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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 05, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ask about dynamics Rice financial family of funds special nor onto backed Load dynamic partners fund too pc j Randon your weekly Southwest Manitoba news digest for Home delivery Call 7270527 or 7272451 october briefly seminar helps planning Sun staff Manitoba Rural development is presenting a series of seminars on the essentials of marketing throughout the province to Mark Small business the one of which will be held in Brandon on will cover the basics of developing and implementing a solid marketing participants will also receive a marketing handbook developed by Manitoba Rural development As a take Home marketing is a component critical to the Overall Success of a Rural development minister Len Derkach we have so Many inventive and valuable products and services being developed in Rural but if they Arent Well mar no one will know there Avail registration fee for the seminar is per plus for More or to Register for the Call fire prevention urged Sun staff today kicks off fire prevention week and Manitoban Are urged to educate themselves on How to recognize and eliminate fire Haz Ards at some ways people can better protect themselves is to have smoke alarms installed and working proper fire extinguishers readily Avail Able and a regularly Practised Home escape Home escape fire Preven Tion education and smoke alarms Are the first line of defence against a deadly said Manitoba labor minister Harold the sound of a smoke alarm is your warn ing to get by developing a Home escape plan and practising it at least twice a everyone can be pre pared to react correctly and escape its important to Check a smoke alarms batteries regularly and keep it in Good working if a Battery operated smoke alarm is More than 10 years it should be replaced with a newer cooking Oil and grease fires Are the major cause of residential fires in careless smoking is the leading cause of Home fire deaths in followed by children playing with in 1996 in there were 21 fire fatalities and House fire damages shed spontaneous combustion is believed to be the cause of a fire that occurred Early saturday morning at the Hillside Hutt Erite Brandon fire officials suspect the Blaze started when saw dust in a workshop area heated the fire was contained to one por Tion of the Square foot it caused in Hillside is located 15 Kilometres Northeast of Council the Agenda City Council sits at a variation Board hearing prior to holding its regular meet ing monday at on the second floor of 410 ninth Here is the Agenda in capsule Zed form variation Board variation application 2130 Gurrie Hall communications resolutions federation of Canadian municipalities National Board of directors 10 to general business pan am games cycling 24 to August no supplementary taxes for crime prevention conference Portage la proposal to subdivide 1528 first proposal to subdivide North of car right Otway and Northwest of Waverly drive Waverly developments properties proposal to subdivide the property at the Southwest Corner of the intersection of Tran Canada Highway and eighteenth Green streets Canada Grant proposal regional heritage acquisition of 2120 Franklin Street from mis net com rate Union of Manitoba municipalities meeting on nations services agree october in Portage la bylaws to Amend pension second and third to rezone so and be 161018 Wpm and lot plan 2245 in be 16 1018 Wpm from Amr District to m3 and of District of first v Colin Sun Westman recycling Council coordinator David Mcconkey stands amidst Bales of aluminium cans waiting to be shipped out for recycling numbers Rise steadily by Scott Gibbons the Brandon Sun the Good news is that recycling is up in a big Way in the bad is that a lot More recyclable material is still ending up in Landfill the Manitoba product stewardship corporation recently announced that tonnes of recyclables were collected province wide from april 1996 to March that was or 72 per More than the previous in Rural recycling jumped by 25 per that a pretty Good said Gen eral manager Jim Fogg of the two year old Misc were pretty Happy with the increase can be attributed to several he the Steward ship program is becoming More aggressive in promoting recycling More such As juice Are items accepted at the recycling depot in the Westman recycling coun cil collected tonnes of the following is a list of items that Are accepted at the recycling newsprint catalogues and phone containers milk and juice car aluminium Glass bottles and plastic containers Plas tic soft drink and liquor tin cans and boxes boxboard Cereal Type egg Cartons corrugated eligible for recycling and Winnipeg now has a curbside collection in 621 tonnes were Recy which on each resident recycled approximately cardboard no pizza office paper White col ored computer no car Bon required fax posit shredded file school writing envelopes other photo copy paper recyclables can be dropped off any time at the located at the Corner of sixth Street and Pacific ave Neathe depot is open 10 to 5 monday to materials can also be deposited after kilograms last but Fogg said although More than 90 per cent of Manitoban have Access to recycling there is still a lot More material from Homes that Are not being our Job is to help them make the decision to do Fogg we always got a Core of the question is How do we get the in Only 23 per cent of Eli Gible material is being provincially the rate is with 41 per cent of recyclables being one Way to improve Brandon num he is if the City went to a curbside collection if they make the decision to go curb the numbers in that municipality would increase fairly Fogg the City has previously said a curbside program is not Cost effect the coordinator for the Westman recycling Council said there has been a noticeable increase in volume this year at Brandon Dave Mcconkey said the increase can be attributed to More items being a bigger local More flyers being delivered and pos Sibly More people Are Colin Conneaut random Sun a Farmer tills his Field Southeast of Brandon As a line of Hay Bales Burn in the background last provincial regulations Force producers to upgrade lighting on farm machinery by Scott Gibbons the Brandon Sun recent changes to the Highway traffic act that require farm equipment to be More visible Are expected to reduce the number of accidents involving farm the which Call for the outside extremities of machinery to be equipped with flashing flags and slow moving vehicles came into place on but in order to giver Farmers time to retrofit their enforcement Doest begin until next the executive director of the Mani Toba safety Council likes what she from the safety it had to be Rita Roelan Borthwick there had to be better Legisla Tion for farming the in consultation with Keystone agricultural the Prairie agricultural machinery inst the Canadian standards Assoc ii Prairie implement manufacturers association and the began looking at ways of improving Road safety following a tragedy three years three teenagers from located about 45 Kilometres Southwest of were killed when their pickup truck collided with an unmarked Combine that was returning from the Fields late at Kap has produced a Booklet called be be Safe to explain the changes and How to retrofit older Kap president Leslie Jacobson said the retrofitting int there is a Cost to the Farmer but there is also a safety Jacobson we have to realize Farmers have the responsibility of making and keep ing their machines Safe to drive on the the Booklet contains Clear descriptions and illustrations of the lighting and flagging now it is Avail Able at offices of Manitoba Manitoba farm equipment and parts the Prairie Agri cultural machinery Institute and the changes Arent expected to have a major Impact on on some lines of such As John a comprehensive warning lights system is were getting Good compliments from customers saying this machine is really Well lit up at said Kelly sales manager and partner at Brandon Countryside so the Farmers dont see it As a draw they Are saying this is in feeling a lot safer on the at the upcoming a Days in bran Countryside will be putting together a program on farm a portion of which will look at the new lighting we thought we wanted to take the Lead and show that even if you Are run Ning 15yearold it Doest mean it cant be upgraded fairly cheaply to make sure its at the stockyard weekly sales summary and trends for week ending information is supplied by Rick Market manager of the heart land livestock prices quoted Are by Slaughter cattle total on offer Brandon 3769 Choice steers 8284 a1a2 steers Choice heifers 8083 a1a2 heifers7780 d1d2 cows d3 cows 4344 feeder cows 5060 Good bulls 5056 Market trends Butcher steers and heifers Are holding on a steady Market this cows picked up a Little steam on thursdays Sale with prices bulls continue to sell on an easier feeder cattle steers 9001000 80090094103 700800 102113 600700109119 500600 400500 300400 heifers 9001000 800900 700800 95105 600700 500600 400500 110118 300400 110119 Market trends feeder cattle and calves Are Selling with continued Good prices were slightly easier in the Good heavier runs of calves to the markets is increasing availability to the feedlots which is showing in the buyers Are get Ting More Quality conscious and Back ing off sooner on the medium and Plain local orders Are helping on these lesser Quality calves presort satellite Sale for 7 is the Sale starts at with 2700 ;