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Can ‘such things really be
~ happening in Sidney?

The past few weeks has seen
a shooting, ending in a tragic
suicide — an incident in which
a youth was stabbed in the
back — and the wanton
destruction of residents’ mail
boxes — planters and shrubs.

Twenty years ago, when I
first wandered into this quiet
little corner of tranquility, a
sign on  Resthaven Drive
greeted me with the words,
‘*Welcome to Sidney Village,
. population 1100.’’ In those
‘days the local constabluary
_ numbered one. Bill Stanton
“was an impressive figure, in his
_ riding breeches, boots and
spurs, and a stetson on his
head. He policed Sidney witha
_ firm but gentle hand, and the
- local youths all respected him.
‘Any acts of vandalism then,
“-were usually dealt with by a
- stern lecture and the offending
~ youths made to repair or pay
‘for the damage. Now the
‘.detachment of more than ten
‘overworked officers are hard
‘pressed to keep up with the
“problems and the culprits are
usually dealt with lightly by the
courts, with in some cases the
«parents taking the blame and
“having to pay for the misdeeds
‘of-their offspring. ,

Thosec were the days when a.
local farm. — now buried
“somewhere under a ‘sub-
division, would. sell you a
dozen large eggs for $.50. The
Pat Bay highway, such as it
“Clair Downeys garage -—
Mary’s Coffee Bar — and
‘another cafe near the airport
entrance —. where for about
$1.50 you could eat mounds of
fried chicken that would make
Colonel Sanders fare look like
‘Cornish hens. The single lane
‘highway zig-zagged on to

‘board:a:ferry ‘at nine thirty in
the morning — cruise through

a few hours wait over at
Ganges, where one would
make a bee line for the old,
- picturesque Harbour .House
.Pub and fill up with ten cent
beers until it was time for the
same island hopping trip
home, arriving at five thirty —
a whole day’s cruising and
boozing — and all for $.75! If

one wanted to spend a wild
night in the ‘Penthouse’
nightclub .on Vancouver’s

Pender Street, it would entail a
drive up to Nanaimo for the
dance cruise to the city — or an
overnighter from Victoria.

Those were the days when
Air Canada was still Trans
Canada Airlines, and that
wonderful old workhorse, the
C3 was the pride of the fleet
— its busy times being helped
out with those wing-flapping,
four-engine flame throwers —
the North Star,

That clandestine, crank up,
phone call — to someone else’s
spouse, had to go through the
exchange on fifth street, and
one would have to listen
‘arefully for the tell-tale click
on the line, that meant the
operator was listening in —- a
great way to spread any juicy-
piece of gossip you may wish
to get around (own,

Those were the days, when a
Sunday call to the local
bootlegger's, for ‘a loaf of
bread, and a dozen eggs’
would result ina bottle of rye
and oa dozen beer
delivered to the door — fora
price, ol course, |

Taxi meters started at $45
and $10 a mile, Ao night's
dancing at the ‘Club ‘Tango’ or
MeMorrans, meant your lady
partner carried an extra large
purse, in which the smuggled
bottle was furtively stashed
under the table — to be dealt
with’ in quick — snorts
throughout the evening,
(pretty difficult to do with
one's head under the same
table),

A night ont in Sidney, was a
bag of popeorn in the Gem
theatre (a shame it had to close
its doors), followed by a belly
full of beer at) the Hotel
Sidney, then supper at the best,
and only chinese reatwurant —~
Mary and Liddy Jéngs Beacon
cafe, where for a $t.25 one
could get a combination dinner
that would fill both the belly
and a doggie bag, (Mary still
doesn't look a day older than

“Was then, wound its way past .

' ‘Swartz Bay, where you could.

- and stop at all the islands, with |

being,

Wednesday, June 9, 1 976

The Reg Davis Column

when I first knew her) both of
them, wonderful people. In
those days, it wasn’t unusual
to see a horse being ridden
down Beacon Avenue with its
droppings being scooped up by
some avid gardener for his

strawberry patch, now the
streets and sidewalks are
fouled by dogs.

Those were the days when
the line up for the Anacortes
ferry was down the centre of
Beacon Avenue, with car
occupants spending their time
and moncy in the stores and
cafes, with even the odd one
paying a visit to a real estate
agent, for a piece of land.

In those days though, we
didn’t have a recreation centre
to keep the kids off the streets
— and we still don’t — thanks
to being overgoverned by three
councils, who spend all their

time name _ calling, and
disagreeing — instead of
doing.

Twenty years ago — in

Sidney: — those were the days.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

$22 per hour and our ferry
workers need $18,000 to sweep
up, you’d better think about
our next years property tax
because next year they’ll need
more to live here and next year
you’re going to need another
tax hike to keep it going.

Editor, The Review, Sir:

I am more than a little
alarmed when our good
Mayor, Mr. Malcolm comes
out publicly and describes his
job as an ‘ego trip’. How low
have our leaders. sunk when
such a statement is made to the

press. We have wide spread.

unemployment, rampant
inflation and probably the
highest prices in North

~America and this is naively

accepted without so muchas a
bat of an eyelash by not only
Mr. Malcolm as a local leader’
but most of our leaders at the
Provincial and Federal levels.
How can we justify house
prices that are near.triple what
they are South of the border,
rents are near double and
interest and mortage rates are
11 percent to 15 percent. Is it
any wonder labor cries out for
yet more money here—just try
to find any house under
$50,000 here or rent under
$400, or a lot of land on which
to build for under $20,000. My
work takes me all over North
America and the house and
Mortgage costs here in B.C.
are nowhere being ap-
proached. I’ve seen new
bungalows in Florida for
$24,000 and 5 bedroom
Colonials with swimming pool
in Seattle for $40,000. Just try
and find the former here under
‘$50,000 or the latter under
$100,000,

Sure you can knock labor all
you want, but people like you
are prompting them on, We
are pricing ourselves out of the
market so fast that if current
trends continue we’d have to
go through a 50 percent
devaluation of our currency
just to keep on par with the
U.S, before too long, and,
can you blame it all on
labor, No way. If our
Policemen require $16,000 a
year to start, our builders want

Can any of you people tell
me whether Saanich Peninsula
schools have a Facilitator of
Learning Assistance Services?

Task the question because |
noticed anad in the Colonist
the other day in’ which the
school district of Fort Nelson,
B.C., sought to employ a
Facilitator oof — Learning
Assistance Services, Among
his duties, the ad said, would
be the supervision of “ease
loads” and you will note from
this that students aren't
students anymore, They are
“cases and as to that, allt
can say is *Migawd, where are
we headed?!

Anyway, if seemed to me
that if a little backwater place
like Fort Nelson could have
one of these Facilitators of
Learning Assistance Services,
why then the much more
cosmopolitan school district of
Saanich Peninsula should too,

T know that some of you
smuart-alecks out there are
going (o say this is just another
hilarious example of — the
bafflegab used — with a

NEWS. DEVELOPER “WILL LEAVE TREES" IN PAT BAY
ITEM” ~SuUBDWISION, CAN IT BEDONE...?

So as a professional man to
an elected official please Mr.

Malcolm no ego trips. There’s
hothing to be proud of here
with 125,000 out of work in
B.C. and your kids and mine
with little or no chance of
owning their own homes on the
second biggest and one of the
least
‘countries on earth.

densely populated

Please Mr. Malcolm, ‘you

might think you are on an ego
trip but at least don’t admit it
to anyone.
growing a little thin with
leadership which allows this
sort of situation develop. .

My patience is

I represent an. international |

company, we employ quite a
number of people here but

unfortunately it doesn’t look.

longer—- we just can’t afford

it.
C. Robert Ward
10416 Resthaven Drive
Sidney, B.C.

Editor, The Review, Sir:

Of all the insulting anti-
people legislation perpetrated
by the ‘“Mini-Wac’’ govern-
ment in Victoria, the 100
percent increase in the ferry
fares and the abolition of the
commuter tickets must be
regarded as the outstanding act
of insanity by a power hungry
bunch of political nitwits,

While the  Anti-Inflation
Board, supported en-
thusiastically by the B.C,
Socreds and their turncoat
members, screams over in-
creases of more than 10
‘percent on wages, our

_ Bill McCusker ~

straight) face — by
wierdos at the Department of
Edueation,

But | choose to adopt a
much more statesmantlike
attitude jn this matter...
which is why UT asked that
opening question,

My concern is that Peninsula
school children should have
everything school children in
other parts of the province
live, .

} must admit there is a little
tinge of envy in all this. As one
who has not) yet achieved
anything resembling an exalted
station in life, | would dearly
love to have somebady ask me
what 1 did for a living and be
able to reply:

“Sirs Fam a Facilitator of
Learning Assistance Services ,""
+e

A re-cycled Dave Barrett is
back in the Legislature, to the
cheers of the NDP and of my
Newspaper colleagues who are
ever on the lookout for ‘good
capy.’' This is a commodity
which Mr, Barrett, like Mr,
Trudeau, is able (o furnish at

‘Where there's
Q will -- there's

those |

‘‘leaders’’ in Victoria gaily go
for the 100 percent bash in
essential services.

This is not only a serious
financial blow to large
numbers of B.C. residents,
many of whom rely on the
ferries to get to work; itis also
a serious blow to the tourist
trade and allied businesses,
upon which this province relies
so heavily. It is heartening to
find the Chambers of Com-
merce making their voice heard
on this matter. |
~The Brentwood-Mill Bay
ferry is a prime illustration of
the Socred government’s
stupidity. This ferry has made
a profit on its operation,
traffic has increased
stantially, it is used regularly
by many commuters and it
only uses three gallons of
Deisel fuel for each trip. Yet,
the commuters are now forced

to pay the idiotic rate of $3.50

per journey - that is $7.00 per
day, $35.00 per week, or
$130.00 per month. The
alternative being to drive
round and over the Malahat,
using approximately one and a
half gallons of gas on the
average size family car.

Here is one regular com-
muter who intends to boycott
the ferry system and its rip-off
prices, and who intends to ask
(riends and visitors to B.C. to
do likewise.

Let’s all burn up the extra
gas going over the Malahat,
After all, we've got plenty of
gas to spare haven’t we - or did
! hear someone say something
about conserving energy 222?

He who refuses to he
ripped off any more,
J. Getgood
983 Waverley Terrace,
Brentwood Bay, B.C.

Editor, The Review, Sir:
Your report of the meeting

‘the drop of a hat and we can
look forward to a great deal of
it.

I personally do not see much
difference between Mr. Barrett
and Mr. Trudeau. Both are
continually — prattling away
about “love without saying
how much love costs, Indeed,
they have somehow worked
things around to the point
where it is considered very bad
form to talk about love and
money in the same breath, In
point of fact, the Enforced
Christianity oof Messrs,
Tradeau and Barrett costs usa
little over four months of our
labor each year, payable
promptly each April 30, thank
you, And, according to them,
that is nowhere near enough,

In the case of Mr. Barrett,
the cost of the love programs
he foisted on us during the
three years he held office is
only now being brought home
fous as Hugh Curtis and his
colleagues in our new
government struggle to cope
with one, of the facts of fife
that Mr, Barrett blissfully

change in zoning) can sell their

should sell their cars. He had
the decency to apologize for
his remark. We now await an
apology from our Mayor.

‘municipality. If he, and a
minority of his kind, are now.
‘unsatisfied with this ‘same
zoning then it would seem
reasonable to assume that they
would
majority of newcomers, as well
as the long time residents,
could then continue to live in
North Saanich in peace; free
from the hassle, and expense,
ofrezoning.

sub- |

Fat. parent-involvement

held at Holy Trinity Church
Hall omitted the low point of
the evening. If I understood
him correctly Mayor Grieve
suggested that residents who
will not be able to afford the
taxes (due to the proposed

request for active represen-
tation from elected trustees,
may be of some interest. It
began last Fall when about
twelve parents in Deep Cove

concern about their children’s
education. It wasn’t that they
had any more than the usual
concerns about local schools,
but rather thay they felt it was
time the Saanich School
District provided children with
at least one or two different
styles of schooling - as do some

property. Recently a Cabinet
Minister suggested that people
who can’t afford insurance

Mr. Grieve, and many | more. enlightened Districts,
others, recently immigrated | such as Victoria and Van-
into our 2-acre zoned | couver.

The model that particularly
attracted this..small group of
parents was that of Northridge
Elementary School in Victoria
- a regular school within the
want to. sell. The
has adapted some aspects of
the British primary and
clementary school methods to
local conditions, and produced
a school to which, it seems,
children skip rather than
reluctantly drag their heels.
Northridge is quite structured,
keeps most of its programmes
within the B.C. curriculum,
but places a great deal of
emphasis on local community

[Name withheld by request]

Editor, The Review, Sir:

Last week the Review
published, on its front page, a
report concerning a statement
of educational

philosophy | involvement, parent- .
written by a group of parents | participation in the
and submitted to the Saanich | classrooms, and = appears,

School Board.

overall, to be, a very happy
That statement is part of a

place, in which co-operation

series of interactions -and | rather than competition — is
confrontations that have been | emphasized, and where each
going on between a group of. | child’s — individual — progress
residents of Deep Cove and | through each subject is very
various members of the | carefully) monitored and
Saanich School Trustees and | evaluated. There being no
School District employees, | evidence that the warm,
concerning the parents’ ine | productive atmosphere of this
(crest in having the district | school hampered academic

develop educational
programmes, at the elementary
level, more suited to the varied
needs of local children.

The history of this attempt
and

growth, and there being a good
deal of evidence that both
parents and children possessed
a high degree of pride in their
school, those of us in Deep
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There is just as much horse-
sense as ever, But the horses
have it,

overlooked — somebody has
to pay for all that love,

As usual, somebody turns
out to be you and me!

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