Council
Shorts

Decal debate

continues

THE THREE councillors
present at last week's city
council meeting all oppose the
present municipal decal enfor-
cement program now being
carried out.

But councillors Gordon
Hull, Ruth Hallock and Ed
Graydon agreed to mayor
Jack Talstra’s suggestion that
the topic be tabled to a future
committee of the whole meet-
ing, when more council mem-
bers might be preseat. ,

Among the missing was
David Hull, who was the lone
committee member present
when bylaw enforcement af-
ficer Frank Bowsher ex-
plained the policy at an April
4 finance commiltee mecting,

Hull’s. recommendation was
that the city stick wilh the de-
cal program.

Commercial vehicles and
now any vehicle owners who
use their vehicles for business
{o transport supplics or equip-
ment must have decals.

Violators can be ticketed
and fined $50 each time
they’re caught. The decal
cosls $25 to $40 depending on
vehicle weight.

Council approved decal en-
forcement last year and Bow-
sher began enforcing it this
year, triggering a wave of
angry reaction from some seg-
ments of the business com-
munily,

False alarms

nose diving
HEFTY FINES imposed on
owners of errant Security sys-
tems secm to be working,

The number of security sys-
tcm false alarms that police
responded to as of the end of
March is down to just 74 from
199 at that time last year, ac-

from 1994 levels,

City council responded to
increasing RCMP costs in
dealing with false alarms by
passing a bylaw that sets outa
system of fines for offenders,

It went into effect last Au-
gust and gives alarm system
owners three fice false alarms
before fines begin.

Phone 635-3478

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Let the good times roll.

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Delta businessman
took Sidhu to court

MOHINDER BAINS thought he
was buying a hotel in Florida two
years ago when he signed'a busi-
ness deal with Amarjit Sidhu,

Instead, Sidhu took the Delta,
B.C. businessman’s money and
bought a hotel in Ohio — five
States and 1,000 miles to the
north of the orange juice state.

Now Bains and his family is out
(U.S.) $135,000 and the hotel
Sidhu did buy in Fairborn, Ohio
is in receivership.

The story is one of several tied
to Sidhu, who most recently has
had the Terrace Inn removed
from his control and placed in
receivership.

Based in the lower mainland,
Sidhu has had extensive dealings
in the United States.

Operating through various com-
panics, Sidhu has also lost a hotel
in Augusta, Georgia to receivers,

Bains and his family own
Fleetwood Drycleaners in Surrey
and met Sidhu several years ago
when he took clothes in for clean-
ing.

Speaking recently, Robin Bains,
the son of Mohinder Bains, said a
(U.S.} $150,000 business arrange-
ment was struck with Sidhu in
1993 on the basis of purchasing a
hotel in Florida.

The family paid a visit to Flor-
ida to look at various properties,

But after a period of time went
by and without hearing from
Sidhu, the family began looking
for him,

“We found out he was in Fair-
born and proceeded from there,”
said Bains.

The family asked for the moncy
back based on a clause in their

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original agreement.

Sidbu did pay $5,000 and enter-
ed into an agreement to repay the
rest on weekly installments of
$5,000.

Further payments of $10,000
were paid but subsequent cheques
began to bounce.

That’s when Bains hired Jaw-

yers in’ B.C, and in Ohio to sue”

Sidhu, -,

Attormeys for Bains appeared in
Greene County Court last year to
make their case,

‘After reviewing all the evi-
dence the Court would concur
that there is no genuine issue as
to any material fact, that the sub-
mitted uncontested evidence is
sufficient to support the cause of
action contained in Plaintiff's
case,’* wrote Judge Thomas Rose
last November.

“Therefore, the Court finds that
Plaintiffs Motion for summary
judgment is well founded and
Grants same.”’

“We still haven't received our

money, but we will get our ~
money back,’’ said Robin Bains |

last week. ‘‘We’re trying to sub-
pocna him now,’’

“Where he goes, we follow
him, too,” Bains added,

The two Ramada Inn hotels
Sidhu once bad — in Ohio and in
Georgia — are now being opera-
ted by companies hired by court-
appointed recelvers,

The receivership action on the
Ohio Ramada Inn involves an ac-
tion by a Rhode Island company
which loaned $3 million to 4
company which Sidhu controlled
to buy the hotel.

There, as is the case in Terrace,
utility and other bills went unpaid
for periods of time,

Because of the receiverships af-
fecting the two hotels, Sidhu can-
not use them as assets to pay
monies owing.

The Augusta, Georgia, Ramada
Inn now operates under the name
of another hotel] franchise while
the one in Fairborn, Ohio answers
again as a Ramada Inn.

A Ramada Inn official said
there is no current agreement be-
tween his company and Sidhu.

Attempts to contact Sidhu last
week and to speak with him on
the business relationship with the
Bains family were unsuccessful.

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Will open for the

1995 SEASON

SATURDAY, MAY 6
By The George Little Park

Vending spaces are available,
for produce and regionally crafted
goods.

For more info. phone 638-1521
See you at the Market!

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