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Files close and opportunity opens

for retiring town executive secretary

office in Sidney and the office at
the university was dramatic. At the
university the latest techniques
were taught and practiced; in Sid-
ney everything was done manually.

“Everything was filed by hand.
Now it’s just a matter of touching
a button or two and you’ve got the
information.”

The change was started by trea-
surer Selwyn Rose in the late
1970s and continued by present
treasurer Paul Edgington.

Todesco remembers Rose put-
ting in long hours to computerize
Sidney’s files.

“He used to work 24 hours a

} day. Many times I’d see him work

ovemight on the computers.”
The modernization of the
municipal hall reflects the moder-
nization of the community, When
Todesco first came to Sidney, she
thought the small town would

- never be more than a seaside

retirement community,
“It’s changing so rapidly now:

~_ Its _growing as much as it can

within. the borders.”

Without projects like the break-
water, Todesco thinks the town
would eventually die.

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“You can’t go backwards. You
have to go forward,” she said.

Her own future includes more
time for to sketch portraits in
pastels, sew — and explore the
options her home computer gives
her, including typing a book for a
friend.

She and her husband will also
have more time for their four
children and six grandchildren.
They plan to stay in their McTav-
ish Road home.

“It’s a great place to live
because it has changed, instead of
being stagnant,” she said.

Stamp seekers,

Two members, Keith Phillips
and Anthony Brown, have been
added to the executive of the
Sidney Junior Stamp club.

The stamp club meets Saturday
in the Sidney library. The junior
club meets at 11! am., the senior
club at 1:30 p.m.

For information on the junior or _ Jes
the senior club, call 655-3851. @ &

today after 15 years serving Sidney. may-
Ors, CouACIIs and administrators.

A LAST LOOK at municipal hall for execu-

alia
tive secretary Betty Todesco, who retires

HOME-BASED BUSINESS

by Valorie Lennox
The Review

It’s no more agendas, no more
teports, scheduling or paper sorts
for Betty Todesco. She retires
today after 15 years as Sidney
town hall’s executive secretary.

A reception in Sidney municipal
today at 4 p.m. will be the final
municipal event for Todesco, who
is looking forward to “‘just the

current Mayor Sealey, who has
held the position for eight years.

“She’s an absolute doll to work
for. She’s highly dedicated. Her
expertise is really an asset to the
town,” Todesco said.

She came to Sidney in 1973
with her husband Peter. ‘‘We
decided B.C. was the place tobe.”

She had worked as an office
supervisor in the continuing edu-

‘When | first came here it was like
the early 1900s, all the systems
were very old’

things you wanted to do all your
life and never had time for.”
Over the past 15 years she has
worked with mayors Stanley Dear,
Peter Malcolm, Dicken Leigh,
Loyd Burdon and Norma Sealey.
She has good memories of all
the mayors and high praise for

cation department at the Univer-
sity of Calgary.

Her first local job was at Gillain
Manor in North Saanich, a treat-
ment centre for alcoholics that has
since been become UVic’s Duns-
muir Lodge conference centre.

Then she answered an advertise-

ment for an executive secretary at —
the town, a job that meant working.
with the mayor, council and the
municipal administrator.

“When I first came here it was
like the early 1900s, all the sys-
tems were very old.”

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