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The first time Harry Blades
ever won anything was during
Saturday's Capital City Yacht
Club fishing derby, a prize for
reeling ina 10-pound salmon.

~ ‘By PETERSMITH__
Review Staff Writer

Blades’ catch was the big-
gest of the day, among 52 out-
door enthusiasts participating
in. the derby off Sidney and
James Islands.

Amazing, somewhat, con-
Sidering Blades is 87, What’s
‘more amazing is that Blades is

that dared give him a struggle.

“It gave quite a fight,”
Blades mused, after the weigh-
in of the Canadian National
‘Institute for the Blind fishing

‘derby. His wife, Maude, snag-
ged a nine-pound salmon.

“It took a long time,”
Blades said of wrestling with
his first-place prize. “But we
got one each.’’

The derby, held every year
and sponsored by the yacht

Lions Club, is for members of
the CNIB. Capital City
members provide the boats,
and the Lions’ members the
} transportation to the marina

for. the blind participants.

Saturday’s derby was the
25th annual event.. Everything
from salmon and rock and ling
cod, to sole and dogfish were
reeled in, said commodore
Gordon McMillan.

The prize for the oddest
catch went to one blind person
who reeled in an oversized bar-

Garbage from the ‘Saanich

- Peninsula will be dumped at the
’ Hartland Avenue disposal site -
‘. for-the next 30 years, under a

recommendation passed: by the.
= Capital Regional. District’s—

. sanitation and water committee.’

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The committee considered ex-°.
- pansion of the-Hartland- facili-
_ ty, along, with nine. other possi-.
“ble sites, for dumping - the,
region *s refuse.

Seamus: McDonnell; manager _

of engineering services, said the-

committee. chose . Hartland,

‘Hartland water line approved —

The first phase of a water line
for Hartland Avenue has been
approved -by the Capital
Regional District, the manager
of engineering services said.

The. first. phase: of the water

_line, which would use existing
sevice mains near West. Saanich
Road,. will cost. approximately
$68,000, ‘said Seamus McDon-
nell.

The _first- phase work will:

The Capital Regional District
approved an application from
the Songhees. property

fo the Hartland Avene landfill
site.
Seamus
manager
vices, said

MeDonnell, -CRD
of engineering — ser-
the 7,000 cubis,

‘CRD Cc considers

» jug volume |

The ‘engineering: depar tment,
of the ¢ Capital Regional District

“is preparing a, report consider =

ing: the potential, volume af:
plastic milk jugs at the Hardand:
Avenue landfill-site, acting: ebief
engineer Seamus, McDonnell
said,

The report will ‘be presented
tothe CRD's sanitation. and
water committee in October.
McDonnell said plastic milk
jugs -- the use of which gon-
cerns, environmental groups: in:
BOC, = are inert and will not
“degrade. The plasite. jugs. are
pot harmful to. ground water
supplies, he added.

However, the engineer . sintd
the CRI is interested in deter:
mining the potential, number af
“the non-resusabte jugs bein
‘dumped atthe landfill:

“The milk jug occupies many >
times more splice in landfills»

than. other ‘environmentally:

acceplable cancers the Fa

vironmentally Sound Packaging
Coalition states jira recent letter

to Central Saanich counchh

“increase the cost of disposal and
clean up,” the coaliion con:
‘Unues.

Central Saanich referred the.

matter. ta the © RD tor niore ine
farmntion

blind, and never saw the fish.

club and the South Van Isle

Committee recommends expansion of Hartland landfill.

nacle. Most of ihe sightless
participants, however, were
out for a day on the water and
a breath of fresh sea air.

Evelyn Tait, 89, was suc-
cessful in this year’s derby. In
year’s past, however, she has
found just seaweed at the end
of her line.

“Two of the biggest pieces
‘in the Pacific Ocean,’’ she
chuckled, ‘sitting beside her
guide Alison Armstrong at the
Official weigh-in ceremony.
‘But [ don’t come ‘to fish,”’
Tait added. ‘I enjoy the
water, and it’s such fun. The
people are so pleasant.”

Tait won the hidden-weight
prize for catching two, two-
pound rock cods.
~ Ray Sewell said he can’t net
the fish, but he can-set up his”
gear. He determines: how
much line he puts in the water
by counting the number of
times he pulls line out. of the.
reel — each pull represents 18
inches. co

“You adapt. There are
somethings you can do, but a
little slower,’’ said Sewell.

“You have to-think: a little
bitmore.’’

Jacquie McDormand’s
seeing-eye golden’ retriever,
Karma, was a bit apprehensive
about the on-board aspect of”
the derby. But the pair manag-
ed to reel in the second largest
catch, a nine-pound: coho
salmon.

Fleet captain Norman Lim
- “Wsiesesel. Was pleased overall with the
CATCH OF THE DAY. Maude and Harry Blades hold up erby, andthe ™ number. of
salmon, caught during Canadian National Institute for ee ps ry well.” Lim
the Blind fishing derby Sept. 19. Harry Blades’ 10- tturne ra very We 1m
pound salmon turned out to be number-one catch: commente

‘from. an engineering’ point. of
view,’’ over other sites which in-
cluded James: Island, Island

View Beach, a Colwood gravel. |
“pit and Heal’s rifle-range.

Other. sites would cost
anywhere from. $40 million: to
$80" "million — in capital - and

operating costs over a 30- “year:

Residents — of the. capital
region: have showed overwhelm-

ing support — 60 per cent — for ©

expansion of. ‘the. Hartland

dump. Those residents favoring | -
hew sites were in-in the one-to-;

Six per. cent range. said McDon-
nell.
“Ttts

ing the next five years, and

again to 15 per cent in the
- following five-year. period.

The acting chief engineer said.
the committee is also consider-
ing-a composting program. for~
_ yard waste at the disposal site.

~ period, ‘McDonnell said. _ (new). Jandfillsite,’’ -hé. com-

. The-Hartland dump hajidles’ “mented: ‘*People- just : don't ;
% approximately: 150,000,:.tonnes >: wantaslandfill.’ 006
of garbage a year, McDonnell An: official. _plan.. for “the
estimated. A new or expanded’ Hartland expansion. ‘with al-

‘site has been considered because:
-Hartland dump would sbe -ex-". »

panded to the west.:He said the.

‘near. Heal

District accepts decontaminated soil

that:
- decontaminated soil. be shipped

. * darian in

hy greater, bidk would alse

“very: “diff icult to - “get ae

tached costs will be. presented to
the committee Oct. 21; before it
goes forward to the CRD board
for approval. -

McDonnell said the commit-
tee is also: considering’ a pro-
gram-to increase: recyling from
two per cent to 10-per cent dur-

the Hartland dump is nearing its ©
allowable limit. under a -B.C..
government permit. ,

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on Hartland Avenue, he added.
Earlier, a CRD staff report
recommended an = $850,000
water line. for Hartland Avenue
to serve property owners in the
area. of the garbage landfill,
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metres of contaminated soil to
be cleaned on the Sonyhees. site
will be mixed one-to-one with |
clean gravel before being. ac~
cepted at the dunip.

McDonnell said the mixed
soil could be used as a road hase
or a daily cover at the landfill
site, near Heal Lake.

The Songhees . property: ate
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developed . for’ condominiums
and a hotel, was-formerty used
by Shell © ‘anada cand. Petro-

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-mitials, Soil in the area has been
found to be lead comtaminated.

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