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Wadmday June 20 979 NIWSIOOM 726 653 CIRCULATION 726 6539 the examiner servmg borne and simcoe county Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario UM 4T6 Bruce Rowland publisher ADVERTISING 726 6537 CLASSIFIIDS 7282414 BUSINESS 7266537 COMPOSING HM EDHORS ADVEQ SWG Busmfss Jack Kerney tortman Published daily cxcenl cag Sm mamglg 96 Le 5°VCK manaoer Maran Gouan accountant Glenn Kwan asst iorcman Sunday and lanMUlqm Edlor SALES 09 Mm Don Saunders statutory holidays BiiMcFarlanewureednior genSwvons Vikki Gram Lame Wass DaveFuIIersporisedutor Wagner came Ha wincfiaoqan WEEKLYby carrier Claudia Krause Litesvio editor Aden smxtn Jenn Bass St Wr 9s ems REPORTERS SIeveSkinncr 82 if VEARLV Dvcarrier Stephen Nicholls 35 30mm Ron Guim Dennis Lantnicr ayvm gm Nancy Figueroa UK Ea Allenb 8V MAIL Barrie Lon Cohen Richard Thomas Stephen Gauer cnicrtainmoni Gary Forbes Belly Armer camera operator terry Field Peter Hsu CLASSIFIED Freda Shinner Janice Morton Dana 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ottiarwiu and then Ihall In no lidllty tar non lnsartlan at any advanilamant bayand tho amount paid tor such 11 tvbliuhor ram the right to adit ravtu clauity or rath an mflll0 City sticks to its guns Barrie general committee made tough nononsense deci sion Monday night on development in the city and should be commended for sticking to its guns The committee voted to reject bid by lack Stollar to develop two restaurants on Bayfield Street north On its own this development appearsmore than attractive It would provide about $1 million worth of construction in the area jobs that would accompany that construction and jobs once the centres opened No doubt the development would be success lnfortunately for Stollar anyway the development is not in the best interests of Barrie at this time The committee recognizes this and made its decision The citys downtown is decrepid Revitalization is long overdue and council is moving to bring this about The only way that project can be successful though is through co operation ofall involved and some tough decisions Hayfield Street north is natural commercial corridor It is as much prime area for development now as it will be in It ywrs To begin development on Hayfield in the next five years would be to cut the throats of the people who made this city the downtown merchants By preventing Stollars development for the present coun cil gives the downtown area chance to grow to full poten tial Once that is accomplished plans like Stollars can be ap proved and development take place to the north Barrie may not be able to have its cake and eat it too now but with wise planning it might be able to 10 years down the road letters to the editor Dear Editor In observing the Barrie Citv coun cil meeting of Monday Junb 11 it was heartwarming to see the com passion shown to the two maple trees of Dunlop Street However it would have been even more heart warming if some of this compassion had been directed to the residents who live in and around the area of the proposed seeder project and who are opposed to same Somewhere along the way maple trees have become more important than the fact that mans home is his castle Too bad With the ex ception of Mrs Parker and Mrs ODonal council has lost its perspective and is representing the interests of few gentlemen and not the majority Your business By VINCENT EGAN Business and onsuiiicr Affairs Analyst Thomson News Scrv icc People who change jobs may no longer have to forego the pension benefits they had built up Theres new system accepted by Hcvcnuc Canada that will allow job changers the right to retain credit for at least some of their service with thc employer they are leaving The plan developed by pension cxpcrts under the auspices of the Canadian Life In surancv Association mum is voluntary that is it depends upon acceptance by employers unions and employees That means it wont be universal and tlicrcforc it is still far from perfect solution to longstanding injustice in the workplacc Some employees already do have such pro tcction those in jobs with industrywide pcnsion plans or thosc covered by reciprocal arrangements between related employers with similar pension plans such as govern ment bodics or affiliated corporations More often however private contributory pension plans arc strUctured in such way that an employee with less than say 10 years scrvicc is entitch to nothing more than refund of the pension contributions be has made If that employ cc goes to ncw employer lic relinquishes any claim to the yxiisionlund contributions made on his bchalf ovcr thc years by thc former employer and the ncvv cmploycr wont even accept transfer of his own past contributions into the pension plan at the new workplace we want your opinion Something on your mind Send Letter to the Editor Please make it an original copy and sign it The Examiner doesnt publish unsigned let ters but it you wish pen name will be used Include your telephone number and address as we have to verify letters Because of space limits public interest and good taste The Examiner sometimes has to edit condense or reject letters Letters to the Editor are run every day on the editorial page Send yours to Letters to the Editor TIia Examiner Post Office Box 370 Milli Ont MM 4T6 Also if council is committed to downtown redevelopment why would they send out the road wreckers at the start of the sum mer tourist season wonder what the dollar loss will be to the east end merchants and the dollar gain to the west end In my opinion things are adding up to plan to relocate the downtown retail commercial far ther west Could this be to gradually give city hall or someone else ac cess to the land between city hall and the waterfront say sack the seeder and come on city hall tell us all Yours truly Ilene Crossan Barrie Portable pensions for job seekers This is kind of club held over the heads of employees to discourage them from leaving an employer and thus putting the employer to the trouble and expense of finding and training replacement As for the new employer he gains an unfair advantage in acquiring the expertise of seasoned mature employee without having to pay the fringe cost of contributing to pension credits for the years in which the worker was gaining that expert isc In Canada more than 15000 separate pen sion plans are in operation covering about five out of every eight fulltimc employed paid workers between 25 and 64 Although more than quarter of the work force con sists of people under 25 those young workers are generally not intcrcstcd in pensions The important feature of this new ap proach is that it enables transfer of service between pension plans that may be vastly dif ferent in terms of contributions and benefits says II Crawford president of IllA The association notes that because plans diffcr new employers pension plan may not credit all of the years of service that the worker has with the old employer This would usually happen when the pension benefits per your of service are more gcncrous in the new plan than the old HOW IT WORKS This is not an cxpcrimcnt rawford said Portability can be put into opcrution lll llcrcs how the syslcin works as explained bytLlA jolwhangcr ill carry pcriods of service from one cinploycr to another cnding up with filial employer who will dctcrminc the amount of tlic pcnsion at rctircincnt The amount ol service provided is bascd on transfer of funds An employer sets for mula for valuing the pension provided for period of scrvicc in its plan When worker lcavcs the amount of moncy he takes to thc new employer is based on that formula If new employee arrives with funds the amount of service is based on the some for mula It isnt ncccssary for both employers to use tlic same formula or basis however The cost to each company of full portabili ty need not bc assumed inimcdiatcly but might be approached in stages the LIA says Now with new government in office in if town is an ideal time to bring in citlicr iiiccn lives or regulations that would nudge employers toward acceptance of universal pensmn portability Iinigcmcnt attitudes rather than technical problems may be the most critical aspect in acceptance of the portability scheme Crawford of tlilA believes The Mayors report By ROSS ARCHER Mayor of Bank Much discussion and controversy still revolves around the proposed seeder project for downtown Barrie The city has establish ed through two separatc economic studies that further retail activity can be supported in our community Our central core is not healthy at this time and council would like to direct future commercial activity to the core area to give it much needed life so that the core can reach the objectives of amendment No 27 to our official plan to make it the primary retail commercial cultural enter tainment institutional recreational and ad ministrative centre of this city In the core area services such as police protection fire protection major road ac cess sanitary and storm sewers water and public transit are already available These services have been paid for by the taxpayer over numerous years and are an asset to this community If future commercial develop ment occurred on the periphery of the city municipal taxes would be required to provide roads sewer police and fire protection and public transit to the new areas This would mean that the existing services within the core area would no longer be used to their The world today pt At By JOHN IIARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The Pope has returned to the Vatican The great euphoria from his visit to his Polish homeland is wearing off The realities of an economy in deep trouble havc taken hold again Poland owes Western creditors about $15 billion mainly for technology bought and in stalled during the 1970s After three decades of Communism Poles must still queue for food clothing and wait long months for decent housing The devastating central planning of the countrys Communist government as in all other ommunist states simply doesnt work properly Where booming Western European capitalist slates havent known rationing since the end of World War Two when their countries were in ruins longsuffering lolcs arc forecd to endure it on the verge of the 19805 800028 FIRST VENEZUELA PHONED gt TO INFORM ME OF THEIR SURCHARGE THEN KUWAIT PHONED TO INFORM ME OF THEIR SURCHARGE TOKYO ECONOMIC SUMNIT CONFERENCE jg MclthNflN DEFENCE potential and thus this asset that has been bought and paid for becomes liability in deteriorating city core Presently we have good network of arterial and secondary roads serving the core area With these numerous routes to and from the downtown personally foresee little or no change to our street pattern to accommodate the seeder project However in order to be sure the city is up dating our transportation study for the core area to determine the impact of the seeder project the civic centre Kempcnfelt Place and the growth that has occurred since the original study was completed in the early 1970s COMPLETED STUDY The city has just recently completed study of our parks system This study does iii dicatc deficiency of 13 hectares of com munity park in residential districts seven and eight which are adjacent to the core areas Queens Park is considered community park and is four hectares in size Since there is limited opportunity for further parkac quisition in the residential areas council is attempting to soften this deficiency by conti nuing to expand Heritage Park on the water front between rilayfield and Mulcaster Poland faces harsh reality State housing officials have promised waiting Poles their accommodation SlIOiv tages will finally end in 1980 But there are in stances where Polish familics have had to wait decade from the time they make down payment on an apart mcnt to actual oc cupancy As result of all this Poland has hadto ease off her plans to build major industrial projects continuation of the Communist regimes plan to change the country over from mainly farm producer to manufac turing state Polands efficient hard coal and ship building industry remain in good shape cx portiiig much of what they producc to Western European countries and Japan for hard currency earnings But the agrarian sector ltlllillllSWttlk in this still basically rural Eastern huropcan nation Like all Communist states Iarin policies here are mired in the usually bad central planning processes WHAT AM GOING TO DO HELMUT DK ll Wdronti expire after Ith first 100000 miles or The movingof ur ambaesq to tieruealem hichever occurs first Developing downtown core good investment in future Streets Although the proposed seeder project will be close to Queens Park there will be no encroachment on the park site Council realizes that there will be an im pact on the adjacent residential area however we will be doing everything possible to limit this impact The parking for the pro ject has been tiered along with the commer cial floor space to limit the number of homes that must be removed However should the project not be permit ted to proceed the next few years in all pro bability would see the deterioration of homes in this area along with the remainder of the core The cost of the seeder project to the city is of major concern to everyone The project will be worth some $28 million and of that ap proximately $28 million municipal and $56 million provincial will be provided The city is not giving this money to the developers but only loaning it All this money will be repaid and the cost to the taxpayers will be nil It should be clearly understood that the in crease in taxation in the area will be diverted to pay off the provincial and municipal shares of the loan and thus the city will not realize an increase in taxes for the area for perhaps the first 20 years depending on infla tion The facts are the city will own the land and will lease it to the developer for the erection of his buildings and at the end of ap proximately 60 years the municipality will assume ownership of the entire site At this time it is impossible to place value on 10 acres of prime commercial land and buildings in the citys core MONEY NEEDED Why municipal and provincial money is needed to make such project work is based strictly on the cost of developing mall in downtown as opposed to one in the periphery 10minutc drive from the core provides land at $15000 $20X0 per acre while land in the core by the time it is cleared probably runs close to $500000 per acre It is this difference in cost that the provincial and municipal governments are willing to make up to pro vide comparable downtown site for the development am satisfied at this time that most citizens and ratepayers support the seeder project should however point out that because of the objections to this project in all likelihood an Ontario Municipal Board Hear ing will be hold This hearing will be expensive because the city must prepare to defend every aspect of the plan We are being forced because of relatively few objections to engage highly competent professional help to prevent and defend the city position at the OMB hearing However am still of the opinion that the moncy bcing spcnt to revitalize the dOwntown core will in future years he recognized as wisc and timely investment DSn DONT ACCEPT ANY CALLS FROM MEXICO From the legislature Quebec date delay fortunate By DEREK NELSON Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Rejection of sovereignty association negotiations with Quebec by On tario wont be debated here now until the autumn Originally such government resolution was expected to pass the House probably unanimously this spring but the federal election intervened and forced postpone ment The delay is to the good Everyone knows legislative rejection of the Parti Quebecois backdoor independence referendum is only formality Conscr viiitives Liberals and NDP are all agreed on at But by autumn the wording of the referenlt dum will be known which should give MPPs focus during debate on the governments resolution And the timing might have more impact in Quebec if the vote is held there this fall The government has promised fullscale debate and if thats to have any meaning then members thoughts are going to have to roam across the whole face of Confederation What in effect the MPPs will be talking about are two different matters First and most important is the impact theyll have in terms of the Parti Quebecois referendum The key there is the rejection of sovereigntyassociation coupled with an olive branch for continued discussion of what kind of country Canada should be And thats nonpartisan But what is partisan and potentially dif ficult is the nittygritty details of changes that might satisfy Quebec and with which Ontario could live Not what Ontario is against like sovereigntyassociation but what it is for and thats both up in the air and potentially divisive MORE VIEWS For each party and each leader have their views and there is no pretending they are in total agreement The NDI and Liberals both want House committee to examine policy and proposals for Ontario which will best ensure the conti nuing unity of Canada Not the Tories At least not yet Their public argument is that the issue is of too great importance to shuffle off on com mittee But likely too they are bit worried about what might come out of committee in terms of policy recommendations that could conflict with the governments stated position SOUR NOTE Isle there will be debate in the House this There is one jarring note in all the high flown rhetoric about the Confederation debate Out of 125 MPPs only couple have asked for the background documents the govem ment has offered to make available These include the PepinRobarts report the Ontario governments Confederation ad visory committee the BC constitutional reform proposals and others One would think that if MPPs were taking it as seriously privately as they say in public theyd be lining up for the material Interpreting the news ProUS regime failing again By ATIIY McKERClIER WASHINGTON CPI The bloody fighting in Nicaragua between President Somozas National Guard and rebel guerrillas again demonstrates the troublesome legacy of an oftused foreign policy tool The unhappy results of trying to set up or maintain an unpopular but proAmerican govcmmcnt were demonstrated most recent ly in Iran where the USbacked shah was ousted in socallcd Islamic revolution Now Sandinista National Liberation Front guerrillas are trying to oust President Anastasia Somoza in renewed round of fighting in the small Central American coun try Analysts note that as in Iran the rebels represent broad spectrum of political ideologies and social classes who are united on one major point hatred of leader who is seen vicious and corrupt But unlike the situation oilrich Iran where the US stood behind the shah virtually until the end it appears Somoza has few friends in the Carter administrai inn After last years fighting between the Na tional Guard and the Sandinistas claimed an estimated 1500 lives the US pushed for an international mediation effort that called for national referendum on Somozas rule Somoza rejected the proposal and the US responded in February by cutting economic aid to the country Military aid had been cut in 1978 Somows opponents say the US response was too little too late They say the US tum ed blind eye to the excesses of Somoza and was slow to realize how the opposition was building What makes US response difficult analysts note is long history of involvement in Nicaragua US Marines sent to Nicaragua in the earlier part of the century to protect US business interests created the National Guard now wellequipped force of 13000 Before withdrawing in 1933 the marines trained the father of the current president to lead the force The elder Somoza overthrew Nicaraguas government year later and established dynasty that has controlled the country ever since In the process the family has amassed private fortune estimated by Somoza at $100 million by his opponents at closer to $1 billion 434