A BLESSED PUP pats Father Herbie Oldfield’s hand

during Sf. Stephen's Anglican Church annual Blessing
of the Animals service in Central Saanich Sunday.
Holding the 10-week-old puppy, Didi, is owner Kathy

Swan of Victoria.

RAMP

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that pleasure boats are a danger?”
he asked.

Ald. Rebecca Vermeer said she
would continue to oppose the boat
ramp for environmental and safety
reasons. She urged council not to
approve the project until the seap-
lane pilots have had a chance to
comment on the airport and coast
guard letters.

Ald. Dee Bailin said the pilots
had been given many chances to
comment. “I think it is time to
slide off the fence and go ahead.”

REPORT

The boat ramp is needed by area
resident and seaplane pilots who
cannot cope with the ramp may
have to land elsewhere.

Ald. Art McKinnon said the
proposed dredging will provide a
wider channel of deep water for
the boats and planes, decreasing
the chances of collision.

Ald. Don Caverley said he
would also continue to oppose the
project, which he said should be a
November election issue.

: The project will still have to
pass an environmental assessment
and Navigational Waters Act
review, Ald. Brian Dunic said.

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Under discussion for renova-
tions and improvements to the
leisure centre are expansion of the
fiiness area, installation of a whirl-
pool, and enlargement of the space
on the west side of the centre
between the arena and the back
tennis courts.

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Central Saanich will have to
move quickly if it wants to share
facilities in a new middle school to
be built on Stellys Crossroad, a
school district trustee said last
week. as

A. draft recreation facilitie’
report just released in Central
Saanich suggests the municipality
negotiate agreements with the
school district for joint use of a
new theatre to be built at the
middle school, school gymna-
siums and school ball fields.

Saanich School District trustee
Anne Johnston said working draw-
ings for the new school will go to
the Ministry of Education for
approval this week.

“It’s a fairly exceptional school

and the only way to build addition-

ally to it will be with municipal

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Move quickly to share facilities

support,” Johnston said.

The planned school building
will take all of the land available at
the site on Gowdy Road and
Stellys Crossroad but a multi-
purpose room with two stages and
seating capacity of almost 300 can
be closed off from the rest of the
school for community use, John-
ston said,

Other school district areas exist
which the municipality could con-
sider becoming involved in, she
Said.

“Has any thought been given to
the existing Mt. Newton School?”
Johnston asked at the draft plan’s
presentation meeting May 1.

“I could see it as partly for
community use.”

Part of the current school will be

used by the district but not for the

education of youngsters, she said.

Playing fields are another area
where joint use would be a good
idea, Johnston said.

The school board is unable to
afford watering, fertilizing and cut-
ting school fields during the sum-
mer, resulting in fields becoming
unsuitable for use.

Johnston said the board would
encourage use of the fields if
municipal crews take care of main-
tenance, so the fields are kept
going all summer.

Planner Bill Webster said the
school district has'a fair number of
acreage in playing fields.

“It’s really not an easy thing to
achieve but it does happen in other
municipalities,” Webster said.

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farmer.

Michell said about half the
money was paid back to the govy-
ernment in income tax, because
the farm had no operating expens-
es to claim after being shut down
for the 1983 growing year.

Vegetable farming is also more
labor intensive than potato farm-
ing, where only 11 people were
required. Labor expenses in 1984-
85 for 35 people to service vegela-
ble crops was about $200,000,
compared to just $40,000 for 11
people in 1982.

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“We're at the point now where
our backs are against the wall,”
Michell said. “It just seems help-
less.”

Hunter wrote, and received a
reply, from Mazankowski but is
not satisfied with the response.

“T think Mazankowski was very
careful in his reply but his letter
Says they’re out of potato produc-
tion forever,’ Hunter said.

Hunter is undecided on the
proper route to follow in efforts to

resolve the farmer’s dilemma.

“T don’t know if it’s the market-
ing board or the government who
should sort it out but the farmers
in my area are suffering and I’m
concemed,” she said.

At Central Saanich council
Monday, Ald. Arlene Box was
directed to set up a meeting with
Agriculture Canada officials to
discuss the ban and act as a liaison
between the federal government
and the farmers.

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