Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba First step Salinas Calls ceasefire in bid to end mexican uprising b5 48 pages vol 122 no 43 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get 4pst Bot f get Post out Sicko City 750 in on Arlo weekly Home delivery w t Post in Winnipeg wkly Post outside City january badness budget for City property taxes would Riss by Dan Lett City Hall reporter haunted by a lingering 1993 deficit and a Multi Mil lion Dollar payout to the Winnipeg City councillors yester Day faced a proposed budget featuring service cuts and a prop Ert tax increase nearly twice the rate of the draft budget contains recommendations for a per cent tax the elimination of 150 positions and cuts to almost every area of civic including inside Story so Why do we pay so b3 Parks and libraries and maintenance of chief commissioner Rick Frost said the budget this year is characterized by dwindling revenues and out control expenses that will once again leave property taxpayers bearing the major Burden of the cites increased Cash the cites troubles begin with a deficit from the result of hopeful Revenue projections and unrealistic spending cuts introduced at the last moment of last years budget the trouble continued with dwindling revenues and new including payment of the Winnipeg jets operating which left City Council starved for Cash and mayor Susan Thompson further from her Promise of freezing Thompson said she will support All the cuts in yesterdays draft budget and will be looking for additional ways of raising or saving Money to get the tax increase As close to Zero As had Little to say about her Promise in the 1992 election of both freezing taxes and saving weve been faced with additional she some councillors feel this years budget is the product of funny Money motions from last year and that More budgeting on a Wing and a prayer is in store for were starting off with More funny Money in a budget that is even More dependent on overstating revenues and underestimating expend said Glen Murray fort Rouge said Thomp son promised procedural reforms to avoid the and hoc approach to setting a budget but she has failed to Intro Duce even the simplest of Murray said the 1994 draft budget relies too heavily on forecasts of unconfirmed revenues and budget Sav Ings that May never be he said he fears Thompson and members of executive policy com Mittee have forced Frost and other City administrators into abandoning the responsible fiscal approach they have used in the the cats years later Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Jane Macdiarmid gets to know her cat Paddy which was lost for then found by Cathie Meyette left in a storage the tattered Tabby is Back with its a few of its lives aut Opac seeks to derail rate hikes by Paul Samyn legislature reporter aut Opac fears hefty rate increases for motorcycles and trailers will not withstand a court Challenge and could disrupt the insurance renewal Auto acs application before the Public utilities Board tomorrow to freeze rates for motorcycles and trailers is based on concerns its re Newal process cannot risk any fur ther Manitoba Public insurance documents in a 13 letter to the a topic said the rate increases or dered by the regulatory body Proba Bly infringe on the principles of fair Ness established by the supreme any successful court Challenge of an increase of those rates would cause severe disruption of the 1994 insurance renewal with its March 1 and entail a very considerable Cost to the corporation to reverse David an Pic a group of motorcyclists has Al ready appealed the scheduled 15 per cent increase to the Manitoba court of which is expected to hear the Case Early in at a special hearing Pic will ask the pub to Roll Back the 15 per cent increase ordered for motorcycles and the per cent in crease set for in an unprecedented the pub ordered those rates in novem Ber after ruling Auto acs application for a rate freeze did not follow sound rates for most other vehicles were instead of the per cent reduction aut Opac had been a 3 letter from Kidd hints at pics anger with the rejection of its rate As he told the pub the situation is clearly to the rate application process has Cost about million the corporation is no closer today to having approved rates for 1994 than when the process began almost one year Pic spokesman Brian Geary said he want going to comment on the court action the coalition of Manitoba motorcycle groups is Tak ing to fight the 15 per cent As far As we Are that is a matter Between that group and the Geary lawyer Raymond who rep resents the said a Zero per cent increase instead of 15 per cent would Only Cost Manitoba motorists 60 cents each to pick up the parents fear the Cost of Fame Winnipeg born girl is a but mom and dad just want a daughter by Gordon Sinclair free press columnist a Winnipeg born girl has become the brightest new discovery in the International movie but it appears 11yearold Anna Paquin might end up being a Mere shooting her former Winnipeg dont want her to continue a movie career because its too disruptive to the family and they want Anna to have a Normal Anna debuted last year in the australian movie the which was co Winner of Best picture at the Cannes film festival last in spite of her Parent intention to curb her Anna is still her face is being seen by millions of North americans in a Anna hot commodity television commercial for american telecommunications giant Sci that features her reciting a Soliloquy on a Rocky american who left Winnipeg with her older siblings Andrew and now lives in new her Mother Mary Bro phys Homeland and the setting for the her Brian returned to Winnipeg with the family Over where they visited with Annas Agnes it was her grandmother who called to Alert the free press last Spring when the piano won at but this week she was her son and daughter inlaw Are protective of their daughter and publicity they didst want Annas grandmother calling the newspaper when she was Tuckwell help saying something about her youngest who left Winnipeg at age to be it at about up per Cej Rrt from last revenues Are expected decline to 1 million less than last City would eliminate 1 full time equivalent half of these Are the others May require layoffs substantial cuts in service to Parks and works and operations and the Library the City accumulated a deficit last rivals guard in plot to Hurt Kerrigan associated press new Yor Tonya hardings bodyguard confessed to participating in a plot to injure olympic figure skating rival Nancy Abc news reported last the Abc report also quoted the unidentified sources As saying the weapon had been recovered in from a dumpster behind the ice rink where Kerrigan was attacked last earlier the Portland oregonian reported the Fri was investigating allegations hardings Jeff and her Shawn Eric were involved in the both Abc and the oregonian said that Harding had no knowledge of the alleged Abc said authorities expected to arrest four people late last night or this morning on Federal the oregonian reported that Gillooly and Eckardt hired a hit Man to carry out the the Story was based on information from a Man who said he heard a tape of a conversation in which the plot to injure Kerrigan was Abc said the alleged plot came to Light because the bodyguard taped the meeting and later played the tape for a a according to the a minister named Eugene Saunders told a private investigator that he had listened to the the two men then went to since the oregonian Story was Abc the tape has been Harding has not commented since the reports but tuesday night she was asked in a television interview about an Anonymous letter the station received accusing her husband of being Harding right with i cant believe she 1 Why does someone want to discredit me i just dont in the a Man brandishing a club struck Kerrigan after a practice severely bruising her right leg and forcing her to withdraw from the the Man the International committee of the figure skating association named Kerrigan to the olympics team along with who won the championship at the trials saturday the two women will be part of the contingent at the Winter olympics in the Portland private investigator who spoke with Gary said Saunders told him the tape recording made it Clear that Kerrigan was the Saunders told him a mans voice on the tape Why dont we just kill her the response was we dont need to kill lets just hit her in the t o Daas for Why Annas parents dont want her to continue Tuckwell said they just feel Shell have no childhood and if they were in new zealand and she had to make a movie in America they go with working vacation the Sci commercials were shot in Oregon and Utah before Christmas while Anna and the family were on what amounts to summer vacation from new this week Anna was scheduled to shoot a second round of commercials for Sci in new Sci spokeswoman Kate Fralin said Sci went calling on Anna in new we definitely sought her quote of the Day its almost becoming a luxury to live Wolseley Homeowner Joanne Kelly says Shes thinking about moving out of Winnipeg after hearing about the cites proposed property tax details on Page b3 the weather q today sunny and High Low tomorrow sunny and High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on paged 3 inside Ann in sports to lotto Bonus ;