Econo Spots You can oe uP to 80% cost of this oat 365-5210 you haven't a STUDENT YET ?! What are you waiting for?? Colles: 368-9126 Canad BUSINESS August 12, 1967 REAL ESTATE Single people buying MONTREAL (CP) -- When Peggy Curran began looking for a new it three years ago, she was dismayed to discover that renta in her district were double what she was paying. Then a small brick cottage on her street went up for sale, and Curran did something that has become increasingly common for Canadian singles, especially young urban professionals. She bought the house. Royal LePage, the country's’ biggest real estate firm, that about one-quarter of the it sold across Canada in the last three years were bought by single people, most of whom were under 40. Pierre Levesq! dent of the Real Estate Board, said home purchases by singles between the ages of 25 and 365, a trend that began three to five years ago, is “a new market that’s growing enormously.” A decade ago, added Bob Benson of LePage's residential division, “the typical home ‘buyer would have been a family with a couple of kids, the wife at home and the husband a middle-aged person. “That's not true now.” NOT WAITING Benson and Levesque said slightly more men than women are buying homes on their own — perhaps because men still have better incomes on average — but it’s clear women are no longer waiting for marriage to bring them their dream house. “You can keep waiting for some major change or some relationship,” said Curran, a 30-year-old newspaper reporter, “and if you spend your whole life waiting for that you're never going to make. any decisions.” There is a strong tradition of home ownership in Canada, Benson said. “Canada is one of the best housed nations in the world,” with a relatively high percentage of people owning their own homes. CAREER OPENING This position with National firm offers security prestige. Successful applicant will be of- fered financial assistance and benefit of inten- sive ‘caining- program, Should be between the and ages of 25 an MOSCOW (REUTER) — Teenaged West German pilot Mathias Rust, who landed a ‘This tradition, combined with good incomes, a sharp ‘escalation in rents in most cities and the fact that many are delaying marriage explains why young, single are buying homes, Benson believes. Curran — her 95-year-old, two-storey house for pee yA ngwr real-estate prices began to skyrocket. She thinks she could sell it now for double that. NO LANDLORD it was an .” Curran said. “My house is now worth a lot of money. But my primary reason was to have a place to live where I didn't have a landlord.” Shirley Taylor of the Ottawa-based Canadian Real Estate Board says the increasing number of home purchases by singles is “all part of an obvious swing to home ownership” in Canada inthe past few years, a period of declining interest rates. Figures reported by 112 local real estate boards across the country — excluding sales of most new homes and private or exclusive sales — show that in-1985, the year Curran bought her house, 259,360 homes were purchased, up an astonishing 82 per cent from 1984. The number of sales continued to increase in 1986 — up six per cent — and so far this year as well. In 1985, curious as to who was buying, Royal LePage began asking its residential clients to fill in a questionnaire. GOT SURPRISE “The results surprised everyone,” Benson said. They revealed high numbers in the first-time, young and single buyers categories. So far this year 23 per cent of respondents have been single, down marginally from 24 per cent last year and 25 per cent in 1985 — but all much higher percentages than Royal LePage expected, Benson said. This year, 65 per cent of the single respondents were under 40; 30 per cent were between 20 and Rust to go on trial He also faces a possible five-year sentence on charges of malicious hooliganism and would take place. Rust has been held in Moscow's Lefortovo prison since he 5, resident of Castlegar area. Kindly reply, stating boekground a and full details to Box 969, Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 7! NOTICE Effective Monday, June 22, the light plane in Moscow's Red Square after making an un- authorized flight across So- viet airspace from Finland in May, will go on trial next month, a West German Em- bassy spokesman said today. “The German Embassy has been informed that the trial Pedestrian Walkway attached. to C.P. Rail Bridge 25.4 Castlegar will be CLOSED to > the Public 08:00 to 15:00 Monday to Friday until fur- ther notice. CP Rail K< will take place at the be- ginning of September,” the spokesman said. No exact date was given. Boundary Sub at Rust, a 19-year-old from Hamburg, faces up to 10 years imprisonment on a charge of violating flight P.D. GILMORE Supt. C.P. Rail Nelson three years in prison for illegal entry into the Soviet Union. According to Soviet prac- tice, sentences on different charges usually run concur- rently but analysts say the fact that Rust would go on trial on three counts indi- cated the Soviet authorities were taking a serious view of the affair. The spokesman said a meeting between Rust and an embassy official had been requested for next Tuesday. But he said Soviet officials had not yet confirmed it NATIONAL SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD to coast. Mr. Norman E. Woods, National Service Manager Hyundai Auto Canada Inc. recently awarded the prestigious Hyundai National Service excellence award to Castlegar Hyundai Sales and to their service manager Bob McLachlan. The award presented by Mr. Wayne Bortolussi, district service manager, to president Gary Maloney and.Bob McLachlan, distinguished Bob and his service personnel for a job well done. This National Service Award based upon a year long competition between dealers from coast So a special congratulations to Bob and his fine staff! HHED CASTLEGAR Block North of Maloney Pontiac Dir. 7956 Call 1-800-332-7087 or 365-7241 _ “The Dealer That Makes Sense’’ landed a single- engined Cessna plane on the edge of Red Square on May 28. His flight over sensitive tertitory protected by sophisticated defence systems in the west of the Soviet Union prompted the dismissal of the country's de- TORONTO (CP) — A light Mexican beer that comes.in a clear glass bottle is striking fear in the hearts of Molson Cos. Ltd. Over the past three years, Corona, beer — produced by Cerveceria Modelo of Mexico City —* has surpassed Mol- son's Export brand as the No. 2 import beer in the gigantic, lucrative and highly com- petitive U.S. market. The Dutch brand Heineken is the market leader. Now Montreal-based Molson seems determined to fight ack. The giant brewing com. pany recently struck up an association with the Mare Antony Group, a small wine and beer distributor based in Vancouver that holds the rights to sell Corona in Can- ada. Next week, Molson offi- cials plan to unveil the first of a series of “brand-new prod- ucts” for the North American market that it hopes will stem from this association. Meanwhile John Carroll, president and chief executive officer of Molson's brewing division, played down the Corona connection. “Molson and Mare Antony own 50 per cent each of a new venture company designed to launch this new product,” he said. “It’s a nice coincidence that we will also be able to share in whatever success Corona enjoys in Canada. But that wasn't a consideration in our decision to join forces.” Still, Anthony Von Man- dell, president and chief ex- ecutive officer of Mare An- - SNAIR_HAS BREAD FROM BAKERY HALIFAX (CP) — Roy Snair knew people liked his mother’s ‘receipe for home- made bread but he didn’t know he could turn it into a $1-million-a-year business. Snair, 74, took a gamble 40 years ago when he borrowed $3,000 from the Royal Bank and started a bakery in a tiny, converted ice house on the province's south shore. The loan, paid back in two years, was used to buy equipment from a bankrupt bakery. An oven and a proof box still in use were pur- chased for $5,000. The re- placement cost for the equip- ment is $450,000. “We have always bought used equipment that has been rebuilt for u: Snair said in, an interview. “It works just as well as new equipment, but doesn’t cost nearly as much.” Snair's common-sense ap- proach to business and a traditional, additive-free product have helped build Snair's White Eagle Bakery Ltd. of Black Point, N.S., into a thriving operation that em- ploys 17 workers and pro- duces 25,000 loaves of bread a week. USES NO FAT Snair has stood by his recipe for success — a trad- itional mixture that uses no animal fat and as few pres- ervatives as possible, only what is already in the flour. Snair said the idea of a bakery grew from the popu- larity of bread at a res- taurant operated by the Snair family in the. early 1940s. Making money was difficult at the restaurant, Making bread seemed eas- ier and a lot more profitable. Snair started small, setting up shop in a building just 2.5 metres wide and three me- tres long. Today, he operates a 613-square metre facility that distributes 16 products in Halifax and along the south shore. Last year, the Snair family undertook a $150,000 expan. sion and modernization of their operation, located on scenic St. Margaret's Bay. “We didn’t get any finan- cial assistance,” said Gregory Snair, Roy's son and the company "s production mana- ger. “But we borrowed some money from the bank.” RECONSIDERS MOVE The company considered moving to Halifax, but de cided against it because of the high cost of land in the Nova Scotia capital. Taxes are lower outside the city, the younger Snair pointed out, “and we have our own water supply.” In the 1960s, the produc. tion peaked at 35,000 loaves a week. Since then, chain gro- cery stores have added their own bakeries and reduced the number of Snair's prod- ucts they stock. “We're still holding our share of the market because the majority of our cus- tomers are very loyal,” said Gregory Snair. “If a store doesn’t stock our bread most people will go where they can find it.” With his sons Gregory and Dwight keen on carrying on the family business, Roy Snair has no plans on selling. But he knows the option is there. COMMUNITY News TOGETHER AGAIN . . . The 15-year reunion of the graduating: class of 1972 from Stanley Humphries senior secondary schoo! was held at the school July 31 and August 1 and 2. According to Pam Mosby, one of the of tl for the reunion out of a total 4 180 ppoaelliceg She said graduates showed up from all across Canada a ind as far away as New Jersey. “We were a very close clans pod | Mosby, "Everybody just seemed to know “ Mos feu one of the highlights of the panne besides the wine and cheese, dinner and dance, and ball picnic was the get together of the x band. “These s hadn't played in 15 gt alee “They ‘did. o fabulous job.” — Cosnews Photos by Linde Guymer B.C. teachers get ready f By RON SUDLOW VANCOUVER (CP) — While students enjoy their last month of the summer break, many of the British Columbia's public school teachers already are looking to the new school year. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation, worried about its own survivial, is bracing for a busy fall when it will begin a crucial drive to have 26,000 teachers ready to form unions. The federation, which ended the last school year on a work-to-rule campaign after losing a battle over teacher legislation, also is under the gun to keep its current members. Under the new Teaching Profession Act, membership in the federation is no longer ¢>mpulsory. Federation “staff officer ArnieMyers says the organization is out to persuade teachers to join again, something that has cost members an average $800 annually. OPTIMISM DISPLAYED Federation president Elsie McMurphy, fresh from a New trial for Zundel McMURPHY FEELS OPTIMISTIC camping holiday in the Cariboo, is optimistic. “The vast majority will continue to be (federation) members,” she said confidently in a telephone interview. Myers said it is not the first time a Societ Credit government has d the for federation membership. The last time gut in 1971 after teachers complained about class size and funding. “They took away compulsory membership thinking it would destroy the federation,” Myers said. “Out of about 22,000 members, only 69 didn't sign up.” McMurphy said she is sure teachers will opt for union status. “Tl be surprised if any more than two or three (districts) don’t certify,” she said. “Mogt teachers realize they have no rights under the local association option.” WORKSHOPS SCHEDULED ‘The federation has scheduled workshops this month to help staff members convince teachers to remain in the federation and join unions that could, if enough teachers agree, become federation locals. Inthe Past, | teachers’ groups bargained locally for salizy Mandatory membership in the was restored by the NDP government elected in 1972. Teachers are also faced with another choice — whether to form unions or non-certified associations in coh of the 78 school districts. Forming unions would give the teachers the ier -sought right to strike, but only at the local level. Non-certified groups would not have that right. tony, said the new venture company hopes to bring Cor ona to Ontario by the fall. fence minister, Sergei Soko- lov, and the air defence chief, Alexander Koldunov. Snair said, because it offered such a large and varied menu. “I know people who would pay $1 million tomorrow if I would sell.” HIGHRISE WASHER A HUMAN FLY HALIFAX (CP) — Fred Young is a human fly. Defying gravity, he clings to the sides of highrise buildings — a slowly moving speck on the towers of downtown Halifax. Young's business is washing windows. On a windy morning, he goes up to the roof of the Chateau Halifax, scrambles over the edge and slithers down ropes to a small, flat seat on the side of the brick building. Twelve storeys above the pavement, balanced on his swinging, swaying trapeze, Young takes both tattooed arms off his ropes and begins to lather the hotel's windows. WIND MOANS The only sound is the wind moaning around corners and whistling through rain ducts like an exotic instrument. Far below, people look like stick figures in architectural models and cars.are as small as Dinky toys. “If you're not scared, there's something wrong with you,” the bearded Young admits in an interview, safely on the ground.“Only time will get you used to it, but you never relax. There’ always tension.’ Years of tension, coupled with the physical effort of hoisting himself up and down buildings, have given Young broad, sloping shoulders, a tanned face and sinuous arms with the bulging veins of a weight-lifter. Halifax's highrises will never make it into the window-washer's record book — filled with towering edifices like the 102-storey Empire State Building. But the memory of his first tall building stays with Jim Painting, Young's partner. “I tell you I was scared — I think my fingerprints are still on my first building,” Painting remembers, squarin, his baseball cap and screwing up his weathered face to peer up at Young on the Chateau. Three years ago, Young and Painting, both 34, started their own company, Halifax Window Cleaners, after working for other cleaners since they were brash teenagers. They work seven months of the year doing all types of windows, from highrises to family homes. Painting was 16 years old and working at a local hospital when a friend told him he could make $1.10 an hour doing windows. He jumped at the chance — then realized what he'd jumped into. “My wife watched me once and that was enough,” said Painting. “I'm sure she has worried at times, but she doesn’t say much. She doesn't think about it. STRESS SAFETY But these veterans of the window wars stress the safety of their work. Young uses a system of ropes similar to those employed by mountain climbers. The ropes are attached to a three-metre metal bar and a 32-kilogram counterweight at the top of the building. Young is attached to a safety rope in case something goes wrong. Several years ago, that safety rope saved his life. He was using a motor-driven winch system eight storeys up when the motor failed, releasing the brake. As Young's seat began to drop, he grabbed his safety line, stopping his descent but banging him against the side of the building. Shaken, he climbed down to the street on the rope. The next day he went back up the building. A year ago, another Halifax window cleaner was killed while working on a downtown bank building. Young and Painting believe the cleaner was inexperien ced, had a bad rope and didn’t use a safety line. “You don’t take chances, because you only get one chance,” said Young. “At that time, only two companies were using safety ropes, including us. 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Ina separate hearing later Tuesday, a justice of the Ap- peal Court lifted a bail re- quirement that Zundel re- ceive permission from the at- torney general before leaving the province. . JI ORY PENTECOSTAL NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY 602 - 7th St. © Ph. 365-5212 — Near High Schoo! — SUNDAY SERVICES 9:15 a.m, Sunday School (Al! Ages) 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship 6:30 p.m. Evening Service WEDNESD, Y 7:00 p.m. Bible Study — Crossfire for Youth FRIDAY 7:00 p.m. Youth Meeting Prayer WEE COLLEGE WOMEN Pastor: Ken Smith Assistant: Morley Soltys EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH CALVARY BAPTIST ~ keep in mind when we are meeting with the boards for first contracts,” she said. While the federation has been criticized for not admitting it has lost its battle against the provincial the 1 iy tactic. “We were quite surprised. An independent poll issues such as class size and supervision of activities. 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