is ; ‘ea, ae “~ ne nnn icon Tiaras e ® ARTS A10 BUSINESS A20 CALENDAR _A12 CLASSIFIEDS A23 COMMUNITY Ali GARDENING _A16 OPINION AQ SPORTS Al7 OUTDOORS —A21 BEYER AQ CROSS A10 GRENBY A20 HAMPSON A21 LANG A16 TOP OF THE PILE A9 WALLBERG A19 NEW LAKE DWELLERS A new species of frog is found in Elk Lake that grows To be eight inches Page A5 YOUTHS TRASH STORE Frusirated COncen-goers crowd into a Sidney convenience siore on a Friday night of violence Page Aé THREE-STOP SHOW A showcase of seven Peninsula antists starts April 11 for two days Page Al4-15 TUNNEL SCRAPPED A lasi-minute change means no tunnel as the Kittiwake Connector is bom at Lands_End Page A31 HOW MANY LEGAL BEAGLES? Are there too many lawyers in Lotus Land? Page B1 Review Office Hours The Review office, at 9726 First St. in Sidney, is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. V8L 3S5. Audited Circulation 12,762 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday, April 1,1992 50¢ Problems with over-capacity at Sidney sewage treatment plant could put all development in the Town on indefinite hold if a pro- posal by Ald. Dave Goulet is accepted by the Town council next week. At the March 23 meeting of council, Goulet gave notice of motion to the effect that “all development within the Town of Sidney which involves flows to the sewage plant be frozen.” This moratorium, Goulet pro- poses, would continue until the treatment plant can handle present and future flows in keeping with Ministry of the Environment guidelines. His motion comes after the Ministry of Environment told Mayor Marie Rosco it was not in favor of any development that will impact on the sewage treatment plant. Goulet said that having opposed every development since his elec- tion to council, it was time to formally state his case with this motion. The motion will not impact on the long-term development of Sid- ney but is a short-term solution until the Sidney plant can be upgraded in about two years time, or a Peninsula plant is in place in four to five years time, he said. Assuring that he is not going ahead with the notion to simply state his case Goulet is expecting good support at council and pre- dicts the vote will be close. “T’m hoping it will be passed and I’ll do my best to see it’s passed,” he told The Review Mon- day. The motion is expected to be discussed at council’s next meet- ing on Monday. Currently, there is a council- imposed moratorium on commer- cial development, where the devel- opment will result in a higher flow of sewage to the treatment plant. Goulet calls for hold on all develooment Sidney opposes sea plane operation A proposed international air ser- vice “to transport persons and goods” by the Port Sidney Avia- tion Corporation from Port Sidney Marina has landed the company and its president, Kim Pullen, in hot water with Sidney town coun- cil. A member of the public, hand- ing a petition against the service to council, suggested the company was deceitful in its dealings with townspeople. Councillors agreed that Pullen had been “pulling their leg” when he said a licensed sea plane would only be used for private use. Resident Mrs. Hudson said she felt “quite incensed” when she read in The Review of the com- pany’s application to the National Transport Agency of Canada for a licence to operate an international non-scheduled service out of Port Sidney Marina. Her petition of 43 names, an addendum to one she submitted in October when the matter first arose, contains the names of peo- ple on the waterfront, from south of Henry Avenue on Third Street to Beaufort Point —“‘and they are the ones really affected by the noise.” She said that on Oct. 15, the same day Sidney council served a cease and desist order on flights from the marina (pending review of the G-2 Marina Zones bylaw), the application was received by the transportation agency and “had already been turned into a com- mercial thing.” On that same day, said\ Ald. Dave Goulet, council had been assured by Pullen “that this was not a charter service but a ride to and from work for him. “T think he was pulling our leg,” Goulet said, adding he was upset with Granville West who were “quite aware of council’s decision of not endorsing their charter oper- ation and yet persist in carrying this further.” Ald. John Calder took a slightly stronger line, saying, “I think we have been somewhat deceived by what’s going on.” He said he was worried by Hudson’s assertion that “if they get their application for an interna- tional charter for their plane, The Beaver ... they never, never have to go back to the agency to increase their fleet. They could have two, 10, or 20 planes.” The perceived danger, as expre- ssed in a letter to council opposing the project, is that the marina “may become a base for more and larger aircraft carrying passengers (and) air freight; for hovercraft, Continued on Page A4 April Fool’s from The Review A mysterious pre-April Fool’s Day virus seized both the comput- ers and the newsroom staff of The Review this week, producing a completely untrue collection of front-page stories. The information on which all the front page stories are based arose solely in the over-active imaginations of Review editor Glenn Werkman and writers Valorie Lennox and Eamonn Casey, who hope readers got a chuckle from their efforts. For the record: internal combus- tion engines will not be banned from the Pat Bay Highway or from Fiapicicsatod anywhere else. The Healthy Atmosphere 2000 Committee is not guilty of writing any such report. B.C. Telephone does not blow water out of phone lines. Ignore the warning. There are no alligators in Elk Lake, although there has been an increase in oversize bullfrogs at the lake. Feel free to go swimming. Teasers at the top and left-hand column of page Al are also fic- tion, so don’t bother looking for the stories inside. : And Happy April Fool’s Day.