Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Bruce Owen 6977292 Cut own City tells intercity residents by Tracy Tudon the City will no longer Cut the grass or pick up litter on the front boulevards of property in the inner and there will be stiff penalties for residents who dont pick up the the City has been cutting Back on the number of neighbourhoods which received the service since the inner City was the last to because of the High number of rental units and Rooming but Council decided in Spring to end the property owners who neglect to mow and tidy up will be sent a if that Doest three Days later City staff will do the Job and Bill the property owner each if you refuse to pay the the City will slap it on your property tax Public works spokesman Bob Mcdon Ald said the new Rule which will save annually simply Standard izes mowing services throughout the but Harvey Smith is outraged at the cites heavy handed attitude Winnipeg most beleaguered Many intercity Resi dents dont own a he it will make the inner City look worse than it already and goes against the cites policy of rejuvenating older it be hockey night at Eaton new owner says historic buildings Fate hinges on Moose plan for downtown Arena by Aldo Santon the owner of the downtown Eaton building says the build Ings and that of All of linked to Manitoba Moose president Mark Chipman and his plans to build a new George president of Toron to based Osmington said he believes the Best use for the Eaton building is As the Home for a new the most compatible solution with residual value to the City and the Down town is an entertainment Complex at the Eaton Schott Chipman recently released a detailed plan for the construction of a downtown Arena that would seat As Many As for concerts and for Chipman and the Crocus investment two partners in the International hockey leagues have taken the Lead role in1the so called True North the Cost of which is Esti mated at not including whose company owns both the Eaton building and the adjacent Eaton place retail and office said a study he commissioned on the state of downtown concluded that the City is running out of time to save the Schott said while he knows the Loca Tion of a new Arena will be determined by the Chipman family and govern ment the study pointed out that building at the Eaton site will have the Best benefits for weve got some time before we must Schott i expect a Deci Sion on the Arenas location will be made within three to four the prepared by the renowned marketing consulting firm Williams said Winnipeg Down town consists of too Many isolated pockets of if a plan int developed soon to link these pockets and to grow the Busi Nesses Between existing Busi Ness will either close or flee the study the longer there is uncertainty regarding the future of retailing in downtown the More severe will be the erosion to the existing retail the More difficult it will be to attract new operators to locate Down town and the More permanent will be the damage to All of downtown the report the report found retail is fragmented into a series of Iso lated areas and the retailing that exists is too much for the population base of the the report concludes contrary to local Public downtown Park ing is better than most other Urban Cen tres and improving it will not bring More people the report also found i redeveloping the Eaton building properly will have spinoff benefits along Portage South to Broad Way and North into the Exchange Dis i the downtown shopping nodes Portage the Eaton Winnipeg Square Are too far i the Eaton building is poorly suited for modern him Iii Iii Iii mini Iii i inn Boris Minkevich Winnipeg free press archives the new owners of the Eaton building support an Arena on the support for Arena poll finds the president of the Manitoba Moose and the new owners of the Eaton build ing May be talking about the need for a new Arena and entertainment com plex to revive the but a new poll suggests support from the Public May not be the conducted by viewpoints found 43 per cent of respondents support building a new Arena on third oppose the idea and almost on Quarter Are unde Cid Public opinion wont Stop the Forks from pursuing residential a spokeswoman for the Agency said viewpoints said it found 58 per cent of respondents opposed to residential development near the Forks historic but Marilyn Williams said results from the viewpoints poll that indicate the Public is opposed to residential development at the Forks Are Orrele what difference does it make whether people like it or not Williams that Doest mean there int a Market for viewpoints research conducted the Telephone poll of 400 adult Winnipeg Gers Between april 27 and May its considered accurate to within five percentage 19 times out of every neighbourhood is not he there Are a lot of rental prop do you think someone who lives outside the City is going to be worried about this Smith said property owners who Are fined will simply pass on the Cost by Rais ing blood bag mystery solved by Sean Deasy mysterious blood discovered by Chil Dren and smeared around the West end on sunday night had been in storage for research and not carelessly Atlas which has been producing bacterial cultures for scientific research out of an unmarked Sar gent Street lab since has been storing the blood outdoors in a locked Yard for the past seven late sunday local kids jumped the Bac Kalley Fence and unlocked the Gate from eventually uncovering a bucket in an old Bathtub beneath a Sheet of what turned out to be 30 bags of expired sheep one child had returned Home to his Toronto Home and his father alerted Atlas employees Are frustrated by mischievous activity around the prop claiming they Are constantly Chas ing kids this is a Tough said Andy who works at and weve just lost a lot of work because of this but 70 to 80 per cent of this kind of research is done in this area and we cant just move to an Industrial Park away from our according to the sheep blood is used to isolate bacteria and must be in sterile condition to have any Worth to microbiology the which Are identical to human blood transfusion Are stored outdoors As part of the experimental there Are no infectious materials at this Only pure waste there is absolutely no danger to the fire destroys kills family cat a family cat died and their Home was destroyed in a fire at 97 Eckhardt in Tyndall Park yesterday the Blaze broke out at around 3 and quickly spread throughout the none of the family members was injured in the which caused about fire investigators Are still working to determine the cause of the pupils suspected to Means Peers May need tests by Alexandra Paul Public health officials could end up testing dozens of students after a foreign Pupil in a Pri vate High school was admitted to Hospital with suspected the student was in a Grade 12 class of 25 at the coed Tuxedo area Linden Christian where 600 students from kindergarten to Grade 12 attend the lower grades Are in sep Arate wings and Are not Likely at any the student was due to Fly Back to Korea yesterday on a flight through Vancouver to but health officials stepped in Over the week end and brought him to health sciences Cen he was going to go Back but we cant let him its not Good for the health of the other Pas said Earl Hershf director of Manitoba tuberculosis control its Likely almost certainly but we dont have a diagnosis Hershfield Carol Kurbis is the medical officer of health heading up the investigation for the Winnipeg regional health if there is a concern there May have been transmission in the school setting we will deter mine who needs testing and provide information and education to anyone involved in the Kurbis Public health officials will Likely be at the school today distributing information on to and its risk of to is contagious but usually it is not very contagious unless there is close Contact with someone Over Long periods of Kurbis it can take two weeks for Public health officials to scour contacts and decide who needs we Are already dealing with the school and we want to organize this responsibly and make sure we capture everyone and dont miss any Kurbis a Parent on the school boards advisory com Mittee was alarmed to hear about the Case yes my i didst know that so said Sophie who has three children at the All in lower at the school principal Phyllis Cook said parents will be notified but she emphasized she is leaving the nuts and bolts of the investigation to Public health the facts on tuberculosis a contagious bacterial disease that can be fatal if not i spread Only person person by germs through the air if someone with Active to shoots or i can lie dormant without making the infected person or anyone else around him i cases of to hate alien to 904 in 1997 from in according to statistics 1 Canada has an enviable rate of Only Active cases per people but 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