News My REPORTER TheReview Wednesday, February 319 = < a DEMONSIATING A NEW device for measuring the blood/ sugar levels of diabetics at the Saanich Peninsula General Hospital is Gordon Rose, who recruited the help of Shirley Taillefer. Last week marked a diabetes awareness week at the hospital. AFFORDABLE Continued from Page Al Mozambi- que guerillas were making night raids into the area she had just left. Lennox arrived in Zimbabwe the day that war in the Persian Gulf broke. Although far from the con- flict, native Zimbabweans sided with Iraq, denouncing the United States, Lennox said. Additional armed guards were posted on the street outside Western embassies and British embassy staff removed distinctive licence plates from their cars. : =Lennox was in Zimbabwe as part of a journalist exchange pro- gram, Newslink, co-sponsored by the Canadian Community News- papers Association and the Cana- dian Organization for Develop- — ment through Education. During her 16-day visit to Zim- Continued from Page Al is completed, Pemberton Holmes spokesman Tom Fisher said Thurs- day. Joy Craddock of the non-profit Peninsula housing cooperative Krisineleos said Sidney and North Saanich have in the recent past turned a cold shoulder on the affordable housing crisis. And they’ ve done so by refusing to cooperate with one another in dealing with escalating infrastruc- ture and land servicing costs, she said. Craddock said Central Saanich council has also been unhelpful. Council refused to rezone the site of the Echo Inn Motel in Bren- twood, which her cooperative hoped to buy for affordable hous- ing in 1989. “The problem is that the Not- In-My-Backyard Syndrome is so strong on the Peninsula,” she said. Sidney Ald. John Calder said he hopes the council he serves on wi!l be more receptive to the need for affordable housing from now on. “There are people in North Saanich and Sidney who need affordable housing,” he said. But Sidney’s hands are tied because it has “virtually no vacant land” for social housing, he said. However, Sidney could help solve the problem by expanding its sewage treatment capacity to aid its neighbor in servicing afforda- ble housing in North Saanich, Calder said. “Acres and acres” of Crown land in North Saanich would be ideally suited for subsidized hous- ing if the federal government can be convinced to give it up for | ax 5B" 8x10" E $8.95 $10.95 2 tax included PHOTOGRAPH pre-paid. below-the-market prices, he said. “That way the federal govern- ment can also help contribute towards affordable housing,”’ Cal- der added. However, in recent years afford- able housing proposals have been a hot political issue on the Penin- sula, with opponents claiming these complexes would be high- density urban blights. “Most people who don’t like the idea of affordable housing have never seen a really nice co-op housing project,” Craddock said. “People think there are all ugly and full of yucky people.” Affordable housing is aimed at people who can’t afford to spend more than one-third of their income on housing while main- taining a “reasonable lifestyle,” she said. Association for the Protection of Rural Central Saanich chairman Doug Alderson said his group Supports the building of affordable housing as long as it’s not on agricultural land. But his group won’t stand for high-density subsidized housing or any other type of high-density housing that encroaches upon the arca’s rural character. “We don’t want to sce concen- tration camp types of devclop- ments,’ Alderson said. “We have always taken the view that Central Saanich is the farm- land that sustains the people who live in the more built-up areas.” However, a CRD report on affordable housmg — published in September of last year — took a different point of view. Among its 40 recommendations is the view that there should be higher density zoning for housing on the Peninsula to help deal with the affordability problem. Last week the Bntuish Columbia Housing Management Commis- sion announced it will help fund the building of 260 subsidized housing units for all cf Vancouver Island. Tenders from non-profit organi- zations for the building of 100 seniors housing projects are also being accepted by the BCHMC, the government body also announced. lf SO, We Can custom print your Did we own copies of any photo taken by catch the Review staff. { you im ae : the act S Additiona: prints; ~ Bat the same timed M from same negative f 5 af eets se The Review otos taken By Review Stat can be 9726 1St.. St. ordered throug he Hove E 656-1151 fi babwe, Lennox attempted to file two reports that were to appear in The Review during her absence. Unfortunately, facsimile transmis- sion were unable to get through. ~The Zimbabwe infrastructure was designed for 1 million people during white-minority rule,” Len- ~ yy nox said. “Since independence in 1980, that infrastructure is being Stretched to cover about 10 million people. Communication systems are Somewhat overtaxed.” Lennox landed at the Pat Bay Airport Sunday night. Her reports on the exchange begin this week. YES ISRAEL WILL SURVIVE! FOR THE FACTS READ Eskiel 37:7-14 Amos 9:14-15 Hosea 1:10 Jeremiah 30-10 Isaiah 54-17 Obadiah 17-18 FOR BIBLE READING CLASSES 655-1061 had er Canada APPLICATION FOR PESTICIDE USE PERMIT (#214-011-91) Agriculture Canada has made an application to the B.C. Ministry of the Environment to use Baccilus Thurigiensis var. Kurstaki (Commercial formulation: Foray 48B), for the control of Gypsy Moth in North Saanich. Three aerial sprays and the three ground sprays are proposed for the period April 15, 1991 to June 30, 1991, in the area bounded by the south propenty line of Victorial International Airport, and the north property line of Dunsmuir Lodge, as shown below: _- — X [ a t Copies of the permit application and maps of the treatment area may be viewed at: AGRICULTURE CANADA | FOOD PRODUCTION & INSPECTION BRANCH B.C. COASTAL DISTRICT 118 - 816 GOVERNMENT STREET VICTORIA, B.C. V8W 1W9 ~ A person wishing to contribute information about the site for the evaluation of this application for a use permit must send written copies of this information to both the applicant and the Regional Manager of the Pesticide Control Program, Vancouver Island Regional Headquarters, 2569 Kenworth Road, Nanaimo, B.C: V9T 4P7, within 30 days of the date the notice was published. : Aer ‘ WILDERNE FOR THE 90s A joint program of BC Parks and the BC Forest Service to shape the future of parks and wilderness systems in British Columbia. Parks Minister John L. Savage and Forests Minister Claude Richmond invite you to attend public information sessions. We'd like to tell you about Parks Plan 90 and the Wilderness Area draft system plan, answer your questions and hear your ideas. Have we identified the right areas to protect? Are there other areas of provincial significance? If you wish to make a formal presentation, please register by calling your BC Parks district office at 387-4363. Public information sessions will be held throughout the province. In your area, open houses begin at 2 pm, (*3 pm in Port Alberni) followed by public meetings beginning at 7:30 pm. Southern Vancouver Island Feb 12 Nanaimo Bowen Park Complex, 500 Bowen Rd ~ Feb 14 Duncan Silver Bridge Inn, 140 Trans Canada Hwy Feb 19 Victoria Conference Centre, 720 Douglas Street Feb 20 *Port Alberni Echo Centre, 4255 Wallace Street Material will remain on display at regional locations after all the meetings. Pleagesend your written comments before April 15 ta: Parks and Wilderness in the 90s Box 77 ae 800 Johnson Street Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X5 For more information, please call the BC Parks or BC Forest Service office nearest you. AV Ministry of Parks zB Z Ministry of Forests 272