AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday,

May 15, 1996

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Out & About
Copperside ready

COPPERSIDE FOODS is getting ready
to meet the flood of extra demand that
will be unleashed if a strike shuts-down
local Safeway and Overwaitea grocery
stores.

Owner Bob Lavoie said he will open up
the chain’s warehouse on Kofoed Dr, in
Thornhill as a cash-and-carry caselot op-
eration if a strike drags on.

“There will be a lot of pressure,’’ he said.
“We won't be able to handle all the
demand. But we'll do what we can,”’
Although speculation is rampant about a
lockout or strike as early as this week,
Lavoie docsn’t think it will be that saon.
“Pm almost positive it won't happen dur-
ing the election,’ be said.

Local workers voted 96 per cent in favour
of strike action last week.

Pet store coming

A NEW pet store will open here soon.

A Pet Land franchise, owned by Bob
Lavoie and Rick Williams, is scheduled
to open June { in the Keith Ave. Mali.

It would be the third such store in B.C.
There’s one in Vancouver and one in
Kelowna.

“They're quite strong in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberia,’’ Lavoie said.
The outlet will offer a full line of pets and
pet foods and will be managed by Wil
liams.

Chamber hits 300

A COUPLE OF mileposts have been
marked at the Terrace and District
Chamber of Commerce.

Chamber manager Bobble Phillips
celebrated her 10th anniversary with the
chamber last Thursday at a surprise party
with the staff there.

And the Chamber has also cracked the
300-member level. They now have 309
members and have grown in membership
by more than 10 per cent in the last year.

Stylists compete

HEADSHED stylist Jackie Belanger
took.: first place in the visual haircut
category and first in the fantasy competi-
lion at a hair show hosted here April 28
by the northem regional committee of the
Hairdressers Association of B.C.

Darla Battle of the Waves Salon in
Prince Rupert took first in the men’s com-
mercial haircut category and also took the
over all points award,

Town recognized

WILLIAMS LAKE has been named the
B.C. mining town of the year by the Min-
ing Association of B.C,

The community may be well known for
its cattle and lumber industry, but it and
the surrounding area has also been an ac-
live player in the province's maining in-

dustry.

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BUILDERS AND contractors are
experiencing one of the busiest
years yet in the Terrace area.

Despite a late spring that should
have delayed the building season
slart, construction is already way
up over the same point a year ago,

By the end of April, city building
inspectors had issued building
permits worth $9.22 million — 35
per cent higher than the $6.8 mil-
lion issued to the end of April,
1995,

Last year construction hit a new
record of $24.7 million here, but at
the current pace — and with the
bulk of the building season still
ahead — city officials expect that
number will be smashed in 1996.

Leading the way this spring is a
record $2.7 million so far worth of
multifamily residential wnits.

Skeena Kalum Housing Society’s
18-unit affordable housing expan-
sion, and an assortment of
duplexes, four-plexes and six-
plexes make up the 33 multiple
dwelling starts here, That’s up a
whopping 471 per cent from last
year’s seven units at this point,

Joel Baltzer, Senior Market
Analyst for the Canada Mortgage
and Housing Corporation attributes
the growth to rental markets,

“Multiple dwelling starts this
year have been concentrated - in
areas with under-supplied rental
markets, such as Prince George,
Quesnel, Terrace and Williams
Lake,’”” he says,

Other areas with over-supplied
rental markets have not seen the
Same growth,

According to the CMHC, there
were no multiple starts in’ Kitimat
in the first four months of 1996 and
multiple starts skipped 40 per cent
in Prince Rupert during the same
period.

Single family house starts arc
also up a respectable 15 per cent
from 23 to 27, according to Paul

CONSTRUCTION IS up 35 per cent from this time last year despite
an unusually late winter — and the big projects haven't hit yet.

Building pace way
up from last year

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Gipps, senior building inspector for
Terrace.

Housing starts in northern B.C.’s
urban centres is up 51 per cent
overall in the first four months of
1996, according to CMHC stats.

This increase in northern housing |
Sstaris runs against the overall
declines of 21 per cent for BC and
16 per cent for Canada.

Permits for commercial construc-
tion in Terrace has passed $2.1 mil-

mercial building season,

That number, however, is small
potatoes compared to what staff at
city hall are expecting to see very
shortly.

Land south of Kermodei Trading
on Keith Ave, has been rezoned for
a large, but as yet undisclosed,
37,000 square-foot retail develop-
ment.

And another much larger retail
development is also in the works,

Itall adds up to a frenzied spring
for building inspectors like Gipps,
who's desperately trying to keep up
with demand for permits.

He says the number of applica-
tions for subdivisions is also soar-
ing — already 15 per cent above
the entire number received in all of
1995,

YOU BE THE JUDGE

by Claire Bernstein

Helpful friend wants

estate fo pay

Malcolm Underbridge had died. At the
cemetety, his middle aged sons gathered
around their mather to give her support.

“Gentlemen, please move out of my way. |
may be 85 and shrinking, | may be blind, but
Tan not a fragile little old lady. Bennett,
please get your foot off my cane so I can walk
back to the car. ce

The sons gave a collective groan. They did
not relish the task ahead,

Back in Edith’s comfortable, chintz deco-
rated living room, Christopher, Edith’s eldest
son, took his best shot.

“Mother, Dad took care of all your needs
ever since you became blind. Who is going to
cook for you?”

“What docs it matter? After eating his
meatloaf every night for 20 years; I'm sur-
prised Tim still here,”

“Who's going to clean for you, do the’

bills, buy the groceries? : Perhaps you should
consider going into a-senior cilizens resi-
dence, There you wouldn't have to worry
about all these stressful details.”

Edith’s face tightened. © Angrily, she
pounced on Christopher.

“And when was the last time you cleaned a
stave, Christopher? You wouldn't even know
where to buy the cleanser. Your wife does all
the shopping and handles the bills, Does that
mean that we should put you into an old peo-
ple’s home?”

Christopher's shoulders slumped.

“What do you propose?”

“My sister inlaw, your aunt Carol, has
offered to do all the chores. Now, please
leave, you are becoming tiresome. [ need my
nap.”

For four years Carol took the place of
Malcolm Underbridge.

“Carol, my dear friend,” Edith said, “It’s

Based On Actual Court Cases

been four wonderful years, | owe you so
much.’ I promise J will provide for you in my
will, You will never have to worry about
money. My. sons are all independently
wealthy, They don’t need all my money.”

That night Edith died peacefully in her
sleep, She never had a chance to alter her
will. . ,

At the funeral, Carol didn't waste time on
pleasantries.. She accosted Edith’s sons.
“Your mother promised to take of me. It is
now your responsibility.”

The sens turned a deaf ear and walked
away, :
Carol was incensed. She stomped into her
Tawyer’s office, “Sue the estate. Naw!!"

“Your honor”, Carol pleaded, “E took care of
Edith for four years, I loved her and never
intended to charge her for my help. But she
promised me | would be compensated.

“The estate has been enriched by my work.
The law presumes that services provided by a
stranger are not intended to be free. Make the
estate give me my share,”

The estate jumped up: “Your honor, Carol
was no siranger. And there was no contract
regarding any payment. Caral did the work
oul of love and a sense of family obligation.
We're grateful but she isn’t entitled to
anything.”

Should Carol be compensated? YOU BE
THE JUDGE! Then sce below for the court's
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YOU BE THE JUDGE - DECISION
“Sorry Carol, you were a good friend but the estate doesn’t owe you a thing,” decided
the court, “The law presumes the services of strangers are aot free. But Carol and Edith
were not strangers, They were friends for 60 years. There was no evidence that Caral’s

YOU! BE THE JUDGE is based on actual court cases. Today's decision is based on the
facts of the case and the law of Manitoba. Claire Bernstein is a lawyer and syndicated col-

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