6 PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW

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of Sidney.

enough to make one’s head spin.

its seven sub-committees.

“You gotta go, to the bathroom that is. .

~ the pressure from the public.”

But they may do in a pinch.

on Fourtli Street.”

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-Cance er knows no boundaries.

bigger, uglier and a. whole lot ;
' and he was much more to me than =

ay mn not a runner unless’ someone |

meaner is chasing me,
Nor am I in the greatest of
~. ehape. And to top it off, I don't have

‘aparticularly healthy diet (my days. ,

end with a smorgasbord of my |
spouse's peanut butter cookies)’

~ and, Uhate to admit, I'ma smoker,

But none of that stopped me,
from taking partin the Relay For a:
-. Friend on Saturday at UVic’ 4 Cen-»
“tennial Stadium,

* Like many of the people particl:

> pating in the run to raise money for
~ cancer research, 1 was there for.

; personal reasons,

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EDIvorIAts
Come share your “visions”

‘Its easy to get a tad confused these days with all the ongoing revi- j -
: talization efforts and development proposals floating around the Town ae

‘The work underway on Beacon Avenue and host of pending re-de-.
velopment schemes being hatched around every corner are, at times, - |

: .’ » Though it’s easy for some to criticize council fori its apparent ad hoc
approach to planning, these elected officials have their hearts in the
i» Fight place. They want to make Sidney a beiter, more viable place for
| residents, businesses and tourists, but it’s difficult to ‘complete the puz-:
ale without perspective and public input.

| | Enter Sidney’s Corporate Strategy. Vision Steering Committee and

revitalization, community © *and* ‘culture, | ‘industry/ commercial, -

tourism/key. ‘business, seniors/youth and transportation — have been

working diligently on individual action plans that are expected to cul-.’

‘overall Blansing document which will be us sed to to guide “4
into the

4 jlanned for: Friday, to 22 se the to 9’/p.m.) and Saturday, May 23
X (10 a.m: to 5 p.m.) at the old Sidney Post Office (2423 Beacon Ave.). |
_ Everyone! is welcome to attend, but please bring a an open mind.

: A trailer for tinkling: you say?

You're strolling down Beacon, and suddenly you re ‘overcome by the urge.

. Well have no fear, the trailer is just around the corner. Yes, Sidney Coun-
cil voted Monday — by a slim 4-3 margin — to spend $35,000 in surplus .

_ Money from the sewer parcel tax on portable washroom facilities. =

‘Though three councillors — Ted Daly, Bob Jones and Peter Wainwright :

“— opposed spending money that’s meant for sewer improvements in Sidney,

» Mayor Don Amos cast the deciding vote in favor of the toilets to help “relieve

Asked about the seemingly hefiy pricetag for sorta public washrooms,
Amos said the cost was just “part of doing business i in the Town of Sidney.”

We agree there's a need for “somewhere to go” near the downtown core,

~ but dumping portable biffys behind Beacon i isn't the most practical solution.

The $35,000 ‘temporary trailer’ will be placed behind the ANAVETS Club

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“died fier i a ‘lengthy battle with can: .
cer, His name was Ken Torgalson,

just a grandfather.

Tcome froma dysfunctional fam _

ily, and several times in my ay
years J was sent to live with my:

~ grandparents while my parents
» tied to get their lives in order, -

My grandfather was my substi-

. tute father — he was my mentor
»and he was my friend,’ ‘

He taught me how to te my

~ ghoe laces, He gave me my first .

pony. He could always be counted

~ on to bring home a jelly donut, He

would hug away the hurts and |.
“Taugh at my ally a antics.

Gordon C Ce

Or that was the consensus among both pundits and Bee
- party ‘insiders, many of whom have barely concealed
their unhappiness with their leader at previous party func -
~~ tions... mean that they oorssel ng but only off the”
a ‘Tecord.) :

i Campbell no ‘onger gave the i impression he felt h
d Coast into government on the free i

~ ofthe Reform Party, he comesacrossas | -
earnest, intent but not ‘taking anything :
me for granted, ede
“People are now saying that Campbell Je
Pe “looks” like he could be premier, thathe |.
~ “now has the public presence of a provi. .

cial leader.
But they. are saying this with, an.

~ jronic grin, only too aware that we pre-
. dicted once before that Campbell was ©

ashoein,

That was in 1995, when his Liberals :

were 15 points ahead of the NDP in

the opinion polls; and the competition . 7
_. was the increasingly hapless and wocbesne Premier

_ Mike Harcourt.

. Then came Glen Clark. The wunderkid of B.C. politics

ran: for leader of his party and then premier of B.C.

_ against Harcourt’s image ofa bumbler as much as he ran

against Campbell
But it didn’t hurt Clark's cause that Campbell also

emerged as something of a bumbler,

Campbell Handled the 1996 election campaign dread-
- fully. He utterly botched the Liberal’s crucial economic

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He ina me the difference b bo i
“in dignity at home, surrounded by
his loving’ family,

tween right and wrong witha firm -
but gentle hand and, even when I
~ didn't walk the straight and narrow,

bell keeps § gett

Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell delivered one of the
oa best speeches of his career to 700 Liberal delegates at the -
~ Langley Civic Centre last weekend.

: plan; and he dove equally essential Northern votes into.
the hands of the Reform Party with his'promises to sell

. off BC Rail and reduce the number of constituencies.

“seem ‘to be getting it right”

1 °°’ When Liberal MLA Paul Rei oe

1 recently caught lying, Campbell wasted =,

} ‘no time kicking him from the caucus and: eos i

| the party Seyi Cer
os At last week’s convention; ‘when the
| NDP made a last-minute attempt to link _

‘| the Liberals to the Pro-Life movement,

_. | Campbell easily brushed it off, labelling

-Saill,itwasn’ta total disaster: his Liberals did win more ES
“votes than the NDP in anarrowloss.  * ae
- Since then Campbell's crew have shown flashes of bri. en:
_ liance in opposition, but last year they’were farcicalin. >. {h-
~~ their ineptness (eg. the famous $800, 000 mailout, the

“windup penis). Now, with Campbell ‘more’

| ita “disgusting” ploy. 4
In. the Speech itself Campbell ;
waged war on Clark’s economic poli- ”

-cies with humour rather thana sledge-

hammer. fe
“We are going to embrace the profit
principle,” he said, recalling a recent —

"Statement of Forests Minister Dave
Zirnhelt that “If you define business climate i in terms of

huge pr ofits, those days are over.”

‘unconverted,

he believed in me.
~ He was a hard worker, and while

- he often left my grandmother to:
_raise their three sons for months at

atime, his strength and commit: -

“ ment for his family was never in

question, «of ©

: Until the very end, Tean't recall,
~ Popa ever not working.

Well into his 70s, an still ple.

ture him climbing onto the roof to.

clear. snow or do repairs. |
+ When the cancer spread toa
siolnt where chemotherapy would .

only add to a very painful existence...

=~ his own mind betraying him
with false memories, his body
wasted away — Popa chose to die

When it came (ime for a silent -

Aner movmae

- Commented Campbell: “Now there's an investment
“ strategy. Come to B.C. Invest your money. Risk your life
’ savings! But there won't be profits. Those days are over.”
- Anote of caution. Campbell’s speeches are long on
. rhetoric, but short on reason. Catchy phrases well deliv-

ered may carry the day with the true believers but some-
thing with more meat is needed when Preaching | to the

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memorial lap around the track last
Saturday; when the mournful

~ sounds of a piper playing Amazing. . |

’ Grace floated out over those walk-
ing with bowed heads and an em:
cee listed names of cancer victims, ©
1 was only one of many who un-
abashedly shed tears of sorrow. .

And the tears poured even are
harder when the name Ken Torgal-

fon rang out across the field, echo- ~~

ing off the emply bleachers. .

Popa wasn't there in person, but I
‘know he looked on in pride as my |
sister and 1 walked those final steps.
And while J can say I did it for him,
in truth I was there for myself,

, Afterall, there’ r} always a posst-
bility: that, someday, I may be' one
of those people. os