PLD INSULA | ILE ISLAN ANDS REVI EW a8 Every, ‘Wednesday nobles Review Publications Ltd. = ; 9825 Third Street : f: BC. Division, ‘Canadian Week Noe ‘spapers’ Assn, ‘Member: of Canadian Weekiy Newspapers’ A sociation. of “Me ber. of - Audit ‘Bureau ‘of Circulati ns” 1b Class. “an Newspapers ~ Telephone. 656: 1151 PTION RATE: $4.00 per. year by mail. SEC IND CLASS MAIL REGISTRATION NUMBER 01228° Display advertising rates on application. ‘Wednesday, November 19, 1969 | Breakwater he furore over ‘the: location of ¢ a barge break- Deep Cove is petty, The partially submerged ‘is considered vital to: the safety of boats ed within’ the: confines of Henry Bird's. marina ~ . aie the Winter months. and shows very line above ‘the. rnevenee “of. ‘not- too-beautiful ‘log S- sheltering from. ‘the might’ of winter Sou’ eas- NELSON DEWEYe "You beautify your way . aa Bastilty'ming ree ‘Relatives and friends. from fe pak and near ‘recently: ‘congregated ‘at ‘| the home’ of. Mr. and Mrs; W.G, : 4 _|.[ Kendall and family, 1855 Dean - 4 Park’ Road to honor Mrs. Ken- ‘dall’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, ‘John. :Saint, .on_ the - occasion of their © “Golden Wedding’ Anniver - — “sary, ; “Mr. and Mrs, Saint were 2 mar: : ried’ ‘at. Broadview, Sask; ;onOcto~- ‘|-ber 27,:1919, ‘They farmed inthe = Cotham district; north of Broad-" “view, until’ moving to Dean Park Road in-1946>° Mr, Saint worked ‘at “the Dominion Experimental. Farm* for ..a.number. of years. They had two children; a daughe ter Margerite (Mrs, Kendall), “Burnaby, ne guests: included oMrs.: Saint’s brother-in-law and; sister, Mr. and, Mrs. R; Stalker, ‘y Surrey.-'B.C.,"a niece’ Mrs.:A. Kukulowiez . with daughter Susan, | oe Moscow, U,S.S.R., Mrs.R. Noble, 7 -B.C., Mrs. B. Ivens, Tsawwassen 'B. ‘C., wy Miss E, Ben-- nett, Vancouver; Mr. and Mrs.J.° _ Booth, :.Parksville, and Mr, and». Mrs.G, Abrahamson, Fort Als berni. : Mrs. M, ‘Setton, a ifecling : family - friend, presided’ at the” “Guest. Book’ which was signed by : "| and a son John who died overseas i friends that day. —— Crone NORTH SAANICH —-- SIDNEY . ~ Anglican - Episcopal: Church of Canada ~_Canon-F. Vaughan-Birch- Phone 656-1014 “STIR-UP. SUNDAY"= NOV, 23 Before Advent ST. ANDREW?S - Holy Communion Sunday School - 9,30 arm: Morning Prayer‘ “yy 00 a. m, Officiant -.the Rev.o°°. . KL, Sander cock HOLY T TRINITY .- PAT BAY Morning Prayer ‘SIDNEY . 8.00 a.m. United Church - . of Canada. “SIDNEY and ! NORTH SAANICH © Rev. R,. Hori Pratt . Church Office - 656- 3213 Manse - 656- 1930 : ‘ST. JOHN'S, DEEP COVE, ‘Service of W orship -9:30.a, mM, ST, PAUL'S, SIDNEY Service of Worship 11 a.m. In The End “There was Earth, and it was with form and beauty. _And.man dwelt :upon. the..lands of. the. Farth, ‘the. meadows ‘and trees, and he said, “Let us build our dwéllings in this place of beauty. 2 And" he_ built cities and covered the Earth with concrete = . RUTH ENKE VIE ws | A Winter Visitor - ‘Thousands of Canadians have. (Church School at St. Paul's at Cadboro Bay, The booms are many times. the © 9: 30 a.m.) ize of. Mr, ‘Bird's ‘barge, They are in full view of. in, both. the . Uplands | and Cad- no“ hue noy cry. over their | ack “of a aesthetic charm and what they: Tight be doing r roperty. value : _and Sunday School 11,00 a am, Officiant - Col: the Rey, - R.0. Wilkes, M.C, Parish of CENTRAL SAANICH UNITED 7" CHURCHES Rev. John M, Wood ~ Church Office 652-2713 orely needs) more -e year-round boating # “Henry. Bird: is. trying to provide them. . get on with the @ job. People we 2 do for “Give. the: most thoughtful _ : | donor. eS S 01 EDITOR . What of | sewage" in Central. Saanich?» J suggest that the vote: i Sewer mains. be delayed and. t.-septic: tanks and outflows . be corrected, These shouldhave - been: attended to long ago andean low be corrected by law. To even. dream of borrowing: ney with the. interest rates Ww. ineffect is criminal, Ine ‘terest on $2 omiltion at 10 per think of it! ald #2 not anticipate slack *- Lithe- work, pensions re= teachers" salaries cut in’ homeowner grant: discon= “tinued? - “With a. new water main be. paid for, in two. years ewe will i be ih the receiver's “Hands. To stop building houses would » Be the solution, until we have had » ime to think further, Perhaps _ by that time North America will have realized the truth that “Brooks Atkinson told us a num . ber of years ago, i GvAtkinson ‘said: ‘Money is os merely a utilitarian medium of exchange, more convenient than barter. By Jaw and custom ty ‘has been artificially endowed - With the ability to reproduce it- . ‘S8lf through thé institution of in+ ‘S tinterest is usury: since moe “ney in itself is impotent, it has & be protected by law and given Some rights equivalent to those of human beings. This is an - arbitrary extension 6f human 4a - t8ority into the inanimate worid ~ include, : and has. no basis in ‘philosophy ; or morality, "” : “Do There, heresy? Iam quite , prepared to. go into such rami- fications ‘that - may bee brought Up. : : F, Ay Thornley, Saanichton, Sir: . Thave, after mach soul search- ing decided not to run again for office on North Saanich Council, herewith my reasons for making this decision, - Of the 20 years of my lite in Canada 19 have been spent in some form of public service and Scouting, Health, Rec+ reation, Parks. active Militia and culminating in appointment to the first interim council for North Saanich in 1964. Sub. sequently I have served > terms on the same council as an elec« ted member, Having involved mvself in pub- lic matters which have taker nup most of my spare time I feel t owe it to my family to take a rest and spend more time with them, On the formation of the first Councit it was possible to carry cutones duties fairly easily in what spare time [ had left,but now this has changed and I can~ not do all that is needed to be done unless T take time off trom my work as a Federal Civil Ser~ vant. The Federal Government is not enthusiastic about any of its employees becoming involved in politics in any form and frown on absence ®ith or without py to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 -and steel, And the meadows were gone. And man ‘said, “It'is good.”? ~ Earth, ‘And man. said, “It is good.’ for our: use.’ 7 And man -said,- “2 And. man=did, a ~. could not be blown aways. . the. rage of. great: wars, Was ‘still, “for : “And it was good. Kenneth Ross me ‘bet us dispose. of our wastes Sr “shall ‘blow them away,??, “And man did. = And-the air. became filled with the. smoke and ‘the fumes , «..On the second... day, man. looked upon the waters of the ‘And man said, ‘Let: us put our wastes in the waters that : the dirt will be washed away.’”? And man did. - And“the waters became polluted and foul in their smell, - On.the.third day,- man looked upon: the forests of the E arth and saw they. were beautiful, oo Let us cut the timber for our homes and grind the wood vo And man did, And the dJands ‘becdme barren and the trees | were gone.’ ~ And-man said, “It is good.” S , On the fourth day man saw that anima als were in abundance . and ‘ran in the fields and played in the'sun. ; ° “Let us cage these animals’ for our amuse : * “ment and kill them for our sport.? . : me And. there. were - no: more animals’ on the J= _ face of the earths And man said,. 7 “On the. fifth, eday.: man: breathed. the air of ihe Earth, And man said, “It Is good’? ” i And i into the a air * for the. winds an And the air became heavy with dust: and choked and burned, - : And man said, “Te is good,’ 72, Z : On the’ sixth day man saw himself; and sesing the many mo -languages and tongues, he feared and hated, oo And man ‘said, ‘Let us build great machines and 1 destroy “these lest.they “destroy us.”’ con 2 And man. built | great machines: ‘and: the” Earth | was fired with And man. said, On the seventh day- man rested from his labors and the. arth — man ‘no longer dwelt upon the Farth. *Tt.is good!" Upper Moreland High Scheol, Pennsylvania, So American Forests, August 15966. ; “Drive. Male and female} look alike, and = . Syllabled whistle, rarer Golden Plover has a dif- ca Single har ‘sh-" » sounding whistle, © Seen or heard migrating geese. - But in this. area thore are other less birdwatchers” look for eagerly. Some. of these migrants travel tremendous distances. : The . black-bellied -plover, or. Gray Plover as Europeans ~ call it, travels further ina single year than many of us manage in . a. lifetime. . This bird breeds inthe trundra. of Canada or Siveria and winters ar south as Brazil, Oe ‘Australia! er “Buty “aecording to the Christ- “mas: Bird. Count at least fifty "normally winter. in the Victoria ; area. They like » grassy. ‘slopes. and. upper” beaches, .."You may have ; Seen: but. not recognized one at” ' Clover: ‘Point on the Dallas Road . Section » of. Victoria's when they return from the breed- , dng grounds around Labour Day , they. are. in their dull winter-plu- mage. When they leave us in May for’ the North, they: are, in their . ,, Splendid breeding plumage of jet + black from chin te ahdomen with. * the back:of ‘the head_and neck - finely: mottled in gray and white which continues down the back, The call is-a ‘plaintive three- The smaller, ferent. call AL RR Me oe ~ Have You Noticed? — By: ‘John Squance co We think of this planet as being - '.30 very large, so very solid, un= alterably swinging. “in its orbit, ~ spinning: so very Steadily-. on fits” — axis,that it is difficult tu think of it-as a delicately balanced - > fragile thing, Nothing immutably strong te keep. it on its pathand spinning sO precisely, There are many s¢raps ofan elent lore, and in fact much that may be read In. the physical frame of our earth, which sup ports the-idea that Mother Earth has more than-conce in long past times been shaken out of orbit and rotation, These have been disasters of sucl: magnitude that Nite and great civilizations have more than once been destroyed, Continents ‘and rcountains have: risen and sunk beneath the sea, Climates have changed fram tro- pical to sub-zero and back. Perhaps it would be useful to think of -‘Mother farth’’ as being a person, a someone of sensi- tivity with nerves, so to speak, Further along the same Hine of thought we might think of hue mankind as guests on Mother Farth, To regard ourselves as guests automatically implies certain courtesies te our hes« tess, A guest is constrained to cleanliness, to care of the huat’s property, to appreciation of hos- pitality, Here is a written con« demnation of our behavior as guests of Mother Farth: BRIDGE RESULTS Winners at the week game of Sidney Bridge Club held at \, of P, Hall last Friday:~ 1. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hefiver; 2. Eric Bar clay and Florence Edwards: 3. Mr, and Mrs. Lome McLean, “s¥ou have commer=. Cialized. upon. the vitals of earth ©) you. have © taken, <° without giving... You have “burned _ and / hewn her forests, blocked, polluted” and polsoned her. streams and fivers. . You have eroded her breasts © with the abominations of: your citles, roads andrafls. You have ravaged her surface with your petty warrings - and ure now disrupting her — hewels with your deto- nations. © Know you not, People.ct Earth, that, that Wiich you produce nat nae tivesto the nature of earth, is destructive and harmtul — ta her?’ UURERUSEAREOSNUCGEAD USS PAEAAOGUAECES AR TEDNOETTALA AAU LHUS HUET GEAEATAESTEA LTRS PO EHUEARATEEEENTTNT ITT “it is one: Has mankind gone so: tar that “ )onee more Mother Earth will have to - cleanse herself.” ta” shake herself free of- this crawling, “pestiforous gra. wih, which thinks of itself as being a “great? ci~ vilization’? oe The prophets have been say ing several years row, Perhaps Mother Rarth's great and sensi- tive suul sees signs ofa changing heart {a her guests, and so is holding back retribution, Could it be that enough of us. will be~ come sensitive. to her hoart throbs, in time to réverse the rend of disaster? A changing viewpoint towards our responsl~ hility to Mother Earth is of Vital importance to us all, BOOK CHAT Hanon BY MARY KIERAN S annum JAS TROMEDA STUAIN Michael Chrichton has arit. ten a novel of the werld’s first Space age birlogical crisis, pre» senting the horrifying possiti Hit. that man’s explorations ini the “unknown may bring him inte con» fact with nes and virulent Hfe forms bevond his exberience anc beyond bis ability to survive, This is the sterv of the store af the super-secret emer. 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