sooemnnattpeny ameter tice eee Sidney & Saanich Peninsula Commercial Gipeee Real Estate Up rf BEh eps 652-5171 NRS Peninsula Properties Audited Circulation 12,968 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday February 27,1991 40¢ e Initial job action by Saanich teach NMG JO crion by nich teac els S] “ by Glenn Werkman The Review Teachers in the Saanich School District withdrew bus supervision duties in their first show of job BUSINESS A26 action Monday afternoon. ; Negotiations between teachers CALENDAR Al2 and trustees came to an abrupt halt CLASSIFIEDS A31 Monday afternoon when mediator Vince Ready “sensed there was no COMMUNITY A1Q2 | appetite for a settlement so he said “pack your bags and go home’,” : GARDENING A16 | school board chairman Marilyn - Loveless said Monday night. OPINION AZ7 Saanich Teachers Association president Vincenza Cameron said SPORTS A27 a number of issues were cleared OUTDOORS Al7 from the table until the board # | BEYER AT » | GRENBY A26 j HAMPSON Al17 | LANG Al6 LENNOX A15 ) MUSGRAVE ADA 3 TOP OF THE PILE A7 WEIKLE Al4 TOP OF THE PILE Ceniral Saanich Lions witness Ed Gait receive highest distinction Page A7 OUTDOOR UNLIMITED Why birds won‘t touch Those furry tent caterpillars Page Al7 PHOTO PAGE Scenes of Zimbabwe as Review reporter concludes her reports on G ip to Africa Page A22 REFUGEES Beer and boredom are commen in a Mozambique refugee camp Page A25 DIALING FOR DOLLARS Professional solicitation for chantable groups by telephone is the subject of news series Page BI Victoria WEEKLIES 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: placed an ultimatum before the teachers to sign off a class size clause before proceeding further, Monday afternoon. Mediated sessions began late Saturday and continued through the night until about 6 a.m. Sun- * day, resulting in many bargaining items being signed! away, Loveless agreed. Of 30 items on the table, 13 were dealt with i in the overnight session. In total, over 40 asgonaling meetings have been held between teachers and the board since nego- tating first began last April 15. The teachers acted with job action Monday at 2 p.m. when their 72-hour strike notice (given Friday) expired. By 4 p.m. Monday the school district responded by issuing a 72-hour lockout notice. Loveless is concerned with the potential danger to children by the withdrawal of duties without 24- hour notice. Continued on Page A3 SIDNEY S CENTENNIAL logo as selected by Sidney Council Monday shows rol- ling. agrculiural lane at ier, with a here and can heacGed fo town, accemed by a church siesple, The jeiecton of wooden Dogs moaed Gr a dock can be SEEN GLTGHT, supOunG ed by ine numbers ong lefters Aand drawn by semi-retired graphic artist Jack Bowley. whe receives a $700 COS prize for ihe best of 16 submitted Cesgns, S28 SIO pace AP No victory possible | in war — Quaker by Valorie Lennox The Review There can be no victory in the Gulf War, says local Quaker Mur- iel Sibley, who spent the first 12 days of the war on the Iraq-Saudi border. The only victory would have been averting war, she said Satur- day in her Durrance Road home. “TJ came back reinforced in my A SHARED COMMITMENT to peace led local Quakers Cal Revelle and Muriel Sibley to support a Gulf Peace Camp by sending Sibley to join the camp just as the Gulf war broke ouf. A local sculptor and potter, Sibley returned to her Durrance Road home last week. Quaker beliefs and conviction that non-violent solutions are the only possible solutions to any conflict, whether in a small group or the world,” she said. Sibley felt strongly enough about peace to join a group head- ing for the peace camp from New York on January 12. The only Canadian in the group, she spent the first 12 days of the war in a peace camp on the Saudi-Iraq border. War broke out hours after Sibley arrived in the camp. “It was quite anxiety-producing. The first night was really scary.” Volunteers in the camp heard the planes overhead and saw flares and bombs dropping as the coali- tion forces starting bombing Iraq. “There was this roar of sound that pressed you into the ground.” There were 73 people in the camp from 15 different countries. As bombing raids cut the road linking the camp to Baghdad — an eight-hour drive away — the group held meetings to determine group policy. Despite cultural differences, the group had to reach a joint consen- sus on how to handle an invasion of the camp by coalition or Iraqi troops or how to react if either side decided to evacuate the camp. They also had to decide how to ration the remaining food and water. “We had long meetings that were very intense. People are very attached to food,” Sibley said. “Tt was an interesting 12 days.” One young volunteer had to be gently discouraged from feeding the group’s canned tuna to wild cats roaming through the camp. “Everybody lost weight. I went much too chubby and came back feeling much better about myself,” Sibley joked. Both the coalition forces and the Traqis knew where the peace camp was located, on the Iraqi side of the border near an Iraqi military post. The organizers of the peace camp had tried to set the camp on both sides of the border but had been refused permission to camp on Saudi territory by the Saudi government, Sibley said. Established on December 24, the camp was an effort to avert the war despite the January 15 dead- line. Between December 24 and Jan- uary 27, the camp was staffed by 125 volunteers representing differ- ent countries and faiths world- wide. “It was certainly a life- deepening experience,” Sibley said. On January 27 the buses rolled in and the Iraqis evacuated the camp, despite the objections of peace camp participants. Sibley recalls one Iraqi soldier apologizing to a woman for the evacuation as he escorted her to the bus. “They were very kind. We were told we were being evacuated as they could no longer guarantee our safety. It shows people are peo- ple.” Even before the war started, the Iraqis supported the peace camp by helping organizers find food and water for the venture, Sibley said. “They saw us as a real hope for a peaceful settlement.” The Americans on the peace team were shown the same cour- tesy as other members of the Continued on Page A9