Saanich Peninsula Audited Circulation 12,933 An Island Publishers Newspaper Wednesday July 11,1990 40¢ BUSINESS Ais _ | CALENDAR B4 | CLASSIFIEDS BY |COMMUNITY BI GARDENING | Al4 OPINION A6,11 SPORTS B5 BEYER All GRENBY A18 LANG Al4 @| MUSGRAVE _— AIT NASH eS, TOP OF THE PILE A7 Native youth learn about their UES Review office hours The Review office is located at 9781-Second Street in _ |Sidney, one block south of Si Beacon Avenue. Office hours Gre 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday B.c.,2 V8L 385 — Second class gistration number 0128. Lions fired of wailing by Mare Davis The Review Nearly 18 months after the Cen- tral Saanich Lions Club first asked Central Saanich council for help in building a community centre in Centennial Park, the organization is still waiting for an answer. Central Saanich Lions Club spokesman Harry Johnson told the parks and recreation committee Monday that his group is tired of delays. Committee responded by pass- ing a motion that council give the issue priority when reviewing all the suggestions made in a recently received parks and recreation mas- ter plan. However, Johnson said the issue has been chewed over lo:-g enough and council should give some clear indication as to whether it intends to support the club’s field house project. “We would like a fundamental decision taken by council that they do approve of a field house,” he said. “We wouldn’t like to see this matter disappear again into the bowels of municipal administra- tion.” Johnson was referring to sugges- tions by Ald. Wayne Hunter that council hold further consultations with user groups as to how they would like to see the field house built and operated. Johnson said user groups were consulted exhaustively as part of the study undertaken by the envir- onmental consultants firm PERC which supported the construction of a community centre in its master plan. An architect should be commis- sioned as soon as possible to draw up a blueprint of the field house that user groups could use as a reference tool to ensure their needs are met, Johnson said. An estimate by the municipality of about one and a half million dollars for the project concerned some members of the committee. Ald. Wayne Watkins said there was no money in the municipal coffers to commission an architect at this stage. “There’s no money in the budget and we can’t expect to hire an architect for nothing, even for preliminary plans,” Watkins said. Johnson said funding for the project could be supplemented by provincial Go B.C. grants, but that council should apply for the grants now, rather than later, to ensure the likelihood of obtaining the grants. He also said the Lions Club would provide a $100,000 cash contribution and $150,000 in labor and management towards con- struction costs. The cost of renovating the pre- sent Lions Hall in Brentwood Bay would be better spent on building a field house for the whole com- munity in Centennial Park, he said. Shs Fire victims showered with help by Valorie Lennox The Review The generosity of Greater Vic- ~ toria residents is helping Gary and Brenda Richardson start over after a July 2 fire destroyed their rented home and all their possessions. The couple escaped with only a few clothes minutes before the turn-of-the-century house was engulfed in flames. Since then, floods of help were offered, including a gratefully accepted offer of shelter from neighbors Jack and Heather Waters. “We had people the next morn- ing dropping in with bags of clothes,” Jack Waters said. “The response was phenome- nal. We were floored,” Brenda Richardson said. Another neighbor, John Dam- gaard, has given the couple 2-3 months free rent in a Cadboro Bay cottage. The cottage is slated for rezoning but gives the Richardsons a temporary home. The day after the fire the couple received $220 in cash donations and were given another $150 later in the week. At Goodwill Indus- tries, where Gary Richardson is employed as a driver, a staff fund has raised an estimated $600. Living room furniture, kitchen furniture, clothes, utensils, cutlery, towels and linen were all donated, Richardson said. “T’ve managed to get my whole house together. It feels like home. We couldn’t have done it without all the help.” The Lions-Review Food Bank donated a hamper of food. Other Continued on Page A4 Workers lose as Woodstock closes by Glenn Werkman The Review About 20 employees of the Woodstock Moulding Company located in the Sean Heights area of the Keating industrial park will be out of work at the end of the month. Plant manager Harry Fowler said last week the plant will cease operations July 31 as a result of a new noise bylaw passed by munic- ipal council in Central Saanich. “We all know why. It goes without saying,” Fowler said. “It’s always sad to see 20 jobs go from the community.” The noise bylaw was drafted in response to concerns raised by residents near the wood moulding manufacturer about cyclones that make a high-pitched noise while extracting saw dust and waste from the plant's milling machine. Woodstock, now owned by Sauder Industries of Vancouver, has eight years left on a lease of the building and operated in Cen- tral Saanich for about four and a half years, Fowler said. Fowler said he’s lost trust in the community as a result of the passage of the noise bylaw because he was assured before the company moved to Sean Heights that it could operate there. “TJ don’t have any faith in the community in the long run because there’s nothing to say the bylaw can’t be changed again.” The District of Central Saanich is seeking a court injunction to stop Woodstock from operating after an independent acoustical engineer recently did measure- ments and found the company was making more noise than the 60- decibel limit allowed in a light industrial zone under the bylaw, municipal clerk George Sawada confirmed. Other business people in the community are upset with the pending closure. Brian Timothy of Island Preci- sion Cabinets said he’s “more than a little discouraged by it.” “Tt comes down to the fact that they couldn’t afford to make it quieter. Frankly, I’m disgusted. “That was one supplier I used and I hate the long term ramifica- tions of this,’ Timothy said. “What else is going to be changed by some high pressure group?” Timothy said Woodstock was forced into the situation. He was originally convinced by Fowler to move his business to Central Saa- nich from Cobble Hill in 1982. Now, about $4,-$5,000 worth of monthly supplies Island Precision Cabinets would get from Wood- stock will have to come from Vancouver, Timothy said. Businessman Cory Porter of Smitty’s Brentwood said creative solutions to the problems have to be found. _ “The residents have to share a lot of the blame,” Porter said. He sees the Woodstock closure as a sign of the times and is disappoint- ed that an effort that began in 1965 to make the Keating industrial area the largest industrial area in any Greater Victoria municipality is eroding. : Bryn Road resident Larry Scott, who spearheaded a drive to get the noise bylaw passed, declined to comment until after Woodstock’s announced closure date.