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WE ARE IN BLOOD SIGNAL MODE! PLEASE MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TODAY! For the week of July 25 - July 31 RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF East St Paul Under The Planning Act NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Regarding Zoning By- law Amendment 2013- 11 The Council of the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul under the authority of The Planning Act will hold a Public Hearing for the above by- law at the Municipal Office, Unit 1 - 3021 Birds Hill Rd, East St Paul, Manitoba on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 at 5: 45 p. m. at which time and place the Council will receive representation and objections, if any, from any persons who wish to make them with respect to By- law No. 2013- 11 being an amendment to the RM of East St Paul Zoning By- law 2009- 04. The general intent of the rezoning is to rezone the area as outlined below from: From: " R1- 17" Neighbourhood Commercial To: " CB" Commercial Business A copy of the above By- law and supporting material may be inspected by any person between 8: 30 a. m. and 4: 15 p. m., Monday through Friday at the Selkirk & District Planning Area Board office at 200 Eaton Avenue, Selkirk, MB. This notice has been prepared on behalf of the RM of East St Paul by Derek Eno, Community Planner, who may be contacted for further information as follows: Selkirk & District Planning Area Board 200 Eaton Ave., Selkirk, MB R1A 0W6 Ph: 482- 3717 Fax: 482- 3799 email: deno@ selplan. net RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF East St Paul Under The Planning Act NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Regarding Zoning By- law Amendment 2013- 12 The Council of the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul under the authority of The Planning Act will hold a Public Hearing for the above by- law at the Municipal Office, Unit 1 - 3021 Birds Hill Rd, East St Paul, Manitoba on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 at 5: 45 p. m. at which time and place the Council will receive representation and objections, if any, from any persons who wish to make them with respect to By- law No. 2013- 12 being an amendment to the RM of East St Paul Zoning By- law 2009- 04. The general intent of the rezoning is to rezone the area as outlined below from: From: " CN" Neighbourhood Commercial To: " CH" Highway Commercial A copy of the above By- law and supporting material may be inspected by any person between 8: 30 a. m. and 4: 15 p. m., Monday through Friday at the Selkirk & District Planning Area Board office at 200 Eaton Avenue, Selkirk, MB. This notice has been prepared on behalf of the RM of East St Paul by Derek Eno, Community Planner, who may be contacted for further information as follows: Selkirk & District Planning Area Board 200 Eaton Ave., Selkirk, MB R1A 0W6 Ph: 482- 3717 Fax: 482- 3799 email: deno@ selplan. net B AMBI didn't die in vain. In a series of changes known as Bambi's law, the province Tuesday made good on a promise to never again shoot a pet deer in public view. " It's nice that they changed the law. They shouldn't be able to come out and do what they did... " said Ernie Maendel, the Hutterite elder who rescued the orphaned fawn last February. Members of the Windy Bay colony in southwestern Manitoba opened their hearts to the deer. They called it Bambi and fed it fresh bread and sweet tea. It slept on a bed of straw underneath a spruce tree on the main street. It was shot dead in front of Maendel's home in a clash between the colony's animal lovers and a pair of Manitoba Conservation officers toting a loaded rifle. The shooting evoked a furor from an enraged public after members of the Hutterite colony near Pilot Mound went public. Within a day, the province took decisive action. Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh had reporters on speed dial to get a message out to the public: The province would changing the rules on shooting orphaned wildlife. The quick response was followed by an order to send provincial wildlife officials to Windy Bay in the dead of winter. Officials from the province delivered a face- to- face apology to the angry residents and outlined the basics of the proposed Bambi's law to appease them. On Tuesday, the province issued a statement that the paperwork's done and the promise has been kept. Bambi's law isn't an amendment to existing wildlife statutes, which spared the necessity of trying to push changes through a legislature locked down in a Conservative- led filibuster this summer. Instead, the changes were in the form of an administrative regulation known as an operational directive. It was issued at the deputy minister level of the department, meaning there's no wait and it becomes effectively immediately. " Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship advises new protocols are being introduced to make euthanasia a last resort if injured or orphaned wildlife are not able to be rehabilitated," the announcement said. The protocols are effectively a new code of conduct. Conservation officers are to be issued tranquillizer kits and trained on their use. The new rules also adhere to the Canadian Council on Animal Care guidelines, the gold standard on humane handling for wildlife. At Windy Bay Tuesday, Maendel said the colony is pleased the province kept its promise and residents hold no grudges. " They did come out and they did apologize and they said it would never happen again. That means something," he said. " I think bygones are bygones." Maendel rescued the fawn and took it home last summer. Members of the colony raised it. It followed residents during walks, even showing up one Sunday for a church service. A Labrador dog named Sahara took Bambi under her care, like a surrogate mother. Then last winter, Bambi started growing antlers and an apprehensive colonist called Manitoba Conservation about a wild deer loose on the colony. Conservation officers answered the call early in February and after ordering people inside their homes, they shot the deer, enraging witnesses. alexandra. paul@ freepress. mb. ca Shooting orphaned wildlife last resort Rules changed after killing of Bambi By Alexandra Paul EVIE- LYNN MAENDEL PHOTO Conservation officers shot Bambi last winter at the Windy Bay colony after it was deemed potentially dangerous. Colony members were raising the deer as a pet. Bambi's law MANITOBA Conservation has issued new protocols making euthanasia a last resort for injured or orphaned wildlife. The new rules include: . requirements for authorization from a superior officer for determining whether euthanasia is required. . avoiding euthanizing animals in a public area where there is no immediate safety risk. . approved methods of handling wildlife in situations that pose an immediate danger to the public or officer safety. . steps for staff to take when the public reports orphaned, abandoned or injured wildlife. . a process for determining the likelihood an orphaned animal can be rehabilitated. . guidelines for the humane capture and relocation of an animal. Euthanizing an animal will only be considered as a last resort and will require approval from a superior officer under the new rules. Conservation officers are being equipped and trained to use tranquillizer kits. - source: Manitoba Conservation BLAMING front- line social workers and supervisors for a lack of " common sense" in their handling of Phoenix Sinclair is misdirected and serves no purpose, the lawyer for one supervisor told an inquiry into the death of the little girl. " There hasn't been the same focus on those people who had the control," Bernice Bowley, representing supervisor Diva Faria, said Tuesday during final submissions. " Workers were powerless to change the environment." Faria was the Winnipeg Child and Family Services supervisor who signed off on closing the file on Phoenix without the child being seen in March 2005, just a few months before the five- yearold was tortured and killed by her birth mom and stepdad at Fisher River First Nation. Faria was trying to manage an underfunded, overworked frontline unit with no time for proper supervision or handling of cases, the inquiry has heard. " Common sense" in that work environment, coupled with standards at the time, meant cases such as Phoenix's, where there were no known protection concerns, were routinely closed without seeing the child, said Bowley. Senior managers in the department and government were aware of the lack of resources but didn't do anything about it until after Phoenix's death lead to several investigations and reports, the inquiry has heard. They haven't, however, been labelled as lacking in common sense, said Bowley. " Wouldn't it have been common sense to train workers and supervisors?" Bowley asked. " Wouldn't it have been common sense to provide good quality tools and manuals to give them enough time to do thorough work and be able to make good judgments? " To the ( department's) credit, it has implemented profound changes." Today, a child has to be seen before a file can be closed if there is an allegation of abuse, neglect or maltreatment. An intake module was introduced that makes prior contact checks mandatory and available in real time, so if someone such as Phoenix's stepdad, Karl McKay, joins the family, workers will see his history with CFS and domestic violence. New rules mean supervision records have to be kept and can't be destroyed. Many were in Phoenix's case. " Instead of blame, the better, more helpful course is to explore more ways to improve this system," Bowley said. Commissioner Ted Hughes' final report is due Dec. 15. It's already been recommended to improve the qualification requirements and pay for child- welfare workers in order to recruit and retain front- line workers who often leave for less stressful social work jobs that pay better. Several parties to the inquiry suggested overhauling the image of the child- welfare system. The system would benefit from a communications and public awareness strategy, said Harold Cochrane, the lawyer representing the Child and Family All Nation Co- ordinated Response Network ( ANCR) and Northern and Southern First Nation authorities overseeing childwelfare agencies. " Trust has to be built up in some fashion," Cochrane said. " There was information out there in the community percolating about Phoenix and her family and various people decided not to contact CFS. " The purpose of this recommendation is to try and bridge that gap - to try. to educate the public on what we do and why the work is important." There also needs to be First Nations jurisdiction over child- welfare matters, Cochrane said. carol. sanders@ freepress. mb. ca Don't lay blame; help fix system, inquiry advised By Carol Sanders A_ 04_ Jul- 24- 13_ FP_ 01. indd A4 7/ 23/ 13 9: 33: 28 PM ;