Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a11 Winniw Fri 2001 letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be edited letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email California ban on smoking works As Winnipeg considers a bylaw outlaw ing smoking in Public i believe consideration is to be Given to the Cali fornia Model that bans All smoking in All Public including bars and the ban is wide in scope and As there is no likelihood of a client taking business else where from restaurant to the ban was enacted with a Short window for Amaz businesses do not need significant time to Post a sign advising smoking is most people still go to restau rants and in the Law brought an additional clientele to once you will wonder Why you waited so Jeffrey Stern business up after smoking ban i found your article on smoking in restaurants interesting and reminiscent of reactions when such Laws were introduced and passed in people fumed for but now that the smoke has no one wants to go Back to smoking in restau rants or business is up in both it is so Nice to go out to eat drink and not come Home smelling like an Ash go for the Manitoban Art Patzia Redwood Reader appalled at treatment of skydiver a former member of the Winnipeg skydiving i was appalled at the treatment of Robert Hutchinson by judge Ronald Meyers judge rips sky 16 As Well As the amount of incorrect information from the judgment published by the free i was present on the tragic Day that Randy Putros died and Randy was indeed wearing his own while its True that Rob was not Wear ing it is also not considered regu lation for him to do the spa has regulations that differ according to the experience of each individual your article also states that they had turned off Randy Aad automatic activation in this particular instance the Aad might have saved Randy i but it that purposefully disabled Sari Bell port put missed fingers at top of wailing list in regard to Morley walkers article regarding the 2001 fringe festival lot Tery fringe lottery draws i would like to voice my i am the artistic for the Small theatre company title Pend ing productions and we Are one of the six to eight companies that had been successful the first time around that failed to win the second i offer to you a solution that i believe would be fair to All companies that made the draw the first and second my solution would be to keep the present list of companies that made the second lottery and to bump up the companies that didst make it the Sec Ond but made it the first to the top of the waiting list in the order they appeared on the first i believe that this course of action would please the majority of local the atre companies that applied to the fes Todd Tichon title pending productions Winnipeg look past age and listen so poor old Hartley Kives wants to puke at the thought of old bands get Ting grammy it seems that Hartley is suffering from a whats the Kenneth syndrome in Michael Stipe of Rem wrote that lamenting the fact that one Day he will no longer understand the new music of a younger Kives seems to no longer understand music from mature he ragged on Santana for sweeping the grammy last year with a Brilliant some old fart who peaked in the and now even u2 and Steeley Dan dont make the it seems that mature artists have no place on Kives playlist simply because of their he had Best also get used to the fact that the grammy awards have a Long and storied history of rewarding artists Well after their City ignores own Snow bylaw Phil manaigre with his children Natanni Centre and Camille on contentious Snow now that Phil manaigre has destroyed his Snow when will we see the City remove theirs order to remove Snow the bylaw does not contain a special exemption for the City or its Snowbank that conceal pedestrians and vehicles from View at Street Corners Are surely As dangerous As Snow children play atop these Snowbank and slide Down the sides As surely As they did on the Crocodile manaigre constructed in front of his thus All the intersections of residential streets in the City Are in contravention of this bylaw and the City should be i fail to see How a pile of Snow on a when deposited by the is considered Legal and permissible when a pile of Snow with a few modifications by a Homeowner is it seems that Winnipeg transit and Canada Post Are also in contravention of this transit with its strategically placed bus benches and and Canada Post with its residential holding each of which restrict vision of oncoming i dont see these being moved perhaps manaigre should incorporate himself before next win Ter and his sculptures could then be Safe from Jan Fortier Winnipeg change City motto to destroy the spirit news Flash to the City of Winnipeg you goofed big time having now visited the infamous Ash Street Snow Duth Bonneville Winnipeg free press sculpture House and watched the insanity of the owner destroying his i can Only conclude that Winnipeg motto should be changed from embrace the spirit to destroy the i do Hope in the future when we try to celebrate the Winter City officials will use better judgment and will Grant a tax rebate instead for those citizens who make an Effort to beautify their property and enhance our Gail Asper Winnipeg biggest you know Why people rally to mature artists because they Are talented and poetic and had More on their minds than Fame and bombast when they wrote their Bartley should put away his ageism in reviewing music and focus on there Are Many Rock n Roll dinosaurs out there who just want to capitalize on past Glo there Are also those who continue to put out Beautiful music Mark Van John Mellencamp and John Lee Hooker to name a but i guess Beautiful is a Quality not currently look past the age and Rob Macdonald Winnipeg City snows in senior citizens according to our City streets bylaw no one should inter Fere with the reasonable time during the taking in or delivery of wares or since last the City has left a icy pile of Snow completely blocking Access to our property from the we cannot climb the we Are forced to use a Neighbours drive Way for deliveries and emergency Access to the front or even to exit from the front mail and newspaper delivery must be done though our Neighbours we have phoned the City works department about this and they said we had to move it our City Peter de did not respond to our we Are senior citizens one of us is on permanent and the other has the left Arm disabled by the City does not obey its own so Why should the family with the Snow sculptures tear them when there is no proven safety prob Lem i guess a safety problem caused by the City for two property taxpaying senior citizens is not we will remember this come the next civic poll Tuokko Winnipeg put free net Sites in Community clubs internet Access provided free at the after hours locations mentioned in your article stores in line for online could create some will say that adult Content Sites can be filtered out i say that anyone with a Basic knowledge of the internet would have no problem accessing restricted it would seem that the Correct place would be in the numerous Community clubs throughout each of our in my particular there Are a Possi ble three excellent locations Community clubs and civic Centre that i see As being Able to handle the task of pro Viding internet there must surely be members of those clubs whose talents could be tapped to assist the new the main thrust of the whole matter As it affects me is that once More the government is overlooking a segment of their constituency the Apple Macin Tosh by solely funding the Pur Chase of in that they Are again excluding a Large group of experienced users and denying themselves the Opportunity of using those talents to help in their goal to make Manitoba a major player in National Public free internet Tom Kyle Winnipeg lax safety Laws fuel profits i feel a response is necessary to com ments made by Dan Kelly regarding health and safety Laws labour rips nip on work Kelly promised to fight any proposed changes to provincial health and safety Laws with the same Fervour and Zeal applied by the Canadian federation of Independent business to Bill fur he claims to be very alarmed by the Manitoba federation of labours proposal for administrative safety Kelly and his likes Are in Desper ate need of a reality and a humanity Check if they can pause Long enough from playing with their the War that you Are threatening is with our youth and with the workers that make your life As comfortable As it perhaps you need to spend some time with the families of the victims who were tragically killed in order to sober consider yourself if you Haven been required to identify a body burned beyond recognition or made funeral arrangements for a son or a brother who was electrocuted Only then would you truly be Myron Winnipeg elderly caught in two tier system i agree More with the article written by Peter Holle profit is the elderly persons in nursing Homes Are already in a two tier if they have been frugal and saved their Money or have an employment pension they pay As much As per Day for care services in a Manitoba nursing on the other elderly per sons who have Only Canada pension plan and old age Security benefits pay Only for the same surely if the government is so keen on the single tier All elderly persons should pay at the same lower should care for our elderly be income based in a so called socialized system Pauline Martyniw Anola islamic Centre didst answer flogging query officials of the islamic Centre in Winnipeg were rightfully outraged after their mosque was attacked by vandals who threw eggs and paint and smeared animal fees on the such prejudice and of is totally unacceptable and must be one Short month ago an islamic court in Nigeria sentenced a 17yearold girl to 180 lashes for Adul amnesty International said she was raped by three under mount ing International the court reduced the horrible sentence to 100 the court then lied by say ing an Appeal would be but before an Appeal could be launched went ahead and flogged the cruelty of this punishment Speaks for does anyone know if the girl died from the whipping does the islamic court give a Damn were any of the three men who raped her flogged i have written the islamic Centre in Winnipeg respectfully asking what their position is regarding these flog to no Larry Wiebe Macgregor heat rebate handled Best possible Way i am writing on behalf of the social planning Council of Winnipeg to com mend finance minister Paul Martin for implementing the Relief for heating expenses rhe rebate to assist Low income persons in paying their heating we think that the Federal govern ments decision to move quickly rather than awaiting development of a flaw less distribution system was Well Justi time is of the and the negative result of payment to some Low income canadians who do not directly pay heating costs is not Seri we also believe that the provincial government should take the initiative to provide similar support in order to further decrease the Burden placed on Low income Sid Frankel president social planning Council of Winnipeg Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Stamfl skuas that at Hapon Moks Jimmy because Walgn ;