Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 26, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press april 1990 Page 2 Richard provincial editor Gefry free press expert advice Garry adjudicator of the choir Competition at the lord Selkirk arts festival in gives grades 46 choir members from Mapleton school a few tips on How to improve their Kenora Council seeks input on sunday shopping Public hearings on bylaw slated for next month by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press Kenora town Council Here agreed monday to hold Public hear Ings next month on a proposed bylaw allowing businesses to open Sun since Kenora has allowed Only tourism oriented stores of Square feet or less to open Sun Canadian tire dealer Doug Bish who proposed the change earlier this said wide open sunday shopping is important to halt an expected decline in local tourism when the Tran Canada Highway bypass around Kenora opens this what will cause those people to come into town if theres no attractions he the Law currently discriminates against five Guys in the local Safeway and Saan stores favor the but two other Large businesses dont like woolco manager Daryl Hagen said his company policy is not to open sundays unless forced to do adding his employees do not want to work on if town Council passes that bylaw and our Competition Well be forced Hagen said he does not believe allowing the larger stores to open will affect local Are peo ple going to drive to cottage country to shop on sunday extra foods manager Ben Peters said he too would have no Choice but to open on sunday if Safeway but employee Carol Gauld said workers Are against the id hate sunday is a family Day As far Asim chamber of Commerce Vic Epresi Dent Keith Myshowsky said a questionnaire distributed to chamber members last year showed 45 per cent opposed sunday shopping and 38 per cent favored Myshowsky said this years Deci Sion was a difficult one because Many businesses Are opposed to the but he said there is now less opposition because of the suggestion to limit hours from noon to 6 in he said last years vote was taken before studies on the Impact of the bypass were revealing a potential annual loss of in Council is divided on the theres absolutely no need for it from what Ive Joyce Chevrier calling the tourism argument John who failed in two recent bids to introduce changes to the is supporting Bishops its my opinion that tourism is going to drop drastic youve got to have a reason to divert off the bypass and sunday shopping May do the sunday shopping Issue has surfaced several times in recent leading to the 1988 bylaw it also came to the fore last year when the Ontario government made changes to the retail business holidays act putting sole control Over sunday shopping in the hands of municipal curlers join to build facility Carman special the towns Curling and Golf clubs have joined forces to build a year round we both ended up with More than we would have if we had done it Curling club presi Dent Shawn Mccutcheon this is the end result of co opera added Golf club president Tom the five Sheet Curling rink and 966squaremetre club House will be used this summer but official opening ceremonies wont be held until the clubhouse conies Complete with a dining indoor outdoor outdoor lockers and pro the dining has a seating capacity of 200 with an additional seating capacity of 75 on the outdoor the Curling rink has been incorporated into a natural Rise in the landscape to make it More Mooney and Mccutcheon ninety per cent of the building has been paid off through government fundraising and club our mistake a Story tuesday said wrongly Dau Phin lawyer Doug Deans advised a client to buy land after learning a real estate scheme was in Deans merely executed the Legal paperwork in the land transaction and did not make a recommendation on purchasing the deaths classified death Gordon Harold David of Mono formerly of husband of Helen Renee husband of Delores husband of Naomi husband of Pat Christina of wife of Lawrence bunty Lillian of widow of Wilfrid Barry of car husband of Beverly Grenfall of Winni husband of Florence Emaline of Annie wife of Steve Robert of husband of Alethea of Hus band of Anna of widower of Pawlina of Winni widow of William Margaret of Winni of Joan of wife of Bud Ida of widow of Louie Wood Graffiti Sparks debate on Rural town racism by Nick Martin Winnipeg free press Bani brith will gladly Send speakers Here to talk to schoolchildren about race relations in the Wake of a Graffiti rampage that included Antisemitic a spokesman the chairman of the Manitoba Branch of the league for human rights of Bani brith Canada said yesterday Stonewall officials Are naive for thinking the messages Are simply pranks perpetrated by that a very typical reaction in a Small Lyle Mordin i cant believe those things dont have some basis of a Limestone Kiln in stonewalls Quarry Park was Spray painted with the words Little Auschwitz and other references to the Mordin said those responsible obviously have enough knowledge to target and have developed racist attitudes towards next be focusing on an other the sprayed on two weeks has been covered up or re Martin save the whales moved from the schools and other buildings in we saw it As Frankish in there were no racist statements on any of our school buildings or bus Interlake school division superintendent Ken Woodley most of the school vandalism involved familiar four letter he a teacher who asked not to be identified said the slogans death is Beautiful and kill the parents were painted on Bobby Bend i dont think it really has any thing to do with racism in its not its just typical i dont think kids would put that much thought into said a woman who identified herself As the towns i but refused to give her town administrator Jerome Mauws said the episode is being treated As i think its much ado about Noth Quarry Park manager Cal Martin All it was is a Bunch of kids with a can of Spray paint using their one of the houses hit in town said save the Martin at one site in the he urinate Here was sprayed above a yellow while free lumber was painted above a Park arson suspected in Niverville Blaze Niverville special the provincial fire commissioners of fice says arson appears to be the cause of a Dollar fire that destroyed two Niverville businesses Over the easier the information we have is that the fire started outside in boxes that you store furniture and so on Dave supervisor of fire in so you know what that leads us to ramp Are inv there Are no Clear suspects but police do have suspects in the which crippled local uti has the Village Council calling for alternative firefighting re including cellular a water pump and a Power mayor Gil plebe he added Council plans to buy the equipment As soon As Cost estimates Are sixty firefighters and 12 firetrucks from seven area fire departments battled the in which two key Niverville Wiens Furni Ture Village and Hanover bearing and automotive were lev during the the main Power line servicing Niverville caught fire and Hydro Crews were forced to turn electricity blacking out the our Well and Reservoir Cistern Are operated by George Niverville fire chief it was pretty Hospital pleads for capital funds Brandon up Brandon Gen eral Hospital has sent out a plea to the City and surrounding towns for donations to help make up a projected shortfall in its capital spending this letter asking towns and Rural municipalities for is something we Haven done certainly not on a regular executive director Glenn Chapman Chapman said the coming years capital spending needs Are estimated at but the budget is hovering at so Only two of the 28 towns and Rural municipalities approached Are committing any Money corneal which already contributes an and which is giving this Chapman said the shortfall is an annual the shortfall Means we wont be Able to upgrade outdated equipment that giving us maintenance prob or we wont be Able to add a new in most cases it Doest mean we wont lie Able to offer the service at whereas four years ago on april 1986 the chernobyl nuclear catastrophe occurred in dispersing unprecedented amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere causing deaths and contaminating Ukraine and neighbouring countries and whereas the heavy nuclear fallout has created dire health problems and economic disaster and whereas Large populated areas remain contaminated with radiation and whereas much affected land and environment cannot be recovered and whereas to this Day there is a continuation of the initial Lack of information and and the underestimation of future consequences of the biggest nuclear disaster in history and whereas the soviet government is providing inadequate medical care for the radiation victims and unacceptable cleanup of the affected areas and whereas the Canadian people Are concerned with the present and Long term effects of radiation exposure on especially children and the environment and whereas nuclear contamination and its effects Are a Universal concern William mayor of the City of in the province of do hereby proclaim april 1990 As the chernobyl Day of sorrow in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of this tragic human and ecological dated at Winnipeg this 20th Day of god save the Queen Illiam Savok ;