ae.

_ mares ~ Because

Officials of ‘the Sidney and
North Saanich Branch ofthe Van-
couver Island Regional Library
at. Sanscha Hall are braced for a
busy fall and winter.

Area book borrowers appear

- to be on the increase. |

This “is Andicated by..the fact

BOOK CHAT

BY many TKIERANS

Margaret. Laurence a
written a new. novel, -THE..
FIRE-DWELLERS, which can
only enhance her reputation
‘aS one of Canada’s most.im-. |’

' portant “contemporary ° wri-:

_ ters, . Besides several works
of nonfiction, travel and liter-
ary criticism, she has written —
two earlier novels: The Stone:
Angel, the. story of a vibrant

- and indomitable old .woman
torced to live with her sonand:~
his family, and The Jest of
God, in. which a spinster
prairie. schooiteacher..in-her
late twenties has a love affair
which violently changes her
established life.
--This..author’s — -writing—is-
characterized by a controlled
passion and an acute aware~
ness of how. her characters
think and feel. The action is
seen entirely through the eyes
of her central figure; in the
case of the. Fire-dweilers,
Stacy MacAindra, a forty-ish
- housewife In Vancouver witha
salesman-husband and four’:
children, This is the story of.
her . everyday. existence. -
human and compelling, full of.
irohy and humor, toldinanin~
terior monologue which re-
veais all. her. terrors and
guilts, whims and graces, and. -
peculiar abilities to survive.
Stacy is not: simply a-cari-

_cature of the middle-aged,
discontented housewife, al-..
‘though she has many of the
symptoms; the self-pity, the
solitary drinking, the day-
dreams, and the sexual esca-
pades, She is far more than
this, It is her disconcerting
honesty with herself, her deli-
cacy (hidden beneath the
prairie speech), her percep-
tion, her sensuality, and ner

. Obsessive love for her family
which make her a warm and
memorable wonian. Stacy
MacAindra comes alive in The
Fire-Dwellers.

Like Margaret. Drabble,
Philip Roth, James Joyce, and
Viadamir Nabokov, Margaret
Laurence writes novels of
deep character exploration,
In Stacy MacAindra, she has
developed a person who is
Everywoman, and yet uniquely
herself. A great achievement
for a writer to attain,

St. Paul’s U.C.W.

The monthly meeting of St.
Paul’s U.C.W, was held at the
Church Hall on Malaview Avenue
on Wednesday, September 10 at

30 p.m. Two catering projects

ré discussed. The U.C.W,
will cater to a Thanksgiving
Dinner ih the Chutch Hall of
Tharsday, October 9, Mrs. W.
Veitch will take ofdets for the
United Church calendars for
1970. Following the business
portion of the meeting, a group
of songs were rendered by Mr.
Leslie Dean, with introdections
hye Ure. Nean,

‘that. despite excellent ‘summer.

weather this year which almost
demanded outdoor activity from
young andold, more use was made

‘of the library during June, July

and <August.-than ever before,
, A. total of 7,607) books . went
out.on loan during June as.com-

pared to 7,213 last year; 9,010
‘in. July as compared to 7,580

in the corresponding month of
1968; 9,261 in August as com-

pared to 8,451 in August” last |

year,.

September. activity. has been
greater than ever and the expec-
tation is that there will be con-
‘tinued * growth in the months
ahead. . : a

A definite pattern of reading
habits can be séen in borrowing
‘statistics. “As soon as schools
-close in: ‘June for summer. vaca~
tion more’ books. start. to move,

“probably . because young people
~have more leisure time for read-

ing. Then it drops in Septem-
ber. with back-to~school activi-~
ties, and ‘post-vacation travel-

7 “PRE- -SCHOOL PROGRAM |

STARTING AT LIBRARY

Sidney and North Saanich Branch of the VL Regional

~ Library will start its winter: program: for pre-schoolers z
on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 10:30 a.m. — ;
Mrs. Jill Swannell, who has had considerable. experience :
in this. field, will tell stories and plan activities for the
children for an hour every Thursday -morning until, the

beginning of December.
There is no. charge.

Further details « can be obtained

from the library,. phone 656-3713, between: 10 a.m. and

5 pem. Tuesday to Saturday, :

ling for. older. people without.

children in school.

Up, up it goes in October as .
the evenings growdarker, andup,

up it continues until March when.
. . “ eee
gardening time beckons’: “
/ The Vancouver Island Regional
Library is a centrally-operated
library system providing uniform

service to all parts of theisland, -.
with. the exception of Greater

Victérla which maintains its own’

separate public library.

Each of the 19 branches of the.
regional library -- from Sidney. .

to: Kelsey. Bay -- has access

«~~ to.a total collection of’ more than
- 200,000 books, a collection lar~.

ger and more varied . than. any

community could hope to ownina

small, independent library, _
Under the’ direction of Fred

T. White at headquarters in Na-- .

naimo, : several innovations have

Good Prices At 4H Sale

Good. prices for their steers were obtained’ by local an club
‘members at an auction last week at Cloverdale. 9-7

It was a special sale arranged for junior farm club members who

were unable to put their animals “on the block’? at the annual 4H
sale which was held, for the first time this year, during the Pacific

National Exhibition.

‘In past. years the 4H auction
has been held at Vancouver af-
ter all fairs have been held, which

allowéd the local beef club mem- -

bers: to. participate, They were

“unable to take part this year as
they had-to have their animals -

on display and in competition at

their. local fairs (Saanich and-

Cowichan for island’ members)
to complete their year’s club
work,

_; There has heen considerable
criticism, particularly from club
leaders, of the new ruling by the

PNE that the 4H sale be held;

during the exhibition in the last
half of August. ;

“It is not fair to clubs that -

have their ‘achievement days’ in
September,’’ said Mrs, Tom 0’-
Reilly, leader of the Saanich
Peninsula 4H Beef club. ‘They
just can’t take part and benefit
from the high bidding that takes
place at the annual sale. It is
not @ question of not wanting to
co-operate with the PNE, Our
clubs must. show their animals
locally at the September fairs
to obtain marks for their year’s
records,”

70 HEAD OF BEEF

There were 70 beef animals
at the special auction for 4H
members in this position.
Thirty-one went from Vancouver
Island .. . 21 of them from the
Peninsula club, three from the
Three S (Sooke, Saanich, Sidney)
Beef Club, one from Luxton Beef
Ciub and six from Cowichan Beef
Clud.

Grand champion and reserve
champion of the sale both were
from Vancouver Island. The top
steer Was shown by Bev Skeet
of the Cowichan club -- an Aber«
deen Angus she purchased as a
calf from Jimmy Duncan, of Dun+
can, The reservé was a Short-
horn-Hereford cross shown by
Danny Speller, of the Saanich
Peninsula club, which he bought
last year from Charlie Marsh of
Maple Bay.

The grand champlon trough! a
price of 60 cents a pound, and

fra *Acartra Sf raric

35 TO 41 CENTS
All of the remaining. island

‘steers brought. prices ranging

from 35..to. 41 cents. a- pound,
which was considered . ‘‘most
satisfactory,’’ :

Five island businesses and se~
veral individuals. from this area
bought steers with sealed bids
sent to the sale,

The businesses were Webb and

"Trace... Excavating .Co., Sidney

Taxi, Sidney Travelodge, Island
Tug and Barge and OK Trucking
Co.
In addition to the eel, there
were. 21 pigs and three sheep
sold by 4H members, °

Club . members-.from Kere-
meos, Cloverdale, Pemberton
and Langley took part as well as
the islanders.

First Meeting —
Held By Institute

The first meeting of the fall
season of the South Saanich
Women's Institute was held at
the home of Mrs. H.L. Sherlock,
Weiler Avenue, September 15,
15 members present. Mrs. D.
Essery and Mrs. J, Young agreed
to represent the members at a
Fall Workshop to be. held at
Colwood October 9,

Plans for a Christmas Card
Party were discussed.

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AIR: CADET
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By Garth Coward.

‘Sidney , Air ‘Cadet’ Squadron ;

completed last week's training

“by attending: the Battle of Brit-
ain Parade and church services’

on Sunday. at Christ Chureh Ca~
thedral,
There. was a march past, with

Colonel (A) RS. Turnbull, DFC

and Bar, AFC, DFM, DC,, Chief
of Staff Logistics, Maritime For-
ces Pacific, as reviewing officer.
He took the salute in front of the
Empress Hotel.

Also taking part were 50 “Air
Element’? personnel from CFB
Esquimalt, the Victoria Air Cad-
et Squadron, members of 800
(Pacific) Wing R.C.A,F. Associa-
tion, ahd Vancouver Island Air
Force Officers’ Association,

For several Cadets, this was
their first parade of this type,
and proved to be quite a thrill.

* More Use Being Made Of Regional Library

among. them a computor ized book :
catalogue, the first in any Cana-_

dian public library,
A TWX teletype network linking

"all branches to headquarters also

is. in use, to give fast delivery
of request’ books ‘or, Teference

- information.
The library also has a system

of area librarians each assigned
to. co-ordinate library activities
in one area of the island.

The Sidney .- Colwood - Sooke
area has been newly assigned to
Mrs, Mary Kierans, who former-
ly. was- librarian in- the Duncan

area, She replaces Philip Teece, -

whose ‘Book Chat’? reviews have

been appearing regularly” in! this.
Newspaper.
'. polled’ at U.B,C, to obtain’ higher

“Mr. Teece’ has en-

qualifications. in brary work,

. His: ‘Book. Chat’’.in the Review

will be taken over by Mrs, Kier-

“ ans whose first: ‘‘conversation’*
Appears in an adjoining column, ‘|:

~In the course of their duties,

the. ‘area librarians of the Vil.

Regional Library become in-

‘volved. in activities.as varied as

classroom lecturing to bouncing
ina heavily-laden truck over
roads to places like Tofino or
Goid River, taking. ‘the written

| word’ | to outlying points. ot

The v I. Regional Library ¥ was

founded in April, 1936, At first
it served a populationofapproxi-
‘mately. 22,000, -
“about 160,000,

It: now. serves

First book stock was 12,600

compared tothe. 200,000-plus :
“And - the:

now on the shelves, A
first. -bookmobile service «was

_ provided by a converted half~ton

pick-up: truck. Now: there are
three modern bookmobiles..-
Custodian .at the Sidney and
North Saanich branch is Mrs.
Susan Thuillier with assistants
Kathy Moore and Jill Swannell

who are; on duty to help book”

borrowers.

In addition to Sidney, locations
of other branches in the “chain’?
are Port. Renfrew, Sooke, Col-
wood, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan,
Lake | Cowichan, © Chemainus,
Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Parksville,
Qualicum Beach, Alberni, Port
Alberni, Tofinc, Union Bay,
Courtenay, Campbell River, Gold
River and Kelsey Bay where there
is a book deposit station,

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Bronze Cross |

BY PAT MANNING

The Bronze Cross, the high-
est:-possible award for special
heroism with extraordinary risk,
last awarded during World War

“II, is to be presented to a Brent-

wood .. Wolf Cub, Christopher

Amos of 930 Grilse Lane.

‘ “Ten-year-old Christopher’ is —
to receive the award for saving .
“the life of 3-1/2 year. old Jen-
-nifer Beckett of 7054 Brentwood...
: He «received ‘official .
notification recently”. that he is ;
to go to Ottawa to accept: the |

Avenue.:

award which will be presented to
him on Monday, October 27 at
Government House by Governor-
General Roland Mitchener ‘act-
ing in his capacity as Chief
Scout for Canada.

Christopher explained that on

“the afternoon of April 5 he set

off for the wharf at Creed’s
Landing - to ‘look’ for’. fish. His
young prother Jeff who was four

at the time and. little Jennifer

Beckett trailed along behind him.

“Tt was. raining and slippery :

on the dock. I didn’t feel safe
with them along,” said Christo~
pher. “I.told them to be care-

ful. going up the ramp with me.”
= Boing Up P ’. awards and ‘their guests.- Chris-

Jeff. went first, then. Jennifer
-and Icame last. | Suddenly ~1
saw Jennifer stumble, roll over
and fall in the’ water. Q

.- "The water was about “seven.
feet deep and: Thad on my duffle *-

coat: and-runners, I jumped in

‘after her-and held her like ina
‘cradle. Then I managed to swim’

- yery cold?

» port..Command, Yukon,’

to the wharf,

‘Christopher said he clung to
the? wharf and called ‘for help,

Young Jeff rantoJennifer’s house
and got her mother.

. About five people came

down,’’ continued Christopher. |

“They pulled Jennifer out and
then they pulled me out-of the
water,
being. taken care of, Jeff and I.
went home.’”?

. “Yes,!? said. Christopher’ s
father, E.F, Amos, “and when I
saw him coming in dripping wet

T.was: all«set.to give’ him the

dickens, that is, until I heard his

. Story.”

MOTHER GOING

Mr. Amos’s only regret is that
he will not be able to see his

“son receive the Bronze Cross,
However, »

arrangements have
been made for. his wife and young
son to go to Ottawa by Air Trans-
Mr.
Amos isin the navy and will be
at sea at the time.

Following ‘the investiture at
Government House there will be
a luncheon at the Chateau. Laur-
fer Hotel for the recipients of

topher will fly to Ottawa by Air

Canada on October 25 and return

October 31.
°4f am really looking forward

to it? he exclaimed.

Christopher has been a mem-~

“ber of the Second Tsartlip Wolf

Cub Pack for two. years, He is

“in grade five at Sainsbury School,

The water was)

“When I saw that she was. —

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~~” CHRISTOPHER AMOS”

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