Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 local Winnipeg free May 2000 Prairie Public to losing members North of Border Channel choices May be to bewildered broadcaster suggests Gordon Sinclair More broadcast the budget besieged Csc int the Only locally seen pub Lic broadcaster with problems these Prairie Public televisions Canadian memberships have nosedive by As much As a third in recent in 199596 the grand Fork based american Public broadcaster had about Canadian the same number it now has among its american View ers in North Dakota and portions of South Minnesota and Only about canadians donate to the pcs most of them in the Winnipeg we dont know exactly what the cause of that says Evelyn Prairie Public televisions director of development and communications but we believe it coincided with the availability of so Many specially Chan wedding Bells for longtime Winnipeg lawyer Hersh who moved most of his practice to Calgary several years is getting married sunday at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Palm his Bride is Sheilah the former Dean of Law at the University of just a entries close for the people who make a Dif Ference contest on sunday and on june 2 for the Tell us or show us Why Canada is the Best place to be in the 21st Century you can mail either contest entry to me at the free 1355 Mountain r2x or email them at the address shown at the Bottom of the the tells us or show us contest should be told in 300 words or less or shown with a piece of artwork including computer generated or with a photo that is no larger than 28 centimetres by 18 the Tell us or show us contest carries three prizes Worth and celebrity Ross the Host of Csc 2s late night jazz show after was out the other night when he spotted Paul mind the nightspot was in new York Porter was there doing a radio documentary in Celebration of the 100th birthday of Louis and Mccartney was sitting quietly at the Back of a jazz club called Irr Idi with his Model Heather Porter reported that nobody both ered the not even Ross celebrity i received a postcard from eng this it was from Carol Shields with a word of congratulations for winning the first City of Winnipeg Book award and the Mcnally Robinson Book of the it was a wonderful Surprise to hear from our pulitzer prize winning especially because the City of Winnipeg Book award is named in Carol Shields of ill the last chivalry int its just slightly a buddy was attending a function at the can West global performing arts Centre recently when a woman sitting behind him dropped her purse under the he went to retrieve it for As he Bent Down to pick it up and then straightened up he smashed his bleeding and he wobbled Back to his seat and returned the seeing the and matted and his dazed the woman behind him asked if there was anything she could said sir dont drop it d . Blood Bank fears shortage Over Long weekend the Winnipeg blood Centre needs donors to protect its blood Supply Over the upcoming Long Michael a spokesman for Canadian blood said the blood Bank is at close to acceptable Levels right but that Long week ends typically put higher demands on the Supply because fewer people turn put to and More people Are involved in then require Hyduk said the wac is looking for donations from people of All blood the Winnipeg blood Centre is open monday to it will be closed on Victoria donors can Call 1 8882226575 to make an appointment to donate at the wac or to receive information on Mobile clinics outside of i in k i o a c a t i n return from one Way Toronto 199 Iso Montreal Ottawa 230 Vancouver Bonus roots Oki Royal to Delta hotels City packs Delta kids under 6 stay eat free 2 if shh def Ion Oshawa u5 Delta Ottawa hotel minutes from parliament Hill your smile is our signature this 24 hours studio right was just opened last year but Csc president Robert Rabi Novitch inset made Clear yesterday the Days of such shows Are Ken Violiotti Wiki per Frel a flesh Al Chiky overhaul plan angers staff by Paul Samyn regional television limb that the Csc wants to Cut has left staff at its Winnipeg station feeling disgusted and ready to jump what they fear is a sinking everyone is talking about their said one member of Csc which stands to lose 53 jobs under a proposed Radical Ive decided to i have no inter est in sticking this the Hopes of local newscasts were dealt another blow yesterday when Csc president Robert Rabinovitch made Clear the Days of those shows Are i am not embarrassed for using the term cutting off a limb because Cut Ting off a limb can save the Rabinovitch told the commons heritage we May need to do Radical local Csc newscasts dealt another blow Rabinovitch said the local newscasts suffer from Low viewership and can no longer be sustained As the Csc is in the midst of both a financial and Iden Tity we cannot be All things to All peo the new president in the area of local supper by and almost in All parts of the coun the private sector has picked up the Challenge and is providing and doing it in a very competent that gives us the flexibility to reorganize the corporation to achieve the new proposed programs that you have Rabinovitch is proposing a new vision which would pull the plug on 16 suppertime shows and provide a sin Gle National newscast during that time with regional Csc Manitoba would continue to provide some network including the show country Canada and sports there is talk that Anchor Diana Swain would Host a newscast for Manitoba and Stephen a Csc 24 hours pro Ducer and Pas president of the Winnipeg local of the Canadian Media said Rabinovitch comments were what i have seen fron my col leagues today after watching Rabinovitch is a lot of disgust and anger and some Ruey Rabinovitch told the nit tee that English television is in a f Mancial Cri we Are in dire financial in if i was still in the private sector and brought the Csc plan As it now exists would be told by my banker that it was structurally flawed and unless we addressed those structural we were Well on our Way to Bigboy project planned for East Paul Bald Santin a Tuxedo businessman wants to build a Bigboy shopping Complex just outside the cites boundaries on Henderson Highway in East the project is being viewed As a Boon for the growing Rural but some Winnipeg officials and residents fear it could undermine the cites fragile tax this is a big Deal for our Community and id like to see something like that go East Paul Reeve Phil Rebeck this would generate a lot of tax dollars and will help us pay for All the things were going to need to keep this Community but in the Mark Lubosch North Kildonan said this is the wrong project for the wrong piece of we dont need More commercial especially on that in this Lubosch this will just take tax dollars out of the City and weaken our business marshal president of Best Brand wants to develop the 69 acre which is located Between de Vries and Foxgrove a site plan identifies three retail build Ings of Between Square feet and Square and a fourth build ing of about Square the plan also includes several smaller retail freed refused to discuss the project adding he and his chartier and will be holding a Public meeting tonight at the East Paul tie land is zoned for a combination of residential and institutional Winnipeg has become a Magnet for Bigboy retail a concept in shopping that has spread across North America during the last 10 eral Are under construction in various part of the including a Large development on Regent feeds project would be the first local Bigboy development outside the City leaving some to fear that Winnipeg retailers will abandon Sites in the City in favour of a new project where the taxes Are this would Only be the Start of an exo said City resident Ken an outspoken critic of Urban if this is it will attract other growth around it and probably other projects will go ahead in other communities sur rounding the East Paul Dave Gera said before the project could go ahead it would require rezoning and an Amend ment to the Community development which would require provincial Gera said Hes received about 40 phone Calls since word of the project got out earlier this adding most Are opposed to the Lubosch said growth in the communities surrounding Winnipeg have been unfairly fuelled by subsidies from the former conservative Rebeck said Hes not concerned about How City officials and residents feel about the adding that East Paul residents have been shopping in Winnipeg Tot Winnipeg cant keep All the develop ment for Rebeck we could use the taxes that a project like that will generate because the revenues generated by new Home construction is going to taper off and if we want to continue to give our residents the things we need this is the Best Way to do he choose 2 items at the same Price from a great selection of tank skirts 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