STACKS OF SOAP produced by Sidney-based Lime Bay

Naturals were displayed at the Sanscha Hall flea market
Sunday by Erich Senft of Sidney.

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

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will make gingerbread houses
Dec. 14.

On Dec. 20 the older primary
students and the intermediate stu-
dents will present a joint Chnst-
mas Concert and craft night at
Sansbury Elementary, 8695 Emard
Terrace, North Saanich, starting at
7 p.m.

Saanichton Elementary
School, 1649 Mt. Newton Cross
Road, Saanichton, presents a musi-
cal called Santa Knows Best, Dec.
18 and 19 starting at 7 p.m. each
night.

Sidney Elementary School pri-
mary students will present their
Christmas concert twice Dec. 18,
once at 1 p.m. and once at 7 p.m.
Tickets are required to attend. The
school is at 2281 Henry Avenue in
Sidney.

Five Golden Rings is the title of
the Keating Elementary School
concert, to be presented at the
school Dec. 19 starting at 7 p.m.

The concert is based on the
song, The Twelve Days of Christ-
mas, and will be presented in the
school at 6843 Central Saanich
Road, Central Saanich.

The public is invited to the
LAU,WELNEW Tribal School
Christmas Concert to be held Dec.
19 starting at 7 p.m. The school is
at 7449 West Saanich Road.

Fans of young Greenglade Ele-
mentary School performers will
have two chances to see the
school’s Christmas concert. A per-
formance for parents and pre-
school children will be held Dec.

19 at 1 p.m.

The concert will be repeated
again for an adult audience Dec.
20 at 7 p.m. Both performances
will be in the school at 2151
Lannon Way, Sidney.

Brentwood Elementary School
students have a busy Christmas
season, starting Dec. 18 when the
grade three, four and five choir
performs aboard B.C. Ferries.

The children will also make —

gingerbread houses the last week
of school.

On the last day of school, Dec.
21, younger students will team
with older students for a craft
morning, following by a carol
sing-a-long starting at 1 p.m. Par-
‘ents are welcome to attend the
sing-a-long, to be held in the
school gym at 7085 Wallace
Drive, Brentwood Bay.

Family nights are planned by
Deep Cove Elementary School
for parents of both primary and
intermediate students. Activities
will vary from class to class but
each evening will end with a carol
sing-a-long.

The primary Family Night will
be held Dec. 18 starting at 7 p.m.
and the intermediate Family Night
will be held Dec. 20 starting at 7
p.m. Both will be held in the
school at 10975 West Saanich
Road, North Saanich.

Durrance Road Elementary
School, 6021 West Saanich Road,
presents a Christmas Concert Dec.
19 at 1 pm. and again Dec. 20 at7
p.m. Tickets are required, espe-
cially for the evening performance.

CENTRAL SAANICH RECREATION
KI.CS.
PLAYSCHOOL,

3 and 4 year olds
Register NOW for January programs.
Set 1 - Tuesday & Thursdays
Set 2 - Wednesday & Fridays
$45.00 per month

Classes held at the
Central Saanich Cultural Cenire,
4209 Clarke Road,
Brentwood Bay, B.C.

Call 652-4444, local 233
for more information.

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by Valorie Lennox
The Review

A clean start in a home-based
craft business — that’s all Erich
Senft of Sidney wants from his
Lime Bay Naturals soap.

The 26-year-old Senft started
making soap at home a year ago
after he and wife Linda found
commercial soaps dried their skin.

“Our skin is sort of sensitive to
soap,” he said. Using a family
recipe as a basis, he constructed
molds and began experimenting
with soap-making.

The old family recipe was based
on animal products but Senft
wanted to create a vegetable-based
soap.

“We're vegetarians and we
didn’t think it was a good idea to
use animals. We thought it would
be a good idea to make an all-
vegetable soap.”

Senft expected his first efforts in
soap-making to produce a product
inferior to commercial soap. To his
surprise, he found even his early
batches of soap were superior to
store-bought soaps.

The difference is glycerin —
Senft says most commercial soaps
contain little or no glycerin.

Instead the soaps have a syn-
thetic or chemical base which is

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not biodegradable. --

Senft’s soap is based on gly-
cerin and vegetable oils. His first
batches were for family use.

Then he began giving soap to
friends. Reaction was so positive,
he decided last July to market the
product.

He chose a name, Lime Bay
Naturals, drawn from a bay on the
south coast of England.

Although he was still working as
a commercial painter, he found
time to draft a marketing plan and
packaging.

He refined the product, develop-
ing 18 different varieties. For his
first test-marketing at the Sanscha
Hall flea market Sunday he pro-
duced four lightly-scented varie-
ties, Olive Oil, Chamomile,
Almond Meal and Apricot Oil.

“J thought I’ve give it a try at
the flea market and see how it
goes,” he said:

“Tvs a popular item with our
shower-a-day society.” ;

He suspects his best markets 1
would be specialty stores and craft
fairs.

“Ts actually more of a luxury
item.” The soap sells at $3.50 a
bar or two for $6. et

He makes the soap at home, in
the kitchen or garage. It takes two
hours to produce eight pounds of
soap:

The soap must be molded and
then packaged.

In the coming months he plans _
to Start distributing the soap, first
through local outlets. :

“T think it has lots of potential.”

He can be reached at 656-5568.

92372 Beacon Ave.
Sidney, B.C.
V8L 1X3

HRISTMAS SPECIAL*

SIDNEY ANTIQUES
GIFT SHOPPE & COLLECTIBLES

Chris & Maria
Sdrakas

656-3621

PARKLAND SCH

Originally producee
Theatre, David Geffen,

Directed by Doug B

GRASSROOTS THEATRE COMPANY

PRESENTS

SIDNEY, B.C.

Tues. Dec. 18 through Sat. Dec. 22

8 p.m. nightly

Reservation Box Office: 656-5280
Tickets Reserved: $8.00, $7.00
General: $6.00

Book and Lyrics by

Howard Ashman
Originally Produced by the WPA Theatre
(Kyle Renick, Producing Director)

at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPA
and the Shubert Organization

ambrough

Cameron Mackintosh

Alan Menken
Based on the film by Roger Corman,
Screenplay by Charles Griffith

Music by