Opinion Woodsiock Mouldings: sign of ihe times? The announced closure of the Woodstock Mouldings plant in Central Saanich has business people in the Keating industrial area shaking their heads. What better place to put industry but in an industrial park, they ask? 5 Other noisy industrial operations in the Keating industrial area have good reason to be worried about long-term investment. Eventually the community will expand, more residential development will follow and someone will complain. The recently approved community plan calls for limited growth over the next five year period. That’s a mixed blessing for the business community because, although it’ll slow the growth of residential areas toward business areas, it also stamps out increased revenue from more local consum- ers. Members of council were between a rock and a hard place. The residents, they saw, had a valid point to make. It’s understandable that homeowners want peace and quiet when they go home at night. Several gave evidence of young people who experienced difficulty studying for high school tests because of interfer- ence from the noise. Whose fault was it? The only and easiest one to blame for this whole mess is a past municipal council — the one that zoned the Sean Heights area industrial in the first place and _ approved of Woodstock’s relocation there. There is a message here. In the future, municipal councils, as part of their official community plan, should have restrictions in place for adequate buffering between industrial and residential areas. Plans to protect and enhance the business community. Both businesses and residents have their place in a community. It’s really unfortunate that the two ever got mixed up in the Sean Heights area. It’s a beautiful view from up there. — Sidney Ratepayers: A place for citizen groups One impressive thing about the inaugural meeting of the Sidney Ratepayers’ Association was members’ unhesitating Statement of purpose — to elect new faces to Town council and act as a watchdog over council’s dealings. Citizens’ action groups play an important part in a community. Frequently, issues that otherwise slip through the cracks are discovered by a resident who takes an active interest in the business of the community. The word positive came up several times during the meeting. We hope it continues to come up at further meetings. Too often people sit back and criticize, not bothering to take the time and ingenuity to come up with some sort of solution. Creative solutions are needed for many of the problems that face local government. Letters to the editor must be signed and contain the writer’s address and telephone number. Letters should not exceed 500 words in length and may be edii- ed for clarity, legality or taste. TheReview Serving The Saanich Peninsula Since 1912 9781 2nd Street Sidney, B.C V8L 4P8 or PRO. Box 2070 Sidney, B.C V8L 3S5 Second Class Mail Registration #0128 656-1151 Publisher: Vic Swan Editor: Glenn Werkman AN ISLAND PUBLISHERS NEWSPAPER CCNA 4 © \ERIFIED CIRCULATION a> “n0E CONTROLLED Volume 76 Issue No.28 ™msReview Wednesday, July 11,1990 — AG _ AND BEFORE You PATCH THE PoTHOLES, Be SURE To LOOK IN THEM: THERE'S STILL THREE BIKES, SEVEN COMPACT CARS, AND A BC. > TRANSIT BUS STILL MISSING... + Kiwanis club was missed in report Editor: The sun might have shone dur- ing the Sidney Days, but certainly not where the Kiwanis Club of Sidney and Peninsula was con- cerned, according to a Review news article (Sunny Sidney Days successful, July 4). Every organizer was mentioned in The Review except Joe Harri- son, the Kiwanian catering chair- man, nor were the Kiwanis even mentioned. So, just to enlighten the people of Sidney and the Peninsula, I feel that it is fair that the Kiwanians inform the uninformed that we not only served our pancakes and sausage breakfasts on Sunday and Monday morings, but also twice served hamburgers and hot dogs at the Bicycle criterium on Saturday afternoon and evening, plus dash- ing over to Tulista Park Sunday and Monday afternoons to serve hamburgers and hot dogs after the pancake breakfasts. We did not expect all the pre- ceding paragraph inserted in the article, but at least to have it recognized that we were in full attendance. Especially to the fact that we also turn over 40 per cent of the pancake monies and 10 per -cent of the gross revenue from the hamburgers to assist in the funding of the Sidney Days Association. All we want is the same recogni- tion for the work we do as the Lions, Rotarians and other service clubs get for their contributions to the community. Ted Parsons President Kiwanis Club of Sidney and Peninsula Surprised with published letier Editor: I’m writing re the outrageous letter from Carolyn Stokes of Sid- hey in the June 27th Review, (Perhaps not unfortunate). I’m quite surprised at The Review for publishing such a piece of garbage. Obviously her letter wasn’t edited for clarity, legality or taste! Did the editor stop to think before he printed unconfirmed insults about the old couple that once prospective: landlords read the letter they'd be leary to rent an apartment to the old couple? Can Stokes and her very hospi- table friend — the Good Samari- tan — actually prove that the old couple came home intoxicated three of the four days? Did they administer the breathalyzer test on all three of the four days — if so, what readings did they obtain to determine the state of intoxication? Could it be possible that the elderly man. was leading his blind wife while she clung to him? It was difficult to determine about the chicken on the stove. She didn’t say whether a chicken was stewing on the stove for 12 hours, or was it take-out chicken or was it a live chicken? Tt was quite amazing that, witha nearly 0 per cent vacancy rate in Sidney, the friend’s recently vacated basement suite was vac- ant. I wonder why? Rozalynde McKibbin Sidney something big Editor: What a smashing Canada Day parade that was. Don Trivett and his gang of hard workers are to be highly commended. Very interesting were the various floats and personalities in the parade. Did you see Mayor Linda Michaluk riding on the Main street of downtown North Saanich (Bea- con Avenue) waving greetings to all. Wasn’t that nice? Could this be the start of some- thing big? You know, if an amalgamation of our three municipalities were to take place, the resultant tremen- dous financial savings to us the taxpayers, would make it easy to pay just one mayor the amount they think they are worth. Don’t you agree? It could be the start of some- thing very big! Cy Relph Sidney Students found dry grad best Editor: We are two members of the graduating class of 1990 from Parkland Secondary School, who, throughout the controversy between the wet and dry after grads, were undecided as to which to attend. We ended up buying tickets for both, in the hopes of celebrating with all of our class members. Because we had no strong opini- ons on the subject, we felt this would be a good compromise. Our original plans were to spend the first half of the evening at the dry grad and the second half at the wet, ending the celebrations with — the champagne breakfast. ® As the evening progressed, we “a found that the dry after grad, although not well attended, was very enjoyable and we ended up Staying the entire night. This was due to the many fun activities ag the abundance of finger food. The activities included a silent auction, casino, carnival games, dance floor, use of the entire pool area and many exciting prizes. Overall we found the evening to be a huge success and are glad we decided to attend. We would like to extend our thanks to the volunteers and organizers, whose long hours of hard work and commitment made this event possible. We hope this will become a new tradition at Parkland School and that their enthusiasm will rub off on others so that future graduating classes can enjoy the fun we had. Thanks for all the work!! Janice Baldwin Heather Sadlish Sidney Ratepayers’ form because of need Editor: The July 7th issue of the daily newspaper carried a story indicat- ing that the federal parliamentari- ans, now in summer recess from their Meech Accord shellacking, have launched a new raid on the public purse by voting themselves approval in principle of a $6,000 per year tax free addition to their expense allowance. Closer to home, right here in sleepy little old Sidney, while ratepayers are snoozing in the sunshine, our very artful’ council, * hunkered behind closed doors — you can’t discuss pay raises in public — have voted the senior Continued on Page A$