a Steamy work

FAST WORK ON the part of Terrace firefighters Sept, 12.
helped put out a fire in the engine compartment of a pick-

up truck at the corner of Park and Emerson, Gas: appar- .
"ently started leaking through the fuel injectors. Firefi ighters

also credit the quick work of bystander Vince Heslenfeld

who emptied a dry chemical extinguisher into the engine
compartment prior to their arrival.

Home starts
take a jump

A JUMP in August single home
construction starts should result
in a strong showing for the year,
‘Says a city official,

Eight single home permits were

dissued in August, pushing the
year lo date total to 60 with an
overall value of $8.46 million,
says building inspector Paul
Gipps.
“And we've slill got a. few
plans in the drawer. I'm = sure
we'll make 70 by the end of the
year,” be said.

“Vm not sure we'll reach the
82 of last year but definitely this
is another strong year. We're way
ahead of everybody else in the
region. 7

Gipps attributed the jump to.

contractors‘ being: freed * up. Aller, gup-from:27.7 per gent for the last :
‘finishing ‘other projects aiid _to™”

Tecent lower interest rates. |”
_ “It's been very busy out there.
All of the contractors have been
tied ‘up,”' said Gipps.

~Another healthy sign is a big —

» jump i in the number of home ad-
“dition projects this year compared
to 1994.

{To the end of August, there

have been 20 home addition
Les ‘permits issucd carying a value of
$833,500. There were six issued
_ in all of 1994,
os “Instead of going into new
homes people may be deciding to

stay where they are and doing ad-
ditions or renovations,’’ said
Gipps.

Total building figures to the end
of August amount to $19.845 mil-
lion, a significant jump over the
August 1994 figure of $16.439
million.

Helping boost the ‘figure is
commercial construction at $5.3
million.

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Latest Canada Mortgage and
Housing Corporation figures indi-
cate homebuying Is becoming
more affordable across Canada.

During the first six months of
1995, an average 30 per cent of
those renting were ina position to
afford to buy a first home. That’s

six months of 1994.

CMHC officials say lower
mortgage rates, adequate supply
and slow real estate prices are the
reason,

CMHC bases its: 6 igures: on in-
come Statistics, a 10 per cent

downpayment. requirement and.a°

limit of 32 per cent of income for
mortgage principal. and interest,
property tax and heating costs.
The most affordable . starter
homes were found in Chicoutimi.
al an average price of $67,000,
The highest such prices were in-
Vancouver at $188,000.

Second leak peek planned

THE CITY will drain the Hal-
liwell reservoir within the next
«month in its continuing efforts to
‘solve the leakage problem there.
Engineering director Stew
Christensen said divers had al-
_. feady been tried but had been un-

_-fble to detect a leak in the con-

-crete wall either visually or by

-Teleasing dye where they thought

it might be.

Draining the reservoir would al-
‘low ‘a closer inspection of the
‘structure,

-© Christensen pointed out the

reservoir is built into a rock face

which forms part of its wall. The: -

Icak therefore could be through a:
fissure in the rock rather than the
concrete,

Noting the it had leaked ‘from _
day one,” he said it bad wor-
sened following rock blasting that .
took place in developing a nearby
sub-division.

While the problem could be
solved by placing a liner inside,
Christensen said the estimated

$150,000 cost did not make that .

option an attractive one,

HANS Bee AAD

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