CHOCOLATE BARS Mars Bar « Snickers *> M&M's 165-285 G. 438 STEWING BEEF 4.37/kg. tb. 4 9s Limit 1 ROGERS FLOUR 4° Price $5.48 10 kg. All varieties. Overlimit POTATOES All varieties washed .42 LS FRESH CABBAGE ALL VARIETIES ¢ .42 kg. LY ORANGE & MINUTE MAIDe3S5 mL MULTIGRAIN BLACK FOREST HAM 100 G. 4% PARKAY MARGARINE 1.36 kg. Overlimit 2.48 1% LEMON MERINGUE 99 BEEF: SAUSAGE eT k: SAFEW, baer eo Prices in Effect Oct. 20-Oct. 26 Thursday & Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m, We bring it all together * We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities. Saturday, October 19, 1991 m YOUR CASTLEGAR SAFEWAY First in service and quality! SERVING THE CROSSROADS OF THE KOOTENAYS SINCE 1947 FastFACTS ON THE RECORD election ploy by the government questions on the CALL THE October 23, 1991 75¢ mi 2 Sections, A&B Castlegar Red Cross o ut for blood again with annual drive @ 350 units in Castlegar a reasonable goal, Dr. Keith Merritt, chairman of the local donor clinic says MEWS STAFF The Canadian Red Cross Society will be holding its annual blood donor clinic Thursday between 2 p.m. and 8 the Community “We are hoping to reach our goal of 350 units,” said Dr. Keith Merritt, chairman of the local blood donor clinic committee. “It’s essential that we reach that goal,” he added, explaining that the turnout is needed to keep the Red Cross mobile unit return- ing every year. Last year, Castlegar residents gave 354 units of blood while in 1989, they gave 362. Merritt said the procedure is ly safe, and donors should not worry about contract- news photo by Ed Mills ing diseases or being injured in Orla G' any way. , of the C Red Cross has been posting notices around town about Thursday's Blood donor clinic. “There are no dangers involved is transferred directly from the in the process.” donor to the collecting container. He said sterile needles areused Since nothing is given to the to protect the donor and the blood _ donor, the entire procedure is safe from infection. However, Merritt said some people do faint and cautioned donors to eat before the procedure. Donors must also be between Please see DONOR page A2 Referendum questions just a Socred election ploy: Conroy roy said Monday. “But (new B. Cc. Premier Mike) Harcourt has sai he will honor the decisions made in the referendum.” results from Elec- tions British Columbia showed @ New Rossland-Trail MLA Ed Conroy says questions supported by B.C. voters will be hard to implement, but the NDP contin ae goverriment hag promised = evinclal election ballot last Thursday. The first question asked voters if they want the right to vote for the removal of their MLA, and the second asked if they want the right to vote on some proposed legislation. — 4 Conroy said the questions were TOT MIA Ed Genter ced Mon. “an attempt by the Socreds to show voters that they are demo- “I see it as an.election by cratic.” However, the questions are the government of the day,” Con- 80 broad-based and lacking in about 80 per cent in favor of both, background that they would be difficult to employ by the letter, he said. “There's probably a thousand ways to recall an MLA,” Conroy said. He added that his opposition to the wording of the questions does not mean he opposes the concepts. “They ask for more input from the people,” Conroy said. “How can you argue with that?” Chris Roberts, chief returning officer at Elections British Columbia, said Tuesday that pre- liminary results showed 81.01 per cent in favor of the MLA recall question and 83.04 per cent in fa- vor of the legislation question. Please see ELECTION page AS 60SECONDS je NEWS BRIEF Rossland-Trail votes in favor of questions Voters in the Rossland-Trail riding showed overwhelming support for the two referendum questions asked of them on Thursday's provincial election. Here are the final results for the rid- ing: Question A: Should voters be giv- ‘en the right, by legislation, to vote be- tween elections for the removal of their Member of the Legislative Assembly? YES: 11,662 —82% NO: 2,575 — 18% Question B: Should voters be giv- en the right by legislation to propose questions that the Government of British Columbia must submit to voters by referendum? YES: 11,754 — 85% NO: 2,045 — 15% Statistics provided by the Rossiand/Trail retuming office. @ SPORTS Teachers back behind the wheel A decision allowing teachers to drive buses on weekend trips was made Tuesday night for the students’ sake, said the president of the Castie- gar and District Teachers’ Association. Coaches at Stanley Humphries secondary school were calling it a vic- tory for their programs and the stu- dents. page B1 Socreds dead in B.C. political picture “For ail intents 85 THE NEWSPAPER YOU’VE COME HOME TO FOR 44 YEARS *