Three sue Re

TWO TOP Skeena Cel-
lulose officials, and a for-
mer co-worker, are suing
their old employer Repap
‘Enterprises for a total of
$823,000 in severance pay
they say is owed to them
following the company’s
change of ownership,

-The claim stems from
clauses in their employment
agreements that call for
severance of double their
annual pay should they be
terminated within two years
of a change of control of the
” company.

That’s exactly what hap-
pened last year when Repap
Enterprises left B.C. sub-
sidiary Repap B.C. in the
hands of its bankers, leading
eventually to the province
buying majority control of
the company, which was
renamed Skeena Cellulose.

The three suing employees
are Pat Ogawa and Rand
Menhinick, who were top
executives based at the Ter-
race sawmill, and Tom
Boughner, formerly general

manager at the Prince
Rupert pulp mill, now reas-
signed to plan a major up-
grade there.

Ogawa and Boughner, al-
though they now work for
Skeena Cellulose, say they

-, were terminated from their .
jobs with Repap on Nov, 27,-

1997.

Ogawa says he’s owed:

$250,000 (twice his salary)
while Boughner says he’s
owed $342,000 ($320,000

of which is twice his salary;

the remaining $22,000 is to
pay out a vehicle lease).

Menhinick, who was
terminated earlier and who
does not now work for
Skeena Cellulose, says he’s
owed $230,360 ($216,360
of which is twice his salary
and $14,000 for a vehicle
lease payout).

Named as the defendant is
Repap Enterprises Inc. of
Montreal, the overall com-
pany which used to belong
to George Petty,

The suit states Repap En-
terprises is or was the owner

pap for pay

Pat Ogawa |

of Repap British Columbia
Inc,, the company whose as-
sets are now called Skeena
Cellulose.

Repap B.C. fell into court-
‘ordered bankruptcy pro-
tection in March, 1997 after
Repap Enterprises had
walked away from it, after
loading it down with debt,
Starting a lengthy financial
crisis in the northwest which
still has yet to be settled.

Rand Menhinick

The suit was filed in the’
B.C. Supreme Court March
10.

The trio say they were
asked to formalize employ-
ment agreements with
Repap in June 1996, provid-
ing for the severance
amounts should there be a

change in control of the,

company within two years.
They also want their legal
fees covered by Repap.

CFNR returns to carrying CFMI

THE ON again and off
. again saga of the ability of a
northern radio station to
carry southem programming
appears to have come to a
conclusion.

CFNR is once more carry-
ing the Rock 101 CFMI sig-
nal from Vancouver be-
tween 6 p.m, and 6 a.m. and
on weekends.

The station pulled the sig-
na] for one night last week
after competitor Skeena
Broadcasters asked the Ca-
nadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Com-
mision (CRTC) to appeal

what CFNR is doing,
But the CRTC, which
regulates radio stations,

quickly told Skeena Broad-.

casters there was nothing to
appeal.

In a letier to the private
broadcaster, the CRTC said
conditions of CFNR’s exist-
ing licence were sufficient
for it to pick up CFMI.

CNFR had been carrying
an Alberta country and
westem station as its wrap
around signal when it
wasn’t doing its own pro-
gamming but wanted
CFMI’s rock programming

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CFNE station manager
Clarence Martin called last
week’s events hectic.

The station heard just two
weeks ago it could carry
CFMI and began to do so
when it was told Skeena
Broadcasters asked for an
appeal. —

“We didn’t know what
was going on,’’ said Martin
prior to the exchange of cor-
respondence between the
CRTC and Skeena Broad-

casiers.

CENR first began carrying
CFMI last fall, without the
benefit of a licence in-
tepretation from the CRTC.

Skeena Broadcasters
protested then and the signal
was pulled while CFNR
sought CRTC approval.

That approval was
received the end of Febru-
ary, giving CFNR the green
light — until the request for
an appeal was filed by
Skeena Broadcasters.

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