ESTABLISHED 1912) -BIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR. - Residents will have: an oppo “tunity to observe the SRN-6 Hov- -see for themselves. ithat..as many. as possible will “businessmen, Sidney: waterfront demonstration » ereraft. in’ action at a special .* “on Sunday, April) 13, at 11,00 - am, fast passenger service between ‘Vancouver : City. and south: Van- couver Island Spurned by the” communities: of . >” Oak ‘Bay and* Cordova ‘Bay It is-expected that the-Hover- -eraft will make -at. ‘least. two - arrivals’: “and. departures * i demonstration, and invitations to take’ .a trial ride have been is-. sentative of the community. | WATER BILL| BONUS. “Brentwood Waterworks Dis- ‘trict is. celebrating its 20th“An- niversary in handsome fashion. The trustees: ‘have ‘resolved te. grant ° “ft customers in good standing a dividend in the: form of a receipted walter bill for the . March-April billing. Funds for | -the mass bonus are drived from “a surplus revealed in the acounts. - for 1968. . "Annual. meeting of the District will be held at Brentwood ele- mentary school at 8p.m. on Wed- nesday, April 9, On this ocea- sion: meritorious scrolls will be presented to all past tructees. Plans for the future of the Dis-7 trict-in relation to the proposed sewer and building programs will be a.topic for discussion... The Minister for Lands and Forests has ‘been invited to attend, Re- freshments will be served by the Brentwood Bay Girl Guides. “BREAK IN AT GURTON’S “Shortly after 2:00 a.m. ‘on March. 31 an R.C.M.P. constable on patrol noticed that a glass window. on the door of Gurton's. Shell Service Station, East Saa- nich Road, had been broken. Two cases of shell oil had been stolen. R.C.M.P. are investigating. CHANGE OF DATE The next regular meeting of Central Saanich council will be heid at the municipal hall on Tuesday, April 8, at @ p.m. - sued-io about 60 persons repre-. ; “One wheel and broken. ‘glass, tell their own “story of a near tragic accident in, Sidney. CAREENING CAR CUTS SWATH > ae 1968 Dodge Dart éaréened Jearly: Thursday evening, level- overturning a boat and smashing two cars: As the: Dodge tra= velled this path of destruction, it narr owly! missed killing a young boys: 7 At the wheel of the automobile when it went out of control was Mr. O.H. Henricksen of 2537 Shore Acres Road. Douglas Anderson, 13 years old, of 2445 Amelia and a stu- dent -in grade five at» Sidney Elementary School, gave his ac- count of the accident: “} was going to meet my sis- ter, I was wheeling my bike along because I had ho light on it, All of a sudden:a car going very, fast hit the parked car and I dived behind the telephone post.”? “The car seemed to hit the parked car about three times and then it went over the grass on the other side of the road and hit a blue car parked in that yard. [ ran to Dick Scott's house and asked them to call the ambulance ‘and the police. When the police came I told them what had happened.*’- The R.C.M.P. reported that Beacon Avenue Goes Roundabout Way A roundabout is in the plans for Beacon Ave. It will be situated opposite the Sidney Hotel across from the Customs and Immigration building. Pending council approval, work on it will begitias soon as paving of Beacon Ave. and First Street is completed. The roundabout will be a similar type design as the one situated where the Washington State Ferries come in. There will be grass and fiowers along with a totem pole and a cedar sign welcoming tourists to Sidney. «We want to inake Sidney as attractive as possible so that tourists will be interested in coming here and spending a few days,’’ commerted W.C, Seward, Pobift Works Superintendent wildly down Third Street, Sidney,’ ing fences, damaging a garage,. ‘they found Mr. Hendricksen pin- ned behind his’ “steering “wheel. He was. bleeding extensively and. was suffering. from head cuts:" consequently « an -ambulance was’: summoned and. the. injured man: was conveyed: to Rest Haven Hos- a a paeee ‘Near vietim, Douglas Anderson, pital. - ~ Regional Takes Six years since the authority advised that. sanitary conditions in the Brentwood area constitute a hazard to public health, Central © Sadnich. has lodged with a Regional Board a $2. milllon.. sewage disposal scheme designed to service all major concentrations of popula- tion within the municipality. The. plan has been accepted by the Regional Board in prin- ciple, and providing no signifi- cant opposition from property owners is encountered it is pos- sible that council will decide to initiate the scheme without re~ course fo a referendum, said Mayor A.M. Galbraith fn an in- terview. If there is any. doubt of full approval a referendum in late summer or early fall is likely; a 60 percent majority would be necessary for suc- cess. Mayor Galbraith indicated his personal satisfaction with the plans prepared by Russell E. Potter and Associates, but said there may well be modifications to adjust to the overall trank sewer regional network. Also thé financial structure has yet io be settled: influencing factots would include the rate of interest chargeable on botrow- ing, the yet to be decided con- tribution of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the degree of assistance obtainable ftom the provincial government. health I Board Over When arrangements are com- plete, and the Pollution. Control Board is satisfied, council in- tends to circularize ratepayers in full detail. One or more public meetings will be called to“give information and the op- portunity for close questioning, A high level of acceptance could then encourage cotincil to pro- Continued On Page 2 Brentwood “Oriole” Incident The 32-foot trawler “Carol Ann’, crewed by owner 0, Coty of Victoria and a companion ran aground on a reef hetween Creed's Landing and Daphne Is- land, Brentwood Bay, on Mon- day afternoon. She hit on stern and keel at about three-quarter speed but suffered no material damage. A line was secured from the ship’s trawling pole te a marker beacon some 50-feet away to prevent capsizing as the tide was falling, and at 930 p.m. she was high and dry on the rocks, Rescuers had to use pups as she was refloated and the vessel righted herself at 4 a.m. She how lays on the marine ways of Gilbert's Boat and Guide Service. The Nor th endof theSaa- nich. brought into: the spotlight “as a ‘possible location for - a hovercraft port. Whether it. bein, Swartz. Bay, - or. "Sidney “{tself this’ column, for one, heartily welcomes - the. idea. . Some residents have X= essed concern for their’ peace’ ard quiet, shoulda - vercraft port. be located _ : -Within hearing :distance® of heir homes... Others, per- “haps, fearing the advent of © ‘change are equally against he idea. : hey: are . ‘more than ¢ en- . District and was chairman of the board at the time of his passing. ~ Mr... Wadhams was born. in many years by Shell Oil.Co. in South America. His work was in the heavy industrial field. On his retirement the family moved to Sidney in 1950, residing at. he “operated a‘service station in vote, his time to community ac- tivities: His training in drilling “and pipeline. work in South Am-* ‘erica ‘stood -him “in: good stead ‘with the local: waterworks dis- “The deceased spént many hours “BY PAT MANNING |? 5 child's dream world when I en~, tered the kitchen of Stevenson's las Street in Victoria. anima! world on parade, were. and ducks - all jn chocolate. the corner. | middle of January,’’ said Jim, Telford, owner of Stevenson's Chocolates. ‘ We make all our chocolate by hand and then care- fully store it at an even tem- perature, The Easter chocolate we make over a three-month period is all sold in four days.*’ The people at Stevenson's have 4 long tradition in getting ready for Easter. The business was established in 1912. Jim Tel- ford took over what had been a fatiily enterprise a year and a4 half ago. He inherited all the wonderful, old receipes some over 150 52ars od and soi handwritten dated 1324, 1325, Continged On Page 3 Peninsula has been =" “hams died in’ hospital_on March; 1°31, following a short illness.’ He.,|: served for many. years as a. trustee of Sidney Waterworks’ “England “and was. employed for. 2567 Beaufort Road. For a time: Sidney but disposed of it. to de-.- ‘trict: and he contributed exten-., sively towards its improvement. in the. care. of the blind and his.| It was like walking into a flomemade Chocolates on Doug < There,. ined up on a_ table. like the. small chickens and bunnies, large roosters ‘and rabbits, elephants’ - Standing proudly they each await~ ed their turn to be packaged in: boxes ready for the big. day. . i ‘Obviously Easter was justaround ‘tin fact, we. have been pree : paring for Easter since the ~ “titled, to ‘their “opinions, . however wrong they might : bes : ~ For this area, a hover- om F craft shuttle service to the _ mainland would .be a boon. The noise. factor -is less than that of: a°single-en- =~ gine seaplane . taking - off and no noisier. than many of. today’s giant. outboard -:. engines; Furthermore; the economic . boost, :to Sidney, “should” a. hovercraft port be: established here; is. something ‘ “not to ‘be dis- counted, “Nanaimo. Mayor Frank os “Ney: has been more’ than. Sidney “municipal* council ‘to’ di in office... A by- election: will be: held “to elect a ‘successor’ to complete his term which expires at the end of “this” year. =: Alderman Wadhams _ is. “sur= vived by his widow, Marjorie, at | home; one son, Terence of Van-"1 couver; ‘and .. two grandchildren. Funeral services will be cons. ducted .by Rev... C. HH. Whitmore: -from McCall’s: Floral Chapel on Thursday ‘at 3.15 p.m. Crema= tion. will follow. The family has gratefully. declined floral tri- ‘butes * ‘but suggested -that ‘dona-:|° -tions.may. be made’ to he: Can- ao adian Cancer. Society 4 Flag. at- Sidney. ‘municipal: h was lowered to, half. mast on th enthusiastic “about hover -eraft. service .to his ‘city, thas: been~in, service now: for .. just’: over.