Audited Circulation 12,968 An Island Publishers Newspaper Wednesday December 12, 1990 40¢ ‘BUSINESS B10 CBLENDAR B3 CLASSIFIEDS A22 COMMUNITY Bl GARDENING Aig OPINION A6,16 SPORTS B4 OUTDOORS A19 BEYER AT GRENBY B10 HAMPSON A19 > LANG A18 MUSGRAVE A21 TOP OF THE PILE A7 Fine arts students ready for two performances ATI Review office hours The Review's office, at 9781-Second Street in Sidney, is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The mailing address is Box 2070, Sidney, B.C., V8L 3S5 — Second class mail registration number 0128. Former teachers charged with assaulting girls ‘The war came fo us’ say Mohawks by Valorie Lennox The Review Almost five months after the Start of the Oka stand-off, Susan Oke blinks back tears when describing what happened July 11. “We didn’t go looking for a war. The war came to us.” Oke is one of a group of young natives now. facing charges arising out of last summer’s 78-day block- ade near Montreal in which a police officer was killed. Quebec Provincial Police officer, Cpl. Marcel Lemay, was shot July 11 and later died in hospital. Friday night in Brentwood, Oke - described the start of the stand-off. “Tt’s hard for me to talk about it. We never intended for anyone to die,” she told a meeting at the LAU; WELNEW: Tribal School. The dispute was over a small 30 acre parcel known as The Pines, holding the Kanehsatake band’s burial ground and lacrosse field. The site also provided native med- icines and was used for picnics. Oke was among a small group of Kanehsatake natives who camped on the site July 11, hoping to keep the property from being used for a golf course expansion. Live racing guaranteed for another year at Sandown The future of live racing at Sandown Hamess Raceway is safe for at least one more year. Sandown’s 1991 standardbred racing season was given the go- ahead by the B.C. Racing Commis- sion last week, Sandown’s opera- tor said yesterday. President of Orangeville Race- way (which runs Sandown) Jim Keeling Sr. said specific dates for the summer meets have yet to be determined. But he’s reassured by the guar- antee of live racing at the track next summer, he said. However, no decision has been handed down yet by the B.C Racing Commission concerning the return of thoroughbred racing to Sandown next fall, he said. Sandown’s future was threat- ened by applications for longer seasons by two race tracks on the Lower Mainland earlier this year. Exhibition Park Raceway and Cloverdale Raceway asked the commission to pull the plug on live racing at Sandown to facilitate longer seasons at their venues. The bid has been well-supported in the standardbred and thor- oughbred racing communities, after complaints that it’s no longer sufficiently profitable for Lower Mainland jockeys and racehorse Owners to compete at Sandown. Among the supporters of ending race dates on the Lower Mainland are the B.C. Standardbred Associa- tion, the B.C. Standard Breeders Society and the Lower Mainland- based Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association. The natives had already tried negotiations with the community, had met with Native Affairs Min- ister Tom Siddon and held protest marches to halt the golf course. “They're developing all around our territory, which is very small to begin with. We couldn’t let them take The Pines.” The first injunction against the natives was served in May. A second injunction followed in June. That injunction ended July 9. Fearing development of the site could start any time, Oke said Continued on Page A12 Two former North Saanich mid- dle school teachers are charged with indecent and sexual assault of a total of nine female students between the ages of 11 and 15 years. Sidney RCMP laid the charges after an 18-month imvestigation into allegations from students and would not be surprised to hear allegations from other students. “We wouldn’t be surprised if more disclosures were made,’ said Sidney RCMP Set. Andy Rose- quist. Charged with two counts of indecent assault on two female students and sexual assault on three female students is 48-year- old Geoffrey John Armstrong. The alleged victims in the case were 11-14 years-old. Charged with six counts of inde- cent assault on five female stu- dents and three counts of sexual assault on one female student is Thomas Edward Probst, 41. The alleged victims in the case were 12-15 years-old. Police would not comment on the relativity of the two teachers actions and have treated allega- tions against each of them as being separate from each other. Both Armstrong, an English teacher, and Probst, a Drama teacher, were involved in the Out- door Leadership extra-curricular program at different times dunng the time they taught at North Saanich School, police said. Armstrong taught at North Saa- nich from September 1973 until June 1988 while Probst taught at the middle school from September 1977 until he resigned on April 9, 1990, schoo! superintendent Hank Stefaniak said. Armstrong was on a one-year leave of absence during the 1988- 89 school year, was suspended on Aug. 30, 1989 as a result of allegations, then was dismissed by the School District 63 board on Oct. 11, 1989. Continued on Page A2 center of Sidney. = BRAVING A HEAVY downpour with undiminished smiles. beauty gueens Tammy Edwards (left) and Connie Basso (right) sit atop of the Lake Cowichan float during Saturday afternoon’s Christmas parade through the J