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Published. ‘4 ‘The: Crossroads of the Kootenays”

WEATHERCAST

tinue high about 0. Look
mixed rain and snow tomorrow.

2 Sections (A & B)

VOL. 35, NO. 7

OFF TRACK

CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982

Appeals iriple
in Kootenays |

By RON NORMAN
-; Editor

‘Assessment appeals in the
West. Kootenay more than

man | Dave "Heidt told .the
Castlegar ‘News. late Friday

; appeals for the Trail, Grand

Forks, ‘Midway and Castlegar

3 school districts totalled"1,750

CPR railway snowplow ran into some difficulty trying * bankment Roan from superval, and with the situation | pretty well’

to ‘clear’ track during Saturday's snowstorm. Plow slid down’ em- }@ driver app

GiGaniwa

toms ‘and. union

negotiating committees’ at.’ -".

}° contract for: eight months

7 now, since: their.old ‘sonteact

that away. from them.”

: Meanwhile, Nolan said the
IWA meeting last Sunday to

discuss contract Beguiistons

any “tumultuous”
tuions.

Nolan “ admitted nogotia:
tions have been “low-profile,”
and added, “They haven't
been going that well.” -

Meanwhile, Celgar ‘indus;

- éelal relations : mai

Tesolu:

Mortage
plan:
unveiled”

By CasNews Staif
~ An‘innovative weekly and
bi-weekly “mortgage plan de-
‘signed to chop at leastseven

term of'a:loan’ has’ been ‘es-
lished inthe West Koot-
‘enay.. by.; Kootenay Savings

this year.

That compares: with just .
495 last year — a jump of 850
Ber: cent.

Heidt, said that sever per
‘cent of the properties on the

* -assessment roll filed appeals,

‘and most of the appeals were
from rural ar
.. Heidt added the-number of
‘appeals isn’t quite-as bad as

notice will be mailed giving
the date, time.and place to
appear.

© The court pane! conaists
of three people, selected by
the. provincial cabinet. At
least one ‘of: those three
usually has some knowledge
of real estate, ©

_® There ‘are. two baste

grounds-on which an assess-
ment canbe appealed: If
property, has ‘been’ given
what is considered an incor-
rect: value, or the value is
considered wrong in relation
.to similar :properties: in the

“The value of: property on
cootinusd on pose Ad

D 'Arcy' Ss fate
decided today

By CasNews Staff
The fate of Rossland-Trail
MLA Chris D'Arcy is set to
be decided later today by
more than 800 NDP riding
members at a general meet-
in C

meeting about the dispute
_ which’ became widely pub-
‘Ticized last fall’ during the
riding party nomination.
D'Arcy captured the nom-
ination by two votes over

on the Lower and , 8 i
in’ Victoria ‘where an_esti-

mated'15 per cent of the
‘assessment roll filed appeals. «

In the: Castlegar area, ‘185
city property owners are ap-

‘Peale their 1982 ‘assess-

den of about 25.

In the rural areas around”
Castlegar, ‘ariother 287 prop- +
erty owners are appealing, °
for-a total" of ate from “this,
area. °

That nearly ‘equals last’

year's total for® the font’;

allopese the full fodostey

‘Blessin-taid*‘he’ ahi i
ceived any word on fa ‘new,

tenative dates for the new
bargaining session. :

}Nolan said he’ contacted
provincial mediator . Vincent
Ready Wednesday and
Ready indicated he would at-
tempt to set up the two-day
session.

However, Nolan. still
hadn't heard from Ready by
late Friday afternoon.

~The Tuesday. meeting — if
it.comes off — will be the first

between the two sides since .
-last’ fall,

The Celgar IWA. emplo-
yees are the only wood-
workers in the province still
without a new contract. WA.

workers in the rest of B.C.

agttléd on a two-year. pact,
with a 15 per cent ii increase in

“summer. .

‘Nolan * charged * “that the:
management is attempting to
reduce the position local em-''

ployees.-have enjoyed for:.-

many years,

Local IWA.workers have a

slightly higher wage scale
else-

Today is Super Bowl Sunday, the big day when the ©
Cincinnati Bengals, the American Conference champions,
of the. National Football League take on the San

Francisco 49ers, the National Conference champions, at .

the in Pontiac,.

than their

where ‘in ‘the hi hh
terior, Nolan said, and have
had for,more than 20 years.
But he said management is
trying to reduce the existing
wage scale.
(As: well, he said manage-

fs ment is trying to eliminate a

paid half-hour lunch break for
office workers.

~ Office workers have had
the paid lunch in their con-
tract for the last nine years,
Nolan said, “and now the

company is ‘trying to take ;

y_in the.U.S, Midweat a winter,

storm. stranded hundreds of travellers and icy roads

made driving dangerous for the thousands of visitors

pouring into the Detroit area for the Super Bowl. The

Detroit-Airport was closed for about an hour Saturday
morning because of icy runways.

But.‘the sub-zero temperatures won't bother the
players who will be inside the temperature — cantralled, t

Silverdome.

The game can be seem live on. channels 2 and a
-Pre-game coverage starts at 11:30 on channel 2. Game .

time is 1 p.m. PST.

Look for the Super Bowl feature on page B1 of sports :
section of this issue of the Castlegar News.

Union <->

The plan i loved to be

revision, in ‘the. Castlegar
- school district should be suf- feeling . .

ficient to handle the appeals -

fest x
Joe Kobluk said:Friday local
credit’ union fficials ‘had

-been investigating the plan

since, they. firat: heard off it:
last November.
‘The plan is

Ontario, Quebec’ and Manito-

ba, ‘though until ‘now it: has
been shunned by B.C. money
lenders;

It seemed’ ‘to: be “eatching >

on - with many ‘mortgage
owners’in the Ontario area,”
Kobluk’ said.

Under.the plan, homeown-
ers divide their” :present
monthly payment by four to

“get ‘a: weekly ‘payment.’ -

By, making 62° payments a
year, they will have paid the
equivalent of 18 monthly in-
staliments by the end of each

year.
Kobluk said the extra pay-
ment reduces the Principal.

Heidt said the courts of

without’ an extension.

However, he said the other :

three school district courts of
revision could need an ex-
tension past their Feb. 28
deadline.

Heidt said provincial legis-
lation is needed to extend the
courts of revision.
However, he pointed out
this year’s extensions won't
be the firat. “It's not. an
unusual thing,” he said,

He noted that extensions
have been needed in some
areas of the West Kootenay
in each of the last two years.
: -Meanwhile, here’s how the
system works:

e If an appeal has been
filed, the next step is to
appear before a court of
revision. The sessions start
around Feb. 1 in each of the

* 15 school districts in B.C, A

But if events ti

Stan Lanyon —

they have this week, the

paras his opponents

.membership just: may find, were still upset: over com-

they. haven't anything to de-
cide.

The much-anticipated
showdown today between
D'Arcy and. his 20-member
-Tiding executive seems. ex-
; tremely Temote ‘now,’ after
tthe’ two sides apparently’
patched their differnces‘at a
“meeting earlier this” week.,

“E don't ’: anticipate any .
confrontation,” ‘D'Arcy told

interview Frida;

He ‘saidthere is a “general’
wthat. we need’ to: !

ments D'Arcy. made to
BCTV's Jack Webster about
those members not working
hard for him, and methods he
used to sign new members.
‘The'‘dispute was’ eventu-
ally referred to the NDP
provincial council in Vancou-
ver, which appointed a three-

_ ment

solve

te
‘met

start -pulling:together -here -

and ‘forget the past.”

Economic forum
goes tomorrow

: Peter Chittam, enterprise

officer for small

Credit Union is sponsoring a
public economic forum at 7:80
p.m. tomorrow night at the
Fireside Motor Inn.

The forum will discuss
“How to help the local econ-
omy without waiting for Vic-
toria.”

Special guest speaker will
be B.C. Central Credit
Union's chief economist
Richard McAlary.

business services in the min-
istry of Industry and Smal}
Business will also be apeak-
ing.

Castlegar .Mayor Audrey
Moore will be one of the five
local ‘panelists. . ‘

* The’ credit union says the
public is invited to attend and
give their ideas on how to
help improve the-local econ-.

~ By CHERYL eHow.

Alice | a Aven ferris last
quarter in 1981, the Castle-
gar real estate market is
finally starting to move

again, according to local
real estate agencies.

increase is that Celgar em- ».

ployees are going back to

work after a sere Iny- e

off.
As well, he says ele i
have the attitude that

things won't get much -
.worse than they are-now. *.

hvalodoff, who. is on

Greg man-
ager: of Century 21 Big

‘tate sales have picked up
considerably in the: last
two weeks.

Sales are up about 250
per cent over November
and December, according
to statistics completed to
Jan. 15, he says.
,)Nichvalodoff says the
market has been slow for

‘,the past three months, but
adds that one of the rea-
sons it is starting to pick
up is that interest rates are
starting to subside some-

‘what.

* This week the Bank of

} Canada lowered its trend-
setting rate to 14.72 per
cent from 14.81 per cent.

Another reason Nichval-
odoff gives for the sales

-Rock Realty, says real es- -

the Kootenay Real Estate“

ket immediately.

' The Board lists the going
rate for the average house
at $65,000, He. says. this
figure is up about an aver-
age 10 per cent from Jan-
vary, 1981.

But Nichvalodoff says”
it’s a buyer's market now,
which is'a switch. It wasn't .
so long ago that houses
were at a premium.

: There are buying oppor-
tunities of a life time, says
Nichvalodoff.

However, he says first-
home buyers are practi-
cally eliminated from the
real estate market.

He says potential first-
home buyers will be forced

to stick‘ ‘to renting in most

Dale Bradley of Cooper
Agencies says real estate
sales have reached a plat-
eau after a good month in
December, but this week
he: ‘saya. ‘sales started to

market, but says more
altecnative, housing will
arise.

"Bradley: says there will

. probably. be+ more town-

houses ‘in the future.
*. Other. ‘alternative hous-
ing includes the strata ti-.

.tling concept, where each

Mei

Unit’ fs. sold separately,

4 stich, -as: the apartments

under construction behind
Maloney’s.

‘Also, tenants in. Wood-
land Apartments are con-
sidering a possible co-op-
erative. sharing: arrange-
ment,-where each tenant
owns 4 portion of the whole
unit of apartments,

But. Bradley © sayy it's

hard to predict what peo-
ple are going to do... |

Construction of new
homes is quite down, he
says. This makes the de-
mand for present homes
high, causing prices to in-
crease.

He agrees that it's-a
buyer's market, but says
home sellers are reducing
their prices only slightly.

At Castlegar Savings
Credit laniie things are
looking

Richard ” Maddocks,

used up its quota. of
mortgage money for Jan-

wary.

Castlegar Savings offers
one of the lowest rates: in
town, 16% per cent, but
Maddocks said Thursday,
he expected the rate: of
change with the Bank of
Canada’s weekly announce-
ment of its prime lending

rate,

He says the last two
weeks have seen an in-
* crease in mortgages appli-

cations. He attributes the
jump to many people who
are under the impression
‘that interest rates are as
low as they are going to be..-

He also notes that many.

buyers are now purchasing
lots, instead of houses. .

But Len Lippa, manager
of Kootenay Savings Cred-
it Union, says mortgage
applications there are very
slow.

“The rate at Kootenay
Savings is 17'/: per cent.

“It's still-a long way for
People to. quality,” Lippa
says.

The time of year is alsoa
factor for potential buyers.

“There's not a lot of
action,” he says. “People
aren't moving.”

Lippa - believes spring
and summer will be better
— that's when people are
more apt to move.

But he says last summer
was slow because people
couldn't qualify for a mort-
gage and interest rates
were high.

FOR SALE... Home sales are picking up after slow start to 1982.

Real estate market picking up

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—CorNews Photo by Cheryl Wishlow

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