbent Donovan the residential neighbourhood must be protected from developers who would chop Down houses to create parking lots and businesses that dont fit the Wolseley says i oppose the encroachment of Massage Pawn shops and escort both challengers live outside the Larry an insurance underwriter who lives in North Kilton said Timmers makes a lot of but Doest accomplish Marshall who lives in James near the said Hes More committed to a humanistic View of the environment and neighbourhood preservation than Timmers is an Urban studies Stu Dent at the University of the Liberal is big on residents neighbourhood watch groups and strict adherence to Zon ing and planning Timmers said the Sherbrook and Broadway area needs careful Busi Ness development to make it compatible with improvements he applauded along West a conservative who run Ning As an grew up in Many homeowners property assessments Are out of Peters accusing the City of providing too few services for the taxes collected in said Community based policing teaches children a respect for the Law by developing a close relationship with individual police officers and is just the ticket to deter drug pushers from gaining new and theres some real sludge in the with Community based polic Well be Able to curb some of that a restaurateur and self described social ecologist and for Mer nip candidate now running As an accused Timmers of favouring apartment development in Westminster and planning Legisla Tion to limit one car per family in the its i just reject that Timmers in a socially conscious Candi Hughes i still believe in old fashioned in concerned about keeping Westminster for the most Hughes environmentalists do not endorse they Are supposed to be critical of Peters Hughes Timmers order big Issue As seven scrap in Redbone by Nick Martin cops and More cops on cops in visible Community cop cops on the sidewalks and the Back lanes and especially cops who Arent Lawa Dorder is big in Core area Redbone where seven Candi dates Are scuffling Over the seat surrendered by 20year nip War horse Magnus insurance agent John Cardoso is Eli sons anointed successor As nip the police foot patrol is very says the Cardoso said downtown needs More Green Money in amounts he cant specify to Reno vate older housing and additional parking he said he also wants a traffic corridor built along existing rail Way tracks from the Core to the University of Manitoba to ease con but has no Cost we have to attack the sources of particularly a employ says provincial civil servant Derek an Independent intercity businesses such As Eaton and the Bay should hire intercity said we shop but the staff Doest reflect intercity we need More visible minorities in the police he my main purpose is to put a native voice at City said Barry a sell described aboriginal candidate and car carrying lib he said the City int hiring enough natives or other Marchand said four prominent native organizations and an incumbent City councillor have endorsed All denied his although sever Al Board members of the Winnipeg Council of status and treaty indians Are supporting him main Street is a War zone and the rest of the Ward int much said who works in marketing but refused to give his if nobody takes the leadership in the next 15 downtown Winni Peg is going to it will turn into warehouses and hell warned Joseph a 47yearold pharma Cist who lives in an inde he belongs to the Liberal party and has been endorsed by i would improve foot add a Community police station and boost Block Parent programs to try to keep drugs and crime out of the Yuen Yuen claimed the Urban Indian association has endorsed but it had not yet met to consider endors ing the Issue is the deterioration of the inner said Stephen a 62yearold meat inde pendent candidate and car car trying conservative who would re Duce Council to 12 the safety of the citizens should be the Foremost especially for senior Keki those pensioners Are literally afraid to go out of their Homes because of people begging for Money and snatching police should be visible through increased foot said Michael a 40yearold Case worker at the main Street project who is running As an Skremetta said he would slap higher amusement taxes on sporting he said Road repairs Are poorly coordinated and questioned whether so Many streets need to be Peter Juba said he would hire More minority police officers for intercity they work bet Ter with their own he promised to slash five per cent from property taxes in but Hast figured out and vowed to end wasteful spending in the school Over which Council has no a 57yearold construction worker who belongs to the conservative party but is run Ning As an lives outside the Marchand Abee Skremetta Yuen candidates discuss development River Osborne residents Are in a quandary Over being crammed Between the Core and hordes of car Loving How to develop without having the neighbourhood overrun How to attract shoppers and diners without having them take every parking space now that Harold Macdonald has retired after 10 the wards up for grabs among challengers Joe Glen Sam Katz and Herman development must be within the neighbourhoods yet sufficient to avoid said an Independent candidate but prominent local the neighbourhood wants people from All Over Winnipeg to come to shop and eat in the who moved out of the Ward but owns a construction company there and is president of the Corydon business opposes any More Ros Lyn Road residences being converted to boutiques and says Evergreen place is developed too but suggested theres plenty of room along Osborne Street from Strad Brook Avenue to Pembina Highway for More shops and he complained River Osborne gets less than its share of taxes Back in seniors decry the Lack of Snow he and the riverbanks Are virtually we have an exploding drug Trade in the said Village clinics director of health yet Winnipeg is Canadas Only major City without a youth crisis Centre or Street outreach Start dealing with the underlying its related to if the kids Arent our streets Arent said he has belonged to the liberals and nip but is nonpartisan he has been endorsed by Murray promised to be a full time councillor who would hold four pub Lic accountability meetings a year in each of six in going to be a full time Community organizer using residents associations to protect oppose congestion and control devel its time we have planning based on not said a businessman and an Independent who said Hes the Only candidate without partisan the neighbourhood belongs to the not to developers interested Only in Katz its time the area residents get a fairer Deal for their tax Katz Snow Clearing and re Moval services Are totally invade the sidewalks Are badly in need of accused the City of mis managing its heritage resources and wants some Teeth put in heritage preservation a machinist who Doest live in the the Independent Holla wants Winnipeg to build a Light rail rapid transit but Doest know where or at what Holla said parking problems at holy Rosary Church which he called holy Cross and sacred heart be resolved by the City building an underground Park ing garage at the River Avenue Safeway at a Cost he Esti Murray Katz Bova ;