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’ Sixty-Seventh Year, No. 5: Weinesdiy, January 31, 1979

By JIM GUTHRIE

Federal Trafisportation Minister Otto Lang’ S
unco-operative silence on the advancement of
the Saanich Peninsula water pipeline. through
federal property. is not neglect, according to
North Saanich alderman and water. com-

to “‘blackmail’’ the Capital Region District into
“knuckling under’? to federal demands for
wholesale water.

“‘The Ministries of Transport
‘Agriculture © (experimental farm) and
Environment (oceanographic Institute)’ are
presently enjoying wholesale water rates without
paying for pumping or capital debt, ” Cumming
told The Review.

Lang is heading up.a
coalition’ of . these three

(airport),

only with allowing pipeline :
easements «through _ its

.McTavish ©
storage. “The ‘reservoir. ‘was:
-built. in 1942 and has since
“been paid for. with public,
funds. 2

“The. way. ground: the

agreement: with --the. new

pipeline. ‘The: .worst Part.
of it,” Cumming says, .

that ’ by - paying ‘wholesale

rates, “the federal gover-

“nment. is::depriving - North’
Saanich’ of needed” and~
deserved . water: venus.”

“(See Letter Page 5.) 7
‘The. federal government’ s.
bargdining® position “rests.

“VICTORIA HORSE: &
BUGGY.'G UB ‘members
- took’... a” - scenic | tour © ‘of -
"Metchosin- An: their: ‘vintage
and. modern ‘conveyance. not.’
too long ago. Heads turned,
“and some. could, even’

to. ‘bypass’
around: the: ‘experimental:
‘farm, complete the Horth:

around . the. country that.
: way. The club has members.

skidded’.
‘pavement,’
“pole and overturned i in the
ditch. ; .
The passenger" ‘car, NOE :
positively - ‘identified, kept
‘on... going; : -but.-..Central
‘Saanich ‘police have a Bood
“description.
-_. Witnesses.to the ateidenl.
“say that the: pickup truck |
“was proceeding ~ East: on
Keating X ‘Rd.’ which’ was.
wet and slippery. at.a fairly
high. speed. The: passenger:
car came -off :Mirah - not,
stopping. at the ‘‘Stop’”
sign, and turned west onto
» Keating X Rd. ws
‘The: pickup: truck, wits:
-Nesses say, was. secn’ to
swerve...to ~..miss-- the
passenger car, skidded and
1 hit the power pole head on,
breaking it off. The pickup
then > overturned. © The
impact collapsed the ront,

ie

contract: for stallation of”
the main-water pipeline.:.:.
~ Webb and Trace’s bid of.
$447,987 was considerably"
‘less than the Capital Region:
District’s:. engineers:
projected - estimate: ‘of.
$620,000.

The. nine ‘bids submitted:
ranged © from. Webb. -and’.
Trace’s acceptable. low bid.
‘to a high of $733,000...

This authorized: contract”
will bring the pipeline to the
south .fence of -.the
Dominion: . Experimental
Farm, by. the end of May,
1979. Further: construction
from” there waits on:
easement... rights” for “the:
nkiiak property,

Parrott learned, for the first
‘time,

a serious break-in'a Mount
‘Newton. School. and. ‘when

‘street. about it. and she

was chagrined.

” For. that reason the board
passed a resolution that
when there is a break-in ora
serious cause of vandalism
involving. schools ..-—— an
incident serious enough to
‘attract media attention: —

Pe eee ir Eo Sore

at once by telephone, oF
memo.
He

ttawa Silence

missioner Jim Cumming, but a calculated move .

federal... ministries,: Cum- ] property’. and “the © water
ming :said,.in a bid to: | commission’s privilege of’
maintain ‘the present | using: the federally-owned

‘Reservoir --for-
with: the support. of district:
music::
-Ireton. and. “dis

~ system’. ‘of instruction: ‘in-
; volving lessons, graphic and.
aural,”

“situation, Cumming says, is™
‘the. pipeline:

Hill reservoir and’ then stick:

Board Seeks Notification”

Of Newsworthy Crimes
When. Trustee Rubymay:

from The Sidney.
Review, that there had been.

people spoke to her on the

‘didn't - herself’ know, she.

board members be notified.

ESTABLISHED 1912

Fz

the federal government with
water rates that will recover
the approximately $70,000
a bypassed pipline . would:
cost. The present agreement
expires in 1981.

- Provincial

Secretary

A voluntary effort on the
part of a group of teachers,
which was. described as

‘creative’? and ‘‘super’’, to
bring: music: to elementary.
‘school | pupils, “won “praise

on.. Monday » “night from
members of .the ‘board of
Saanich School District.

Teachers: Karen Adam,

‘Sue Peck and: Gill. Chater, :
C= ordinator: ‘-Ted:

curriculum.
Larry Cross,

whereby -. ‘teachers.
-with no formal | or. minimal

Sé satisfactory recovery:

- Discussing: the break-i -in,
trustees determined that the.
criminals: -entered four.
locked : -doors ‘presumably
with keys and stole valuable:

“equipment worth $8,000 or:

$9,000. It “was, apparently,
an inside job by people:with
a - full. knowledge of. the
school and its operation. :
“Members ‘of. the district
administrative. staff said
that nothing -was broken in
‘the school aside from. the
removal of one window soa
‘door could be unlatched,
~All equipment.” was
“marked, they: said, and the

loss was ‘covered, hoe ‘in-
; surance. ae _

slackmail’

Teachers
win Praise

-than:socee a!
‘acknowledgement — (OF :ap=

” they. were. ‘doing, and. ha

“musical training, can involve "

.25 CENTS. ~

ater Pipeline :
Says Jim Cumming eo, :

Hugh Curtis said Saturday,
that -he. has tried: since
before Chritsmas. to get |
Lang to’ authorize | per- |
mission for the proposed
water line to go across the

Continued on Page 2

their students in-a music-_
learning: plan which «can:
inculcate in them not. “only. -
in appreciation of. music: but :
techniques - by. which they.
can participate.

Karen: .Adam ‘said on :
Monday. night.that what the: ;

-group wanted at that ‘time ©

was ‘board: support tather-
. formal.’

proval for a’ program. What
‘been doing. since May. was -

‘pilot program. oa
» Board: members:

“enthusiastic and ‘assured the :

_young women: they ‘would
be fully. reinforced. in. \ their

-ridiculous, vat

; Too. much. TV. and: othe
“bombardment was imp sed:
“on children: What: this’ and:

other similar plans did ‘was.
sto: involve. the. children. in.
~ something ° of which: they”
were a part. :
Passing ‘a resolution to.
“approve. of the . plan. a.
trustees’ ap-:

principle, : :

So many: quedtions i jive
been raised | by: French

immersion and.its.. sues,
cessor, thes Freneh < care’

“evirricuhum: planiand cthey,

“have be became. so inex.
‘tricably meshed in’ the:
minds of public and: schoal
board, © that almost. total:
“confusion has resulted, 6"

This: seemed | to ‘be. the.
“CONSENSUS © at Monday
night’ S Mee cling” of. the
board: of Saanich School
District and, .as-a-result, a

list of queries will be taken”
come NOL Senf by letter 10

Ahe provincial depariment
of education for

Lack Of

“Because of the confusion

Vand lack. of information .

which followed the recent
-tragle. bus accident. néar

Barrie, Ontario, ine which
four: students: were «killed,
- the names of all youngsters
travelling on buses ‘on field

* istrict will: he Histect nnd
» filed,

gave notice of motion at
Monday: night's meeting
that she will suggest that the
board rule that the names.
of all students travelling by

“inersion <M
“considered: time. and agaly
hye the school board and:

some | French

ttlps in. -Saanteh . School:

‘Tr ustee Rubymay 1% arrott

bus on field trips Ise fled art TL:

answer Ne

This. was. tie dedbion

following —another : ap-
pearance. before ‘the hoard
of two women.who wanted
10 know just where andhow
and by whom their children
would be tanght Frenel and

at what level of immersion.

The tou
.progran, was

then’ shelved. Tt then, was

Tollowed> by a Uprovinelal:

department. of) education
plan announeed by an
advertisement, . in the
Tangiage,— whieh

invalved.. -before © (heir

departure.

An accompanying

statement from... the

Canadian School Trustees’.

Aspociition stated thint the
Barrie ** tragedy. (was

aggravated: by the- absence

af one List of -amdente
travelling in cach bus.

Six buses were being used
to transport students from
‘Weston Collegiate Inetitute

ton ski resort as. part of the

school's annual education
day, Preparing fortheevent
for nine

Freneh ime

months, the

said that. a core ‘eduiediion

program. ..would © be “ine:
Aroduced . in’. September,”
1979, - atthe elementary |

level. It wits “aimed: at the:
F rench-speaking |

popula.
ion in BC" ‘

“The. advertiement was

Notices. it said that. the

Nrcigettl ‘Was - established,
for’. students “of French-
speaking parents and those
students ‘who. were capable
of receiving thelr education
in’ core’ -subjects in’ the
French language,

“At added that a minimum
of 10. students. would: be
required. although . the

students had raised $10, 000,

for the onting,:

There were: 45 students.
involved in the crash und it:

took clage to seven” hours

before. parents were advised:
whether or not thelr
children were involved. j

the crash. of the one bits. :

The news ® broke. easly

through a radio Teport and.

parents: flocked to the
school where principal and

poll ve tried to calm them,
The newspapvers reported.

four students dead and 29
injured, ‘The: bus was nota
school bus; it was a high-

dciventienient: couched in |
Ambiguous — language, did
not directly say so, -

Whereupon.

Surveys of:

cligible: for’ the. “ore

curriculum iD rench course, we

The survey shawed two.
trom. Grade 6, vight from
‘kindergarten, two’. from
Grade one and one: fron,

Grade four,

‘Trustees Norma. Sealey
and Rubymay Parrott said,
‘on. Monday night, chat they
Just couldn't” support a

Names Aggravates Bus Tragedy

the offive ‘of the school.

way cruiser baile in 1965,

“The. PUTPAsE of this”
Memo. isto” poink outthe

circumstances where. no
one knew what- students

were on the bus. It might
have: been Ampossible - to.
keep. such information) but :
Ahe "fact that it was lacking
has Dec dled as aaie iawn

for. the Minister to institute

a full investigation,’ the |

stidement reads,

Trustees approved of the
notice-of-motion

unanimously and enone

comment.

eligible...
‘insofar as their location:was-.

Snanien “eoncerned, ranged all the:

School District Anstitated: a
elementary,
schools 10. find out how:
many: students would be

“Deep Cove, It was Just not
“viable, ihey-sald’:

“Wandled would’ be to ‘share

“districtsy
- Sooke,-and find some place

time students: so, ine any:

be held.

“phone’ and’ what.

Four which had 80 ) few
cstudents © whoa).

way. from Cordova Bay: to

Trustee Parrot thought

the only: way: it. could be ~ government,

with “thes others: school
‘Victoria | and

where. children. from “all
three could be assembled
for instruction,

Of the 13 registrants,
Trustee. Jack “Armstrong
said, only. nine were full-

* government,
This

‘ase, the course should not

Then. started a diveusign
of what was. >“ franco-

sparen gee

‘anglophone'’: and) an
‘effort to decipher the foupy |
‘terminology © of. the. ad-
vertisementand = come:
munications “from “the
provincial ministry, mi
Among..-the . questions:
which will be asked: What
is "elementary" In terms of
ie plan? “Where do the.
immersion students fitin —
or do they? Where is all this
‘yo be held? What does:
fiancuphone mean?
‘There are others and they
all will he trundled down to:
the department. of
education.

SSeS LSE,

Ree:

turnof the century," C

— oo =

- Saanich ‘idee Artifacts Society wi will
ho get 3 its storage. warehouse thanks..to: a
“$110,000. lottery grant. from the provincial.
‘Secretary and
_ Minister; of: Government’ Services. “Hugh
Curtis announced last.week,,

~The grant will cover costs of constructing.
7 the 7,452. square-foot storage. and-
warehousing, building, and:two. adjoining
~-workshops on the:23-acre property off the -
Pat Bay Highway ‘at Island View. Rd.,
“leased “to. the society by the provincial

Provincial.

| active | group
» thousands of donated artifacts vamporariiy-
stored throughout the area,’" Curtis said,.
“With, the new building, they will able to —
‘bring them: together, restore them, and”
provide the sort of security they require.””...
“Tl am.also excited about the long-range
plans. of the. socicty to create a working
“farm: typical of the Peninsula about the”

~The Saanich Historical Artifacts Society’
‘has been developing the site since 1974 and,
- has: heen: actively: collecting: since 1969.
“Founding. member Willard’ Michell was”
collecting -antique machinery and artifacts
» for years before. (hat.-The Michell farm, on_
_ Bast Saanich Road,
~ machinery to fill three museums, |

“We're all very happy, about the grant,”
Hye “an ee pate sree satel aie acetals salina abl seein liner teanieaiceiabe aa snia

had. enough old

» society. president Att Gardiner told The
_Review. - ‘We - ‘were. reaching -the-“point
where - we were. going to’ have. to. begin:
“storing: ‘some. of: our-pleces: “outside,” ‘he
said, ‘‘which would-have made it virtually
~ impossible to have them restored;
“The society has received preliminary bids
~ for warehouse materials but no company '
“has indicated ' that “it would: erect’ the
_ Structure ~~ just supply the materials. ‘The |
society wants a one deal ‘shot,"’. Gardiner
said,: ‘materials, | construction — and:
-foundation’”, - .

The building site has been raised to arade
with:5,000 yards of fill from the: pipeline |
construction and the society plans to’ get -
compaction machinery. working there when.
~ weather permits, The contract can then be”
© det for the “warehouse, ‘We don't®
“necessarily take the lowest bid,” ” ‘Gardiner
says, ‘but the: lowest one: tha suits. our
requirements,"" _

. Corresponding with. construction of the:
warehouse. and’ workshop’ area” will. be:
“~ power, water, and septic: tank installation:
> by volunteer labour, ©

Art: Gardiner. says. he. ‘hopes | to ‘seo.
~ construction. underway. in-April sor. May.»
The. warchouse and workshop complex. is.
“fo be, named after the Saanich. Historical
Artifacts Society founder Willard Michell, -

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