- Wednesday, May 9, 1984 | THE REVIEW

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: -your community? Will the coming years of restraint Your publishing of public service announcements and
I bring more school closures? Is a local school something. fair reporting of animal welfare matters area great help
; Save our schoo that someone can take away, or is it yours to keep and. in accomplishing the mission of the branch. These
protectasa- Canadian! services permit us to. better’ serve the public in ais
‘ The parents are stunned. } 5| : What can we do to reverse these devastating areas.
4 To eliminate the salary of one teacher On 100 i ~ decisions? Thank youagain for this generous publicservice.
eb. being closed at the end of this school year. Our smé We need to hear from anyone who suffers similiar. Joseph F. Heald,
al children will be bussed over 40 km. over dan gee cuts, from anyone who shares our concern for. the | ~ Secretary-manager, SPCA
“| Oe: to school each day. The entire community w! future of education in our province. Is it time now for
= The ‘‘Save Our School Committee’ has met with We Coe 0 econ apr geincial oreenizationy. Our GERRY PETERS MASONRY LTD
“ Willie-4 Romance by Heather Robertson. school board, our MLA and had correspondence with schoo) Committee, Box 94, Avola, B.C. VOE 1C0. °
‘ Robertson Davies once described Canadians as a secretly the minister of education to try to prevent this decision. |
; “bizarre and passionate’ people. ‘Accept the bland, Even now we cannot give up the struggle. It is obvious SPCA h ky ALL TYPES OF MASONRY WORK
quiet, rather dull Canadian for what he seems to be,’? he _—_—‘ that we cannot ‘‘make enough noise’’ locally. It is time SQYS CNanks os
; warned, ‘‘and it’s just like putting your hand into a cir- to join with others in the province who are facing 1" : : Po BRICK or STONE
cular saw’’. similiar problems. - The Victoria branch has completed another year of s
One of the Canadians he had in mind when he made this Have the education budget restrictions inyour school service to the Greater Victoria area, One of the missions
statement was William Lyon Mackenzie King, the subject _ district brought about cutbacks that are threatening is to inform and educate the public on animal welfare . | 652 295] ie
of Heather Robertson’s first novel, Willie—4A Romance. your oe welfare? are oe mann coeur ane sus aerecent sana general the appreciation and | 8093 ALEC RD -
: : : Te your children many miles. to find “local” education? a resolution was passed to express the ecle ; . :
sortiays: erate seioiar Seanad ee 8 wovenson Will the loss of such schools take away the very heart of er atitude of the membership to your paper. oy Serving the Peninsula = — Twenty. pens =

readers of Canadaian history. As one reviewer put it: ‘‘like

@ _ the blue fairy changing Pinocchio from wood to flesh and Blood donor |
La blood, Robertson imagines King into a real, live boy’’. -

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| Robertson’s main character is Lily. Coolican, a held 9:30 a.m. -3 p.m. May
“|.” photographer and diarist. To her, Willie is simply an 11. This year the institute

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Ea Lily is a dynamic woman, forgoing her way towards shooting for 150. The Wednesday
m= emancipation. At every turn she crosses paths with the Canadian Red Cross to Saturday.
famous: Nellie McClung, Sir Wilfred Laurier, and John D. Society reminds the public y;
Rockefeller, to name a few. that graduation time is near Way 9 to 12

Oi  After-a short prologue on the occasion of Willie’s death and sometimes this can
in 1950, -Lily’s diary entries between 1914 and 1918 ‘mean more traffic-related
chronicle her career from humble beginnings to governor. accidents. which create an-
general’s press secretary. Interspersed throughout. are increased demand for blood
letters. — some real, some fictional — medical reports, and blood products. ‘ ~ — = hdd
memos and other items that intensify immediacy and... oe ; : BONELESS ae F . . ee FRESH B.B.0._
realism. ‘ Permits down ot oF CS Denathed frie geod fe ee at
= Heather Robertson’ has created an uncanny sense of The town 2 Of: Sidney’s ercn CROSS © SS ims BONELESS - me BEEF MINE
1... being there. Her book is rich, warmly humourous and permit. values for April were. Bee ‘BLADE CHUCK
: energetic, as well as a unique portrait of ‘Willie, whom she -down _ this year from
“sees as ‘‘a sort of Druid, the first northern magus, the mad $420,013 in 1983 to $91,170.

Merlin of Kingsmere. ” Permits values so. far this
Willie —A Romance is available for either the Sidney year. total. $979,753 com-

North Saanich. or the Central Saanich branch of oe pared » with. ‘$1, 842, 634. for
a regional library. last year.

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