Wednesday, October 14, 1992 &

FIVE ROSES
FLOUR

All Purpose.

Betty Crocker. Limit 1
Over limit price 1.38 ea
510g.

ee

29

FRENCH BREAD

.08

YELLOW ONIONS ) FRESH SNAPPER

Reguiar Quality.
3 Ib. chub. Limit 1. Over
B.C. Grown. limit price 3.87 ea.
Canada No. 1 Grade. illets. 2.64 ea.
Medium Size. B.C. Works out to
1, 10 Ib. bag 1.94/ kg Ib

Instore
Bakery
B.C. Grown

400 g. -64/ kg

PRICES IN EFFECT...OCT./ 1992
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Quantity rights reserved. Some items may not
be exactly as shown.

NewsFLASH

Mainly cloudy with a risk of
showers Sunday.

@ OUR PEOPLE

Lorraine Paszty has been in
Taiwan for one month now and
has sent an open letter to the
people of Castlegar. Although
she misses her family and
friends here she is having a

great time.
page 9

@ LOCAL SPORTS

Claude Vilgrain is not a hap-
py New Jersey Devil. The sum-
mertime resident of Castlegar
is getting the runaround from
the big club and he wants out.

page 17

a@ WORK PLACE

Two Castlegar women have
illustrated their entrepreneurial
prowess. Heather Bonnett and
Kim Tassone will be sharing
their experience at the Busi-
ness Success for Women Con-

page 19
je INDEX

Farisde 2
Harrison 6
Letters 7
Our People 9
Crossword 10
Local Sports 17
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Saturday

October 17, 1992

Jakobsze were working up a sweat Wednesday in Castlegar, removing the leaves from this home before the first snowfall hits.
The two seven-year-olds were helped in their work by six-year-old friend Brendan Grifone.

Socred breaks party ranks

Scott David Harrison
EDITOR

Elmer Pellerine is jumping ship.

The Social Credit constituency president in Rossland-Trail
says he can’t support his party’s ‘no’ position on the Charlot-
tetown Agreement.

“I have to be true to myself,” he said Thursday. “I have to be
fair and square with myself and think about the good of Cana-
da and hope people understand. I can’t afford to think about
party politics, it’s much bigger than that.”

Pellerine says he will support the Charlottetown Agree-
ment on Oct. 26 because it addresses the concerns of Canadi-
ans as a whole.

“There are things I don’t like about the agreement,” he said,
naming aboriginal self government and a guarantée of 25 per
cent of the House Commons seats for Quebec, “but when you
look at it, they are so insignificant to the whole agreement.”

Pellerine said regionalism and special-interest groups are
trying to “nit-pick” the Charlottetown Agreement to death. He
said the deal’s detractors are trying to serve their own inter-
ests, not Canada’s.

“Historically, Canada has always been a country of com-
promise,” he said. “It seems that a lot of people are trying to
move away from that historical sense of Canadian compro-
mise and I can’t agree with that. We should help each other,

we should recognize each other and we should work towards
a strong sense of what it is to be Canadian.”

Pellerine said he isn’t concerned with a backlash from Ross-
land-Trail Socreds or party leader Jack Weisgerber. He said
Weisgerber and other elected Social Credit members have tak-
en the no stand, but freed party members to vote with their
conscience.

“That is all I’m doing,” he said. “It is my democratic right to
vote as I feel and I feel that this agreement is right for Cana-
da.”

Pellerine said the no forces expect the impossible, a per-
fect constitution.

“People have to understand that a constitution is simply a
broad framework, a skeleton with which you build a country
on,” he said. “You can’t have special-interest groups addressed
in a constitution because it is only a statement about our ob-
jectives and goals.”

Pellerine said he has struggled throughout the constitu-
tional debate, shifting from a no, to a maybe, to a yes. He said
the switch came when he started to explore the constitution
in a Canadian context.

“When you really think about it,” he said. “this is a Cana-
dian thing. This goes beyond any politics, any party and any
special interest group. This is about my country and I have
to vote for Canada.”

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