Wednesday, December 16, 1998

Group is a bridge over trouble

Peninsula News 5 Review. -

If the waters of the Pat Bay
and Georgia Strait are to be re-
vitalized, the streams and
creeks that feed them must be
saved. A group at North
Saanich wants to begin the
process by breathing life back
into. Wsikem.. and . Tenten
Creeks.

About. 50 people, led. by

Misty MacDuffee and Chris. —

Parks, met at Holy Trinity
Church Hall on Thursday, Dec.
10 to discuss the problems
they were facing, and to put to-
gether a committee of people
committed to help.

Parks, who is project coor-
dinator for the Wsikem and
Tenten Creeks program, said
he had started the process, but
its success would only: come
through the involvement of the

» people who lived in the com- —

already done this summer bya — 500 metres of creek bed, which __ tions to help the municipality | restoration work. “dnsoitth ple won hol have. gain iad: gai gain,
group from the Tseycum band. - was the short-term planforthe © construct a growth: strategy A ground- Lbreaking cere ere be kept iat de” yn nave 2 The total cost of the oak
oe oe ae wed whe j eproject. But for.the long term that reflects the ane density: “mony to mark the beginning of: When the new building is sion is estimated at $135,000
the process of restoring the work, project coordinators said standard. © o " construction was held Priday,. - finished it will. be used for . and museum volunteers have
original habitat which used to- - the wider community must be The committee struck could ‘Dec: 4 ‘on. the museum

support ‘the: rearing _

: : ° isting hangar will be the exclu- $125,000 from private contrib- °
aed 4 meh id. ~ there has been some habitat. specific tasks: sometoworkon. |" “The way it is now, we Le Se an ore exhibits. si ta fnanoe the project.
€ ae Sal was “restoration done, and there _ the physical tasks and some to |.-to constantly. shift exhibits. “Every aeronautical en - “We gave up on gov. ern-
caused mainly by channeling needs to be some fencing done: deal with the wider societal and | around to provide room to do.”

the:.creeks “and. removing
-.~ gravel from the area. Straight:

~~ ening the creeks (ditching) not
. only: makes the water move.
__ through the remaining | culvert

ee too quickly to ‘support rearing

REG.OR DIET

: the Victoria Airport Authority,

a said part of the source problem
“beds, but: removes the ‘sur- B

turn, erodes the environment
on which birds and other
species depend for survival.
Chief. Vern Jacks spoke
about the abundance of fish,
shellfish and other wildlife in
the area during his youth, but
told the audience: “We have to
stop pointing fingers and blam-
ing each other for the prob-
lems, and-get on with it. We
have to live together, and to do
that we must be positive.”
Robbie MacDonald,. Insti-
tute of Ocean Sciences, said

" maintaining the status quo was

not -realistic. “We're talking
about restoring the balance,”
he said. To do that, society as a
whole had to reconsider how it
manages its waste products.
“Beaches are closed due to

high coliform counts. That can.

be fixed, but it’s going to cost.
The question is: Where do you
want to live?” he said.

Work on the Wsikem Creek :

involved. On Tenten’ Creek,.

to keep the cattle out. of the ne
. Stream." "2 “
Terry Stewart, Operations

and Maintenance manager for.

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community to work with the
VAA to get Transport Canada
to assess and remediate its con-
tamination sites.

“We have to have source
control before we can deal with
these issues,” he said. “We've
been asking Transport Canada
to move on this, but they've
been sandbagging us for over a
year.”

Several people at the meet-
ing signed up to help, but not

without a word of caution from |

one North Saanich resident.
She said, ironically, the reason
North Saanich has a low den-

‘. sity population “is because we .

have a- sewage problem.”
While she applauded the ef-
forts being made to resolve
that; she cautioned that: the
next step would be to ensure it
didn't lead to..a population
growth in the area that would
undo any restoration attempts.

MacDuffee: said: the com-

political issues ° ‘surrounding.

the problems.

MacDuffee said there “will, a
be another. meeting called in’
: January, which will: b an:

nounced ata later date. :

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PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW 9

Sidney.
’ Mayor Don

Mayor Linda

Michaluk

turn sod ata

special

ceremony

&) marking the

; expansion of
the BC.

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-Museum, -

Friday,

Dec. 4.

ANDREW COSTA
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B.C. Aviation Museum expansion takes wing

Andrew Costa
Peninsula News Review

The BC Aviation Museum
is ready for takeoff with a new
expansion that will add badly

grounds.

- the restoration’ work,” said.
-. George: Stewart, public. rela-

‘tions director. “With the new

‘the museum’s board of direc-
tors, said the expansion is crit-.

ical if more exhibits are to be

added in the future.

“We already have a number

restoration work while the ex-

and our dream is to preserve

"museum president:

_North Saanich Mayor Lind

deavor started with a dream .
: Stewart said.
“The BC. Aviation Nccum
~ is located: on- Canora’ Road,
next to the. Victoria: Interna- a

some of the history of avia- ©:

: -. tion,” said Stan H
" Space we can spread ‘the ex-»

«hibits out more and. peoph aa
should be able to see them bet= |

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