‘Published at Sidney, Vancouver Island, B.C. Every Wednesday . By. Review Publications Ltd. 9825. Third Street John Manning Editor and Publisher * Member of B.C. Division, Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Assn. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association Member Class ‘A’? Newspapers - Telephone 656-1151 SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4.00 per year by mail. SECOND CLASS MAIL REGISTRATION NUMBER 0128 Display advertising rates on application. PAGE. FOUR Wednesday, September 22, 1971 Education Objectives A year ago the Trustees of Saanich School District spent many hours of their valuable time in desultory debate concerning the objectives of education. The subject was eventually shelved. Any attempt to - reduce educational objectives to. a few sentences as trite as they were obtuse was clearly destined to failure. — _ But now the professional staff of the District has at- tempted to put into writing their own collective views on educational aims and objectives. We find the result of their studies in this direction equally obscure. There is a real danger of the fundamentals of - education being wrecked in an undertow of precious but useless backwash. Surely in its simplest expression the ~ purpose of education is to teach from knowledge and in the light of experience. This presumably is what professional educators are especially trained to impart. _. Why then this worry with written declarations of “purpose? All such useless documents should be. con- signed to the limbo of forgotten causes. | Ambulance Chasers _ When disaster — in the form of another automobile accident. — strikes our community, four: groups of people usually respond; three of them with the objective of rendering immediate assistance, the fourth with a - broader desire. . The first three — - police, ‘ambulance attendants, and i tow truck operators arrive with the primary concern of assisting the injured and removing dangerous ob- S structions to other traffic. _The fourth — staff members of The Review - — con-. ae -contrate on recording. events at the scene. Usually on film) 3) -Forall four groups it is 5 not a pleasant task. Few persons become inured to the suffering of one’s ellowman and all involved must quietly-wish that ac- cidents never happened - -— that the need for them. to do ob them will: be required. . demolished automobile. : measurably. saat someone, somewhere: to. pay more attention’ 0 what they : are doing behind the wheel of. their car. ~ Thus. you. may expect even more explie ae descriptions. | : : ~»- Unpleasant they. may. be - — - but, if they cause you to ce a reflect on your driving habits, perhaps we'll never have > the unfortunate opportunity to photograph you and your - Minitorial: “ Despite controversy over the brand of paint used, the. “now completed face-lifting of Sidney’s Town. Hall. can. only: be considered a resounding success. ~ Although never: an unpleasant: looking building, the ‘addition of a simple coat of paint has improved it im- “How are your driving habits?” PAT BAY. HIGHWAY NELSON DEUEY. —THE REVIEW — 2 es : Letters from readers are welcome. All are subject to condensation. Views given . are not necessarily, those of. the paper. -do enjoy your paper. I would like bell, Kelly of -Kelly’s. Corner. (I “miss her. now) Mr. Scott; [ticles by the man who was sailing . | with his wife and baby in an older. : _ | eat: The one'about the Yankee boat: overtaking: him, | : sweatered poodle \ was priceless. waters and always. love. a good. to take. ae ‘bit. of ‘Midding - = as Yankees. | unpleasant. “situations between Editor, ‘The Review, ‘Sir: Thank you for the reminder. I ‘to tell you of some of the people I have. enjoyed in your paper. over the past few years. Dane Camp- and enjoyed. so much the recent ar- with. We’ ve... Sailed your... beautiful, sailing story = ‘even tho’ we. have “In the. article about - several B.C..residents and.U.S. visitors, I’m sorry the lady who wrote the article could not say “Many of us: like. ‘‘Yankees, . instead | of “some"’...We have so: enjoyed. your area that we have spent 9 out of 12 years there since we first. discovered: it. We have sailed, hiked and camped and only once did. we ever have an unpleasant incident. wid We always enjoy news of the islands so. keep us up to date. “Sincerely, Mrs. M.L. Mercer P.S, Only one. criticism. Sorry, Tp Imogene has got to go. Out To The Woodshed IT WAS A WAITING GAME > BY JACK SCOTT A long-out-of-print collection of = naturalist essays by Hubert | ‘Evang, a ploneering * ecologist T've admired all my Jife for his: writings of the outdoors, was my ms favorite birthday gift of this year. The dear girl who'd found it by “chance in a rummage sale had expected: I'd be ‘pleased. She could hardly” have ‘anticipated ~ that. it. would -cast “me Into ‘ reverica- of mingled guilt and =: “Hubert was a great friend of “my father, They shared the rich rewards: of having an. affinity with nature and often went on trips together.” T remember: going with ‘them once te put fish eggs in a stream whin Mr, Evans was connected in.some way with the fisheries department. [have never lost the “memory of the clean gravel: under the swift water and the roe boing placed under the gravel, It wat porhaps my first awareness 7 ot the mystery of life's beginning. — Butt was remembering, too, anaof the very few times that my father hod punished) me° and certainly the only time that I had ever felt. T had it, and more, coninays i iui —» Onee, when Hubert hae a new book published, he gave on aulograplod copy to iny father, J believe the look was about the miracle of the spawning salmon, but 1 can't be sure, I do y A the. pictures. from «Mr. reinember that its cover was a dark green cloth with. gold let- tering and that it was beautif ully iMustrated. - It may have been that 7 Was just’ naturally retarded or, as-1 like to think, that tT thought a book was no more permanent than a magazine; In any event,-L cut out: Evans! book and bore them proudly to ‘school. Yeu, it must have been a hook about salmon, T remember clearly the pletures of the silver- ‘sided fish seen in green. water. A hight or two later my father was hunting through the book shelves, "'T can't find Hubert's book,’’ he told my mother. “If anything's happened to the book there's going to be the devil to pay,” J knew what this meant. It meant ‘the woodahed, And this is no idle figure of speech, We really did have a woodshed where my father’s occasional justice was executed with a clothes brush, He wana very old-fashioned man, whieh Debi naw fethe haot kind T sneaked upstairs, got. the wrockage of Hubert Evans’ book, crept outside and hid it ander Une es cage Never before or since have J lived with auch a feeling of guilt. Ut was ke a hard ball la my alomach, a cloud over my head, chains on my ankles, Tlay in bed each night staring into the darkness, trying to forget what Vd done. my. father with either lavish: affection or distant coolness. My: remorse registered in love, and resentment, 1 would say to myself, tr, him. ve done = ter rible. "Or T would: say,: ‘Ah, what's a little old ‘book? Why with developed’’. Gabriola, there are phases of} T have a: memory: of tr eating Evans’ book is very important tov something - ‘The Editor, The Review, Sir: .»To many of us who live on one | of Vancouver. Isiand’s. beautiful isles, it is a major concern that jand development. be undertaken consideration for aesthetisism. Many residents. of -Gabriola do not feel that this” concern is exhibited in land use on this island. It is with increasing frustration... and concern. that one observes so “many areas: of this island being what -is quaintly. referred to as Today,. on development. where. roads have. | been bulldozed’ ‘through. and cchstick dwellings’ ina: “maze. of “roads leading. nowhere. Some. ofjé the: areas ‘where- these. cottages care: “situated will not have* elec-: disposal, lights, disposal,” question. Water on. this island, certainly cannot be: guaranteed. garbage, in current homes are extremely depleted, sometimes dry in the ‘summer. Garbage disposal is already a problera and our ferry “service is severely overladen up | becoming | ‘commonplace, -. Trailer parks. — the least ac- ceptable means of development in’ North America and indeed, with us on: Gabriola’ on oa disproportionate scale, When ‘these trailers are occupied, and there are apparently over four hundred eventually available, what will become of the sewage which will have to be disposed of, Descanso Bay, the area involved ‘leaving ‘an impression ‘of ‘mat. i “trical Gr water facilities for many:. -years' to. come, hence,” sewage. etc. are out of the ‘and previously productive wells: with the two and three hour line’ increasingly : ‘anywhere in any country, is now. in this trailer park disposal, is. now threatened and the people SCOUTS — 7:00 p.m. is registration time for Scouts and Cubs of Brentwood area, Registration will take place at the Scout Hall on: Weat Saanich Road. We would ask that parents important?" Ithought that if Dived with my guilt long. enough it would. go away. Tt didn't. Finally, on the night that 1 Imew it: was never going to Ho down to the Hving room. where my father was reading, 1 remember: a feellng. of - great relief going down the stairs, knowing | that, whatever hap: pened, I was going to be coming back up them in freedom. and —contritely, perhaps - enjoying the relief of confession. It was no surprise at all when he took me out to the woodshed. It wasn't much of a spanking, & sort of token to clear ua both so that we cauld shart over again . It was yoars later that Mearned that hehad known all along it was me and that he'd sat there night after night waiting far the Moment when Md come down the alaira of my free will, does he make a Witte’ old book 80 away, Tgot-up out of bed and went | Titold him the story, humbly, even, There will: be. representatives from Scout House in attendance that. evening to. answer will be served. ae ts meee WE CARE... SERVING ISLAND SINCE 1912. € ‘olwood BA, Nanalonw, BC. fae! i sialteattindeathe dt Ye! “BRENTWOOD CUBS AND | ‘Thursday, September 29rd. at register their boys -- the boys are. not required to: attend that: evening. ‘Fees for the year are. a $4.00, any of questions you may have. Colfee | § VARCOUVER wom WROD Victoria, Wa INTE me THI _ LETTERS T O THE EDITOR | who use this bay: for swimming are truly concerned. Will we one day be the shamed exhibitors of those’ black print: ‘little: signs which say ““WATER POLLUTED. — UNSAFE FOR SWIMMING”: The promised swimming pools are not the answer. as we are surrounded by a swimming pool provided by nature which is more than adequate, as long as it is not polluted. Let the swimming pools answer the needs. ofthe city * where access to the beaches is “not always possible. _ - However, the almightly dollar is’ ‘Seemingly. of: vital and. ‘pr ime. “importance. ‘and the sea can’ = envelop all: man’ ’s errors:. Not: so our: | respected authority on the state; “ofthe; “oceans. “today, “and © “his” | recent: world » warning ‘on. ‘the’ ‘pollution in. the ‘seas’ may go Says” ‘Jacques Costeau; : unheeded - — but. for how long?” “My. ‘concern is a simple. and, ‘|* honest’ -concern, as is that of. various people. Is our island to be: _a'well: planned area, or is it to be: developed at a dollar. mad pace. | = ‘is. for, the.,- en- vironmental quality. of life here and elsewhere. Can we | truly My concern: afford to pay the price of hurried, scattered land use?. There i is only. one environment. and. what. § -happens.. here: today: affects. f everything tomorrow, there is no. “turning back the clock’. This is my home, and it. is an invasion of my human rights, for. me to be the inheritor of what I , am afraid will’ one day be the © crowded . roads, helter-skelter development and a polluted . beach, © surroundings, unsafe peace shattered. (Mrs). June Harrison, Taylor Bay, Gabriola Island. RG, Sidney Avecatl Fourth St” Sidney, B.C. BSO-2052 aan vormcnauat ’ P ry pagal i bh a alt “Road, -that the Department of Highways ~ FUNERAL CHAPEL OF ROSES. { GREG) LONSDALE Resident Manager NO OF FICIAL RESPONSE Earlier. this. month: Central Saanich. Council wrote to the Minister of Highways expressing concern at the number of serious accidents occurring on Patricia Bay Highway at Island View and requesting “some special attention be given to that section. ‘ - Questioned by Alderman Ted Clayards on Monday, Municipal Clerk:F..B. Durrand said there | has been ‘no official response although press reports indicate has decided to instal lights at the BY JOHN SQUANCE The ability of human-kind to transcend the ordinary limits of physical being can be observed in many instances where a person, man or woman, old or young, has accomplished some feat beyond their usual strength of body or mind: Very often without forethought or deliberation, the act seems to have been. a spon- teaneous welling up within, or power, to meet an. emergency. There have been deliberate choices made, too, of a sacrificial nature. Such a one was Albert Sweitzer, who abandoned a successful career to work at Lambourine in Africa. To make a choice such as his requires great insight, dedication and a high sense of human values. Then there are those who have risked and lost their lives fora comrade, parents who have given theirs for a child. Many a soldier has given his life in attempting to rescue a wounded comrade. Consider the demolition: experts who attempted, and: sometimes failed, the task of de-activating bombs and mines. ~ We read of. feats. of. unusual strength such as the father who lifted the tractor. that. had pinned his son beneath it, or the truck driver at the scene of a wreck, who, with super human strength was able to stretch the twisted frame of the cab and so release the trapped and tortured oc- cupant. In pondering © on. . these power to transcend the ordinary, I wonder if such power lies within you and me too, or is it to be found SAFETY PATROL tember, 21 students from~ the at The .Butchart . Gardens. Have You Noticed? demonstrations of rnan’s latent “On Friday the 17th of Sep- Keating School Safety Patrol were the guests of Mr. Ian Ross — and used by only a select few? I find I cannot think that this is so. Therefore I must believe that these great capacities lie within each of us. Perhaps never to be used, do you think, or.does there come atime and moment when to , 4 each one of us there is a tran- ; scendental experience? Consider the firewalker; or the healer, under whose hand flesh is ins instantly restored. Are these not ue evidence of the power to tran- scend? From whence comes this largely unused power? Some there are who believe all action is matter in vibration and that therefore an increase in vibratory speed can bring about superhuman results. Others would say it is a chemical change in which.the adrenal glands send a.surge of power into the. bloodstream. To‘many of us it is, - “God within who doeth. the work’. How very. difficult it seems to be to grasp “and acknowledge the fact that in each of us‘there is a higher self. It. is said that man uses less than 15 percent of his brain cell capacity, and it may well be similarly true of many of. his other capacities. It is ‘a challenging thought and to me there is.a shining hope in it. To quote Francis W. 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