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Lions’ $.5 million fieldhouse going for design

by Mare Davis
The Review

A proposed fieldhouse for Cen-
tennial Park that’s likely to cost
over half-a-million dollars will
soon be in the design stages.

Meeting as the parks and recrea-
tion committee Monday, Central
Saanich aldermen agreed a con-
ceptual plan of the facility should
be drawn up within the next two
weeks.

Central Saanich Lions Club
spokesman Harry Johnson said
council should act quickly if it
hoped to receive partial funding
for the project in the form of a GO
B.C provincial government grant.

“I'm advised that we have about
three weeks to get GO B.C. grant
applications in, and we're anxious

to do that because something may -

happen to the grants soon,” he
said.

Johnson fears the outcome of an
impending provincial election may
result in the demise of GO B.C.
grant funding.

Central Saanich aldermen said
user groups should be consulted
by the end of the week as to what
facilities they would like to see in
the facility.

“Tf we're going to the prelimi-
nary sketches, we better identify in
writing what the various groups
involved desire.

“We can certainly initiate a GO
B.C. grant application,” Mayor
Ron Cullis said.

Ald. Wayne Watkins said: “I
would like to zero in on what we
think the building’s functions
should be.”

Parks committee chairman Ald.
Wayne Hunter agreed the needs of
all the user groups must be clearly
identified before proceeding
further.

“What we would like an archi-
tect to do is give us a preliminary
drawing, then if we like the basics,
let’s give it out to tender for
architects to give us a (final)

. design,” he said.

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Shaker Church burns fo ground
just before planned conveniion

by Glenn Werkman
The Review

Two Central Saanich volunteer
firefighters were rushed to hospital
with Serious injuries after an eight-
foot brick wall collapsed-on them
while they were fighting a raging
church fire on West Saanich Road
in Brentwood Bay early Monday
moring.

“They didn’t get out quick
enough,’ Central Saanich fire
Chief Bruce Elvedahl said.
“That's one of the hazards of
firefighting.”

The pair were spraying water
from a two-and-a-half inch hose
through a window on the south
side of the 70-foot by 70-foot
Indian Shaker Church when the
wall collapsed, Elvedahl said.

Sidney RCMP Sgt. Andy Rose-

quist said police are treating the
fire as arson and are investigating

_“very suspicious circumstances.”

Police are asking the public’s
help in locating a red Volkswagen
Beetle whose occupants, at about
11:30 p.m. Monday, may know
something about the origin of the
fire.

Firefighter Gary Fisher was
moved out of the intensive care
unit at Victoria General Hospital
and was listed in satisfactory con-
dition Tuesday. Another volunteer,
Bert Belfie, a municipal employee,
was treated at Saanich Peninsula
Hospital.

Elvedahl said about 30 firemen
and five fire trucks responded to
the 11:30 p.m. call and had it
under control by about 1:30 a.m.
Monday. It was after 3 a.m. before

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