= 20 Wednesday} August 19, 1992 @ >t el) a BONELESS ROUND | ROAST Outside. Cut from.Canada Grade A Beef. 435 Ikg wh Grade. Limit 1 pkg. FRESH NECTARINES U.S. Grown. No 1 -97/kg. . SERVING THE CROSSROADS OF THE KOOTENAYS SINCE 1947 ~ fete 5 Vii AN Unsettled, moist and cool weather throughout the week- end. @ OUR PEOPLE Bruce and Nancy Ketchum’s cross-Canada unity tour is in Quebec now, and the people of STRIKE CONTINUES ge et 7a a ia a ME gape a i | Saturday August 22, 1992 La Belle Province have been very receptive to the Castlegar couple’s crusade. In-store Bakery B.B.Q. FRUIT CHICKEN BARS Fresh ! 4 9.9 /ks ; page 9 & \ « ‘News photo by Neil Rachynski @ LOCAL SPORTS " Aen STRiver * Wayne Stolz should have || International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 213 members Ed Marbach and Carly Lychak were on the picket lines taken a broom with him to a Thursday as the West Kootenay Power strike entered Day 35. tennis tournament in Vernon this week because he swept : Hi a three of his opponents on the : HAMBURGER BUNS BEEF Or Hot Dog. Selected Varieties. Regular Quality. 5 Ib chub. Pkg. of 12. ; Limit 1. Over limit price Limit 2. 1.18 lb./ 5.900. O¥er limit 54.40 each. works out to price 1.28 ea. 1.94/ kg page 12 | iemories of ill-fated paving bid has Castlegar covering all bases SQUEEZE KETCHUP Advertised prices in effect at your Castlegar Sateway Stores. Quantity Rights reserved. Some items may not be exactly as shown. | L BARON OF BEEF Beek. Take off with the AIR MILES Program at Safeway Safeway is proud to be the exclusive grocer, drug store and florist sponsor of the AIR MILES Program.Just show your AIR MILES card every time you shop at Safeway and you will earn valuable miles towards your much, deserved travel. No Card?, No problem, pick up your application at your Neighborhoéd Safeway and join the thousands of people eorning AIR MILES. @ WORK PLACE Some people have made taking off into the wild, blue yonder a career. And what bet- ter way to do it than by hooking up with a company developing leading-edge aircraft. Farside Harrison Letters Our People Crossword Local Sports Work Place Action Ads Wheels ’92 Neil Rachynski NEWS REPORTER Castlegar’s latest referendum proposal is taking on a fa- miliar spin. City council will try to approve a $1.7 million loan for anew RCMP building by convincing voters that Celgar Pulp Co. will foot the bill. This is a similar tune sung by the city when,it attempted to pass a $1.3 million paving referendum last December. The ini- tiative failed, amid voter complaints that the facts weren't stated in black and white. Councillor Lawrence Chernoff says there is no room for a grey area. “You need to lay it on the line,” Chernoff said. “If Celgar is flipping the bill then they’re paying and that’s it.” Some local residents felt it wasn’t made clear in the last ref- erendum exactly where the money was coming from. And Coun. Kirk Duff says this time around he doesn’t want to see the same mistakes. “(Celgar) is causing our revenues to go up and we will be putting it towards the RCMP building,” Duff said. “We might as well take advantage of our increasing tax base.” The city states that Celgar’s expansion has considerably in- creased the company’s assessed property value. It is going up by a factor of four, from about $25 million to $100 million an- nually. About a year ago the city and the pulp mill negotiated an agreement that would see Celgar’s assessment go up while its tax rate drops. The product of the tax rate and assessment equals taxes paid, an increase of about $400,000 each year for the next three years. The city states taxes generated from Celgar will have al- most doubled by 1994, from $1.2 million to about $2.4 million. The Coalition Unaccepting Rash Bureaucracy wants guar- antees. CURB president Mike O’Connor says, “we desperately need anew RCMP building. But it’s a question of who's going to pay for it. : “Can (council) have a referendum that states ‘if you approve the RCMP building, we will use revenue from Celgar and not increase taxes.” : If that’s the case, O’Connor says it’s fine to depend on the money coming from Celgar. “We have to put our faith in Celgar to run a good operation, which I think they do,” O’Connor said. “We'll deal with doom and gloom when it arrives. Let’s try and think positive.” Duff says residents can bank on having the money. “It’s not just a pie-in-the-sky statement to say the money’s coming from Celgar,” Duff said. “It’s fact. “If it wasn’t for that expansion we wouldn’t be doing too much in Castlegar.”