Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january up readers pan plans for Portage cites Street Facelift proposal opposed by a margin of 9421 by Stevens wild City Hall reporter a sampling of free press readers Are not impressed with the cites plan to make Portage Avenue More people where do these people come from a Buchanan Boulevard Resi Dent not from this the resident was among 94 read ers who responded to a free press Survey on the Issue and turned thumbs Down on a plan to give Western Canadas most famous Street a Only 21 readers liked the the readers against the idea said a civic committees decision to spend to hire a consultant to examine the feasibility of revitalizing Portage Avenue Between Spence Street and main Street is unnecessary and they suggested the cites leaders should leave the Avenue alone a6 scrap the project the cites works and operations committee last week voted to undertake the study proposed by the cites bring people Back to the deteriorating Portage Avenue the proposals include reducing the through traffic lanes to two from four in each widening sidewalks to include existing curb lanes in blocks with bus installing parking metres and reserving the second Lane from the curb for buses and but readers were underwhelmed by the opposing almost every concept mentioned in the a number of readers wrote com and a few contributed full length letters discussing the this is a stupid idea and it is free press file photo proposed changes to Portage Avenue left some readers questioning City officials even More idiotic to pay a consult ant to prove said George de Pauw of Dorches Ter a Balmoral Street resident questioned the sanity of the denizens of City i think that the civic leaders Are out of their the Reader other readers had suggestions for City the City should try to improve traffic not impede said Joe Dunsmore of Piri Hurst cres parking metres kill any Peter Dyck of Cherrier Street suggested the changes would make the problems of Portage Avenue not Portage is congested enough Dyck of the earmarked for the will come from plan Money could be spent More wisely on other said a River Road another resident suggested Leav ing Well enough i dont think changes Are re a Morgan Crescent Resi Dent Best leave it Harry Lazarenko Mynar who voted against authorizing the spending of on the said he was not surprised by the people Hope this is the last of Lazarenko said of plans to tinker with Portage the expenditure for the consult ants study still has to be approved by City a fre Ctol rens rooted better the Mazda mx3 Precidia could Well be the spor Tiest value on the Road Check out the Standard then head straight to your Mazda dealer but hurry these great offers wont be around forever litre Doc 16valve 4cyclinder engine stereo sound system with 4 speakers 4wheel Independent suspension Power assisted Rackman opinion steering tinted Glass cease lease from per months backed by Mazda leadership and More it just feels right automatic transmission 01 equivalent value cred of j925 applies to new 1994 and 1935 mx3 purchased and delivered Tan dealer Slock at participating Maida dealers irom january Lor a limited Lime Midi fusing lease file lease Rale applies Only to the new 1995 mx3 Precidia Fly As described and is based on 48 months show lease Leims available Down payment of and Security Deposit of 300 applicable 91 Lime of total lease obligation is which includes Feighl and p pm mileage restrictions apply ii b cents per Kilometre applies lease 0 a automatic value Mil and lease hate offers can not be combined offers available on retail purchases Only Starling january 5 Lor a limited Lime Only insurance and not included dealer May for less see participating dealers to details Supply and Slock May vary by Dealership Union fights decision to veto Asphalt Plant by Nick Martin City Hall reporter the cites main Union is hop ing a grievance will achieve what City Council has refused to do build a new Asphalt and Cement Canadian Union of Public employees local 500 is awaiting a grievance decision from arbitrator Paul Teskey into councils decision last May to cancel plans for a new cupe even called former Winni Peg mayor Bill Norrie As a witness to Back up its Case during an unpublicized hearing in late were seeking to overturn the Council said cupe 500 president Paul the Union believes a decision is moist refused to elaborate on the scheme while Teskey is still weighing his chief commissioner Rick Frost was likewise reluctant to prejudge Keskeys but he said he hoped the arbitrator would simply conclude that there had been a mis understanding Between the City and at Frost Hopes Teskey would ask Council to take another tenders tender for stationery and duplicating paper sealed tenders will be received at the office of the the Winnipeg school division Wall Street r3e up to january 1995 for the Supply of stationery and duplicating to be delivered on an As and when required basis to schools under the jurisdiction of the ten metro Politan school for form of tender and apply to the director of purchasing and the Winnipeg school division the lowest or any tender will not necessarily be Secretary treasurer the Winnipeg school division 1 City of Winnipeg notice of tenders separate sealed addressed to the director of purchasing will be received until noon on the Date As specified for the following pm 85004 request for proposals for the delivery and implementation of an Auto mated voting system closing Dale february Deposit for tender package none proposal submissions will p be opened pm 95010 Supply and delivery of a Type 111 ambulance closing Date january Deposit for tender package none pm 95014 request for proposals for delivery and instal lation of proximity card Access system phase one closing Date january Deposit for tender package none i proposal submissions will be opened pm 85017 Supply and delivery of manhole lifter Boulevard Inlet covers and valve Box sections closing Date january Deposit for tender package none tenders received will be opened in the presence of interested parties at noon Winnipeg tender packages May be obtained from the purchasing the lowest or any tender not necessarily purchasing department main 185 King my r3b1j1 v look at the Norrie declined to be when Council approved the fed eral virology lab proposal in it agreed to rebuild the Asphalt and Cement Plant that occupied the lab site East of Arlington Street at the but a new facility in Boniface was rejected by while an other site in Weston met similar pro in Council voted 86 to cancel the plants and instead buy its supplies from the private As it had been doing since the former facility was but cupe argued the Issue is a matter of it argued the City violated an agreement in which Union accepted wage rollbacks in return for a provision1 City Council went Balcon its word when it cancelled the Asphalt and Cement said works and operations chairman Terry Duguid North a key component in acquiring the Federal virology lab was relocating the Asphalt and Cement dug did Council reneged on that part of the in my he legals the real property act land titles District of Winnipeg transmission application 1848931 National Bank of Canada has applied for a final order of foreclosure under mortgage 8656675 under the above and the District registrar has directed notice of this application to be served on and has appointed one month from such after which unless proceedings Are taken forbidding the same or the land is redeemed from said a final order of foreclosure under said Mort Gage will and certificate of title will Issue upon registration of the said final order in favor of the and you will thereafter be forever stopped and debarred from setting up any claim to or in respect of the land hereinafter being the land covered by the said dated at the land titles at Winni this 1st Day of december land referred to lot 29 and All that portion of lot 27 lying South of a line drawn North of parallel with and feet per Distant from the Southern limit of said lot 27 special plot 2 Alto together with a right of Way for the purposes and As appurtenant to the land above described Over and upon All those portions of lot 30 As shown on said plan and of said lot 27 contained within the following limits namely commencing at the new Corner of said lot 30 thence Ely along the Northern limit of said lots 30 and 27 to the n w Corner of lot 28 As shown on said plan thence sly along the Eastern limit of said lot 27 to a Point in the same Distant Only thereon 17 feet from the Southern limit of said lot 27 thence Way at right angles to the said Eastern limit 4 inches thence sly parallel with the said Eastern limit to the Northern limit of the first described portion of said lot 27 thence Way along the said Northern limit to a Point in the same Distant Way thereon 24 feet from the Eastern limit of said lot 27 thence Only on a course parallel with the said Eastern limit of said lot 27 to a Point Distant Only on said course 20 feet from Southern limit of said lot 27 thence Ely parallel with said Southern limit of said lot 27 to a Point per Distant Way 12 feet from said Eastern limit of said lot 27 thence Only parallel with said Eastern limit to Southern limit of said lot 30 thence in a straight line to the Point of commencement in re 6 Parish of John to triple s reality metropolitan Trust company of Canada Independent heating and air conditioning Winnipeg elevator 1978 Correia enterprises modern building cleaning general signal limited Zurich life and health insurance company of Canada the Queen Manitoba capital tax assistant District registrar abuse probe Sparks action memories couple says by Kim Guttormson free press correspondent a Winnipeg couple Hopes others will join them in a class action suit against the province delving into ritual George Bergen took out a newspaper and in the free press last week to attract others who share his belief that memories of sexual and ritual abuse can be implanted into a vulnerable patient by a Bergen Hopes he will find others who feel their lives have been devastated by these so called false Bergen and his have already launched a million lawsuit against Bonnie Bergens claiming false memories led Bergen to believe she was the victim of ritual abuse for 15 illnesses so called false memory is not recognized As a legitimate condition by the psychiatric Community at Large or in the diagnostic statistical a compendium of psychiatric the Bergens Are targeting the provincial government because it formed an interdepartmental committee in 1990 to look at the Issue of ritual Bergen said he thinks the also includes clergy and a climate where therapists went looking for abuse that didst he said his wife therapist was a member of that therapists started looking hard enough for it and they found he they started but its a big Bergen placed the and last week but Hast yet checked the Post office Box to see if its generated any its in the formative in just fishing to see whats out Bergen i thought id do something and see what the response Bergen claims there Are five other families who would be willing to pursue a class action suit Over the but said he wont proceed unless there Are at least 10 families not Likely but a local lawyer who practices civil litigation Doest think such a suit is John Scurf held said in order to launch a class there must be a group of people with a common interest against a single while theoretically that single defendant could be a government a group meeting to talk about ritual abuse would not sustain the he Scurf held said a class action Case against an individual therapist would be More if one counselled a number of people who now have the same spoke woman for the interdepartmental committee on ritual abuse and youth involvement in said the committee was formed in 1990 to discuss issues the education and family services departments were beginning to she said the committee still meets but Doest talk about specific we Deal with the phenomenon being identified by the four we try to approach it in a no sensationalistic Boyd our perspective is that it does but it Doest exist ;