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Page 4 Wednesday, November 10, 1976

Booming Sidney

An encouraging view of future prosperity is
offered with the apperance of substantial new
business premises on Beacon Avenue in Sidney. Quite
dramatically the main throughfare is showing a new
importance which reflects the general good health of
the commercial community. It is significant and
gratifying that many of the proprietors have long
established roots in this district.

-Of late years there has. been a strong movement of
retail business away from city centres to intriguing
new malls built in suburban and rural areas. At the
city core, public buildings and office blocks have
supplanted old-established and familiar shopping
areas. Downtown is losing its glamour.

Consider Victoria as an example: formerly it was
the habit of many housewives to buy their groceries
and provisions in the central area of town. But large
‘departmental stores have been forced by
circumstances to close their food departments, while
the main street supermarkets have been abandoned.
Now, a potential customer seeking to stock the family
cupboards with groceries and provisions at a store
within walking distance of Douglas and Yates would
search in vain for any such facility.

It is obvious that the manner in which the public
shall spend the food dollar has been dictated by big
business, and in accordance with decisions arrived at
in the boardrooms of hugh corporations. Customer
oriented malls situated in acres of featureless hardtop
have spirited away patrons from city streets and
captured lucrative trade.

Happily, by the enterprise of its merchants, Sidney
seems set to answer the challenge. Confidence in the
future of the town is reflected by the strength of
current investment in new buildings and equipment.
As evidence, the growth of traffic into Sidney
indicates public appreciation of the facilities
available, and an expectation that a still further
expansion of trade may be expected.

In Central Saanich at Brentwood, other
commercial development have been completed and
more are scheduled; shopping convenience in that
area will show a marked expansion. At a distance of
eight miles from Sidney the separation of the two
commercial centres may be thought reasonable, but
the situation should be watched carefully by the
Chamber.of Commerce and the municipal councils.
“In the’ public interest a degree of protection is
indicated to ensure that no mushroom commercial
growth in the rural area between is permitted. The
importance of zoning controls is obvious.

Commonwealth Relations

The Trudeau administration has been far from
zealous in the field of Commonwealth relations. It
has been relegated to background obscurity by the
French fact obsession which is paramount in Ottawa.
Hostility of attitude is not implied, but rather a
studied indifference to the British connection, leading
to an impression that the government would not be
disturbed if the Commonwealth faded from apathetic
inertia.

The opinion is sustained by sundry indications of a
lack of concern in Commonwealth affairs, and a lack
of enthusiasm in maintaining the ties that link
Canada and Britain. When the vine is not cultivated
the fruits will not flourish: is this a matter calling for
achange of attitude? We think so.

Another link in the Commonwealth chain has been
severed by November | abandonment by CBC radio
FM outlet of the 10 a.m. British Broadcasting
Corporation service World News. This ten minute

interlude has been valued for years by many
Canadian listeners for its factual accuracy and

impartiality, It has been replaced by a routine CBC
newscast, with. the explanation that the CBC news
service is sufficiently developed to render the London
news bulletin unnecessary.

The substitution is not evidence of governmental
influence. On the other hand it is typical of a trend in
Ottawa attitudes which cannot be ignored: the British
portion of our culture is as well worth preserving as
any other heritage. It should not be eroded ata time
when the French programmes of the CBC are being
widely extended to provinces where the English
language is dominant.

The Commonwealth is a unique
has no exact precedent in history. It embraces the
daughter nations and former colonies that have
become sovereign states in their own right, Some even
are members which do not recognize the Queen as
head of their constitutions, Commonwealth relations
should not be allowed to deteriorate with a casual
shrug of the shoulders, Every goodwill link is of
value,

association which

Benvenuto?

Where is Benvenuto? Local residents know very
well that it is a continuation westward of Keating
Cross Road, and leading to Butehart Gardens from
the West Saanich Road junction.

But they say that the intersection has been without
a sign to indicate Benvenuto’s identity for years,
although this amission has been pointed out to the
authorities,

Butchart Gardens is magnificently introduced at
this point by an eye-catching display of floral
information: Benvenuto Avenue, which has a curious
history pre-dating the Gardens, should be indicated
on the road as well as on the map. On your toes,
works department!

._Dean Park? How often will

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Editor, The Review, Sir:
How will the children get to
the combined rec centre near

not have to pass any test to
make sure that they will not do
injustice to some part of the
population. All they need is the
support of a majority of the
politicians in power. We will
be in serious difficulties the
day that majority is crooked.
Our judges commit themselves
to judge by the law and are not
obligated to do justice at all.
Our public system of education
does not seem to be aware of
the need for teaching justice,
either. They just repair their
vandalized schools and call for
more police.

If there are persons still who
like justice, and who think that
justice should be taught to the

parents be free to drive them
there?

Surely it would be sensible to
plan more modest recreation
centres near enough for most
children to get there on foot or
bicycle when they want to
attend! In Brentwood Bay for
example, a site close to the
shopping centre on West,
Saanich Road might be ideal,
with the present community
hall near at hand, or even
incorporated into the scheme.

Need costs be so high? Have
the planners considered asking
for volunteer labour? Can we
hear again how Sanscha Hall

Hall were put up?
Yours very truly
A. Ryland Huntley
Brentwood Bay, B.C.

‘Editor, The Review, Sir:

Who likes” to
injustice?

Are we not indignant or
angered when someone does
injustice to us? Indeed,
injustice seems to strike at the
very foundation of any co-
operative relationship, whether
this is between man and wife,
business partners, labour and

P.O. Box 1537,
Innisfail, Alberta.

Editor, The Review, Sir:
A few words on the North
Saanich election.
Most of us bought land in
North Saanich in‘ order to
enjoy a better quality of life,

suffer

depends upon keeping the
taxes down and retaining the
rural atmosphere. A few came

profit out of what has been
carefully created and preserved

party is continually doing
injustice to the other party, a
co-operative relationship will
break down and often end in
violence. :

Our Western industrialized
society, and the benefits that
we derive from it, will not be
possible when the general
population no longer believes
in or understands the
importance of being just to the
persons that we deal with. Not

incorporation was to protect
the land. By and large the
councils have done a good job,
and their integrity and
sympathies have been the only
real defense of our land and
quality of living,

During the NDP era an
additional line of defense was
created through the medium of
the agricultural land reserve,
by which a provincial Land
Comniission could overrule an

only will) marriages break | improper council decision,
down and = many children | During the provincial election
become mentally disturbed | the Soereds proclaimed the
misfits, but industrial | intention of — restoring — to
enterprises cannot function | municipalities and regional
when no one feels an | districts essentially all of their

obligation to perform the
duties for which he is being
paid. Communal and
government systems will no
longer function to give us the

former — final
questions of
should be.
This is being implemented,
and during the coming months

authority in
land use, as it

Necessary services of water, | we will witness the effective
roads, electricity, ete. when | dismantling and elimination of
officials steal the money | the second line of defense
entrusted to them by the | which has protected our rural
public. This is the reason that | land during the past four
millions of people live in | years. Once again the fate of
misery and some starve to | our land will depend on the
death in India, Attica, South | individual personalities and
America, and many other | motivations of the elected
places. Their private and | aldermen,
publig systems cannot function Despite the many changes of
because oof theft and | faces in our council, it) has
corruption. A sense of justice [| consistently followed a basic
is missing, policy of frugality, and
Then we should expect that | possibly the most serious
the leaders of our society Were | criticism ois the continued

anxious to inculeate a sense of
justice in the next generation.
He omayo be true that the
Christian Church has
performed that function in the
past, but the Chureh is rapidly
losing it's intlucise ds a moral
teacher of the young, Our
secular governments have not
shown much interest in
(teaching morals, As a matter
of fact, it is interesting to note
that the laws enforced ina
democracy, like Canada, do

accumulation of reserves as a
result of overtaxing.
Profligacy is not a problem
in’ North Saanich, but
protection of the land from
aggressive Outside speculators
is dh even gicater problem than
heretofore, due to the
dismantling of the recent land
freeze.

The choice between
aldermanic candidates should
be made with extreme cautioa,
and with detailed

next generation, please drop,
mealine. . &:

Ivan Jensen;

which then as now primarily

to speculate and to make a

consideration of the position
that each has taken in the past

in matters of zoning and land

use. There is a wide difference.

Yours Sincerely,

Trevor Davis

Editor, The Review, Sir:

Rather unfortunately, I feel
I must reply to Dr.
Kristianson’s letter and correct
his inaccuracies. Perhaps when
he has more experience in
educational finance he will
understand the broader picture
beyond the confines of our
own district.

He accuses me of personal
innuendo, incorrect facts and

questionable logic. Dear
reader, you be the judge.
In- his letter my fellow

trustee quotes me as stating a
specific teachers’ salary had
risen by 108 percent since 1972
and that the correct figure
should have: been only 80
percent. | presume he means
1972 and not 1974 as printed. |
said no such thing! Rather,
that teachers’ salaries since
1972 in our district had risen
by 108 percent, while pupil
enrollment had risen only 13
percent,

However, if my ‘colleague
wishes to deal in specifics let’s
make it dollars rather than
percentages. A teacher witha
B.A. degree plus eight months’
training and two_ years’
teaching experience was paid
$6,070 per year in 1966. Ten
years later without any change
in qualifications or assignment
his salary is now $21,515, an
increase of 255 percent (I'm
not suggesting that this is
unique to our district).

Dr. Kristianson
with my figure for 1976 of
$1600) per pupil cost and
quotes one of $1446, His cost
per pupil is based on what the
government calls the operating
section, which excludes three
important sections of the
budget, two of which are
totally paid by you, the local
taxpayer. If our total budget is
divided by the number af
students, the cost per pupil is
$1600. So much for incorrect
facts,

Questionable logic — re
teachers, — teaehers’ wives,
university professors, etc, on
school boards, In 1972 the old
Socred government introduced
ano amendment — barring
practising teachers from being

quarrels

Larson Boats

Sangster Bouts

on school boards anywhere in
the province, This amendment
was unfortunately withdrawn
under pressure from the B.C.
Teachers’ Federation. Minister
of Education Mr. Brothers
stated that practising teachers
on school boards was not in
the public interest. The reason
was that no matter on what
board a teacher sits, he can
influence his own salary
increases because whether
contracts are signed via
compulsory arbitration or by
settlement, the first few
districts that settle set the
pattern for all the rest.

The B.C. Teachers’
Federation is well aware of
this, even if Dr. Kristianson is
not. That is the reason I
believe, why so many teachers
run for election to boards
throughout the province.

Dr. Kristianson asks for
specifics. Here are a few with
which I am familiar. This year
in Langley District, there are
three teachers and a
sympathizer running for a
well-financed, supposedly
independent voters’
association whose membership
is largely composed of
teachers. I received this
information from the B.C.
School Trustees’ Association
last week. Recently, District 61
had on its board five trustees (a
majority) possessing valid B.C.
teaching licences. In 1972 it
Was agreed by salary chairmen
throughout the province that
no settlements would be made
over 8%: percent. Almost
immediately, Vancouver and
Surrey boards, which at the
time were dominated by
educators, settled for 9 percent
and the ball game was over.

There are two other reasons
why | am unenthusiastic to see
teachers on boards. First,
because I feel that many, are
quite unconcerned by financial
matters and secondly, because
from the classroom teacher
right up to the deputy minister
and sometimes even the
minister, are or were
professional teachers, This
hierarchy, even without
teachers on Boards, exert a
disproportional influence on
the educational process.

As to personal innuendo, |
certainly was not attacking any
members of our own board,

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REMEMBRANCE
November I 14 SUNDAY 1976
ST. MARY’S HOLY TRINITY
9:30 a.m. Holy CHURCH
Communion Patricia Bay
and Bible Study | 9:15 a.m. Family Half
ST. STEPHEN’S Hour
8:30 a.m. Holy 10:00 a.m. Service of
Communion | Remembrance followed by
11:00a.m. Sunday School | refreshments in the Hall
11:15 a.m. Matins

ST. ANDREW'S
CHURCH
3rd Street, Sidney
2 Blocks S of Beacon
8:00 a.m. Holy
Communion
11:15 a.m. Remembrance

(Remembrance Sunday)

Rev. Ivan Futter
652-2812

SIDNEY PENTECOSTAL

CHURCH Sunday Service. Sunday
Meeting at School & Nursery.
Knights of Pythias Hall, Monday
9760 Fourth Street, 7:30 p.m. Confirmation
Pastors - Chas. Barker and Class
Randy Barnetson Thursday,
Phone 656-2545 November 18th
SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. Holy
November 14, 1976 Communion
9:45a.m. Sunday School | and North Saanich Men's

11:00a.m. Worship Service | Club Breakfast meeting.

Miss Rae Garden of Kenya Rector
will speak and show Rev. Robert Sansom
pictures. 656-5322 656-4870

No evening service, due to
Hall arrangements.

A Cordial Welcome
ToAll

BETHEL
BAPTIST

9:45a.m. Sunday School }
11:00 a.m. ‘*Wisdom:
Taking God into Account’’
7:00 p.m. ‘‘Jesus, Head of
the Nations”’

TUESDAY

BRENTWOOD COLLEGE
MEMORIAL CHAPEL
ANGLICAN
Sunday, Nov. 14, 1976
TRINITY XXII
Brentwood College School
Annual Old Boys’ Service

of Remembrance.

11:00 a.m. Address Dean
Norma Michelson, UVic
Faculty of Education.

The public is invited. The
school choir and a flight
from Sidney Air Cadet
Squadron will also be in

7:30 p.m. Pioneer Girls service,
WEDNESDAY Rev. Will Dobson
7:30 p.m. Bible Study Rector 652-3860
Pastor Darrel Eddy . .
arched United Church of Canada
SIDNEY &

656-6791
NORTH SAANICH
Rev. R. Horj Pratt
Church Office 656-3213
Manse 656-1930
ST. PAUL’S
SIDNEY ;
11:00a.m. Service Worship
11:00 a.m. Sunday School
(Baby Fold Provided)

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385-8131.

ST. JOHN’S
DEEP COVE
Peace 9:30 a.m. Service Worship
Lutheran Church CENTRAL SAANICH

Rev. Melvin H. Adams
Church Office 652-2713
Manse 652-5644
SHADY CREEK
7180 East Saanich Rd.
Family Service
& Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

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Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Morning Service 11:00a.m.
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Rev. Mann 652-5857 9:30 a.m. The Lord’s J’
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7:00 pram. Evening Service
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