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Wednesday, February 13,1991 — A13

Consultant hired
to examine
interchange

Central Saanich council agreed
Monday to hire a consultant to
Study the impact the Island View
interchange will have on the munic-
ipality.

Derek Wild of D.W. Engineering
Ltd. was hired to look into various
issues involving the interchange
including traffic patterns, potential
cost to the municipality and envir-
omnental concerns.

Council agreed there is a need to

quantify and to identify all poten-
lial problems associated with the
interchange.

Hence, areas of concern may be
presented to the Ministry of High-
ways prior to the start of construc-
tion of the interchange.

If the problems are flagged early
enough, the Ministry of Highways
may be convinced to pay the cost of
solving them, he added.

The best way to “quantify these
issues” could be to conduct a
traffic and transportation study
that could cost as much as $80,000,
Wild said.

~The size of the study depends
a lot on what convinces the high-
ways ministry,” he said.

Ald. Clarence Bolt described the
hiring of the consultant ‘an
investment in the future.”

Wild was retained at a cost of
$100 per month for three hours
work each month on an annual
basis initially for one year.

Real estate
sales good
despite trend

In spite of a slump in housing
sales, a total of a nearly $7 million
worth of residential housing
changed hands on the Peninsula
last month.

A Victoria Real Estate Board
spokesman said real estate prices
in the region have remained buoy-
ant for the past eight months in
defiance of a declining national
trend.

Anne St. Dennis said North
Saanich was edged out by Oak Bay
in the table of highest median
prices for the 13 regional munici-
palities polled in January.

Some 11 homes were sold in
‘North Saanich at a median price of
$210,000, compared to Oak Bay’s
median figure of $218,000 for the
15 housing units that sold there.

The total value of all the homes
sold in North Saanich was $2.8
million, compared to $4 million
for Oak Bay.

Central Saanich saw 13 homes
find new owners, making the
median price $168,000, for a total
value of $2.4 million.

In Sidney, 13 housing units
changed hands at a median price
of $137,000, which amounted to
$1.8 million worth of real estate.

By comparison, the median
price of a home for the whole
district was $157,000 last month,

St. Dennis said.
THAT’S HOW MANY

CANADIANS ARE
LAWN BOWLERS

Hefty Herefords tip 4-H scales

Calves weighing as much as
1,000 Ibs. took part in the Saanich
Peninsula 4-H Beef Club’s annual
weigh-in at the Saanichton Fair-
ground, Feb. 2.

Club spokesman Kristin Ring-
stad said 19 calves weighing
between 633 lbs. and 1,000 Ibs.
were inoculated, treated for insect
pests and given ear tags.

Also, a magnet was placed in the
stomach of each calf to collect any
small metal objects they may
ingest while grazing, she said.

avin provincially-sponsored
acricultural club for youths from
nine to 19 years of age will next

meet for its annual public speak-
ing engagement, Saturday.

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