A As a ma 3 pietae avi tbe owe ay Te rege Rice ee RE ot at ‘CALGARY (cP) = The micr hip has tel office. king. ‘for years but the coat of hight logy is dropping to the _ point where the corner’ store can have a computer in the ‘back room. | ‘The isdn is\a in Keyboard with a te eee oh "Still the home:or secvaie peli ‘market is. ya od with tnite starting § at:below. $1,000,. although by ‘themselves ~_ a . the machines are usually.only Rood: for. playing ‘games. “ Now thé Computer: industry is turning. its attention to the | * market that fale hetween the home computer hobbyist and. the moderate-sized. business, eos ‘Al the Western ‘Canada Office Exhibltion, which ends: here ‘today, ‘computer manufacturers dominate the show. . : with: flathy booths matched only by se ‘sellers of ‘computerized . ~ Family moves after a drive | 7 WHITE CITY, Sask, (cP) — It wasn’t hard for the. Mitchelson family to move to this community | on the Trans- ’ Canada Highway, 15 kilometres east of Regina. “We went for an afternoon drive, just to'look around, ” says Rob Mitchelson, 34, “When we got out of the car, you could hear the birds singing and we didn’t have to hold onto - our daughter’s ‘hand." Five years after. that visit, Mitchelson, now mayor of the bedroom community; says he has no regrets, _ He works as a.provinicial government computer anilyst in Regina, but even though he lives outside the city, it now takes him less time to get to the office each day. From his former home, It meant a tedious drive through the city’ 6. core. The Mitchelsons are among a large number of city dwellers who have opted for a rural lifestyle. Over the last half-dozen years, hundreds f Regina residents have sparked ‘a boom in the smaller communities, within a ‘few minutes drive of the city. : Cost of transportation and time spent. behind the car . wheel apparently has been outweighed. by the meriis of - “ Ilving in communities such as Pilot Butte, Lumsden, Pense _snd White City, all of which have had faster growth rates . than Regina since’ 1976. ; “We have larger lots, the quality of life is better —- and you can drink the water,” says. Mitchelzon, breaking into a - hearty laugh, when asked the difference between living in ; the city and the sedate town. . Sometimes in the summer, Regina’s drinking. water gives ‘bedroom communities. off a repugnent odor and looks murky. ~ Acting helps _ _ TORONTO (CP) — years “Stephenson worked. as an ~ivertising ‘and promotion manager for .a Montreal - textile firm, her boas told - her: "Always act like a big . shot. By the time they find owt, you will-be.’’ Stephenson, 66, never forgot that advice — jf she had, she wouldn't be the grande dame of Canada’s fashion industry and the — person upon whose shoulder ‘many a distraught designer has cried. . - She shrugs nonchalantly: . @t the very. idea she has “if . ludicrous." much clout. According to” this, elegant, articulate; immaculately coiffed and - groomed. _ woman, everything she's done in her” - Tong ‘career has. simply _ happened by accident,. But. Stephenson has been credited by her peers in the ‘fashion business — with “promoting: and. — strengthening. the Canadian garment business,’ alding everyone from fledgling _ designers to - “manufacturers: As the. first and only executive director of the defunct Fashion Designers . Canada - Stephenson, with. only a_ worked: herd to promote Canadian ssociation of meagre budget, designers. - \ Leading : designers’ such -as Mon- treal’s Leo Chevallier credit ‘her . with . keeping the association afloat as long as she did. : Stephenson was born in. Toronto, the eldest of six children.. There ‘was ‘no thought of a tniversity education for her in those Depression years and she went to work asa spare ina Toronto clothing firm. It was the. beginning of her love affair with the garment industry. She went onto become a Secretary for the head of Associated -Textiles in Montreal and Sooml was promoted to ad- vertising manager. - The coup which lifted her from obseurity in. the business was a brilliant idea which came to her.one day when she was organizing a _ Swimwear photo session for y Mayfair. Magazine,- a Canadian women's publication in the 1940s. middle of a Montreal winter shooting the models in. a studio with sand and. a couple of shells on the floor - and I thoughi, "This: is Many- ago when. Mary - struggling _ work, She persuaded her boss to. fly. -the models ‘and photographers to. Nassai for four days to shoot the ad and by doing so, scored a: ~ first in fashion in North: —- America — photographing . ’ fashion.away from home.: “Now, it’s .quite ..com- -monplace for magazine and advertising‘ spreads to be photographed elsewhere. volved with the ‘fashion weeks for buyers and fashion writers in Montreal, ‘which at that time was the centre of fashion in Canada. “Tt was the brain child of Gus Garber, — - fashion designer - Hugh Garber's father, to shows," she said, “All the manufacturers took part and it | was aulte | ex- travagant.” - . “In those days (the early 1960s) there were running ‘commentaries ‘with _ the shows. and ‘you'd hear something like ‘this is: an original line by line copy of | .@ Rodler,’’. she laughed, - “recalling. how © Canadian’ ‘fashion was heavily. in- fluenced ‘by New York and : Paris, Stephenson left the ‘in dustry for 10 years when she' married at age 29. "T proceeded to have four. babies one year after another although in between T served on a schoo! board, ‘freelanced a little for ad- vertisers and taught public, , speaking at the yy” Then; in 1987 ahe returned to - the darment industry, mainly *-doing: freelance promotion for ' colleagues ‘She had known in Montreal, Her marriage had ended, she said: “T was: ‘poor and © working hard, the ‘cide were” all in university so Lyent to work. for manufacturers, ’ That’s when I ‘started to meet the designers.” -The fashion -designers’ . association evolved with the: assistance of. Fashion - Canada, which was an agency of the federal department ‘of industry, - trade and commerce... - " But when Fashion Canada was disbanded. five years ago, Stephenson. lat .the government funding for her '. promotion of designers and “Here we were in the the association died. © She decided to move to Toronto to be near her. - Children and grandchildren and at the same - time “continue to do. freelance ated” '’ ghairman Rene Stephenson became . in- . . today accused Conservative _ & court order. when he told _the Commons Wednesday hold . these -- eee: statements. had violated a - _ court order issued Tuesday since no charges have been. ‘ban, Potter sald, although the wording of the order ~ - (contents of the warrants) fo any. member of . the . general public, including . from -prosecution for: Hbel a! and slander. .° : . ‘contempt of court. wee . Bétie ridiculous, don’t you _ never: used this private ge. a "ommianationa ger + Tei ~ wooden , office: furniture: and: the: ‘latest i ivan melt into the 6 nar builivess Brent Swain,” consultant: for. Kellam: Business Sysienis had Ltd. ‘of Calgary, éaid his firm'can pui together a. package . ee built:around the $300 Commodore a home ‘unl starting. at : . - $2,500, not including the computér ‘programa. °)¢°" * Commodore statted in Canada in. 1948 ‘and now ~half the personal compuner market b here and | v in Europe. ‘Mitchelson says the $670 in taxes: ‘on his isrequaréinelre home on a 2,600-square-metre lot — with a ‘swimining Pool. ' —was about the samehe paid on his $35,000 Regina: house. His White City home is worth: more than $100,000: - : Larry Schneider, mayor of Regina since 1979, ian't oirerly , concemed about the loss of residents to the amaller centres. “Those who move out to the bedroom. communities: are | willing to take less in the way of municipal services and as; 2. result pay less in taxes," says Schneider, who atill operates a farm 10 kilometres east of the city. “It’s. their ‘choice.”’. Regina's population plodded forward at léss than’a: 10 per-centrateto 162,615 from 1974to 1981. But its growth was “outpaced by. Lumsden, an established service town of 1,903 . persons in the Qu’Appelle River valley 20 kilometres to the north, and White City, which almost danbied i “sine to 2 § Persons. Based on a $4,500 assessment this’ year, a Regina ~ homeowner will pay about $1,300 In ‘taxes, a -Lumaden’ resident $760, and a White City homeowner $163... Rural Development Minister Bob Pickering commutes dally: ‘from his home iri the - farm-service centre ’ ‘of Milestone, about 50'kilometres south of Regina. - He suspects higher home and lot prices in Regina spurred : the growth in the’ rural centres which have become Regina lots now range from $22, 000 to $55, 000. "It’s every young couple’s dream to own thelr own home) : but when you’ re starting out ‘it isn’ t that. easy," Pickering me says. even move back into the city.” Ironically, Pickering’s home town is one of the few . communities which lost out on the boom. Milestone, which is about the same size a5 wnhe-Cs City, . opened a 40-lot subdivision in 1979. Ithas been unable to sell one unit, said Ernie Oudet, town administrator. The he asking price was $4,000 per lot. - Tory - accused’ MONTREAL (CP) — A’ lawyer ‘for: Air Canada “ _Amyot MP Pat Nowlan of violating’ the RCMP. is investigating. . Amyot's. “ possible“ involvement. in a. $3.6. million “sweetheart d: ae Montreal lawyer Simon”: ee Potter said = “Nowlan's =>: preventing the publi¢.from having” access ‘to —RCMP search warrants used. -in raids Jast week on Amyot's | office - at’. Montreal's — Air Canada headquartérs and ’ at his legal office and home’ in Quebec City... | ota ““The judge decided that, laid, the contents of the oe search warrants should not; ““~* be made” public,” Potter mas said. in - a. telephone interview. te The “order, “issued —by * provincial ~ court Judge « Jules Barriere in Hull, Que., amounted to a: publication: only said the court derk was. not “to divutge the information media." _ “Nowlan has attacked the - independence of -. the judiciary and. 1s hiding - “behind his parliamentary : immunity,’ Potter said. . = af Nowlan confined ‘his comments to the Commons, . where MPa are: exempt - Potter said If Nowlan: ‘had: made his statements outside the House; he would be open possibly to libel - _ proceedings and peaaibay to Potter said “it peems a think; that the chairman of: | "So, they come out to rural Saskatchewan and: build ; : where its more affordable, After a few yeara, some may : premarin ra a to introduced about two, years ago. ‘The ‘unit is soa mall “office ‘and starts at about §3,000, but the | lieved to ‘be developing a lower-priced system. 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