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March 7.

charge.

taken.

retumed, Ormheim said.

court March 14.

Ormheim said.

blood-alcohol level.

from driving for a year.

causing bodily harm.

March 7.

Alan Filmer.

Youths work off island break-ins

Two youths who broke into summer cabins on Galiano Island
for food and shelter were each sentenced to 50 hours community
service work and one year’s probation in Sidney provincial court

Both 16-year-old Saltspring residents pleaded guilty to the

Crown counsel Edward Ormheim said one cabin was entered
through a window in the early evening of September 24 and a key
found in that cabin opened the second cabin. Food and liquor was
consumed from both cabins and a number of household items

There was no damage to either cabin and the stolen items were

Defence lawyers Grant Warrington and Ian Morley said the
youths had been camping on a nearby beach for 10 days, had been
cold and had run short of food and money.

Man fold truth, escaped jail term

Quickly admitting to police he had given a false name when
arrested in Central Saanich Nov. 22 was the right move, Rodney
Hilton Prescott of North Saanich learned in Sidney Provincial

Judge Ralph Hudson said he would have sent Prescott to jail if
the man had not quickly given his correct name to police.

Crown counsel Edward Ormheim said Prescott, 21, was a
passenger in a car stopped in an impaired driving investigation.
Arrested due to intoxication, Prescott initially gave police a false
name to avoid arrest on an oustanding warrant from Chilliwack,
issued on a charge of pointing a firearm at a fisheries officer,

Hudson fined Prescott $125 for obstructing police.

Crash stopped impaired driver

A 37-year-old Brentwood man hit a parked flatbed truck on
the side of West Saanich Road July 14, then registered a
blood-alcohol reading of .17 per cent, crown counsel Edward
Ormheim said in Sidney provincial court Feb. 15.

Nelson Alphonse pleaded guilty to impaired driving.

Ormheim said police were called to the accident at 12:20 a.m.
Alphonse, the driver, admitted consuming alcohol and empty cans
of beer were found inside and outside his vehicle, Ormheim said.

The car was written-off and Alphonse suffered serious injuries.
A blood sample taken at the hospital revealed Alphonse’s

Judge Robert Greig fined Alphonse $350 and prohibited him

Jealousy sparked man’s assault

Jealousy led a Central Saanich man to assault a neighbor
because he believed his wife was spending too much time with the
other man, Defence lawyer Fred Angene told Judge Alan Filmer in
Sidney provincial court Feb. 28.

Angene’s client, Calvin McKay, 44, pleaded guilty to assault

Crown counsel Ed Ormheim said McKay kicked in the door of
the neighbor’s home at 11 p.m. Nov. 16. He struck the man in the
face and ribs, causing bruises and cracked teeth.

Angene said McKay had been drinking before the assault. Since
the incident McKay has consumed no alcohol, Angene added.

Judge Filmer fined McKay $250.

Man fined for assaulting ex-wife

+ A Richmond man who grabbed his ex-wife on the ferry in order
to talk to her was fined $250 for assault in Sidney provincial court

Wayne Louis Tortorelli pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge

Crown council Ed Ormheim said Tortorelli seized his ex-wife’s
arm when he encountered her on the ferry and struck her. She
escaped him and locked herself in her car, Ormheim said.

Defence lawyer Grant Warrington said a divorce between
Tortorelli and the victim had recently been finalized and he had
just wanted to talk to his former wife. Tortorelli no longer lives in
the area and is not in contact with his ex-wife, Warrington said.

SCHOOL STRIKE

Land commission decision expected »=

Central Saanich is urging the
Saanich School District to find an
alternative site for a new middle
school, should a site near West
Saanich Road and Benvenuto Ave-
nue not receive necessary approv-
als.

Monday, council’s planning and
zoning committee urged the dis-
trict to “make a backup offer for a
new school site.”

A decision by the province’s
Agricultural Land Commission on
an application to put the new
middle school, to replace Mt.
Newton School, on the Delamere
farmland property is expected fol-
lowing their meeting Thursday.

The committee’s draft resolu-
tion was to urge the district to meet
with the Tsartlip band council and
the Victoria diocese of the Roman
Catholic Church, to reopen negoti-
ations.

Committee chairman Ald. Clar-
ence Bolt said the intent was for a
meeting held in December to con-
tinue. Tsartlip Indians had blocked
a site on Gowdy Road from access
by construction crews, resulting in
the school district eventually
abandoning the site.

Bolt urged council to pass the
resolution, in the event the land
commission rejects the Delamere
application.

Committee members discussed
a church-owned property on Wal-
lace Drive across from Centennial
Park as a possible alternative.

But one member of the public
took exception to council’s discus-
sion of affairs affecting the Roman
Catholic Church.

“It’s unfair for members of this
council to make statements about
the church,” Bernard Caron said.
“That piece of property was
bought many years ago and it was
paid with $50 a month by natives
and whites going to the church.

“The trouble is certain people
have taken it upon themselves to
make statements they have no
authority to do,” Caron said. Any
negotiations involving the
church’s land holdings require the

Brochure has
fix for rat woes

Rats are proving to be a real
menace on the Peninsula. But a
new brochure just released by the
Capital Regional District can help
residents get rid of the rodent.

A set of tips on how to get rid of
disease-carrying and destructive
rodents can be obtained from the
Sidney Health Unit at 2440-
Sidney Ave., environmental health
officer Gary Gibson said Feb. 21.

Property Owners can send rats
on their way for good by removing
all readily available food and plac-
es to hide is one of the brochure’s
recommendations.

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about,” Cameron said. The issue
of the association president’s pen-
sion was removed from the agen-
da, as was leaves for members
during negotiations.

Cameron was confident the
membership would ratify the
agreement as “both the executive
and the negotialing team are
recommending it.”

Marilyn Loveless, past chairman
of the Saanich board of trustees
(Graham Hill became chairman in
a pre-determined rotation Mon-
day) said mediator Vince Ready.
set a tone that clearly called for
compromise from both sides.

“Tt was the kind of compromise
we were suggesting from the out-
set.’ Loveless said. ““We had a

fixed budget and the compromise
could be realized within that limi-
tation.”

She said an agreement was
reached to move things around
within the package, plus restric-
tions on management with regard
to supervision.

“Tn our statement it is clearly
understood the contract obliga-
tions will be met and they will be
met without running a deficit
budget,’ Loveless said. “That
means it will be met by a reduc-
tion in personnel and programs.”

Specific numbers on class size,
salary, integration of special needs
students and other major contract
issues will be released after the
ratification vote, should it be suc-

cessful, she said.

Because the two-year contract,
now apparently settled, expires in
1992, teachers and the board will
soon return to the bargaining table
for discussions about the next
contract.

Cameron said: “Hopefully we
can establish ground rules for next
year so we don’t get caught up in
hassles (about what’s) on the
agenda.”

Loveless said: “The process of
adversarial bargaining by the uni-
on and that of strike-lockout
action doesn’t serve the young-
sters.””

Meanwhile, for students back in
school, catching up is the name of
the game.

approval of two parish congrega-
tions and the rest of the diocese, he
said.

School board past chairman
Marilyn Loveless said Tuesday:
“Acquisition of that site is so
complicated and continued use of
that site is complicated in that the
Native people have some agree-
ment with the Catholic Church.”

She said it is not a matter of a
dollar cost, but apparently the
church wants a replacement prop-
erty in Central Saanich with non-
agricultural zoning.

Regardless, the school district
does have a Plan B, should the
land commission reject the appli-
cation.

“Our response is that if the
answer is no, don’t drag it out, tell
us no,” Loveless said. “We have
something prepared to move
quickly to Plan B if necessary.”

Loveless would not say where
the Plan B site is located. Con-
struction of a new middle school
must begin by June at the latest to
meet a September 1992 opening
date, she said.

At committee, Ald. Arlene Box
said: “I’m at the point where I
wish the school board would go to

expropriation.”

“The issue has been fooled
around with for too long.”

Ald. Jan Cameron said it’s safe
to assume the land commission
will say no because there is a “site
zoned institutional and outside of
the ALR within one kilometre.”

Meanwhile, the owners of Euro-
sa Gardens are concemed about
the effect on their business should
the Delamere site be approved.

Debbie Bulk, who owns and
runs the Brentwood nursery with
her husband Hans, said recently
they strongly oppose the plan,
fearing the school would force
them out of business.

Their greenhouses would likely
be subjected to vandalism and
there would be complaints about
their use of pesticides if the school
is built, Bulk said. :

Bulk said she did not get wind —

of the proposal until she was
invited to a Feb: 4 council meeting
when the issue was discussed.

“Nobody ever approached us
for our views,” Bulk said.

She and her husband have
lodged a complaint about the site
proposal with the Agricultural
Land Commission.

Sod turned for seniors hall

Construction is underway on the
$369,000 expansion to the Central
Saanich Seniors’ Centre, following
a sod-turning ceremony at the
centre last Thursday.

The addition will add 5400
square feet to the present 3600
square foot, two-story building
adjoining the Central Saanich
library and cultural centre in Bren-
twood Bay. -

An expanded general activity
centre, a stage and space for ban-
quets will be added when the
project is completed in mid-
September. :

The 200-plus member Central
Saanich Seniors have raised funds
over the past four years for the
expansion, collecting $140,000.

Another $123,000 came from a
B.C Lotteries grant, $103,000 was
given by Central Saanich and the
Vancouver Foundation donated
$10,000.

Aerobics, bridge, carpet bowl-
ing, bingo and meetings are all
held at the centre. The Hummers
singing group; which performs at
area hospitals and care facilities,
also meets at the centre, president
Harry Wellman said.

Central Saanich Seniors is open
to anyone aged 55 and over, retired
or semi-retired. Dues are $10 a
year.

The centre is operated by volun-
teers and can be reached, when
open, by calling 652-4611.

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SHOVELING THE SOD Thursday to mark the start of Construc-
tion on the addition to the Central Saanich Seniors centre
were (eft to right) Saanich and the Islands MLA Mel
Couvelier, Central Saanich Mayor led Jones and seniors
group president Harry Wellman. Prime Construction is the

contractor for the $369,000 project.

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