Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 9, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september a7 fire recruits might have to pay Brandon training course would Cost prospective firefighters thousands by aide Santin City Hall reporter to future recruits to the cites re fire department will probably have to move to Brandon and pay for their own fire chief Barry Lough said yester Day Hes negotiating an agreement with the provincial fire commission ers office that would see the City get out of its traditional training respond the fire commissioner is so All we have to do is get a formal agreement that 1 can bring to Lough me said he expects the move will prove costly for adding the Manitoba emergency services College in Brandon now charges for a 25week Lough told members of civic pro Parks and culture committee that he is exploring ways that recruits could tap into employment insurance funds while in but Lillian Thomas said the initiative would prove to be a disincentive to people considering work in the fire How would a person on a Low income or a single Mother possibly leave their families behind while they trained in and where would they get the Money for it Thomas Elmwood said the move would undermine the cites employment equity adding Only those who could afford the Lough plan costly f of recruits training and associated housing costs would apply to the fire department in recruit training is a moot As the City Hast hired any in Towanda half Lough said his department is Short 60 adding the cites pow Erful vacancy management commit tee has repeatedly refused to allow him to hire new firefighters Union president Andy Burgess said he suspects the hiring freeze would be lifted if the City abandoned its traditional training they save 14 weeks of salary for each said adding that would be Worth about to the City for each person Lough said he expected Little Sav Ings in the departments training Divi Sion if the plan is he said the division has had full time training staff without taking on any new Lough said the City would probably retain about three weeks of training for the Brandon College would be required to design a Sixto eight week course for Winnipeg pc ponders privatization of gravel pit City could earn a year by leasing out report says by Kevin Rollason City Hall reporter the City could earn More than a year if it leases out its Sand and gravel a confidential civic report con the same report says the City could lose up to or save if it Priva Tizes the Supply and delivery of treated Sand for Winter Road Bill Clement Charle Woodfort chairman of the works and operations committee that oversees the would not comment on the although he said the executive policy committee has put the matter Over and asked for More Paul head of the cites largest Canad an Union of Public employ local said yesterday he is against contracting out the Sand and gravel he said the amount of Money the report says the City could earn if it leases out the pit has never been he added the City has not done any research to find out the value of the pit by determining the extent of the pits Competition Treyve received bids on but there not sharing them with he even some elements of the private sector say it should it be privatized because they dont want More com the Pine Ridge gravel pit in the pm of Springfield has been owned by the City since the turn of the cent except for the Cost of hauling the the pit provides the City with free Sand and gravel to fill to Spray on roads for vehicle traction during the and to put a new layer of gravel on the roads that still need the City began looking at privatizing it earlier this year when City Council approved executive policy committees reshaping our civic government in the confidential the cites administration recommends inviting bids for the privatization of the Supply and Deli very of treated save Money according to the the City would save Money if it contracted out the Cost of delivering the approximately tonnes of treated Sand it uses during about tonnes of Winter Sand is quarried from the cites while tonnes is purchased from the private As the City figures it could earn Money if it leased the entire operation out for which it now gets about tonnes of Sand and gravel for use on streets during the As Well As sewer and water and gravel Road the confidential report admits that when economic activity in the City is it is harder to obtain Sand at a reasonable Price and it is More difficult to get the Sand during an Emer Harry Lazarenko Mynarski said emergency situations Are the main Rea sons the Sand and gravel pit should be retained instead of being with the amount of Sand we needed to fill sandbags during the it would have Cost us a advantage Prev puny far i 888 6673200 Rice financial chose its because they didst have All the Money in the we Are into Mutual funds and life customer information is needed on a timely basis and we required a computer network to deliver it to each Branch mass solution was hype Stream which is a High Speed data its always there when we need hype Stream sends information quickly and is very Cost effective compared to other its helped us to and its is always Able to connect the service in any new fort Francis even if sufi Fultn Cut from Tollfree numbers to High Speed data its advantage service has telecommunications products that will give your company the competitive user fee angers disabled group transit plan unfair spokesman by Allison Bray staff reporter transits proposal to charge f f hand transit Passen Gers a user fee has outraged an organisation for the Dis its a Small but its the principle that we should be treated the same As regular transit David provincial coordinator of the Manitoba league of persons with said Winnipeg transits recommendation to charge Handi transit users a onetime registration fee for identification cards is to go before the cites works and operations committee the fee is charged to Stu dents and seniors for similar Mai tin but the fee is offset by reduced he hand transit users pay the same full fare As other regular transit Martin said Mlod members will attend today meeting to make a presentation against the aside from being he the recommendation flies in the face of hand transits policy advisory committee which rejected user fees earlier this the committee is comprised of members from seniors and disabled groups As Well As transit officials and a City even the committe didst recommend he said of the proposal it really is a matter of How the City views Public transportation for disabled Martin Winnipeg transit officials did not return phone Calls on the matter approved were not training brain surgeons he Dan Vandal Boniface said he wants to know How the depart ment is coping with its staffing Short i cant see How you can take 60 fire fighters out of service and not have an Vandal if safety is being we have to hear about Burgess said statistics during the past two years show the value of Fife losses has increased dramatically Dur ing the vacancy management Era at City he said fire Crews cant respond fast but Lough said response times Are not slower on average and he sees no harm in having fewer Lough said he Doest have an Over time so he must leave Aerial trucks and pumpers parked at fire stations when the department is Short police monastery stabbing puts Monk in Hospital Atiye Arold Monk is in stable condition in a Winnipeg Hospital after he was stabbed several times during an altercation at the Trappist fathers monastery near Treherne ramp Bill Robinson said brother Fernard Remaud suffered several Stab wounds on his face and arms following an altercation with another Monk at the monastery Friday he was taken to Swan Lake Hospi Tal before being transferred to health sciences police have not yet taken a statement from brother Eric has been charged with aggravated assault and Possession of a weapon dangerous to the Public Metivier appeared briefly in a Portage la Prairie court yesterday after spending the weekend in the Winnipeg remand where he will stay until returning to court next Crown attorney de Sloan said Metivier was remanded in custody in order to secure Legal remand Centre director Ron Coles said yesterday no special arrange ments have been made to accommodate the who was briefed on safety procedures and told to Contact staff if he Felt a spokesman for the monastery would not murder bid alleged a Winnipeg woman remained in Seri Ous condition in Hospital with her estranged husband in the Winnipeg remand Centre facing a charge of attempted a Winnipeg police service spokesman said Manjit of Lenore was admitted to the health sciences Centre in life threat ening condition about 1 her status was later upgraded to police the woman estranged Bhupinder Singh of Chest nut has been charged with attempted murder and break and enter with intent to commit an the victim and accused have been legally separated about four police camper trailer stolen it want enough that thieves had broken into numerous trailers Over the summer in whiter Outh provincial was Brazen enough to take one of one was actually hauled away a Cou ple of weeks said Whitemouth ramp Candice adding she had never heard of anything like that happening before at the in the detachment has been Busy investigating five break4ns at Nuti Mik Lake in the Park last but that peanuts compared to the 20 campers broken into after the May Long there have been no arrests in any of the which usually occur while the owners Are away at the stolen camper is still the ramp Are urging people to take their valuables Home with them Dur ing the its a pain to have to haul everything Back and but that what its Coin ing Down said if you like it tying it Home with she said serial numbers or some kind of identification Marks should be on valuables that Are left behind so they can be traced Mcrae Kajj the number of break ins this year is about average for the David Martin boards bus assisted by operator Kevin Iem Gyory she ;