Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Bruce Owen 6977292 office allowance on Agenda by David Obrien City councillors will debate a motion today to boost their office allowances by so per raising it to from the controversial proposal could Cost taxpayers another a year for All is not including the Cost of expanded benefits for political Assis which could be Worth another the a year that councillors now receive on top of their salaries is intended As a War communications but Many councillors use a big chunk of it to pay an councillors to debate controversial proposal today Garth Steek pays his assistant a year plus a year in Ben leaving just for sending out phones and other office and War related that clearly int enough to do this Job Steek River Heights councillors represent Between and that two to three times the number of people Las we cant do the Job right on the Money we get people expect More and they have a right to Steek said opposition Las receive More than for political constituency offices and other expense the figure Doest include travel costs for Las who live outside the he some suburban councillors Are opposed to the increase because they dont have full time assistants and feel is enough to handle their office and Ward but intercity councillors said their counterparts in the affluent parts of the City dont get the same volume of Calls for service that they i get 40 phone Calls a plus let Deer lodges latest lotto winners de Clairmont from Bill David Cheyne and Rick looking for some lotto Luck try working at Deer Lodge by Kim Guttormson and Sean Deasy Deer Lodge Centre has one Heck of a hiring for the second time in less than a employees of the nursing Home have hit the lotto four coworkers Rick David de Clairmont and Bill Kitching shared in a Windfall saturday and just Over three weeks Deer Lodge nurse Darlene Sonnenberg took Home million As part of Manitoba lottery hot weve Felt its a Good recruiting tac Rogers said last night of the institution that employs about if you want to increase your chances of winning the you better work switchboard operator Dawn mar Tynyk said the place was Abuzz with the news when i came i had i believe someone had won she adding most employees have been Rushing put to buy tick ets of their including our Well be Rogers said he and his colleagues have played the lottery weekly for 16 it didst Hurt their resolve about five years yet another employee of the nursing Home took Home More than a million Manitoba has been the place to get Lucky of the Deer Lodge quartet is the 12th set of Manitoban to win More than million in the past 18 for a total of Sonnenberg win eclipsed the previous High of Mil lion won by Larry and Helen Tessier earlier this Gerald mus Wagon started the Ball rolling a year and a half ago when he won million in the super the latest four All in their 40s and plan to continue says although there Likely going to take a Little time were too Young to retire he Rogers is the head of the prop erty services where Cheyne is a plumber and Kitching and Clairmont Are Rogers said Cheyne is the keeper of the which Treyve always played on he received a Call from him sunday ask ing if he Felt i said not really he said there were reasons i i didst believe Rogers so i phoned one of the other and sure enough Cheyne was playing it Cool yester saying his coworkers were More excited than he it Doest change he the other Guys Are pretty but not Well sit tight for a the Western Canada lottery corporation said there were four winning tickets purchased across the country for saturdays the Low winning numbers 27 and 31 usually mean players Are choosing birthrates As opposed to random numbers and these selections make the Jackpot More Likely to be Manitoba accounts for three per cent of the lotto tickets sold across Ontario and Quebec Combine for 65 per on the Wulc expects two or three new millionaires from Manitoba each a two year period Over 199798 saw no new millionaires in the province at four winners is considered a really Good coworkers sharing winnings is but different groups of win ners within the same workplace is highly at its we once had a group of and an unrelated single said Wulc spokesman John but to have millionaire winners at the same place of employment Only three weeks apart is highly and i asked the new winners and they All know the woman who that is extremely ters and emails and people dropping Harvey Smith Daniel Mclntyre i used to be an nip la and i can Tell you i face a lot More demands As a As an la you get very few if the motion is the Cost of providing benefits to councillors Assis Tants roughly for a salary would come out of general Rev not the Ward Many of the political lieutenants work for Between and a but several Are just Par time employ if the Ward allowance was expanded to any unused portions would have to be returned to general Bill who be reached Doest hire an Assis Tant and he has returned Money to City coffers in the councillors earn about a one third of it tax members of executive policy committee take Home about a one third of it tax they have limited benefits and no pension a sore Point for several lon serving councillors who have been looking for a Way to put the hot Button Issue on the Public doer on Mission to end provinces Battle for business Stop Competition with taxpayers Host says on eve of Western Premier forum by Helen fall lip Brandon Premier Gary doer will try to persuade his Western Peers today to Stop luring big business with hand we would Stop companies competing one province to another with taxpayers he said As he arrived in Brandon for the opening of the annual Western premiers in the nip government gave Winnipeg hog processor Schneider about million in incentives to expand after the company threatened to move to another the previous tory govern ment gave Maple Leaf similar Deal to Start a new Plant in Alberta Premier Ralph Klein dismissed doers concerns about business subsidies in we prohibit them in our he said after flying into but doer cited the Lamb Weston potato processing Plant near where Alberta agreed to contribute up to million toward Wastewater treat ment Hes totally and absolutely off Klein noting that was not a direct it should have been a matter of picking up the phone and whats the situation Manitoba subsidies to hog plants came in the form of Wastewater treat tax incentives available to other companies and training the Alberta Premier said he does not consider sewage treatment a business subsidy if the project also serves the Community or other Maple Leafs waste paid for by the province and the City of is used exclusively by the doer said he will raise the subsidy Issue again with All Canadian premiers when he hosts them in August in win a feisty Klein made it Clear yesterday Hes prepared to fight Back against Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanowsk attacks on Bill which expands Pri vate health care in the Saskatchewan legislation is much More said who reviewed his neighbouring provinces Law on private clinics while flying to it could include everything from brain surgery to ingrown Romanowsk claim that Bill 11 might Lead to queue jumping by the wealthy is Misin Klein those people that it it it May i think those Are All Bugaboo kinds of who will be chairing the Confer said Manitoba remains opposed to overnight stays in Pri vate which will be allowed ill different standards in different provinces Are a threat to Canadian health doer but he blamed Ottawa for funding cuts that forced each province to go its own the conservative Klein said he does not feel outnumbered at the conference by three provincial nip you just watch he said with a the premiers Are also scheduled to discuss agricultural including a proposal from doer to demand that Ottawa cough up disaster funding for Farmers in southwestern Manitoba and Southeastern Saskatchewan hit by 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