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Saturday, February ,14, 1987 3 I uuy scene City Editor: Dave McGee $325000 $100 Total 1976 $53.1 construction value lVa 'Z til 1979 $55.1 7c 1980 $88.8 1981 $75.4 1982 $26.3 1983 $21.6 1984 $24-3 1 $50 1985 $20.9 1986 $38.7 millions of dollars 5 By RICHARD DUNSTAN Staff Writer A record $14 million in public buildings and a more modest upsurge in housing starts in 1986 boosted construction in Nanaimo to its best year since 1981, building permit figures from City Hall show. The $38.7 million worth of construction approved in 1986 was nearly double 1985 but still only about half the level of the years of 1980 and 1981. i A record $88.8 million in 1980 was followed by $75.4 million in 1981. Construction dropped off steeply to $26.3 million when the recession 1 began in 1982 and reached a low of $20.98 million in 1985. Nearly a third of the 1986 total was accounted for by two projects $9.65 million for a new extended i care unit andjelated work at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, and.

the RCMP headquarters on Fitzwilliam Street. PREViousRRrrmn fort sot log by port, gray 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 New Dwelling Units 1976' 1 186 1,500 1977 311 1978 317 1 1979 1,090 1980 1,384 1'ZDU 1981 1,596 1982 359 1983 248 1,000 .1984 350 I 1985 311 1986 375 750 500 250 Previous record for public construction was $4.49 million in 1982. In some years the total has been less man 51 million. On the residential side, permits were issued for $17.1 million worth of construction creating 375 new dwelling units in 1986, compared to $12.96 and 311 new units in 1985. However, last years figures are nowhere near these of 1979-1981, which saw more than 1,000 units many of them apartments created each year.

Peak was 1981, with 1,596 units including 597 apartments. As has been the case for several years, single-family homes dominated the 1986 picture, accounting for 339 of the 375 units. On the other -hand, two apartment projects for a total of 18 units were the first apartments to get under way since ,1984. GOOD SIGN That's a good sign, says Brian Mehaffey, manager of building inspections for the city; so is the higher value per home reflected in this year's figures. "It appears that we're getting more retirement people and they're buying a better home," he said.

"In the trough (of the recession) we were getting a lot of cheap spec homes, but now we're getting good-quality custom homes." By RICHARD DUNSTAN Staff Writer Nanaimo Harbour Commission members will be staying at home a lot this year. Commission members have approved a 1987 travel schedule which falls within a budget of $50,000, cut from $82,000 in 1986, Bill Mills, port manager, said Friday. He did not have exact figures for the cost of trips approved by the five commission members, but said there is money left over in the budget for any unexpected trips. "They've pared down even more what was already a pared-down travel schedule," Mr. Mills said.

Travel by commission members has been a subject of controversy. BILL MILLS changes with some individual commissioners having averaged more than $20,000 per year in the past. Procedures were tightened up late last year under pressure from new members of the commission. OUT-OF-TOWN EVENTS This year, most events will see only one commissioner attend, Mr. Mills said.

Exceptions to that are two major events. Chairman Ted Stroyan and commissioner Deane Finlayson will both attend the Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities annual meeting in Long Beach in August. Commissioners Doug McBride, Joy Cameron and Howard Johstoh will go to the Canadian Ports and Harbours Association annual in Quebec City in September. CAN TAKE SPOUSES Those two events are also the only cases where commissioners and 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 "There's quite a note of optimism for the coming year," says Bob Wall, president of the Nanaimo Home Builders Association. "Last year took a big step back toward normal, not boom time by any means, but certainly a good bit of recovery.

There seems to be a new willingness to invest in Nanaimo." The new Petro Canada distribu tion terminal on Stewart Avenue helped boost the industrial category to million, a huge increase over 1985's $281,000 and (he best since the $3.5 million of 1980. 'ALTERATIONS IT Residential alterations were up to a record $1.14 million from $1.12 million in 1985. Only categories to decline in 198ti begins Education Week Certain days have been designated for particular groups and grade levels-. i Monday is for school liaison committees and pre-schools, Tuesday for elementary schools, Wednesday for junior secondary schools, Thursday for senior secondary schools, Friday for Malaspina College and Saturday for teachers' professional development. There will also be displays in shopping malls.

Some classes will actually be taught in the malls for citizens to watch. Education Week co incides with Multicultural Week and some schools are planning to have feature events with assemblies and open houses combining the two themes. I By LYNN WELBURN Staff Writer Education is everybody's business and local educators hope to get everybody involved in Education Week. Education Week begins Monday in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district and a wide variety of events ha ve been planned. Most of the activities are for teachers and students only, but many are open to the public.

I The Education Week steering committee has tried to get citizens involved as much as possible in district schools during the specil week. scltools opening dooo's Johnston, McBride appointed Howard Johnston and Doug McBride will represent the Nanaimo Harbour" Commission in discussions with the City of Nanaimo oyer joint property concerns. The two commissioners were appointed this week. Still to be appointed are two aldermen, plus one senior staff member each from the harbor commission and City Hall. Topics of discussion are expected to include city and harbor commission development plans for adjacent areas; a possible trade of the city-owned former Shell property on the Stewart Avenue waterfront for the commission-owned Nanaimo Foundry property near Civic Arena; Swy-a-Lana lagoon; and plans for the commercial boat basin.

Mr. Johnston was appointed in December as the city's representative on the five-member harbor commission. Mr. McBride is a federal appointee. Wardill recalls Brother XII staffers attending may take their spouses if, they choose.

Travel by spouses will also be paid for by the commission. Farthest trip afield will be to Seoul, Korea, where Mr. Finlayson will attend the International Association of Ports and Harbors annual meeting in late April. included in the commisioners' travel budget is travel by port staff. Mr.

Mills and Andy Shaw, harbor development manager, will both go to the CPHA meeting in Quebec and to a Transport Canada meeting for administrators at a yet-unnamed location late in the year. In other cases one or the other will attend, with Mr. Mills going to Long Beach and Mr. Shaw to Seoul. PROMOTION BUDGET Staff travel forms part of the $130,000 marketing and promotion budget, which also includes other promotional expenses.

That budget is up from $57,000 in 1986, when there was no development manager and only a temporary port manager for most of the year; the 1985 figure was $111,000. Meanwhile, the commission has refused a request from The Daily Free Press to make public a report by Mr. Finlayson on past harbor operations. That report, which dealt with travel expenses and a variety of other matters, showed "serious deficiencies in the control and management of the port," Mr. Stroyan said in a terse news release in December.

CENTRE OF DISPUTE The report was at the centre of a much-publicized dispute late last year between commissioners Finlayson, McBride and Cameron, all federal appointees, and Mr. Stroyan, a Regional District of Na-naim6 appointee. The commission felt no gain to the commission or to the community in debating it further," Mr. Mills said Friday. "The focus is to the future now." by joining his community in Cedar, especially if they handed over to Brother XII substantial amounts of money and gold.

Doctors, carpenters, "and even, surprisingly some lawyers, were all taken in by i Brother XII, said Judge Wardill. 'ruled by Pear- Judge Wardill said the settlements in Cedar and on the two islands were "ruled by fear. Brother Xlj used to seprate The husband might be on Valdes and the wife on De Courcy." This was used as a lever to get people to work and otherwise obey the brother. "Everyone was afraid to argue with Brother XII," said Judge Wardill. From transcripts of the Brother XII trials in Nanaimo in the early 1930s Judge Wardill has found many horror stories of once-wealthy heiresses being left abandoned on beaches and forced to do hard physical labor from dawn to dusk.

STORY NOT TRUE As to the gold Brother XII collected from his victims, Judge Wardill squashed the popular local idea that Mason jars filled with this gold are still hidden in Cedar or on one of the Gulf Islands. "Brother XII was far too sharp a man to leave money lying around," said the judge. Judge Wardill said the name Brother XII came in a vision while the brother was in a monestary, supposedly from the 11 masters in Heaven. Actually Brother XII used a number of different names during his escapades. That's the word from Charles Whislfer, vice-principal of Nanaimo District Senior Secondary School.

Mr. Whisker said results are expected to be mailed to students individually as well as to their schools on Feb. 27. For Women's Day Works of local female artists and craftsmen will be featured at Malaspina College on March 8 as part of International Women's Day. Artists inti relied in cxl.iL-.Ung or selling their craft should contact 'Nancy Salvati at 758-6216.

-T 1 ft I i I 1983 1984- 1985 1986 were commercial and which mainly means garages. Commercial stood at $4.15 million, down from $5.2 million the previous year and far below the $25.8 million of 1981, final year of the shopping mall boom. "Other" was down to $182,000 from $250,000. Monday ondary School open house from' Nanaimo and District Teachers' Association keynote speaker Dr. Ted Aokt 7 p.m., Coast Bastion Inn Brechin School parade to wind up winter carnival FRIDAY, FEB.

20: Nanaimo and. District Teachers' Association, professional development activities at Coast Bastion Inn and NDSS with guest speakers on thinking skills and learning styles. Malaspina College guided tours every half hour from 9:30 to 11 a.m., demonstration class in English, cafeteria open with food prepared by cook training program students at lunchtime, plus a wide variety of events in the afternoon Saturday, feb. University Women's Club display at Woodgrove. Rutherford Community School display in Rutherford School.

Nanaimo and District Teachers' Association professional development activities continue at Coast Bastion Inn with guest speakers on nutrition. WEEK LONG ACTVITIES School District, Offices holds a display of work from Ladysmith Intermediate School. i Diamond School work on display at Chemainus Band office. Rock City School parents invited daily to classes. Canadian Union of Public Employees display at Woodgrove Princess Royal School invites local artists to decorate school walls with Indian art work.

Ladysmith Secondary School holds open house daily with a variety of displays and Vancouver Island invitational basketball tournament. Shawcable 10 programs during week about local education. She said the day's events are open to the public but are more appropriate to members of the profession. There is a charge for the day's program. There will be cutting competitions at 9 a.m.

and 12:30 p.m., a styling competition at 11 a.m., a total look show at 2:30 p.m., parade of models at 4:30 and guest shows at 9:30 a.m. and3p.m. Ms Lagasse said money will be collected for the Rick Hansen Man in Motion World Tour. 1 1 III I HIM1 i i By NEIL MACMILLAN Staff Writer There can be no long-time Nanaimo resident with as detailed a knowledge of the infamous, yet mysterious, Brother XII as Judge" Stan Wardill. As a boy growing up on Valdes i riij' island, Judge war-I v' dill remembers manv of those who became involved in Brother XII's Rjan in the 1920s.

At the height of Brother XII's ac tivities, he kept I colonies in Cedar and on Valdes and 7 1 De Courcy Islands. STAN WARDILL Brother XII Judge Wardill has visited many of the buildings used by Brother XII and the organization he founded called the Aquarian Foundation. "We were the next door neighbors on Valdes Island and we got to know many of the people on a first-name basis," Judge Wardill told Nanaimo Rotary Club Friday. PERSONAL CONTACT From personal contact and by studying books, court transcripts and other items Judge Wardill has assembled a great deal of information about Brother XII. What emerges, said Judge Wardill, is a story of a group of penniless men slaving for Brother XII after they had given him all their money.

Judge Wardill said Brother XII was able to sell many wealthy people on his notion that the end of the world was coming soon, and that the only way to be saved was 9 Catrtiaom The following events marking Education Week are open to the public. TUESDAY, FEB. 17: Pleasant Valley School, open house, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Brechin School invites parents and pre-schoolers to visit all day Hammond Bay School, 10:30 a.m.

to 1 p.m.; assembly, demonstration lessons and displays; 1:15 p.m. RCMP presentation Too Smart for Strangers. Uplands Park School, open house, to 3 p.m. Georgia Avenue School, open house, 4 p.m.; pot luck dinner 5 p.m. and entertainment 6 p.m.

Departure Bay School, open house, 9 a.m. to noon. Curriculum Resources Centre, open house, 7 to 9 p.m. South Wellington School program of multicultural activities. 1 Mount Benson School, 1 to 1:45 p.m.

celebration of completion of new gym; 1:43 to 2:45 open house and class visits. North Cedar School, open house and gym display 9 to 11 a.m. Fairview School writing fair, 1 to7p.m. Harbour View School, shared experiences with senior citizens, 10:30 a.m. to lp.m.

Rutherford Community School, open house all day Park Avenue School, display of student work from lla.m. to 4 p.m. Chase River School, open house from 6 30 to 8 30 p. m. Extension School, open house from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m., includes history of school with speaker and slides.

Cilaire School, festival of the arts multicutural evening, 7. Seaview School, guided tours 2 p.m. Waterloo School hosting tea for seniors who contributed "Cassidy Remembered" event. Quarterway School, open It's going to be a snip. Sunday, the Upper Island Hairdressers' Association will hold its annual hair show and at the Coast Bastion The show will feature cutting and styling competitions as well as 'total look' competitions in which models' hair, makeup and dress will be judged.

There will also, be presentations on hairdressing techniques and styles and product- displays by wholesalers. Jamie Wheat, 10, and Angela Carter, 10, of Mt. Benson School look over old class pictures and textbooks which will be part of a special school display. Citizens will be able to view the photos, textbooks and other memorabilia during the school's open house which begins Tuesday at 1 p.m. Daily Free Press Photo lOtolla.m.

Ladysmith Primary School international food day and display Brechin School continuation pf winter carnival activities THURSDAY, FEB. 19: Hammond Bay School, RCMP presentation on shoplifting, 1:15 p.m. Uplands Park School, 1 30 to 3 p.m. senior citizens "buddy reading" with students; school liason committee holds tea for seniors Nanaimo District Senior Sec all over B.C. and the United States," she said.

"There will be shows by Jingles International from North Oyster School, science fair and salmonid enhancement display, house all day. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18: Wellington Junior Secondary School, open house from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pauline Haarer School operv house all day John Barsby Junior Secondary School open house and school tours 12:45 to3 p.m.

Cedar Junior Secondary School open house and coffee tour Kathy Lagasse, a member of the show's organizing committee, says the shovtf is expected to exceed even Round and About In the black Nanaimo Harbour Commission ended 1986 in the black. While final figures are not in, Bill Mills, port manager, said Friday the commission appears to have run a surplus of about $100,000. Revenue for the year was $4.4 million. Results awaited Results of last month's secondary school a are 'expected by the end of the month. Hair-raising event at Coast Bastion last year's success.

the States and many interesting ac- "We're expecting several hun- tivities for hairdressers, students dred people to come from Calgary, and apprentices.".