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VIC SWAN, Publisher
SUSAN McLEAN, Editor ,

Proprietor: Island Publishers Ltd. _ “8,
-. Wednesday, June 24, 1987 Page Ad

ESTABLISHED 1912 .
' 9781'- 2nd ST., Sidney, B.C. V8L 3C5
. SECOND CLASS MAIL REGISTRATION NO. 0128 |

Convention centre
needed locally

The success of Gillain Manor, now called Dunsmuir
Lodge, as a convention centre will also mean increased
business for the Peninsula.

After 18 months of experimenting and trying to put
the deluxe facility at the top of the north slope of Mount
Newton to a profitable use, the Island Pacific Institute
Foundation, headed by University of Victoria president
Howard Petch, has decided to make the facility into a
convention centre which will fill a void locally.

Manager Rob Cameron plans to use local businesses
to complement the services Dunsmuir will offer. For ex-
ample, because the mountain complex runs on well
water and holding tank systems, patrons will be en-

couraged to use Panorama Leisure Centre for recreation
purposes. —

Likewise, if tourists arrive on the doorstep. of the
lodge, Cameron said he will recommend local hotels and
motels rather than accept tourist trade. However, if
local accommodation facilities are booked up and
Dunsmuir has the room, it will act as an overflow facili-
ty for tourist traffic.

In short, Dunsmuir hopes to attract more people na-
tionally and internationally to the Peninsula .
_something everyone locally is hoping for.

And its success could mean a turning point for the
-four major Peninsula business and industrial centres.

"Equality bodes well

- Sexual equality has. arrived as Mr. and Miss Sidney
prepare for a gruelling summer of activities to represent,
_ the town starting with Sidney Days. ~~ :

- The idea for the double-titled pageant was s apparently
the idea of the son. of local businesswomen Marilyn
__Ericksen. And it was a good one.

~The ceremony went off with relatively few hitches and —
Seat. appears the Peninsula Celebrations Society i iS working
~ “up to.a well- organized Sidney Days celebration with lots
of new events. :
Using Sanscha Hall as the focal Bolte for. many. sof the
- ‘Sidney Days events is a great idea that will bring. life into 7
the hall as it hasn’t had for a number of. YEarsiey ei
In sh rt, despite. minor: Buches such asa a frantic dash ;

Letters to the editor
must: be signed and
contain the writer’s ad-
dress. and telephone»
number. Letters should

SP Tats

vICT ORIA: -- Tt was early
dawn. when Sheriff. Brian
Smith mounted his grey steel

charger, rode tall in the saddle 3

to. the --court . house, . guns

_ a'blazing, eyes ‘Steely, IO ask
the Supreme Marshall for per- 05"

- mnission to clean up the town,

Letters to Editor — m

- not exceed 200 words
“in length and may. be

> never-never land: where roads

edited for. clarity,
legality or taste.

Those dastardly rabble sod |

busters and sheep farmers, he
growled, must never again: be,

allowed to 'distrub ‘the serene

» life enjoyed: by. alle ink
Vanderland, 8)
“Go pet em, Brian!

“shouted: the. pious folk and.
Wealthy cattle barons, ‘as the

sherrif rode past. Buralas, the

~ Supreme Marshall: disapreed,” »

“Brian, my boy,’* he said,

“Von ure not very bright, are.
you? Lcan't give you permis. ~

sion for this. Crna, plan of
~yours;"

Every so after: 1 look with

envy to-cthe cheeks

1 balances built. inte: ‘the

“American political system, but

i some ways, we've got the

Yanks beat six Wivs to

- breakfast, Take our Brifish

tradition of ‘appointing vi ther

~ than electing judpes.
Mire ustice: Kenneth
Meredith. threw: the:

Sont of court, Que aante help
but: wonder
“judge, ~ dependent © on.
- politica) winds of the day and
ihe laigesoe of the government
in power, would have done,

The injunetion: application,
hatched in the premier’s of
fice, written hy sith will the Ls

and:

attorney
~ gerieral’s application for anne |
Junetion: against labor leaders

what ane elected’.
the

~ knowledge, © with: no.
torney General. Ted Highes,

was the ‘craziest’ thing,

Vander Zalm became’ premier ‘
The whole: scheme” was
~ unbelievable: from : the: start,
Stung. by the: one-day. work

as av. general strike: which

© saw. 250,000 workers stay. off.

“the job in protest aver Bil-19,

the new labor legislation, the

_ government was looking fora
“way. o> prevent unions® from

taking similar action in. the.”

future.
Not that
“Ureatened to stage: another
“ peneral strike. Troe, there was
some touph rhetoric, hinting.

only (he first: steps but it was

government chose.

behalf of one of the unions in-
— volved in (he controversy, calle
ed the infunetion application.
‘an offence to free people.”
And,

fonnes Judge.

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“GLARE
HUBERT BE YER

fotp. Of same -high- powered |
Vancouver lawyers and, to my ~
input -
whatsoever. from: Deputy At:

the :
‘government has done since Bill.

stoppage — some referred to it:

the unions had’ -

that the one-day protest. was :

hardly evidence: on’ which to /:
Dise, the course of ACHON. te.

Thomas - Berger; acting On,

Berger is a. highly-respected :
Yess he -

are deceptively. named. and. con- :
= nundrums. abound. .

Pat Bay Highway doesn’ io ‘
‘near Pat. Bay... West . Saanich’.
‘neither -
~ does East Saanich Road go cast...
‘And then there is. the no-no

Road doesn't go> west;

road; a great little quickee route

from West Saanich Road to the ©
airport or Victoria, but no.name
~ is at its entrance across from the:

Pat Bay research centre or along

its wide, well maintained route.
You. have to turn right off itto
know what you were on; then a’:
‘sign and backward arrow reveal
‘that you

(naughty,

aetentemenertrmememerentnesemee eet

AT THE.

deep eon wcisoteneey i

was also lei der of the provin- a

cial New Demoeratic Party for

‘@ Very “short-term before he -

“Wwas.called to the bench.
In secking the injunetiony

happen, = :

There was one aspect io the
injunction application that can
only be referred to.as sinister,

It: conthined language which:
“the Criminal Code specifically -
lists as exemptions. Smith was,
trying nothing less than to-ex-.

pand. the Criminal Code and

— make exemptions inthe Code

—— ACHONS: Not considered

seditious -iOffences ina clvil

“suit, a
Had the injunction hee
granted, it-would have been an

offence to counsel egal ae -
tions, such as the one: vay kee
leat. By doing so, hdbor leaders.

would have been in contenipt

the. law, the injunchon would
have been interpreted “to alse
include the median ‘Ve wontd
have been an offence, for in-

We of ae Saanich lived in an

naive...

“very “pleasant,
_ Crossroad ‘is’ flanked‘ with ‘od-
- dities. Here our local politicians
hide out ‘in a low-lying house ~
(guise for a municipal hall), well

-cription

naughty)”

“down
a7 Both Smith and the premier |
- dismissed them as ridiculous,

 No- government, the premier.
said, could and would:attenpt

Smith ‘cited sedition: and: the-

possibility. of ‘attempts by. the:
trade unions (a overthrow the.
“government by. force, This, he.
* said,..must not. be allowed ‘10:

“peneral
general in particular. [was a
“clear message to Smith that he
“had gone too far, In many
other democratic jurisdictions,

stance, to report Mega Union .

: were. on: n Willingdon: Road. “A lit-
‘tle: bird ‘told® me. the. original
_ Signs:: had been: plucked . as 2:
“measure to

“security
discourage public'use.

“The “‘cross’*: roads. are really
and-. Mills

behind a large prone cedar log
with the vague. burned-on in-
‘North Saanich’’,
which’ itself is upstaged by a
huge . fire-warning: sign.

Strangers naturally assume this”

is .the North Saanich
Warden's hangout.

You may pick up. a lot of

Fi re

activities. A columnist spenk-
ing out in favor of the unions

could have been charged with
sedition,

~ Those

fears. were ‘played
by ©

the government,

to muzzle: the media.
both ‘missed. the: point.

They
The

. question Isn't what a govern:
“ment would. do but what it:
7 “could do, As long as.(he power

is there,

governments will, be,

- tempted to use if, :

Berger was: right, The sine .
junction application: was. an
offence. to. free peaple. »
scenario was more reminiscent.
of Korea or El Salvadore than
Canada,

Mr, Justice Meredith’ S rule

‘ing was a well-deserved slap in

the face of the government in
and) the attorney

a politican would feel compell-
ed tos resign after such - it

_ debacle, but doen't hold your

breath for Smith to step down,
But even if he stays on, we:

Gan ake comtort mm the hae

| that the judicial systeni's ine
of courte Incacrazy and con.
-voluted way, offen pecalianto .

ieprity. is protected by what.
HOUNIS tO virtual inimanity
from poliucal pressure.) As
‘long as that’h the case, even:

the man responsible for law

cand order can't use the system
for warped political aings,

NEO MAE RAS NARRATE EIN IESEHMA APU eB nL SE Pens tae oe EE

The | &

“hotse ‘sense: here,
unique little: country. racetrack,
Sandown, is just afew. blocks

‘round .the' ‘corner. under a big
oak. tree with a: yellow ribbon.

around it. to fit its: comeback

- theme song; you know, ‘‘Tie a
yellow ribbon round the old oak .

tree. a

By the time you learn that the
‘Fire Warden. Station’’ is ac-
tually the municipal hall. and
you head back there, lo and

“behold the mayor and council
- have retreated even further into
“the hills

and. are now.. atop
Mount Newton, meditating ina
luxury mansion think-tank; to

forget the nasty sewage pro- *

blems far below; also we hope

to: gain’ pespective ‘in a. house.
‘divided,

North. Saanich has: a

the lane from the legion. Two

‘small conical shingled buildings

latticed :
walkway form one of the uni-

joined’ only by —a

que dwellings of N.S.; another
is the ‘turreted brown shingled

“house on Pat Bay which in its
past served as a tea room_and a.
‘iets ‘boarding school when the
~ Tate Mrs.: Rashleigh’ saw: it up
~ for saley she held. it withea $$
deposit, Itis still in her family, -

High and dry atop Mills Road

bill, a hullefa boat is emerging
from its metal shell, Did all the

Isuaini talks inspire the building

of this: Noah’ § Ark? In Saanich,”

+h? y
rt

Editor:

mo trophy,

" thatca mutually
ie season for our annual same,

press deadline Tuesday,

i at lO p.m., Just in in case,

penal are Ys
~ submerge. ae.
Newton, itself now. threatened aes ee
by the flood of development.” ,

‘too; “for. our:

Trinity Church on.

real.
“House Divided’’, just across’

cbird
should) study,
ue asure

"Sidney “Blokes surrender |

Reply to Erie Sherwood's < Challenge to sidney Cric ket Club
¢ yforethe Review. Cup. Sidney i is the Present older: - the

an “While the North Saanich G ients frolic and pl ay

2 The Sidney Blokes have to work for their pay

i The Game's the thing, Loan hear Erie say. ,
© But notallin the Pr ovince can stop for the day.

The Fr err ies must run, vacations are planned,
There qre injurics to some. You must understand
So for this year at least; thongh the idea is grand,
: A postponement is called for from James and his band."
Eric and the Gents, ple: se accep our apologies, We hope A
aveephrible due wan lye eC aeetuged dater in thes

i

on bel alt or Stine Crick “ef C Tub,

: Editor's note: ‘Sidney’ 5 halt. hearted attem

: ‘ f pt to save face b
i avoiding this match, (a reliable source has reveal warsies
n Gang is suffering from an overdose of pasta
2) NOt Necessarily result in cancellation of the cricket match. Al

North Saanich captain Eric Sher-
wood was vallantly (rying to scrape upe h

i ‘teams, So, check out. the Wain Park field on Sunday, June 28 |

a ee

call. but. “Mount

“But from. sad memories to.
joy, for now coming in view is, a
scene. to. charm’ and® heal;
startlingly . beautiful combing

tion. of nature and man’s ar-

chitecture. The. historic Holy: .
Pat Bay
lights its cross at night for those 4
at sea, and delights all by day or 2]
night. You thought the smallest ..
church. in. the world was on.

Dinosaur Trail-in Drumheller,
- Alberta? It seats only six at a

time; and behind Holy Trinity is:

‘its tiny duplicate Which . hasn’ '
sat one.

And we go from tiny chureh
to giant steps as we head down”
Pat Bay beach access, wonder-
ing if future. archeologists will
excitedly claim that. a colossal
race once = inhabiated these
parts, For the many cement
Steps are huge slabs with steep
pitches, It’s easier to. just slip
down the g¢ guard rail to the we Wer
cour version of a water slide. |

North Saanich, in: outline,
really, is-@ strange bird. Its iniy':
port-is a heart; Ardmore, its: ime
miture wings ~“Landsend - ifs
rooster head, and onee we had 4
sanetuary. Newcomers
‘delight in and |
amd protect what We
still have,” i
Gertrude Lari |

t

Capt. Georuie James”

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and brew), may.

Slip Ree. SSPE PETS

nough players for two

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