gb Wednesday; November 25, 1992 @ re-Christm< EARN BONUS AIR MILES™ Earn 25 Bonus AIR MILES™ All Week At Safeway! This Week at Safeway you can earn 25 Bonus AIR MILES™ with every *100.00 purchase (excluding Prescription and tobacco oducts). That's 25 extra AIR MILES™ over and above the miles you'd normally earn at way Shop Safeway and see your AIR MILES™ add up fast._ If you're not yet an AIR MILES™ member, join today! It's free. SRT? Just ca | EMaa<\ 1-800-854-8964 P {| and remember NN y 3 one AIR MILES™ Vey a. equals one actual ~~~ mile of travel. STEWING BEEF 3 - 5 lb. pkgs. GROUND COFFEE 98 Edwards. Regular, Fine or ‘a Fine. 737 g tin. NAVEL ORANGES 1 ae Sunkist. Seedless. Size 138's 13/kg HALIBUT BY THE PIECE ag Roast. 1 88 Whole or Half. 3 Ib JIA 4.14/ kg Ib PRICES IN EFFECT...NOV./1992 ORANGE JUICE Wivep | mrs] ei | sar wa 48 Concentrate. one ‘. mL ea Quantity oe ol ahapcaocpigd may not Cold Water. West Coast. Thawed for your Conveince. -88/ 100g Advertised prices in effect at your Castlegar Safeway. SAFEWAY NewsFLASH YUUIY Vip Cloudy with chance of snow flurries Sunday and Monday. @ OUR PEOPLE Castlegar has recently been twinned with Yueyang, China. Although the relationship could create an economic boost here, some people hope that more important things will be gained. page 9 Meghan Van Vliet stepped onto the ice at the Complex last Sunday and when the Castle- gar Figure Skating Club mem- ber stepped off, she had earned a spot on the region’s B.C. Winter Games team. page 12 OK, Castlegar has traffic problems... we all know that. Neil Rachynski offers his two cents worth, saying a few well- placed left-turn signals could go a long way towards elevating our woes. page 15 Farside Norman Letters Our People Crossword Local Sports Work Place Action Ads Wheels '92 Saturday November 28, 1992 75¢ News photo by Neil Rachynski Castlegar and Robson residents got a sneak peek at their long-awaited bridge Thursday. The $26-million span got plenty of attention as curious onlookers flocked to the Fireside Inn to see the shape of things to come. New bridge gets city support Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER The proposed Castlegar-Robson bridge appears to have recveived a majority of thumbs up. The designs for the bridge — including a scale model — were presented to area residents Thursday at the Fireside Inn. “I think it’s just great,” Castlegar resident Burt Campbell said. “I think (the Ministry of Transportation and Highways) met the concerns of the community. They’ve done a great job with the funds they’ve been able to squeeze out of the treasury board.” The model illustrated exactly-where the 487-metre long bridge will extend to on both sides of the Columbia River. On the Castlegar side the bridge will enter slightly down- stream of the old ferry landing. Traffic will not directly inter- sect Columbia Avenue but rather pass over it. Vehicles on their way to the Celgar pulp mill will travel uninterrupted un- derneath the bridge’s approach. On the Robson side of the river, the bridge approach will be west of Brilliant and closer to the river. In addition, approximately four kilometres of approach work will be done. A portion of the Robson Access Road will be relocated, bending more towards the river. The current access road from Parkside Road to Link Road will be leveled and landscaped. Motorists travelling east along the access towards Brilliant will have to stop at an intersection to make a left turn. Most of the comments were very favorable about the traffic flow. A sign-in book that recorded residents comments had re- sponses like “very good” and “liked it” to “not too good for Rob- son walkers.” Castlegar resident Les Davis said he was disappointed. “It should have been a toll bridge,” Davis said. “The mon- ey from the toll would go to build a road from Syringa Creek to Fauquier to provide an access to Vernon and Revelstoke.” Former New Democrat MLA Chris D’Arcy said he would have preferred to have seen the Robson approach “up closer by Pass Creek.” He said it was inconvenient for travellers to and from Robson because they have to double back. “The bridge is being built for the general use of taxpayers,” D'Arcy said. “Truckers are taxpayers too but it’s not being built exclusively for trucks going to Celgar. However, since they put it where they have I think they have done an excellent job.” Meanwhile, tenders for the bridge have been extended an extra week, to Dec. 10. In a news release, project manager Rocky Vanlerberg stated some minor changes need to be made to the construction fill area along the south bank of the river. The extension will allow contractors to review the changes and allow for additional costs to their bids. UNSIGHTLY PREMISES BYLAW TO GET MINISTERIAL APPROVAL, PAGE 3