A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 1, 1999 -

Rupertites get more
government money

MORE PEOPLE in Prince
Rupert receive money from
various gavernment —pro-
grams than in Terrace or in
Kitimal, reports Statistics
Canada.
Residents of the coastal
city reported receiving
$19.92 from various govern:
ment programs out of every
$100 in household income
in 1997, : :
Terrace residents reported _
receiving $16.33: out of
every $100° - while - ia
Kitimat, just $9.08 came
from) various = government
programs. ae
The information was taken
from 1997 tax returns.
The economic dependency
ratia measures the amounts
of transfer payments to indi-
viduals from employment
insurance, the goods and
services tax credit, child tax
benefil, old age ‘security,

Canada = Pension —_—Plan,
workers’ compensation, so-
cial assistance and provin-
cial refundable tax credits,

Across Canada. the ratio
has been dropping “for the
past four years, attributed in
Part lo cuts to. federal -as-
sistance programs.

_ The national ratio in 1997

was $18.17 out of every
$100, down from $19.35 in
1996. 0 a

In B.C., the dollar value
was $17.48. in 1997, com-
pared to $18.04 in 1996.

Of the $19.92 in Prince
Rupert In 1997,.$6.16 came
from employment lisurance
compared to $3.86 in Ter-
race atid just $1.45- in
Kitimat.

‘ That’s. regarded .as a sign
of the blows to. the Prince
Rupert economy caused by
fishing restrictions . and
Skeena Cellulose’s pulp

g

HUNDREDS of people

flack to the Terrace Farmers’ Market every Saturday morn-

mill closure of that year,

And Prince Rupert wauld
seem to have a higher num-
ber of senior citizens cal-
lecting old age security and
the Canada Pension Plan
than is the case in Terrace
and in Kitimat.

Prince Rupert also, ranks
higher in social assistance
payments with $3.12 cut of
every. $100 whereas Terrace

. residents recorded $2.59 and

Kitimat residents $1.38,
tk kkk

The average family in-

_come after tax in 1997 was

estimated at $45,605, essen-
ally unchanged from the
1997 figure of $45,760,

The 1997 figure was six
per cenl less than in 1989,
the peak year: for family
alter tax income.

Average income tax pay-
ments in 197 were $11,541
for families.

ing to sample food and to buy locally grown plants, fruits and vegetables.

City-market talks restart

NEGOTIATIONS are resuming between
the cily and farmers’ market organizers
about giving the market a leas

Ave. site.

Although the city had offered the group a
three-year lease early this year, the deal
was never completed because the market
had nol yet attained society status.

“It’s nol really prudent for the city to be
entering into an agreement will a group
_that doesn’t have society status,’' noted cily

" chief administrative officer Ron Poole.

He said he’s now been told the society

paperwork js complete and talks should

resuine as carly as this week,

Market organizers would still prefer a
much longer term lease than what the city

This Week's

e at its Davis

cily-staff had suggested ‘it might be time to”
identify the bést long-term home for’ the’
market, The Davis Ave. site, they’ said,
should be earmarked for more intensive de-
velopment, adding the market might soon
outgrow that site anyway.
But market organizers felt the downtown
parkside location was essential to their suc-
cess and lobbicd for months to stay there.
Council relented after the group had

has offered, Poole said, adding the term

may be the subject of further negotiation.
City council and the market organizers

were al odds through much of 1998 because ==» Y

by fie ho

gathered a huge petition and threatened to

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