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XTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. 45

THE FLAGMAN
HAS A NEW LOOK

The line-up of cars was long
and the wait stretched into
minutes as one of the large
construction vehicles
maneuvered into position. No
horns honked, engines weren’t
impatiently revved. The rush
hour traveller was enduring.

At the front of the line-up, a
young girl with .a smile, a
‘stop’ sign and a, hard hat
directed traffic.

The Department of
Highways is repaving several
sections of local roads at the
moment. Until their expected
completion ‘time,
approximately two or three
weeks, weather permitting,
you can expect to be stopped
periodically when travelling
those roads by flagpersons.

Flagperson, a spokesman
for the highways department
said, is the new, official name
for people controlling traffic.
As it is quickly observed, the
flagpersons working in this
area are women.

According to the department
spokesman, they are especially
good at this job because
drivers are less likely to vent
their anger at a woman.

The
Highways

Department of
and private
contractors hire women for
these jobs with increasing
frequency. Courses are even
offered now to train them.
Jacki Godard, one of the
flagpersons on the Old West
Saanich Road said she enjoyed
her job and her paycheque, but

complained about the long
hours that come. with
construction jobs.

They work ten hour days,
eating meals while standing on
the job. If they have to leave

‘their place for a few minutes

traffic is held at the other end.
She likes the outdoor work.
About the people she works

with, she said, ‘‘They’re all

“great. They’ve been working

on construction for 60 years

and they’re only 30 years old.”’ .

She claims giving traffic
control jobs to women isn’t
any kind of token gesture by
contractors. “It?s just
practical, the drivers don’t get
as angry.”’

One of the girls, Denise Dey,
was ending her first day on the
job. She said she was sore all
over but she was smiling.

TEACHERS
UNHAPPY

Negotiations Could Go
To Arbitration

If contract negotiations for
Saanich district teacher salaries
go to compulsory arbitration,
it would indicate teacher
rejection of the federal Anti-
Inflation Board, according to
Fred Hughson. .

Hughson, agreements
the ..teachers’
negotiating ‘committee, was
speaking of 1977 contract talks
between Saanich school district
board and_ teachers.
contract remains unsettled by
November 15th, it will go to
compulsory arbiatration.

Teachers’ grievances with
the AIB go back to October 14,
1975 when their 1976 contract
was reduced from an expected
increase of 16 to 20 percent to
I! 3/8 percent. This increase
was then retroactively roiled
back in September 1976 to the
allowable AIB maximum of 8
3/4 percent,

B.C. school boards are in
the process of collecting from
the teachers salary increases
disallowed by the AIB.

The provincial agreements
committee of the B.C,
Teachers Federation
recommended teachers
‘actively oppose the wage
control program.’’ It suggested

teachers should ‘harass and
obstruct the bureaucratic
operation of these controls.’

Ros Ingram, Saanich

This is the second in a series
of three articles on candidates
for upcoming elections in the
three Peninsula municipalities,

BY DONNA VALLIERES
November 20 elections in
Central Saanich will see the
selection of a mayor and three
aldermen,

Incumbent) Mayor Jean
Butler is challenged by William
Rogers, a@ neweomer to. the
political scene, and seven
candidates are vying for
election as alderman,

Only two oof the three
dermanic incumbents, Dave
Hill and George MacFarlane,
have filed nomination papers,
and the three positions are also

If. the.

school board trustee, said to
date the province had seen

little harassment and the
Saanich district none.
Hughson stated the

relationship between Saanich
teachers and school board was
traditionally good and both
groups were hopeful it would
continue that way. _

It appears that under the
AIB, the teachers would not be
allowed more than an 8 percent
increase in the 1977 contract.

They are unhappy about
AlB control for two reasons.

Originally in Oct. 1975, they
were one of the last groups
negotiating for 1976-and were
caught in the middle of their
talks by anti-inflation controls.

Traditionally, the teachers
follow other groups,
example the — International
Woodworkers of America, and
they hoped their 11 3/8 percent
increase would hold.

When the rollback to 8
percent occurred, the teachers,
according to Hughson, were
unhappy because the AIB was
“inequitable in its rulings.’’
He claims the AIB allowed
larger increases in the private
sector because the public sector
was, in mast cases, unable to
strike and even if it did it
would not have the ‘economic
impact’? of a strike in the
private sector,

being sought by five other
candidates,
FOR MAYOR
JEAN BUTLER

Municipal government is
becoming more complex,
difficult and time
demanding,'’ says Mrs. _ Butler,

“Tan able to devote t my free
time to the affairs of the
municipality and pledge my
best. effort, dedication, and
energies to thse important
responsibilities,"’

Mrs. Butler has been mayor
of Central Saanich for two-
and-a-half years and was an
alderman for (wo years before
that,

“Tam completely free from
any conflicting alliances or

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THE GIRL WITH the grin is really
Jacki Godard, flagperson on Old
West Saanich Road repaving project.

Wednesday, November 10, 1976

The project is
completion in two or three, weeks,
weather permitting.

scheduled for

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SURPRISE END TO VACATIONS

MACLAURIN, WARING UPSET
AT RECREATION DECISION

Question Figures In Info Letter

Anyone who — thought
Central Saanich council had
resolved, within itself, the
recreation complex debate was
proved wrong at that council’s
Monday meeting.

Ald. Don MacLauren and
Ald. Frank Waring returned
from month-long vacations to
discover with surprise and
resentment that council had
decided to go to referendum on
rejoining North Saanich and
Sidney on a_ recreation
complex.

“‘l’m not against recreation;
I’m not against going to the
people,’’ said Waring.

What the two aldermen did

question were some of the
figures that were to be included
in the information letter to
Central Saanich residents.

The information letter was
to contain certain figures that
were not guaranteed as the
Central Saanich recreation
proposal costs had been. For
example council discussed
again what the actual sewer
costs would be,

“It can be said we're taking
a gamble on it,’’? said Ald.
George MacFarlane, referring
to figures given by North
Saanich and Sidney.

Mayor Jean Butler pointed
out the two aldermen had been

absent when pressure was put
on council to act on a
recreation facility after Central
Saanich’s proposal was turned
down at the referendum.

It was decided that as well as
sending out a letter with the
available information, council
would hold a public meeting
on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 8
p.m. in the Keating School to
explain the figures they had
used and to answer any
questions.

Dennis Young of the Capital
Region Board, the recreation
complex contractor and
aldermen would be invited to
attend.

FINAL HOSPITAL PLANS
TO HEALTH MINISTER

Construction Start Expected Early Next Year

With a little bit of luck, and
a lot of expertise the 75-bed
acute care extension planned
for the Saanich Peninsula
Hospital may be a reality early
in 1977.

Just this week final plans for
the much-needed extension are

being forwarded to the
minister of health, R.H.
McClelland.

Eighteen months in process,
the complete proposal and
total concept had to be seen,
commented upon, and passed
by all the professionals
concerned from physicians to
physiotherapists.

The fact that the plans are
finally off for examination and

consideration of. the. minister.

of health, is a great satisfaction
to J.B. Cumming, a former
mayor of North Saanich and
director of the Peninsula
Hospital Board.

The 75 acute beds, will be
added to the existing 75
extended care beds now in
existence,

“Everything is still subject

to the minister’s permission to
go for tenders,’ emphasized
Mr. Cumming.

“The plans provide for a
single story unit to conform to
the present building,’’ said
Cumming.

“It is known technically asa
“community”? hospital which
will give general service. It will
have similar medical facilities
to those which are available at
Rest Haven. The need is great,
we have been trying to get this
going for years and years. We
should be able to handle all
general care and service, but
sophisticated care which
required ‘sophisticated
equipment, will still be referred

.to the major hospitals such as:

the Jubilee and Victoria
General.’’

If the concept receives :the
go-ahead from the minister of
health, it will relieve a great
deal of pressure in the Capital
District Region’ which is a
large area extending from Port
Renfrew to Victoria, the
Saanich Peninsula and the

*¥OU-SAID-I-SAID’ SPAT AT SCHOOL BD.
FIGHT IT OUT IN THE NEWSPAPERS’ — SEALEY

Saanich school board
chambers was the scene of a
dispute between Dr. Gerry
Kristianson, chairman of the
board, and trustee Jack
Armstrong.

The battle began a few
weeks ago with a letter from
Armstrong to several Victoria
newspapers concerning
representation to school
boards as being the wrong
people to keep education costs
down.

NOVEMBER ELE

committment,’ she says. ‘My
only vested interest is in the

long range good of the
municipality,.’’
Mrs. Butler says she is

greatly concerned about taxes
and would endeavour to keep
them as low as possible.

‘LT am dedicated to the
proposition that Central
Saanich shall continue to be a
pastoral community retaining
a blend of agriculture and
pleasant residential areas,”’ she
said, ‘It must not be
deseerated by haphazard
development."

Positive steps have been
taken to resolve the water
problem, Mrs, Butler believes,
and = says a recreation

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The letter was followed by
interviews with Armstrong and
a replying letter (published in
last week’s issue of The
Review) from Kristianson.

“The chairman has quoted
me as saying something 1
hadn't said,’’ Armstrong said

‘in reference to the last letter.

“This is not a true quote
from anything I said,’’

Armstrong was arguing that
Kristianson was drawing on a
different set of figures when he

referendum will be held to give
the voters the choice in
participating ina trie
municipal facility

WILLIAM ROGERS

William Rogers, — branch
manager for a trust company
and a oresident: of Central
Saanich since 1962, says he's
“concerned over the
complacency of Central
Saanich council.”

“TE feel that now is the time
for new ideas and new faces,
Kor example, there has been
continual indecision, a lack of
sound and positive action on
the part of the present council
with regard to the
controversial municipal

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(Kristianson) stated teacher
salary increases rose only 80
per cent in the past four years,
instead of 108 per cent, as
Armstrong had maintained.

“It was not my intention to
misquote him’? Kristianson
told trustees, but said if he did
“then I apologize for doing
so,”’

“Stop this you-did-I-did,
you-said-I-said,’’ Trustee
Rubymay Parrott — scolded,

“and let's get down to what

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recreation facility,”’ he claims,

There was no apparent
effort made by the mayor and
council to co-operate with the
other two municipalities
involved, Rogers says, “but
rather, it seemed more like an
empire-building “ego trip,”

“Now we are faced with a
further referendum, not really
a decision made on the
initiative of council, but a
decision made only after a
large group) of concerned
taxpayers applied pressure to
the extent that council had to.
act to save face,”?

To date, there has been no
indication from the mayor or
wy oof the couneil members
that they are, in fact, really in

‘ providng

we’re here for, and_ that’s

the best possible
education for our children,’

Trustee Norma

agreed,

Sealey

‘*I’m not prepared to sit here
and listen to his,’’ she said,
and advised trustees to ‘fight
it out in the newspapers’’ if
they have anythinbg more to

say on the subject,

ELECTION MEETINGS

Sidney and North Saanich

Chamber of Commerce is
sponsoring all-candidate
mectings for Sidney on

Tuesday, November 16

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favour of becoming involved,
says Rogers,

“Is this responsible
sincere government?"

There are several other
issues, such as water and
sewers Which must be faced up
to and acted on in the near
future, Rogers believes,

Council should also
“maintain rigid control
through sensible planning for
futrue development,’” he says,
“without placing an excessive
tax burden on the residents.""

FOR ALDERMAN
GARDO GURR

“The community has been
controlled for too long by too
few peaple,'' says Gardo

and

p.m. at North Saanich school
and for North Saanich on

Thursday, November ‘18 at 8
pom. at Parkland,

IN REVIEW ——

(Boots) Gurr,

A) businessman, Gurr has
never run for public office
before, but was chairman of a
citizen's committee that
petitioned council — for
reconsideration of withdrawal
from the — triemunicipal
recreation commission earlier
this summer,

Although the — petition
sarried 2,000 signatures, it was
ignored by council, Gurr
claims.

“They've been vacillating,”’
he adds. “If they had shown
some intelligent: planning, our
kids would be swimming and
skating now,”

On other toples,

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he feels the

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Gulf Islands.

There is still a crying need
for intermediate beds, at this
time only served by ore
institution in the entire region -
Tillicum Lodge - which has 150
beds. At all times about 200
people are on the waiting list.
Intermediate is the category
where patients need some
supervision, ‘‘about 8 hours
professional service and the
other 16 hours, lay service.’’.

Mr. Cumming who has been
deeply involved in the creation
of the Peninsula Hospital and
affairs of (the ‘region, °
explained that in contrast,
extended care means people
who require 24 hours nursing
service. ve

“At one time or another
most people find themselves in
hospital,’’ “he said, ‘‘we need
all the public interest and

support we can get.”’

PATIENT:
REAPPEARS

A 23-year-old patient of the
Springwood Training Centre
returned to the centre carly

Saturday morning, after
spending three days outdoors,
Police, civilian rescue

personnel and a tracking dog
had been unable to locate the
man after he went missing
Wednesday morning, 7

The man returned hungry
but in) good condition,
according to a spokesman for
the centre,

How he managed to leave
imdetected was unknown at
this time but — psychiatric
problems might account for his
reasons for leaving,

should protect agricultural
Jand, but that commercial and -
industrial development is
needed,

The peninsula should take
a partnership with the Indian
citizens,"" he says, “so they
would feel more a part of the-
community.”

Gurr supports Bil Rogers in
his bid for the mayor's seat,

DAVE HILL

“Em basically running on
my record,"’ says incumbent
Dave Hill, “I'm hard working
and I've learned a lot.”

The number one priority
facing Central Saanich is the

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