DOGWOOD the Province of B.C.'s official flower, Is more than noticeable in the yard of George A. Wilson at 313 Sixth Av th. Wilson says the tree was planted by him some 15 to 20 years ago. —News/Mirror Foto by Lois Hughes This past week, I got my teeth cleaned, took my driver's test and went to confession at church. I knew that no one had ever been this wonderful before. In fact, I could barely stand to fall asleep and be gone from me for seven whole hours. : 3 As I told my friend, Mayva, "I am cleansed. Just one of these pious acts would put me in a state of grace for a month.. but all three of them in the same week should get me space on a medallion.” Mayva looked unimpressed and said, “As long as you've got three good deeds going for you, why don’t you try for the Sanctimonious Decathlon?” : She had to be kidding. I had never heard of the Sanctimonious Decathlon and doubted if there was one. Mayva insisted I was wrong. She said there was a series of 10 holier-than-thou events that had never been completed by anyone during a seven-day period. They included: .The hand-washable tournament. Every piece of wash-by-hand laundry that had been put back to do when there was time is laundered. A place where navel bands meet a football jersey and they belong to the same kid. The write-your-mother-on-no-occasion event. It must not include Christmas greetings, birthday wishes, a request for money or a pitch to baby-sit. Servicing your lawn mower during the winter playoffs. A real test of ibility over ch oe ch over who cares? Sanctimonious Decathlon Erma Bombeck The tidy games, This includes gathering up five years of newspapers and two years of redeemable bottles out of the garage and returning them to where they belong, and matching trading stamps from all over the house to an empty stamp book. The latter is a game of strength, endurance, and bad breath. Getting-the-salt hed-off- z y hen-th ther- report-predicts-more-bad-weather playoffs. This really sep- arates the devout good people from the Pretenders. i i: 1 that-h: y y ith. lip-fe pt-tog paper-clip ths iti “Do you think you could pull all of them off?” asked Mayva. “That's only nine,” “Cleaning your oven. ps I didn't ii the di i h ends up talking dirty. 2) - t fi said. “What's the other one?” Mayva always Dear Mom: a belated thanks Dear Ann: It’s time to run this one again (clipping enclosed). Please do. : f = fi : — Colorado Reader Dear Colorado: Thanks for asking. Here it is: Dear Ann Landers: Will you please print this letter on Mother's Day? It would mean a lot to me. It also might mean a lot to others who feel as I do but don’t’ know how to put in into words. I'm not much of a writer, but will do my best and pray it’s good enough. It's a letter to my mother. Dear Mom: I wish I could spend Mother's Day with you but I can't, soI am writing a letter instead and hope you read it in Ann Landers’ column. : # Mom, I love you very much. So many things that I didn't understand when I was young, I understand now. : I didn’t know how hurt you were by some of the things I said and did until I was hurt the same way by my own children. I didn't realize that a woman can be married and have a family and still be lonely. I know now. I didn’t have any idea how hard you worked and the burdens you carried doing the everyday things I took for granted with never a complaint, until I traveled that road myself. I didn't know how many times I could have made you happy just by saying, “I love you, Mom" — or, “I appreciate what you are trying to do for me" — but now I know, because it would mean the world to me to hear those words from my own children. It took me all my life to learn what a mother is. I wish there was some way I could let you know now how much I appreciate your years of sacrifice and unselfishness, your efforts to keep us on the right track, and everything you did to help your children grow up straight and strong. Mom, you are the greatest. — Your Daughter Dear Daughter: I am delighted you gave no clue as to your identity. Ihope thousands of mothers who read your beautiful letter on this appropriate day will think Perhaps it was written by their daughter. My thanks and God bless. Dear Ann: You gave the lady who inquired about male sex maniacs a bum steer. Anyone who knows anything about sexual goings-on in our society will tell you that men are (and always have been) easier to arouse and far more interested in sex than women. 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I did, however, check with an authority at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. He said cows, like female dogs, are responsive to amorous advances when in heat. This occurs approximately every 28 days and lasts 18 hours. So your theory, sir, is simply an udder bit of nonsense. I remember Mother In arms: that tenderly nurtured us We felt so safe-— secure. And as we grew, in those dear, arms We found a love so sure. Her smiles were warmest sunshine That made us feel alive, And in the climate of her love How we did grow and thrive! She taught the. value of a goal, Of aiming at a star; The fun of sharing fantasies; To see things as they are. Her deeds taught worth of honest toil, Of serving one another. My heart is filled with loving thoughts Whenever I think of mother! — Lucy Ellen Eaton® Mother's ngs S ‘| Carpets by Ivan Oglow A salute to all our mothers! @) —s Your Carpet Headquarters... 365-7771 Remember Sunday, May Il is Mother’s Day. 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Continued from page Al through the Selkirk logging reserve.” v “Further up there’s a spot where someone — I haven't been able to find out who yet — put a Cat into the creek and ripped out an old logging bridge,” Cook con- tinued. “I don't know what con- dition the bridge was in when they took it out; But’ when you start tearing cut‘ an old bridge you deatroy:the banks on both sides. Whether the Cat was right in the creek I can't really tell, but they sure . \ three days of clear weather. " the creek hasn't cleared up to : the point or in the manner it stirred around an awful lot of vel,” , The level of turbidity — suspension of:particles — in the creek “varies from day to i : tion of the highway and log- day with the rain.”. “We're pumping water direetly from the creek ‘into our main line and if we get rain we get silt coming down the creek,” Cook explained. ““Even if we get two or should normally.” He blamed the construc- ging in the area for “15 per cent of what's hi d,” hey will be selling at Safeway on May 17 | noting creek sloughs oceur . said every year because of raised water. levels. “In this case probably the creek came up a little faster than normal and we should have got a little hit more than normal but no- where near the extent we MURPHY COMPENSATION BOARD NEEDED Continued from page Al participated in the Saturday workshop, as having an ad- visory role. “There would be people from a cross-section of this region involved and they will not be experts,” he said. “But I think they could come to a reasonable review if there . are any grievances.” 3. He_also recommended the fortiation of a separate ~ grievance committee “from the very beginning as soon as the work starts.” “If people think they are treated wrongly or roughly or things are not as they should be, there should be some kind of committee they can go to, like an ombuds- man,” Braal said. . Although he noted the expropriation process im- posed by government insti- tutions when they are unable to secure a negotiated set- tlement from property own- ersis “a terrifying power” he said he believes a well-in- formed public “has nothing to fear.” » “The very first thing that, in my opinion, people should do is get together,” Braal said. “They should get to- gether as soon as they know this project will go through and the people should pre- pare themselves to have their property properly: ap- praised in order to prevent he explained. “Also if you do ‘any work on your property if you have been properly noti- fied it might not be compen- sated.” Persons entitled to com- pensation for expropriated land are not restricted to owners of the property, the appraiser said. “It can algo be any other person who has an interest in : “that. property,* " He” said. “That can be in the form of a Mortgage or a lease or an agreement for sale or an oc- cupier — people who have for a. certain period of time the right to possess or occupy it.” “Particularly with a mortgage, the general rule is that the mortgage will ‘be compensated for the amount. of the outstanding balance,” Braal continued. “So that can amount to quite a bit of money, and there won't be much left for the owner. He still has to leave and find something else.” zi Explaining the basis upon which value is deter- mined for compensation, he pointed out B.C. laws rec- ognize property's value to the owner as well as its market price. But such cri- teria as emotional value are not recognized, he said. “For instance, strong emotional ties an owner may have for a property that has . been in his family for. several generations will not be taken owner can feel it has a poten- 1 fe or mitted plans for expansion or is could include for i i- dustrial use but maybe it is only zoned for park use.” But the potential value of property, he said, even if it has not been developed, will also be taken into id the cost of moving and ac- quiring substitute property as well as loss of goodwill and profits, Braal said. - A land owner suffering i effects Uti ation. : “Say a piece of property can still. be used for -agri- culture but the zoning is al- ° ready residential’ or com- mercial. It will be evaluated at its highest and best use, that means the highest re- turn it will make. ° “However if must be re- alized that if certain -ad- vantages are very remote then the compensation for that will be less or it may be nothing at all, And if a piece of property has a certain potential for development it will cost money to bring it into that state. That will be deducted.” : Properties with a “spec- ial adaptability” are also con- sidered grounds for compen- sation. “For the owner of a vacant lot that adjoins his factory that land possesses potential because it could be profitable used. for an ex- tension of his factory,” he said. Compensation for distur- bance of enterprises to which from expropriation of adjoin- ing property, even when his or her land is not taken, and severance, - where. partial ex- propriation of a land parcel make the remaining portion uneconomical to maintain, are also causes for compen- sation, he said. Of particular importance to municipal government and school districts is the prin- ciple of reinstatement, the ‘ appraiser added. “There are properties you can hardly put ‘a market value on, for instance a school, church or hospital. You cannot sell it — it is only around salvage value. There is no real value, because who is going to buy a school? “The value should be the cost of a new one minus the - depreciation on the old build- ing. Actually, the institution that is affected should be reinstated and there should be no real loss.” Also recognized in ex- propriation, Braal said, is the “home for a home” principle. “If the government comes and takes your home ended up with this year," the irrigation distri chairmas “What the trustees have been telling various’ govern- mental departments fight from the regional’ district through to the provincial . government, what we've been forecasting for perhaps 16 years, has come about ina minor disaster.” ; ‘you should be able without any extra cost to get a com- parable property,” he said. ‘The appraiser used as an example elderly residents owning houses they would be unable to purchase elsewhere for the market value of the property. But he added there are so many circumstances in which the “home for a home” - principle could ;be. applied . that itis not confined to one age group. Referring to his own personal experiences in a two-year fight with B.C. Hydro over expropriation of property he owned in the Slocan Valley for’ installation of a 500,000-volt transmission line, Braal said the relation- ship between the Crown cor- poration and owners of land to be expropriated “does not | necessarily have to be bad or harsh.” Z He warned against any “lineup for controversy or a collision course.” “There stiould be a gen-— eral attitude to co-operate and have the least damage done,” the appriser said. “And I think that is possible, because the law first of all protects the people and spells out quite specifically” the people's rights and particu- larly the right to compen-. sation.” property owners -have com- false hopes or expectations. * into account,” Braal said. “It As soon as people are notified __ is of value to the owner but it that their property will be is not recognized in appraisal needed by B.C. Hydro that: appraisal should be done.” ; raal stressed the im- portance of the date on which property owners receive for- mal notice of B.C. Hydro's plans for their land in the ex- propriation process, : “If you have been prop- erly notified of intention of ‘expropriation and afterwards you sell your property or have an agreement for sale then you get complications,” — principles.” What will be considered, he said, includes certain res- trictions to specific prop- erties, “For instance, it can be in the (agricultural land res- erve) land freeze which ac- tually freezes the amount the property is worth because it has less potential for de- velopment,” the appraiser explained. “Also the. zoning. An Castlegar Rebels Annual General MEETING May 14th - at the Arena Complex Election of Officers to be held for the Upcoming Season 7:30 p.m. You Can Rely On & 5 e Our Expert Advice We take special care in filling all your prescription needs. 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