SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIE Ww “Wednesday, June: 25, 1969 ~ Published at, Sidney, Vancouver Island, : B.C. ; Every Wednesday . By Saanich Peninsula: and GW Islands Review 9825 Third Street John ms Ming Publisher “Member of B.C. Division, Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ “Assn. ‘Mémber of Canadian Weekly Newspapers’. Association “Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Class “A” Newspapers Telephone 656-1151. ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4.00 per. year by mail. SECOND CLASS MAIL REGISTRATION NUMBER 0128 Display advertising rates on application, Wednesday, June 25, 1969 “all Pull Together “Dollars and determination are necessary if the “Sidney Rotary Club. ‘project to provide an Ice Rink “and Curling facilities is to be successful. -» -As well there must be a sincere and active co- a operation. of all service clubs, community organiza- - tions ‘and the three Peninsula municipal councils if a the objective is to be achieved. ~-Past : schemes’ have. foundered on “the: rocks - of doubt and misunderstanding, as the current, project must fail unless there is a common purpose anda os ‘united endeavour, There ‘has to be a sponsoring organization for a : recreational ‘project ‘of such magnitude. | “circumstances it may be thought that the Rotary -Club initiation is appropriate because its. member- : ship. is drawn from all parts of Saanich Peninsula, «Land adjacent to the airport main entrance has been indicated as'a suitable site for a recreational project, and the three municipal councils have been ~ notified: ofan approach to the federal government for a release of ‘property requisitioned ata time ~ of grave emergency, ---> Too. much stress should not be laid: on the pos- = .- sibility, of acquiring. the: property either. asa gift. - or-on lease at a nominal rental, There are alternate “sites, -On the’ question of - locating to the best advantage. there: may. well. be differences «of opinion, Sidney. Ss developing “rapidly; : an even. greater expansion of population is. forecast for Brentwood and Saan- | ~*ichton when sanitary. sewers are installed. Ice Rink and Swimming Pool also are facilities sorely — needed. There: is*no reason why they should “and impetus, The British Columbia. Centennial. 774 ‘Committee .. not both ‘be ‘provided, given the necessary incentive has written to all municipalities seeking local sup- “port for celebrations marking the 100th Birthday - Of British Columbia’s entry into Confederation. “Joint recreational complex would be a worthy ob-- A jective for Sidney, North Saanich and Central Saanich to whrk for. Sidney Rotary’s announced project is. opportune as a step on the way.. For the benefit of the youth . of Saanich Peninsula it is to be hoped that all the authorities and community organizations of the area may be. persuaded | to view a wider horizon, BARNA ANA "REFLECTIONS § Taken from the early files of the Review ‘ 50 VEARi aco” : The biggest celebration in the . history of the Saanich Peninsula will be held in this city next Tuesday, July 1, Extensive ar- rangements for the observance of Dominion Day have been made ‘and a programme has been pro- vided which will eclipse anything of the kind which has been at~ tempted locally in the past. 25 YEARS AGO A new subdivision (Woodland Park) has been opened up in Sid- ney between Third Street and the sea near Roberts’ Bay, adjoin- ing the Goddard property on the south, This choice acreage has been subdivided by Carl Horthy of S. Roberts Real Estate into large lots for home sites, The pro- perty is well treed and has a won- derful bathing beach, known to oldtimers as “Brennan's Beach’’, it has been surveyed and roads cut through te give access to all the lots to the sea, 10 YEARS AGO Sidney Rotary Club members heard Wing Commander D. R, MacLaren, D.S.0., D.F.C., M.C. and Bar, one of Canada’s fore- most flying aces in World War I give an historical sketch of fly~ ing in Canada from the first flight on February 23, 1909, when the Silver Dart flew across the ice of Bras D’Or Lake at Bad- dock, Nova Scotia to a forecast of flying in 1986. ‘Library Delegates Vancouver Island Regional Library was represented at the Canadian Library Association Conference held June 7 - 14 in St, Johns, Newfoundland, by Chairman of the Board Mrs, Nell Horth of NorthSaanich and Lib- rarjan Fred T, White of Nanaimo, Mr. White was elected to the executive Council of the Asso- ciation in a recent Canada wide poll and will be on the Couns cil for a three year period, One of the themes af the con- ference dealt with the automa- tion and mechanization taking place in the libraries of Canada. Speaking to the Library Trustee Section of the C.L.A., Mrs, Horth explained the computer techniques used by the Vancouver Island Regional Library and aroused great interest because this library has pioneered tn the use of machine readable informa- tion and is known across Canada for its forward looking policies. As a direct result of the repe resentation from the Vancouver Island Regionai Library, the lib- rary has been chosen as the first stop in a cross-Canada tour to take place early in September for regional librarians from Que~ bec and other Eastern provinces, Pensioner Trip The Sidney branch of the Old Age Pensioners Organization will run a bus trip to Grouse Mount- ain and Stanley Park on Juty 39 leaving Sidney at 8:30 am, For reservations please cone tact the secretary, R. Thampson, 2307 Amelia Ave. or phone 6566 1723, Members may take visi« tors from oui of town, Return fare $6.23, “disgusting. In the. Report from England Dear. Sir: ' Before leaving for Englandona long delayed visit, my wife and I promised. a number ..of our friends on the Peninsula that we ~ would send back news and views of the Old Country’. We've been. there for three months now and have quite a few thoughts, I can assure you Sir! May. we call on your excellent paper to assist? . The English weather is still No-one in his right mind could possibly elect to live in itt Plan a pienie or a4 ram- ble? Impossible! We were rained out twice before we could even put Basingstoke behind us. The roast capon was ‘all soggy and the pate tasted like the Cam- embert. We were lucky with the chablis though. Once, when we did actually get.to Stonehenge in. reasonably dry weather, the place was swarming. with tourists, Dreadful people! Bulgy-eyed Pigeons “London is stil! charming in "many: ways... The. magnificent strength of the new tall buildings and the old spires and domes. never look better than in ‘the blue-pink quiet’ of the even- ing after you’ve had a good din- ner. hop around merrily and the bulgy- eyed pigeons flutter down from Nelson's column as they did when Iwas a mere lad, Never have seen such crowds though! And traffic!. New. York, Chicago or Vancouver are infinitely more disciplined and wellordered. The English insist on whizzing around in their absurd little cars as if they are fleeing from an on- coming tornado, Demure little old ladies scorch around the leafy crescents of. darkest suburbian Pinner in a manner redolent of the -Keystone Cops, It’s.more than your life is worth to. step off the curb to allow someone to pass you. ~ ; The, food tastes good; no two Ways about iti. Perhaps it is because the English housewives | shop daily for meat, vegetables and bread.. It’s quite a ritual, ‘Red-nosed, | blue-lipped and determined, . they brave the dreary, dripping wetess, the bit- ing cold and fog to push their Mitle two-wheeled shopping curts. down into’ Barnes each day, Drawn and pained, they clutch their string hags and stride for- ward in their sensible shoes and lisle stockings to. do battle with the dreadful greengrocer. The refrigeration has arrived in Enge -land-well.enough, but the people. - don’t seem to understand what to do with it! Saucy Young Madam The usual attitude in the shops and. stores. is -far from good. Many of the clerks consider they BOOK The littie sparrows still © “a growing” youngster. By E. PHILIP TEECE are aoing you a favour. when they serve you. You Americans will have to learn to wait like any- one else’’, said one saucy young madam to me in Bromley one day, if you please,” Everyone is an Aiverican who comes from the far. side. of. the Atlantic. A maple leaf lapei pin isn't. of much heip, The younger generation over there seems hardly to have heard of Canada, In- the light of our vague foreign policy and fence sitting over the years, is it really any wonder? The hotels are disastrous, Next time we visit I’m going to rent a trailer, Fl ship out one from Vancouver if must! Then we Gan hook it up to our Bent- ley and be independent. With indifferent tood, unwilling-ser- vice, uncomfortable rooms, the image .of the warm friendly hostelry with ‘mine’ jolly host becomes a. gross anachronism, I've yet to: get my boots pro- perly. polished, Nine times out of ten nobody even bothers. to touch them when I placed them outside my door at night. English Overeat I've enjoyed some good. beer though, I must say. This draught stuff out of the keg is splendid. It’s cheap, doesn’t go to your head and is.good for the whole system, More’s the pity we don’t produce the stuff in Canada and sell it in ‘-*al? pubs, The half-timbered «4d thatch roofs “are still to. be’ seen here, but — I must say that “fruit machines”, music boxes and neon lights don’t do much for them, The ezcing that goes on in the pubs is re- markable, Flans, pork pies, scotch eggs, sandwiches of all kinds, rolls, cheeses, sausages and pickled onions; every pub is full of food and young and. old alike eat their heads off.: The ‘English eat far too much food for their health and comfort rm convinced, Phone calls are sixpence, You can still go around the lighthouse. ° in -a- row boat, but no longer for a “tanner’’, -Milk is sold in pints ~ scarcely a swallow for * Slived bread is a hallmark of the -work- ing class and nice’? people dow t buy fish and chips from the local shop, .so I'm told. Pm. aulraid these social: niceties escape my comprehe asion and sound rather ridiculous to a Canadian, : Short Mini Skirts ~ The mini skirts are very very short. I rather like them, I admit. My wife doesn’t, Rug= ger players wear awfully long ~ hair even at Twickenham, but they tackle just as hard us we did and run perhaps a litile fas- ter Pd.osay!. The trains are speedy and reliable; splendid things. and full of excitement for people of any age, CHAT | the wild, swirling imagery of the new psychedelic art is rather bewildering to many (of us, it has become basic to almost every area of design from neckties to television cemmer- Although cials, Even children in their drawings imitate the kaleidosco- pic patterns of the new art. What is the souree of this powerful inspiration’ Robert Masters and Jean) Houston exe plore this question in their fase ecinating survey, ‘Psychedelic Art’, The new art had its origin, the authors tell us, in the ex- periences of LSD-users who re- corded their reactions through the conventional media of penand brush. The products of this ex- perimentation are displaved in this book's stunning colour and half-tone plates, Flipping threugh the pages of “Psychedelic Art”, the reader himself is carried into a vision- ary world, where the bizzare and the beautiful are inextricably mixed, In the intricate details of these strange paintings, the viewer sees the hidden essence of things through the eves of a drug-user, tn the text of this remarkable book, the artists describe in words the effect which psychee delice drugs have had upon their lives and work. But, although most of them ¢lain. te have achieved a new insight into truth and reality, their paintines are characterized by a irightening aura of unreality. In even the most beautiful pleces of this sychedelic art, there seems to be an underlying theme of ugli- ness and terror. In fact the paintings tend to argue against the authors’ mes< suge that the use of LSD is harmless and even benefielal., The fre= quency of imagery such as skulls, distorted frees, and creatures wrtthing in agony, seems tu ine dicate an effect which is some- thing less than beneficial, “Psychedelic Art’? is a piu- neer study, of interest to every artist, Its colourful, unpredic+ table patterns are probably the hasis for much of what will be drawn and painted for many years to came, . celebrations to elderly citizens and these things © gor 9 specific area of the moon; Legion Crosswords, - in the text of the book: Cornish pasties, terr ible coffee and ‘pink-cheeked .; youngsters, : they are all to be seen in Eng- land. The patronizing: ‘‘know-it- alis”’ are there too, Far too often’ we've run-up against the type of arrogant bligh= ter who still believes that all Englishmen are by birthright bet- ° ter than anybody else, They tell you so in their tactless way.too. The sooner they adjust to Eng- land’s changed status and role in the world the sooner the Eng~’ lish will become popular again, Ridiculous Old Buffers My wife and Tare glad we chose the New World rather than the old when we left India, By Gadfrey, I'd haie to have to be- come Mke some of these ridic- uluus, old buffers I see around me avthe Club! Poor devils; they’ve all been dead to all‘intent and” purpose for at least forty years; some of them fifty! So much for London and Eng- land. My advice to our ex- patriot friends in British Colum- bia is this ~ come on over for a holiday by all means, but don’t expect too’ much whatever yuu do- and, be'sure to have your ret'rn Victoria tickets in your wallet. Yours ete, Colonel James 5, Browne-: Hardinge (Ret’d.) Boodles Club, Mayfair, — London, W.1. ELDERLY CITIZENS Dear Sir, : The Government of British Co- lumbia has proclaimed the week of June 29 to July 5 as Pioneer and Elderly Citizens’ Week in recognition of the real contri- bution: made by.-our senior citi- zens, to. the wellbeing of the ‘Province, Iam sure there are events being planned. for our. July i recognize our are well in hand for. the festi- vities. As counseller for Sidney and North Saanich senior citizens, ‘for. the Division on Aging, B.C, ask all Government, I (would Church -Groups, Service Clubs, ‘and organizations” who have visiting commitiees for sen- jor citizens who ure in. nursing homes, rest homes, and those disabled veteraay and shul-ins » at heme and in hespital, to make 2 special effort during this week, to are given a memento of this their own week, Let them see, with love and FOR ONLY see. that. all are visited,-and_- kindness, that wé_on the outside. EUROPE etters To The Editor < they have done for this:commu- nity in the years gone by. - For -any. further information regarding this matter please con- tact. ‘me* al my~ residence ‘or phone 656-1730, ; UW, E. Briggs 9370 Orchard Ave., Sidney. APPRECIATION Dear Sir, I would like to express through the kindness of your. paper, the appreciation of the officers, staif and cadets. To the Kinsmen Club of Sid- ney and the Air Cadet Committee in particular our many. thanks for their sponsorship of air ca- dets. It is little realized. that through their efforts. many of our local lads gain a tremendous start in life, particularly as our prime object in air cadets is to train these young men to be | ~ better citizens. for. this great country of Canada, The air environment ‘of our Canadian forces plays a great part in’ the support of the air cadet movement, but without the Kinsmen Club. paying the bills and giving us,the support that is needed I feel certain we would. not. flourish as we have over the last 11 years... I should like at the same time ty thank the people of Sidney, Brentwood, and Saanich for their continued support in turning out for our many functions, and also | to you and the staff of your grand little paper, Many thanks for keeping 676 Squadron Air Cadets to the forefront of the local news. Capt. D. Price (A.F.R.) Commanding Officer, “THE WAY IT LOOKS Dear Sir, “Amazenient?* is the word most suited to the life of today. A little group of men takeoff they take pictures of the moon, close-ups, too!.... They are in motion at an unbelievable speed, © .and their craft is brought- back tothe earth at terrifying velo- city. touch-down on the sea at a pre- arranged - ‘spot... in the Pacific Ocean. What-a lunar experience, yet assuredly they are not luna- tics!