Z Buying or elling OW Ess AUBEK 652-5171 NRS Peninsula Properties Audited Circulation 12,968 Wednesday June 5, 1991 40¢ GRENBY A19 HAMPSON A10 | LANG Al2 Inside TOP OFTHE PILE A7 WEIKLE All ISLAND VIEW INTERCHANGE © A cry has gone up in Central Saanich io get - ihe interchange put back on the drawing board Page A3 STAFF SALARIES The Town is looking at wheiher 1o increase the high cost of administration Page AS ABOUT THE FERRY COMPANY THAT COULD. A look at the service That runs from Sidney to Anacortes Page B1 TWO WEEKS TOO YOUNG In 1987 he won the Duke of Edinburgh’s award buf had to wait four years to claim if Page C3 SLIGHT INCREASE IN TAX Town of Sidney residents will face a small increase in ine Municipal portion of their 1991 tax notice Review oifice 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.C. V8L 3S5. Second class mail registration number 0128. A Victoria Weeklies Publication schools shocked as dual eniry canceled by Valorie Lennox The Review Local schools are in shock after a Ministry of Education announce- ment Thursday canceling the dual entry kindergarten program, dis- trict 63 superintendent Hank Ste- faniak said. There are 193 local students who started school in January under the dual entry program. Schools were already organized for the coming year on the premise that dual entry would continue and now staff and classroom alloca- tions will have to be reorganized, Stefaniak said. “It just came as a total shock to | us,” Stefaniak said. Tuesday mom- ing he met with principals and staff of the district schools affected by the change. The top priority is determining the future of the 193 children in the district who started kindergar- ten in January. The new program, first introduced in January 1990 and mandatory as of January 1991, allowed children who tumed five between January and June to enter kindergarten in January, insicad of waiting until the following Sep- tember. Continued on Page A29 North Saanich wants construction stopped by Valorie Lennox The Review Construction is underway at the Swartz Bay ferry terminal but North Saanich council demanded it stop Monday. Ald. Ross Imrie, Edo Nyland, Dee Bailin and Bnan Dunic voted to demand a moratorium on the project until a regional transporta- tion strategy is developed. On May 22, Highways Minister Lyall Hanson announced a mora- torium on the proposed Pat Bay Highway upgrade until a two-year transportation study is completed. Exempted from the moratorium were the Lands End interchange in North Saanich and the McKenzie interchange in Saanich. The minister said the Lands End interchange must be built as part of the ferry terminal redesign, which is now underway, Mayor Maurice Chazoltes said. Detailed designs for the Lands End interchange are now underway and construction is to Start in about nine months. The inter- change is to be completed by. 1993, Chazottes said. The McKenzie interchange must be built for safety reasons, Cha- zolies added. At Monday’s council meeting six residents spoke against con- struction of the Lands End inter- change and three spoke in favor. Bailin suggested council request a moratorium on the project, including the terminal expansion. However Ald. Bill-Tumer said work is already underway on the ferry terminal expansion and sug- gested the ferry corporation could not renege on existing contracts. “They are very actively con- structing at the ferry terminal,” Ald. Bill Gordon confirmed. Bailin said only minor contracts have been awarded to date and said the money to pay out those con- tracts was insignificant compared to the total cost of-the project. The terminal must be designed for rapid transit, not for more cars, she added. Nyland criticized the Ministry of Highways planning department, citing a report by the auditor- general. Although Imrie welcomed the moratorium on the overall high- Ways project, he was concemed about further cost and traffic at the Lands End interchange. However, after listening to coun- cil debate on the issue, he voted in favor of the moratorium. Council also backed Bailin’s motion for more technical people on the highway taskforce. The $500,000 regional transpor- tation study will be done jointly by the province and the regional dis- trict, with each covering half the cost. Last hurdle cleared for middle school by Glenn Werkman The Review Aldermen spoke against rezon- ing a Wallace Drive property for a new middle school Monday. But in the end, council voted unanimously in favor of two bylaws that clear the way for the Saanich School District to build a replacement for the Mt. Newton Middle School opposite Spring- side. Place on Wallace Drive in south Brentwood Bay. “We think it’s the final hurdle,” said Mona Nyberg, spokesman for Parents for the Safety and Replace- ment of Mt. Newton Middle School. “We think the (provincial) gov- emment will do everything it can to get the school built,” Nyberg said. The parents are hoping for the school to be completed in time for September 1992 but, allowing for a 14-month construction period, the land must be prepared and work started this month. “Now the school board has a job to do,” she said. Commenting prior to passage of the bylaws, Ald. Clarence Bolt said the school issue involved greed, profit, political advantage, deals, phone calls and conditions. Bolt said that the owners of the 30-acre site, Brentwood Gardens Inc., applied for exclusion from the ALR to the land commission twice previous to the school appli- cation. When the school board asked council for support for their appli- cation to the land commission for special use of 12 acres of the site Continued on Page A2 1987. until it was allowed to lapse. considered the matter. enough time to it. Garden contest could be revived Plans have been set in motion to revive the Community Garden Contest, a former summer ritual in Sidney that withered away in The Town organized and administered the contest for years But council hopes to re-establish the popular event so long as it gets enough citizens interested in participating. ‘It was a popular event, and it was unfortunate it had to come to an end,” said Ald. John Calder May 27, when council In a memo to council, parks superintendent Jonathan Kelly said the contest was stopped because staff wasn’t able to devote He said it could be restarted under Town sponsorship if a committee of concerned citizens would run it. He added the contest should have guidelines unique to Sidney since there are several garden contests in the region.