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ue actions concerning the Van-
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7 brary

COMMENTARY

PCOS OSSESCUEOCBESSH OCHRE EOG OHS KOSGHSHEGETESHHCAYHS

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-. This past weekend I nar-

rowly missed running
down a lady in the cross-
walk as I turned left from
Third Street onto Bevan in
Sidney. I offer no excuse

other than I just didn’t see her.
Fortunately I didn’t hit her but as’.
~ it scared the wits out of my granddaughter —

and I, it must have frightened her terribly..1 .
‘turned around and went: back around the block®

to see if could find her to apologise and to make
“sure she was not too shaken up by-the incident. I

couldn’t find her so 1 am hoping she will read this and

‘OPEN LETTER TO. CENTRAL

‘Re: your écnunents and

~My | initial

don, as. .reported in the
Peninsula News Review, July.
19: “0.
North Saanich and Central

Saanich) have tried very’

hard to put out unbiased,
fair, responsible and accu-

rate information’... Then —
the VIRL goes and produces

propaganda that. is. inaccu-.’
rate. It is inaccurate. and ©

highly biased material.”
_ A secondary motivation
comes from a news item in

the July 26 issue of the same

publication. announcing
your approval of the work-
ing of areferendum that will
ask voter approval for. Cen-

tral Saanich to withdraw.

from VIRL.

Apparently the. referen-
dum has. nothing about
what, if any, future the li-
brary might have following
such voter approval.

Sea TAT ‘

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‘motivation.
comes from. comments by -
-- Councillor Michelle Had--

We've. (Sidney,

‘regularly interact,
none with any more infor. -
mation than I have about |

. Dy, Be Diane oe ao a oe
pean i ea ts vb Ht } i ny
4 41-2245 james White Blvd.

: ‘(behind Thrifty Foods, Sidney). sega ach

“Optical I Services h Contact Lansas
: Genorat, ‘Eye & Vision Care

know Iam very Sorry about the close call and that I wish » -

Are changes - |
“Recessary?- :

community meetings would
be held, although nothing

specific was reported:

” Ms. Haddon's comments
led me to think I had missed. *:

- something and | set out to
find the unbiased, fair, re-
sponsible and accurate in-..

formation that she says you

: have tried so hard to “put
out.”

There has been nothing
in our mail from council or -

anyone else about the li-

_ brary, From several dozen

local citizens with whom we
1 find

the notion of changing our
library status. Nothing from
council about the matter is

available in the local library -
_. branch or the adjacent cul-.

“tural centre: : :
So I went to the municipal”
hall, where the receptionis

-easons for such withdrawal
or plans for. changing our li-
“brary system other ‘than'a
~-skimpy report some weeks
ago about a proposal (from
unidentified source) to, link’.
our library. to that of.
Greater Victoria and some —

her well.

told me there was nothing.

- publicly available from the ©
council about the library Sit-
‘uation although, the person

said, there might be some- »

thing coming out within the ©
next few.weeks.

~ We'd like to know what's

- going on here? Where is the -

unbiased, fair, responsible.

and accurate information: .

Ms, Haddon says you have
tried very hard to “put out?”
Also, precisely. what in the
VIRL pamphlet, on the sub-
ject of the coming referen-
dum is. inaccurate . and
highly biased? :

And further, why have.
you gone so far as to draft a

“bylaw to withdraw Central .

Saanich from ‘the VIRL

‘without at least some pre-:

liminary community studies
and/or meetings on the
subject? Who — individual
or group — stimulated this
dissatisfaction with VIRL af-
filiation in the first place?
Was the ‘subject any part of

licized referendum. :
“We have: been ‘heavy sea
users of the library (two or. 3
three visits per week) fora
good many years.and ever
since the VIRL affiliation be- .

Sandi Burchill, Saanichton.

~ Bouquets to the wonderful people
_ of the Save our Ferry Commit-
tee. ] am sure there are many
people like myself who take

the ferry often, but do not
have the time, or political
know-how to do what

these fine people are do-
ing.

I would like to thank
them publicly for their
fine efforts on behalf

of our “little ferry.”
. Mill Bay
Commuter

Kudos to the organizers |
and participants of the
Sidney Street Market.

What a. wonderful way to.

. spend the-evening, strolling. :
- through the market, enjoying the
‘setting sun and all those wonderful
displays the vendors set up. We re-

-. ally hope to see this Sidney tradition con-.
tinue for avery many more years to come.
-Signmea,
‘Delighted Shopper;

gan; We've never heard: a
word of complaint about the
resources or the service

and have heard a great.

many expressions of appre-
ciation about the personal-

ized attentions and the pro- -

fessional qualities. of the li-
brarians.. Our present ser-
vice is superior in all re-
spects; it’s hard to see how.
it could be reasonably { im-
proved,

Presumably proponents | 0964

of withdrawal: from. VIRL
would seck affiliation with
Greater Victoria? We would

‘suggest quite the reverse. -
Rather than further balka-

nization (a la our plethora of
municipalities in GVRD), if:

~ Conrinutin ON PAGE

2475 Bevan hie,
“Stdney, BC

i poe

With regret, I see this sit- iL fale

s uation with all the earmarks * >
ofa deplorable politicalma-
= nipulation, although: Tam at: &

a/aeriarcmeraserenia etn Hiern

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