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Rosko restates no support for Games

Sidney Mayor Marie Rosko
stated emphatically Monday that
council will not be changing its
mind about contributing Town dol-
lars to the Victoria Commonwealth
Games.

“I repeat again that council has
not changed its position — we will
not be funding the Commonwealth
Games as there appears to be no
benefit to offset the cost to the
community,” she said in her
address to council. ~

She attended a Games Society
briefing last Wednesday along
with other politicians and senior
staff from a variety of municipalit-

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ies and organizations.
She denounced a Times-
Colonist story on her decision to

attend, saying it “attempts to

create a news story from basically
no data.”

The story quoted her as saying
the previous council may have
been “a little remiss’ by not
looking at the possible benefits the
Games will provide Sidney.

She told aldermen she went to
last week’s meeting to gather
information for “the many Sidney
residents who have professed a
high degree of interest.”

She also wanted to investigate a

Hall Saturday. The show attracted an estimated 4,000

VISITOFS.

report that three buildings valued
at $500,000 would be built in the
Greater Victoria region as “legacy
foundations.”

“With the need for more addi-
tional space at the Panorama Lei-
sure Centre and the statement that
the buildings could be built to
specifications, I undertook to
investigate the possibility,” she
said, adding she will follow devel-
opments in this regard.

She also said she was curious
about what the Games Society was
up to.

She said “we have to be cogniz-
ant of organizations such as the
Games as they could certainly
tend to infringe on our residents
well-being and lifestyle.”

Rosko cited possible congestion
on the Pat Bay Highway during the
1994 event as an example.

She noted that of the 1,524
volunteers who have signed up
with the society, nine per cent
were from the Peninsula. There are
application forms at Town Hall
and the new Saanich Peninsula
Chamber of Commerce office on
Third Street.

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