@ Wednesday, August 31, 1988

THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C.

Page AS

“Don’t

For those of you who think those publications sold at
supermarket checkout counters are only for people with the
intellectual capacity of a toaster, who carry on conversations with
buckets of live bait and who wear sweaty tank tops all the time
and not just when they buy groccrics, let me set you straight.

I buy them too.

How else can I expect to keep up with really important world
events and improve my knowledge? Certainly not by reading
daily newspapers which are as dull between their covers as
politicians are vacant between their cars.

For instance, here’s one about a Texas pinup called Britta who’s
a grandmother at.46. I was impressed until I flipped over the page -
to read about an 1 1-ycar-old girl (I’m not making this up) who had
just given birth to nine-pound twins.

Eleven years old! Grade 6? Have you had a good look lately at
the Grade 6 girls who go to the school in your neighborhood?
Well, if not, don’t hang around looking at them unless you want to
get into trouble.

Officer: 1 caught this creep hanging around the school looking
at Grade 6 girls.

Judge: Lock -him-. up.

These kids arc just youngsters. No way any of them could be
mothers. They ignore their own mothers. ‘‘Julic, dinner time.”’
‘‘Coming mother.’’ She never comes. ;

I think this kid must be in at least Grade 8 and that the National
Examiner is guilty of exaggeration.
Daily newspapers never exaggerate. You'd never sec a this
headline like this in a daily. ‘‘DOES MILA KNOW?”’
The story would begin ‘‘Prime Minister Mulroncy denies
having spent the night in an U.S. motel with a gerbil. But sources
close to Canada’s chief of state say at least some of his children
have those useless little creeps as pets and it is possible that on a

Continued from Page A4
at their shows and at the Sidney
Days parade. They have held spe- —
cial hands-on events for the men-
tally and physically handicapped.

we improperly

Editor:

rmarket literature

small town hopping,’’ ‘‘Siberian Tiger devourcd its keeper,”’

of the public had been informed
in-camera |

“On Aug. 22, a special meeting | ‘dential matters were. to be dis-'

recent business trip Mulroncy could have bought another (gerbil)
to bring back as a gift.’’

The story would go on, for about three pages, to ask why
Mulroney bought foreign gerbils and were Canadian gerbil
breeders given the chance to bid on the deal; how often had this
happened; was the. gerbil smuggled into Canada properly —
inoculated or will Canadians now dic slow, horrible deaths from
incurable gerbilitis?

‘These arc legitimate questions that Canadians have the right to
ask,’’ thundered NDP Leader Dave Broadfoot while scratching
himself uncontrollably. ‘‘I didn’t have this itch until Mulroney
spent that night with the gerbil.’’

You get real animal storics in supermarket publications.

‘‘Daredevil Dalmation goes parasailing’? complete with a
colored picture of this white dog covered with ink blots hanging
by straps and being photographed by four million Japancse
tourists.

Others in the same issue included ‘‘Mystcry Kangaroos kcep

‘‘Four Lesbians invade TV studio,’’ ‘‘Big Foot on verge of
extinction,”’ ‘‘Two girls devoured by vicious piranhas.”’

If you’ve had someone, like your Uncle Orville, sitting around
in your house and not. moving very much, maybe you'd better
check it out. A fellow in Poland watched his wife sit in front of
their television set for four days before he suggested she fix his
dinner, or at Ieast go-to the bathroom,

She didn’t move. She was dead. Four days worth of dead.

‘*She was always sitting in front of TV,’’ Jerry Paradowski told
the police. ‘I thought she was drunk.’’

Hey, Uncle Orville. You in there?

All you fatties out there listen up. There are more weight loss
programs per column inch in supermarket publications than in all
other publications in the whole world combined.

‘‘Down 22 pounds in a weck :without dicting.’’ “‘Lose 30
pounds in 30 days.’’ ‘“‘Lost 71 pounds in six weeks, mother finds
tocs.’’ ‘‘One thousand people lose 50,000 pounds in two
months.’’ ‘‘I was a big bad beach ball until I tried Crud.’’ “‘l
disappeared completely in a year and a half.’ .

Makes dropping a mere five pounds seem like a piece of cake,
doesn’t it? Oops, what am I saying?

Anyway, read this stuff and you'll never care about public
affairs again.

that the meeting was not open to. lor.
the public. Be . “7 You. thought we had democratic. a
“It was pointed out that no‘confi- government? .What.we: sce is a-

-nice tidy. closed shop. Wake up,

Caverley, Chris Lott and Bill Tay-

. The proposed ring in Kenishay
Park will be a public ring for the
use of all riders and maintaincd by.

deal.

oughly studied.

Nofth Saanich

 How’s that fora track record?
The proposal before council is a.
- Starting point for discussion. Gen-.
_» uine concerns raised by neighbors:
“will. no: doubt: be addressed by»:
council, municipal. staff and Sun-.
“set. Itis amazing: that mayoralty
candidate, George Westwood, has -
-. already announced that: he-is.
-.- against ‘municipal property. being .
~ . eased to a private group.

Sunset. 1 think that’s a pretty good .

We trust that no premature deci-
sions will be made ‘until all. the:
information is available and thor-

Gil Soeliner

of ‘North Saanich council was’:
-.convened for a single purpose. —
to review the competing offers for.
“preparation, of the next official

proposals were technically sound,
the principals competent for the
task, and that council would bene-

fit from the: best technical advice

we could give:

Ald. Don Caverley was late

arriving, after the acting. mayor
had defined the purpose and for-

‘mat-of the meeting. He immedi- ;

atcly proposed that the session be

in camera, on the: unsubstantiated

grounds that an unnamed member

cussed, and that there was-no just ~ .
reason. for maintaining secrecy.’
He persisted, and the motion: was ©

carried by virtue of the acting ~
“community plan. The respective _. mayor’s. tie-breaking vote.: All:
chairmen of the advisory planning ©
commission and the environmen- *
‘tal advisory commission were also:
~invited to attend.
~--“As.a member of the EAC, [also ..
--was invited, by the chairman, ‘to
assist. in any way to ensurc that the

"members of the EAC, except the
“chairman, eft the meeting...
_ Had the aldermen failed to. do.
‘their. homework?. Had ‘they even =)...
-read the proposals? Could..it be. -
“that their anxiety to:exclude ‘the:
public was-to cover. their igno-. ~
rance or incompetence? If so,
there is no excuse forthe cavalier °

attitude toward those of the public

who may have been able to offer
some useful expertise in environ-
mental research, - ae

Perhaps we might have detected.
‘some fect-of clay bencath the

council table. For the record (there

being no minutes by direction of
the acting mayor) those favoring
the closed session. were. aldermen

voters of North Saanich! If you

thought that this ‘council ‘had:
-leatned anything from public reac-.
‘tion to recent events, think again. .
‘You may: well ask just. how. well.
“served you are, and whose inter-
ests really: come first.<- 9.0055

“> Peter Haines

Editor:
Lloyd

As Harrop says, The Review's

“policy of no longer printing letters

onthe past performance of cithcr

“mayoralty candidate prevents him
~ from discussing what he perceives.

~~ Continued on Page A12 ~

"North Saanich

‘Harrop’s letter, referring
* darkly to the need for more dis-
cussion about conflict of interest, -.
etc., is a classic example of the |
- perils of suppressing free specch.

: mA \ OY
ees er) wary gn

resist, during the Saturday sod turning for Sidney's new marine
Huberts has.a lot of extra work, these days, thanks to Premier Bill
however, operating a backhoe. ‘Who says there isn't life after

~~ politics?’ said the nimble: parks minister and minister of state for
Vancouver Island/Coast and North Coast, as he climbed down from his.

the soil, He suggested. Huberts keep his day. job,
Sy ee
took one at the media, while noting. his government hasn't yet
committed any money to the marine mammal oiscum, With a. fall
federal election almost a certainty, ‘the timing is no hell, because if]
Terry Wuberts, We'll accept any. money, even ifit is just before the
-contribnted: $150,000 of lottery money, oa

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Chuck and Dorls Cunningham, The conple, well-known for their

the, South Saanich Uniied Churel. Chuck worked for Shell for 60

Saanich Road open house atthe home af thein-san and daughter-in-law,

So Allan and Val Cunningham, the couple. was feted by 150 friends and’

relatives,
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THE HISTORIC. Frank Verdier House in: Wrentwood Bay drew
crowds Sunday foran open house

aha Loane fring fo nncaver totais about the hame's past, When wag the

“House built? “Either 1912. 0° 1910, That's one of the things we'd like to

A FEW quips from the sardine gallery were just a little too. hard to.
mammal muscum, Orca House, Saanich and the Islands MLA Terry. 7

Vander Zalu's recent shulfling of the troops, One of his jobs isn't,

mechanical perch, But the town's ‘public works boss, Dick Reynolds, -
waan't quite that positive, after Huberts took an unsticcessful jab or to at

AND SPEAKING OF JARS, Esquimalt/Saanich MP Pat Crofton”

did get any money for you, we'd be accused of buying votes,” Replied ©

clection.’’ Huberts can afford: sone smugness: the. province. has

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS of marriage are long-time area residents

“community. supportand thelr operation of the Klk Lake Shell Station,
were married Aug. 23, 1938, in the Shady Creek Church, then called.

years and moved the business from a log cabin down to a new source of :
epstomers, when the Pat Ray Highway opencd, Ata recent Central -

In honor-of Scott Hardy and Tnge —
Clesbreeht, son and future daughter-in-law oF the home's owner, -
“Evelyn Hardy, Evelyn did major renovations to the home in 1985, but:

verify,” says Evelyn. Anyone who can help her with any details on the
home may phonc her at 652-0027 or write her at Box 403, Brentwood

Bay, VOS 1A0.

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A NEWS RELEASE from St. Vincent de Paul Society notes the

group is in desperate need of single beds and bedding for the needy.

Drop items off at 9788-2nd St, Sidney, or gall 382-3213 for pick-up. :

Fresh fruit and vegetables would also be appreciated, the society says, -

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others and: improving the quality of life in their communities, the

“program will result-in more.than 100 Canadians being recognized, The
“expected final countof nominations is more than 6,000, B.C. and the

Yukon have nominated the most people so far, more than 1,700,

WHILE WE'RE talking newspapers, let's talk news

NTN Network media trivia contest at Amity's Lounge, last week. Only
thing is, our fearless Jeader didn’t show up to answer any of the

questions, Oh well. The team probably wouldn't have done nearly as
“well with his help, ; -_ aes

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IT'S BAIR TIMT in Saanichton, Saturday, Suriday and Monday, and B

§,600 nominations have been received: so far. in the:
fouremonth Air Canada Heart of Gold Award program, .run in ¥
conjunction with the Canadian Community Newspapers Association .
and. iis: member newspapers such as, you guessed it, ‘The Review. ff:
— Aimed at recognizing the. contributions of many Canadians in helping ~ 2

paper publishers. «
Or, specifically, a particular newspaper publisher named-Vie Swan,
Without hesitation, Swan claimed a trophy, a T-shirt, a duffel bag and a
baseball cap after The Review: won first prize for newspapers in an -

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“Socal unit's president, atliudes to the fair’s theme when he discusses the
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