Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo for All seasons suede designs slide easily into most wardrobes 33 focus talking in code Sununu hand seen in greenhouse baffle gab world California shaken up new earthquakes Mark anniversary of 1906 catastrophe 43 42 Clear tonight 2 sunny tomorrow 14 second Oass mail registration number 086 Aprim Sun rises sets Moon rises sets out eke Winnipeg weekly Homo Dettery i Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery classified 9562330 firms owe City millions in taxes by Radha Krishnan Thampi two prominent Winnipeg developers and several numbered companies Are among 35 firms which owed the City million in Back taxes As of according to a yet Tobe re leased administration Lakeview development of Canada owed the City about while Shel Ter of Canada owed about Council sources said the list includes Only those who owe the City More than in property the City was owed million in Back taxes As of claim disputed Lakeview president Jack Levit said last night his com which owns several buildings in does not owe the City any Back in a Telephone inter View from Las vegas where he is attending a said Lakeview May have been included in the list by mistake because it manages the Down town Sheraton owned by Donald and York in which Lakeview has 38percent Levit said Sheraton partners have made a conscious Deci Sion to pay civic taxes Only once every three years As part of a financial he said Sheraton owed the City about not he said there is nothing illegal or improper in with holding civic taxes As Long As they Are paid in full with pen Alty within three shelter president Arni Thorsteinson was not in Winnipeg and could not be reached for City Council overwhelmingly agreed yesterday to impose heavier penalties for late pay ment of effective july the City will Levy a penalty equivalent to the prime Bank rate of the Day plus four percentage Points on All Back at the current Bank rate of per this years penalty would be per the current penalty for late payment is 15 per approval came after mayor Bill Norrie told Council some big taxpayers were using the City As their Norrie said these firms use civic tax Money for their Cash flow thus avoiding High interest rate Bank its part of their financial he see withholding Page 4 Ann Landers answers Bridge business classified Cleversey 7 comics crossword deaths 44 editorials letters 6 entertainment sports stocks lotto winning numbers 46 number Arn Arsi by Kevin Rollason an american claiming to be a gun collector has been charged with 24 offences after 27 weapons including an antitank Rifle were seized at the Emerson Border crossing Frederick William Bayer of Marco was held at the Winnipeg remand Centre yesterday and was to appear in Provin Cial court customs officials said last night it was the largest private arms seizure Ever made by Canadian it was also the fourth largest weapons seizure made since contacted in Bayers Mother Doris said she was surprised to hear her son had been arrested in he collects weapons and he has a licence for she he now works in Alaska and he was moving some of his things up there with the help of his Jet de free press making his Point a Winnipeg police officer read the riot act to a news photographer at a fire in James damage was estimated at about 000 to Jama industries a door and window cause was under invest the firm plans to remain at Border Bayers want she said computer has phoned but said very Little about his he didst say very this has never happened to him see Arsenal Page 4 Shoal helpless to spill cleanup capability extremely limited by Donald Campbell emergency response procedures would be inadequate to protect Shoal Lake from a hazardous waste Ontario government correspondence the Winnipeg water Protection group last month obtained the correspondence and other Ontario government documents relating to the proposed develop ment of a Gold mine by consolidated professor mines near the source of Winnipeg drinking water one from a senior Canadian coast guard official to a senior Ontario environment official dated concludes a response to a spill of hazardous materials by Kenora personnel in the Lake of the Woods watershed would not be the memo notes the coast responsible for spills in Canadian has extremely limited re sources available in John base manager for the coast guard in confirmed yesterday his staff of seven could not see minister Page 4 agencies admit failing sexually abused girl by Catherine Mitchell child welfare agencies failed a Young girl repeatedly returned to Homes where she was sexually abused and must admit officials said As findings of a provincial investigation into How the girl and her family were handled by a num judge convicts Ber of agencies must be made pub they this is a real sad Bruce director of the Northeast Winnipeg child and family services Agency which now has care of the and her we agencies look like hell and justifiably he noting both children Are victims of the systems the childrens a former child welfare Ward was convicted yesterday of sexually assaulting the girl in her parents and aunts where he during the time of the the two children had been removed and returned to both houses a num Ber of times by social ill read the but i dont think ill change my Hardy the Job want done the child want protected and i think that a see agencies Page 4 Farewell to Nova Buchanan no Choice Capstaff Halifax the Atlantic provinces will have no Choice but to join the United states if Quebec leaves says Nova Scotia Premier John what Are we going to do form our own country that stay As a fractured part of Canada a Good but that or be part of the United states theres no Buchanan made yesterday in an interview with the Canadian caused a furore in the the opposition accused the tory Premier of we dont want to be americans we want to remain As said Liberal Leader Vince to have the first minister Issue those comments he should either apologize for inappropriate comments or resign As the Premier of the Buchanan brushed off that suggestion and softened his position by saying he was Only outlining the three options discussed by maritime premiers during a recent meeting in Corner Meech 15 if Maclean has any other alternative that would happen to this part of id like him to state Buchanan told the Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon refused to speculate last night about whether the failure of the Meech Lake Accord could Herald the disintegration of Ive heard a lot of people suggest the demise of Filmon told reporters after speak ing to a conservative party fundraiser in Winni Peg there have been those apocalyptic predict Ive said i dont believe them i dont believe the country will break but Filmon said he shared Buchanan pessimism about salvaging the Accord before the june 23 if the Only answer were going to get is Meech Lake and nothing else and no then obviously we have nowhere to Filmon if Hes Buchanan expressing that Pessi Hes joining a whole list of people who have expressed that pessimism in the last behind Hestenes negotiations Are still under Way to save the he see Buchanan Page 5 eviction Nightmare for junkman Wayne go Wayne free press by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press Portage la Prairie the Yard is full of junk Rusty piles of strips of Sheet an old cats sneak through Waist High Brown grass while a Small flock of pigeons swoops in and out of the loft in the rundown the House has broken Glass in every now stuffed with wads of in a Middle class neighbor Hoood on the North lives Steve but not for last the mayor requested an order to evict the former Carpen Ter from the place he has lived All 57 years of his life Long before it became part of a City the junk will be the buildings i dont know what in going to who has yet to receive the said in an inter Ive been suffering in my nightmares for some times i cant after accumulating More than in unpaid Max mucks four lots became City property last people have been faced with an eyesore and a health Hazard and As a Council we have to protect the children in that neighbourhood and the senior citizens that walk Down the Ross Smith said at a meeting last month when the Evic Tion was the turning Point in the decade Long Battle Between the reclusive the and his neigh Bors came about six years the prompted by numerous complaints from marched on to the Yard with the help of police and hauled away most of Max mucks junk after receiving a cleanup Bill for almost the outraged owner hired a lawyer to take the City to on top of stealing my they turn around and charge me fur it and for cutting the Maxe who estimates his loss at see junkman Page 4 Steve Max muck Doest know where Hes going to Mthm ;