4 August 26, 1968 «_Castlégar News BUSINESS HOUSING: It's pricey in Toronto By KAREN LEWIS Canadian Press TORONTO — The thrill of a promotion can be short-lived if it means moving to Toronto. Like Calgary during the energy crisis or Vancouver before the recession, Toronto and the rest of southern Ontario are enjoying astonishing ec- onomic prosperity that can make house buying a frightening experience. Just when jobs become becomes scarce — and expensive. And it’s not just the average worker, moving in the hope of finding a better job, who’s suffering. Managers, executives and the companies they work for find it increasingly expensive to transfer. “Suddenly that wonderful euphoric feeling of a promotion starts to feel pretty bad,’’ says Joe Zinner, 40, a sales manager for a computer manufacturer who's transferring to Toronto with his family this month. His $160,000 house in one of Regina's better neighborhoods, cost him a whopping $375,000 to replace in Unionville, a trendy suburb almost an hour's drive from downtown Toronto. ‘*Companies that are relocating employees are just paying an arm and a leg to provide the similar-type lifestyle that they've been accustomed to in other cities,"" says Alan Topping, vice-president of Runz- heimer Canada, a management ' consulting firm. NEEED A PRESENCE Nevertheless, it's essential for companies to move key employees and Topping estimates about 4S per cent of the Financial Post's 500 major corporations in Canada are located in the greater Metropolitan Toronto region “That sort of tells you where the action is.’ It’s not unusual these days for an’ employer to spend $35,000 helping an employee relocate — and more if Toronto’s the final destination, says Peter plentiful, housing _, Canadian Employee of over Robinson, president of the Council, a 120 corporations that formed in 1982. To make it worth the employee's while, virtually all companies pay moving costs. The majority of major companies guarantee they’ll buy the employ- ee’s house for market value if it doesn't sell and many provide some mortgage assistance to help with higher cost housing at the other end, relocation experts say. “If people ended up being losers, we'd never have a hope in hell of ever moving anybody,"” says Doug Ellis, vi of human for the Toronto Dominion bank. The bank, with 400 to S00 transfers a year, provides low-cost financing. A manager can borrow up to $S0,000-$100,000 if they’re moving to Toronto or New York — at rates that start at three per cent and begin increasing after five years. A clerical-level employee is eligible to borrow up to $30,000 at three-quarters of the going lending rate, he says. A typical transfer house for a manager — ranging from 1,050 square feet to 1,300 square feet depending on the centre — would cost $222,000 in Toronto, compared with $136,000 in Vancouver, $122,000 in Montreal and $98,000 in Halifax, a recent survey by Employee Relocation Services indicates. If Toronto's prices sound daunting, take a look at other world-class cities, says Topping. A family of four earning $100,000 would spend at least $52,352 a year to live and work in Toronto, runzheimer statistics indicate. The total includes housing, most day-to-day costs and iP but not taxes. However, that executive lifestyle would cost $71,293 a year in New York, $116,681 in London, $149,406 in Paris — and skyrocket to $301,571 in Tokyo. 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Frost was reported in the Krestova area, while in Cas tlegar today the ground tem. perature tell to 2,5°C CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 4 Sections (A, B, C&D) CPR cancels Spike spraying By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The Citizens Against Spike group is celebrating a vietory in the battle against CP Rails campaign to spray the herbicide Spike along the tracks between Nelson and Castlegar. Group spokesman Wayne Peppard said the group's ion to the spraying CP Rail to kill Spraying in Kelowna, A2 plans to use the herbicide to control weeds along the rail line. “In a sense I'm really quite ecstatic,” Peppard told the Castlegar News Tuesday. “In two ways it's a victory. One: There's no one in jail. Two: There's been no spraying. CP Rail spokesman Jane Mudry confirmed the rail company will not spray the tracks between Nelson and Castlegar this year. Castlegar safe from PCBs By RON NORMAN r Although PCBs are stored in the Castlegar area, there is little chance of a disaster similar to the one that struck a Montreal suburb last week, @ provincial Environment Ministry spokesman said today. “That was a commercial oper- ation,” said Jim Jensen, environ mental safety officer at the min istry’s Nelson office. “We don’t have those large plants here.” Some 3,500 residents from St Basile-le-Grand, Que. and the sur. rounding area were ordered to leave their homes Aug. 23 when’ fire erupted in a PCB warehouse, sending a thick black cloud laden with toxins over the area. And they have been told they won't beable to return until Friday at the earliest. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs are extremely persistent chem- icals that have been linked to cancer. They can also produce highly toxic continued on page A2 INSIDE New TV channels page A4 Lottery numbers The winning numbers drawn Tuesday in The Pick lottery were 6, 11, 18, 23, 41, 43, 46 and 55. Inn. The last Swimming wind-ups page B1 The Trail EARLY START . @ head start on a blood donor clinic by giving pint of blood Tuesday at the Castlegar hospital. The Canadian Red Cross Society brings its blood blood donor clinic held in Castlegar was in 1983. “This is a return of the blood donor clinics to Castlegar,” said Keith Merritt, area will Peppard said the protest wasn't easy. “It was extremely tough,” he said. “The one thing that bound us together was our humor.” But he said that organizing the large group of people was not as hard as it might have been because all of the citizens involved were genuinely concerned and took the time to participate in the protest activities. “Bringing together the people who live along the tracks was not a problem,” he said. “They recognized the seriousness of the issue.” George Cady, chairman of the Regional District of Central Kootenay, said he was pleased with area residents for their successful protest but at the same time said he was upset that it took such action to keep CP Rail from spraying. “I'm so pleased that the people were able to accomplish what we couldn't through learned judges and the legal system,” Cady told the Castlegar News yesterday. “What frustrates me is we pursued all legal angles and went through the courts and got nothing Instead, it took a protest Lo stop what should have been stopped without any need for confrontation.” The regional district attempted to stop the spraying earlier this month in the courts. But the B.C. Supreme Court and the B.C. Court of Appeal turned down the district's bid. Though CP Rail didn’t spray its Nelson to Castlegar section, it did complete its spraying program in all the other Kootenay areas. “Everything was done in the area in the Kootenays that were covered in the three permits,” Mudry told the Castlegar News from Vancouver yesterday The areas included track line between Warfield and “It just didn’t get done,” she said, adding she is unsure if the rail company will apply to spray in the area next year. ‘I don't know what our plans are for next year.” Regardless of CP Rail's future plans to spray the area, Peppard remains adamant the herbicide will not —— be sprayed between the two communities if the pr testers remain united, “The position remains that there will be no herbi- cide spraying,” he said. “This experience has been a very strengthening and powerful experience.” He said the opposition of residents and the/ Regional District of Central Kootenay provided a uniséd front against such spray programs. Castlegar, Sirdar, and in the Yahk area. She said the Nelson to Castlegar line was the only Nelson and Coikendahl, McConnel and The people of the RDCK support a pesticide- zone,” he said. “The challenge for us now is to he area that did not get sprayed under the existing permit . Ald. Lawrence Chernoff gets year. Castlegar branch of the Can adian Red Cross Society Merritt emphasized that the clinic will need 300 units of blood in order to ensure that it returns in other years. In addition, Merritt says the province's blood supply operates on a three- to five-day reserve, “so it constantly needs to be replenished.” As the sole supplier of blood president of the and blood products to 80 hospi donor clinic back to Castlegar tomorrow for the first time in five years. Officials say 300 units of blood are needed to ensure clinic returns next CosNews Photo by Ro Blood clinic returns By CasNews Staff After a five-year hiatus, the Red Cross blood donor clinic returns to Castlegar this week Challenge, A3 The clinic will be held from 2-8 p.m. Thursday at the Sandman tals in B.C. and the Yukon, the Red Cross requires 3,000 units a week or 600 donations each working day. “This is to service the needs of the whole province,” Merritt says. He adds that the 300-unit tagget in Castlegar will be about the same amount that the com munity uses each year. Merritt said in 1985 Castlegar hospital used 285 units of blood special help are firmly r The money comes under the receive until their receive Trail gets $1.5 million By RON NORMAN Editor businesses,” Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said Monday morning at a press conference in Trail called to others (who face the same situation).” continued on poge A4 Liberals nominate Jenkins By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer It took only minutes Tuesday night for a Rossland physician to be ac- claimed as the Liberal party candi- date for the new Kootenay West. Revelstoke riding in the next federal election Dr. Garry Jenkins's nomination for the right to represent the Liberal party in the newly-formed riding went uncontested as about 40 Liberal party members packed into™-the Selkirk College board room for the nomination meeting. Jenkins wasted no time as he thanked members for their support and read through a prepared cam- paign-style acceptance speech. In his speech, Jenkins said the upcoming federal election will be fought mainly on the free-trade deal. He told the crowd the Liberal party is in favor of free trade, but not the deal negotiated between Canada and the U.S “But my friends, the proposed Mulroney-Reagan trade deal is not just a free-trade agreement — it goes beyond that,” he told the group. “It is a deal that trades away our ability to use our natural resources to improve Canada’s industrial and manufactur ing industries as we see fit.” But Jenkins stressed the Liberals favor free trade. He said party leader John Turner “would re-negotiate a new deal based upon the principles of the G.A.T.T. — the General Agree. ment on Tariffs and Trade,” which is an existing global trade agreement. The party faithful applauded throughout the 48-year-old family physician’s speech as he hammered away at the Mulroney government's plans to “trade away our sover eignty.” While Jenkins spent a good deal of time blasting the “Mulroney-Reagan deal” he also laid down more planks GARY JENKINS . . free-trade fight in the party's campaign platform for an upcoming federal election. Child-care programs, education, medicare and reforestation were all mentioned in Jenkins's speech, and he told party -members the Liberals are looking to win over NDP voters. “In the upcoming election, we need the support of our trade union members and previous NDP sup porters more than ever,” he an- nounced. “We need to get the 'message across to them that the only way to ensure the non-passage of the Mulroney- Reagan deal is to vote for the Liberals and help ensure a Liberal victory in Oftawa.” Jenkins went out of his way to remind members that it was previous federal Liberal governments “who were responsible for providing the Canadian worker with all social benefits currently available,” includ- continued on page A2 By CasNews Staff and News Services The CBC is coming to the West Kootenay. . CBC Radio plans to base a reporter in Nelson as part of a major reorganization of its pro- gtamming in British Columbia, provincial director Bob Sunter says. * Under the new plan, the radio network will broadcast weekday morning programs from bureaus in Vancouver, Kelowna, Prince CBC RADIO TO BASE REPORTER IN NELSON CBC Radio had to reconsider its plans for British Columbia after the Canadian Radio-tele- vision and Telecommunications Commission ruled that the CBC Prince Rupert station could not be shut down. The decision followed. heated opposition from many northern listeners. As well, the changes sparked a province- wide petition by Castlegar lis- tener Sally Williams. Under the new plans, a second / MALONEY PONTIAC BUICK GMC 1700 Columbia Ave., Castlegar D.L. 5058 PHONE NOW 365-2155 PHONE COLLECT Steering You Straight. CASTLEGAR NOW OPEN ‘TIL 8 P.M. FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE. IN THE CASTLEGAR AUTO.MALL PHONE 365-7241 COLLECT $1,550,000 from the federal govern ment to help create a community centre and business enterprise cen tre. The Greater Trail Community Fu. tures Society will receive $812,000 now and another $738,000 next spring. The society will use some of the funding to create a special business “incubator” centre where local firms just getting startéd can Radon gas problems page A5 Community Initiatives Fund option of Community Futures, which is part of the Canadian Jobs Strategy program Community Futures is geared to helping workers in communities which have serious economic_prob- lems but show potential for growth “This will provide an environment and the technical services which are conducive| to the growth of small announce the funding. Brisco called the incubator project ‘the most important element.” The project will be housed in the former Trail junior high school. “I am delighted that Trail is in a launch mode for one further step. These are very important steps, because the bottom line is employ ment.” George and Prince Rupert, perhaps as early as November. An additional five staff will join the CBC's operations in Prince George, not four as originally planned, Sunter says. » As well, four people will be based_in the north coast city of Prince Rupert instead of the two nounced earlier. reporter will be added to Vic- toria within 60 days to join legislative correspondent Barry Bell, Sunter said. Initially three more staff were to go to Victoria. In other changes from earlier plans, one person instead of two will work out of Kamloops. continued on page A2