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Two full-time physiotherapists
and one housekeeper will be laid
off as the Saanich Peninsula Hos-

pital struggled to balance its oper-
BUSINESS A10 ating budget last week.
CALENDAR Al2 _ The hospital administration and
its board of directors considered
CLASSIFIEDS . A22 cutting 12 beds from its extended
care unit, but will raise prices for
COMMUNITY All some services and make other cuts
instead.
GARDENING Al4 “It’s the toughest budget we’ve
ever had to deal with in about 10
OPINION AT years,” said board of directors
SPORTS A19 chairman Mel Hernblad. She plans
to take the matter up with the
OUTDOORS Al6 Minister of Health.

“Personally, I feel our funding is
not as fair as it could be when I
look at and compare us with others

BEYER AT

GEENG £ 210 North Saanich council’s

HAMPSON Al6 demand for a moratorium on rede-
velopment of the Lands End inter-

LANG Al4 | change and the ferry terminal is an

exercise in futility, Mayor Maurice
Chazottes said after a meeting
with Minister of Highways Lyall
Hanson last week.

Although he took council’s
demand to the minister, Chazottes
said the work could not be

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GOLF COURSE BATTLE
The court rules on ihe
Brentwood Lakes action

against the new council | — stopped.

Page A5 “Both projects are too far
advanced and the minister felt the
ministry had to address the needs

CANAL BARGE TO CRUISE SHIP of the people of BG,” Chazottes
A 1905 European canal | said.

barge now plies local

waters wilh a regular

run To Salt Spring Island
Page Al8&

NATIONAL SLO-PITCH
A Peninsula team is
practising for the big
toumamient in Manitoba

Page Al9

North Saanich’s municipal
engineer is involved with planning
the Lands End interchange as an
observer, Chazottes added.

“They have not closed the door
to public input,” he said. The
minister has promised public
hearings will be held when the
project reaches the appropriate
level of design.

Chazottes feels North Saanich

in Our peer group,” she said.

Hospital administrator John
Benham said: “We've cut back on
services, but not enough that the
patient will notice.”

The struggle to submit the
required balanced budget to the
Ministry that was due Friday is
complicated by less provincial
funding and increased costs, he
said.

Employee benefits paid by the
hospital have increased substan-
tially with unemployment insur-
ance premiums up 23 per cent, the
medical services plan up 12 per
cent and the Canada pension plan
up 19 per cent.

“Until Santa Claus or the ferry
godmother comes along it’s going
to be very difficult,” Benham said.

Continued on Page A2

Moratorium futile — mayor

council must re-assess its position,
since calling for a moratorium is
futile.

“We have to get the best possi-
ble design out of highways with
the least impact on the environ-
ment,” he said.

Citing a mid-June report out of
Toronto which predicts increased
air pollution caused by stopping
and starting vehicles, Chazottes
said he now opposes retaining a
stop light at the Lands End Road
and Pat Bay Highway intersection.

Chazottes cited a report stating
the average car driving at 50 km-h
uses just Over an Ounce more
gasoline to stop and start than if
the vehicle had not stopped, creat-
ing a corresponding increase in
pollution.

“The fuel consumption and pol-
lution resulting from ferry traffic
held up at a red light would be far
greater than that caused by the two
stop signs for local traffic as
proposed by the Ministry of Trans-

Continued on Page A2

THE FOOD POLICE

The CRD inspectors tour

the regional district

armed wiih a flashlight

and a thermometer
Page B1

WHALE HUNTING

lt can be a risky

proposition according

to Victoria Weeklies

look at seacoast expeditions
Page B4

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Staff cut but beds saved at hospital

Shane is home but still
looking for transplant

by Girard Hengen
The Review

Little Shane Delbrouck is home
in Saanichton, playing like any
other two-year-old, but still wait-
ing for the bone marrow transplant
he needs to cure his rare blood
disease.

Shane, the son of Brian and
Barbara Delbrouck, has shuffled
in and out of Children’s Hospital
in Vancouver since he was diag-
nosed over two months ago as
having aplastic anemia.

Since then, the Delbroucks have
been coping with emotional ups
and downs, their lives dominated
by Shane’s blood counts and his
transfusions.

But that was in Vancouver. This
week they came home to Saani-
chton, a place where they have
spent just two days in the past two
months.

Brian returned to his job as a
mechanic at a local garage. And
Shane can be found playing in the
back yard or inside, when he is not
receiving transfusions.

“He’s pretty normal. His energy
level is fine,’ Barbara Delbrouck
said Tuesday. “He’s out mowing

_ the lawn (with a toy) right now.”

The toddler has been taking
experimental drugs in an attempt
to control his aplastic anemia. His
bone marrow, which should pro-
duce blood cells and platelets, is
not working.

The family has to make the trip
to Vancouver every week for plate-
let transfusions, and every two to
three weeks for blood transfusions,
but Barbara said she hopes the
drugs will prevent this.

“That would be awesome. That
would mean he would be on the
road to recovery.”

The couple intends to live in
Saanichton until a bone marrow
donor is found.

A transplant could force them to
move back to Vancouver for at
least two months. They had been
staying with Barbara’s sister, who
happens to be a nurse at Chil-
dren’s Hospital.

But first a donor has to be
located. An extensive search of
donor banks throughout the world

_ failed to tum up a match.

“There’s no donor yet,” said
Barbara. “They've pretty well

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