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Page 2, December 22, 1976 - North Shore News

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- Sunday. What a nice day! I drove back towards

sank, but there were still open spaces along the

froute where the sun drenched me with golden

energy.

The traffic was heavy. Big -
cars, small cars, old cars, |

new cars. Vans, buses and
trucks. An old Chevy pickup
with chocolate bodywork and
white fenders. Lots of Volks-
wagen campers. Dirty cars,
clean cars. It seemed to take.

a’ tong time to get across —

Denman, and their my Janes
stopped. I put on the hand
brake and left the car in
neutral and sat looking at the
ongoing stream of traffic. It

went slowly by. | watched all —

those different people and

. speculated where they might

have been and who they were
and ail the other things that
we peoplewatchers do.

People. Old people, young
people. People . talking, or
‘just staring ahead. Families. ;

the ‘property: tax is fair game
“or Breedy. tax x gatherers. , be

ana

. “There . is no.- ~ underlying
‘> principle. in. its application...

. What justification can there.

“be. for ‘charging’ education.
“_oosts’ against the property tax.”
:. Of pensioners and others

- whose chiidren have\children
ot their own? ©

OF for: taxing farmland; not: .

" on what it produces, but on
what: ‘some. bureaucrat : de-
cides.-it.. would fetch ‘for

"” housing or commercial: devel-.~

- opment? Or for: taxing ~
"businesses at: 150 ‘per. cont tof
assessed. market. value? :

Old men driving ‘their old

wives around for a Sunday
break from retirement living.

Young couples back from a.
weekend, their vans crusted
with the dirt of country roads
and piled high with sleeping
bags.. Men and women

. driving alone, like me. Dogs

panting at windows. People
watching, and dreaming, and
picking their noses.

LIKE A PRINT

' The traffic started to move
again, and as the speed went,
up the faces. coming the:
other way started to. blur

“again, and soon. everyone ;
was back into the privacy of. _

their steel and glass cubicles.
moving by too swiftly for the

_

‘lies, fan: from. cbeing: correct-.

-ed, : are -being: used ‘by

provinces as’ levers: . for
grabbing s more taxing power.

Take . Ontario, |
full-dress. tax reform © ‘com-
mission is sitting. It’s impor-
tant, because™-the eventual

. findings are likely to be cited: |

by other provinces to ee
moves of their own.

One proposal is to , cancel
allexemptions: for ‘churches
and charitable organizations .,
“ because “‘it is felt that direct
“assistance through: grants is”
preferable to “property tax .
exemption". ‘Hear. the au--
thentic. voice : Of ‘the tax

tops of the trees like a

‘and“the tops brushed with
‘fire. The bridge was painted .

crest the North Shore spread

. the’
_ Christmas to the competi-”

- bours and friends.

~-¥et these. glaring:anoma- _

‘where a.

_peopleness: lof the ‘occupants
‘to register on’ me. ~ oa

.the ‘North Shore feeling alive and glad to be alive...
It was about four in the afternoon. The-canyons of
darkness downtown were getting darker asthe sun tion to the ‘scenery.. The’
-entrance to Stanley Park was

So T transferred. my atten-.

magnificent at. -that ‘time of.
day. The sun. was setting,
and its:rays illuminated the -

Maxfield Parrish. print, mak-
ing the greens very green

with the same light, and as.
my car drummed over the.

out before me, bathed in the
last few minutes of the sun.-
It’s really a nice place we: live
in, my friends.

Merry Christmas to you...

all you people who went
driving ‘on Sunday. Anda
Merry -Christmas to you, .
reading this. Merry Christ-
mas, even, to you reading -
- competition. Merry.

tion.’

God bless us in

moe

You. “work with” ‘Ceippled™ |

- Civilians, or Big: Brothers,. or)
Boy: Scouts. You've: put‘in 10
- unpaid hours a week, willing-
ly, for years. So have: your.
-Reighbors.

for meetings or collections is
exempt from ‘Property:

decides. -you will have to pay:
- 100 ‘per cent tax on market.
‘ value of the building you use.
But if you go cap in hand to™
the “bureaucracy. at.

“provincial. ‘capital . you may - :
get some of it back. No prizes

_aré-offered for guessing what -
happens: to. the: rest. of the:;
_money you paid

. by Peter Speck. -

neigh- _

"the:

“Suddenty . ‘the | " province’ -

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_ cooks 1-5 hot dogs in just 60 seconds - |
: totally submersible for easy cleanup —

] |. keeps rolls & entrees warm while serving

‘blue cornflower pattern

Hoover Convertible _
Vacuum Cleaner itbeatsas —
it sweeps as it cleans—instant rug: =
adjustment, low to shag—2 speed motor. .
50% more suction with cleaning tools _
“automatically [not exactly as. ‘Mustrated)
_ Complete with tools ;

‘Corning ware 6 cup —
Teapot

$7.88 .

Van Wyck Turbo Impulse:

Blender 12 speed - save’ 3 rays:
reduce food bills, save. time, z

Presto Hot Dogger

$13

Cornwall Bun Warmer olen Merurlock Ta

. collector!

. i - Pe Bat New Brunswick has a good ‘|
Pee eae eee: eee es, idea: Let property tax pay for.
i property and let people: pay.
- for people. The property. tax:
-. would pay for fire, police,..
‘water, roads, garbage |
sewage; personal taxes. (in- |
come, capital’ gains,- ‘gales)
~ would pay . for’. education,
~ recreation, » welfare and |
health cares &

- Black & Decker TM ~ . Lf = ‘Kit _-
Deluxe. Saw roller bearing equip . , rules

- ped: at heavy load points for tong life -

a handle placement qlves excellent balance
: & contrat - cutting depth; 90°. 2-3/8"", 40°

Then, as it should be. the’. a. 1-7/8", 120 Vv. ac, 0.5
“business. tax, would be as! amps, a .

abolished, farms would be a’ an a we

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or, ‘taxed on-what- ‘they. produc. | a |

Pabliahee Peter Speck _
_ ed, and all property owners.

-' Ausoctate Pablisher Bob. Graham/Msringlhag Editor = | — business: and residential | &
Noel. .Wright/News Guillermo Lam/Photes. Elis-_ — would pay for the services -|
‘worth Dickson/Prodactlen ‘Marna Leiren/Advertis-" they received: Social services |

_ fag: Kristi Vidler/Clasaified Berni Hilliard/Circula- _ ‘would be paid for: from the.

. lon Yvonne. :‘Chapman/Administration | Barbara” seneral revenue.” ties
Haywood/ Accounts ‘Sylvia Sorensen. . Oe IR

‘Nous ‘Shore’ News, founded in’ 1969 an an
“Independent community: : ‘newspaper. and
eegistered under Part. AML, Schedule 111,
se "Paragraph ‘A111 of the Customs and Excise’ Act, .
a . is published each Wednesday by the North
a . Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every
door on the North Shore.

Second Class Mall Registration Number 3888.

nd : ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHT © 1976 NORTH
‘| SHORE FREE. PRESS LTD. All rights reserved.

7 To all our friends end: customers, on: ine N rth.
" Shore, . the management and. ‘etaft at Pea
-  |nprese sincere gratitude for your: ‘patronage

tn its Bile to the “Ontarto ° _ best wishes for the hollday season, ;
" conimission, : ‘the -Cansdian | =

‘Federation | of. Independent.
“Business. strongly” ‘recom:
mended adoption of this”
’ principle... Let, municipalities
set their ‘own’ mill ‘rates on
property to cover, services to:
property.” And make Ottawa’
and the, provinces .pay for
“social services: from ‘general
revenue. re ee

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