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Judy Rein Reimche
Peninsula News 3 News Review

The closure of the Island

Highway between Gold-.

stream and Shawnigan Lake
for more than 24 hours last
week caused.a back-up of
traffic at the ferry terminals.

-The Brentwood-Mill Bay
ferry experienced. seven-
sailing waits during the day.

- “Tt'was a tragedy, because

‘someone died in that tanker
truck accident,” said Pam
Alcorn, one of the people

rallying i in support around —

the Brentwood-Mill Bay

- ferry run. “And it empha-

sized the need to do.an eval-

uation of the emergency

preparations. on the. south
Island.” 2 oes

But there were some ‘sil
ver linings for the citizens’

coalition fighting to pre-

serve the ferry.
“Some of our members

- were at the terminal offer-

ing coffee and water to the
people waiting in their cars,

-and a number of residents —
living along Verdier opened .

their homes, offering cold
drinks and the use of their
washrooms,” Alcorn said.

Youngsters took the op-

portunity to sell pop car to

car, and businesses ran out.

of i ice cream. tones
“There was a man who
needed to get to the airport

to pick up his grandson,” Al- -

corn said.
~ “He realized he just was:

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-one of our members picked
the man up and drove him:
“to the airport.” - :

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pitched in to make sure that

people needing medical at-
tention got on the ferry in
good time. Alcorn related a
story of a woman from the
northern: Island. who was
bringing her daughter to a
Victoria hospital for surgery
— an appointment she had
waited a year to get.

“The girl had flown back

from university especially
‘for the surgery,” said Al-

corn..“When her story was

“told, the ferry workers got -

her onthe ferry.” .

“What . impressed me
most was how calm and un-
~ derstanding everyone was,”

- said Murray Coell, MLA for ;

Saanich and the Islands.

“It’s like the positive attitude - |

shown by. the ‘coalition —

that’s what keeps the grass- :

Toots movement alive.’ :

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. From the top of t! the hill-on Verdier Street to the water, cars lined up to. wait for the
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