B.C. SPARTAN
APPLES

Canada Fancy Grade * Medium Size
Washed & Waxed * 1.30 kg.

99

ROAST
BREAST

CHICKEN

4-59

OLYMPIC

Montreal Style

100 zg.

SMOKED BEEF
19

GROUND
BEEF

Lean ¢ Aprox. 10.Ib. Bag ¢ Limit 1

4.14/kg. Ib.

Campbell's

CREAM
SOUPS

e Celery ¢ Chicken
e Broccoli ¢ 284 ml.

.68

DELICIOUS
APPLES |

Golden * Canada Fancy
¢ Med. “se

44

OVEN JOY
BREAD

White or 60% Wholewheat ° 570 g.

..88

FRESH FILLED
BISMARKS

Selected Varieties * Pkg. of 10

.2.99

BEL AIR
ORANGE JUICE

Florida ¢ Frozen Concentrate * 355 mi.

..98

FRESH
APPLE PIE

.2.99

PINK
SALMON

Admiral ¢ 213g.

f7

SAFEWAY

Mon., Wed., Sat.

(%

We bring tt all together

9 am.-6 p.m.

Prices in Effect Sun., Feb. 2 — Sat., Feb. 8
Thursday & Friday

9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Sunday
10 a.m. - 6p.m.

We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities.

WA WE CASTLEGAR

LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY

PARL. TAMENT B LD
VICTORIA B .
'VBV 1X4 FEB. 25

Wednesday

February 5, 1992 +

75¢

60SECONDS

@ OUR PEOPLE

Leigh Simms is trying to
make Castlegar a safer place
for women. Together with the
Castlegar Women’s Associa-
tion, Simms is trying to estab-
lish a Safe Home Program for
abused women.

page 9

It’s starting to look like the
Castlegar Rebels will be facing
the KIJHL’s best hockey team
in the first round of the playoffs.
Still, Gordie Walker’s betting
the Rebels will win.

page 15

In an age of mass produc-

tion and assembly lines, Doug
Thompson is music to a guitar
player’s ears. The South Slo-
can guitar maker offers a
homemade sound that can’t be
beat.

page 19

Farside 2
Harrison 6
Letters tA
After Hours 8
Our People 9
Local Sports 15
Work Place 19
Action Ads 20

ONE THAT GOT AWAY

_| Twelve-year-old Shane Mark baits his hook while Darrell Streliev iS on his way to do likewise on a sunny. and warm Monday
afternoon on the banks of the Columbia River. Bait for the day included marshmallows, maggots and worms.

News photo by Ed Mills

City antes up $100,000

Taxpayers foot bill as Castlegar reveals settlement to former employees

Scott David Harrison

EDITOR

The City of Castlegar broke its silence
Tuesday. -

At the request of citizens who attend-
ed a fiery public hearing last month,

Castlegar revealed its settlement costs ©

to former employees.

In all, Ald. Kirk Duff said three for-
mer city employees were paid “slightly
less than $100,000.”

The former employees are fire chief
Bob Mann, city engineer Ken Hample
and city planner Bill Hadikin.

By releasing the settlement, the city
breaks its own policy of not revealing in-
camera discussions. The city has a poli-
cy not to release information when it re-
lates to labor, land and legal costs.

“It seemed only to make sense,” Duff

said about releasing the settlement

costs. “We’ve sort of been wondering if

there was anything we
could do to alleviate
some of the concern
over the — settlement
costs and we deter-
mined that it was okay
if we released them.al-
together in one lump

sum total.”
wt Duff added that
“slightly less than
Bea urebicinbot steel $100,000” represents
what the city has paid
in settlements over the past 15 months.
He also said releasing the one figure
would end rumors about outlandishly

high settlements.

“Realizing that it was such a great

concern to everybody, we decided to re-
lease the figure,” Duff said following the
meeting. “We knew all along that (the to-
iat wasn't as crazy as it was made out to
e

Castlegar’s new citizens group says it
isn’t buying the figures. Citizens Unac-
cepting Rash Bureaucracy vice: presi-
dent Walter Flux says he wants to know

_ how the settlements were compiled.

“I’m not going to take this figure at
face value,” Flux said, “We have heard
several other figures. We even heard
from one of the dismissed people a figure
that was over half of that.”

Flux declined to say which former em-
ployee he was referring to.

Duff, meanwhile, said the city is not

settlement

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER APPLAUDS CELGAR, PAGE 4