Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 4, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnipeg december 2000 digest a10 a11 a11 Index local editorials focus letters to the editor business family notices in a emporiums c7 classified c8 Jumble c10 diversions Ann Landers d3 comics d2 sports record entertainment d5 movies d5 prime time to d6 weather d6 assessments continued from Page a1 in 1995 the two Storey Home was assessed at the Market value of the infill House built in 1983 is pegged at Between and he were the sort of people who should be living in the inner City to revitalize he and we like living close to relatives and downtown shop what they dont like is their tax assess the Gagnon pay almost per year in school and City we want to pay our taxes we just want said who has been working Par time with the North end Community renewal he said his neighbourhood has been portrayed in a poor Light by the Media after a wave of arsons raged through the Community in the last few he said his Street has its first boarded up and he wants to reverse the Only Way to do that is attract younger and Gagnon believes fairer taxes will go a Long Way towards doing if Gagnon wants fairer he should be talking to the province about changing the one Legal expert in lawyer Michael Mercury rep resented a group of 300 intercity Home owners incorporated As Shaft and won a court ordered first one done in 25 that action eventually resulted in the City adopting a Market value property tax the 1990 municipal assessment act of Manitoba should be changed to require reassessment every year or two to reflect current he a mess the system now is a mess because there is a six year time lag Between Mercury for exam a homeowners 2001 tax Bill will be calculated based on a 1995 Market value assessment of their he in a place like Point Douglas where values have in some suburban areas where Treyve soared people Are not paying their fair share of the tax he not Only is it it creates a whole new set of headaches and bureaucracy because homeowners Are forced to Appeal to the Board of revision to get a fairer Mercury my heart goes out to those Mercury said of the Northend but he said they May have a Tough time swaying the Board of a 1995 reassessment May not be considered out of line according to the municipal assessment act and the courts that interpret even if it is unfair to the he the Board of revision is made up of 26 appointees who Are citizens of said chairman Randy they sit on panels of three and the hearings Are held at six different at a typical the City assessor makes a presentation to the then the property owner states his reason for appealing the both the owner and the assessor have an Opportunity to Cross examine each other and the panel members can ask Gibbons the Board goes behind closed doors to make its then notifies the property usually within a couple of he australian rallies Back aborigines Australia hundreds of thousands of people marched through two state capitals yesterday in rallies to support racial reconciliation in aus about people marched in the Southern City of some of them carrying banners and shouting slogans criticizing the government for its treatment of Australia original inhabitants and now its most Dis advantaged tens of thousands of people took part in a similar March in the capital of Western its just a Case of people showing there in favour of its a statements Are important said Australia Peter Costel who was one of one or several senior government ministers who took part in the Melbourne deaths Gordon widower of Dora widower of Elise Catherine Eva of wife of George husband of Maria Ethel wife of Walter Tyler of Gordon of husband of Irene Gertrude Maria widow of Gustav of John Alexander husband of Beth Orville Ronald of husband of Lucy Mary of wife of Barney Richard widower of Frances i classified death notices c7 lotteries pick 3 winning number yesterday was lotto winning numbers saturday were and Bonus number was the Jackpot of was won by 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hundreds of Par its Only a matter of time before someone is Hurt or How Many kids have to be Hurt or killed before you Stop this strike Par ent Gary Crumb its a question he plans to put to trustees at the school Board meeting which parents plan to attend in a Parent of a disabled child said she has to get four children to school in a vehicle with Only three Seatbelt besides her this is absolutely she told the cheering carrying placards dont contract out students the crowd cheered at the suggestion of holding the three Day they plan to hold another meeting to get More parents involved and put the plan into its not just the Busy drop off Sites that have parents they say High school students who Only recently started to drive Are forced to pick up their friends and drive through blustery Winter weather to they Are inexperienced and we Are going to have a catastrophe one angry dad when parents Here Learned the maximum compensation the province allows for transportation is a Parent Gary Crumb How Many kids have to be Hurt or they vowed to keep their Gas extra babysitting the Cost of lost time at work and Wear and tear on their vehicles and Send the Bills to the school who has eight kids who attend four schools in the spent four hours a Day and on Gas last week getting them to and from what were going to have to do is get a petition together to ask for res ignation of some of the she said to before the some parents said they dont want strangers hired on contract and making Low wages Dri ving their kids to our Drivers live know our kids and they drive these roads every said Maria who has two children in driving Jeff free press out Here is not the same As it is in the Jamie a trustee who sup ports the said parents should pack tomorrows school Board meet Inland demand a Many didst know they had to request permission to speak at the but Boychuk said he would move to suspend the rules so All parents could i dont believe in contracting its not going to save us any Boychuk and cast doubt on the projected saving contracting out would once they sell off the bus the company got you where they want you and up go the River East school division is also in the Middle of a bus Drivers Drivers there walked out useless continued from Page a1 Martin lawyer for the treat ment is expected to announce today whether the Centre will use the courts to try to Force Ottawa to resume funding the Iwasiw said he has tried not to Send clients but space is one kid came Back and described the kind of program she was doing and it was so we got her into a Halfway House in Kenora and Shes doing one of my clients told me there were 21 kids in a group therapy its like a High school no ones going to discuss their Iwasiw said youths in the solvent abuse program Are the treatment Cen tres bread and that it pays the most because youths stay on six month the treatment Centre has increasingly been taking people who either face charges or Are on at the bail if you can come up with an adequate treatment plan and present it to the and they they let you Iwasiw if its a Choice Between jail and some half Assed treatment clients want to go i cant say i blame Iwasiw nip to help convert Convent to health Centre the province has answered Lau rents prayers by agreeing to help turn the towns old Convent into a Community health the health department deferred the project last but the Lau rent Community development refused to give up and met with health minister Dave Chomiak in Early novem Chomiak realized the scope of the project was reasonable and accepted this Type of program for the we were quite Happy to turn the decision said Louis president of the Laurent Community develop ment construction to convert the former Convent will begin by 31 at the lat est and is expected to be completed before March said a corporation press the province will pitch in a maximum of for the the Federal government is injecting for the construction of four housing units and common areas for seniors on the main the release the Community health clinic will pro vide Home Public health and mental health family and child rehabilitation and Many More we Are convinced that the Community health once it is will be beneficial for All residents of Lau including the cottage owners who double the population during the Spring and summer the release when the last of the nuns left the roman Catholic Convent in the town Sev eral years they agreed to sell their building and appraised at to the Rural the pm bought the property in 1999 for just Complete with an Arbour that Home to stations of the a shrine to the Virgin Mary and a Pagoda shaped what do Patty Buzz and Mike Wallace All have in common a crippling depressive illness mood disorders association of Manitoba 7860987 18002631460 overactive ladder problems if you experience symptoms of overactive we May have a research study with a new investigation Al medication for symptoms must include frequent sudden urges to go to the bathroom and 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