-The Skeena Senior Citizens’ Housing Society will get exemp- tions on some city services... but not all, At a recent meeting Ter- race city council voted to exempt © Twin River Estates from gar- _ bage collection fees but decided. the project will pay full price for water and sewage. In speaking for the society, Fred Berghauser says they were hoping for more but are satisfied with what they got, City administrator Bob Hall- sor admits the arrangement of a complete exemption on one utili- ‘ty and nothing on two others may. look strange to some, but describes the decision as a good compromise, He explains that there were several complications in making the decision. First, not all Twin River Estates residents qualify as seniors.. The project is open to anyone over the age of 55 and it one break | would be unfair to allow a full -| exemption to all tenants when seniors living in their own homes didn’t ‘get the same considera- tion, says Hallsor. Also, according to Hallsor, under the Municipal Act.the city is permitted to make exemptions in refuse collection fees to residents over 65 but they don’t have that same power when it comes to-water and sewage ser- vices. Berghauser says, however, that Twin River Estates residents over 65 years of age will enjoy the same reduction in property taxes as offered to senior citizens who own their own homes. And there may be one other conces- sion for Twin River Estates residents: council has approved the suggested changes to our transit system and Twin River residents may soon has an ‘“‘on demand’’ bus service. The best from the stacks — _ by Harrlet Flaagesund ae DEAD BY MORNING . mo A Luke Thanet Novel, by Dorothy Simpson . Adult Fiction Published by Charles Scribner and Son’s ‘CID Inspector Luke Thanet has his hands full, Leo Martin- dale, the rightful heir to Longford Hall, has been murdered in. what was made to look like a simple hit-and-run accident. Prime suspects are his sister and her husband, Delia and Giles Hamilton. They stand to profit enormously by Leo’s death. But Inspector Thanet soon discovers that this is no ordinary case. It seems everyone in the tiny village of Sutton-in-the-Wield had reason to wish Leo dead! The hit-and-run vehicle is located. It is registered to Longford - Hall. Six people have keys for it, and at least eight people drove it on the night in question. _ Thanet's job is complicated further when his superintendent, Goronwy Draco, decides to ‘keep a close eye’ on the case. As suspect after suspect pops up, he begins to despair of every . solving the riddle of Leo Martindale’s death. It looks as though the entire village was involved! Award winning author of Suspicious Death, Dorothy Simpson will keep you glued to your seat until the very last page! 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