Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 15, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Education Page heritage language instruction is waning in City schools letter faults Hospital brass ramp seize Bear Gall bladders tree pruners want to nip civic plan lawyer guilty of illegal trading automotive showcase Csc is movie Clunker de is a film the whole family should avoid h Tea House is quaint and cosy in take however it comes h play about miracles lacks stage b Morissette to perform Here a team of starters team Canada is one match away from qualifying for the summer olympics Australia pulls off sensational win Finley is proving his Worth zodiacs crush tigers in Surprise win draft error haunts in rubes sports Ann to the weather 60 Chance of High Low details on Page d9 Winnipeg free press plus taxes higher in outlying areas March destroy House of Wabowden residents beg by Allison Bray staff reporter a House that is a grim reminder of the horrific triple slaying of a Wabowden woman and two Small children sat in the Middle of a Street last night As the woman family and neigh Bors lobbied to have it at Issue is the three bedroom Filmon lashed for tax boost school levies up across City by Manfred Bruce Owen and Bud Robertson staff reporters the Filmon government May boast about not raising but Winnipeg school Board officials say the province is directly responsible for school tax hikes ranging up to eight per cent in divisions across the City this the culprit is the provincial theres no doubt about said Winnipeg school division finance chairman Mario Santos after the divisions Board yesterday settled on a per cent tax the hike will add to the tax rate for an average House value Dat financial support to education from the province has been declining Over the years and were now getting close to the Santos after shaving their budget by about million on trustees at the provinces largest division then trimmed a further the cuts include in which could mean fewer school buses and longer school hours As students Are delivered continued please see rental Home where 25yearold Lav erne her three Earold daughter Jennifer Alyson Scott and Oney Earold Niece Jackline Chris Tine Scott were stabbed to death March Ken has been charged with three counts of first degree Scotts family and members of the close knit Northern Community were circulating petitions yester Day in the Hope of persuading Canada mortgage and housing which owns the to destroy but when Chc officials refused to comply and began mov ing the House family members persuaded the movers to leave the House in the Middle of the Road while the town held an Emer gency meeting last night on the we believe if theres blood in the the spirit of the people will always be in the said Scotts Shirley was blood throughout the Flett said not Only does the Community Back her Effort to get rid of the House of but she has a duty to inform prospective ten ants of the houses its not fair for people moving into that House to live somewhere where three people were Wabowden mayor Dennis Dwyer we dont have a Resolution but in sure Council would support the House not being used but Roy provincial director of the said while he can sympathize with the wishes of the he cant justify destroying the Nichol said the Home is Only about 20 years old and if would be Worth to he said the Home would be moved out of the Community and stored until it can be fixed up and moved Jeff free press dynamic show Melissa Etheridge wowed a crowd of about fans at Winnipeg Arena last night with her fist pumping adrenalin the Singer songwriter was please see music reporter John Lyons review on Page province test lab Union workers face axe As critics claim water Supply at risk by John Douglas and Martin Cash business the province is getting put of the environmental testing business because it believes that the Only Way to save but critics charge the govern ment is endangering Peoples health by turning Over control of the environmental sciences Cen tre est to an Edmonton based protecting our food and water Supply be something we do for said nip health critic Dave its some thing we do As a Community because its the right thing to in a move expected to be made Public sources say the Fil Mon government will turn Over 75 per cent of the provincially owned lab to end protest laboratories etl at no although the com Pany has promised to invest million in new equipment Over the next three years and create up to 35 new jobs by the year the Centre conducts Quality test ing for everything from local water supplies and food inspections to environmental Pesti cide and herbicide pm broadcasters Back Chip ratings by Vic Parsons Canadian press Ottawa the broadcast Industry has embraced a Call by its Federal regulator to develop ratings based on chips that will hand parents More control Over violent to that Means canadians could Start wide spread use of the chips by september at a Cost of about More per month on their Cable but timing poses a the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission wants ratings in place by but a Simi Lar system is not due until to programs need to be encoded with ratings before the Chip will work to Block unwanted sexual Content or coarse about a Quarter of the programs watched by English speaking viewers come from the so its possible ratings will if we come up with a system and Institute it in and the americans come up with a completely different one in i think canadians Are going to be a Little confused about what the ratings said Trina chairwoman of the Industry group that is to develop the weve got to figure out a Way to Harmo Nize the two Michael president of the Cana Dian association of agreed the differing deadlines could be but Mccabe added its conceivable Cana Dian broadcasters will know the direction the americans Are going by this a crts spokesman said later the com Mission wanted to move the file Forward without waiting for the commission chairman Keith Spicers schedule Calls on the Cable Industry to Start making affordable chips available to Consumers by if the broadcast Industry action group on violence on television does not come up with a satisfactory system by Broad casters will be expected to classify pro Grams with ratings used in test runs by two major Cable Shaw communications and Winnipeg cab let companies welcomed the announcement and said they fully expect to have the Chip option available by were very pleased with the As an weve advocated Chip technology for a Long said Richard director of programming for which provides cab let service to Homes West of the red he said the Cable Industry favors introduction of Chip equipment Over other forms of to violence control because the plan does not require Cable distributors to play the role of this puts control on the local level in Consumers he occupational Hygiene ser microbiology testing of food and water and organic and inor Ganic it has assets valued at the ownership change will be bad news for the 46 Manitoba government employees Union Mem Bers currently working at the six positions will have to be Cut either through Transfer or Early retirement while those staying on with the company will no longer be Industry minister Jim Downey said the move is made to ensure the lab will be Able to remain competitive and attract More business to this agreement provides est an Opportunity to become More competitive and ensures economic activity in the environmental test ing Industry is maintained and grows in he the lab has lost Money for the last two last est revenues of million came mostly from two bulk contracts with the provincial departments of health and continued please see Chip on the Way How its used a Small circuit Board containing the Chip is installed in the Cable Click on a Remote controller and four columns with five choices each appear on the to one gives an Overall rating from general viewing to restricted the others provide Scales for sex selection pick a setting in each column 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