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OPINION AT SPORTS A21 OUTDOORS AlT BEYER A7 GRENBY A20 HAMPSON Al7 LANG — A32 LENNOX Al5 MUSGRAVE Al18 TOP OFTHE PILE A7 AUTO RACING Local enthusiasts prepare for Hall of Fame induction Page Al4 OUT OF AFRICA A hilarious look at bathroom design in another country Page Al5 EXPORT MARKETS Chamber seminar helps businesses develop into new markets Page Al9 FIGURE SKATERS Club members excell in the Lynn Heitherngtion Memorial meet Page A22 ANIMAL RIGHTS Canada’s first bylaw banning circuses with animal acis Page B1 RELEASING SEWAGE Public sentiment seems To be the main reason against it Page B4 Review office hours The Review office, at 9726-First St. in Sidney, is open from 9 a.m. until’5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. V8L 3S5. Second class mail registration number 0128. Roadblock threatened fo stop sludge by Valorie Lennox The Review All her life Emily Burrows has loved horses. She rode in the first Calgary Stampede parade in 1912, raised — and raced thoroughbred horses and is a founding member of the North Saanich-based Sunset Riding Club. On Monday she celebrated her 100th birthday. Sunday afternoon the Sunset Riding Club honored her at a party held in Holy Trinity Church Hall. The youngest riding member of the club, two-year-old Ashley Dighton, brought birthday greet- ings mounted on pony Prince of Hearts. In addition to the usual good wishes from the Queen and gov- ernment representatives, Burrows also received a gift book from the Calgary Stampede. “She always had a connection with horses,” said longtime friend and companion Susan Walker. It was their joint interest in horses that sparked their friend- ship in 1948. Walker was living in Saanich and stopped by Burrows’ home in Saanich to admire the mare and foal in Burrows’ field. Burrows had originally come to Calgary from her native Derby- shire in 1911. Widowed early with no children, she raised horses for years in Edmonton, moving to Saanich in the late 1940s. One of her horses had been - ready to run in the Queen’s Plate but was sidelined by a last-minute injury, Walker said. In 1960 Burrows moved in with Walker. Five years later the two women moved to their present home on West Saanich Road. In 1966 they helped found the Sunset Riding Club. The club’s riding ring was built on land owned by Walker. Although the property has since been sold, the current owner is also a member of the riding club. Burrows is an honorary member. The women had a horse on their property until three years ago, Walker said. Horse lover honored on 100th birthday Contacted by the riding club, fellow horse lovers gathered from as far away as Vanderhoof, 100 Mile House and Pentiction to pay tribute to Burrows. Some were early members of the riding club who had not seen each other for the past 20 years. All of the club’s trophies were displayed along with old photo- graphs and scrapbooks recalling the history of the 25-year-old club. A biutthday cake donated by the Golden Sheaf Bakery was served to the 75 guests. Two more birthday celebrations were held for Burrows on Monday. Developer killed in Alberta The developer of North Saa- nich’s Eagle Ridge Estates and one-time owner of James Island was killed in a two-vehicle acci- dent near Camrose, Alta, Saturday. Edward Gustave Wenzel, 50, apparently stopped at a stop sign in the Pontiac 6000 he was driving, then proceeded into the path of a tractor-trailer unit westbound on Highway 13, RCMP said. Wenzel was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, Camrose RCMP Cpl. Ken Constable said. The driver of the truck was not injured. The mishap occurred about 11:10 a.m. Saturday two miles west of the town of Camrose, southwest of Edmonton. Road Continued on Page A2 ED WENZEL by Mare Davis The Review A native Indian roadblock will be set up in Brentwood if plans to spread sludge on Woodwyn Farms go ahead this summer, Central Saanich council was told Monday. A pioneer project to use sewage as fertilizer on farmland would result in the pollution of Indian land in Saanich Inlet, two Tsartlip band council members said. An angry John Elliot said native Indians will use force if need be to Stop the Capital Regional District- sponsored sewage disposal plan. “We're not going along with it. We're going to block West Saanich and Stelly’s roads,” he said. The experimental plan involves dumping about half-a-dump- truck-load of dewatered sewage sludge each week from North Saanich’s Bazan Bay treatment plant on Woodwyn Farms for a year. é “Tf it comes we're going to be there to meet it and I guarantee the truck driver won't return for the next load,” tribal council member Emmanuel Cooper said. A beach used by native Indian children for swimming on the Tsartlip reserve would be polluted if toxic runoff from the sewage gets into Hagen Creek and finds its way into Saanich Inlet, Cooper said. “We have enough pollution down (in the Inlet) nght now with raw sewage from the school and from Mill Bay,” he said. Despite the concerns of Ald. Clarence Bolt, council’s sanitation and water committee endorsed the CRD project at a Feb. 10 meeting. Bolt said Monday the threat to Hagen Creek is real and any environmental damage to the waterway could prove a serious health hazard. The water table for a large area could face contamination, espe- cially since many people in Cen- tral Saanich use well water, Bolt said. He agreed with native Indian band members’ concems that the smell given off by the sludge could pose an ugly problem. Large-scale composting or the injection of the sewage into the soil on Woodwyn Farms would be more expensive but less risky alternative means of sewage dis- posal, he said. “I think this (present) plan is a stop gap measure, rather than the dealing with the problem in a concrete way,’ Bold said. Citizens Association to Save the Environment chairman Derek Mallard told council that there’s nothing experimental about spreading sewage of on farmland. — Stacks of studies have been compiled on the issue in the United States and the initiative has Just being undertaken by the CRD as a cheap means of sewage dis- posal, Mallard said. “And the sewage may still carry Continued on Page AZ