Wednesday, December 28, I 8, 1988 FISH Continued from Page A3 Foundation as far as the (tribal council) is concerned,” Ginger said. “But they must realize these are our traditional fishing grounds under the Douglas Treaty.” Images ‘88 THE FACING PAGE illustrates some of the Peninsula news events highlighted in The Review in 1988. From top left, clockwise rotation: | The gavel of Rick Roberts accents a stormy municipal election in North Saanich, divided over municipal cost control and support of the mayor’s leadership; - A new riding elects a new representative in the federal election, as Lynn Hunter of the NDP squeaks past Tory ‘Pat Crofton to represent Saanich/Gulf Islands. Crofton supporters Say the right-wing vote was split because of ~ the Reform party’s appeal to feelings of Western aliena- tion; Gas price wars hit the area, much to the delight of motorists, and Johnny Canuck, alias John Wilcox, gases up his Maple Leaf-insigniaed truck Old Blue many times in a cross-country battle against the Free Trade deal; Top goes on the new whale museum, one of a host of -—one of which leaves these three kittens without a home. The kittens were found in the old North Saanich _council chambers, reduced to rubble in the municipal hall renovation project; One of two fancy gadgets to keep traffic in check, this awareness gimmick told drivers how fast police knew they were going. The other more ominous high-tech device, the Multa Nova, took photos of speeders, whose rude awakening came from a ticket in the mailbox instead of revolving lights in the rear-view mirror; Bottom, left, is the closest to a game of tennis anyone got on the site of the Peninsula’s new tennis bubble, a project plagued by weather delays; If tom Siddon had any friends among sports fishermen, he may have lost them by announcing a new limit and tagging system for chinook salmon. The federal fisher- ies minister was booed and picketted during any Island visits; As unpopular as Siddon was to fishermen, the Great - Wall of Central Saanich was to many of its neighbors. The huge seawall, which some considered an eye-sore and an entrusion on public land, turned out to be legal and within the owner’s property. North Saanich Mayor Linda Michaluk’s leadership | turned out to be against provincial legislation, however, _ because of contracts between the company of her husband’s employ and the district. But voters put her back in power, despite two challengers In a mayoralty “by-election; _ interrupted during a brief British Columbia Government Employees’ Union strike. - A few pages back, on Page A6, is another smattering of | news photos of 1988. From top left, clockwise: livestock and farmers, in a recurring Peninsula news ~ story, the injured sheep ina wheelbarrow demonstrates; Happier news came for Jack and Gloria Evanoff, winners “Of a $2.2 million Lotto-649 draw. Several other major -- wins went to Peninsula residents, but the largest in million; : attached home; © “versy continued: Fifth Street became an issue.around Sidney council's Bottom left, a. brewer’s balloon and the unwitting prayer ~b-- from the side of a revival meeting trailer provide a 1. send-off for Commonwealth Games bidders. Perhaps the combination helped. The Victoria group returned from Seoul with good news: “Vietoria will host the 1994 sporting spectacle; | but at home he is yet to receive a medal.or official recognition for his trek to the South Pole; And Sidney’s official community plan is taken back to .the drawing board after a stormy public hearing. But the next version, passed by council, still doesn’t satisfy oe quit the advisory planning « commission im alsgust. THE GLVIS EPISODES