Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Try the new rent line 958rent Apex realty 7368 Gordon Sinclair smile when you look at a gift horse the electronic mail note addressed to everyone in the newsroom was entitled free City Hall reporter Stevens wild had sent it for those among us who missed the message in his recent Story about an almost unbelievable Opportunity for a massive property tax in Case you missed it the Deal works this if your mortgage payment includes the property you can let the City collect it monthly from your Bank account in youre refunded half a years Worth of taxes that you prepaid the lending institution of wilds note ended with an Assurance this is not a so i found q q q at first i thought i had the wrong the line at City Hall was Long enough it went right out the but the people in it were acting As if they were getting ready to file past an open when i got Back to the i was telling a couple of reporters about All the funeral the people in line at City Hall had that same Blank stare bus passengers far but not far enough away from you the Young woman reporter sitting across from me but what she get used to was something quite the the Way Winni Eggers make Eye Contact with each what really gets to her is the Way other Drivers stare right into your m from she maybe that was everyone in the City Hall line i was in was originally from that be it because the Guy two behind me in line at City Hall was a free press staffer and i know Hes from i yelled across the Allan Besson sat Down across from is it just i or did you notice that no one was acting As if they were just about to get a pos Christmas Cash Windfall they haunt been expecting Besson haunt thought much about but now that id mentioned he he had noticed How i had helped the elderly woman in front of me fill out her application form and saved her place in line while she went Over to a table and signed her he that she never i think its that everyone just gone through Besson just got through Christmas i but Christmas is supposed to be a Happy time of year when you shake everyone hand i got everyone tired of smiling and being Nice to people they really cant that must be q q q but it what really puzzled me was the contrast Between the grimaced people in line applying for the free Money and the City Hall staff who were so cheerfully 1 understood the tax department staffs merry they liked being the Good Guys for but i still just then Besson spoke up he had figured out Why All the funeral everyone its too Good to be whats the catch my fellow taxpaying is the state of our there is no As a much Wiser and More literate Man once this is not a Wou can smile Winnipeg free press local january Marc free press hot and cold an exhausted firefighter takes a breath of if air yesterday during a rest be fore returning to a Kent Road where fire caused in there were no but the basement and first floor of the Structure were is begging a right under Constitution Legal experts say proposed bylaw might violate charter by Bruce Owen staff reporter a proposed bylaw regulating the cites problem panhandlers might violate a beggars right to Legal experts the draft to be discussed by City councillors restricts where panhandlers can beg no where near automatic Bank ing or hospitals and prohibits panhandling after if it will replace a bylaw challenged two years ago on the basis that it violated the charter of rights and if there telling people they cant ask for Money in a nonviolent or nonthreatening youre interfering with their Freedom of sex Legal Aid lawyer Arne not a crime that the a bylaw like i will be picked apart piece by Manitoba association of rights and liberties spokesman Peter Sim also said the proposed bylaw could violate the Sim said because panhandling is not a crime under the criminal the City May have Over stepped its Power by trying to regu late it in such a sweeping but a City police officer said the proposed bylaw Doest go far Ron who helped de Vise said it should also forbid pan handling on private such As Eaton place and the parking lot at the Safeway in Osborne if that was it would have More because if we catch you on private we can do Audet said the proposed bylaw is a necessary if it violates a panhandlers rights because it free press in Osborne favors bylaw to curb if passed by City the proposed bylaw would prohibit panhandling i within 10 metres of a Bank or credit automatic Teller or Hospital Public i on a City or area near a bus in an elevator or in a pedestrian 1 from a person in a car which is parked stopped at a traffic Light or in a loading after continually from a person who has made a negative protects the Public by targeting aggressive and abusive were not saying you cant pan handle were just restricting the Public has a right to feel Safe out business people and shoppers in Osborne Village without a bylaw in panhandling is about the same As Osborne Village business improve ment zone chairman Alan Shepard Home of these people really harass you and you finally do give them a loonie to get them off your for a Small group of people to take Over a neighbourhood is really Denise assistant Man Ager at the Toronto Dominion Bank Branch in Osborne said she wants the bylaw passed so her customers feel we have Many and they do get very she Maude and Iris also want the proposed bylaw in they beggars Are a Damn Nui Sance and in such a i cant say Bolton Josie executive director of area seniors Home Villa said Many of her residents Are frightened by panhandlers to the Point where they dont leave the but the question we should be asking is Why do people Panhandle Lucidi we live in a City and province where there Are social services to help people for medical help and no one in the province has to be i think our citizens have to be re minded of that so that when they walk past a person with their hand they dont have to feel Section Brian Cole 6977292 email b1 a Case of nixed signals Cit ordered traffic lights risky councillors by Nick Martin City Hall reporter the City plans to spend this year on traffic lights that its administrators predict will mess up traffic flow and result in reared and neither of the two intersections involved has anywhere near the priority Points assigned to Corners elsewhere in Winnipeg that have been awaiting lights for a report to be tabled at the cites works and operations com Mittee tomorrow recommends traffic lights be installed this year at Mcphillips Street and Pacific As Well As at Logan Avenue and Weston City Council ordered them to be built when it approved construction of the Pacific Avenue works Yard in lights Are usually not consid ered until a Corner has garnered 100 Points based on vehicle and pedestrian numbers and Inci Dence of the Pacific Avenue intersection has 47 prior Ity while the Logan inter Section has As according to a report by the cites both sets of lights would be too close to existing traffic signals to avoid interrupting traffic while the likelihood of reared Colli Sions would and several councillors indicated last week they intend to oppose the what a Crock said Mike Oshaughnessy old Kil Oshaughnessy said it was the civic administration that wanted the lights in order to control traffic in and out of the works those two will disappear he adding he is also against proposed lights at Burrows ave nue and Sheppard its in the Middle of an Industrial Sandy River Heights also opposes the we May Send this to a special meeting of traffic she Glen Murray fort Rouge said hell move to dump the two works Yard lights and add signals at Pembina Highway and Daly and Garwood where a teen died after being struck by a car at a crosswalk last which Lucky seven get traffic lights the City plans to install seven sets of traffic lights in an intersection is not considered until it has reached 100 priority Points based on the number of pedestrians and the following intersections Are under consideration Mcphillips Street and Pacific Avenue 47 Points designated in 1991 by Council As part of the Pacific Avenue works Yard Logan Avenue and Weston Road 65 Points also part of the works Yard panel Road and Talbot avenue121 Points a Developer covers half the Burrows Avenue and Sheppard street100 Points traffic has increased 19 per cent in three and 38 collisions occurred last Leila Avenue and pipeline Road 56 Points approved in the 1994 capital budget on the expectation that widening Leila to four lanes will produce a rating higher than Bishop grandly Boulevard and Shore Hill drive 50 Points a Developer will pay for lights to handle an anticipated new vehicles daily from the Royal Woods estate Oak Point Highway and Eagle drive 101 Points the trucking Industry has offered to pay for 1995 construction if the City agrees to repay the Cost Over five the cites waiting list for traffic with priority include the following Grant Avenue and Lanark Street 106 Portage Avenue and Balmoral Street 102 University Crescent and Sefton Road 100 Regent Avenue and Day Street 94 marys Road and vital road90 marys Road and Barrington and Berrydale avenues 90 Concordia Avenue and Molson Street 89 Lakewood Boulevard andvermillionroad72 Pembina Highway and Daly and Garwood avenues 68 traffic Light plan Milfs a councillor by Nick Martin City Hall reporter a traffic Light at Grant Avenue and Lanark Street would go a Long Way to ensure safety for Small children who constantly Dodge cars Speed ing by a dangerous a daycare operator but former City councillor Larry Fleisher was so livid at the he threatened to get Back into politics last the intersection tops the cites waiting list for traffic the list goes before the cites works and operations committee Tomor Row and some councillors Are threatening to delete lights planned for 1995 its a very dangerous said Mavis director of on the move Day care Centre in the former John Dafoe we walk the kids across the Street to Ramah hebrew theres so Many there Are no traffic lights on Grant Avenue Between Kenaston Boulevard and Cambridge Jean Bre Beuf school and Mitchell school Are also close to Grant and Minuk but who lives on la said the existing crossing guard provides children with bet Ter safety than traffic the evil plot in the City administrations mind is to make Lanark a collector Fleisher it was never re Quested by the that Fleisher acknowledged school principals have asked for the traffic but he said 90 per cent of Lanark residents surveyed several years ago rejected the traffic control because it would make their Street a major North South ;