Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 local Winnitoy March 2001 q when is a tax Cut not a tax Cut by Nick Martin seven Oaks school trustees Are trying some fancy footwork to convince Home owners that a potential jump in the average school tax Bill is actually a Cut in its a move that left trustees in other divisions but insisting they never try the same the seven Oaks Board is close to increasing local taxes by about but is telling residents that after the increase in the Provin Cial property tax credit is there will be an Overall reduction of to in the aver age homeowners school tax the most recent Issue of school newsletters distributed throughout the division car Ries a Page of school Board with the boldfaced seven Oaks school taxes will in the message to the Board Points seven Oaks school Board puts spin on planned hike out this would give the average Homeowner a modest tax decrease of to when the tax credit increase is factored the City is cutting its municipal property taxes two per cent this a spokeswoman for education minister Drew Caldwell said the additional in property tax credits this year comes from the provinces Gen eral revenues and be used to claim local school tax others were less restrained in their really that fort Garry school Board chairman Brent pooles there taking credit for that its just Brash i believe you take responsibility for what Ever tax increase or decrease you bring pooles politicians sometimes forget How smart peo ple transparency is its the provinces nothing to do with said Winnipeg school division finance chairman Mario Transcona Springfield school Board chair woman Mary Andree said Shes never heard of a school division trying that kind of math to claim its cutting its got nothing to do with the school Andree we do that not absolutely River East Secretary treasurer Vince Mari Ani said seven Oaks numbers Are but his division would not package information in that manner the average seven Oaks Reader will look at it and think the school division is reducing their he most school boards will set their final Bud gets next just before the March 15 dead City mulls using land Sale Revenue to help kids by Bruce Owen a civic committee will look at a proposal today to sell Cit owned land at the old exhibition grounds to make Way for a parking lot for the Mcphillips Street station in the property and development com Mittee will Likely approve a plan to take the million from the Sale and use it to enhance the adjacent 14hectare site for sports and recreation programs for intercity Manitoba lotteries needs the area now occupied by the Charlie Krupp a City owned baseball Diamond and adjacent nomads football Field to make Way for the parking the adjacent 14hectare site includes the North end Centennial old exhibition Hawk eyes football eight softball diamonds and one soccer area councillor and committee member John Prystanski said yesterday the potential Sale Cre ates several opportunities to help the Northend neighbourhood and opens the door for future Low income family and seniors Prystanski Point Douglas said improved sports programs would give area children Access to events that youth in other parts of the City take for a lot of kids dont even get a Chance to get out of the he what we Hope to do is help them develop build self respect and even encourage them to stay in they also get a Chance to get out of the Community when they property and development committee chair Man Dan Vandal said hed like to earmark some of the new Money toward the Winnipeg aboriginal sports achievement a body that supports Young aboriginal a final Deal has to be approved by save 25 to 5o on a great of regular reduced Clear merchandise saturday and sunday and 11th special savings excluded from scratch and save 5o 4o 2d 10k 14k Gold jewellery excluding Bay principles and charter collection pillows solid Colour towels excluding Calvin Klein to Yetk Nautica Ralph Lauren cookware sets Over 6c 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this a lot of it is going to come out of school Board chairman Bob Bruce said Bruce expected vital will see More split Grade classes next fall As the Overall number of teachers is without the vital would have faced a local school tax increase of per the owner of an average Home assessed at will pay its the result of rising costs for staff Gas heating and fuel for were looking at a 77 per cent increase in utilities costs because of skyrocketing Centra Gas Bruce school boards must pass their budgets by next thurs murder Case in Jurys hands did a Young fearing for his mothers crush his Stepfather Skull with a baseball killing him or was he just trying to finally rid himself and his family of a womanizing Man once and for All those Are the questions a jury will Ponder As they begin deliberations today on whether to convict or acquit a 17yearold charged with second degree Mur closing arguments were heard yesterday in the land Mark the first in which a Manitoba youth has been tried by a jury under changes to the Young offenders the youths 32yearold Stepfather was beaten to death in july 1999 at Little Saskatchewan first nation near about 250 Kilometres Northwest of win the victim and the Mother cannot be As it would identify the family members broke Down and and had to leave the courtroom As the two sides made their final pleas to the six woman Board declares poultry workers unionized the Manitoba labour Board has ruled that workers at Granny poultry in Blum Enort Are now members of a the ruling came yesterday after hearings earlier this year Over allegations by the United food and Commer Cial workers Union local 832 that the company had indulged in unfair labour practices during the organizing drive last a certification vote was taken on but the bal lots were never counted after the Union made the Allega the Board concluded that the Union has provided Evi Dence of membership support in the opinion of the for the purposes of collective Union president Bernard Christophe said the decision is Good for the Granny poultry we want to make sure that Granny is one of the bet Ter places to work in the poultry Christophe said in a we look Forward to beginning negotiations with this employer to arrive at a first Union contract for the facility that will address the concerns and desires that the workers have expressed to the Union already represents the workers at Dunn rite the Only other major poultry processor in the talks seek to curb teen drinking police and social service agencies in Sioux Lookout will put their Heads together every week in an Effort to combat an outbreak of destructive teen two area child and family service agencies and City Council met at police request yesterday after 40 Young teens were picked up during january and february suffering from alcohol Bob Neelin described the meeting As construct when we pick these kids we cannot simply let them go after Treyve sobered Neelin they have to be in the care of an but these kids dont Tell you they dont say if there in care or have been in care and that important for us to the detachments youth said he will meet with the agencies every monday to review the pre Vious weekends reviewing teen names and their forecast Calls for unusually Cool Spring chilling news from environment Canada the weather forecasters Are predicting a cooler than Normal but environment Canada says this years Winter has been above Normal across the continuing an uninterrupted record of above Normal seasonal temperatures since the summer of environment Canada said the country will be cooler this Spring from Calgary to the forecasters also said Northern Manitoba is expected to receive less precipitation than Normal this with the rest of the province receiving Normal Manitoba rett syndrome association presents sharing new Viec oversee 200 a conference on rett syndrome april 2001 Holiday inn Winnipeg South Manitoba for registration form and preliminary program Contact Retts hotline 204 6687388 ;