| B9 | CALENDAR B4 4 |CLASSIFIEDS — B10 | COMMUNITY Bl GARDENING A9 LIVING A10 OPINION AG,7,8 OUTDOORS Al4 SPORTS B5 Audited Circulation 12,933 An Island Publishers Newspaper Wednesday May 16,1990 40¢ Inside BUSINESS A8 BRENNAN A10 GRENBY BQ HAMPSON Ala LANG. AQ NASH AT | TOP OFTHE PILE A7 Right riders bicycle rodeo results Meeting cancelled after members’ list found awry by Valorie Lennox The Review A possible investigation of the Memorial Park Society by the registrar of societies over member- ship irregularities convinced directors to cancel Wednesday’s annual general meeting just hours before it was to start. Vice-president Don Trivett received a letter from society director John Lapham pointing out the membership irregularities Wednesday moming. Under the Society Act, each member must be registered under a residential address and the date each member joins must be recorded. “On reviewing the membership list I find that more than a few, perhaps up to 15 members, are registered under a business address, which obviously renders them invalid,” Lapham said. There is also no record, either on the membership list or on the membership card, of when each member joined the society, he added. To be eligible to vote at the amnual general meeting, members must have joined three weeks ear- lier — by Apnil 18. “Without authentication of the date on which the member was registered, it cannot be proved that the member has the privilege of casting a vote at the annual general meeting,” Lapham noted. The meeting will elect a board of directors who will likely decide the future of the Memorial Park property including Sanscha Hall, which are facing expropriation by the provincial Ministry of High- ways. Lapham said he knew about the membership irregularities and had drafted the letter but did not send it until he received the member- ship list the day before the meet- ing. After looking at the list, he decided the meeting had to be canceled. ~ There were no members that qualified to vote when I got the list,” he said. Lapham said he delivered the letter as soon as it was completed the morning of the meeting. Proceeding with the meeting could damage the reputation of the society and result in an appeal to the Registrar of Societies to inves- tigate the Memorial Park Society, Lapham suggested. Trivett agreed Lapham had a valid point but would have pre- ferred knowing about the problems before the day of the meeting. Continued on Page A4 by Keith Norbury and Glenn Werkman Island Publishers Report Local environmentalists and politicians have joined forces with counterparts across Saanich Inlet in an effort to prevent a large shipment of bunker oil from being stored at the old Bamberton cement plant on the west coast of Saanich Inlet. The Saanich Inlet Protection Society and the Cowichan Valley Regional District are asking politi- cians to use the Utilities Commis- sion Act to prevent a shipment of 60,-80,000 barrels of bunker oil from entering the Inlet. Society chairperson Arlene Box, also a Central Saanich alderman, said: “We consider it unthinkable that a large shipment of bunker oil would be allowed to be transported in this unique and unspoiled body of water and also that storage of such a product would be allowed under questionable safety condi- tions.” The society wrote to provincial and federal environment ministers, local MPs and MLAs, asking that steps be taken to prevent the shipment from being allowed into the Inlet. Cowichan Valley Regional Dis- trict director Brian Harrison said he has information that there has been two spills at the Bamberton Bunker oil shipment threatens Inlet site dating back to 1975. Details are sketchy but the oil is believed to be en route from Los Angeles and due to arrive today by an American Carrier. . Arm Industries spokesman Ron Lee didn’t return calls but told a Victoria newspaper that oil has been stored at the site for 20 years without any spills. Saanich and The Islands MP Lynn Hunter has written to federal Environment Minister Lucian Bouchard asking him to intervene and prevent the shipment from entering the Inlet. Box said that at least 18 months has passed since storage tanks at Bamberton were last used, no inspection has been done of the boom, snares or containment pro- tection devices and no security patrol is anticipated during the time the bunker oil is stored. “A portable heating unit will be used to bring the oil up to 200 degrees during transmission of the oil without adequate fire protec- tion being in place,’ Box said. “Liquefaction of the oil will allow it to pass through any dyking in place and increase the likelihood of environmental damage.” Two 80,000-barrel capacity stor- age tanks and one 3,000-barrel Storage tank are at Arm’s industri- al Bamberton site. i Continued on Page A3 Two panies, one night by Valorie Lennox The Review Suppose they gave a party and nobody came? That's a possibility facing the Dance of Your Life party organiz- ers who have, so far, attracted limited support from Parkland Secondary graduates for a dry after-grad party June 27. Parent Kathy McDonald esti- mates a minimum of 40 students will attend but hopes the long list of attractions and prizes will draw more students to the five-hour party — scheduled for 1 to 6 a.m. A group of Parkland students estimated 35 of the 150-member graduating class would attend the ' dry party instead of the traditional after-grad party being planned by students. “We're planning a safe and arrive-alive campaign,” said Cory Armstrong, who is organizing the wet after-grad party. There will be bus transportation to the site and any student cars parked in the area will be towed so no one will drink and drive, Armstrong said. On Wednesday McDonald pre- sented information on the Dance of Your Life party to students at the school. The parent organizing committee has raised $6,300 in donations towards the dance plus over 100 prizes, including water Skis, tickets to top entertainers in Vancouver, a flight to Vancouver, a helicopter ride and gift certifi- cates. Use of the Panorama Leisure Centre for the event was donated by the Peninsula Recreation Com- mission. There will be a nine by 12-foot video screen, a jazz group, a magician and lots of food, McDonald said. “Tt will be such a fabulous party that the students won't be able to resist.” Student Brett McDonald agrees the dry grad sounds like a great party but still doesn’t plan to attend. “This dry grad sounds really good but it’s . . . to me she’s making us look bad by saying we're all a bunch of alcoholics. Continued on Page A4