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Threat of rain showers
throughout the weekend.

@ OUR PEOPLE

Selkirk has done it again.
The Kootenay college has run
asuccessful Japanese student
exchange for the sixth yearina

row.
page 9

@ WORK PLACE

Former CKQR news director
and current News reporter Neil
Rachynski is having troubles
understanding his old station’s

- page 12

@ LOCAL SPORTS

The West Kootenay Mens
Soccer League is braced to
start the second half of the
41992 season. The only ques-
tion to be asked is whether the
Dexter’s Dynamos are as well.

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Castlegar Cheerleaders Chantelle Sutton, Natalie Pacheck and Holly Waywood (from left to right) practiced their moves at
Stanley Humphries Secondary School Thursday to ensure their spot on the Senior Rockers squad next season.

CITY SILENCE ENDS

Castlegar appoints lawyer to study $24,000 Price Waterhouse report

Neil Rachynski

NEWS REPORTER More report

The veil of silence has been pulled away.

: report we know we can release.”
Bill 50 is the province’s new Information and
Privacy Act. The government passed legislation

Castlegar city council decided Wednesday to coverage for it in June but the Act has yet to be tested.

take steps towards the release of a two-year-old page 4

study that examines the city’s overall operations.

After an ‘in camera’ meeting, the city decided
to hand the whole matter over to Victoria lawyer Murray
Rankin. Rankin, an advisor on the recently passed Provincial
Freedom of Information and Privacy Act, will decide what can
and cannot be published.

The move comes compliments of Councillor Kirk Duff who
urged the city to reconsider its position on the document. Un-
til this week, council had said the contents of the report were
too sensitive for public consumption.

Mayor Audrey Moore has earlier said the contents of the
$24,000 study would not be made public “because it dealt with
a lot of personalities.”

Although he wouldn’t give details of the special meeting,
Duff said he “received council's full support.

“I’m real happy,” Duff said, “It works well for everybody.
The government gets to test its new legislation and we get a

Duff says an important element of council’s
decision is that they have agreed to be bound by
Rankin’s recommendations.

“Without that we wouldn’t have the full cred-
ibility (the report) deserves,” Duff said.

Coun. Doreen Smecher says Rankin was asked to step in
“because there are personnel and items that are identifiable
who have a right to privacy.”

She says the announcement was made immediately be-
cause “it was important that council’s actions be communi-
cated.

“You'll know you'll have every piece of information we can
possibly give,” Smecher said.

Duff says it was just a matter of time before the report was
made public.

“It’s something that was inevitable. I had lots of people com-
ment on it but I don’t know if you'd call that pressure. The
(Castlegar News) certainly sped up (the process) a little, es-
pecially when it rans name on the front page like that.”

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