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THE REVIEW

June 25
GRAVEL PIT
A request to reclaim an old
gravel pit on Central Saanich

Road was rejected by Central:

Saanich council.

When committee members
learned the project planned
for Polson’s Pit by J. Gillespie
involved the removal of
thousands of yards of gravel,
their response was swift.

“He can go to blazes,”’ said
Alderman Percy Lazarz, ‘“‘No
way.”

And another group of boat
dwellers were threatened with
eviction by Sidney council.

A majority of Sidney’s
elected officials approved a
motion giving local marinas 60
days to evict liveaboard boat
owners from their wharves.

A settlement was reached in
‘the dispute between the
Saanich Peninsula School
Board and the Canadian Union
‘of Public Employees, local
441,

The agreement meant an

overall wage increase of about
35 per cent for all employees.
‘July 3
SIDNEY DAYS
Sidney Days

‘success by all involved, with

-bright weather and good at-’
tendance contributing to the’

‘Success,

Dalton Fraser,. Kinsmen:

‘treasurer, reported the events
were financially successful for
the club, which supports a

number - of community
projects. ‘
The Sluggett family-

celebrated a hundred years on -

the peninsula.

John and Fanny Sluggett
and their seven children
arrived in.1876 to settle on 700
’ acres on the water between
Clark Road and Benvenuto.

Sidney RCMP impounded
fifty-five cars illegally parked
along Dolphin Road near the
ferry terminal.

The problem is a result of an
overflow from the parking lots
at the B.C. Ferry terminal. ~
July 9 ;
BARGE ADRIFT

A giant barge which drifted.

ashore at the foot of Newman

“Road was.on the verge of
crushing a 21. foot Reinell
_ powerboat owner by Walter
“Tangye, when two youths
acted promptly to save the
craft.

Mike Lewis, 15, and John

Izzatt,. 14, reached the

were.
pronounced a_ resounding:

“Geronimo”,

powerboat in the nick of time.
‘We had to cut its mooring
line,” said Lewis, “‘The barge

would have crushed it right

into the rocks if we hadn't.”

The barge, approximately
300 feet in length, belonging to
Ocean Cement, had broken
free of its mooring.

A Seaspan tug later freed
the barge. .

Audience participation was
down, but entries were better
than ever for the annual
Saanicton Summer Horse

show held at the Saanic Fair

Grounds,
July
PROPERTY STOLEN

More than $2000 worth of
property was stolen from
Canoe Cove Marina in three
separate incidents.

July 23 .
: PAYDIRT

At a time of year when
water is like gold, Geoff
Vantreight struck paydirt
with his new well, and Central
Saanich was hoping to share
the wealth.

Central Saanich Water-
works Superintendent, Gary
Rogers, said that from an
eight-hour pump test of the
well, engineers had estimated
a flow of 570 gallons a minute.

July 30.
SECURITY GUARD

The hiring of a_ security
guard service to patrol four
district schools received
criticism for two Peninsula
school trustees.

Trustee Gerry Kristianson
opposed the scheme because,
he said, it was doing a job that
ought to be done by police.

Island Securities were hired
following an incident of
vandalism at Claremont
School in late June which

worth of damage.
Local entries won both main
events ‘at the annual Tsartlip

Brentwood Bay.

their eleven man war canoe,
placed first in
the main event, winning the
Edwin Underwood Memorial

member female team were
first in the Klootchman event,

August'6.- i.e 84
RECORD TIME

resulted in more than #200 :

Indian Water Festival in :

The Saanich Canoe Club i in :

Trophy, and a Tsartlip eleven’

receiving the Brentwood.
Properties Perpetual aware.

In the: record time of '38 |:
Minutes 58 seconds, veteran

The Year In Review

oarsman John Newman again
easily won the 17-foot class in
the Fourth Annual Great
Sidney Rowing Review.

Also leader in its class was
the whaler crew from the
Fleet diving unit at
Esquimalt.

A record total of 41 boats
entered the week-end com-
petition.

August 13
DILEMMA FACED

Central Saanich council
members were faced with a
dilemma when they had to
enforce a bylaw with which
most of them did not agree.

It was decided that is a

‘complaint is pressed, Mr. and

Mrs. E.S. Williams of 8433
Lochside Drive could be taken
to court and fined.

But Mayor Jean Butler
added, ‘“‘Then if. they’re fined
they get to keep their
chickens.”’

August 20
FINES UP .

Sidney’s cheerful parking
ticket writer, George Glass
made the announcement that
town parking fines had been
increased.

Overtime parking now costs
$3.00, while late paying fines
over 48 hours will be $5.00.

The Saanich Peninsula
Sailing Club awaited per-
mission from the. town to
establish a dinghy compound
the eventually a clubhouse to
be the centre of activity for
centreboard sailors.

August 27
LIVE ABOARDS
A reprieve began for live
aboard boat owners using

. Marinas in Sidney.

Sidney council voted for a

bylaw to repeal the “Marina

Sanitation By-Law 427”, ‘
A Saanich Peninsula woman °

~ |. was one of several people in
- the Greater Victoria area who

attempted to free several
killer whales held captive in
Pedder Bay.

Victoria Businessman Bob
Wright was criticized for
capturing the whales for
profit.

September 3 .

‘. SAILING CLUB
. The .Saanich.. Peninsula
Sailing Club held its first
general meeting in which a
constitution was adopted and

an executive elected.

First commodore of the
dinghy sailing club is David

Myerscough of Sidney.

Mrs. Philip Brethour and
her “neighborhood Children’’
welcomed mothers and
friends to their annual car-
nival and bake sale.

Proceeds have been mailed
to the Treasurer of the Golden
Key Auxiliary to the Multiple
Sclerosis Society in Victoria.
September 10

HOLLOW VICTORY

After spending nearly
$10,000, many hours of debate
and months of prolonged court
battles, North Saanich council
belatedly discovered that its
victory in the battle over
private wharves is decidedly
hollow.

The point was proved that
the district does control. the
foreshore, but its a control
that for practical purposes is
almost useless.

A small cute beagle named
Stonewall took an unscheduled
excursion to Washington
State. -

Stonewall, a purebred black
and tan beagle is owned by Liz
Hughes of 2313 Oakville
Avenue.

No one knows how he got
there,

No one knows how he got
there, but somehow Stonewall
boarded the Washington State
ferry, travelled to the United
States, cleared customs and
roamed around the streets of
Anacortes.

He was picked up by the
pound and deported on the
next ferry.

September 17 —
HIGH COST
A group of
residents were involved in a
venture which would help
them and other peninsula
families fight the high cost of
groceries,

The Peninsula Consumers’

Co-operative, a society for-
med in June, hoped to

develope a full sized co

operative super-market on the
peninsula sometime ‘early
next year.
September 24
' CENTRE PLANNED
. Keating Elementary School
will be the site of a school for

the mentally retarded which

peninsula’

‘Radford,

will open next September. .
The centre is planned for a

maximum of 16 children and

will be built at a cost of

$150,000 on the edge of the
Keating school ground.
October 1

NO HUNTING
The Fish and Wildlife

Branch announced that Sidney
Spit Marine Park had been
closed to deer hunting in the
interest of public safety.

Jack Radford, Minister of
Recreation and Conservation,
said that hunting of deer in the
small marine park may cause
problems with picnickers,
hikers, boaters and other
people who use the park.

The closure became ef-
fective September 19.
October 8

BOAT SUNK

The annual fall sinking of a
boat at the government wharf
at the foot of Sidney’s Beacon
Avenu took place when
“Happy Harry’’ took the
plunge in winds gusting to
more than 40 knots.

According to one observer,
“Happy Harry’ may have
suffered its fate by being tied
up too well.

A strong swell contributed
to the sinking, when part of the
power boat’s side was torn
away, still attacked firmly to
the wharf by its mooring line.

October 15
NEW PROGRAM

A new program began in

Central Saanich involving
neighbors looking out for each
other and-:working more
closely with the police.
Constable Jack Hill is m
charge of the program, called
“neighborhood watch’’, whose
aim is to make neighbors
aware of danger signs. of
crime in their neighborhoods.
Changes in the Wildlife Act
were announced by Jack
Minister’ of
Recreation and Conservation,
giving the province control
over captured killer whales in

coastal waters of British

Columbia.

The changes followed ‘the
moratorium on the capture of
killer whales in British
Columbia territorial waters
declared by Radford in
September.

Laurie Dunfield took the

place of Lloyd Bell as ad-
ministrator of Resthaven
Hospital on October 21.
October 29
MARINE RESERVE _
A square nautical mile of
the bottom of Satellite

Channel was declared a

marine reserve by
provincial government.

As a reserve, the area at the
west end of the channel op-
posite Deep Cove, will be off
limits to activities which
would change the ocean floor,
from scuba hunting to kelp
farming.

The purpose
prohibition, according to
Lands, Forests and Water
Resourses Minister Bob
Williams, is to safeguard the
area for biological research.
November 5

MONEY OWED

One hundred and forty-six
boat owners were about to get
a $6400 reprieve from the town
of Sidney.

The 146 owed the town that
much in unpaid wharfage for
space at. the government
wharf in Tsehum Harbour, a
wharf that the town operated
until October 31 under lease
from the federal government.

“Knowing what we’ve been
through,” Mayor Stan Dear
told council, ‘I recommend
we forget the whole thing.”

the

of this

November 9
FOSTER PARENTS
The Department of Human
Resources decided to repeat
its highly successful course
preparing people to be foster
parents. .

Faith Magwood, a worker
with the department’s foster
parents division, met in
Sidney with the neighborhood
“chairperson of the foster
parent’s association, Gloria
Tweedhope, and two other
foster mothers.

and to give their impressions
of what is needed from a foster
parent.

Fifteen hundred people
attended the Peninsula Ski
Club’s Ski Show ‘75 held in
Sanscha.

There were booths, slide
shows and ski movies shown
throughout the afternoon.

They met to discuss their
experience as foster parents,

Wednesday, January 7, 1976

Commission co-sponsored the
show with the ski club.
November 26

L.L.P. GRANT

A group of _ peninsula
residents with the help of an
L.L.P. grant are helping to
lighten the load for disabled
people living on their own.

Calling themselves HADS
(Home Assistance for
Disabled and Seniors), the
group, organized by. Doreen
Abbott-Smith and Captain J.
(Shorty) MacLeod, have hired
eight workers to provide a
variety of home maintanence
and -housekeeping assistance
for people who can no longer
manage on their own.
December 3

MONEY FOUND

Harry Fafuse, a_ retired
hotelier, turned in more than
$500 he had found to local
RCMP.

Rafuse almost stepped on
the money while he was on his
morning walk along Third
Street. He promptly bundled it
up, took it home, placed it in
an envelope and walked back
to the police station with it.

“Ym amazed at his
honesty,’’ said Sargent Allan
Tomlins, ‘‘So few people
would do what he did.”’

A Sidney resident has put in
a claim for the money.

Local golfer Dale Shaw of
the Glen Meadows Golf and
Country Club had been named
top golfer by the Canadian
Ladies Golf Association.

The question of whether
Saanichton Bay would remain
a tranquil haven for waterfowl
and the Tsawout Indian band
whose reserve faces the bay,
or be the site of a major
marina project, was decided
in May.

In November 1974,
provincial
declared a _ freeze on
development in the bay for six
months after a marina
proposed by George Wheaton
and Bob Wright of Saanichton
Bay Marina Ltd. was ap-
proved by Central Saanich
council and the federal
government. The freeze was
called when the Tsawout band
protested the scheme, so that
the social and environmental
impact could be assessed.

In April, the moratorium

on ended, and by mid-May, the

The Peninsula Recreation |

the
government

Ocean Science Institute

Work began early in 1975 on
an $18.3 million Ocean
Sciences Institute at Patricia
Bay.

Work continued throughout
the year, within budget and on
schedule.

A tragedy occurred in
February when two men died
when a barge carrying a 519
ton caisson capsized, throwing
five men into the water.

The wharf part of project is
to be finished in February
1976, and the workshop
laboratory building by April.
* Another related develop-
ment, a complex devoted to
small industries supplying the
institute which was to have
been build across the road on
federally-owned land, has
been cancelled for the time
being, in response to adverse
public reaction.

A number of residents
protested the use of the
property for technological
purposes, as the land is in the
agricultural land reserve.

Concern was also expressed
about the effect of such a
project on the water supply in
the area. Several residents
said they were afraid wells
drilled to serve the technology
centre would draw from
existing wells.

Plans for the technology
centre have not been aban-
doned ecompletely, but have
been shelved until the water
supply problem can _ be

-+ resolved.

AAS

Saanichton Bay Marina Issue

provincial government an-
nounced it would not allow the

project.
In making the = an-
nouncement, Resources

Minister Bob Williams said he
was impressed with the
presentations of the elders and
fishermen in the band who
‘‘clearly understood the life
and seasons of the bay’? more
than anyone he had spoken to.

“Saanichton Bay Marina
Ltd. came to us with many
strong arguments, related to
the demand for marina space

.but the tranquil life-style that

the Tsawout Indians people
have developed over many
generations had to ‘be
recognized.

“A large marina develop-
ment next door to them would |
have been a disruption

| the minister said.

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