Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 5, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 local Winnipeg free March 2001 playground funds come with strings province would pay for structures at expense of other school needs by Nick Martin the doer government will con Sider funding playground Struc Tures As essential school equipment Only if trustees Are willing to sacrifice Money intended for class labs and other education minister Drew Caldwell Winnipeg school divisions Board demanded last week that the province pay for playground equipment through the Public schools finance Caldwell said hed consider Winnipeg ones demands if the Manitoba association of school trustees supports the Divi Sions demand at its convention March 15 to the province has to have some consensus that they would put playgrounds in the same category As classrooms and gyms and labs and Caldwell it would have to be the same funding theres not an endless Supply of Money in the province of the taxpayers of Manitoba dont have infinite the minister Liz chairwoman of the Winnipeg one school said the province and City Hall have to provide More funding if kids Are to have some where Safe to seventeen division schools Are threat of losing All or most of their play Mac Winnipeg free we were left with a sophies Choice watch children get seriously or watch it play Structure come down1 Isaac Brock school Parent Council chairwoman Audrey at the school from Matthew 8 Curtis holding Mykala 4 Casey 6 in Pink Kathy holding son Nicholas 2 and holding Austin Wayne Wiowacki Winnipeg free press archives theres not an endless Supply of Money in the province of the taxpayers of Manitoba dont have infinite pockets education minister Drew Caldwell ground equipment because it Falls Short of stringent criteria established in 1998 by the Canadian standards Parent councils Are fundraising for new which can Cost from to and up for wheelchair races sible if Winnipeg one wont spend tax Dol Lars on play dont expect City Council to open the warned Bill Clement Charle Woodfort chairman of the fiscal issues but Clement pointed out that each councillor has annually in Community incentive Grants that can be used to fund up to 50 per cent of a wide Vari Ety of local in the last three Hes spent of his Grants for six school playground projects in fort Garry and Assiniboine South school and said theres no reason councillors whose wards overlap with Winnipeg one cant do the parents still need to sell hotdogs and raise Matching theres some onus on the parents to do these somebody got to raise some Clement children at Isaac Brock school have been without any playground equipment for two Audrey chair woman of the Parent said parents have raised but the has an average family income of is tapped this is an insurmountable amount for our lamented we were left with a sophies Choice watch children get seriously or watch it come Paynter said the nearest playground is at Clifton Community four blocks away on the other Side of heavily travelled Sargent Isaac Brock parents Are incensed that the school was ignored when the Winnipeg develop ment agreement divided recently among six Parent councils Rais ing Money for playground Structure Caldwell pointed out that Parent councils can apply for provincial Community places the nip has an annual pot available province wide for a wide Range of Community and recreation pro but of 438 applications last Only 192 were approved 26 of them for playground the Grant program pays a maximum of which has to be matched by fund Ais buy or lease it save during Cam Clark Fords new 2001 fort wind Starly Wagon enhanced seating Luggage privacy Over 40 Standard safety new 2001 fort fuels se4door new 2001 fort explorer xlux4 new 2001 fort Taurus lx4door new 2001 fort explore report spa Speed manual trans air plus cd player and Morel 4dooi soc Auto step Many More features automatic Power plus cassette and Morel soc Speed Premium sport see he Many internet specials at and wednesday thru saturday from to 6 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