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SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW

Wednesday, July 29, 1970

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George Barr figures Prince
got the best of the deal when
the two of them retired from
the Saanich Police Depart-
ment in February this year.

Prince. only. works - nighis
now, and George works days
AND nights...

‘“You’ve got to if you’re
going to.make a ‘go of it in
business on your own,” says
George with a ready grin.

-The. former police . dog
master, whose talent at
training and: handling
tracking and guard dogs is

‘legend among criminal
elements, is now the operator
-- ofa thriving feed business and
-tack shop at Elk Lake.
 SIDNEY-BORN

It is a Sidney-born: business
which was moved by its for-

_ mer owner from McDonald
Park Road and the Patricia
Bay Highway to its present
location’ at 5481 ._Hamsterly
Road at the north end of Elk

Lake — and is still known as

~-Peninsula| Feeds and
‘Livestock Supplies. Barr aiso —

‘operates Victoria Hay Sales ~
‘Ltd: out of the sarne premises,*
and hauls Eastern Washington

Timothy and alfalfa hay to the
island with his own. big rig.

; tractor-trailer truck. a

He’s full of optimism for the a nes

_ future of the operation. =.= But it’s been work, work,

“It’s showing good growth,”. _ work he tells you as he glances
he says with pride, “‘and I plan:

os -*-down at a big; dark-haired —
-:.on expanding the tack ites ‘German Shepherd who looks:
~ well-as the feed. section.” me

“back with. a laughing tongue.
- EXPANSION. :
Up until now, he says he’ "5 “Prince rides'in a. truck now.
oS ‘been ‘ ‘creeping’ .but the and then, and does a little
Ls business i is calling for’; a faster =

guard work at the feed store at):
pace. ‘Among: other. expansion we

“night, but he isn’t toiling. the.
plans, Geroge is, replacing his. way he used to when he and,

tractor-trailer. hay. hauling | ee George, did regular - shifts o :

os: truck with a larger. capacity ae together. on the. ®. Police. | force.
*truck- ene

EARS DOWN, Prince
smiles for the camera
» while modelling his new .
- lounging jacket.

= “out. of the. side of his mouths 0.

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Says Gye,
North Saanich trucks actually
deposited stumps: on the beach

“Yeh, you’ve got it made,”
George says to him. ‘Let's
hope your oldman can keep up
this...”

It’s quite obvious Prince
isn’t sad about giving up his
old job, and George says he
doesn’t miss the police work
either, ‘‘although Ido miss the
guys I worked with ~- a real
good bunch.”

GOOD YEARS
_ He says the Saanich force is
“THE BEST” and his four
years as a member were good
one&.

He’s sorry that none of the
police depariments of: the
Greater . Victoria. area. use
dogs anymore. They are’
particularly valuable in.
tracking law breakers as well
as lost people and stolen
goods, he maintains. . Prince
chalked up a fine record in all
segments of his work.

“But he was exceptional,”
George admits, explaining
that few dogs can be trained to
the state of perfection that
Prince ‘attained. ©.
The big dog hasn’ t lost any

- of his ability, dither. He'll still
~ back you. to a wall . with

snarling lips atone word from

his master.-At another word;
he’s all friendliness, and off to

play. sticks. with some
youngsters down the way.
YEAR 10 TRAIN

_ It took George a year to
_train Prince who appears to ~
understand . perfectly - every
word the: ex-policeman ‘Says..

: When: told ‘to do. ‘something,

7 Prince responds. immediately

‘and if it’s a search for the
car. keys George has: thrown

‘Society. “for. Pollution ‘and? En: }
“vironmental: “Co ntrol: extended a
helping: hand
‘accused »
‘municipality of wrong-doing..

is: week but. also’
North. “Saanich

“Michael Gye, SPEC. president,

offered a volunteer corps to help

clean up popular Cole Bay beach ™

{ on’. busy: weekends:
talked” with Ald. HLA,

Mr. - Gye
Taylor,
public work: chairman, who says.

that’ outdoor. toilets -will be’ in-
stalled on the parking lot. above

Cole Bay: beach.: Garbage © cans_

should be’ placed. along the

shoreline but would necessitate a

long, heavy haul for municipal

employees. Le

The. SPEC. offer’ of help owas |

cheerfully accepted,
Meanwhile, witnesses have

shed, light. on: the. mysterious
‘dumping ‘of stumps along. Pat

Bay beach and, says Gye, “there
that North
Saanich municipality is
responsible for stump-dumping.”
But municipal officials disclaim:
all knowledge of the matter and,
deny charges that

front.

- Prof, ‘Rory Finnegan, fish and

wildlife expert from University of

Victoria, will bea aust speaker
he Pat SPEC: meeting in Sidney on.
be “August. 4, moe

a Driver Esicpes

When Truck Rolls

< After Missing Car

A fullyloaded Sidney Freight

truck rolled: ‘over -on Pat Bay |

Highway on’ duly 23 but the
driver, : Kenneth Noel,
miraculously unhurt.) RUGALP,

report that a U.S, visitor, Robert:
Brooks of Coliornii,: was. fined.

$28 on accharge ot: entering. the
highway) when unsafe to da xa,
The Brooks cir! turned gut of

Beacon Avenue into the path of

the (ruck which braked, swerved
and Ginally tipped over in can
effort ta avail calliaian,

DMPA DH CEWES
Robert William Beenton,
Dencross Terrace, wie fined #350
in Sidney Police Court an Monday
ona charke of impaired driving

his driver’ lie ensy was
Pay he i, fai ie thd yt :
“Nnother otfender,. Donald

Williains af Cole Bay was fined
SAS0 Gn charge ul liipaired
agi iin il lis Wik Gas
sunipendedd tor di days,

Vian

Was.

into some tall grass at the side

_of the road while the dog is
looking. the other way, Prince
stays with it until the keys are
found. Or if he has been told to »

Stay at.a certain spot, there
he’ll stay come hell or high
water.

There have been other
Princes in George Barr’s life,
but there was only one other to
show as much savvy,

. His name was Mountie who
was retired five years ago at
age 10 and now lives with a
family in the Uplands.

| COMPANION

It was Mountie who led
George into police work. Barr
was. truck driving .on the
mainland when he got the big
dog as a companion. and
because “I had always wanted
to play around with. dog
training.”

Mountie trained well and —
before he knew it, George was
being asked by local: police
departments to help them in
tracking. problems. .~

Three years later George .
and. Mountie moved: to. Vic- |
toria and worked with. the
Victoria city police for three
years before Prince joined. the
team. George and Prince went
to the Saanich force in 1966, :

- and from the look:.of things:
will be ‘‘Peninsula Partners”’
forthe rest of their days.

*’Many. of our- Sidney- North.
“Saanich library patrons complain .
that they have difficulty finding. a :

ihe

to mean an interésti
(dr awn characters,

tend to stick with their old stand- ©
-bys\ reluctant to. attempt.
anything new. For these people,
‘T-would like to describe a new
“book by Shirley: Hazzard, THE
BAY OF NOON, which certainly
fills all the requirements of a
“good story.”’ : :
Readers” who “have “been
“Searching for a’ well-crafted, i
‘technically- skilled novel will.
welcome ; this ° ‘new work. The
entire story moves on Springs. of:
technique, in’ which continuous -
wit, grace e and felicity iNuminate
character and place. Throughout.
the book, Miss: Hazzard uses her:

AFTER WORKING ALL HOURS selling horse feed and
tack, ex-policeman George Barr says it was.
that the little time he gets to relax would be on the back
__of one of the ‘‘beasts.’’ Here it is shown on the trail en-

joying Murray Williams: reliable “Little J oe.” (Review

Photo).

. BY MARY. KIERANS. ue
tan '

intelligence. to produce in us’ an”

instant of recognition, ‘followed.
by a certain surprise that she has:

bri Hiantly succeeded.

obviously loves and understands
Naples is, in fact, a character.in

: her book-perhaps its protagonist,
- in the sense that the city acts on

all the other characters, and, in Naples in all its. splendours, and

“miseries, and moods of weather:
by a series of flashbacks that
trace the: earlier lives. ‘of the
“characters and -prefigure their
‘lives:.in. the present; -
enlightening | relationship of. Be
denny and ‘Gioconea; and by fj
cameos of the: people in Naples: -f
servants, ‘urchins,
ficers-a
players: that becomes, by ex-
tension.

its insistance. on living. and

causing life, makes the ‘events of:

~ their lives happen. THE BAY OF.
NOON is almost ‘a study of the .
interpenetration. between person.
cand. place,’ between actors and:
their setting. Upon this teeming .
‘Miss’ Hazzard: places
Jenny, a young English girl who .

stage,

has become a NATO translator

there to escape the pain of seeing »

her brother, whom she: loves,

An organizational meeting of
the” Attorney: General’ S$ com>
mittee to study > policing
throughout British Columbia took
place in Victoria Jast w eek,

Attorney-General. Leslie”
Peterson said “the Conimnittee >:
was formed after, discussions:
between myself and the Chiefs of

“Polive. during a> canference

oriier this) year. The
mittee. is) comprised: of ree
.presentatives from the R.CUMLP.,.

Chief Constables, the British.
Columbia Federation of Pence
Olticers!and senior members of
the Department of the Attorney:
‘General,

This expected that ‘the Com-
“mittee will Meek ona regular.
basis, because of the extensive
program that-is invelved, tt will
report direetly to the Attorney»
General and inelude in the study
pre such topics: as:

Orgariaation af jac: | Poliew

Conte.
“Attorney-General said when

| Committee will ¢

Respect For Police |
Aim Of Study Group

Servic es-Munieipal as well” as
Regional;

The’ relation: ship between,

“Jooal police forces, the. Province:

and the: Provincial Police foree.
+ Policing and. the - ad:

vministration of justice atthe loral,

leval,
» Inter: Jocal police force co:
or “dination and co-operation. 6
In forming this Committee the
much, noticable

there is ‘go.

disrespect. for Jaw. and order, .
ene:
officials,” who. are:
~ Yosponsible | for protecting the
“freedoms, whieh are the hard:

especially toward. law

‘forcement

earned rights of each. citizen. af
“this Province,
vitally important that we keep
lahroust: changes in society and
ensure we perserve a degree of
dignity necessary ta promate
law. Tam. confident. that this

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effaced by a ‘grasping wife and a
: stifling Marriage; Gioconda, an:!

Italian «novelist
done this.in these days of literary’

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whom suffering: has

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( crstanding:. and.
Scottish biologist, who toys: at a

natural’

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and: then: abruptly. runs away to
Spain with Gioconda. This simple ;
and. straightforward story ‘is
fleshed out and made memorable
by” the... constant presence of

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Prior to her recent marriage to
John Irving, Miss Janet Harris
was entertained at a
miscellaneous shower by. Mrs.
Roland Blackburn, 7993 West
Saanich Road. On her arrival
Janet was. presented with a
corsage of white carnations,
while her mother, Mrs. Charles
Harris, and the. bridegroom’s
mother, Mrs. W. L.. Irving,
received corsages of yellow
carnations. Guests. were Mrs.
Charles Harris, Mrs. W.L. Irving,
Mrs. A.M. Galbraith, Mrs. J.D.
Vallance, Mrs. T. McKevitt, Mrs.
J.M. Burwood, Mrs. A.R. Keel,
Miss Susan Irving, Miss Pamela
Brock, Miss Linda Harris, and
Miss Jackie Burwood.

Mr. ‘and Mrs. . Kenneth
Thomson and = Miss + Judy
Thomson of. 7049 West Saanich —
Road have returned from. a
month’s holiday in Britain and
continental. Europe.

Mrs. Elizabeth Smith: of 909
Marchant Road left on July 22 fer
an Alaskan cruise on the P and O
‘liner Arcadia.

Silver Threads

During August _ the Silver
Threads Centre will be open
Monday and Wednesday for
“drop-ins’’) cards, games and a’
cup of tea; on Fridays Jacko will
‘be played as ‘usual.

On August 5 a trip to. the
Provincial Museum in Victoria is
planned. The bus. will leave
Sidney at 1.30 p.m. and return
from Victoria about 4.30 Pm.
Tickets are now on sale. -

All - programs: take place® at
Sanscha Hall, Beacon. Ave.,
‘Sidney. - Senior citizens of the
district, ‘and. visitors. are
welcome , DO ay

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