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By Judy Reimche

’ Peninsula ‘News Review:

Say: YEES.. ;
“Tt’s the response vehat Youth Establishing Endeavors in Sidney and North.
Saanich (YEES) is hoping to. get from the community. vag

As of Dec. 31; the society is out of money...

~The board decided at its meeting last Wednesday Gept. 23) thati its options :

~ were limited, It can try {0 go on, eking by on sparse finances, all donated from
the cormmunity, it can look for major sponsorship, or it can shelter under the
umbrella of either the Peninsula Recreation Commission or Peninsula Cony
munity Association. °

The board ended the meding by setting two goals, To ensure long-term op:
eration for the group, the board's Vision Committee has approached the two |
community associations with a request to be taken on as a member group; ~
much as the PRC has. taken on the Boys and Girls Club in Central Saanich,
Their request will go to the boards of the two organizations for discus asion at

upcoming meetings,
YEES member sal Wednesday's meeting conside red the most likely group
- for them to join is probably the PRC, But the proposal has yet to be discus ssed
oy that group, .

Even if elthet the, ERE or PCA agrees, however, ¥ YEES members realize ae

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process will take w up to a year to coine. to fr dition. Once a decision to take the
* group on is‘made, it would still have to be worked into the next budget.

: : still needs to operate, Board chair Elizaheth Cox asked the membership for sup-
port in finding funding for the short term, which she said could be up toa year:

After a four-year struggle with finances, today the gr group is ata crossr roads. will be a fund-raiser planned for. November,

“municipal councils and local businesses for help.

| municipality in its bid for funding..

Until that decision can be made, and the process begun, the youth:centre

“We need some sense of being able to move forward,” she Bai adding there .
“While reluctant to do so, members conceded the need to go back to their

-“We keep going back to the community —- the same woniler ful people who
keep supporting us,” C OX said. “But we would £0 bac k on the under standing
that. this is the last time.”

Clive Tanner, board member, said the a ‘oup should include Centr al Saanich

“It’s the responsibility of both other municipalities (aside from Sidney] to.
make grants here,” he said, since youth, from across the Peninsula attend the -
centre,

Ten young people who regularly attend the centre added their voices to the®
discussions. While the teens were reluctant to see any of the control over their
facility be given to another entity, such as the PRC, most sake that would be an
acceptable trade-off for keeping the centre going,

To help out, call Cox at 656-5424, or new youth programmer Ron z ruswel
at the centre, 655-4045.

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By Lee Torgalson .

Peninsula News Review

The Cops for Cancer-Tour de
Rock team is set to roll into Sidney
this Friday, Oct. 2.

The 15 law enforcement officers
from. Greater Victoria police and
RCMP detachments, along with C-
FAX radio news director Alan Perry,

kicked off their: 1,000-Km:Tour de
~ Rock in this year’s Cops for Cancer

campaign last week.
"As they ride south, the: group is
stopping at various communities,

|. where local police detachments host

avaricty. of events — from head shav-

ings and hot dog sales, to dart tour-
- naments and formal ‘dinners... as
“Here in Sidney, Cpl. Rob Weaver -
: of the Sidney-North Saanich RCMP
| is responsible for or: ganizing | find
raising “events,” and: he:promises ee
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. charged with 27 sexual offences dat-

Victoria Provincial Court.
James William Robertson is facing

‘from rape, gross’ indecency and in-

decent assault to sexual assault, rape:
and attempted rape. a

-Robertson, 56, has been detained

“in custody since July 14. The trial is

- expected to last four or five weeks.

He-has elected trial by judge and
jury.
A publication ban pr hibits The
Review from publishing details, sur
rounding the case. :

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