Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 24, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press april 1990 Page 3 Brian City editor police arrest suspect after second Parent child centres future still Jeff de free press Concrete history Mark assistant manager of the round table restaurant on Pembina cleans up a Section of the Berlin Wall sitting in front of the eatery As part of its Eastern Europe promotion that runs to this piece of the Wall came from near berlins famed Brandenburg police urged to ticket smokers Winnipeg civic Protection committee wants police to crack Down on smokers who refuse to butt out in Public police chief Herb Stephen was asked yesterday to beef up enforcement of the antismoking bylaw for people who continue to smoke in the downtown indoor Walkway particularly next to the Canada Post Stephen told the committee four people were fined for lighting up in nonsmoking areas around the City in 1989 two people have been charged this people Are Given rather than he weve been acting on complaints and they Are a very Low priority Call on the dispatch he said managers of facilities have to take More initiative to Tell people to butt people dont feel its their Stephen Rick Boychuk Transcona said there is no Point in having a bylaw if it is not it makes us look like a Bunch of silly politicians for making this bylaw and then not enforcing he Stephen said he is willing to talk to the officers who patrol the Walkway system about issuing More he said he will prepare a response for the committees next meeting May the Manitoba lung association wrote asking them to do something about the Lack of enforcement of the nonsmoking the bylaw covers retail patient care areas of municipal grocery escalators reception areas and service lineups on any the downtown walkways Are completely nonsmoking City asked to find unneeded project civic committee rejects plan for joint Riverbank corporation by Radha Krishnan Thampi the cites planning and Community services commit tee has rejected a provincial proposal to establish a joint corporation to manage the riverbanks along Winni pegs two it approved an administration proposal yesterday to go it alone to develop the cites riverbanks with the cooperation of senior the committee concurred with an administration report which said our River heritage is too important to Winni Eggers for it to be rift to others to establish the vision and priorities for the committee agreed City Council should not give up its leadership role in managing the it said the provinces proposal to form a joint arms length corporation does not recognize the cites recent initiatives in Riverbank Evelyne Reese Langevin noted that after recent experiences with such arms length Trievel corporations As the Forks renewal the North por Tage development and the Core area Winnipeg councillors Are not eager to join such joint the civic administration which urged Council lors to reject the provincial said tip puts mounties on to rapist rapist Rudolph Myran is no longer in but the mounties Are on his Trail thanks to a ramp spokesman Wyman Sangster said we know Hes no longer in Canada we cant give out Sang Ster the ramp and Winnipeg police have been flooded with Calls since saturdays inc press listed five Manitoba parole violators whom the ramp identified among the most dangerous criminals police Are currently our phone lines were very Busy with tips on these Peoples where both through crime Stop pers and directly to Sangster it shows Lovis the Power of letting the Public help us with our was convicted of a 19s1 rape in Saskatchewan and sentenced to five years in while in a Brandon Halfway House in he was charged with impaired driving following an Accident in Portage la Prairie and his parole was three Days he made his escape when Hospital officials forgot advise ramp that he was being he Hast been seen d the proposal to set up a joint corporation is unclear about the provinces lon term commitment to the proposed corporation in terms of expertise and it noted the promised by Urban affairs minister Gerry Ducharme is not new Money because it comes out of the existing Urban capital projects allo d the proposal does not recognize that the City is the largest Riverbank d the role of the cites existing Riverbank management committee appears to be somewhat preempted by the proposed joint d the proposed new body would be controlled by an arms length Board of similar to the Forks renewal the administration report noted the Council started redirecting its energies toward improvement of River planning and management in 198687 but none of the cites actions have been recognized in the provincial the provincial plan entails the creation of a joint arms length corporation with million to million in seed Money from the three Levels of the six member committee unanimously rejected the proposal gehi1y free press by Ruth Teichroeb the Winnipeg Chinatown develop ment is asking the City to spend about to Purchase land for a seniors housing project that is not a corporation Board member said Chinatown businessman Ken Wong said last months Public confrontation Between Ernie Gilroy Daniel Mclntyre and Joseph Yuen Redbone about the project diverted attention from the real Gilroy reportedly grabbed Yuen at a City Council meeting and told him he support the project be cause Yuen criticized the previous councils so called gang of but Wong called a press Confer ence yesterday to question Why Yuen and the corporation Are sup porting the i dont think the Community needs who is also presi Dent of the Winnipeg Chinatown nonprofit housing i dont think the City should put Money into the City has Given enough to the chinese the development corporation ignored a study done three years ago which showed there want any need for More seniors he we have vacancies in our exist ing seniors Wong referring to the 88unit sek on Toi building run by the nonprofit Cor some people want to build empires in this Community Treyve executives of the corporations Board been trying to under mine every other organization in the the development corporations proposal that the City buy property now owned by the salvation army and lease it Back to the corporation is not fiscally he its All a Bunch of Wong what 1 dont like Are All the deals behind the the development corporations Board has not approved a request for the City to buy the he the corporation also has no firm funding commitments from either the province or Core area but Joseph development corporation said the 50 unit housing project is needed to attract More permanent residents to in just in total disbelief at songs do the idea of development int to build an but to develop the Wong didst object to the project when it was discussed at the last Board do Book Bazaar buyers and browsers sort through the boxes of books at childrens Hospital Book Market in the vital the an annual fundraiser for the runs for the next two weeks with books for almost every taste and age it would be Good for the City of Winnipeg and for Chinatown and for he adding he did not remember the housing needs study referred to by i dont think the government of Manitoba would do anything without proving a the development corporation is currently doing a needs Survey and May convert the project to mixed use he Yuen said yesterday the project could help revitalize that part of his Ward and suggested Wong might be criticizing the project for political i think there May be a Little bit of rivalry Between Joseph do and Ken Yuen the project makes Good business who sits on the Board of the nonprofit housing corporation headed by also said there is a need for seniors the vacancies for seniors Are very Low at sek on he Gilroy said he plans to examine songs concern about whether the project is the needs question most Defini Tely has to be he said councillors Ponder ways to keep cats from roaming City by Janet Mcfarland Winnipeg should ban cats from roaming freely off their owners but should not make cat licences the presi Dent of the Manitoba cat club said Lynn Anstett told a civic and hoc committee on animal control she does not think licensing cats will solve the problems councillors Are trying to it does not prevent cats from roaming prevent unwanted reduce the incidences of Stop cats from fighting or even guarantee she she advised councillors to ban cats from roaming freely and should implement a schedule of increasing fines for owners whose cats Are caught Anstett also said the City should require spaying or neutering except for cats exempted for Breed ing read my she told coun the Only reason to keep a pet whole is for Breeding Pur a spayed or neutered pet is a much More reliable family the committee is considering recommendations made by consultant Paul Griss in a 1987 report on animal the cat related recommendations in the Griss report were considered by councillors in but not the report re commended licensing cats and providing traps for use by Mem Bers of the Public the committee has examined the reports recommendations re lating to organization of the cites Pound and the handling of committee chairman Ernie Gilroy Daniel Mclntyre said cats were left until last be cause he Felt the situation was least he said mandatory cat Tattoo done at veterinary clinics for could identify the cats without requiring any the Downside is that it will work Fine for the responsible pet but it wont do much for the irresponsible Gilroy said the committee is considering the cat Issue because roaming cats Are a i dont think we should hire a great bureaucracy to sweep the streets of but i think there should be Anstett said she Doest think cat control issues Are a great problem in there have Only been two Inci Dences of rabies involving cats in Winnipeg since and both were wild cats that have been covered by mandatory vaccination Anstett said the number of pet cats has increased substantial but the number handled by the Winnipeg humane society has de creased by almost on third in the last 12 she said the figures show that voluntary spaying and neutering is working to control the and hoc committee will meet again in a few weeks to consider recommendations from civic administration before Mak ing any decision on committee gets Tough on vicious dog owners a civic committee has recommended harsher penalties to Deal with owners of dangerous dogs that bite or Maul Ernie Gilroy Daniel chairman of the and hoc committee on animal said yesterday there should be More Teeth in the penalties for not controlling dangerous were recommending the City ask the province to look at prose cution under criminal Gilroy the and hoc committee passed the motion Gilroy sad the owner of the dog that mauled Niney Earold Candace Allard would have faced tougher penal ties if the Law had been the owner was not charged after the november incident be cause there was not enough proof of criminal penalties allowed under the cites Pound bylaw the Only alternative Are not enforced strictly Gilroy the mauling was the impetus that led to the City Banning new pit Bull terriers in Winnipeg after june owners of existing pit bulls will be Able to keep their but they will be declared dangerous dogs subject to strict licensing representatives of the Manitoba association of dog owners urged the and hoc committee yesterday to allow exemptions from the dangerous dog classification for pit bulls that can be proven to be docile and Richard Seier said the City should develop tests of temper ment and obedience and then implement them for pit Bull owners applying for the he Aiso urged the City Amend the bylaw to permit new pit bulls entering the City for temporary veterinary treatment or with vacationing Orin a member of the Shaughnessy Park school said parents at the school attended by Allard dont want exceptions to the bylaw for obedient Cochrane said he is not con Vinced there is a Way to Guaran tee that a pit Bull wont obedience schools Are unlikely to provide Legal guarantees 6f their he Gilroy said he would like to see exemptions but he wants them to be my own position is that you have to be convinced that there wont be dangerous dogs escaping through the loopholes before i support he ;