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Wednesday September 12,1990 40¢

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Over 500 turn out for Tod Inlet protest.

Over 500 people marched to Tod
Inlet to protest a proposed multi-
million dollar resort development,
Sunday.

Citizens Association to Save the
Environment president Derrick
Mallard organized the march to
Taise public awareness about the
need to save the Inlet from devel-
opment.

“The Inlet is an environmental
gem. And people on the walk were
saying, Stop the development.

Let’s tum it into a park,’ ”’ he said.

Vancouver-based firm Fama
Holdings Ltd. plan to build a
200-room hotel, an 18-hole golf
course and about 500 housing
units on a 267-acre property it
owns in Tod Inlet.

Among marchers were native
Indian representatives, who said
they, too, planned to fight the
development.

“It's extremely encouraging that
hative and non-native people com-

bined in an exhibition of concem
for Tod Inlet in a very and cooper-
ative and friendly manner,” Mal-
lard said.

Saanich Tribal Council spokes-
man Philip Paul said native people
have never given up legal claim to
the area which is sacred to them.

“We're talking about a land
issue that’s never been resolved,”
he said.

“There’s an undeclared title that
belongs to the Indian people that

goes back to time in memorial.”

Paul said native Indians would
fight the development in court if it
was given the go-ahead by Central
Saanich council.

“We'll use every legal means
available to us to stop the develop-
ment . We’re ready to go to the
hilt,” he said. S

Paul said Tod Inlet is the site of
historical aboriginal middens that
provide evidence of his people’s

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speed limits broken near schools, parents caught

by Glenn Werkman

The Review

Both Peninsula police forces put

a special emphasis on speed limit

enforcement in school zones as
school resumed last week — and
neither are impressed.

In Sidney, RCMP Cst. Kim
Horsman said: “A lot of charges
were laid today and it’s just the

beginning.”

In Central Saanich, police Chief
Bob Miles was on patrol with
constables on the first day school
resumed.

“T estimated about one-third
were going through the school
zone at above the speed limit,”
Miles said. “They slowed down
only to tum into the badly con-
gested parking lot. Almost all the

Product problems plague

by Glenn Werkman
The Review

The future of Island Poultry’s
processing plant hinges on the
supply of product, officials said
last week.

Island Poultry president Madat
Hemani is concemed no one will
buy the plant because of a lack of
product to supply it

“No one’s going to buy a plant
without raw material,” Hemani
said.

Receiver Jim Stuart of Emst and

Young said Monday: “It’s certain-
ly a critical element.

“Tf the receiver could guarantee
a supply of birds it would make a
potential purchaser a lot happier.”

B.C. Chicken Marketing Board
chairman Albert Bartel said any
purchaser of the shut-down Cen-
tral Saanich plant would have to
independently find product from
poultry growers.

Hemani, blames supply and
competition against the “‘big
three’* processors on the failure of
the plant.

violators were parents.”

During a one-hour period with a
radar-equipped RCMP cruiser last
week, the speed of cars measured
in the school zone ranged from a
maximum of 54 kph to a low of 34
kph. The posted speed limit from
8 a.m. until 5 p.m. in a school zone
is 30 kph, (about 18 mph).

“We had four units out Wednes-
day and it was easy pickings,”

Horsman said. Fines are $75 plus
three demerit points on a B.C.
drivers’ licence.

Often, it’s parents who are
speeding to get the kids to school
on time, both departments said.

“It’s our own local people and
our own local kids who are going
to get hurt,’ Horsman said.

Miles echoed the same feeling.

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chicken processing plant

Stuart said two proposals to buy
the $3 million plant are being
considered but would not disclose
potential purchasers or the asking
price.

“Anyone buying the business
has to have a proper supply to
make it work,” Stuart said.

Island Poultry’s processing
plant is recognized as the most
efficient in Western Canada and
was processing about 50,000 birds
per week, after an increase from
35,000 birds per week in April.

But a B.C Chicken Marketing

Board report shows that growers
began overproducing in April,
causing market prices to drop.

“The B.C. chicken market has —
experienced record high produc-
tion for May, June and July,” the
August board report said. “Pro-
duction for August is lower and ~
processors are attempting to get
back to the required normal
wholesale chicken mark-ups.

“The B.C. wholesale price has _
been depressed since early Apmil,
when weekly kills started to come

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