Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 29, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba T u Winnipeg free press april Page 3 Brian City editor Moscow Hail Baltic it kidnapped girl slays phone Purchase rapped extra features double cites Cost by Rhada Krishnan Thant i the City paid double what it had to for state the Art cellular critics of the Purchase three cellular telephones Worth a total of were recently purchased for the fire department to replace three already used by the chief and his two but one City councillor and Industry sources say the department could have got by with another new Model at half the acting fire chief Barry Lough wanted a Telephone with Bells and whistles and he got Allan Golden Gle Lawn the cellular Telephone Model purchased is marketed Only by its Motorola Canada and costs Motorola manufactures two other one sell ing for the other for these Are marketed through private while All three have common the most expensive one has extra features like a larger memory Bank that can match up to 121 names with Telephone the mid priced Model has a memory capacity of about 99 numbers while the lowest priced one holds about 27 they cannot match names to the three models have the same talk clarity and voice Golden quoting Industry he said the extra features in the most expensive Model Are not Likely to be used in an in an i wonder How the fire chief can remember the three numbers to Access each of the 121 a cellular Telephone the question is 121 names and Tele phone numbers is 99 numbers in the mid priced Pat of Advance agreed the three models Are comparable in they Are about the but Lough and Jack Motorola District sales manager in de fended the cites Purchase of the More expensive saying it outperforms the its like saying you can do with a Volkswagen instead of a More expensive Barreto their Quality is but Fea Tures Are absolutely it is Worth the Barreto those complaining about the Purchase Are some dealers who lost the he i think its sour the tender was open to but Golden and the Industry sources noted Only Motorola could meet the specifications because its the exclusive marketer of the expensive de Van the cites purchasing said his department bought the product based on the fire departments i have no right to Tell the fire depart ment what to Vanmierlo adding his Job is to award the contract based on the Vanmierlo said his department asked 18 firms to bid and seven the Model purchased was the Only one which met the tories accused of destroying Rural haulers the Manitoba governments destruction of Rural haulers livelihood while shipping civil servants out of Winnipeg is the president of the Manitoba trucking association Clarence Yackel said Rural who numbered More than 100 about four years Are expected to fall to a dozen by the year thanks to deregulation and the free Trade which produced about 700 new licences to inter pro Vinci Al carriers since interviewed at the associations annual convention that ended said he considers it hypocritical the government has done nothing for Rural carriers forced to Winnipeg to find while also forcing civil servants to relocate to Rural he also said the same government which used Rural carriers to transport equipment for Manitoba Telephone Manitoba Hydro and other Crown corporations now does that transporting Yackel said the government should re train Rural Many of whom have skills As welders or and then help them set up their own he said Rural haulers used to use their trucking franchises As collateral for Bank but Bankers now wont accept them because Competition has made them mean transportation minister Albert Driedger said the Manitoba labor department has retraining programs for any workers who need them and the Trade and tourism department helps those starting new he said Crown corporations have always transported some goods to Rural and didst know of any increase in recent Mai Here to Roll skateboarders scrounge for Concrete after City refuses to build Parks by George Nikides when Chris Russell and his pals climb on to their skateboards this summer be scrounging for a stretch of Concrete to Roll City Council refused to add to its budget for skateboard Parks this leaving boarders without a Public place to strut their stuff except four Small Concrete bowls built More than 20 years under City skateboarders who use streets or sidewalks Are subject to fines of to theres no place for us to said skateboard boosters say the City should build Public if the City Doest allow skateboards on its then it should provide them according to the National skateboard More than 10 million people skateboard in the making it the country sixth largest the association has launched a publicity Campaign against the notion that skateboarding is a fad that is popular among the antisocial and Overly As one association leaflet White said fears about injuries and resulting lawsuits Are there have been few injuries at Public she and in cases that have gone to inexperienced skaters were found at fault most not Cit owned teenagers interviewed in Winnipeg say the most popular spots for skating Are the wading pools next to the Centennial parking lots and school a Concrete ramp opposite the Law courts and City Grant a 17yearold who insists he skateboards every suggests the City build a Park and charge admission to cover its he enjoys the sport because its constantly changing Hes always working on new and unlike indoor the City offers hundreds of Corners to test new citing an alarming number of skateboarders on City this week police chief Herb Stephen ordered officers to Start cracking he said there have been numerous complaints from pedestrians who say the skateboarders Are a although Winnipeg police dont keep police spokesman Eric Turner said some wayward boarders have been fined Over the last but one officer suggested ticketing teenagers int a top priority for the its not really a big Issue with he f adding that he doubted if skateboarders would Ever be fined anywhere near Kelly who operates a skateboard shop called California said two professional boarders from California have been invited to Winnipeg for a demonstration he Hopes will show City Council the sports which Cost Between and Are Selling faster than Ever this Rose the City is just going to be flabbergasted when they see the number of skateboards out and then they Are going to do something about Rose operated an indoor skateboarding Park until last when off the Wall was shut Down because of a landlord tenant he with a place to said Katie administrative assistant at the National skateboard association in that the Only fair and equitable White said Public Parks with ramps and loops Are the trend across North but Mike Oshaughnessy who voted against skateboard facilities in the last two City said they should be left to the private he opposes increasing the cites million Parks and recreation budget at the expense of other skateboard Parks will need supervisors and will eventually add to the cites he Parks and recreation is very but it Doest rank up there with ambulance and fire and keeping up our roads and Oshaughnessy also said theres no guarantee skateboarding will remain if the sport goes the Way of the Hula the City will be left with Parks no one he theres a limit to what the City can were not big Oshaughnessy said Hes also concerned the City will be found liable for injuries at its Bill Clement Charleswood explained that he voted against skateboard Parks because the item want included when this years budget process councillors were asked to spend Only after completing the 1990 he our message want one of being he had the Money been there it might have stayed but after the bloodletting of the no one was going to approve the Money would have gone toward ramps and the hiring of supervisors for six three Parks were tested last and City staff recommended the program be although councillors decided against Winnipeg Community committees have been Given the option of setting up ramps with their own Oshaughnessy said if 500 or 600 people showed interest to his committee in East he will support a local skateboarders face fines if caught on Parks patrons hit the Road by George Nikides skateboard enthusiasts politicians should build Public Parks if they want teenagers to Stop cruising City streets and but what if no one uses the Parks Brandon is Home to the spine and grind Bike and skate a five Montgold former Industrial building that is billed As the largest skateboard Park in with the end of teenagers have abandoned the Park in favor of the its not going All that said general manager de we dont feel we have enough skaters on Good weekends the Park attracts about 200 but the numbers have been Down he like Brandon has a bylaw forbidding skateboards on streets and but Brandon three Earold bylaw on skateboards Doest set a Fine for police chief Brian Scott said children who Are caught this year will first get a those 12 years old or older who continue to break the Law will appear in provincial he i lean More to advising the he if the kids have just got their first then were not going to pounce on but if a kid is out there the Day after a then sometimes we have to take the City has a bylaw enforcement but if Hes tied up or off the police Are Maggiacomo has invested about in his including in he also had to cover the constant Cost of changing the shape of the ramps skateboarders soon tire of the same in two Parks have closed Down and a Park in Vancouver closed a few years Maggiacomo theres been a lot of Parks opened and a lot of Parks its a but i do know the skateboards Arent going to go ;