Sidney & Saanich Peninsula Buying or| : Selling I AUBER oan mms 652-91 7 NRS Peninsula Properties } Audited Circulation 12,968 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday April 10,1991 40¢ | WEEKLIES BUSINESS Al4 CALENDAR All CLASSIFIEDS A21 COMMUNITY A10 GARDENING Al2 OPINION AZ SPORTS Al8 OUTDOORS Al6 BEYER AT GRENBY Al4 HAMPSON A16 LANG Al2 MUSGRAVE A15 TOP OFTHEPILE A7 MAJOR BUDGET CUTS School staff and programs will get the axe as district 62 deals with a $2.6 million shortfall in ministry funds Page A4 FOOD BANK WORKER RETIRES After 19 years as a Sidney Lions and six as Food Bank treasurer, Bill Brain goes fishing Page A5 WEIGHT LOSS WILLPOWER That's the secret to keeping the pounds off over the long term Page A10 GARDENING The 4-H Beef Club offers bargain bags of steer manure in time for spring Page Al2 PEE WEES WIN GOLD Intemational tournament fans wiinessed the Peninsula AA team win Page Al8é Victoria Review office hours The Review office, at 97’26-First St. in Sidney, is open from 9 am. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.©. V8L 3S5. Second class mail registration number 0128. a ee by Glenn Werkman The Review Plan B was put in motion in the Saanich School District’s efforts to find a site to build a replace- ment for the overcrowded Mt. Newton Middle School last week. But interim measures were also passed by the board of trustees Monday to help the overcrowding Situation during the 1991-92 school year. The Parents for Safety and Replacement of Mt. Newton Mid- dle School welcomed a board initiative to transfer students from feeder schools to Royal Oak Mid- dle School in Saanich. Spokesman Mona Nyberg said: “T think that’s great. All of us are very Satisfied and we hoped that would happen. We’ve been to Royal Oak and it’s a wonderful Many expecied for Jayson’s memorial Former classmates and friends are expected to crowd into Bethel Fellowship Baptist Church on Mills Road this afternoon to pay tribute to an aspiring basketball player who died in Vancouver about 9:40 Easter Sunday morn- ing. Jayson Lenaghan lost his battle with leukemia, less than a year after the 16-year-old Grade 10 student was diagnosed. Pat Lenaghan is thankful her son had time to prepare for the end and is proud that the teenager faced his fatal disease with unsel- fishness and bravery. “It’s probably a lot harder when someone goes quickly,” she said. “We sure had time to do lots of fun things together.” When Jayson was told by doc- tors Feb. 20 that he had a month to live, “he started planning things he wanted to do, “Instead of moping about it he put his energy into living,” Pat said. “A lot of people started looking for the chink in the armor where he would cave in. But they never found it.” In the final weeks before he died Jayson took in six Vancouver Can- ucks hockey games, plus visits to Science World, Stanley Park, Juke- box Johnnies and other Lower Mainland attractions. “He didn’t give up just because they gave him a death sentence,” pat said. Jayson did more than that. “He worked on a list of what he wanted done with all his stuff, That takes a lot of guts.” In the last weeks Jayson wrote a Social Studies correspondence course quiz and received a 100 per cent grade. He also went shopping in Van- couver one day and bought Chnst- mas presents for mom Pat, father Bob and 14-year-old sister Jeanna. The tecnage cancer victim then enlisted the help of a nurse to package and wrap the gifts — not to be opened until Christmas 1991. “He was always really con- cemed about how we were going to do,” Pat said. “And he had an absolutely wonderful sense of humor. I think he probably did something really neat.” On the Tuesday before he died, Jayson said: “I hope this thing doesn’t go on too long because it would be too hard on you guys.” Support from others helped the family immensely, Pat said. Island Farms gave Bob eight weeks of leave time to cope with the situation. Banners filled with names and messages from students at Park- land — many who knew Jayson from elementary at Sansbury and middle school at North Saanich — helped keep spirits high. “He recognized a lot of the names. All of us enjoyed it,” Pat said. “I think it’s really hard for Continued on Page A2 Interim steps taken after school site rejected facility.” Trustee Peter Garnham recom- mended, and the board approved, that Grade 5 students in Bren- twood and Saanichton elementary schools attend Grade 6 at Royal Oak in 1991-92. Also, Grade 7 French Immer- sion students now at Mt. Newton will take Grade 8 French Immer- sion at Stelly’s Secondary. The board also approved busing Students to the other schools, although trustees said the district is unsure where the extra estimat- ed $60,000 cost to the transporta- tion budget will come from. Treasurer Ross Ingram said a $2.7 million shortfall in ministry funding resulted in a 6.5 per cent cut to all budgets. Continued on Page A2 Councils won’t break policy to help find missing Michael by Girard Hengen The Review Municipal councils on the Peninsula have voted not to contri- bute to the Michael Dunahee Reward Fund because that would break their no-grant policies. For elected officials in Sidney, Central Saanich and North Saa- nich, the question caused much soul-searching debate among aldermen who were anxious to help but who did not feel they could make an exception to the regulations in this case. “Being an emotional issue,...my initial thought is we should do it,” said Sidney Ald. Ted Daly Mon- day night. But council’s hands are tied because of the no-grant policy, which provides a mechanism for council to deal with requests for grants, no matter how worthy the cause, he said. Council endorsed his motion to refuse the request, and to send the policy to administration for a review. However, Ald. John Calder had some harsh words on the use of reward money to gain information. He said it was difficult to com- prehend “people waiting for the pot to increase” before coming forward with information, for “they are no better than the abduc- tors.” Continued on Page A2