Wednesday, February 20, 1985 Views : By Hugh Nash I just don’t understand all the negaiive noise which erupted last week after Education Minister Jack Heinrich announced that if schoo! boards in B.C..wanted more money it was alright with him if if they went and asked their. taxpayers for. it. Taxpayers foot the present education bill and Heinrich has decided he hasn’t been. able to squeeze any more from the general sponge.to quell the schools’ thirst so he gave the green light to school boards to see if they can convince their own constituents to spill out some more. Those who get the benefit should call the shot, he said. It. wasn’t a bad political move either. For months school boards and: »o teachers. have used virtually every means at their: disposal including - . newspaper advertisements, information meetings, classes in shopping « “>. malls, participation on talk shows and talking to newspaper reporters who thrive on controversy to. drum up grassroots support-for their-posi- tioti that the province’s children w‘ll graduate as near illiterates if more money isn’t forthcoming. The.public seems to have bought the. message. A recent Vancouver Sun newspaper. poll concluded that B.C. citizens thought not enough money was. being spent on.education and that-the province’s education standard had slipped in the last 10 years. But education officialdom didn’t buy Heinrich’s message. Provin- cial B.C. School Trustees Association. President Pat Clarke's reaction ‘Sf education, why not a referen- was an attempt at scorn. Clarke said ~d wae OF Te Worried about your: 1984 j income tax creturhn? Need some tips? : Top: ‘of the Pile has one, and-one only, copy-of Tax Tips, a booklet published. the Certified: General. Accountants. ‘Association, and dt, the = “ booklet, is. free: to the first person: to. call ‘Or r drop i in and answer. ‘the yA following skill-testing question. % eee hes: ‘basic. “personal exemption has. been raised. What Ss. the: new. me Jeng foun : Here: san easy way. to help ‘he crippled | kids in: the province, ait Riis 2 Buy, for just: $1,a booklet. called Cash For } Kids: The: grocery cand: : ae aie ‘store coupons. inside. are worth: over $42. Everyone wins. The “Variety. Club which sells: the books gets money for the kids, Anesg grocer. gets a customer rand. you get.42 times your money back, “storesin B.C. . Go fori’. es It's time to legalize the shoooting of crows in All right, that’s it, - downtown Sidney. 3 There's nothing wrong with the blac k beggers messing the sidew: ks ~ or dropping theirditle. bundles of Joy on. passing tourists. Sidewalks are “ay the. Peninsula Disarmament Group put forward a belief fora proposal io establish) Central. Saanich: a cnuclear.weapons. free gone, thus joining. the: growing ihe 33 - € continued trom Ps nye Ad ca riorities : ~Lwish to submit ny objections. a OEE vitalization -program . ee a i the: re pet mere 1 Mumber of communities across (Merchants: ‘Benev olent Fund.) Bae Ts Whe Canada who have taker a AGH whieh > believe: is. tO. increase. tion. ; int ose for ne “mercant sof Se: nae ce bin sforahecn HH ASN was reported | in nihie | an’ 16 issue. af The, Review, council chose tor almply. receive and file: eathe. proposal effectively: halting | (emporarily) further aise on the Mallen en oe We sould nor be: tornibly: Sure : ‘prised ‘atc their: feelings | that the” ped suppes! the prime ways tor pea merchants: io dé this would be to be vompertive ine price and do “their own individual: beauriticas: “tion. “€ ‘tive Tanner has done this. with his stores and itis. prea. -Peredir oun town oF sidaeys b us sys vob welldoneecooi ee MEW yopatd tthe sharing of the revitalization, pros “gran, Dabink, itis unfair to, expPeel co Aanpayers. 10, subsidize the mel Se ASC Ue coh eas payers - SAW IE Hot benefite at all form: (hissc are beyond, (heir jurisdiction, this is acommon misconception, avers ‘aniong | Many ‘oiizengs | Council: has had its. Anvention ydrawn, (albeit reluctantly) fo.the fact that. individuals are now realizing tha “they: must take responsibiliTy. for: a ) sea MUTESER | os : wee Ine asnavers ane ee ye “their. own lives: ‘and lives of their teeen round peaaae “"Tyved ones by patting demacratie Yo: t “] think Pe shoul dak: at Men. eos “hs prigritigs. Por example, thse (vou would like more an a iN Jay TANG nce Marita ee Tor fe oun Pomratioan oon the nuclear Saves teen Oe weapons. free zone, eeneepe or vel real lil pencil spadee cle wend be willing to help usin our: “efforts please | nie mea call, We “ead al da ote’ wart fay" faarnire “Thee undergrad Wirt has. e ta he considered: , i Ban a shy We Ley ; oe clene ae ee ‘tet ee heace ‘ and ace weltys a E : 2 Stel “Dave Whitehead handle. he project, AU AU cE 734 Benvenite Ave. wel yet Rang Aaa ‘ite ih i errr — sera Hy, | (652-4083, R Twidale cee g ott Lb sNco Dra p ensions. : At article. ne The. Ravjow of Now 7,1 984,. entitled Hugh! § Views" be Hagh Nash, avs heen: brought, 0 OU afention aud Wo Not’ su Ha ce OM The datee meen ab ne u il Swanicl ¢ council qheihiberye oF is spent, let’s not stop halfway. The books are’on. sale al most supermarkets, drug and convenience ae -more letters - THE REVIEW dum for hospitals, or highways?”’ He seemed to sneer at the whole idea of asking people for their opi- nion and tried to dismiss the whole thing as silly, But ] think he’s on to something and should be taken seriously. Maybe if there were direct financial requests for increased hospital services’? or smoother roads, taxpayers would think twice about asking for them and overall provincial costs could drop. Clarke’s suggestions are a good start but he didn’t go quite far enough. If we’re going to give B.C. citizens some say in how their tax money For -instance, take the recent decision by the MLAs to. give themselves a.7% per cent pay raise. Shouldn’t that little item have been the subject of anumber of local referenda?) If there’s-a possibility we may get a chance to decide on education costs, shouldn't we get the same oportunity to decide on the salaries of our local MLAs? What would it cost to add the salary question to the referendum list? Well, practically nothing. Pennies, in fact. ‘Do you think your MLA has earned a 7%. per cent pay increase? If not, how much should he or she get?”’ , Simple enough questions. Shouldn’t be too hard to answer. Ina public spirited effort to help let MLAs know how the public, at least in this neck of the woods, would have answered those questions, | conducted a modest little survey of my own — notas sophisticated as ‘the San s, but just as conclusive. I asked the two. questions of five randomly selected citizens who were out fora stroll on Beacon Ave. Their responses were: ‘‘Nope. Zero.’ : ‘*Nope. Zero.”’ ‘‘Nope. Zero.”’ '**Nope. Zero.” The answer given by.the fifth was in colourful street language which, when decoded for this family newspaper, was ‘‘Nope. Zero.”’ Now that’s pretty decisive isn’t it?’ No question in. anyone’s mind what the result of a referendum here on. that subject would produce, and I suspect the results in other ridings would be very similar. Unfortunately we didn’t get a chance to vote on that one. } guess the MLAs decided it. was too complicated a matter for mere taxpayers to decide, not like education funding which is pretty straight forward. cleaned by rain and tourists need something to tell their friends back home. But when those nasty creatures purposely poop on self- respecting Review sales people, they’ve gone too far. The gun Marilyn Down now. packs on ‘her. daily rounds of Sidney. -merchants.must not-be construed.as a persuader to gel ads. She’s. got more nefari ious deeds i in mind. e Pn * Congratulations to Pte. Kirk Lewis wwhiose quick action” Dec. 30, -rowly missed a tree and a pole and siopped on a steep.bank. . aaa armories.in.Victoria. |. According. to the Fifth’s commanding officer Major Pp, AL ‘Sherwin, Lewis’ quick action avoided serious injury or r death to the seven other : ae people in the vehicle. es meh? regs aN is eshineliieet “getting your pi : problems. “cones: of’ the: ‘mailboxes. in. _ Review’ sJan.2 issue believes. ~ Since’ “Green” Thumb”’ “ap ‘peared, and on St.’ Valentine's abducted. — veves-The box al 6735. Wallace: Dr. . “had: been up_ for 13 years. and - -. served.as mile - marker for local. “(count the flowers) for car rallys. : landmark, please get it back for : was painted by. their daughter. was} an unfunded liability. would like to comment. “In particular, our comments — 1983 when the army vehicle he was. driving lost.a front wheel and. nar- ‘ pes Lewis, a Sidney resident, received. the Chief of Defence Staff Com-) - mendation, the first awarded in peace time by the Fifth (B.C.) Field) ‘Battery. RCA‘ since .1873; in a. special ceremony recently at the. Bay St. eae ture in the paper can result/in At least ‘that? s what ae ‘the: flower -painted | boxe 2 has’ been vandalized three- limes: | § Day was: ae bicycle. racers and ‘a check point. _If-you know. who swiped this - Mary and. Harold Robinson. It. 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