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town staff an increase of $410 per
month.

It seems that one fellow wanted
to make it $620. It is not so many
months ago that this dissident
grand slammer got a walloping
hike in salary. He sure has a Moby
Dick appetite for our tax dollars.

But there is more, much much
more. The latest high wire act on
our idyllic waterfront is a 50-60
page document whereby Kelley
deals off his bonanza to a new
developer.

Again this latest inspiration is
spawned behind the closed doors
of our inspired town planning
council.

These latest council chamber
frolics point, very clearly to the
need for the funding of a rate
payers’ association to bring to
public attention these cloak and
dagger assaults upon the unsu-
specting and trusting taxpayer.

Arthur E. Gregg
Sidney

Police comment
on grad not fair

Editor:

My letter is in regards to the
traditional after-grad party that
was held by the students and
parents of Parkland School. I
attended this social gathering and
find the comments that Sgt. Andy
Rosequist made in last week’s
Review are totally contrary to what
actually occurred.

Sgt. Rosequist seemed very
upset that the sacred Liquor Con-
trol Act was violated, but he does
not even take the time to mention
that every student arrived home
safely, and all during the night,
there was always a parent or helper
willing to give one of the students
a safe ride home. It looks to me as
if the Sergeant has his priorities
backwards. ;

I also cannot understand how
Sgt. Rosequist can speak on behalf
of all of the Sidney police officers,
when I know for a fact that some
of the officers believed that the
party was very safe and successful.

I know that Sgt. Rosequist is
smart enough to know that there
would be some quantities of alco-
hol at this party. I cannot under-
stand why he is so upset with this
after-grad as a precedent has been
set by previous years after-grad
parties and this year was not any
different. In The Review, Set.
Rosequist commented on the large
amount of empty alcohol contain-
ers that were in the building. If the
sergeant had researched this mat-
ter any further, he would have
found that at least half of this
alcohol was sprayed around and
poured on people in the act of
celebration. I guess the sergeant
was never involved in such terrible
things when he was young.

As to the comment the sergeant
made that the party was out of
control, Sir, you could not be
further from the truth even if you
intentionally made this statement
up yourself. The parents had the
party so controlled that I was
absolutely amazed.

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No one was allowed to enter the
building with alcohol, no one was
allowed to enter without a ticket
and absolutely no one was allowed
to leave without finding a safe ride
home. These rules were followed
very Closely as I observed many
people being turned away at the
doors all night.

I am very angry and disap-
pointed at Sgt. Rosequist for being
upset at the parents who helped
organize this traditional after-grad
party. The parents should be
praised very highly by the students
as well as by other parents for their
dedication and hard work.

If the parents that helped with
the traditional after-grad celebra-
tion are guilty of anything, they are
guilty of making this the safest and
most organized traditional after-
grad party ever.

Tony Sonosky
Sidney

Project S.O.S.
educaies public

Editor:

We at Project S.O.S. were very
pleased to see coverage of our
program in your paper. Your sup-
port really helps us to accomplish
our job.

The mandate of Project S.OS. is
to educate the public about small
craft water safety to reduce drown-
ing accident statistics. Through
your paper, we were able to com-
municate our message to a large
number of people.

Our program continues through-
out the summer. We will be at
camps, recreation centers, on the
beach, and at special events in and
around Victoria. We would love to
have you visit any of our summer
events.

Thank you for your support. We
look forward to further dealings
with you.

Safe boating!

Allison Lutz

Debbie Nicol

The Canadian Red Cross
Society

Crosswalk removal
is a ludicrous idea

Editor:

I understand that some sort of
study took place and subsequently
a recommendation was adopted to
remove crosswalk lines at a num-
ber of locations in Victoria-and
replace them with a sign which
says that the crosswalk lines have
been removed.

I further understand that the
rational for this decision is that
people hold a false sense of secur-
ity while in the crosswalk area
which city council believes leads
to more vehicular-pedestrian acci-
dents.

If we agree that a false sense of
security is a contributor to acci-
dents, does logic then not dictate
that the solution is to alleviate this
false sense of security — not the
crosswalks.

Signage, more brightly painted
crosswalks, or flashing lights could
possibly address this.

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that is ludicrous.

Parents teach their children that
crossing a street is dangerous and
caution must be exercised. Our
children are told to cross only at a
crosswalk — what do we tell them
now?

Should they cross only at a
crosswalk (who knows where the
nearest one is); or cross at a sign
that says the crosswalk has been
removed. Perhaps we should fol-
low the city council’s logic and
advise our children to never cross
a stteet — period.

Citizens in Victoria are no lon-
get crossing streets at designated
crosswalks, they cross anywhere at
all, and that is unsafe.

Victorians want city council to
rethink their position on this issue;
alleviate the false sense of secur-
ity; make drivers more aware of
this issue; and replace the cros-
swalks in Victoria.

Steve Orcherton
Secretary-Treasurer
Victoria Labour Council

Saanich diaper
law ridiculous

Editor:

As a former resident of Sidney/
Saanich I frankly find this
“diaper” bylaw ludicrous!

I would tend to think that any
such bylaw should focus upon
homeowners, in that poorly
bagged garbage where diapers
become exposed should be the
responsibility of the homeowner
for god sake. Moreover, I would
think that rotting food, especially
meat and the like poses a greater
health risk than diapers.

People, including myself in the
past, have a natural tendency to
assume that once an item is
plopped into a garbage can it
magically disappears forever and
that God will look after it.

All garbage should be carefully
wrapped and disposed of and this
recyclable, biodegradable trend
will probably become law before
the decade is out.

I once recall a revolting scene at
a shopping mall here in Vancouver
ten years or so ago where I saw a
filthy diaper left on the ground
with other garbage from a station
wagon full of parent and kids that
had just driven away.

I would gladly have wrapped
same in a sanitary bag and paid the

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postage to mail the same to the
party if I knew who it was. Such is
the affluent western society born
and reared on TV dinners, Satur-
day moming cartoons and mind-
less commercial trash.

The municipalities desire not to
collect diapers, (what are the going
to do — untie and go through
every garbage bag?) — could lead
to worse problems with people
dumping diapers in unusual places
or burying them or whatever.

My conclusion to this whole
thing is that there is a definite baby
boom going on and that homeow-

TheReview Wednesday, July 11,1999 — &

ners should wrap and dispose of
garbage more carefully. Bylaws
should reflect that and not focus
instead on refusing refuse. As I
said, other types of garbage pose a
greater health risk and some diap-
ers are now biodegradable.

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only municipality considering a
bylaw to restrict the disposal of
disposable diapers.

Town staff receive
hefty pay increase

Non-union municipal staff who
work for the Town of Sidney
recently received an across-the-
board raise in pay of $410 per
month effective July 1, Committee
A chairman Ald. Stan Bamford
Said.

Council members Monday said
the raise is a result of town
employees earning significantly
less than their counterparts in
comparable municipalities, based
on information from the Union of
B.C Municipalities,

“We have been consistently
low,” Mayor Norma Sealey said.
~ We wanted to bring to bring it up
in comparison to other municipal-
ities.”

Ald. Herb Addison said council
preferred an across-the-board raise
to a percentage raise to avoid high
eaming employees from getting a
larger increase than employees on
the lower end of the scale.

Bamford said the increase, on a
percentage scale, breaks down to a
maximum increase of 20.3 per
cent for the highest paid employee
— clerk/administrator Geoff
Logan — to an 8.2 per cent
increase for the lowest paid
employee — the mayor’s executive

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A total of 10 non-union employ-

ees received increases, including
the treasurer, the director of workgg
and services, superintendents of
engineering, works and services
and parks, the assistant superinten-
dent of field services, the deputy
treasurer and the museum director

Bamford said the move was
partly made because of rumblings
that some municipal employees
would leave to higher paying jobs
in other municipalities.

Council took a survey of seven

communities similar to Sidney in _

making the decision.

The survey found Sidney paid
the sixth lowest wage of the seven
surveyed and, for Sidney to meet

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the average wage, an increase ofg

$560 per month would be
required.

Council approved an increase of
$410 in two parts — a $210 per
month increase retroactive to Jan®
1, 1990, and a $200 increase
effective July 1.

“We feel our staff do a hell of a
good job and they deservegpir
renumeration or we might lose
them,” Bamford said.

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