THIRD STREET RESIDENT Don
McLennan and his prize guitar, the

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SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. 39 Wednesday, September 29, 1976.

only item he could rescue from his
sinking gill netter last week.

Dean Park Esta tes
Being ‘Snapped Up’
By Local Residents

Dean Park Estates is a
hot item.

In the three weeks
since Phase one, and its
117. deluxe residential
lots, came on the market
sales have sizzled.

At least 22 lots are
already sold -- including
two of the most high-
priced properties which
were tagged at $51,300.

The lower-priced lots
are selling briskly,
according to sales
manager J.B. Young,

.who told the Review ina
recent’ interview that
while prices start at
$33,250 most sales are
in the $40,000 range.

Dean park Estates is a
development by Park Pacific
which consists of 365
woodland acres adjoining the
382 acres of provincial Dean
Park.

According to North Saanich
municipal clerk Ted Fairs, it’s
no wonder the lots are selling
well,

“This development is
unique,”’ he said flatly.

“tt is the first in North
Saanich with sewer and water
systems being provided and it
is the first iocal comprehensive
development with storm
sewers, underground wiring
and curbs."’

There have been some small
six-lot developments with some

of these features but none of

this magnitude, he said.
“The whole road pattern,

general design and restrictions |

are excellent - nothing has been
done on this scale before,”
Fairs added that the 17 acre

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site of the proposed recreation
facility which was donated by
the development company is
the largest donation ever given

‘to the municipality by a private
investor.

According to Young, quitea
few of the one third-acre lots
have been sole to builders who
are either planning on living in
the development or building
houses on speculation.

On the whole only local
people have been snapping up
the sites, he said.

But interest on the mainland
is beginning.

Phone calls from the prairies
and Vancouver as well as small
groups of travellers visiting the
sites point toward a market

widening, said the sales
manager.
WELL PLANNED

Sidney realtor John Bruce
(senior) said in a recent
interview that the concept of
Dean Park Estates is very well
planned.

“Ivll enhance the area’’ he
said, pointing out that the
different phases of
development will ‘ensure it
continues to expand slowly for
a number of years.

Commenting on the real
estate market in general, Bruce
explained that it in established
homes is very very slugish.

“But with land - - there is a
little more activity, it is a more
saleable commodity.”

According to the realtor,
Dean Park Estates have
“utterly fantastic views. Some
lots you have to see for
yourself,”’

Others, he explained, are
quite steep and need a lot of
engineering skill,

Asked whether any
Americans might invest in the
Park Pacific development

By DONNA VALLERIES

‘The idea is not to make you alarmed, but to make

you aware of possible dangers.”

So began an informative talk on ‘‘Self-Protection
for Women”’, a lecture and film evening at Parkland

School last Tuesday.

The speakers were Constable Barbara Alexander,
of the Sidney RCMP detachment, and her husband,

Constable Don Alexander, of Colwood RCMP.

The audience consisted of more than 50 women of
all ages who came to the one-session course presented
by Saanich School Board in co-operation with the

RCMP.

The two police officers spoke of the growing

menace of rape.

' : a wood

a short while longer.

Bruce speculated that our
neighbors to the south can
probably buy land in

Washington for considerably-

less.

According to a director in
the development company,
Clive Piercy, work on Phase
two will begin this fall, with
more lots available for sale:in
about a year.

PARKLAND TEAMS
TRAVEL

Sports teams from Parkland
Secondary School are planning
a trip to South Delta School in
Tsawwassen next week in the
first of a regular exchange
program.

The first trip will involve
members of the senior boys
and girls volleyball teams,
senior girls field hockey team,
senior boys soccer team and
senior cross country team.

The Parkland band,

the

debating club, the students’ |

council are planning trips

for the winter and spring.

MOUNT NEWTON
AWARD PRESENTED

Awards were presented
September 16th, 1976 to last
year’s top students at Mount

Newton Junior Secondary
School.
The Creed Award for top
student went to Harold
Rasmussen and Jennifer
Majid.

The Brownlee Award went
to last year’s Grade 10
students: Kitty Holmes,
Charlene Froom, Dave Welch,
Colin Corby, Jim Atwood and
Michael Harrop.

The Dorran:Award went to
the following: Jim = Karakai,
Nancy Groom, Bob Shuback,
Tom Dorraan, Judy Dangs,
and Debbie Mollet.”

Only one out of every four
rapes is reported, Constable
Alexander said, Ina single year
in the Greater Victoria area, an
estimated 400 of these sex
erimes are committed,

“The rapist is not motivated
by sex,"’ he reminded the
female audience, ‘ht is
hostility.””

“The victims are not
selected because they are
sexy,'' Const, Alexander
stated, ‘but becase they are
vulnerable,"

A normal man, when angry
with a woman, might slam
doors, shout, maybe even

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PARKLAND SCHOOL HAS
‘BLUR ON ITS IMAGE’

“Quite a serious problem’’
with litter was brought to the
attention of Saanich School
Board this week.

Bob Charters, a spokesman

for Parkland student council, °

told the board that grounds at
Parkland have become ‘‘a

considerable mess’? and asked |
for garbage containers or the.

funds to purchase them.

There are no outdoor
containers at Parkland now.

“With a beautiful school
like Parkland, this is a blur on
its image,’’ Charters said.

Trustee Rubymay Parrott
suggested a can-painting
campaign to get the students

- interested in cleaning up the

school grounds. Failing that,
she quipped, *‘They could get a
couple of goats.””

Trustee Jack Armstrong was
less sympathetic. “‘Why don’t
the kids pick up their paper,”
he wanted to know.

It is strictly a minority of the
students who are creating the
litter problem, Charters said.

Board members were told
that conerete containers, such
as those found along Beacon
Avenue, are being planned asa
winter project by the
maintenance department.

Charter, on behalf of the
student council, also wanted to
know if the board was going to
provide funds for the student
council,

“You were a great help last
year,’' he said,

The board handed over
$1200) in January,

strike her, but a rapist attacks
a female ina much more lethal
way,

A rapist may be a latent
homosexual, he explained, or
may feel sexually inadequate in
some way. He may feel a
hostility toward society, and so
picks on the “weakest part of
society,”

“He has
hangups,''
Alexunder said,

A rape victim: can be any
age, but most are 15 or 16
years old,

Hickhikers are particularly
prone lo attacks,

many sexual
Constable

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apparently it has already been
spent by last year’s students,
and the board cannot come
forward with any further funds
until next year’s budget is
determined.

“The board is’ sympathetic
to the grant itself,’’ said
chairman Gerry Kristianson,

-but said it could not promise

any amount.

Some members felt there
should be some way in which
the grant could be made to last

for both spring and fall

councils,

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LOCAL
CHAMBER
WRITES
COUNCIL

The Sidney Chamber of

Commerce wrote Council on
two issues this week. They
would like to discuss with
Council the possibility of
parallel parking on Beacon
Ave.

As well they are seriously
concerned about the vandalism
occurring regularly on Beacon
Ave. They requested Council
ask the RCMP to maintain a
continual patrol of Beacon
Ave., at night,

Council, too, was concerned
about vandalism but was not
convinced such a patrol would
be entirely effective. Ald. Gib
Baal, who recently had a
distributor stolen from his car,
suggested talking to the police
about the advisability of a

“He is as frightened of the
victim as the victim is of him,”
Const, Alexander said of the
rapist, but showing — fear,
pleading, and crying, makes
him feel powerful,

Although the subject of the
forum was “Self-protection,”
Const, Alexander cautioned
against a physical attack from
the victim,

RECOGNIZE POTENTIAL

“Hostility will bring on
more hostility,’ he said,

Experts say you should fight
if he is unarmed and it is
relatively safe to do so (this

depends largely on where the

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With Death In Fog
Shrouded Straits

GILLNETTER ‘NEW HOPE’
SINKS IN MOMENTS

By JOHN MANNING

Is there a Jonah amongst the commercial fishermen of Sidney?
Don McLennan, 9824 Third Street, thinks so. For he is the most recent of a
number of Sidney fishermen who have run into some sort of disaster with their

vessels at sea.

In the process of this mishap he not only lost his vessel but also danced his own
Jig with lady death, being left adrift in fog shrouded straits with nothing but his

guitar to use as a paddle.

The incident took place last
Wednesday near Port Neville:
in the Johnstone Straits.

McLennan, alone aboard his
33 foot gill netter NEW HOPE
was steaming South at eight
knots bound from Port Hardy
to Kelsey Bay. Due to heavy
fog he could not see much
more than 20 feet ahead of his
bow.

Suddenly the wooden vessel
struck a ‘dead head’.

“It couldn’t have been
anything else,’?>, McLennan
told The Review. ‘The log
punched a hole right through
the bows and within seconds
water was gushing up the floor
boards.”

McLennan - sent three
‘Maydays’ in rapid succession
before his electrical system
shorted out with the rising
water. The gasoline engine also
went dead.

’ “I didn’t know if anyone
heard me or not,”’ he said.

“1 could hear the sound of
boats all around. At first |
wasn’t worried about the boat
sinking, not with her hull being
wood and all but I got the
dinghy launched just in case
and then nipped down below.’”

Guitar almost afloat

There he found his prize
guitar almost afloat in the
rising bilge water.

“I grabbed it off the bunk. I
got oil all over my glasses and
could hardly see so I went back
on deck with the guitar and put
it in the dinghy. A moment
later the water was coming up
into the wheelhouse.”

McLennan said he had $350
in cash stowed below in his
cabin. By the time he
remembered it was too late.

“Yo never dreamed | would
lose all that stuff. Guys had
told me that boat wouldn’t
sink but she had full tanks and
a hell of a lot of fishing leads
aboard as well as the fish.”’

‘TY felt safe on my boat,”’
said Mclennan, ‘But when she
started to go down it scared the
Jesus right out of mel?’

McLennan said that as the
boat took its final plunge one
of the wheelhouse windows
blew out'with the force of the
rising water,

and gurgled and away she
went,’ he said. ‘She went
down in about 100 fathoms.”’

The Sidney vessel LAZY
DAVID loomed through the
mist.

“They had heard my call,”
he said. ‘‘They finally picked
me up on their radar... if it
wasn’t for them I don’t know
what would have happened.”

McLennan said he had been
concerned about the possibility
of being run down by a tug or
the tow astern of it.

““When she went down I just
felt like I'd been pulled apart,
as though a piece of me had
gone down with her,’ said
McLennan. ‘‘I had insurance
on her but you just couldn’t
replace her with that today.”

McLennan, who has been
commercial fishing for the last
four years said he took his nine
year old son Robert with him
during the summer holidays.

““He was a great help at
sea,’? said; McLennan. ‘I’m
really thankful) he wasn’t

aboard when we hit that dead

head.” ;
RESCUED
As soon as he was safely

aboard: the LAZY DAVID

McLennan was given a fresh
change of clothes. He also
borrowed $10.

““*They Iet me off in Kelsey
Bay because they were bound
for Vancouver to sell their
fish,’* said McLennan. ‘*When
I got ashore I bought two shots
of whiskey and started hitch
hiking South with the guitar
under my arm.’’

Back in Sidney that same
night McLennan dried out his
guitar and found it still played.
Unable to sleep he walked
down to the Sidney Hotel,
taking the instrument with him
and, sitting at a chair. against
the wall began to play soft,
ARNT TANNER ARNE,

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RETURN
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D. Garland, F. Norton,
Victor Brown and A. G.

‘Digger’? Dagg, members of
Glen Meadows Golf Course,
enjoyed a week's holiday
playing at seven golf courses in

“The old boat just burbled | the interior and Banff,

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attack takes place), but the
constable felt) it) more
important to recognize your
own potential in such
circumstances,

“A woman should know her
own capabilities, both
physically and mentally, he
advised. ‘You should be
aware at all times where you
are and what's going on
around you,”

If you are being followed
down the street, cross the
street, and if the situation
becomes critical, don't panic,

A rapist has to dehumanize

his victim, Const, Alexander

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“You become an object to
him," he said,

To keep the rapist from
losing touch with reality, the
constable advised talking to
him, keeping up u
conversation, telling him you
are pregnant or have a disease,
even insulting him if you think
it will bring you needed time.

Other subjects touched upon
were ‘flashers’, peeping coms
ind obscene phone calls,

In all of these cases, your
reaction is the pleasure they
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haunting melodies of the sea.

‘‘When I did that I started to
feel better,’ he said.

He told The Review
numerous other vessels which
use Sidney as a home port have
run into grief over the past
year.

‘*Al Melhus aboard his boat
FAITHFUL was blown right
out of his wheelhouse in
Swanson Channel last year,”’
said McLennan. ‘‘His boat
sank and he was taken to
hospital.”

He said that other Sidney
based boats, such as the JDK
had been wrecked this season.
‘Jimmy Kendrew was
drowned,’’ he said. ‘‘Karl
Dunn on ROLANDI ran up on
an island and the TALOFA
TWO hit rocks near Jordan
River the day before my boat
sank. She caught fire. Another
boat, the KAREN O also ran
aground... . I’m beginning. to
think there’s a jixonus.”

When McLennan originally
bought the NEW HOPE -he
said it was a virtual hulk ‘half
full’ of ‘water’ lying at the
Sidney fisherman’s wharf.

‘I bought her from a native
Indian for $4250,’’ he said, ‘“‘A
lot of people thought 1 was
nuts to try and fix her up but I
spent six months working on
her from morning to midnight
... my wife Gail even put 10
coats of varnish inside the
wheelhouse.’’ ,

He said he had received a
great deal of advice and
assistance from other Sidney

‘fishermen, particularly Willy

and Billy Eglund, Bud Rookh
and Jack Webstead who
showed him how.to work a net
properly, ;

‘1 wouldn’t have gotten off
the ground if it hadn’t been for
those guys,"’ he said, ‘I tell
you one thing, getting accepted
by the fishermen here in Sidney
isn’t all that easy. A lot of

‘fisherman: are real high-linérs

and work damn hard at their
jobs.”’ ;

Asked if he intends to go
back to sea again MeLennan
said: ‘Sure, as lovig as this bad
luck doesn't hold and | can get
another boat, Sure [ll go back
out there, There's nothing I'd

Alexander advised, and added
jokingly, “no matter how
much .you're tempted to
look,"’

These exhibitionists frequent
bus stops, golf courses and
even graveyards, he said,

In the case of an obscene
phone call, don’t stay on the
phone. If it persists, record the
lime and the date and notify
the police or B.C, Tel,

The old standby, the
piercing whistle, was also
suggested,

Don't panic if you suspect a .

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