Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 19, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Section a4 John Douglas 6977292 associate Gerald flood email Winnipeg Llee press local november Thompson misses by Aldo Santin City Hall reporter mayor Susan Thompson is headed Back to the drawing Board in her quest to reduce the Cost of employee three Days after civic employees overwhelmingly rejected her Volun tary furlough Urban affairs min ister Jack Reimer said yesterday he support another request to legislate wage we would not entertain that notion at Reimer a meeting of the two politicians did province unsympathetic to cites Money crisis mayor it happen yesterday As but Reimer said he talked to Thompson on the Telephone late yesterday he said the mayor talked vaguely of a legislated furlough plan but added she offered few Concrete Reimer added he would not consider any request that would require legis lation to reopen contracts of employees represented by the Canadian Union of Public employees and Winnipeg association of Public service officers and impose a wage Rollback on Union leaders estimate less than five per cent of eligible 275 individuals volunteered for a program that would see workers take up to 10 unpaid Days off next disappointed Garth chairman of the civic finance said he was disappointed with the numbers As reported in the Thompson said she told Reimer the City has few options when it comes to holding the line on the cites adding he didst show any his tone didst sound very Thompson but you always keep the City had been counting on legis lation to break the contract with cupe and hoping to produce a million savings in 1996 and million in Thompson was forced to with draw the request after several senior government including pre Mier Gary said they didst sup port Thompson said on the weekend that Coal lumps sold As stocking stuffers a gift to warm your heart by Bruce Owen staff reporter i t worked with pet so Why not Christmas Coal at least that the Hope of two budding entrepreneurs who have launched a business that would make a scotsman proud Selling lumps of Coal As Christmas i dont know if were making a whole lot of Money from but were having said Kevin Cibic manager of Community we get teased a Little bit by peo ple who say were the last Coal Mer chants on the Lightfoot said he and Friend Craig a business Ken free press Lightfoot Macdonald show off their Christmas a Novelty gift sold in some hatched their Coal idea last year after Hemming and hawing Over what Type of simple Par time Enterprise they could get involved they settled on hawking Coal As stocking stuffers because they thought there was a Market for in the United kingdom and Coal was traditionally Given As a gift to bring Good its taking an old idea and renew ing it for the Lightfoot the Nice thing about it is that peo ple looking for that elusive gift can give this because of the meaning behind Christmas Coal is Selling for at two Winnipeg Christmas shops Christmas traditions at the Forks and humbugs in Osborne it comes wrapped in a dark red Vel vet like bag tied with a Green a Small card explains the meaning behind giving Coal As a Macdonald said the pair buys Coal at a local hardware store and has family members make Small bags for each a lot of people have never seen Coal Lightfoot when they get our Coal they open the bag to see it and touch Christmas shops in other provinces have already expressed interest in carrying their Coal it has a Long shelf Macdon Ald without the legislated the City could face layoffs and service Reimer said Thompson should try to secure her cos savings through con tract negotiations with one Small representing Nurs agreed to accept a two year wage freeze and take unpaid Howe the proposal Doest seem to be making any headway with other the police Are in arbitration and there is a Chance firefighters will also end up negotiations Are continuing with unions representing transit staff from the ambulance department and City farms origins traced to Balkans by Stevens wild staff reporter mouse problems net Fine by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter a chinese restaurant where rodent droppings were found in the and where some of the food was prepared in a filthy was fined in Provin Cial court Kum Koon at 257 King was convicted of three counts under the cites food services just Over two years the restaurant was fined under the same bylaw for preparing food under unsanitary con the violations were discovered Dur ing a routine inspection last there certainly is a very substantial risk that food prepared under these conditions could result in someone who eats there getting prosecutor Kim Carswell told the restaurants basement filthy9 Carswell said mouse droppings were discovered on the Kitchen floor and on food preparation tables in the base Mould growth was discovered in a Walkin Freezer and slicers and mix ers were she As filters in the exhaust canopy located above the Kitchen Grill were Laden with grease and the air intake system was clogged with these kinds of conditions just scream out for problems to provincial court judge John Enns the maximum Fine for a single count under the food services bylaw is the owner of the restaurant did not appear in court yesterday to contest the when contacted by Geoffrey Young said he had lost the notice and was unsure of when he was to he conceded that mice Are a prob its because of this area and Winter time when it gets said whose restaurant is located in the cites he maintained there were just a few droppings behind a table that were overlooked by its not a serious he it happens with every Young said he brings in an exterminator twice a weve cleaned up the whole place real he its just that some times inspectors come in and its we try our he denied that food was being pre pared in the saying that its Only used for Young said he Hast decided whether he will try to fight that con meanwhile another eatery also was fined yesterday for unsafe storage of food and dirty Kitchen inspectors found an uncovered pail of Batter and an uncovered cardboard Box full of freshly cooked Chicken balls on the floor near the garbage at herbs 193 Isabel court was told Kitchen shelves were covered in dust and grease and hard ened food debris was found on Racks inside the to be that unmindful of cleanliness is very said judge through an owner you Chung said he works 15 hours a Day and has difficulty keeping up with the restaurant was fined a total of the cultural origins of Cana Dian and Manitoban agriculture lie in ancient villages in the that what University of Manitoba anthropologist Haskel Greenfield has discovered through years of digging in villages in Serbia and Greenfield said in a recent interview that two archaeological digs in which he participated Are the oldest excavations of farming villages in a temper ate climate like that of Manitoba North of the this is where temperate farming happens earliest in the Green Field if we want to look at the origins of farming in Northern climates its in the that you see it Greenfield worked at the serbian 200 Kilometres South of for three years As part of joint team involving the University of Manitoba and the University of he also worked at the other site along the Serbia romanian Border near the romanian City of Greenfield said the Type of temper ate farming practice in the villages is the cultural ancestor of the Type used in Manitoba and most of North America the Type of farming brought to the new world by european it gives an example of How agriculture was Greenfield this is the first time people Are mov ing out of a Mediterranean Environ As Farmers moved they adjusted their methods to suit the changing they raised pigs and As opposed to sheep and goats of the East Ern and harvested grains such As wheat and the villages Greenfield excavated were Small and in the romanian the inhabitants were living in five submerged pit Greenfield said the nomads looking for the Best Fields for their lived on the Sites for a year or two and then moved he said it took about years for agriculture to reach after the romanian and serbian Sites were this blast from the past is nobody chairperson of you might need to h know John Doole to fully appreciate this Hes the 73yearold president of Winnipeg a trumpet playing blast from the he raises parrots As a writes poems and books in his spare time and firmly believes that health nuts will be the end of civilization As we know Doole marches to the beat of his own always always Hes a proud Symbol of political John Doole int the sort of Guy with whom id normally spend an evening discussing politics and religion and feminism we should Proba Bly since Hes never asked me to Din we dont have a under Reynolds but John Doole does have another Hes feuding with the Winnipeg chamber of the Busi Ness organization he once Doole used to write a regular Humour column for the the Chambers quarterly he stopped writing his column after his last offering was yanked by the editorial i dont know if rampant feminism has taken he Haru phed if i were heading up the chamber this id be the which really Sticks in my Dooley last column was his own take on a conspiracy dieting and exer Cise Are conspiracies designed by women so they May collect our insurance policies while they Are still healthy enough to enjoy the wrote before you write me off As a next time you Are in an upscale restaurant at Check out the goggles of deliriously Rich widows devouring mountains of whipped Cream and Strawberry no sign of the fat free garbage they foisted on poor old Harry or George or Albert before the grim reaper gathered them to their greater Shelley president of the says the column want pulled entirely because it was Politi Cally its a business we think it should contain useful Busi Ness information that people would she there was no information of business value in the the amount of business value in some of Dooley previous columns could be in a scathing attack on the decline of the English he confessed i detest being a senior citizen when All i want to be is a dirty old column an stats in a column on the lies inherent in he wrote the More outrageous the the More Likely a spokesperson will immediately be promoting the Agenda of some special interest should the spokesperson be a he Likely sports a Beard if she will be both those columns ran in the a previous Doole column on sexual harassment was Morris admits that part of the reason the conspiracy column was censored was a concern that it might offend some were trying to change our image As an old boys she some 20 to 25 per cent of our representatives Are the Manitoba club didst have the same they printed Dooley column in their Doole is still ticked off with what he Calls the new he claims Surprise that the exclusive Manitoba club would run his i thought the old farts at the Manitoba club would never go for he old farts that smarten up or youll never amount to 4 ;