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PUBLISHER AUG. 7, 1947-668. 15, 1979

PUBLISHER — Burt Compbell
EDITOR — Ron Norman
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CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hadley

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Wick WERKLY MAY 4, 1990,
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— Gary Fleming

Take a good look

The news that B.C. Hydro does
not plan to proceed with the $982-
million Keenleyside dam
generating project within the next
year or two comes as a disappoin-
tment. The community as a whole
had high hopes that Hydro would
begin construction on the
generators in the near future.

And there's no doubt the project
would have given a major
economic boost to the West
Kootenay as a whole, and to the
Castlegar area in particular. The
project would provide 6,200 man
hours of work and that's a
significant figure in anybody's

ook

But we shouldn't believe that all
is lost because the dam isn't going
ahead for another eight years or
so. On the contrary, Castlegar has
a lot going for it already, yet it
seems we just can't see it.

Look at all the major moder-
nization and upgrading the area
industries have undertaken.
Cominco is proceeding with its
$130 million lead smelter moder-
nization, which has provided em-
ployment for another 200 people,
with still more scheduled to be
hired

Closer to Castlegar, Celgar Pulp
Co. plans to spend $90 million on

its pulp mill over the next 10 years,
including $10 million this year. And
Westar Timber is coming off a $20
to $25 million modernization
program at its Southern Wood
Products sawmill.

Then there's the $4 million air-
port terminal expansion and Shaw
Cablesystem’s $2.2 million upgr-
ding that included a new building
and a state-of-thelart studio. And
the future looks just as good. A
$4.3 million addition is planned for
the Castlegar and District Hospital
and a $2 million upgrading is in the
works for Stanley Humphries
secondary school.

Castlegar has a lot going for it,
but it seems we have this fixation
with megaprojects. We think if the
generators aren't going into
Keenleyside next year, then things
just can't be very good.

We need to stop for a second
and take a look around. Good
things are happening here — lots
of them. Certainly, the
Keenleyside project would be a
tremendous boon, but we
shouldn't see it as the be-all and
end-all. for our community. The
sooner we begin to realize that,
the sooner Castlegar will start to
reach its full potential.

Ron
Norman

Castlegar council's reaction to the
Keenleyside dam generating issue
this week reminded me a little of
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. If only
we would all click our heels together
ind say: “We DO want the gen
rating project. We DO want the
generating project. We DO want
the generating project,” it would
come true.

Real life, of course, isn’t like that,
but you would have a hard time
convincing Ald. Len Embree. Em.
bree could hardly wait to call into
question the Castlegar News report
in which B.C. Hydro chairman Larry
Bell said the Keenleyside project is
at least another 10 years down the
road

Embree stated flatly that the
story was wrong. How did he know?
Well, he had talked by telephone
with Mayor Audrey Moore in Char.
lottetown and Moore had called Bell
and Bell had said his comments had
been taken “out of context.” Talk
about getting it straight from the
horse's mout

Instead of admitting that council
may have been overly optimistic,
not to mention somewhat mis.
leading (which it clearly was, but
more on that in a moment), Embree
clamped his hands firmly over his
ears and refused ,to listen to any
thing but what he wanted to hear.
And that was that the Keenleyside
project has a good chance of pro.
ceeding within the next year or two.

That brings us back to the
CasNews story of last Sunday. In
fact, the CasNews was not the first
to report that B.C. Hydro doesn't
plan to start up the generators in
the Keenleyside dam until the year
2001. That honor goes to the Nakusp
weekly Arrow Lakes: News.

A story on page 5 of the March 9
issue of the News was headlined:
“Keenleyside dam generation likely
by 2001.” It goes on to say that
reports of a 1996 in-service date are
not likely. The story mentions that
Peter McMullen, head of Hydro’s
communication department, says
with an inservice date of 2001,
construction would begin in 1996,
though some engineering work
would begin before that.

The article adds that Hydro’s long
range projection is for two gen
erating units to be in service in 2001
and a third unit to start up the
following year.

I considered that interesting in
light of the story we had run in the
March 9 CasNews (note the date,
the same as that of the McMullen
story). In our story, Mayor Audrey

Moore hinted that Hydro is looking
at installing generators in the
Keenleyside dam.

Moore said she met with Bell in
Vancouver and hoped their dis-
cussions would “lead to positive
action from B.C. Hydro in the near
future.” In reply to a question, she
said it is Hydro’s “collective wis-
dom” that the Keenleyside project
is the cheapest power project in
B.C.

Asked about a rumored early
start to the project, Moore was coy,
noting that Bell said it was “diffi-
cult” for him to neither substantiate
the rumors, nor dispel them.

Certainly, Moore never said Bell
committed Hydro to the project, but
she fudged enough to lead everyone
at the council meeting on March 8 to
believe Hydro is looking favorably
at the project

With two obviously different
stories in hand, CasNews reporter
Bonne Morgan was sent to try to set
the record straight and ask Bell at a
press briefing in Burnaby last
Friday about the dam project.

The result? Bell was blunt. He
told Morgan that the project would
not be in service before the turn of
the century. Morgan was, to say the
least, a bit surprised. So she asked
him a second time. And Bell told her
a second time that it is not Hydro’s
plan to proceed with the project in
the next year or two.

However, Bell said — and the
story last Sunday makes that clear

that increased demand for export
power to the U.S. could change that.

If there is still any doubt about
what Bell said, Nelson News re-
porter Kathleen Rodgers, who was
also at the press conference last
Friday, reported the same thing in
Monday's Nelson News.

Her story said: “Bell also indi-
cated that Hydro officials have no
plans to speed up their project to
eventually install generators in the
Hugh Keenleyside dam.” The story
also says a Hydro public relations
official said the project is slated to
be completed in 2001 with a
construction start-up date of 1996
“unless Hydro is in a position to
boost power exports.”

Sound familiar? It is just what
Morgan reported in her story. So
did Morgan and Rodgers both take
Bell out of context? Did the Arrow
Lakes News get its story wrong
from another Hydro spokesman? Or
is Castlegar council in some sort of
fairyland?

You decide.

Remember
When?

40 YEARS AGO
From the April 1, 1948
News

The regular monthly meeting of
the Castlegar Board of Trade will be
held tonight, Thursday, in the Parish
Hall, a dinner meeting. Members of the
Nelson Board of Trade will be in
attendance to discuss the programme
for the Caravan of Boards which will
converge on Nelson on May 28th\and
29th.

*“ * *

The Robson-Castlegar Women's
auxilliary to the Canadian Legion held
its monthly meeting at the Legion hall
Tuesday night with the president, Mrs.
P. Kerr in the chair.

Governors of the various commit-
tees presented their monthly reports
which were accepted as read.

*_ * «

The regular meeting of the Young
Adults Society was held in the United
Church hall last week with president
Bill Fraser in the chair and Muriel
Pierce acting secretary.

The business portion of the

Letters to the Editor

meeting d chiefly of the second

reading of the constitution and decision

that the society shall be called the

Young Adults Society.
. «

and Thursday at the

Hydro over barrel

Many Kootenay residents have
recently noticed the unusually low
water levels in lakes associated with
the Columbia/Kootenay River system.
Duncan Lake is so low that the
community of Howser lost its water
supply when its submersible pump was
exposed. Lake Koocanusa, in the East
Kootenay is extremely low, as are the
Arrow Lakes, where dust storms from
the huge areas of exposed silt have
been a problem. Residents living on
Kootenay Lake are concerned about

Comments
heartening

I am writing in response to the
letter to the editor by forester T.
Perrson (March 20 Castlegar News).

It's very heartening to see some-
one in the forestry business have
enough guts to come forward and help
expose the myths that the Forest
Service is doing a good job and “all it
ean do” in terms of managing our
forests.

I just attended a public meeting
concerning the Hills slide (caused by
clearcut logging) and was very aware
of many young and older men from the
logging and forestry industry who
were very close-minded and fearful of
any changes. They seem to want very
badly to trust the Forest Service and
companies, and district anyone trying
to bring about positive changes to stop
logging’s negative impacts on our area.
No one-wants to see anything negative
happen to our local economy. Better
logging practises would be more labor
intensive and, therefore, provide more
jobs.
If the Forest Service would
become more efficient jn its plans, and
companies accept a little less profit, we
could easily have employment and a
healthy, safe, beautiful place to live. It
does work. It’s happening else-
where. Let's get together and make the
powers that be see that it’s good
business all around.

Keith Light
Winlaw

Facts say
otherwise

Carl Knutson's suggestion that the
visit by Frank Oberle, Minister of
State for Science and Technology, to
Kootenay West was timed to an-
nounced the northern and isolated
residents deduction is at odds with the
facts. Mr. Oberle’s visit was planned
two weeks in advance and was ar-
ranged by the Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce. His visit was preceded by
seminars in Kelowna, Vernon, Nan-
aimo, and Vancouver.

If Mr. Knutson really wanted to be
helpful, he might venture a call to
Revenue Canada (toll free) in Penticton
to learn how the program developed. I
might add that because of the small
population of many Kootenay West
communities and the distance from a
major centre, Kelowna particularly, we
are the only constituency in B.C.
bordering on the 49th parallel that has
received this “mixed blessing.” Mr.
Knutson chooses to avoid the fact that
many recipients of this tax rebate may
shop in his store.

Bob Brisco, DC, MP
Kootenay West

the extreme low water and its dur-
ation, as are developers who are
staking millions of dollars on water-
front development in Nelson. Low
water seriously damages the recrea-
tional and water resource value of all
these lakes, but the most troubling
part is that it’s unnecessary.

The water is lower than usual, not
because of the drought, but because
the Columbia River Treaty puts Can-
adian’ storage lakes under American
control. Until last week, the Brilliant
Dam was spilling water (wasting its
power potential), even as Howser's
water supply was interrupted, because
the U.S. wanted it. And though the
treaty does limit how high the level of
Kootenay Lake will be permitted to go,
there is no limit to how low it can go, or
how long it will stay low.

It’s hard to find anyone in the
Kootenays who has much good to say
about the Columbia River Treaty,
because it was such a sellout. But many
eagerly look forward to the expiration
of the treaty’s first 30 years (about
1997), when Canada is due to regain a
measure of control of its storage lakes.
The problem is that B.C. Hydro, as the
treaty's designated Canadian hydro

electric utility, appears to be negotia-
ting away Canada’s rights out of des-
peration to sell its surplus power to
California.

Hydro is over a barrel because
Bonneville Power, its American comp-
etitor, controls the transmission lines
to California. Bonneville wants to
retain its control of Canadian storage,
and since B.C. Hydro’s guardianship
of the Kootenays’ interests never was
its strong point, the Americans are
likely to succeed. Last November, area

papers reported ii
between Bonneville Power and B.C.
Hydro to “coordinate power generation
on the Columbia River” — industry
jargon for another sellout.

“Adding insult to injury” takes on
new meaning when you reflect that the
Canadian power being sold to Cali-
fornia will create employment there,
while the Kootenays remain depressed.
Canada’s future benefit from the
Columbia River must not be negotiated
without public participation!

Donald Scarlett

ions

Kaslo
Editor's note: Mr. Scarlett is a
candidate for the federal NDP nom-
ination in Kootenay West-Revelstoke.

Grad ceremonies
should be moved

Stanley Humphries secondary
school graduation ceremonies planned
for June 25 will be held at a local
church, the Brilliant Cultural Centre.
Years ago Bible reading and religious
prayers were removed from the daily
school curriculum. Now we have our
school authorities taking our students
back to religion with these graduation
ceremonies. All graduates must be
equally honored and we must question
whether these ceremonies would be
acceptable if held in a Sikh, Jewish,
Jehovah Witness, Catholic, Protestant
or Mormon church, to name a few.

There appears to be no school
policy at present preventing school
activities from being held in a church,
even though these activities are part of
the school program.

Safety is another factor. Many
adults and children will be arriving
from out of town for these ceremonies,

and may not know the added security
this building requires. Three rehear-
sals and one graduation ceremony are
scheduled.

Graduation ceremonies used to be
held in the high school gym, and since
then our school gym has increased in
size while the graduation class size has
decreased. Perhaps this was taken into
col ion when the gym
was planned, and it could already have
adequate room and seating available.
Another non-religious setting is pro-
vided by all taxpayers: the local
recreation complex.

As taxpayers and parents respon-
sible for our graduates, please call the
school trustees, principal or super-
intendent of schools and share your
views.

1. Smith
Castlegar

Conroy generous
community worker

I would appreciate space in your
letters to the Editor section to express
my opinion on the attitude of Canada
Post in trying to intimidate the trade
union movement for its resistance “to
lie down and play dead” during the
recent negotiations for a new contract.

There was much bitterness over
the hiring of scabs (at above the union
wage scale). Thousands of dollars were
spent on this campaign to win public
opinion in this wasteful, futile exercise.
But eventually an agreement was
reached and it was hoped that reason
and peace would prevail.

As a citizen and a member of the
general public, I am troubled by the
continuation of this unrest. After all,
we are the employers of Canada Post
and are convinced that this assault
upon unions can only lead us to
disaster.

The history of Canadian demo
cracy regarding the rights of Canadian

trade unions-has given our country one
of the highest standards of living and
prosperity in the troubled world. The
countries that have enacted restrictive
laws and initiated persecutions have
the reputation of poverty and misery.
This, then, is proof of this contrast.
Poor wages and poor working con-
ditions with the loss of one’s dignity are
not the answers to our problems.

I am publicly supporting and ex-
pressing my respect for Ed Conroy. I
have known him for several years and
know him to be a reliable, generous
community worker, so much so, that I
would unhesitatingly recommend him
for the Citizen of the Year. We need
such men in our community.

P. Romaine
Castlegar

More letters on AS

Castle Theatre; You'll hold your sides
to keep them from splitting with
laughter as Elizabeth Taylor, George
Murphy, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington
and Jimmy Lyden star in Cynthia.
25 YEARS AGO
From the March 28, 1963
Castlegar News

Castlegar council moved at its
meeting last week to have consulting
engineers prepare a comprehensive
report on the village's water system
and to investigate the cost and fea-
sibility of having Associated Engineers
prepare the report.

. 8 «

A regional planning board en-
compassing the same area as School
District No. 9 would be of benefit to the
whole area, the Kinnaird Ratepayers
Association has advised Kinnaird
council.

.

Kinnaird has written to the
province's Pollution Control Board
opposing an application by the City of
Revelstoke to dump added raw sewer-
age into the Columbia River.

* * «

Some parts of the Village of
Castlegar are “in dire need” of a good
supply of fire protection water, council
was told at its meeting last week.

. 28

Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi
telephoned the Castlegar News yes-
terday afternoon that he had awarded
the contract for the Columbia River
bridge at Kinnaird to Northern Con-
struction Ltd. and J.W. Stewart Co.
who submitted a joint bid of $2,021,000.

AGO

The province of British Columbia
through Crown corporation will as-
sume a 79 per cent interest in Canadian
Cellulose, the principal operating sub-
sidiary of Columbia Cellulose.

.

The old orchard around the Douk-
hobor Communal Village Museum is
coming to life again and should produce
its first crop of apples this fall.

* 8 «

Inland Natural Gas Co. has signed
a 20-year lease with the Town of
Castlegar that will allow use of its
riverfront property for development as
a recreati area.

. 2 «

Installation of a taxiway strip as
well as adequate water storage fac-
ilities are to be installed at the
Castlegar Airport.

. 28 «

Repeated correspondence
between the Town of Kinnaird and
Rossland-Trail MLA Chris D'Arcy to
set up meeting with specific ministers
to talk about town problems has not
resulted in any clear or concise reply
when ministers were available.

. °

Castlegar ended 1972 with a total
surplus in its general and water
accounts of $28,934.88.

Castlegar

Castlegar courthouse will have to
do without a family court and a small
claims court for a while longer,
Castlegar council learned Tuesday
night.

Council was told that because of a
provincial government hiring freeze,
family and small claims court services
have been postponed.

* 8

Kootenay Savings Credit Union
plans to expand and renovate its
Castlegar branch on 4th St. perhaps as
early as this summer, the Castlegar
News has learned.

. 2. «

Figures obtained by B.C. Hydro
show the number of boats travelling
the Columbia river do not warrant a
boat lock to be built into the Murphy
Creek hydro-electric project.

SSI
March 27, 1988 Castlegar News AS

Have Easter symbols changed?

shell, which is dead, breaks ppen to reveal a new life.

The encyclopedia says the egg as a symbol of fertility
and renewed life goes back to the ancient Egyptians and
Persians, who also had the custom of coloring and eating
eggs during their spring festivals.

By MARLENE HABIB

Press
TORONTO — Ever wonder how
eggs at Easter became a symbol of the Christian holiday?

And what about the history behind the furry
cotton-tailed creature that hops down the bunny trail to

deliver those eggs?

Authorities differ in their interpretations of the
origin of the symbols of Easter, which commemorates the
resurrection of Jesus Christ and falls on the first Sunday in
after the full moon that follows the spring equinox. This

year it is April 3.

“Easter has turned into a secular emphasis on
bounty and good living,” said Prof. Richard Schneider,
who teachers medieval church and art history at York

University.

“The original symbols — such as the lighting of

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sterility.

“The bunny rabbit w
which was frequently symbolized by little furry creatures
said

times, when it represented sterility rather than fertility,
Schneider said in an interview.
SYMBOL OF LUST
Medieval literary writers and artists associated the
tabbit with Venus, which represents both a planet and a
goddess, he said, There were two sides to Venus, one of
fertility and procreation and the other of lust and

symbol of the lustful Venus,

“And from

astrology, the planet Venus was associated with late
March or early April, also around the time of Easter.”

The Encyclopedia Britannica, however, says the

and ali

candles to rep light

have vanished. Over the ages, they have been taken over
by cute symbols like the bunny rabbit.”

Despite its association with the Christian holiday,
the rabbit as a symbol actually has its roots in medieval

— seem to

rabbit symbol came to Christian'ty from antiquity.

It says the hare, which is like a large rabbit, was
associated with the moon in the legends of ancient Egypt
became linked with the beginnings of new life
and fertility. As such, it became associated with Easter.

The encyclopedia says that in the United States,
however, where the hare was unfamiliar, the rabbit
became part of Easter.

DEAD AND ALIVE

Schneider said the egg is a symbol of Christ's

resurrection because it is both dead and alive — the hard

Coloring Easter eggs red originates from the
Christian Orthodox custom of blessing red eggs as part of
the holiday ceremonies, ‘Schneider says.

The color is also often interpreted as signifying fire,
the sun, the blood of Christ shed on Calvary and the joy of

Easter.

The Easter parade comes from the processions
through the fields in ancient times, Schneider said.

The type of meat eaten on the holy day depended on
the type of animals grown by farmers during ancient

times*he said.

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Support ‘outstanding’

As co-ordinator of the recently
completed Provincial A Girls’ Basket-
ball Championships, I would like to
make everyone aware of the out-
standing support that the school
received from the community during
the event. Castlegar businesses and
city council were very active in their
support and I am sure everyone bene-
fitted from the presence of the 300
visitors.

The Kootenay Youth Choir was
outstanding in the quality of food and

entertainment it provided at our
Thursday night banquet. All the
players and coaches were impressed by
this very positive glimpse at our local
culture.

School District No. 9, of course,
was again great in the way it came to
the rescue of the teams stranded by the
provincial vehicle inspection team.

A special thank you and a note of
job well done must go to the local
media, particularly Kootenay Broad-
casting and the Castlegar News for

their solid coverage.

It is gratifying to know that the
many diverse segments of this com-
munity can come together to help our
school promote a provincial quality
event. The organizing committee of the
tournament is very proud of the im-
pression that our city has made on the
basketball visitors from all parts of the

Province.

Jack Closkey
Stanley Humphries Secondary School

Nelson mayor issues challenge

Participaction Day is pending on
May 25, pitting Nelson in a three-way
contest with the citizens of Trail and
Castlegar to see whose citizens are the
most active.

Allow me to put Nelson's neighbor
communities on notice that. the, Queen
City, home of Roxanne and heritage
capital of the Kootenays, also intends

i Chall

Drumheller, Alberta, by turning out 44
per cent of our citizens in some physical
activity, compared to a pitiful 13 per
cent for our challenger. You'd think
they were all fossilized dinosaurs! The
following year, 1987, only the most
devious ‘efforts by Trail allowed that
community to edge past Nelson in its
rate of participation; an event we

to be the Par
victor in this region come the fateful
day of fitness challenge.

Recall that in 1986 Nelson shamed

vow will not be repeated. We
may be happy to fly the American flag
for a week during Hollywood filming,
but to fly a rival city’s flag because we

have been shown to be less fit is just
too humiliating to repeat.

Already. hundreds in Nelson have
telephoned to obtain registration
forms. The fates of Trail and Castlegar
are sealed. I express my regrets.

On May 25 Nelson will show that
its people are, indeed, the most phy-
sically active in the West Kootenay. All
Castlegar and Trail can do is their best,
that their loss not become a rout.

Gerald Rotering, Mayor

B.C.'s poor will get poorer

VICTORIA (CP) — The
working poor will get poorer,
while upper-income earners
escape relatively unaffected

screw from three cents to
four cents, it is a significant
percentage
isn’t very

increase but it

the family will also have to
pay $24 for gasoline with the
one-cent-a-litre increase that

while the boosted sales tax
on automobile insurance
premiums will add about $6.

was i at

dnight Fred Punko, past presi-

by British Columbia's 1988-89
budget, says the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of
B.C.

“This budget hurts the
average person,” vice-presi-
dent Chayton Shultz said. “It
does nothing to hurt the
average high-income earner.
It's very much directed at
costing the lower and middle-
class.

“For the working poor, it
means they will get poorer.”

He said a family of four
with an annual income of
$27,000 will have to earn $1 a
day more in order to pay for
the increases.

If they drink a bottle of
Canadian Club rye whisky or
a six-pack of beer each week,
that will cost an extra $12

dent of the Certified General
Accountants of B.C., was
even less optimistic about
that typical family's new

costs. He expects they will
pay $530 more this year.
Punko arrived at his fig-
ures by using all of the direct
taxes and user fees for the
family and factoring in the
increased taxes to business
that will undoubtedly be
passed on to the consumers.

UP IN MAY
The biggest bite out of that
income is an extra $192 a
year for the 38-per-cent in-
crease in Medical Services
Plan premiums effective May

this year because of the four-
percentage-point increase on
alcohol sales tax.

With one person smoking
one pack of cigarettes a day,
it's going to cost an additional
$33 a year — with a new nine

* the way Shultz figures it, cents tax on each pack —

The budget, introduced
Thursday by Finance Min-
ister Mel Couvelier, had no
major tax changes. A raft of
increased fees and small tax
hikes is expected to raise an
additional $11 million this
year — in a budget totalling
$11.8 billion.

Shultz called it “the hard-
ware-store approach to rais-
ing revenue.”

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Student aid
gets big boost

VICTORIA (CP) — The
British Columbia govern-
ment promised Thursday to
provide $58.1 million for stu-
dent scholarships and loans
in the upcoming fiscal year
compared with $26.5 million
last year.

The government's student
aid program “is the finest in
Canada,” Finance Minister
Mel Couvelier said after
tabling his $11.8-billion bud-

t.

He also announced a new
University Foundation to en
courage private donations to
the three B.C. universities.
The government will provide

Public schools will get an
increase of $114 million, up
more than eight per cent, as
promised earlier by Edu-
cation Minister Tony Brum-
met.

Independent schools, with
an estimated 34,000 students,
will get $48 million this year.

That's an increase of more
than 70 per cent, said Barry
Jones, the NDP’s education
critic.

Jones said enrolment in
independent schools in-
creased only 3.4 per cent in
1986 and about five per cent
last year.

Couvelier also said non-

$10 million to the
fund, and will match all con-
tributions to the fund.

The University of B.C.,
Simon Fraser University and
the University of Victoria
will also get five-per-cent in-
creases in their’ Speratiiy
grants, Couvelier said.

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payers will
pay about nine per cent more
overall in school taxes this
year.

He said the increase is
needed to keep the ratio
between ‘commercial tax
rates ‘and’ homeowner rates
at a 2-1 ratio.

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