50 CENTS April 5, 2000

Rick Campbell

Senior Investinent Advi visor

‘Tel: 655. 5555.

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Sy aEEEEEtaaie s 4 °| - A’search ofa vehicle: on the.
EE #1. Peninsula Monday netted, a sur-
| prising discovery.
~~ Sidney/North Saanich RC MP
acting in cooperation with police
departments on the lower main-
~ Jand, stopped the vehicle on High--
way 17 after it left the Swartz Bay ©
ferry terminal. A search of the ver
hicle turned. up. more than 200

‘Lee Shanks
Peninsula News News Review

.. The initial estimate of ‘$100, 000 .
a “worth: of: damage done by: vandals at.
a seed orchard in Central Saanich has.
now v ballooned to $500, 000. ©

ae destroyed, but it’s muc
_ more- than that,’ "s

“ing and caring | for them for years, it’s :
‘probably closer. to a. half- million dol-
lars,” Reid said. : af

A group calling itself the Mi inistry
‘of Forest Defence” claimed responsi-.
via the: internet —for the de-
ae of approximately 2,000 trees”
and seedlings at the orchard, which
-. occurred overnight . one ‘Sunday,
* March 26, :
“They sent an e-mail via : this Ten-
‘nessee-baséd company called Genetix,
Alert: that supposedly acts as aneu--
- tral third party,” Reid explained.
“Denny Henke, who is the spokesper-
“gon for. Genetix Alert, claims that they
“receive the e-mails anonymously and
they have no way to trace them,”
The group said they were looking
to. destroy “Frankentrees”, and it’s not
the first time vandals have set out to
destroy what they believe are geneti-. ~

money ‘this 'r -presents, haa said Sgt
. Wayne Conley. :
~The bags were fi lled with. one”
“and two-dollar coins, quarters and.
. dimes, all believed: to be stolen
» from: vending: machines in. the
lower mainland. :

“So far, no char és have been
“laid. Police on the lower mainland
“are continuing to investigate. ae

“PHOTO BY Lec SHANKS

Crossing crunch |

A motorcycle driven bya male: rider from Central Saanich ended’ ip 1 imbedded in’ a ‘Buick LeSabre -
driven by a North Saanich resident at’ about 4 p.m, Monday, April 3. Police say the driver of the
‘Buick was proceeding. north on West Saanich Road, waiting to turn into Seacliff Road, when he -
attempted a u-turn to return to Kleewyck Road, turning in front of the motorcyclist. The. cyclist
sustained multilple non-life-threatening injuries and was taken by aumulanee to Saanich Penin:
sula Hospital. The driver of the car was shaken but unhurt.

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An attack at Western Forest Prod- ask what the orchar d was about, “They've taken action based on. tery — stakes (o hold the former: ;
‘ucts’ Central Saanich location last Oc- he said. ~~ “misinformation, We let Mother — saplings just. empty fingers 9 (egaeea Ta Maat
tober left 3,000 seedlings destroyed,A “They could have called and Nature do all the work. We just — pointed angrily at the sky. en vi ie ih 4 oe
group calling itself Genetix Goblins asked, and.we would have told. . collect. samples of her best, "he First established in 1975, the ely no ne Sia salt
claimed responsibility-for that crime. them. All of our records are open. said, orchard is used to grow samples | RE

The attacks leave Reid and his fol- to the public for viewing,” he said... “And “samples of her best," are. of trees found in the forest that he

low co-workers shaking their heads, And those records would. not: . now nothing more than a stack of __ have proven naturally resistant to»
_wondering at the ignorance of people have indicated: any genetic ma- firewood, the ground where they “CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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