Page A1l0 Wednesday, February 17, 1988 SATURDAY 9-4: FEB. 16-20/88 “» Wereserve * - AS the right to = ook * “fimit quantities . 2 OPEN MON. -FRI. 9-5:30 and A locally owned & operated firm serving the Peninsula for 75 years — THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C. Editor: A long lIctter in The Review of . Feb. 3 from Ald. Bill Gordon and -more of his comments (Review, Feb. 10, page A15) require some amendment and correction. He should be aware that the people of North Saanich organized to NEW PAYMENT CONVENIENCE FROM AUTOPLAN Soften the blow of vehicle insurance renewal time — Autoplan’s Half- NOW, Half-Later short term policy lets you pay for insurance on most vehicles for periods from six to eleven months. Ask your insurance agent how you can take advantage of this new option from Autoplan. 00 for your « convenience o BEACON AVE. “Sidney Byt the Sea”. UR protect their way of life, to keep their rural atmosphere, to reject high scale development and to es- tablish a low key, pay-as-you-go community. Now, Gordon pressures us with the old car salesman’s pitch: ‘Say yes now, or you lose the deal’’ (i.e. the provincial grant). Our local member is the minister of finance. Is he going to offer $100,000 to his own constituency and then withdraw it because we want to take the time to spend it wisely? No, not if he desires to be re-clected. Do we need another community hall? We have Sanscha Hall, the Panorama Centre; we have the usc of the agricultural hall and numerous ‘church. and _ school halls. Do we need one more? Our present municipal hall was large enough until we re-arranged its furnishings for the benefit of the television company. Gordon gives us a long list of items or, as he sees them, faults in our present municipal hall. Most are housekeeping items best left to the staff to repair. Door- SAANICH PENINSULA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ~ DINNER MEETING. 6:30 P.M. © FEBRUARY 18 ¢ $15 _ Carrington-Wyatt — Sidney. - SPEAKER: | . Pat Crofton, M.P., . .. DRAW: Weekend for2 — Sheraton-Plaza Advance ticket sales: Sidney Travel; - Christine Laurent, Sidney; Chamber. office : - Noah’s Travel, ‘Brentwood : steps, if stumbled over, should be fixed’ without talking lawsuit. Plugged toilets are caused by the user. and call for a plunger at a cost of $5, not a $400,000 new building. If, after 10 years the plan printing room is giving trouble with amonia fumes, then the engineer could put in an ex- haust fan paid for from petty cash or the housekeeping moncy. The same applies to . floor coverings, curtains, etc. These things will be required in a new building, too, and more of them. Gordon’s estimate on popula- tion is a little out. We average ~100 new houses each year and since 1965, our inaugural ycar, -we have gained something less than 200 people per year. Regarc- ing building for the future popu- lation, as Gordon suggests: will they accept this concept or want to impose their own ideas and de- signs? To finance this structure, the alderman suggests an option with no borrowing and no increase in taxation. The source would, of course, be our reserve fund, slow- ‘Free: Trade” - M aD ~- FOOD DOLLAR AT SIDNEY SUPER FOODS ~ WE ALWAYS PRODUCE MORE FOR YOUR | IMPORTED FIELD. , : cae ae | FRESH SIZE 16’s. ~| CAULIFLOWER. 78 4 FRESH CRISPY CELERY. A FRESH JUICY SIZE 165's LEMONS 12/79" | | { §° Ib. A8S T FRESH GREEN. ‘| TURNIPS... 39° PEPPERS.» FRUIT rea "iw 88 asst D. JUICE on 3/1 o0y “B.C, HONEY. : FRESH FRYING GR. ‘A’ CAN. CHOICE BEEF FRESH FRYING EN 479 ROUN CHICKEN | BREAST.......... 3.95 x9 tba UND 4, 198 LEGS oy Bite 7 WHY PAY MORE STEAK... ore r 37 kg WHY PAY MORE FRESH FRYING * PAY MORE. TGR. 'N’ CHOIGE BEEF | CHICKEN DRUNSTICK.....2.48 so 998 (—ime armen FEE 8 FRESH FRYING | 49} - Rez study by the economic: de- ~ velopment committee for the fu- ture of Central Saanich. On this date I have had an. op: : : portunity to read the draft of a: study - which, it is stated, exam-"' ‘ines. the economic opportunities © to be pursued i in order to achieve © ~Community’s economic stress is placed on:the desirability ~ - for high residential development. °. 7 The mating of. high residential de-»- velopment with, or while retain-.. ing ‘the village / rural atmosphere, _. is not possible. One destroys the . other. ° And the recorimendation that ; ~ further: consideration should be given to creating boundaries for.’ village «residential development, with a need to market the land,’ gives rise for concem that broach - Of: the Agricultural Land Reserve . isin question. “Am I correct in assuming that residential propertics do not pro- . _ vide sufficient return in dollars to - municipalitics? _Municipal gov- ernment. must. provide. such ser- |. _ vices as fire protection, water ser- “vice, schools, police to name only . ‘the most. important. . Despite ~ wealthy . developers, . residential » development remains costly for taxpayers, In my opinion. it would’ be wrong to use land that could pro- service, a still greater population. . Mrs, G, Saunders Continued from Page AG. fetus deserves to have rights and © } to be considered in the choice, ~And- 1 know: that. every child will be a wanted child until the dren, cannot. have them, and. “choose adoption arc served-in the” . future; _ “Judy Wetter,” an » North Saanich | Letters to 5 the editor must be. signed and _ contain the writer’s ad- dress and telephone number. Letters should | not exceed 200 words' in length and may: be’ ‘edited for clarity, legality or taste. ‘duce food for now and the future, . -in order to service, or attempt to rit 's News | Call the Review. 656-1151 & o 1d _Saanichton a present adoption waiting lists are’ filled and the increasing number : of people who want to have chil-*.