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- their choices are befor e going to ine polls on Sep-
: tember 30.

formation put out by the Vancouver Island Regional

ple will have a chance to answer at least the ques-
-tion about. who. should: provide service when they .
vote on September 30. How many people will actu-

-- ally get out to vote is the real question, since statis:
~ tics also tell us only. about 50 per cent of the popu-.
- lation uses the library. system — not just on the .
~ Peninsula, but provincewide. .-

er aegene een ae sn 0A ME IAL iS REST NOEL TLE ine

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2 ability. of the three councils to work together. This |
‘was a golden: opportunity. for the members to put |
- personal feelings aside and work together on public |
issues. To a certain extent, they have done that. But |
“in some individual cases, the personal biases have AS
‘od

spect, by the general public and certainly by each

~ other, That has been eroded in this process by some | |
‘members, Who the people are who hold the offices |

ss tres ated with respect, But more than that, the office

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THE PENINSULA’S COMMUNITY ‘NEWSPAPER:

Publis her: Jean Butterfield:
_ Editor: Judy Reimche a

~ Phone: 656. 1154 L/ Fax: 656- 5526

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Vol. 88 / No. 38 / Circulation: 13,796

_ EDITORIAL
Bringing i in | business |

ye have attempted to wade ‘thicugh the
mounds of information, much of it con-

i ¥ _tradictory, on library services so people
on the Peninsula could get a better concept of what

~The exercise has not been made easier by the i in ay

Library and Greater Victoria’ Public Library sys-
tems; nor has there been up-to-date information laid
out by the three municipalities. It’s not that any of it.
is wrong, but each has its own interpretation.
provincial government. ‘But like most statistics, un-.
less you. know exactly. what those are. based on,
there are further. interpretations made — by the per- :
on assembling the data and by the reader,
‘The:questions about service (where it ‘should
at should it look like) have been.
sked by municipalities for about 10 years. Now peo-)

- To.us, the real test of this sroicess has been the |

| been all too evident: And that’s bad for allofus.
This process should have laid the basis for nego- |
~ tiation on further shared services, a scenario that

must happen as costs continue to escalate and as,

~ each year, municipalities are shouldered with more | |

responsibilities formerly undertaken by the provin-
cial government. It will be a case of taking control

y
and getting the job done or having the province tak- ~ |

‘ing over and perhaps not getting the desired results."
Mayors and councils represent the people, and |
their offices should be treated with dignity andre- |

is certainly not irrevelant — everyone should be

“itself is a trust that must be used and treated with me
dignity. ‘Anything less than that is unacceptable.

As a society we have allowed our codes of behav:
jor to become lax, and it’s to the detriment of all of
us. If our system is to retain even.a semblance of
_ democr racy, politici ians must remember why they wt

The rest of us. need to remember our own role,
and ke { out to vote. |

are atthe table. | :

So we relied on comparison data put out by the. ao)

~ convicted bank robber in Adelaide,
~ Australia who is now: free and walking:
the streets. He was:in' the slammer |
‘serving a 10-year sentence until a

leased forthwith,

~ serve,

with the endearing name of Doctor

OPINION

famously wrote.

yeti: plenty. Take the case: 5 of sa:

criminal court judge ruled that the
jury that convicted the man might
have been unduly and subconsciously
influenced: by his given name. ‘The.
judge overturned the unanimous
verdict and ordered the man re-

The crook’s name? Rob.

Rob Banks. :

Sometimes there's justice. Some-
times people get the names they de-

The actress. Audrey Hepburn. |
was married to a Swiss psychiatrist °:

Dotti, There’s a gas station atten-

hat’s ina name, old Bill Shakespeare ¢ once

oe 7 ~ cause he ' spills his seed on the ground.”

ae ‘There's an aardvark at the. London: Zoo whose |
whaate ene! nameplate identifies him. as Emilion,

“There’s really no limit

Dorothy: Parker named her. pet. canary. Onan, be

© Why Emilion?”

son hit? . :

- Aardvark Emilion fails

for one of your smiles.
case, my Mammmmmmy!
“Sorry.

There's. eoaily no limit when ‘it
comes to silly names, There’s a

' Angeles named Lake Trout.
And he has a brother named
Brook.»

up. with the name’ your parents
gave you. Some people are willing

of legally changing their name. A
certain Mister A; Pravbysz of De-

“Don't you remember the old Al J oF a :

. practicing attorney-at-law in Los =>

Of course, you don’t have to put a |

to go to the trouble and expense

dant in Hatteras, North Carolina
who answers to the name of
Wheeler Balance, And there’s a fa-
mous religious prelate in the
Philippines known to all the world
as Cardinal Sin,
If you have access to a Greater

Manhattan telephone book you'can

when it comes to silly

names. There’s a prac-.

ticing attorney-at-law

in Los Angeles named

Lake Trout. And he

has a brother named

troit, grew tired of the hassles
caus sed by his over-consonanted
handle, so he changed it. He now .
answer's to Mister C, Pravbysz.

Humperdinck — Fangboner.
Theodolphus J. Poontang. Mrs.
Maginis Oyster, Marmalade P.-
Vestibule — there's no end of
weird monikers,

at inc h.

look up a chap in the West Sixties:
who is listed: as Mister Pleasant -

| Brook.” soe

And if there's 8 any justice there,

he's a birdwatcher.:
-» Sometinies you have.to wonder what oceple were.
thinking when they named their kids. There's a stu.
-dent.in New Zealand who must live with the name:
Genghis Cohen — and another college freshman at
Williams College in Massachusetts whose driver's ll-

cense Identifies him as Warren Peace,
-T know of'a resident of the Midwest who would

~ swap names with either of them ina heartbeat, His
x (or her) name? Katz Meow. .

Animals: often bear the brunt of our penchant for.
“handing. out gooly names. The Algonquin. wit

» My overall favorite? It's hard to

choose, but it's also hard to beat a
dowager who lives in North Car-
olina named Melissy Dalciny Cal-.

. dony Yankee Pankee Nevil-Take-The-lrish Garrison, me

But even the simplest n names can cause serious —
embarrassment: |

-l've gota friend by the name of Jack Jones, Simple ;

name, right? What kind of trouble could come, outof-
- aname like that? peak
~--T found out one time when rf spotted him atriding eb:
Ahrough the Arrivals Level at Terminal Two of Pears

gon International Airport, Hadn't seen him for years,

but he was walking fast in the opposite direction, :

So hatirally, I yelled at the top of ny: lunge eH, ,

. JACK