Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Call the rent line 958rent see Apex realty and in today classifieds Winnipeg free press local Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email b1 August literacy Centre in peril aboriginal management Board pulls funding for beat the Street Wayne free press Nep Inak Mary elder Noah Beaulieu examine Model of proposed Forks aboriginal Centre of sought to study feasibility Centre at Forks by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter establishment of a aboriginal Centre at the Forks took a step Forward yesterday with the announcement of a plan to seek Money for a feasibility Clarence president of the Manitoba association for native said his group Hopes to get by the end of the year from Feder provincial and civic govern ments and from private sources for a feasibility and design study to develop an operating Model and business we need to survive the onslaught of other languages and cultures in our Nep Inak said in an interview at the where about 30 elders from across the province gathered to unveil plans for the besides serving As a resource Centre and meeting place for the associations Council of the proposed Institute would also House a Healing Cen tre for Medicine an arts and crafts recreation drop in Centre and hotel for aboriginal Nep Inak said it will also become a tourist organizers Hope it can be ready by when Winnipeg hosts the Panama Cecil an association elder from Sandy Bay first said the Institute will be important to promote the Posi Tive aspects of native it will also be important to those living outside the City because when they come to have a place to Call Desjarlais Mike Oshaughnessy old whose planning committee would hear the groups request for said he is excited about the proposal and is looking Forward to hearing from the Amaro Silva Daniel who chairs the pro Parks and culture com said funding for the Institute could come from the Winnipeg develop ment by Wanda Chow staff reporter smile assessment Crews hit streets to take photos of every property by Nick Martin City Hall reporter theres no hidden Agenda when vans Start prowling Winnipeg streets this morn ing to photograph every property in the says City assessor Bob the idea is to have computerized Homes As seen on photographs available to illustrate and compare similar properties during the tax appeals expected every time property values Are but Crews wont be looking for new additions and renovations that could mean a boost in Brown said till literally be from the Street he every property in Winnipeg should be photographed within three the Crews wont enter private property and wont be shooting into backyards to find additions for which building permits May not have been he Well still rely on our Normal inspections to catch those prop erty and continue to Check building permits to consider re evaluating Brown Winnipeg is Likely the first Cana Dian City to establish a computerized photo Brown but its an increasingly popular concept in the United comp color of Pennsylva Nia was awarded the ten dered contract but it will be hiring local an intercity literacy Cen tre staggering under a 100 per cent Cut in its Federal funding is set to close by the end of the year unless private funds can save its president beat the a Northend Cen tre known for its innovative drop in style of recently lost its annual Grant from the Federal pathways to Success pro David Chartrand and Chartrand blames social service politics for the programs precarious Why would you Hurt such a successful program it Doest make he More than people have benefited from the Centre since it opened in said executive director Ruby last the staff of five had 423 new students and 64 new Volunteer Jim first came to beat the Street two years ago with a history of mental his literacy improved to a Grade 9 level from Grade 3 writing and Grade 5 Reading Levels and he became the student representative on the centres All Gau Thier increased his self esteem and now he and others Are devastated by the news that the Centre is a lot of the other students Are Down and frightened because there in a very lost he since beat the Street fund ing has been controlled by the Winnipeg aboriginal management which axed the literacy Cen tres funding along with a number of other programs last the literacy Centre Doest fit under our mandate of employment and training related said Marileen Board Gauthier frightened but Chartrand said the Cut is the result of personal animosities Between members of the two boards and the centres refusal to relocate to the aboriginal Centre at the old up train a move which its tutors and students he said that Many members of the management Board also serve on the aboriginal centres which is responsible for filling the station with Chartrand said Wayne who serves on both told him if we a different View will be taken towards our program for Helgason said he Doest recall making such a there is a definite link Between the two Helgason but there was no requirement that the Centre there simply want enough Money to go around and literacy programs Are considered the responsibility of the provincial education set of bizarre breaking keeps City police Busy by David Kuxhaus staff reporter Wayne free press say cheese Adam Cohn of comp color fires up the maybe its the they but police have had their hands full with a string of bizarre breaking Over the last couple of Early wednesday a 41 year old East Kildonan woman clubbed a possibly breaking his when he tried to slip into her Henderson Highway police say because of the muggy the woman had left her bedroom window open before going to bed tuesday fearful of she tied a Bell to the Blind and placed a baseball Bat at her at about 3 the Bell clanged and the woman spotted the shadowy outline of a hand reaching into the so she took aim and walloped the the burglar screamed and ran police spokesman Eric Turner no arrests have been in another police Are try ing to track Down a missing the pet was stolen tuesday from a Home in the 1800 Block of Bannatyne Avenue while the 26year old owner was the Lizard is Worth about the culprit also swiped a 50gallon fish tank and a heating maybe its the weather but there certainly not in the realm of the Turner said of the and who says thieves Are spooked by car alarms sometime tuesday a burglar swiped a Viper car alarm from a car parked inside a garage on Aberdeen police do not know whether the alarm was activated at the a 35mm camera inside the car was also Young United gets its tax Miracle by Nick Martin City Hall reporter a pair of unlikely civic allies teamed up yesterday to save Young United mayor Susan Thompson and Glen Murray frequently bitter political opponents persuaded City Council to overrule its finance committee and approve a Compromise to give Young United Church Relief from Back Council will provide Young United with a Grant to cover More than of the outstanding which were As of 1 and have been accumulating inter est when the congregation saw her worships and my name on the same piece of paper supporting they thought they had their chuckled the Church at Broadway and Furby Street was destroyed by fire in ending its tax exempt Sta the City covered taxes through Grants while the site was vacant until the end of but declined to do so for 1992 and the new Church opened and regained its Murray said the Church cant afford to pay the taxes for 1992 and and have there is no in my this Council wants to take posses Sion of this in a tax Thomp son but finance chairman Jae Eadie James said the City had been More than James presbyterian Church has relocated and could ask the City to waive in taxes that have run up on the no vacant site of its former and other churches could claim a precedent for tax he Eadie and Al Golden vital hammered the Winnipeg school trustees for refusing to waive school taxes for Young unit the City is required to collect and remit taxes for both the City and school because the division will not waive City taxpayers have to pay the school Board its Golden challenged councillors to attend the next school Board meet ing and confront but found no i i ;