Opinion

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enthusiastic orbit over!

The Memorial Park Society
have discussed giving the town $2
million toward the centre Gf Sans-
cha is expropriated) and in retum
the town proposes selling them
Iroquois Park for $1. The society
also requires that the proposal be
Put to referendum, and that any
operating “deficits” be the
responsibility of the town.

So the public, who have already
poured approximately $6 million
into the port project, could be
faced with shelling out a further
minimum of $4.2 million, plus
Operating costs, in order to help
make Sidney Pier’s present project
viable. Maybe a better idea, if it’s
such a no-risk project, would be
for Sidney Pier to finance and run
a centre itself?

The Sidney Pier lease consists
of the old Smitty’s marina, a
marina services building, a pub,
and now the indefinitely delayed
third building (shops).

Last summer the marina failed
dismally to draw enough boaters to
please the local merchants (the
traffic is just not out there). All
winter it has moored about a dozen
local boats (as I write I can see
10).

Outside the lease there are a few
condos and a museum that is
swallowing public money faster
than the whale swallowed Jonah.

What Sidney Pier is trying to tell
us is that that set up is just not
financially viable without more

EMERGENCY
ROAD SERVICE

public millions to bail it out. I for

one say my taxes are high enough

thank you. Go and find your own
financing.

John Wood

Sidney

The pub
and the club

Editor:

On behalf of the Prairie Inn
Harriers Running Club, I wish to
express our thanks for your contin-
ued great coverage of our annual
Central Saanich Pioneer 8K Race.
However, common misconception
about our club is reflected in the
caption under your Jan. 31 photo-
graph of Harrier David Miller. It
Says the club is sponsored by a
Central Saanich Pub.

The Harriers Club is not related
to the Prairie Inn Pub in that way,
although we are pleased to
acknowledge the support provided
by the pub in assisting us with
draw prizes for our events.

The pub also has seen fit to
provide funds to support some of
our competitive relay teams to
defray expenses.

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Heather Simpson

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For your readers? information,
the club took its name from the
local pub after being encouraged
to form by the pub owner in 1979,
fo whose establishment the found-
ing members often retired after a
vigorous training run in Central
Saanich.

There has never been a formal
bond between our group and the
pub, although some mem bers
maintain this time-bound tradition.
at the end of a hard day on the
trails,

John Bones
President

Prairie Inn Harriers
Running Club

Action
saved ALR

Editor:

The Association for the Protec-
tion of Rural Central Saanich
wishes to express its sincere appre-
ciation to all the residents of this
area who contacted members of
Central Saanich council to express
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