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allocation were applied to other
Canadian Coast Guard search
and rescue resource requirements
in the Western Region.”’

Keen says the auxiliary

members never knew that money °

was there, and instead ‘‘every
time we turned around we were
told, ‘There’s no money for
that.” We were trying to make it
work on the understanding that
no money was available.’’

The transport department
figures showed’ Coast Guard
rescue operations cost an average
of $1,237 per incident, while
incidents involving only auxiliary
personnel cost. $248 each. Keen’s
figures show that the amount
actually. paid “for ‘volunteers’
expenses averaged only $25. per
incident.

And in his term, as treasurer he
says, he ‘found himself spending
several days. a week. buried in
paper work created by the
bureaucrats, including expense
claims mislaid, mishandled or
sent back because a few cents
were in question.

On the other hand, a 54-page
brief he submitted proposing
revision of the method of paying
for claims, with a formula that

was endorsed unanimously by the:
auxiliary’s. board of directors, —

received: almost no response at all
from the Coast Guard except a
statement that it was ‘‘null and

void’’ because it hadn’t arrived

through the proper channels. :

‘Keen. points out the auxiliary. -

doesn’t actually work under the:
Coast Guard at all.. Rescuers,
whether from the Coast Guard,
the ’-auxiliary,- the Armed Ser-.
vices,:the Provincial Emergency
Program, or. those like Horst

Klein on Pender Island who are —
. hot part.of any organization, are
the defence.

dispatched. by
. rescue co-
ordination centre at Esquimalt,

ot by:the Coast Guard.

“Keen’s opinion, , which: he’ says

ds shared | my: many. others: who.
~ cannot. speak” publicly,
only:: an’ “organization corriposed pes
of and controlled. by volunteers. _
can. possibly provide. the rescue ~ °”

OMS St gies SOP Ce ORT

Silver Threads, Stephanie
Chance has been promoted
and. transferred to Victoria.

SIDNEY TWIRLERS AND DRUM CORPS.
REGISTRATION |

Thurs., Sept. 10 & 17

6 to B p.m,

“- Sidney Elomentary School gym.
~ BOYS AND GIRLS:
Twirlors — Ago § yrs. & up
Drummers. Age 8 yrs. & up

«Information - call

- 6 656-6098 or 656-4429

BEST

~ PARENTS
HUM

“is” that’

. federal t
says it has expressed an interest in

Popular receptionist at Sidney

YOUR CHILD DESERVES | THE

EXCELLENT CARE IS AVAILABLE,

— The Play house ext, 1962:

full time sae Is our spaciaity -
also SOmd, openings tor.

NURSERY SCHOOL
*KINDERGARTEN =
*AFTER SCHOOL CARE

FOR FURTHER n INFORMATION CALL 656-2567

WHO HAVE FRE REGISTERED CHIL EEN PLEAGE GALL TO GON:
“FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM Gov't it NECESSANY

coverage . needed on B.C.’s
thousands of miles of coastline.
Vessels and crews paid for by the
taxpayers are far too expensive to
cover so huge an area, and
bureaucratic empire-builders are
stifling the volunteer efforts.
‘*Successful businessmen just
don’t get along with low-level
bureaucrats,’’. he | comments.
“Their methods are. totally
different.”
He shares. Horst Klein’s
opinion that compensation
should be based on the boat’s
speed and cost of operation, not
its length. The present formula,

$1.75 per foot of boat length per

hour, .penalizes the fast boats,
particularly if they are also small,
yet these are the boats that are
most. effective in rescue
operations. Maximum payment

now goes to the type of boat that .

takes the snes to reach the
victims.

This was the main subject of
his brief, in which he also pointed
out that in the spring and summer
of 1980 only 55 of the 189 vessels
in the CMRA actually took part
in rescue operations, and just 23
vessels handled 151 out of 189
calls. .

Thirty-two calls were handled
by a single ‘high-speed boat
which, because of its high fuel
consumption. and small _ size,

~earned only about half enough

money to pay: for fuel. At the
other end of the scale were large,
slow boats receiving three times

. their fuel cost.

Keen points out that many of
the people instrumental in setting
up the Marine .Rescue Auxiliary

and serving on its early executives
have since dropped out. .

~ One of those is Jan

Hetherington, emergency services °

elections. in $ , 28 NUGGET HAMS | or he
November. In either : : @ ge ; :

case the work on the’ LB. dis $ 64

“water \main, | which LIMITED STOCK. - LB : “LireD STOCK
would have begunina +

_ few. weeks, cannot —

co-ordinator at: Nanaimo, who

‘says the people in the Nanaimo

_ Marine’ rescue group get: much
 - better. disability. benefits and are

- provided ’.with ‘an -excellent 17-~.

foot vessel through the Provincial
- Emergency Program. and would
= have lost.a lot by'coming. into the

calls’ i '1980;~-and: 161. SO. far. dn

~ Hetherington _ :

An active rescue unit at. Prince
Rupert also ‘decided to remain
outside the C.M. R. A.

‘Don -Munro’s. -investigations
have convinced him. that Keen-is
on firm ground.

’ “fam: anxious to see ‘that. the
ordinary boater who will help his

_ fellow boaters is able to do-so,”*

he says. ‘The Coast Guard seems

way. vy

He is keeping an -eye. on an
evaluation of search and rescue
programs that is being done bya
government team, and

a ‘Lifeboat Association’’,

This type: of volunteer
association, outside government
control, handles lifesaving in the

United Kingdom and some other
. European countries,

OS ‘That one. group - handled 219

deals — only with ee ee CANADA | ‘CANADA
" porrdwing the inoney,” * LT POTATOES NOT “NO. 1
Another bylaw, pte "GREEN PEPPER CANTALOUPE

“of: 10-inch pipe. on,
: says: he “Wain ..
believes there should be. only one

‘marine rescue organization, vand:
- it should . ‘be. federal, :

~CMRA setup is.not good enough. pipe on Wain: Road:

“from Kalitan to Deep:

- to. be putting . blocks dn. their "

“Deep Wage

Chalet san waar SPRING
Open fr ieee BAGS —_

Lunch & Dinner
| Tuesday to Sunday

(Claved for Lunch Tuesday?

656-3541 —

vote of the municipal PICKLE & PIMENTO,  FTETCRET S
electors, WIENERS MAC & CHEESE | CHICKEN LOAF |
Council will decide, 1LB. PKG. 175g PKG. - 5009
ith h ] . Si
cite ate ol $418 sue ron wie $464
special meeting that PKG. . PKG

. the vote would be held

“number. 360,. sets out :
“what

“West Saanich Road to.
-Kalitan Road. and.

but the = 364. feet of» 8-inch’

561 feet of 8-inch pipe -
_ would -be™ laid. from °

“an. increase in the

“$18 to $24,35,

THE REVIEW

Page 3

WEEKDAYS 9-9 SUNDAYS11.9

The . petitioners
have. won the first
round, Next move is
up to North Saanich
council. |

The group opposing
the $350,000 - Wain
Road water main last
Thursday turned in
petitions bearing more
than 300 signatures
asking for a_ public
vote on the project..

That was more than
double the ‘five ‘per
cent of the voters
required,,. and
municipal staff have
confirmed an
adequate. number. of
the signers are on the
current voters list.

As a result council

CORNER OF

WALLACE DR. & W. SAANICH RD.
We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities

Prices Effective: WHILE QUANTITIES LAST

GRADE ‘A’
BONE IN

RIB STEAK

GRADE ‘*A’’ BEEF GRADE ‘‘A’’ BEEF —

LEAN QUALITY

GROUND | EEF

“GRADE ‘A’
BONELESS BEEF

TOP SIRLOIN STEAK

GRADE “A” BEEF
BONELESS

BRAISING RIBS

GRADE ‘A BEEF
|PORTERHOUSE _
: STEAK $4
LB

WHOLE ALASKAN KING FLETCHER’S

cannot pass Bylaw
365, which authorizes CRAB LEGS FLETCHER'S BOLOGNA
the borrowing of the FROZEN ‘ SLICED 5009

$350,000, until _ the
bylaw has been ap-
proved by a majority

FLETCHER S REGULAR

COLD MEATS

B MOCK CHICKEN, BOLOGNA,

may: be called earlier,
whether to procede
immediately or to wait:
for the municipal

GRADE. ‘‘A’’

FRESH CHICKEN

GRADE “AM.

FRESH TURKEYS

SCHNEIDER'S OLD FASHION AND

now go ahead.:.”: :
The bylaw on which

- CELLO 15 LB.

* the.’ ~ money
-would be spent. for.

JAteccalls for:
‘stallation’ of 3, 730 feet 2

CANADA. FANCY |
GRANNY. SMITH

‘Road..from:.

Cove Road.
_On® Kalitan Road

Wain Road to Birch:

Road. | om pdananiON ko
oa

- Estimated cost’ of EvaPomATED MILK
the work is $349,555. 385 mb

Estimated life is’ 50
years.
All parcels. of land
in. the. municipality
that... are on ‘-piped
water would. pay for
the installatin through

2hiIe

‘HUSKY

DOG FOOD
“ 02. :
annual charge from

J, WARD-HARRIS.

SHOW OF: PAINTINGS °| MCCAIN age pUCEAN GEM
POSTPONED _ BEEFEATER FRIES ~ BROKEN, SHRIMP
‘TO SEPT, 18:1920 PLB. 4020

UNDERWOOD

nent Sereno

4% 02.

BUMBLE BEE

™ 0g.

~ ROLANDS

BISCUITS”

~ MADE IN IRELAND
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