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some sort of educated organization
and planning. Let’s focus our
efforts in that direction and not be
SO negative.

I’m born and raised on the
Peninsula.

Ron Bickford Sr.
Brentwood Bay

Tod developmeni

will cost residents |

Editor:

Once more “the people’ are
being taken for a ride. This week a
letter armved in all the mail boxes
in Central Saanich from the Fama
Group, A. Aghtai, President. That
group proposes to develop 238
acres on Tod Inlet adjacent to
Butchart Gardens. We have some
reservations.

Is this to be a monstrosity like
Port Royale that claims to a view
but actually is a sight! People who
boat in the Saanich Inlet are
appalled at the “roof city” at the
south end.

The Fama Group says “100 to
150 permanent jobs” will be
created by the project which will
bring 1,000 to 1,200 new residents
to the area. With the influx of new
residents, more jobs will be
needed. That looks like we'll be
losing ground.

The Fama Group says they will
provide municipal/Capital
Regional District Water. But,
where is the water coming from?
As we hear it and as we know for a
fact there is a shortage of water on
the Peninsula. Will we soon be a
Canadian version of arid and
brown California?

What about sewers? No cost to
the taxpayer! What magic formula
has Fama come up with that will
so purify the water that we will not
continue to read about increased
coliform count in our well waters
and at our beaches and inlets?

The Fama Group says that they
can add 1,000 to 1,200 new resi-
dents to the area, and an 18-hole
golf course, a resort lodge, recrea-
tional facilities and a boat marina
and “the impact on the immediate
neighborhood will be minimal.”

No way! Even a child can see
the lack of reasoning in the state-
ment. Maybe, we need to re-define
“minimal.”

As we see it, the Saanich Penin-
sula is already overpopulated.
West Saanich Road is a race track.
Wells are contaminated. We do not
yet have the Peninsula covered
with water and sewer lines.

Before we commit ourselves to
further development we must take
care of what we have. Don’t cry
over the destruction of the rain
forests or even the Walbran Yalley.
Look in your own back yard.

Save what is left of the Saanich
Peninsula before it becomes a
brown, dry, treeless, overpopulated
plain with contaminated water and
beaches filled with coliform.

The Fama Group says “at no
cost to the taxpayers.”’ What about
additions to the schools that will
be necessary? What about the
enlarged fire department? What
about increased police staff? What
about improved highways and
maintenance?

(Mrs.) Clarice Durnerin

Saanichton

Wasps are pari
of natural cycle

Editor:

It distresses me to see letters in
The Review suggesting a method
for killing wasps. I have seen and

heard several such ideas recently.

I want to relate how beneficial
the wasps have been in my land-
holding this year when it became a
haven for an infestation of aphis.

With a large nest near the garden
I was able to watch the wasps all
but eradicate the aphis invasion in
a quite natural way.

The growth of population in
insects, indeed, in all the animal
world, is directly related to the
availability of food, ie: wasps are
numerous this year because aphis
and other insects are in abundance,
(perhaps as a result of destruction
in other years of predators such as
the wasp.)

It is time for us to take a second
look at the harm we do in our
tampering with the natural balance
in the insect world. Given the
chance, the aphis population this
year could be diminished, which
leads to less of a wasp population
for other years.

I wonder when humans will
wake up to realizing how nature’s
balance is being put nght out of
whack by wanton destruction of
part of an important chain.

I suggest your readers put out
fish or other protein for the wasps
at a distance from the patio or
where you want to sit so that they
won't disturb you or your friends,
give them a shallow dish of water
for drinking purposes and let them
get on with their true job of
cleaning up the garden of its pests.

Your surroundings will certainly

appreciate the care you have taken.

WINNING THE LADIES’ single driving class at the Saanich Fair 3
Saturday was Kathy McMillan, with draft horse Monty.

Stephanie Steel
Sidney

Stop bigofry in
our backyard

Editor:

I read with distaste Keith Jack-
son’s letter (ime to change power
balance, The Review, Aug. 21)
conceming the state of this nation.

The “Quebec Conspiracy” he
discusses is oh so reminiscent of
the “Jewish Conspiracy”’
espoused by anti-semites.

With the Cold War wrapping up,
and the nations of the world seem-
ingly less vulnerable to nuclear
destruction, we must address the
enemy within: the bigotry which
festers in our own backyard. The
xenophobic attitude of Jackson

‘and those like him are different

only in degree to those which fuel
racial bloodshed in Yugoslavia,
South Africa, Northern Ireland
and elsewhere.

I can’t help but add that while
Mr. Jackson is undoubtedly
against special status for Quebec,
he doesn’t mind proposing “‘disfa-
vored”’ status for central Canada.

Under his proposal the two
provinces which comprise well
over one half of the population
would receive less than half the
representation. One person, one
vote?

Bruce Hart
Sidney

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