Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 14, 1999, Winnipeg, Manitoba The weather Steinly 40 Chance of High Low details on Page do Winnipeg free press garbage Day 3 school Day 5 inside 1999 Manitoba election Condo complaint condominium owners packed the Transcona country club last night to Tell Manitoba political parties that Treyve had it with High property taxes Complete election coverage starts on Page a8 Little sympathy a Man who started working for Eaton straight out of High school has Little sympathy for the retail Empire or the family that ran it into the Rosenbergs lose Case everything the Rosenberg family owns will be auctioned off this week after a Federal court judge yesterday denied the family plea the Chretien fires Back the prime ministers lawyers say newspaper Baron Conrad Blacks Law suit Over his British peerage has no grounds and should be thrown out Floyd on a rampage Hurricane Floyd is headed for Florida and has the potential to be Cata the storm is larger than deadly Hurricane Andrew of 1992 and is expected to land in the next few delivery put on ice schwans Frozen food delivery service will no longer be offered after the service has been available for about 10 years but Hast been prof Frost a threat the wet conditions of the last two and a half to three weeks have delayed the fall Harvest in Many parts of Manitoba to the Point where Frost is becoming a today in your City province rumours comedy club the spleen cinematheque the and Palomino club hang Index Canada world in life net Reader and Ann sports to september 1999 fish fever sends fans into frenzy for tickets by Bud Robertson staff reporter the fish Are reeling them baseball fans burning with fish fever rushed the Box office and souvenir Racks at can West global Park yesterday to snap up tickets and Ball Caps for the Gold eyes first Home game in the North Ern league championship by yesterday Only 500 seats were left for saturdays game after about tickets were gob bled up by fans eager to see the Siz trophy fishin1 in the East Ling fish Battle the Alban Colonie Diamond dogs for the league it was Gold eyes spokesman Jonathan Green beamed Green said Hes rarely seen that vol ume of ticket sales in such a Short period of the Box office normally opens at 10 he but ticket sales were already brisk at continued please see goldeyesya2 Wayne qlowackwv1nnipeq free press Al Kozak and grandson Mitchell Roblin buy playoff tax blueprint unveiled plan includes tax service cuts by David Obrien City Hall reporter mayor Glen Murray unveiled an ambitious budget policy document yesterday that could dramatically reshape civic govern ment and slash property taxes Over the next three to five the talk continues the blueprint offers a smorgasbord of service user tax Breaks and workforce initiatives the mayor wants the Public to thin about Over the next six it recommends reorganizing fire cutting the number of police turning Over operation of the ambulance service to the user fees for garbage eliminating the amusement a seat tax for and Selling surplus Cit owned land and repeated his election Promise of investing in Winnipeg Hydro to make it More the 38page entitled get Ting taxes off our backs and on our is not carved in Murray pointing out it is just a platform for discussing ways to streamline gov Cut costs and reduce taxes promises he made during last Falls election Murray said he plans to hold focus groups and launch an ambitious Public consultation process to discuss his pro his goal is to produce a final Docu ment for councils approval in february and incorporate it into a three year budget in most of the ideas were based on his election Campaign and recycled from studies and recommendations that were made under former mayor Susan continued please see Ruth free press Murray talks to the Media about ambitious plan to dramatically reshape civic Murray eyes vat Cash highlights of mayor Glen Murray strategy for achieving affordable government give the City control Over All the Vit Money raised in increase Winnipeg Hydro prof its by increasing its get More City departments operating like user fees for garbage into the surplus in the civic employees pension Worth at least possibly a lot eliminate the amusement tax and the business change the Way residential property is assessed to make it easier and phase out the provincial Educa Tion support promote the preservation and rehabilitation of housing through the implementation of a housing tax rationalize civic facilities and introduce More on officer patrol reduce the number of police officers and continue the process of putting civilian sin jobs now done by use fire services More efficient which could mean closing some fire Transfer paramedic services to the introduce a 10 per cent seat tax for fair taxation of telecommunication services and Manitoba ambulances in trouble mayor by David Obrien City Hall reporter mayor Glen Murray has threatened to end the cites role in providing ambulance service unless the province agrees to increase its Murray said the ambulance service is the legislated responsibility of the Winnipeg Hospital authority and the City is not obliged to provide the threat was contained in the mayors blueprint for lowering taxes and reshaping civic released under the regional health authorities act passed Over a year the Winnipeg Hospital authority was Given responsibility for delivering ambulance but the province pays Only 22 per cent of the million Cost of run Ning the continued please see activist comes leaping to frogs defence by Bill Redekop staff reporter thousands of frogs could be sent to the Happy hopping grounds if a proposed Winnipeg housing development is says a local the wee boreal chorus Frog just three centimetres Long but which croaks like a broken exhaust pipe could lose its waterlogged habitat if City Council approves a 220home subdivision in Northwest Michele Kading i want the City to incorporate some fro Friendly said who lives near the proposed subdivision and who last night got nearly her entire Street to sign a Peti Tion supporting her but Harry Lazarenko Mynarski said while Hes championed Many underdog causes in his political this one goes too if i said i wanted to save that land for the people would say id finally Lazarenko a Long time was there were millions of frogs he adding that swamp also Breeds Kading noted an important historical site not just frogs is at the West of main Street at the chief pegu is was known As Frog Plain in an 1816 map of the Early red River continued please see exterior steel 6 panel doors Windsor plywood its time to replace those draft doors before the Winter winds visit Windsor today 28 x 68 t thickness insulated for a slight additional charge we f arrange installation for Many of the products we closet mantels or even Hardwood ask wed be Happy to help provide Complete door including drilling and mortising for hinges and and installing Glass Lites Are bring in your old we can reblock to your 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