geen “ype perenne a AEN AREA ta AAS Mbetata bOI UME TRUS WEI RN RENAE BISA NA TAU 35 Cents VOLUME 73 ISSUE NUMBER 48 tar Beene 7: on the Peninsula, Monday. HATES etc? enters ea hain ae tid 9 hare at Le four homes. SEO Aes B.C. Hydro line supervisor. added. Spokesman Ron Davis. irty-one. Ail emsey. adi coworkers: atthe ' ictoria’ interna tional Airport, have. walked: off the job, and by. press:time:union and management hadn’ i. reach- ~-ed an agreement. © Wayne Hannan, Air Canada station agent and local Interna- tional-Association” of Machinists. and: Aerospace Workers - president,” says the. members working: at’ the. Viec- toria’ International received a bulletin from union —head- quarters to withdraw services ‘The airline cannot fly without a regular program of “maintenance,” he said. Workers affected include air- craft and: -ground. maintenanec. . crews, cargo agents, baggage Sagents, station agents and some other personnel. Theunion is focussing on (wo | major issues in their contract ~demands, They want their pen- sion ‘indexed so pension pay- ots for retired airline workers would risesat the same rate as the cast of living: ‘There ds strong union: sap. port for jndesation - of) pen- held caly hen abane men who Two, driver aL knifepoint, doned him in his trank: atthe: aA SNOT NAS SAS NEL Da RNEASY ESR Winds gusting up to 63 kilometres per hour wreaked havoc The power went out almost everywhere at one point during the day. Central Saanich firefighters were called to rescue a woman trapped in an elevator in a Brentwood apartment building. She was unharmed when rescued after half an hour. ’ The Moses Point transformer burned out, cutting power to The main feeders for Chalet. Road and Land’s End Road were out for much of Monday morning, said Pat McGuire, “Everything north of Elk Lake got hit pretty hard,’’ said McGuire. ‘‘Keating was off, two circuits in. Sidney blew and ’ there were scattered outages throughout the Peninsula,”’ she The wind was blowing so hard that B.C.. Ferries cancelled its'}l-a.m. and-]_p.m. sailings to and from the mainland. ‘‘It was gusting. up to.50 knots at Tsawwassen,”’ - We couldn’t get into the terminal,’ >’ -he said, ‘adding that ’ most Gulf Islands. ferries: kept to their schedules. Sailings to Saltspring Island were cancelled on the Saltspring Queen.. . tract. have teri sentence, It was the 21-year-old Sidney & Saanich Peninsula | fend Ferries a ions,’ 1 eae ‘The “two? =sidesare-not- agree: ingein wage. negotiations: either. Air Canada.has offered four per «cent now.and four per-cent. in July 1988 with a two-year con- seven -per. cent _increase ‘in the first-year would be acceptable... “Our only: ‘resource. is.‘ to withdraw. services in light: of : these demands,"* said Hannan. The union’s last contract: ex- pired: in June. this) year ‘and members could legally go on strike since Nov..4. There are about 8,500 union members .in ‘the Air Canada: system: across the nation who will be affected: . bya strike vote. An 84 per cent.. majority of voting members rejected Air.) Canada’s latest offer. “It's time ‘for. us’ to make a stand on the. issues,’’: Hannan commented. ‘Lots of other Crown cor porations have index- ed pensions. “It's our pension plan and the company refuses to give us the benefits of the surplus,” Hannan said. -The union feels that a- s fe man's first conviction under the “Criminal Code. ORE TAN TCI ANE Cabbie hee Se oun eae TAT re: VLA Sass (RC es SMGunS TR NC aS Mint Sg ee eal are ora sre SACRE Pe AA EEA A NI TATA NAME A A ACD RAINE AAR aS A LE ORR I RARE RNAI AA AE SRO ETE AS cyeamatoyons tn WINDY WEATHER makes this: diver statue behind. Hotel Sidney a little more tike ES ALES aC SEN a STR OR RN IO SRG NRE OEE EIT NAA LE OR SAS CE SUITE a RS RN SI NHR TNA NAM SH LIA ROMS RT SER VL EN TIMID RB BE DC TEASE MENG URES TaN LN Writing according to Peter Leghatpebguminataliast ibid wn caddis te Pra ee ee ert 3 a eee 3 those in the Sport he represents. his confinement, The victiny was in prolonged - agony for the dalton alt of the nipht, He avas not physically hurt, bur from his testimony: qu Swartz Bay ferry terminal. have =! sually in the case of rab: been sent to prison, 8 2 ee bery, the. sentence is. three David “Vhomas Penny, 22, © years," said provincial cour was sentenced to six years ina federal prison, Bruce Darine Graham Was piven os four “year. judge Stephen Denroche.. ‘I » have added a pe riod for the ter: ror of the victim ane. because of 3 Airport procedural changes: - Quieter air over ‘Sidney | likely Derepulation has caused an: inerease in commuter air traffic over: Sidney. bur the airport wlan tw respond ta Naive COM plaints, “Vir expensing: we Shout ie Able. tO cimplement. see ew procedures,” interhational aire port manager rent Baker said mb the witke ah a nate study released by Pri vanert Canada, : The skies should be less noisy: “tv Sidney bw anmmer “There was a definite shift im araftic at the airport, as a result of derceahidion | Baker said’: Pofore deremifation. mase of the traffic was ade up of jet aireraft, which usually lind on jahe caste west runways. Now, however, many: com for example, only one nminway said, © ERE ANY MOEN PA TAY IN RSA UREA weomeceapen a eR ct muter planes fly over Sidney to cand fron the north/south run WAYS, There was an increase in noise because’ we have a fot: more airplanes than we've ever had before," he added.’ ‘H's a procedural problem, ° “but there are lots: of safely im-., Dheations for aieratt aperiiois and air traffic controtlers. And there are financial: considera- tions” for carriers beenise There> are more than scheduled) communter © plane flights a-day right now, but the numbers over Sidney vary daily, During Monday’s windstorm, of “longer taxi times and: Oat kind © “of thing,’ \ the prelitninary hearing, lear. he suffered. considerably “and is. ul suffering. Judae. : could be used, ay times, an approach direetion: won " be the ed fora week, The airport receives calls ranping fromundersianding to ANY over. Che noe, whieh as particularly bad during the sum: mer. oe "Some peyple are very, cogni- AU) he aed at chew: - beside an Airport and they can in. expect sone. NOE, “Amery Baker said, ‘he renehed, We ne preven possibly canny and stil) acer our anandate of being Aman: ‘and others ne noice There’s a balance thet We arene fa Donedobbar ce we SOrtibe Hon operation,” the Weenaper it Was: said-the - .danper _evounscl Derck Tis ite i live: whatsorver Ye. divs, ‘! . WISI inne driver : -Poters pieked up the two men in Vietoria around Jeaaican Oct: Victoria "Paxk 1onnd: drove On the Peninsula, CGrahain, sit- fing, in the bavk seai, pated a dagver-like knife with.owwvo sharp edges lind held it to me cabbig's: (hrout.. One of the ann. threatened : Peters: with ai ‘realistic. pellet puny whic he leaked like cas han- drum,” sid the jadpe, The eab- hie thought fis lifes, Hroughou the hour ordeat, , The men drove Most -ol the rghe three around | Liventually, ‘they. bound Peters and) placed him in the cone Af tik. Chas Me owesrst and -rasd dangerous tings that happend ed that morning | sad-erown he AT ? 7 ar tire rave’ wal Hn het oa pefice should have lefiahe ear in te Woods. That some callousness,’ haster said, Peters four. shows: AWWAN after a ay appt A yOF?,! fsa, op SET OMe a tages art A a LPS EAE SS SS SIRE eR PO Re ti ARMS BASEL UNECE (tar Ud, Canc LM SUR Ai PES ta PRiy ae Oo Ray (hemets Sidney, . professionally,’ ; Steve ns, a withess to the arrest. Alice Final was Une rapa dgine ~ stid Graham told her, ot was-a: for: Wibs Ly SR parked in thestushes where he’ wouldn't have ben found. for che said, when, asking. for _ aU siX-year sentence officer tested mn at er ascusedd toh “the ether pre the pefies ea thar they woman, hearing. strange noises coming :from-a:cab) parked ‘in the passenger pick-up lot, called police, He gave police a deserip- tion of the duo. One was forced to surrender inva ferry terminal washroom and ‘the other was apprehended - “in the foot passenger walkway, "Tt was handled discreetly. and said Defence la wyer drunken idea and) a} stupid one." Fler clients drank. at least eight beer each earlier that even- iis 'Craham reassured. Peters “throught the evening: thar he. wonid not be hurt. ‘fhe driver wat not harmed and the gan wits ‘not loaded," shee said, “Nota large amount was. taken’ =~ Ondy $150 (0 $200, “Penny lacks. the pers ronal resources tO deal with bis drug cand aleahal probleme,” she tald the court. “Most of the money ‘he earns goes to liquor." “The 22-year-old Nova Seatian left school ata Grade d-Jevel when he was. 14, "He will need: learning considerable. assistance," she said, Continued on Page AB. NNT PE, De REMARKS a MLS AO NCOMARGLY A Ba) SEER AEE REESE R ARLE LDL +} Dee. 21 to 23, Ted. stn mp Me RE RE SPOON PEE DN NN ET NOE LETT BUTE REM SEE EES 2 ETERS, SEALER, LOT ET AOE 0 . sects apterye MaeNIT ecwncenengys yng einer NeeC I MOREE SORES. CERN ORE pine if SAAT Mere Tava MO va Wednesday, December 2, 1987 Established 1912 TUR REL a UA PS MEA ARE Me Br Ban NA Christmas sail past ooo ee cash hn Abe Ede Coa RSET NE lm era eT i Se 4 cave eID Bureninieiney More than 40 decorated boats: will sail past the wharf at the foot of Beacon Avenue in. Sidney’s second annual. pre-Christmas.- sailpast, star ting at 6 ‘P. m. Dec. 12.5 ° =. The community concert band will be on’ deck, play-. | | ing. Christmas carols “and ° holiday (music. The’. mer-. chants association will serve: free hot chocolate. and a doughnuts: on the dock: ‘Sidney stores will be open until 9/p.m.: that. ‘Saturday. :.23.° Central. Saanich mere “chants” were meeting: | discuss” late ‘opening’ hours. ee ‘Renipsula.. “once again’ -being- ‘asked: to Santa will‘take time out: from. his* busy schedule: to: visit with boys and girls at a special .house on. Clarage Motors’ parking: lot. ‘be receiving ..visitors weekend | afternoons © star- ting Dec. 12 and mid-day | RS eer “] Seah eel aneraiea int Silver heirlooms lost; bat An-area woman, if oi cre ing a.reward for the. return | of precious... family: heirlooms that fell from. her. “car's trunk during a Friday move, “The box - contained everything M've pot as far as distraught, Ida. Schuckmann said... not the dollar value; it's the sentimental - value," von Schuckinann said.) ~Therunk of her car flew open: during. a move from Brentwood to Willis Point, along West. Saanich. Road. -and Durrance Road, - Some of the uninsured, irreplaceable. items, passed on to-von Sehuckmann by 20. ‘her father who recently died, date back to the mid- 1800s. They - inchide initialized: napkin. -holders,.:a. large ceandelabra,. silver. shot. glasses, a. mirror piece belonging . to. a. Madonna: statue, and an ovalehaped: sugar bowl with a fox on top anda lynx on the bot. tom. 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