Stanley Humphries
buys $30,000 sign

Neil Rachynski
NEWS REPORTER

The sign on the front of the
high school might look good,
but is it worth it?

The lettering announcing
the name of Stanley
Humphries Secondary School
will be made of brass. And ac-
cording to architect Bob Ben-
nison of Holovsky Mansfield
Architects Ltd., that will cost
$5,520.

He says that includes sand-
blasting the old cast-alu-
minum letters, and mounting
them at the back with a lac-
quer finish.

Bennison estimates the
wind sail-type canopy at the
front of SHSS will cost from
$20,000 to $25,000.

“For the purposes of a sign,
$30,000 is a lot for aesthetics
of a public building,” Castle-
gar resident Dale Donaldson

said. “A business would not
spend $30,000 on a sign.”

But School District No. 9
trustee Mickey Kinakin said
the signage is not taking funds
away from other necessities.

“(With Ministry of Educa-
tion funds) you can’t borrow
money for a computer ‘and
then buy a bus,” Kinakin said.

“You can’t make a Volkswa-
gen look like a Rolls-Royce,”
Kinakin said. “People get into
this habit of saying we could
have had this instead. Well,
that’s not the case.”

Kinakin said if only $5,000
was spent ona sign, the result
would be a $5,000 sign and
nothing else.

“The high school is the high
school of the city,” Kinakin
said. “On aesthetics, I would
rather see us spend the time
and money on something we
can be proud of.”

Flux, city set for court

NEWS STAFF

Walter Flux and the City of
Castlegar are going to court.

The decision follows a Sept.
11 settlement hearing in
which no common ground was
found.

The dispute arose from a
$1,734 water and sewage bill

Flux feels he doesn’t owe the
city. He is also upset his name
appears on a list of delinquent
accounts. Flux said he wants a
deelaration from the court
that states he doesn’t owe the
city the money.

The trial will be held in
small claims court Nov. 23.

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Scott David Harrison

EDITOR
rian Mulroney says yes, Preston
Manning says no. Mike Harcourt
says yes, Gordon Wilson says no.

High profile Canadians across this land
are fighting rhetoric with rhetoric to see the
Charlottetown Agreement live... or die.

But on Oct. 26, the rhetoric will stop. On
that day, ordinary Canadians will make an
extraordinary decision about Canada — a
country in a state of constitutional confusion.

“I just wish all the bureaucracy would
stop, it’s getting a little tiresome” says
Rossland’s Chris DeRosa.

DeRosa’s comments were shared by a
number of people queried in downtown
Castlegar Thursday — ordinary Canadians
frustrated that federal and provincial
governments continue to pump millions of
dollars into constitutional debates that some
believe won't be worth the paper it’s written

on.

“It’s been a complete waste of money,” De
Rosa continued, more than willing to discuss
his thoughts of the expensive exercise in
democracy.

“If we look at the whole history of
(constitutional package), we had Meech and
that failed and now we have this.

“Who knows what will be next?”

De Rosa suspect that Canadians aren’t
getting the whole story behind the
Charlottetown Agreement. He said the deal
has been neutered by both politicians and the
media.

“I think the general public is really
misinformed about this,” the man is his mid-
20s said.

“All we are hearing is things from the
media and I don’t think that is a fair
representation of what is really going on.”

e Rosa said Canadians must take it

upon themselves to become better

informed, this despite an obvious
pessimism towards politics and politicians.

“I don’t think our vote really counts that
much any way. The government will push
what it wants through in five years no matter
what we decide.”

Personal misgivings aside, De Rosa says
he will vote on Oct. 26. He’s just not sure
what that vote will be.

“Right now, I’m leaning towards maybe.”

‘Maybe”.was a popular response on the
streets of Castlegar. Of the 14 people stopped,
14 said maybe.

“I can’t really make heads or tails of it,”
Castlegar’s Jacqueline Thompson said while
stopped outside of Pharmasave. “I guess it’s
important that we stay together as a country,
but I don’t know what I will do. It’s really
hard to understand what to do.

“You hear so many different things.”

Like so many others, Thompson said she
would have to read over the mountains of
government-issued papers before casting her
ballot.

yes no yes no yes no yes no yes no

“There’s a lot to it,” she said. “I want to
take my time and read the thing over some
more.”

“Tye listened to the controversy and I can’t
seem to make up my mind on what to do,”
said one man, reluctant to give his name.
“The whole thing is a mess and I really don’t
know how or if I'll vote.”

ossland’s Jennifer Gunn says
R Canadians aren't being asked to
e an easy choice. She said
citizens are being bombarded with more
information than they can humanly digest.

“l'm not sure how I'll vote,” she said. “I’m
still trying to catch up on a lot of things that
are still coming out. But, one thing’s for sure,
I will vote.

“’m probably going to vote yes but I can't
be sure of that until I see the entire
agreement,” she said.

The constitutional confusion doesn’t come
as a surprise to the office of Federal-
Provincial Relations. The office in charge of
answering the questions Canadians have

regarding the Charlottetown Agreement has
been swamped with calls from concerned and
curious Canadians.

Sunni Locatelli says the Ottawa-based 1-
800-561-1188 number had received 425,000
calls from coast-to-coast —an average of
25,000 per day.

“People are still keenly interested in
getting as much information on this as they
can,” Locatelli said Thursday. “Even the MPs
are demanding more copies of the agreement
to take to their constituents. The more people
ask, the better. People have to be sure what
they are voting on.”

ccording to Elections Canada, some
2.07 million British Columbians will
ad to the polls on Oct. 26, 45,055
of them in the riding of Kootenay West-
Revelstoke. They are just a fraction of the 18
million that are eligible to vote on the
Charlottetown Accord.

Ordinary Canadians like De Rosa,
Thompson and Gunn... ordinary Canadians
making an extraordinary decision.

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