BUSINESS AS CALENDAR _A10 CLASSIFIEDS A18 COMMUNITY 9 OPINION AG "| SPORTS Al4 All OUTDOORS BEYER AT | GRENBY A8 HAMPSON All TOP OF THE PILE A7 FIRST. NATIONS LEADER The community moums | - — ihe passing of Philip Paul, a Tsartip leader in * | school and land baiiles Page A5 COUVELIER TO VSE NDP finance minister is approving nomination of Couvelier fo VSE Page A4 SPORTS IN REVIEW E 1992 was a year of accomplishments for many Peninsula athletes Page Al4-17 FALSE MEMORIES ‘Loose Cannon pop psychologists’ can do a lot of damage, an examination into false memory syndrome finds Page B1 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS Most of us make them. We went to ihe sireets To to find out the promises Page B3 e Shoppers e Co-op* e Smitty’s* | e Panagopoulas* *select areas @FLYERS e Pharmasave* | Review Office Hours The Review office, at 9726 First St. in Sidney, is open from 9 am. untl 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. Y8L 355. Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agree- 1 ment #41815. ST SS ee Audited Circulation 12,762 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday, December 30,1992 40 pages 50¢ Warmer weather nof expected until Saturday by Paul Wyke The Review Individual’s campaign for needy ends An individual who started a campaign to help needy people said last week that a Review news story was disheartening. : Weiler Avenue resident Paul Bassani canvassed local business for donations of goods he says food banks don’t provide. Some businesses donated toile- tries, Christmas tree decorations, food, books, children’s toys pet food and other items. Thursday, Bassani said no one was coming to pick up donated goods after a Review story failed to publish his telephone number. “T’m not trying to con anyone,” Bassani said. “The items have just been sitting here since the story came out. “Our phone physically stopped ringing. Now I have no way to give it away,” Bassani said. A Review reporter who went to Bassani’s house Thursday after- noon saw items loaded into the car of Cook Street residents who just moved to Greater Victoria from Alert Bay. A woman said she reccived a lot of help from Bassa- ni. Bassani said he has not received or solicited cash donations and about 90 per cent of his soliciting has been by telephone. He has also spent much of his time repairing broken strings of Christmas tree lights to donate to those in need. Meanwhile, Sidney RCMP said they still have concerms. “We have a lot of questions,” Sgt. Andy Rosequist said. “But it seems the press he has gotten has curtailed his activities.” The handicapped Bassani said earlier that his campaign began to help other handicapped people in a pain threshold group, then “snow-balled.” Continued on Page AZ The white stuff may be a little late for Christmas but the 15-cm dumping of snow on the Saanich Peninsula will likely blanket Streets at least until the New Year is ushered in. A constant temperature above the freezing point isn’t expected to be reached until Saturday, Envi- ronment Canada weather service specialist Mike Newman said Tuesday from the Victoria airport. Although 15 centimeters in two days doesn’t quite match the snowfall record of 34.8-cm that the Peninsula and Greater Victoria was doused with back in 1968, the colder temperatures and icy road conditions bring in a lot of extra calls to the weather office, New- man said. “It’s fairly unusual to get snow on Christmas Day, but a snowfall between Christmas and New Year’s is fairly common,” he said. Since Sunday, the Victoria and Nanaimo weather offices have tal- lied more than 3,700 calls. “Most people just want to know when the snow is going to stop. Others call wondering what roads are recommended for travel,” Newman said. On Sunday, with the aid of winds gusting to 60-km-h, the snow started to fall around 11 p.m. and didn’t stop until late Monday. Newman said Tuesday that another five centimetres are expected to fall and that flurries won’t taper off until late in the day. “People shouldn’t put away those snow shovels. We’re not quite out of the woods yet,” he said. Sfudenis in Japan for New Year’s Students from Parkland and Stelly’s Secondary Schools will bring in the New Year in a distant land. As part of an exchange program, Grade 9-11 students took to the skies for Kyoto, Japan on Boxing Day. About 30 students, most of whom are involved in Japanese language classes at their respective high schools, are taking part in the three-week immersion program designed to give them a first-hand learning experience in Japanese language and culture, Saanich schools superintendent Hank Ste- faniak said. “This visit to Japan is our third exchange in an ongoing twinning relationship between Stelly’s/ Continued on Page AZ