4 & * News Protesters get support with anti-highway demonstration by Glenn Werkman The Review Members of the Save Saanich Peninsula Communities coalition got support from local politicians Labor Day at the intersection of Beacon Avenue and the Pat Bay Highway. The demonstration was part of an Island-wide protest against the Island Highway project which intiudes upgrading the Pat Bay to expressway standard. Saanich North and the Islands New Democrat candidate Elsie McMurphy joined North Saanich Ald. Dee Bailin and almost 20 other people standing next to the highway carrying placards in Opposition to the upgrade. “I hope we have an election before it advances too far so we can get community input,” McMurphy said. She said the highway has to be looked at in terms of an overall transportation plan, which could question the location of the B.C Ferry terminal at Swartz Bay. “Planning is not being done in a holistic way. It’s kind of piece- meal,” McMurphy said. “If we don’t have environmental impact Studies and an overall assessment we Te not making a complete deci- sion.” Bailin said: “So far we've got lots of positive response. I’ve been opposed to the freeway from the very beginning and when I was advised of the protest I thought I would take part in it.” Bailin was looking forward to Tuesday’s council meeting when a proposal to extend median barri- cades at two highway intersections in North Saanich — at McDonald Park Road and at Amity Drive — were expected to be discussed. Sidney businessman Cy Relph expressed his opposition to the Beacon Avenue interchange. “There’s people dying on this highway but they’re not dying here, they’re dying at Elk Lake,” Relph said. Save Saanich Peninsula Com- munities spokesman Clarence Bolt said the Island-wide rally was deemed a success. On the Saanich Peninsula por- tion of the upgrade, he said: “Until the expressway is in it can be challenged as far as I’m con- cemed.” Bolt was particularly critical of the process for the Island View Road interchange in Central Saa- nich and questioned the role of a liaison committee, yet to be formed. “Central Saanich hasn’t identi- fied impacts to local traffic or to that site,” Bolt said. A coalition of groups, including SSPG is calling itself the Coali= tion for Alternatives to an Island Expressway and hopes to use the federal government’s Bill C-78 to force an environmental impact Study of the entire Island Highway project, Bolt said. He has talked with Saanich-Gulf Islands (NDP) MP Lynn Hunter and the Environmental Law Socie- ty and “from their assessment of the act and what the Island High- Way project involves, it seems the legislation calls for something of that sort. “The social-economic impact is also part of the Bill C-78 and that hasn’t been addressed at all.” Demonstrators waved signs to motorists at three Peninsula loca- tions Monday. New self-help group starts for victims of drug abuse A new group for people affected by drug abusers is starting on the Saanich Peninsula. Families Anonymous is a self help program for relatives and friends concerned about drug abuse or behavioral problems, the group’s organizer said. The inaugural meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 in the activity room of Resthaven Lodge on Mills Road in Sidney. People who attend will only be asked to give a first name, no dues or fees are required and advance notice is not necessa- Ty. “The program is designed for the concerned family and friends of someone using mind-altering substances or demonstrating serene ‘HAVING RUN AGROUND Saturday, the Sidney-Anacortes destructive behavior,” the organiz- er said. Families Anonymous’ interna- tional office is located in Califor- nia and the program is active all over the United States, Portugal, India, England and Australia. “T know there’s a lot of people out there who can use this,” the anonymous organizer said. “It’s the mind games, the hopelessness, the anger and the questioned love.” The beauty of the group is people who want to get involved remain anonymous and are not subjected to further personal embarrassment, she said: The program is the first of its kind in British Columbia and could be the first in Canada. ferry awaits assistance while passengers inspect their watches and wonder how long they will be stranded on the high seas. . 2 TheReview Wednesday, September 5, 1990 — A5 SHOWING THIER signs to motorists on the Pat Bay Highway Labor Gay were about 20 protesters, some with the Save Saanich Peninsula Communities Coalition Driver suspended, reliever charged Police in Central Saanich gave the driver of a black 1980 Trans ~ Am a 24-hour driving suspension after the 22-year-old Brentwood Bay man was found slightly impaired behind the wheel, about 11 p.m. Saturday. The attending officer allowed a passenger who had not been drink- ing to take over the wheel but a couple of hours later the same car was spotted weaving in the 6800- block Wallace Drive by the same police officer, deputy police Chief George Lawson said. The Trans Am was originally stopped on East Saanich Road near the Dean Park area, where the suspension was given. But about 12:45 a.m. Sunday, “the same Trans Am, westbound on Wallace Drive, almost hit a police vehicle head-on,” Lawson said. A 31-year-old Sidney woman found behind the wheel was charged with impaired driving. The man who was suspended from driving was riding in the passenger seat. Fair crowded but fine Central Saanich police said there was some traffic congestion from the many people who attend- ed the three-day Saanich Fair. But there was no major occur- rences in the municipality during the Labor day weekend. “Generally it was quiet time although there were a lot of people there,”> deputy police Chief George Lawson. 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