Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba The province Winnipeg free press january Page 2 Julian provincial editor la Bro Querie hotel owner Bill Troff blames poor business on the while Elsie Kolodzinski finds herself pulling fewer draft at the Tolstoi hotel taxes take heavy toll on country watering holes by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press la Bro Querie Bill toffs hotel bar is a lot like any other Rural watering Hole Pool compulsory Jukebox and mandatory 12 percent surcharge on every drink in Small town that 12 per cent Rural customers wont pay the markups Many City bars charge to offset so hoteliers Are forced to keep prices patrons in this town of 500 pay a Beer and a you have to watch it in a Small Troff if you Start charging too youll Cut your own the province has refused to con Sider dropping the As was proposed in an october study pre pared for the Manitoba hotel Asso approval was also withheld on several other which included sunday admitting minors accompanied by parents and increasing a Beer Dis count designed to assist with costs of running a that worries representatives of the hotel which saw 16 mostly close in they All have the same prob declining Rural the lure of liquor and the effects of Tough drunk driving Laws in places where cars Are often the Only Mode of if we dont see any theres not going to be any country said Larry serving a Lone afternoon customer in the Vita John hotel association presi said despite minor conces meetings with finance minis Ter Clayton manness and Justice minister Jim Mccrae late last month were nothing there was nothing positive to help hotels survive in the Short term or he but Mccrae said a number of things will be done to help the Strug gling starting in Domestic draft Beer will be sold from hotel vendors in recyclable plastic along with new malt coolers the Manitoba liquor control commission plans to introduce at the same a regulation that requires hotels buy no More than 25 per cent of any one Brand of spirits will be struck for the third the liquor commission will decline markups for the next Price expected in All things taken while its not the be All and end it should go some Way in ameliorating some of the Mccrae hoteliers say the most important factors 12percent surcharge and the Vendor Beer Dis count were the government looks at it As an accountant would and youre a num Ber on the computer said Lee owner of the hotel in a tiny Community about 50 Kilometres East of liquor commission spokesmen say removing the 12percent fee would Cost while raising the Vendor discount from to would take More than million from provincial our profits Are going so this is not really the time to be looking for additional Allan the commissions Vic Epresi Dent of but Liberal liquor control act critic John Angus Morten said the government should look at More than the Bottom you have to weigh it versus versus tourism and the whole spinoff he the Only Hope for Many Rural bars hoteliers is to follow the Lead of the Farmers and if you dont diversify and become something other than just a if you rely on then forget said who is trying to play up the restaurant Side of his read said his association will push the Manitoba lotteries foundation to allow beverage rooms to be used for Bingo by Community that would generate said of course it would even if we Only sold confectionary items and nonalcoholic Bev even if we could Only do it on Marcia Hunt of the lotteries foun Dation said bingos Are currently not permitted in privately owned Prem but lotteries minister Bonnie Mitchelson will be discussing the proposal with the hotel by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press Tolstoi the Little Roadside hotel is the Backbone of this Dot on the a Border Hamlet that both people and time have it has never been once boasting three or four a Creamery and a Railroad theres a Small general a Coffee a handful of people and the Tolstoi an old shaped shuffleboard dominates the where lunches of roast Chicken soup and Blue Berry pie Are enjoyed by the half dozen regular behind the the stainless steel of the 50yearold cooler is polished to a Shine and the Black handle on its face still draws a pint of even the fresh face and dyed Black hair of the hostess belies her 69 time has moved slowly in Elsie Kolodzinski but this it finally caught Ive been Here 49 years and this is the worst Elsie pulling Border bar owners threaten to sell smuggled liquor hotel owners in Manitoba Border towns May resort to buying smuggled liquor if customers continue to be lured South for a cheap the president of the Manitoba hotel association when Peoples backs Are to the they do what they can to sur John read theres no indication this is a widespread problem but its going to find its Way into some licensed last ramp seized 20 cases of american liquor from a truck near the largest such Sei Zure in recent in 16 people were charged in what the ramp called a record liquor pipeline with alcohol smuggled across the Border through Farmers and last a Birds Hill businessman was caught with More than 900 bottles of american booze stored at his there have been no recent charges involving hotel but a few years two Winnipeg hotels were Dis covered with cases of liquor on the although it is Legal to import alcohol for personal it is illegal to import it for but reselling the liquor can be even if an importer pays All the duty and taxes on read the product is about 70percent cheaper than at the Manitoba liquor control deaths classified death Vema wife of Logan Raymond of husband of Dolores Hugh of Hus band of Llean William of Portage la be of Herbert Hus band of Helen Hazel of Winni widow of Samuel of Winni of widower of Leah Edward Winston of formerly of West husband of Cathie widow of William James of husband of Alice Jenny of widow of John of Hus band of Yeefung husband of Pauline Thomas husband of Donna widow of Robert of widower of Mildred of Jersey wife of John Donald of san husband of Geral Dine of Hus band of Shirley of widow of James Mary Ann widow of Bruce David husband of Reesa Lavitt of wife of Dan pen be mice widow of Clifford wife of John Helena widow of Walter James Marjorie of wife of John of wife of Samuel Velma wife of Bob Evelyn wife of Alex if wife of Abe Raymond of 103033 Portage husband of Pearl John wid Ower of Alice daily Deal open a huge Ledger with entries for every Sale carefully penned in its Ive never had a Day with no sales Over the but this october there was one Day where there was like most other Small Rural this one is feeling the bite from a sagging farm an exodus of Young people to the City and rising alcohol but for the situation is the Border with its cheap duty free liquor shop is nine Kilometres South on Highway six Kilometres an american bar lures old customers i get so goddamned says who runs her pub with the help of a hired local its the governments they should really help what can we do but with recent indications that no sweeping Reform to liquor control policies Are she wonders How Long her business will now that she pays an she says she Doest even break in half tempted to but i want to hit fifty Back in a Glass of draft sold for a Elsie cooked around the clock for Crews putting in rail lines and while her late Hus band kept Beer flowing to thirsty workers and it was everybody everybody had a Buck even if they were it was real its a business and theres no no the Kolodzinski didst care much for modern not until 1982 were women allowed to drink in the Tolstoi the toilets had to be carried out every Day until the Early 1970s and Vendor Beer was kept Cool in the basement until a few months Elsie finally broke Down and bought a Cash Regis its unreal How much it saves i should have done it Long she explaining that she used to put a Mark on the Wall to keep track of but the receipt Roll is not very Long these a dozen people in the 50seat bar is the most she sees and those mainly passersby from the and the occasional group of hockey players from neigh Boring after 50 she has no plans to the memory of her gone seven Perme ates the place like the smell of Beer and we did everything she pointing to one of the Many Pic Tures of him that adorn the and what does he do he Dies and in All my kids say come to but what am i going to do in the City an avid Bingo Elsie is enthused Over the Manitoba hotel associations proposal to have the game allowed in beverage but in the Tolstoi hotel in All the Pace of Busi Ness and life at Elsie place will continue on through the Days like a clock running goods and services tax credit you May be eligible to receive the new goods and services tax credit payable in at Block Well prepare the application form to be filed with your 1989 tax if youre Only filing for tax credits this Well prepare your re turn for a special Low theres no need to be confused by the eve changing tax put us to work for open 9 weekdays 9 saturday phone 7868878 or 2333080 consult your White pages Page 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