Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 readers9 forum Winnipeg pm press 4 4 july 1997 h i i message Means More than image this letter is addressed to Veronica Fuchs who said Mari Lyn Manson should not play in she also said that the peo pie who listen to his music Are satan lingerie parading 1 am a 15 year old not much younger than 1 believe in i am not Over Reli but 1 do care about my 1 do not run around in my i would prefer jeans any and i listen to their music and i consider the band one of my Favourite if anyone took the time to listen to their or what they had to it would be valid to state their but everyone sees the and they think the they do talk about Touchy but that not necessarily mean they believe in i was appalled to think Winnipeg and its politics Are so i would rather spend on a Good performer than dish out All my Money on All the Boring concerts you seem to be sucked Phoebe Caulfield Winnipeg residents Battle pig operations this letter is to ask for help to Stop the construction of pig barns in Rural Only now that the Interlake Broad Valley to be specific is being hit hard with the influx of Many Large pig oper am i aware that there Are or have been Many other Rural communities faced with the same situation that have lost their Battle against anyone who lives in Rural communities has either been there for generations and has chosen to like has chosen to live there for the peace and clean fresh air and the Point i am trying to make is that everyone has a Choice not Only a Choice but a right even these pig operations also have a Choice for their Sites Why does it have to be in Rural close to Homes and farms they Are polluting our air and water and they know the government is not offering us any help because they want Manitoba to be the hog producer in the if this is Why cant we do it other countries have had their How to reach us the free press Widom letters from letters Rewt be and should include dearly address and Telephone Nares be published for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 13ss Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters maybe submitted through the internet at letters sent vie the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone air and water polluted and now Are try ing to get Back on track to save the Why cant we learn from other Peoples mistakes Nancy Crawford v Broad Valley dont abandon forces to Hacks the letter forces make country Strong by John Craig Eaton free july 8 suggests that we cease criticism of the armed forces and thereby let their officers off the i submit that we cannot aban Don the men fld w8ftt8h of our armed forces to political hat pretending to be officers arid i share Eaton sentiments respecting our forces rank and these Merisha women have made Canadas reputation throughout the they Arettie heart and soul of our armed they Are Why the Somalia inquiry recommendations Are so important and must not be buried by our government the actions of a few Canadian sol Diers in Somalia seem utterly preposterous when we compare them to actions of the troops recently deployed in we had nearly air and Navy personnel we were thankful for their presence and very Able both troops and officers were often going Well beyond their assigned duties to help whenever and however they restored stir Confidence and Pride in our armed tenants still need a place to it is one thing for City Hall to take political and quite another to make fools out of citizens that Are simply fighting for their Quality of life entitle it has been reported the worse Ley residents association Mem Bers and other groups have been ferreting out illegal Rooming houses and the owners of sounds like a lot of albeit the City is whining about not enough staff to do the and of one third of a million Dol Lars is required to identify these properties one councillor is agreeing with both citizens and the property rental rebate has now been around for Over 10 and was designed to do precisely while everyone assumed that this generous largess of a rebate being slowly whittled Down by Premier Gary Filmon per was a Nice we asked few ques the property rental rebate was designed to find Large older and in some cases garages being illegally rented and income not being declared to Revenue there were literally thousands of these operations before our kind every single renter that wants some of this Money must submit a form that includes the owner and amount of rent a few dozen citizens Are vainly try ing to gather information in a strenuous and potentially Ous when just a few but tons need Why int this done the City does not want to and is nervously during Steve Jubas reign As swarms of building tors descended on an area that started at main Street Sutherland Jarvis and issued work orders with up to Jolly condemned and then grabbed by the City in tax sales entire blocks were a feed every sin Gle Tore and Wingrat lations Given ail the Way around one people that willed these pet tag god u was their right to do Jushai migrated out plummeted even beyond mount Alan Avenue and Jefferson venue and still Are lower we May want to rethink that which we Winnipeg Rooming Houise residents ignored it seems Community group is looked in the recept Pyfrin opining houses in people who live in these people of social assistance Recife if diffs subset Haye no City councillor or residents association speaking on their j have has not sought to give them much of e most of us wove Umof be that accessible housing is an important part we Organ Usaj tons like habitat for humanity Alt work in the one has Only to watch the news of Lee we social costs Hap Beenen i cities Littfin adult ing or other today in Whf we residents Community activists and local regious readers working together towards an unusual Xoai Home Lowe income Rooming houses provide the Only housing options for Many people for Many reasons the rent is leases it Foj the spread of pig farming has pitted residents seeking a Rural life against farm some troops deployed in Somalia have been described As inadequately undisciplined and How did these troops manage to exist with in our armed never mind get All the Way to Somalia All units and personnel serving in around the world arid at Home have been affected by the apparent inability of the armed forces to Deal effectively with these men and with the officers responsible for criticism of our armed forces will not Lead to their political indifference and inept leadership have come dangerously failure to hold senior officers of our armed forces accountable for the actions of troops in the Field is not an acceptable course of neither is failure to hold our politicians and senior armed forces officers responsible for the adequate equip pay and Well being of our troops no matter where or How they Joh feldsted Gimli Pinawa not in grave contrary to the impression left by the article in sundays free press out of the Pinawa is not a dying the article fails to men Tion that there has been a steady increase in the number of new non decl families that have moved into that we have Over 70 businesses and about 80 recreational and cultural and that we have a medical and dental elementary and secondary schools which Are not fire and police a daycare facilities and a full Range of municipal services and not to mention a Pristine environment with an abundance of recreational activities such As Cross country wind Jet ski canoeing and hardly a town whose social infrastructure is falling apart decl is leaving and there is a lot of uncertainty about the transition to the new owners of White Shell Labo Canadian nuclear projects under the we Are coping quite Pinawa is a viable Community with a Bright and promising with the loss of decl comes an Opportunity and the ability to diversify our economic base so we Are no longer dependent solely on one the the Pinawa Community development and the economic development authority of White Shell Are working hard to make that diversification Hap Pinawa tests Only Way to measure Quality in the 7 july Issue of the free the letter Praise parents for refusing congratulates those parents who did not permit their children to write the province wide As the writer the intent of these tests is to weigh and measure and Tell the exact Worth of every Par cel of he is right to berate the the education minis department and school division administrators for their Inadequacy to administer such most people would agree that it is highly inappropriate for those in charge of education to attempt to Mea sure an individuals intrinsic value As a human such tests Are More appropriately administered for the ultimate Worth test which determines whether one rises to heaven or Falls into i under is administered at the Pearly the Inadequacy of those in charge of education to administer tests Mea Suring human is not an argument against Well designed tests Are effective diagnostic tools for helping students to How do we know what a Stu Dent knows or does not know unless we test at appropriate Well designed and Well administered tests Are the fairest instruments for awarding scholarships and for selecting people for entry into particular courses of study at secondary and pos secondary places of do we not want a society in which graduation As a plumber or Pilot is based on the highest performance standards is not testing the Only effective Way to measure Quality of performance Vic Pruden Winnipeg test results also reflect on educator Derwyn Davies Praise parents for refusing july like Many of those opposed to provincial Examina cant differentiate Between the philosophical and the of course the human mind cannot be encapsulated in a single the Overall effects of teach ing and education strategies can be measured and these examinations can accomplish is satisfied with each school division doing its own he Likely Doest see value in attempting to to rectify in performance division to school to school and class room to classroom because he is satisfied that any differences that might exist Are socially and economically based and therefore beyond educations in other he holds that testable knowledge in no important Way would reflect the Quality of administration or notwithstanding the emphasis that Davies puts upon the welfare of the it is difficult for this Reader not to be suspicious of his is it possible that teachers and administrators do not want to be faced with embarrassing questions about student performance after social and economic elements have been filtered out do teachers and administrators fear that test tracking of students Over the years would result in real performance prisons classroom to classroom and school to school in other words is this whole Stew about protecting teachers and administrators from Public and parental scrutiny if these suspicions Are and considering the ridiculous arguments put Forth by Davies and oth then it would seem prudent to move ahead with expanded testing in order to see just what might come from such a after More Money and the continuing Lack of Edu Cator accountability have not improved this Reader is will ing to bet that for the first will have solid evidence for questioning the performance of the Educa Tor As Well As that of their Tyson Winnipeg death wherever it is a Brief paragraph appeared in the june 21 free press under the heading tussle Over gun ends in Ironi the Story was dateline the very Community from which just 17 Days before this tragic for Mer mayor and president of a local gun inky was catapulted from municipal politics to the House of com Mons As Reform one of the major planks in Marks platform was a Complete rejection of Bill the recently enacted Liberal government gun control legis according to gun controls were spawned in the big cities of Eastern such As Toronto and by politicians who knew Little about guns and even Jess about the Cul Ture of Rural residents in Rural Manitoba grew up with know How to use them safely and have no need for the restrictions imposed by Bill the senseless death of a 22yearold is just As sad whether it happens in Nipes or just outside of seventeen Days int very Long is it Mark Thompson Winnipeg doonesbury in Harry Trudeau ;