C20 BUSINESS C7, CALENDAR C4 CLASSIFIEDS A23 COMMUNITY C1-C13 COPS C19 GARDENING (18 OPINION AT ‘SPORTS Ai9 OUTDOORS C23 BEYER AZT CROSS — C20 GRENBY C8 HAMPSON C23 LANG. C18 TOP OF THE PILE A7 BUCKS BOUNCE IN The gamble pays off for charities who sponsor Peninsula bingo events . Page A4 DOLLARS AND DEGREES Are we selling our students short? There is $1 billion outstanding Page B1 IN THE AIR Combat humer spices stories by Sidney writer Page C13 FRIENDLY RED COATS Extra helo for travellers smooins airport amivals Page C16 @FLYERS e Shoppers e Saan. School Dist. eA & B Sound e Cornish Books* e Co-op* ° Smitty’s* e Pharmasave* *select areas Review Office Hours The Review office, at 9726 First St in Sidney, is open from 9 am. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C: V8L 3S5. Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agree- ment #41815. (== Business license fees in Central Saanich will go up 20 per cent across the board if Monday night’s recommendation from a Central Saanich committee is approved at the next council meeting. Staff recommended the 20 per cent increase as an interim meas- ure for 1993, pending an overall review of the fee structure by council next year. Supporting the increase, Coun. Ian Cameron said the business license fees in Central Saanich had not been increased since 1986. Treasurer Paul Murray noted the fees are generally assessed accord- ing to the ability of the business to pay the fee and the impact of the business on municipal resources. He noted the fees can also be used to control or prevent nui- sances or misleading business practices. For example, the highest fee: in the current bylaw is $500 per person for street vending. A street vendor is also required to provide a $500 security bond. Travelling salesmen and door- to-door magazine sellers are required to pay $120 per person and magazine sellers are also required to post a $500 security bond. By contrast, the general fee for all businesses not specified in the Gale-force winds ripped roof right off Lochside Drive home by Paul Wyke The Review Homes were left without power, fences were blown down and a tree fell on a house when the first major storm of the winter season hit southern areas of Vancouver Island Friday and Saturday. Barri Graham, a resident of Lochside Drive in Sidney had a brand new 60-by-20-foot fiberg- lass roof torn off her deck early Saturday morning, “I kept hearing these bangs and then at about 6 a.m., the whole thing went wham!” Graham said. At Victoria International Air- port, winds were clocked at 69 km-h, and winds of 93 km-h were also reported off local waters at the Haro Strait Automatic site, Vic- toria weather office manager Jim Steele said Tuesday. “Power was out for several thou- sands of homes in the Victoria area, but the worst damage occurred in the Nanoose Bay area north of Nanaimo,” Steele said. Damage estimates of $4 million have been placed on the Schooner Cove Resort after 300 boats were torn loose and beached in high winds. Transportation on and off Van- couver Island was slowed due to the high winds but only the Seal- ink catamaran service was can- celed on Saturday morning, he said. Gale to storm warnings were in effect for all waters in the Victoria area by 12 noon on Friday, Steele recalled. "Unfortunately, there’s not much people can do when it comes to Mother Nature. You just have to kind of put up with it and hope to get lucky.” C. Saanich business fees could jump 20 per cent current bylaw is $48. Council members plan to review the philosophy behind the fee structures in detail next year. Fireworks fall-out covered field Bags full of debris and descrip- tions of terrified horses were brought to Central Saanich council Nov. 16 as Jill and Tony Yonge of Wicklands Farm appealed to coun- cil to control noise on the new fairground site. The Stellys Crossroad property was used for the annual North and South Saanich Agricultural Society fair for the first time this fall. Since the fair, a Commonwealth Games celebration and the annual Halloween fireworks display have also been held at the field. All three events have had a devastating effect on their long- established horse farm, the Yonges told council. After citing the noise problems caused by the midway at the fair and the rock band at the Common- -wealth Games event, Jill Yonge | described the impact of the fire- works display. : “When the deafeningly loud bangs and earsplitting screeches ‘from the fireworks started, our horses shut in their stalls literally ' started climbing the walls.” | Prevailing winds carried the fireworks directly over the farm, , Yonge said. i “Our poor horses went abso- : lutely berserk, They were shaking and screaming in fear and it was a dreadful sight to see them in such a state of panic.” Four of the horses were in ip corrals when the fireworks started ’ _and the couple feared the panicked animals would escape and injure themselves or cause a car acci- dent. The farm was also showered with cardboard debris and plastic shrapnel from the firework canis- ters, some of which was still glowing when it landed, Tony Yonge said. Fortunately, Yonge added, the building roof and the ground were still wet from earlier rain. She and her husband produced two plastic bags of debris which they picked off their field the next day. Tony Yonge also provided a videotape demonstrating the noise levels from the fairgrounds. Noting their farm has been in the area for 25 years, the couple suggested council take steps to mitigate the impact of the new fairground site on existing farms. They asked to have the midway. moved further southwest on the grounds and a quieter type of fireworks chosen for the Hallow- een display. Council referred the couple’s comments to the parks and recrea- tion committee and to the fire chief for comment.