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SNOWBOARDER Cory Campbell takes flight at Cypress Bowl Wed-
nesday afternoon. The West Vancouver ski Facility is the first B.C.
mountain to approve the use of the boards on its slopes.

Lost
hikers
saved

THREE NORTH Vancouver
teenagers were found huddled

"+ together at the edge of a 100-foot

waterfall on Grouse. Mountain,
late Wednesday night by members
of the North Shore Rescue team.

". Searchmaster ‘Ken Hopkinson -

said the youths were on a three-day
camping trip to Kennedy Lake,
behind Grouse Mountain.

= Mark Lenahan, 16, John Hardy, .

16: and John MacLeod, 17, never
reached their destination because
they took a wrong turn and ended
up at Crown Creek, he said.

“The youths, who left Monday, “

were reported overdue Wednesday
evening.:.:-’.

Sixteen: ‘members. of the. North an
and West Vancouver Emergency :
‘program were sent-on the search ae

and: located the "youths
“Hopkinson sai “membe

report of the overdue campers
because they were already at the
rescue. centre taking part in a
routine meeting.

.?He said because of. the difficult

.terrain. it took. the rescue team ~
three hours to get the boys off the -

“mountain.

News ’ farm mana ger

were .
. “able ‘to respond - quickly to the

Weather:
Friday, cloudy with sunny
_ periods with a chance of
.@ fow showers. Saturday,
mainly cloudy with a
, chance of showers. Highs
near 10°C.

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THE NORTH SHORE NEWS’ Clam Bay Farm manager

Karl Begrich died suddenly Saturday from what

to be a heart attack.

_ The: 41: year. old was. playing
badminton at a tournament in Vic-
toria when he suffered the attack,
and was immediately rushed to

’. Victoria General Hospital.
The photographer, sailor and.
farmer has worked as‘manager for.
’ the.. company’s North Pender
Island farm for the past five years. -

: North, Shore News . publisher
Peter Speck described Karl as a ‘‘a
close personal friend, who was
much loved.” .

A German-born Canadian, Kar!
prided himself on the Bio-Dynamic
farming method he experimented

with and instituted on Clam Bay -

Farm, which produced high quality
crops and livestock.

is believed

Every year Karl filmed and pro-
duced videos of the farm’s activi-
ties and its visitors, which he pres-
ented to North Shore News

‘employees at annual Christmas

parties.

In the early 1970s, Karl directed
and participated in the building of
a 46-foot sailboat, the Dulcinea —
realizing a life-long dream in the
process.

Karl! learned his skill of building
and designing boats, houses and
furniture as a journeyman cabinet
maker in his native Germany.

Upon completion of the
sailboat, Karl and several friends
set out in the Dulcinea on a one-

ar Be) fl

_ing adventure,

3 - Friday, March 20, 1987 -

Budget: sales tax down, income tax: up

GOOD NEWS,
BAD NEWS...

IT'S A good news, bad news budget for the average,
middle-income British Columbian.

The first provincial budget
from the Social Credit governm-
ent of Bill Vander Zalm, pres-
ented Thursday by Finance
Minister Mel Couvelier, includes
an immediate reduction in sales
tax to six per cent, with another
cut — to five per cent — to
follow in December; but it also
hikes personal income tax by at
least three per cent.

What that translates to in the
pocket of the average resident is
an increase of between $80 and
$150 per year for those in-
dividuals and/or families with an
annual income of between
$25,000 and $65,000 per year.

Those on the lower and higher
ends of the income scale fare
rather better — with little or no
change predicted for those earn-
ing up to $25,000, with savings of
between $10 and $86 per year for
those in the high income ($90,000
and up) bracket.

Those calculations take into
account the two tax changes, as
well as increases in ICBC rates,
and reduction in dining out costs
with the elimination of the seven
per cent {ax on restaurant meals.

And, the average consumer
will pay more if he or she sells
their home, and if they use lead-
ed gasoline.

The Finance Minister included
a new one per cent Property Pur-
chase Tax, effective March 23, to
replace the ‘‘ad valorem’’ land ti-
tle fees charged on transactions
registered with the Land Title
Office — that levy to increase to
two per cent of the purchase
price on “property in excess of

B.C. communities challenged|

By JOHN PIFER
From Victoria

$200,000.

And effective April 1, provin-
cial tax on leaded fuel will be
pegged at two cents per litre
above the general tax for unlead-
ed, as part of the government's
program to encourage cleaner
alr.

Other tax or personal income
measures in the budget included
an increase of five per cent in the
support allowance to families and
single parents on welfare — who
represent 123,000 of the pro-
vince’s 208,000 welfare reci-
pients.

The remaining single recipients
get no increase, but there is more
than $50 million invested in them
in JobTrac, the government job
creation scheme. That welfare
rate increase will be effective on
June 1, with another 5 per cent
increase to those same recipients
to be granted on Dec. 1.

The maximum shelter
allowance under GAIN, which
was raised 4.7 per cent in Oc-
tober, will be raised a further six
per cent (average) Dec. 1. The
increase benefits in social services
are expected to cost $51.7 mil-
lion.

- The minimum: property tax
payable after the homeowner’s
grant is applied has been increas-
ed to $350, from $200. For senior,
citizens and those who receive the

. supplementary homeowner grant,

the minimum property tax now
will be $100 per year.

operating expenses,

The income tax changes in-
clude elimination of the health
care maintenance surtax, and the
high-income surtax (which took
the average rate to about 48 per
cent in-real terms), with the final
fate now pegged at 51.5 per cent.

Couvelier said the proposed
restructuring would simplify the
provincial income tax, and
decrease the maximum marginal
tax rate, ta make it the second
lowest in Canada. This taxation
increase alone is expected to raise
an additional $184 million in the
fiscal year 1987/88.

Another $25 million will come
from the increase from eight to
11 per cent of the small business
corporationt tax, to ensure that
some taxpayers ‘‘particularly
high-income professionals’? do
not take the opportunity to pay
less ‘‘by incorporating, and then
having their income taxed as
dividends of a small business
corporation rather than as salary.
This would be unfair to those
who have no choice in the way
their income is received,’ said
the Finance Minister.

Other expenditure highlights:
* 30 per cent increase in day care
funding to $26.7 million.
* Hospital user fees to be ended
as of April 1.
* JobTrac employment program
funding doubled to $81 million,
including $54.6 million on-‘pro-
grams for welfare recipients...
* Pharmacare users now to pay
75 per cent of dispensing fees,

average $5, to annual maximum :

costs of $125.

* $42:3 million more for schools’
and $30.3
million to improve programs.

to crea te economic growth |

SPECIAL programs within B.C.
. communities

cial support

| The $10. 22 bitlion budget in-
cluded $3 million “to challenge
communities throughout the
province to take the initiative in

year sailing trip from Vancouver to
Hawaii, Tahiti and Bora Bora.

He formed a filmmaking pro-
duction company, Ocean Film
Productions, and shot and pro-
duced a film of his year-long sail-
entitled Escape
Under «Sail, which played in
cinemas across North America. An
abridged version is currently being
televised in parts of. Canada.

Karl had six films to his credit,
including Gone. Sailing, another
high seas adventure film.

Kari was educated as a
cinematographer at the University
of British Columbia and at UCLA
in Los Angeles. He worked on film
productions in South Africa and
Europe, before combining his tal-
ents as filmmaker and sailor.

A world traveller, Karl sailed the
Mediterranean, Atlantic: and

to assist en-

« trepreneurs havé received finan-

from Finance

«| Minister’ Mel Couvelier’s first
- budget.

establishing industries and_fin-
ding seed capital for local ‘en- .
trepreneurs,’’ said Couvelier in
his Budget Speech on Thursday.
Community leaders. were en-
couraged, to present recommen-
dations for access to the $3 mil-
lion for their projects.

Another budget measure in-
cluded pending legislation to ex-

Passes away

Pacific. He recently returned from
a two-month holiday in the South
Pacific, where he spent a month in
the Marshall Islands and another
month in Guam, Bali and Palau.

Born June 15, 1945, Karl
emigrated to Canada in 1967.

He will be missed by friends and

co-workers at Clam Bay Farm and’

the North Shore News. .

He is survived by his mother
Gertraud Gibson of San Raphael,
California; his stepmother. Anna
Marie (Mieke) Begrich, a sister, a
brother, two stepbrothers and a
stepsister, all of Germany.

A memorial service will be: held
for Karl Tuesday at Clam Bay
Farm on North Pender Island at 2
p.m. For further information call
Peggy Whittaker at 985-2131 or
Corrine Davis at 1-629-6313,

“employee equity corporations.

‘tend a provincial tax credit to

workers participating. in a
business ownership, through

' Also under economic.
development, up to $10 million _

will be. made’ available to pro-

tote research and development _

and. Yiversification in- business.

KARL BEGRICH.

North Shore News