Recycling & Garbage Collection - Day 1 and Composting. Need Help?

Rycycling and Garbage pick up in Luxton is Day 1:

Recycling - List of blue-box appropriate items is in the MTS White Pages and also at winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/recycle along with other helpful information. Blue boxes are available at Pollock's Hardware http://www.pollockshardwareco-op.ca/

Anecdotally, from the number of blue boxes on the streets it appears that the number of households recycling is lower than 50% and perhaps as low as 30%. Please e-mail luxtonresidents@mts.net if you need any sort of help in getting started recycling.

Composting:

• grass clippings
• garden waste, flower clippings and leaves
• weeds (before they flower)
• fruit and vegetable scraps
• tea leaves, tea bags, coffee grounds and filters
• nutshells and eggshells

If you missed the one-day compost bin sale, don't worry! A limited number of Earth Machine compost bins, valued at $100.00, are available at the sale price of $30.00 Pollock’s Hardware Co-op - 1407 Main Street - 582-5007 http://www.pollockshardwareco-op.ca/

Contact Resource Conservation Manitoba to sign up for a free basic composting workshop Registration is required.

Consider sharing your compost bin with others in the neighbourhood, or offer your compostables to a neighbour who already has a bin.

Garbage - Auto-Bins: Day 1 collection. Items that can be disposed off in the bins are at http://winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/garbage/AutoBins.stm

Mattresses, old furniture etc. It's illegal to dump these items by autobins. (Dumping by autobins is illegal and turns one person's garbage into an unsightly neighbourhood problem; the item remains there until a ticked-off neighbour calls the City). Contact 311@winnipeg.ca directly and arrange for pick-up from your property line. http://winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/garbage/bulkyWaste.stm

Stephensedge - Painting, Residential and Commercial - N'hood Company

"Stephensedge Painting has been in the area have been for 8 or so years has done quite a lot of good work locally"

Stephen 229-9980 www.stephensedge.com

Drug Dealing etc. - The Safer Communities & Neighbourhoods Act

The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act works by holding property owners accountable for threatening or disturbing activities that regularly take place on their property related to

• Unlawful drug use or dealing, production or cultivation
• Prostitution and related activities
• Unlawful sale of liquor
• Unlawful use or sale of intoxicating substances - non-potable and solvent-based products
• Sexual abuse or exploitation of a child ore related activities
• Possession or storage of an unlawful firearm, weapon or explosive
• The Act refers to activities that are ongoing, not those happening occasionally.

Contact Manitoba Justice, Public Safety Investigations, 1403-405 Broadway, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3L6 Phone 204 945-3475

For the Fact Sheet, including answers to the following, go to http://www.gov.mb.ca/justice/safe/pdf/scnafactsheet.pdf:

• How do you define property?

• How does the process start?

• Who investigates the complaint?

• What happens if either a Community Safety Order or an Emergency Closure Order is Granted?

• What can a tenant do who is not involved in illegal activities?

• What can an owner do if they receive an order to close the property?

• What happens if the owner does not comply with a Community Safety order?

• What happens if the tenants do not comply?

• Defacing an Order or entering a closed building

• What happens if an owner is falsely accused?

• Who is responsible for the costs of closure?

• Can my house be closed if my teenager has a noisy party while I am away?
  

The Act is available at http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/

Notes from Presentation by Al Cameron the Manager Public Safety Investigations, Dept of Justice on The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act, July 2, 2009 at the Luxton Residents Association. AGM

“Act … works by holding property owners accountable for threatening or disturbing activities that regularly take place on their property relating to unlawful drug use or dealing, production or cultivation, prostitution or related activities, unlawful sale of liquor, unlawful use or sale of intoxicating substances – non-potable and solvent-based products, sexual abuse or exploitation of a child or related activities, possession or storage of an unlawful firearm, weapon or explosive. Act refers to activities that are ongoing, not those happening occasionally.”

The Act is civil (as opposed to criminal, legislation, the first in Canada to address entrenched problem use of real property/houses (drug houses, prostitution etc.) as opposed to behaviour of persons (criminal).

Complainant’s names are confidential, including if the matter went to court. Complainants are kept apprised of progress on the investigation. “Adverse effect on community” of the use of the property has to be proven and it’s usually easy to do this. “Habituality” is proved by surveillance which can be 24/7. Seven investigators in Winnipeg and others outside.

Response by the unit may be informal – e.g. apprising the landlord of what’s going on in his/her property and encouraging him/her to work with unit to end the problem. e.g. five days notice to the tenants to get out. Sometimes landlords want the tenant out - but have been afraid to act.

If landlord is not cooperative unit can go to court and get a Community Safety Order. This has happened on three occasions since legislation came in. Two of the properties were owner-occupied. Property can be boarded up. Most problem places are tenant-occupied.

373 operations shut down since 2002 and currently (July/2009) 135 ongoing investigations. Not a lot in Luxton. More so in Pt. Douglas and Wm Whyte.

Unit works with Community Health, Building Inspectors etc. Effectiveness is dependent on it being grass-roots initiated from affected neighbourhood. $2M in drugs seized.

There have been six “repeat clients”. Research shows that displacement (just moving to another location) – whole operation is destabilized.

First Community Safety Order was issued on Selkirk Avenue. Collateral benefits include a big reduction in calls for police service to the address,

Unit prefers calls from individual complainants. Some neighbourhoods have a security coordinator (e.g. Pt. Douglas model) when people have been afraid of retaliation.

More information the complainant is able to give, the more helpful it is. E.g. why they believe the property is being used as a drug house? What the pattern of behaviour is? E.g. people coming to the side window throughout the night for a short period of time, licence plates etc. Unit sets up surveillance, but it’s helpful to them to know what they are looking for.

Other provinces – Sask, Yukon, NS, Alta and Nfld have adopted Manitoba’s legislation. Ontario, BC. and NB are looking at it. Has withstood constitutional challenge.

Point Douglas News

Each month we send out an email with changes and updates to our website. We send the link to community members and to people who are involved in or interested in our community. Lots of changes to our website this month – here’s the link -- www.pointdouglas.net .

You’ll notice the look of the site has changed to reflect the importance of the role of The Point Community News in supporting this community website. We are pleased to announce that much of the print edition of The Point is now available online at http://www.pointdouglas.net/The%20Point%20Online.htm

The Point is your newspaper, and we would like to invite all community members to be a part of it. Write an article, share photos and stories, get on your soapbox and express your opinions, and make your voice heard.

On an urgent note, The Point Community News is trying to find enough funding to keep publishing its print edition. For seven years The Point has united and informed our community. We regret to say that we have had to stop publishing our mini issues (the four-page issue published between the bi-monthly larger issues) due to a lack of funding. We are trying to find the funding to keep the paper coming to your door. You can help us do that, if you’d like to, by sending an email to us expressing your support for The Point. You can send your email to thepoint.editor@pointdouglas.ca or to info@pointdouglas.net. Your support is vital, and would be greatly appreciated.

On the website, http://www.pointdouglas.net be sure to check out the following:

Calendar of Events and Notices Among the notices you’ll find:

*The Environment Committee meeting re community gardens, spring clean-up & other topics
*Point Douglas Seniors Resource Coordinator
*Free Songwriters Workshops
*What’s New? – new and updated pages
*Rental Properties list
*Employment and Training Opportunities
*The Point Community News Online
*Welcome to the Neighbourhood!
*Point Douglas in the News
Our community helping Haiti,
Thank you to the police for their great service to the community
Derelict houses and be sure to get a petition for your street You can print this petition and take it around to others on your street if you have a boarded-up house that you’d like to see upgraded and rented out.
*Norquay Community Centre Programs

On a personal note, a big thank you to all of you who participated in our latest community survey, conducted by www.pointresearch.ca through Dec/09 and into Jan/10. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Norquay Community Centre and the City of Winnipeg, on the subject of Organized Sports for children 17 and under in the communities of North and South Point Douglas. The response of the community was wonderful.

The survey intends to build on the results of the 2008 community survey, and the objectives of the survey were to find out what organized sports the kids currently participate in, the barriers to their participation, and what sports they would participate in if those barriers were removed . We’ll all be looking forward to seeing the needs of the community met, through the information provided to the City and to the Community Centre.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and comments about our website. Please be sure to share the link with anyone whom you think might enjoy it. And please be sure to check the site often, as it is updated almost daily.

Regards, Heather Geddie Website Coordinator

COPPER - WPS Mascot, Available for Community Events

NEW WINNIPEG POLICE SERVICE MASCOT - COPPER
The Winnipeg Police Service is pleased to introduce our new mascot, COPPER.

After 13 years of service, our previous mascot CUFFS will be working on a part time basis by assisting his replacement when required.

COPPER will be representing the Winnipeg Police Service at a number of events throughout the city beginning with the Festival du Voyageur opening ceremonies

Anyone wishing to book Copper for large community events can do so in one of the following ways:

1) Email: wps-communityrelations@winnipeg.ca
2) Fax your request to: (204) 975-2450
3) Mail your request to:

Unit Commander
Community Relations
P.O. Box 1680
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C 2Z7

Friday, February 12, 2010

Seven Oaks Seniors' Links - Tues Exercise Program

Exercise program, Steppin'Up with Confidence, Tuesdays 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
St. Anne's Anglican Church 253 Burrin Ave.
Information: Susan 612-3888

For more information on other Seven Oaks Seniors' Links programs and services
http://seniors.cimnet.ca/cim/19C45_51T1951T50T1930.dhtm