Sidney &
Saanich
Peninsula

An Island Publishers Newspaper

Wednesday November 28, 1990 40¢

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by Glenn Werkman
The Review.

A public meeting to show possi-
ble plans for a Third Building at
the Sidney waterfront — to tie in
to a proposed hotel development
— will be held sometime in the
near future, the outgoing Sidney
council decided Monday.

Council passed a motion
approving a request from Sidney
Pier Holdings president Jim Bur-
ton to organize a public viewing
“of the coordinated plans of the
two companies which together
represent the port development.

“We hold a strong view that,
from the perspective of planning
the individual components, they
cannot be taken in isolation and
the public should regard the plan
accordingly,” Burton said.

Council requested Oct. 22 that
Sidney Pier give a revised substan-
tial completion date for the Port
development.

Ald. Ben Ethier initially dismis-
sed Sidney Pier’s reply. “They
didn’t give us a date and they.
won't give us a date,” Ethier said.

But Ald. Stan Bamford support-
ed Sidney Pier’s request to set up a
public viewing meeting of models.
“7 think it’s a commendable idea
and I can’t see anyone objecting to
more information.

“TJ suggest we (ask) them to
prepare the model and the date of
completion will depend on the

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Police peeren for SUBD Be in armed robbery

A 29-year-old Victoria man
driving a Blue Bird taxi was
robbed at knifepomt on Cultra
Avenue in Saanichton about 5:30
a.m. Nov. 17, Central Saanich
police said.

The driver was not injured but a
small amount of money was taken,
deputy police Chief George Law-
son said.

The cab driver picked up a
native Indian man described as
having black shoulder-length hair,
about five-foot-eight, wearing a
black leather jacket and blue jeans,
in the area of Mt. Newton Cross-
road and the Pat Bay Highway,
Lawson said.

COMPOSITE DRAWING of a
man suspected of robbing a
taxi ariver in Central Saanich
was circulated to all Greater
Victoria taxi Companies.

After travelling to the west end
of Cultra Avenue, the suspect
pulled a knife and demanded
money from the driver.

Two patrol cars from Central
Saanich and two RCMP patrol cars
with a tracking dog scoured the
area of Wallace Drive near Cultra
shortly after the incident, without

~ SUCCESS.

A composite drawing of the
suspect has been circulated to all
taxi companies in the Greater
Victoria area, Lawson said.

Persons with information about
this crime are asked to call Central
Saanich police at 652-4444 or
CrimeS toppers.

Peninsula escapes wiih very minimal flood damage

The three Peninsula municipal-
ities escaped much of the devasta-
tion caused by last Friday’s torren-
tial rains, which flooded homes
and forced evacuations in other
Greater Victoria municipalities.

Total damage in the three
municipalities was estimated at

$200,000 by Provincial Emergency
Program Victoria zone manager
Neil Coward.

“There wasn’t all that much
damage,’ he said. Damage
throughout the zone was estimated
at $6 million.

Peninsula Emergency Measures
co-ordinator and Sidney public
works superintendent Dick Reyn-
olds agreed, saying damage in
Sidney was limited to some minor
flooding on streets and 15 flooded
basements.

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