—___-.-— 1A NAIA OL OTE IES LEON Wednesday, June 4, 1975 HERBERT FEST, the man who lives to dance. If you had been born in 1905 and spent 30 years in the Royal Canadian Navy, in- cluding six years of Atlantic convoy duty during the Second World War, fought your way to the Bantam weight boxing championship of Alberta and been married five times, _ perhaps you might think it was time to take life easy. There is, however, one Sidney resident who would disagree with you....70 year old Herbert Fest of Seventh Street. Herbert has more energy THE REVIEW Battle Scarred Veteran Dances Each Day Away than most men half his age. “I’m not ready to slow down yet,’ he told a Review reporter. ‘I love dan- cing....in fact there’s hardly a day goes by when I don’t dance, usually over at the Army and Navy Club on Fourth Street.” Herbert's parents were both professional entertainers, he told The Review. ‘‘My mother taught me how to dance,”’ he said. “They loved having parties. I used to watch them dance a AT SPSS TG SP SRSA 0.A.P.0. The Sidney Old Age Pen- sioners’ Organization, Branch No. 25, will hold its regular business meeting on June 5 at 1:45 p.m. in the Senior Citizens’ Activity Centre. All visitors are warmly welcomed. Mrs. Ann Spicer of the coordinating volunteer ser- vices will be the guest speaker and will speak on topics that will be of interest to everyone who enjoys working with people. Mary Briggs, Edith Smith and Art Evans attended as delegates from 0O.A.P.O. Branch No. 25, a meeting of the South Island Regional Council which was held in Duncan, B.C. on May 29. The purpose of the meeting was to divide the existing one council into three councils. Mrs. _Smith was elected Chairman pro tem, pending election of officers at the first general meeting of the South Island Council in Duncan, on Sep- | tember 11. CABLEVISION STATION PLANNED FOR PENINSULA _~ This area may soon be the recipient of its own television station. Saanich Cablevision Ltd. which supplies cablevision services to the peninsula has applied to the Canadian Radio and Television Commission for permission to broadcast one to three hours a week on its own channel. Manager of the station, Ken Stanlake, informed The Review that the CRTC had urged the company, of which he is a one-third shareholder, to commence broadcasting programs which would reflect the community as a whole. “There is every likelihood we will be granted permission to do this in the Fall,’’ said Stanlake. ‘‘We have been under a fair amount of pressure by the CRTC to do so...it will be the property of the community. We need people to come in and make it work, people from the com- munity who have something they feel.is important to say.”’ The new channel would also broadcast a _ continuous weather report and other information similar in content to Victoria’s Channel 10, he AT FLINT MOTORS WE HAVE THE EQUIPMENT TO FIND YOUR TROUBLES FAST... 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I have two partners, Neil Atkinson and Thomas Kaye; we've plowed back everything into the company to make a go of it...when we first went into Ardmore we had only nine customers per mile and now there are just 128 potential customers on the entire peninsula that are as yet unserviced.”’ The company has been in operation 12 years, said Stanlake. ‘‘We have the lowest density of any cablevision operation in B.C.” The concept of pay in’ the early '1950’s. It has changed little in concept since then. In essence it involves the delivery of programs, by a cable or by an over-the-air BODY DISCOVERED IN PAT BAY A North Saanich resident found the body of a five-year- old boy washed up on the main beach at Patricia Bay. David White, 16, found the body while walking on the beach Friday morning. RCMP have identified the body as that of Jonathan Joe, of Duncan, missing since April 29 when a homemade canoe overturned on the Cowichan River near Duncan. Of.two others in the canoe, Carl Joe, 16, survived and the body of John Hopkins, 24, was found in a log jam_ near the mouth of the river. COMMUNITY PLAN WORKSHOP Central Saanich residents will be invited to discuss the proposed community plan for Central Saanich at a workshop to be held June 14, The purpose of the all day workshop will he to discuss development goals for the community for the next 20 years, At a council meeting Monday, Mayor Jean Butler announced the workshop, which will be attended by planner-consultant John Graham. The location is ex- pected to be Brentwood Elementary School. transmitter, to the public upon payment of a fee. The present Saanich Cablevision charges are a $15 installation fee and an ad- ditional five dollars a month. Coming so soon after the introduction of over-theair television service, pay television did not gain public acceptance and initial ex- periments conducted in Canada and the USA were eventually discontinued. Among the problems en- countered during these early ‘experiments were the high cost of the technology required to deliver the ser- vice, the quality of the payment equipment, billing difficulties and the difficulty of obtaining the “rights” to programs to be used on the service. Stanlake told The Review the primary objective of his company would be to develop increased opportunities for the production and distribution of locally derived programs. Events such as live theatre, bingo games, local sports activities and school activities would no doubt form part of the over all ‘package’, he said. “It just depends on how much financing we can put into it.” Under CRTC regulations no advertising will be permitted on the new channel. Stanlake said he is already searching for a studio location, perhaps in Sidney, and someone who will be able to devote the time and expertise necessary to get the operation rolling. pUT.H AMBASSADOR VISITS The Vancouver Island Netherlands Association has issued an invitation for all Island residents of Dutch descent to mect the Dutch Ambassador to Canada, Ambassador W. Thon Leeson willbe in Victoria June , and will be accompanied by Consul A, Mansvelt and Mrs. Mansvelt, Tn order for the Ambassador to meet as many Dutch people as possible the VI. Netherlands Association will hold a reception at Holland House in Saanich, June 9, from 7:30 to 10 p.m, NOW SERVING Smorgasbord LUNCH DAILY EXCEPT TUESDAY SEA FOOD EVENING THURSDAYS COVE CHALE RESERVE EARLY FOR WEEKEND Closed Monday 656-3541 and when I was old enough Dad used to position me at the back door of the house and I'd help his friends to leave when the time came. That's when I first started fighting.... mother and dad were both Irish and they hada lot of Irish friends....’’ “Some of the parties really got going.. Combining his natural ry th- mn on the dance floor with that required ina boxing ring, Herbert quickly established a name for himself in the art of pugalisim. He won the Ban- tam weight Championship of Alberta in 1923. “T[ve had both my wrists broken fighting,” he said, holding up his hands. “But no one’s ever broken my nose.” While he was at sea with the navy his ship paid a courtesy call to Los Angeles. ‘‘There FARM INCOME CSAC Lenk AMA LLL ALAA LL AA LA ALMA MAMA La SIDNEY NIGHT _ Saturday June 14 ee BEEF PRODUCERS The Island Centennial Angus Club Invites You And Your Family To A FIELD DAY ON WOODWYNN FARM SUNDAY, AT 11:30 A.M. ACTIVITIES WILL include speaker on ASSURANCE PLAN, trimming cattle for shows, Angus Queen and viewing purebred herd. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH was a big party,”’ he told The Review. “I danced with Ginger Rogers....she told me I danced just as well as Fred Astaire.” Now this man, who once won a charleston competition against the American Navy, spends his afternoons dancing to the music of a Sidney juke box. ‘It doesn’t really matter to me what kind of music it is,’ he says. ‘I can dance to the modern kind with just as much enjoyment.” This may be so, but when Herbert Fest takes to the floor during the playing of a waltz, heads turn to watch him glibe across the floor. For he has the magic of a master dancer about his movements, a style, a genuine love of the art itself rarely seen in dancers today, let alone one who was born in 1905. JUNE 8th | WHOLE HALIBUT : CUSTOM CUT FOR | JUMBO SHRIMP 0 FREEZER SPECIAL a YOUR FREEZER p AVERAGE SIZE 25 LB. 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