Feature TheReview Wednesday, May 23, 1990 Former Miss Sidneys represent Town The on-again, off-again Miss Sidney Pageant is off — for this year at least. Don Trivett, chairman of the Peninsula Celebrations Society, said the society decided early in May to cancel the pageant after no applications were received from potential contestants. Instead, the society contacted four former Miss Sidney winners, who have all agreed to represent the community over the coming year. Again representing the com- munity are Miss Sidney 1989 Leigh Ann Hughes, Miss Sidney 1988 Shannon Pearson, Miss Sid- ney 1987 Laura Burrows and Miss Sidney 1986 Anita Fredriksen. All four rode on the Sidney float in the Victoria Day parade in Victoria Monday and will ride on the float in the Esquimalt parade this Saturday. “They were great. They got a really good reception from the crowd,” Trivett said. Despite a visit by volunteer Susi Neudecker to Parkland Secondary to talk about the pageant, Trivett said no entries were received for the 1990 pageant. However the committee will try to hold the pageant again next year. a RROWS LAURA B Society volunteer Bev Pearson, who is acting as chaperone, also hopes a pageant will be held next year. Her husband, Gordie Pear- son, heads the society’s float com- mittee. “We may start looking at open- ing the pageant to older contest- ants,” Trivett said. Neudecker said the teenagers she talked to at the school felt the pageant took too much time, was passe or interfered with Saturday jobs. ~ There just wasn’t enough inter- est from the girls. I don’t know if the trends are changing or what,” Neudecker said. Trivett said Sidney Days has been held for over 50 years, but the pageant has only been sponsored by the Peninsula Celebrations Society for the past six years. Although Miss Sidney pageants have been held dating back to the 1940s, a pageant has not been held continuously, Trivett said. Bo ANITA FREDRIKSEN SHANNON PEARSON LEIGH ANN HUGHES Dramatic change in forest indusiry by Hubert Beyer Special to The Review VICTORIA — “Ultimately, the people. of British Columbia will get the kind of forest management they want, but there is great danger that decisions may be made on the basis of emotion, misinformation and rhetoric.” The above sentiments were expressed by the Cariboo Lumber Manufacturers’ Association in a submission to the Forest Resources Commission. The brief’s most astounding proposal calls for a complete over- haul of the decision-making pro- cess that now governs the forest industry. The association wants the public to play a large role in the future of our forests. Under the scheme, proposed by the Cariboo Lumber Manufactur- ers’ Association, Timber Supply Areas would be turned into Forest Resource Areas. These would be administered by so-called Forest Resource Boards. The boards in charge of the various resource areas would com- prise local people, inclcuding aldermen and members appointed by municipalities and regional dis- tricts, representatives from provin- cial ministries, including forests, fish and wildlife and well as tourism. Equally important, the boards would include key resource industries and user groups. The association also wants “resource dividends” to be paid to the communities that have a direct stake in forestry operations. . “These dividends would repre- sent a share of existing resource revenues now going to general revenue. The board would be free to either reinvest the dividend in the resource or to pay out divi- dends to municipalities and regional districts,” the brief says. It boggles the mind. Ten years ago, any industry group proposing such a scheme would have been ostracized by its peers. Until very recently, it was unthinkable that the forest industry might ever champion the cause of public input. The Cariboo Lumber Manufac- turers’ Association includes 19 large lumber mills and a number of smaller ones, three plywood plants and two pulp mills. Its area of operations extends from Boston Bar and Hope in the south to Quesnel in the north. Other major communities within that area are Williams Lake, 100 Mile House and Lillooet. These operations consume Say you saw it in the Review about 10 million cubic-metres ot timber a year and produce about two billion board-feet of lumber, 440 million square-feet of ply- wood and 625,000 tonnes of pulp. Combined sales are estimated at about $1.1 billion a year. Direct and indirect employment is believed to affect about 70 per cent of the area’s work force. There’s confidence in the future. Plans for three new forest resource-based plants are proceed- ing. They include an oriented strand board plant at 100 Mile House, and, at Williams Lake, a medium-density fibreboard plant and a waste-wood-fired electricity generating plant. But the association wams that forestry operations in the area depend for their survival on con- tinued access to a secure, econom- ically accessible and productive forest land base. But whatever its reservations, the association has no illusions about the public’s role in the future of the forest resource. “Greater public input to forest planning offers the only hope of narrowing the apparent gulf between forestry mterests and the public interests,” the brief says. smaller than a bread box Small ads pack big results. Call Display Advertising at 656-1151. Bio | - Dorman’s Carpet Cleaners e CARPET CLEANING - UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Owner Wilf Dorman gives personal attention to all orders 9570 Northlawn Terrace, Sidney, B.C. 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