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Vol. 130 No. 9 Friday, May 11, 2012
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90 cents + taxMinnedosa, Manitoba Canada R0J 1E0
By DARRYL HOLYK
Adelegation including Minnedosa ratepayers HermanKlassen, Neil
Cameron, and Jim Fossum appearedbeore own Council uesday evening
with some con-cerns regarding the Minnedosa Regional Events Cen-tre
(MREC) proposal. Following the January 17th, 2012Public Inormation
Meeting the gentlemen, along withEric Neueld, who was unable to
attend uesdays meet-ing put some o their thoughts, concerns and
questionsdown on paper and wrote to Council in early March.
Tedelegation, with Herman serving as spokesperson, met
with council uesday night to go over the contents otheir
letter.
Te delegation voiced its concerns regarding the$300,000 tax
revenue generated rom the Husky plantbeing set aside in an MREC
reserve on an annual basis.axpayers are being blinded that the
taxes rom Husky
will pay or the debenture ($3.5 million over 25 years) andthen
some, but council has no assurance these taxes willexist or 25
years, stated the delegations letter. Adding tothat, Klassen
stated, Teres no guarantee Husky is go-ing to be here in fve years
or even two years. All you haveto do is review the history o the
distillery. We had a dis-tillery; it closed down then fnally Mohawk
bought it out.Industry goes that way. You cant make the
assumptionits going to be here or 20 years. People are under the
im-pression that this is going to pay or it, but what i Huskyisnt
there?
Councils response indicated that Husky still paysbasic taxes as
it did beore the plant expansion. Te
$300,000 is money that was not there beore 2009
(plantexpansion). When it came on line, the council o the
dayelected to use it to set up a reserve or a new arena, ex-plained
Mayor Ray Orr. Certainly there is an assumptionthat Husky will
continue to operate over a long-term pe-riod. Tey spent $150
million on a new plant so were as-suming theyre going to be
here.
Te delegation also voiced concerns that althoughthe Mayor
continually says taxes will not increase as a re-sult o MREC, there
will be a $50 levy put in place to helppay or this project. Just
think about that, a levy is a tax,stated Herman. With the garbage
levy at least you cansay its an essential service. Is this (MREC)
really the bestpriority or the town? Its not an essential service.
Tis is aat tax that benefts the well to do and hammers the poor.Tat
is very unair taxation.
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Ratepayers voice concerns
with MREC proposal
By RICHARD DAVIES
Minnedosas juniorgardening clubstarted o their sea-son earlier
this week.Members gathered atRookhurst Gardens, thehome o Erna
Stemmer,on Monday evening oran introduction to pre-pare them on how
to getthat perect green thumb.
Stemmer demon-
strated to the childrenhow to transplant low-ers beore allowing
themto do it themselves. hemembers chose rom ei-ther a marigold or
a pan-sy to plant and both vari-eties were donated by A& B
Dalrymples CountyFarm Greenhouses. hechildren discovered thatthe
marigold they wereplanting is a good lower
to put outside to keep
skunks away because thescent o a marigold is un-pleasant to the
animal.
Marci VreemanBomord o the Blue Gar-den was also on hand toteach
the junior garden-ers about the Echinacea.
An Echi nace a is com-monly called a purplecornlower and are
parto the daisy amily. Marcigenerously donated an
Echinacea to each o the
members.he club consists o
about 20 children romthe ages o 4-17. he ju-nior gardeners will
enterthe horticultural show in
Augu st wher e the Echi -nacea rom the Blue Gar-den will be
judged along
with othe r entr ies theywill prep are thro ugho utthe
summer.
Photo by Richard Davies
Members of Minnedosas Junior Gardening Club learn the ins and
outsof transplanting from Erna Stemmer at Rookhurst Gardens Monday
evening.
How does your garden grow?
A&BDalrymplesCountry FarmGREENHOUSES
Opposite the Dam Minnedosa Beach
OPEN HOUSE TOMORROWSaturday, May 12t h, 2012
OPEN 9:30 A.M.- 8:30 P.M. Telephone: 867-3317
Join us or Cofee and Donuts and Special Draws!
