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JULY 14, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 84
CREATION OF A SUMMER CAMP
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Seeking out the mysteries of science yesterday at the Creation Discovery Science Camp at Gateway City Church are Calum Laird (left) William Shin, Hudson Arnott, Colton Wale, Caleb DeJong and Kaleb Sorgen. The boys are among a group of young scientists who are making discoveries at various stations and receiving hands-on education related to all aspects of world creation.
Council pours out rejection as wine sales get nod ANDREA KLASSEN
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By early fall, customers at SaveOn-Foods in Sahali will be able to purchase a bottle of vino with milk and eggs. At its meeting on Tuesday, Kamloops city council voted 5-1 to allow the grocery chain to sell wine on its shelves at its location in the Columbia Place shopping centre, reversing a controversial decision in May. Steve Moriarty, director of wines for the Overwaitea Food Group, said the store will begin setting up for wine sales as quickly as possible,
with the goal of opening a special wine section with about 1,000 wine selections in a few months. “The store is pretty full, so it does take us a while to move things around,” he said. “As we move it around, we’ll find a home for everything. We won’t lose any of our products we normally sell to our customers on a day-to-day basis.” The store will also hire a team of employees to work exclusively in its wine department, Moriarty said. Save-On will sell exclusively B.C. VQA wines — a distinction many councillors who changed their votes cited as important. Al Deacon, owner of the Fox
’N Hounds liquor store in Sahali and one of the main opponents of Save-On’s first application, said he still feels the grocery chain has an unfair competitive advantage over private retailers. “Unfortunately they can sell a whole lot more different commodities than we’re allowed to sell. We can’t even sell milk, which is a mix for a lot of the products that we sell,” he said. Coun. Tina Lange said she was initially concerned the store would be able to sell extremely low-cost wines, as long as they were produced in B.C. While she voted to allow Save-
On’s wine section, Lange said she’s concerned about liquor sales becoming more and more commonplace. “This hasn’t been an easy thing to make a decision on,” she said. “The public thinks why wouldn’t you just approve it, it’s great. Of course it’s great — wouldn’t it be great to have it at Home Depot? At the gas station?” Coun. Dieter Dudy, who supported Save-On’s first bid to sell wine as well, said council needs to listen to residents, many of whom were critical of the city’s first decision on the matter. “It’s our role as councillors not
to impose our personal beliefs on situations that come before us,” he said. “We have a duty of care to listen to the public and we have a duty to reflect what the public is telling us. There were 138 submissions in favour of this application and four against.” Coun. Denis Walsh cast the lone vote against grocery store sales, arguing Save-On-Foods should create a store within a store — as it would be required to do to sell beer and hard liquor — if it wants to sell any kind of alcohol. See WALSH, A6
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