Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april found sees Sharp Rise in roaming pit bulls by Janet Macfarland City Pound officials Are destroying 15 to 20 pit bulls a month found wandering Loose on City Pound supervisor Doug Smith the City normally destroys stray dogs of All Breeds a but the number of stray pit bulls has been higher than usual since civic coif mittens began talking of ban Nung the Smith he said some pit bulls Are Likely being abandoned by owners who dont want to live with rigorous restrictions now required to keep we had a rash of them a couple of weeks Smith we just found these dogs wander ing around and nobody Ever claimed officials suspect dogs dumped As new restrictions become Taw during the busiest Smith said the Pound picked up 10 to 12 pit bulls in a few they were wandering they were not Calls we received because they were attacking people or he the Pound destroys unclaimed strays if a hew Home cannot be City Council passed a bylaw wednesday officially Banning pit bulls As of june current owners will be Able to keep their pit but will require a dangerous dog to get a they will have to show proof of liability insurance and have the dog tattooed with a registration pit Bull owners will also have to display dangerous dog muzzle the animals when they Are off their property and keep the dogs in a locked pen on their Chain ing the dog outside is not Smith he said three or four people have turned in their pit bulls for destruction since the bylaw passed wednes he said it is too Early to know whether a substantial number of the 430 pit bulls the City licensed last year will be we could be bombarded with licence requests or we could Only have maybe 50 of 90 people come its possible everybody else May get rid of them or get them out of the Smith said the Pound has received numerous Calls already from neigh Bors of pit Bull he said officials Are keeping a list and will Check that the dogs Are properly licensed after the bylaw takes effect june after june we will be out there looking for he Ken free press in the Smith said the Pound is scrambling to Cope with a More immediate he said pit Bull owners have called to com Plain they cannot find anyone to sell them he said the Pound is checking whether any insurance companies will sell a homeowners or tenants package with general liability to cover a pit if they cant get insurance no matter therell be a Smith hopefully Well know in a few William executive director of the insurance brokers association of said some Bro kers May not be willing to sell insurance for pit but it will not be impossible to Obrien said insurance companies have discussed the Issue in the past and have been willing to sell Gener a coverage packages to Home owners or tenants who have danger Ous the Premium May i dont see it making a huge difference in terms of but theres no such thing As a free Obrien he said the insurance Industry is concerned about an escalating num ber of claims once the Public be comes aware that pit Bull owners have Rural women an to protest Meech hearings Happy citizens autumn left and Susan discuss a song they were to sing at a ceremony yesterday in which about 200 girl brownies and pathfinders got citizenship badges for Community involvement and study of the Workings of the ceremony was one of the local citizenship week lutherans petition City on raw sewage local members of the lutheran Church agreed yesterday to ask the Cit of Winnipeg to Stop pouring untreated waste into the red it is the first time the group will petition the City on a policy said Ferdy a pastor with the the Resolution urging the City to improve its sewage treat ment methods was passed unanimously in Winnipeg Friday night at the biannual meeting of the Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Synod of the evangelical lutheran the motion was initiated by a lutheran Church in where residents have complained City sew age seeps into tap for 30 to 45 Days each the town combines River water with water from its two the River water is used when the depth of the towns Wells declines in hot weath its to lend our moral concern to efforts that Are already under explained editor of Cana Dian lutheran this is of such scope and of such an urgent it was Felt it should be singled out for special Rural residents eager to fill government jobs Baglo said the motion would Likely be presented to Winnipeg City coun cil in the next two the Synod represents 72 congregations and members in Manitoba and Northwestern the three Day meeting attracted 161 Del the Synod was also scheduled to consider a motion this weekend ask ing its congregations to begin study ing major environmental prob he by Pauline Comeau Rural women Are being unfairly penalized by the Public hearing pro Cess on the Meech Lake Constitution Al Accord and plan to demonstrate to show their says a women coalition we will be wearing red because we Are so Sheila Rural coordinator for the Westman coalition on Equality rights in the 1987 Meech Lake said last demonstration planned the coalition of Rural women groups plans to demonstrate in front of Winnipeg Sheraton hotel next week when the parliamentary com Mittee arrives for a 3vzday visit to hear the hearings Start what you will find Are Rural women who Are not politically Active out there fighting to protect the charter of rights and free Doig said the representatives of three Rural women groups have been trying to get information on the hearings for several they prepared 10 questions to ask com Mittee including where and when the hearings would take place and what were the rules to last Doig said she and several other women received a let Ter from Premier Gary Hilmons office encouraging them to Partick she said it was the first notice the women had that there were strict deadlines for having submissions in if they hoped to be chosen to appear before the Al party commit Doig said the Rural women called the number of the special committee office in but got Little or no they even Hung up on us some and i found that really insult she Doig also said that despite having met the deadlines and following the other Ottawa was slow to inform them they could because they live out of getting to Winnipeg on Short notice is not always she a spokesman at the committee office in Ottawa said people would be notified on the weekend whether they had made the appearance no free line Doig said Many of the women efforts to get involved have also been thwarted by the fact there is no Tollfree line to Call for no Day care available at the hear and no solid information on How to obtain one of the presentation women groups across the coun try have argued that while Protection of aboriginal and multicultural rights has been secured in the Protection of women rights As guaranteed in the charter has last a spokesman for he unitarian Church called the hear Ings a farce because the deadlines made it almost impossible to take by Donald Campbell Rural residents Are eager to fill provincial jobs if civil servants from Winnipeg dont want to some representatives at a tourism convention said there Arent Many jobs around that offer us that level of said Cheryl executive Secretary of the Morden and District chamber of Why bother with All the expense of moving them civil servants if people Are just going to move Back Bob Johnston of Souris i think people Are starting to think that he and i guess i cant blame several towns that will Benefit from the Manitoba governments de centralization policy participated in tourism Manitoba Daylong Vaca Tion convention at the Winnipeg convention Centre the City of Brandon threw a wine and cheese reception for civil ser vants being transferred to the West Ern Manitoba City Only a handful of government workers showed civic including mayor Rick prepared a presenta with a slide to tout the benefits of the City of people about 200 Kilometres West of Winni the province plans to Transfer 101 civil servants to Brandon As part of a program to move 692 government jobs out of a lot of the press that has been prevalent particularly out of the City of has been fairly negative about people moving into Rural Boro Tsik theres an awful lot of positive things people should be looking the main Issue is Quality of Many Brandon officials blamed the Balmy weather for the poor As temperatures in the mid 20s signalled Winter was finally the province announced last month that it was transferring Al most 700 provincial government jobs to Small towns across the opposition to the plans has been stiff from workers who dont want to leave their Homes in Winnipeg and move to communities such As flin flon or employees have 30 Days to let the government know whether they will accept the Premier Gary Filmon said Friday in Brandon the government remains committed to the despite the though the official response has not yet been Union officials predict Only a Small portion of those asked to move will actually leave the City to save their in at least two the entire staff of a transferred govern ment service has said it will not Rural representatives interviewed yesterday said they feel sorry for civil servants who May lose their but also said the economic opportunities created by decentralization Are desperately Dauphin mayor Martin Bidzinski said in an interview last week that his City has done All it can to encourage the 34 government workers transferred to his City to keep their jobs and weve attempted to show people everything we have to he i think we have gone out of our Way to accommodate three suffer smoke inhalation in fire three Winni Eggers were in Hospi Tal yesterday after suffering smoke inhalation in an apartment a Winnipeg fire department spokesman said a Blaze of undetermined origin that started about in an apartment Block at 520 Buell Street damaged the Kitchen cupboards and left smoke damage throughout the the loss was estimated at he a Winnipeg police department spokesman said a Man and woman in their 30s and a were in stable condition in pot farm alleged a Selkirk Man has been charged with running a marijuana growing operation in his a Selkirk ramp spokesman said police went to a House in the town about thursday and found a Semi hydroponic growing Weed Oil and other plus about 10 relatively mature marijuana plants with a Street value of about the spokesman said Douglas Charles of was charged with cultivating Mari Juana and with Possession for the purpose of Brickwood is to appear in court May the spokesman deaths classified death Annette widow of Laurence Oliver Arm of widow of Emit widow of John widow of Myles Charles husband of Mary of wife of John of Winni widow of David Johannes Jens George husband of Dorothy William Alfred of widow of Fred Taylor made sports in the Scott Taylor gets inside the world and works his Way putting a human face to us issues of the and with the Winnipeg free Ivess delivering Belpre 7 7 Days a you can 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