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Wednesday, February 18, 1976

THE REVIEW

What Became Of Esther Avenue?

Are you pleased that the 75-bed acute care unit is going to be built
at the Mount Newton X Road site?

LEW WRIGHT |
Peninsula Printers
‘Oh, yes. Why not. As
long as it’s built on the
Peninsula. Your
population is growing in
the Brentwood and
Central Saanich area, so
eventually you'll find
the hospital in the

JOHN RODD

9671 - 7th Street
“Sounds like good
businesss to me. I don’t
see any reason why it
shouldn’t be put there. It
doesn’t seem like you
can add on to the
building that’s already
there, but it’s a good

MRS. HEATHER

HIVES .

8617 Lochside
“I certainly think that
we need it. I think it’s a
very nice location. It’s
away from the traffic
and the highway.
Resthaven is an ideal
location, but its too old.”’

middle of a populated location.”’

area.

By Margaret Brown

In, I believe, 1927 a kind of
‘winter works” programme
had a crew of men literally
hacking their way through
dense bush and cutting down
big Douglas fir trees making
a roadway from the newly
created Wallace Drive — it
having until recently been the
B.C. Electric’s Interurban
Railway — to the dead-end
section of Hagan Road south
of Marchant’s Road.

One of the workmen was

‘Goerge Kelly, the blacksmith

who lived on Clarke road, and
I believe, another was Calude
Butler Sr.
This road was to be called
‘“*Esther Avenue’’,
presumably in honour of Mrs.
Fred Sluggett. This was at a
time when Sluggett Road was
non-existent, except on
municipal maps, and con-
sisted of a trail west of
Wallace Drive, the central
part of it being flooded in
winter by the pretty little
stream running right next to
the path, and it made a pretty
summer walk. Clark Road
west of Hagan Road (which
was not developed at that
time) ran through some woods
andbecame two ruts in a
grassy trail. -
That ambitious beginning
was also the end of Esther
Avenue. It was cut wide and
straight but was then aban-
doned, and gradually the trees
and bushes again took over,
though it was-plainly visible

Lessons Every Day.

JEAN ROOKE _
10412 Resthaven
“7 think ‘it’s definitely
a good place for it. It’s
better for the entire
peninsula for it to be in

MRS. KATHY BROWN
_ 2141 Colinwood Road
“Yes, sure, we need
another one out here.’’*

R.H.SCOTTON .
. 9948 -3rd Street .
“T like Resthaven. I’d
like to see them build it ~
up more. Why can’t they

that location.’’

LETTERS CONTINUED

Continued from Page 4

condemned the atrocious
desecration of the Queens
English by your newspaper.

For a man of my minuscle
mind and education it often
takes hours of poring (please
don’t print that ‘POURING’ as
of tea intoa cup, or ‘PAWING’
as of a dog on the ground) over
the pages of my Websters
dictionary and  Rogets
Thesaurus to find suitable
words for my missives.

tionarys, however your
proofreaders, typesetters, or
whoever it is you employ to
make such dim-witted
mistakes, substituted instead
the word ‘Corinthian’ which
must have left your readers
convinced that this writer was
an intellectual imbecile.

The most glaring example
of errors by your employees
however, who must. either
blithering idiots or college
graduates with masters

build a new wing
there?”’

Canadian Cancer Society
Meets in Sidney

A meeting of the Sidney and
North Saanich unit of the
Canadian Cancer Society was
held at the Sidney Hotel on
February 4th, 1976. The group, .
which included several new’
members, was chaired by the
Canadian Cancer Society
executive officer for Van-
couver Island and Powell
River, Mr. W. urton. Mr,
Burton's talk on the Canadian
Cancer Soclety’s activities

down owing to illness,

The slate of officers for the
coming year are:- President -
Mr. John Smith; Campaign
Chairman - Mrs. Juliene
L’Hirondelle; Assistant to
Campaign Chairman - Mr,
Jim Penfold; Treasurer - Mrs,
Eve Robinson; Secretary -
Mrs. Doris Penfold.

The next meeting will be on
March 8rd, 1976 at the Sidney
Hotel at 8:00 p.m, Peninsula

degrees (not much difference
between the two anyway) was
in last weeks issue when a
gentleman's name of ‘Eskimo
Abbott’ was miraculously

lt is heartbreaking and
frustrating to suffer all those
hours of study and one finger
typing in an effort to select the

was followed by a_ film
showing one family’s concern
for cancer,

Mr. W.H. Marsh who was
president for the 1974 Cam-

residents willing to volunteer
for the April canvass will be
made welcome and are asked
\to. telephone local unit
chairman Mrs.  Juliene

correct words, only to see
them misprinted and
sometimes even replaced by
other words.

A case comes to mind
wherein I once had occasion to
use the word ‘Leviathan’
hoping to send your readers
scurrying for their dic-

transformed into ‘Eskimo
Charlie’!
Really Mr, Editor, what are
your proofreaders doing?
I suggest you take the big
stick to your editing staff,
Yours without malice,
Reg Davis,
Canoe Cove.

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for many years. The present
Llanfair Avenue is possibly in
the same position, though I
thought that Esther Avenue
was a little to the south of
Llanfair.

REQUEST FOR
SEWER
EXTENSION

A request for a sewer ex-
tension to service two

properties prompted a debate '§

in Central Saanich council this
week on the possibilities that
the approval of upgraded
services may encourage
residents to subdivide,
therefore promoting  un-
wanted development.

Subdivision, said Ald. Percy
Lazarz, ‘‘must come by
planned development,” and
suggested council should
‘“‘wait for the Community
Plan” before granting any
extensions.

“The area is next to the
sewer system,” argued Ald.
Dave Hill. ‘‘Sewer is a service,
like a road’’ hesaid and should
not be confused with approval
to subdivide.

“I think the request is a
valid request,” agreed Ald.
Frank Waring.

Nevertheless, council]
eventually voted not to oppose
the application, made by Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold, and Mr. and
Mrs. Mounce.

“I think they’re entitled to
it,’ conceded Ald. Lazars.

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