Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rice financial ask about dynamics family of funds special no front or backed Load dynamic fund can Jar Brandon your weekly Southwest Manitoba news digest for Home delivery Call 7270527 or 7272451 1996 1 Council the Agenda councillors talk about pigeons City Council sits at a variation Board prior to holding its regular meeting monday at on the second floor of 410 ninth Here is the Agenda in capsule Zed form variation Board hearing variation application 1200 Pacific Cargill variation Cotton Ridge development variation application 1037 ninth communications request for resolutions federa Tion of Canadian municipalities National Board of directors request for Grant Crocus Plains London Parade delegations Snelling lighting of Lane behind Public hearings zoning amendment general text amendment keeping of pigeons City of conditional use application keeping of pigeons in r1 single family residential private hearings hard surfacing requirement at 117 fourteenth horizon custom builders reports committee of the whole committee of the whole committee of the whole unfinished business Purchase of used Street lighting of Lane behind proposal to subdivide 2022 Twenty sixth and Maryland Cotton Ridge development corporation proposal to subdivide thir to fifth Brandon hand transit policy proposal souvenir program 1997 hockey tournament of Bridge bran Don Riverbank Brandon and Cornwallis Weed control request for Grant Manitoba Metis 656 sixth Telephone Bill payment services water audited financial statements bran Don general Hospital and Brandon general Hospital request to install sign eighteenth Street North Hill bylaws to rezone area North of Maryland Between twentieth and Twenty sixth streets from agricultural residential Reserve District to residential educational and institutional Parks and recreation District and open space District Cotton Ridge development corporation first zoning amendment regulations with respect to the keeping of second and third to provide a Grant to new to you Home second and third to further Amend animal control bylaw to regulate the keeping of second and third to acquire from Birc View develop ments lot Block 1 in part of new second and third read to further Amend traffic bylaw to establish snowmobile first read briefly to our internet customers Brandon Sun who were linked to the internet through net Reader by experienced a sudden shutdown in their service wednesday when the com Pany was placed in since that time customers in Winnipeg and Brandon have been with out Thomson new Media announced late Friday they will switch the service to Hookup com a Canad wide service with service began to be restored in Winnipeg saturday and Brandon customers should be once again be Able to Access the net once technical arrangements have been completed this details will be announced to Sun customers As soon As they have been we apologize for the Driver hits Van a Brandon Man has been charged with impaired driving after he was observed ramming into a parked Van at Houston country roadhouse on Friday Dale Willian of 1108 Russell will appear in court this i Colin Sun Pat Ohara of pats Mobile Oil and lube brings his Oil change service to the he also boosts changing the business entrepreneur we visit customers to freshen their vehicles Oil by Jeffrey Lewis the Brandon Sun its one of the easiest things a per son can do when it comes to regu Lar automobile yet finding the time to have your Oil changed every or kilo me ters somehow turns into one of the most difficult Pat Ohara thinks he has the the Brandon Man has introduced a Mobile Oil and lube service in the for about the average Price of an Oil change at most services Ohara will drive to your Home or workplace and change the grease the Chassis and Check fluid no need to take time off work or arrange for a enjoy the convenience of having your Oil changed while you eat read a watch a game or have a reads his when the Man was looking to set up his own the Mobile service seemed to make everybody like i do with my own Oil Ohara the entrepreneur started pats Mobile Oil and lube this after being forced out of work when the Dairy company he worked for Laid off All Ohara said he had to then go into business for himself or move to another Ohara became a Mechanic after the Burns meat packing Plant was closed in the meat Cutter was retrained in heavy duty there were no apprentice Mechanic jobs so he decided to use the skills he had to get a business of the response to the service from customers has been Ohara figures the service has never been offered in Brandon simply because garage own ers simply expected the Why go to the people when they will go to he the Man said the service was especially popular with Mobile Home trav Ellers Over the most of the travellers drive units that have to be taken in to a garage for an Oil Ohara simply pulls up and does the Job on most of them Are just the same As a he in addition to Oil Ohara also offers a Batter boosting some people were waiting up to five hours to get boosted in last Winters cold he Ohara figures he can reduce the hopefully this Winter it will be As cold he said with a senior knits for Charity by Jeffrey Lewis the Brandon Sun in Louise Jenks Idle hands make for warm the Brandon senior has spent any of her Idle time Over the past year knit Ting but the Handiwork wont go to her 10 grandchildren or 12 great instead Jenks sends the woodies off to several of the cites Char Itable some will go to Samaritan House and about 30 pairs go to Christmas cheer Board for the and helping Jenks said in an inter i dont sell them and they dont sell they Are to give Jenks has always afghans have been popular gifts with All of her fam but she now weaves the mittens Only As a Way to spend her limited free the senior is always out and or Busy with and Volun Teer but anytime there is a moment to spare she picks up the knit Ting Needles and knocks off a Row or i just cant sit with my hands Down if i have nothing to which is not very because i still get out she she admits a dislike for watching except the Young and restless from five to but that about she i just do Little bits at a either something is or i cant go out so i just knit to pass the time to knit the Jenks uses Wool she picks up at Yard or the yarn a helpful Friend picks up for she is also economical with the fab not a strand is the differ ent color combinations on the mittens come form her frugal use of the one of the reasons for the differ ent coloured cuffs is to finish off a Jenks i never throw any Wool the charitable aspect is not new she dropped off 30 pairs at Samaritan House late last in 1994 she made 105 in 1995 79 in hoping for another 20 pair before the year she said Enthus officer shoots Man with knife by Patrick Copps the Brandon Sun Jeffrey Sun Sioux Valley a Brandon Man who was shot when he allegedly lunged at a tribal police officer with a knife is facing an attempted murder the shooting occurred at around saturday after a Dakota ojibway police service officer responded to a Telephone complaint that a Man was wielding a knife in a residence at the the officer was attempting to Calm the situation at the Home of the suspects girlfriends parents when the Guy just said does Deputy chief Dave the suspect allegedly started after the officer who retreated from the House to his Cruiser to make a radio Call for Scott said the officer was on the radio making the Call when the suspect allegedly lunged at him with the knife that when the officer fired one round from his service revolver and hit the suspect in the Scott the Man sustained a no life threat ening wound to his thigh that subdued him enough for the officer to get hand cuffs on Scott said residents of the Home and other police called to the scene assisted with first Aid and the Man was eventually transported to Brandon general he received stitches to close the Bullet wound and was held overnight for charged with attempted murder is Derek Andrew he appeared before a magistrate and was remanded in the identity of the officer has not been the tribal police Force has full responsibility for the invest Louise Jenks has knitted and Given away hundreds of pairs of gation into the ;