News Sidney Days showing style Sidney Days will be celebrated in grand style this year, befitting the community’s 100th birthday. A preliminary schedule prom- ises a packed weekend, from the mud bog races June 29 to the croquet toumey at Stonehouse Pub Scheduled for Saturday, June 29, is the third annual slow pitch ball tourney in Blue Heron Park, a Navy open house on the Cowichan and Miramachi which continues Sunday, a Sidney concert band performance in the bandstand and the Peninsula Firefighters Mud Bog Races featuring a mud pit and 4 X 4 at Sandown racetrack. On Sunday, June 30, there will be a pancake breakfast at Sanscha hall, a sidewalk sale in downtown Sidney, the fifth annual car rally leaving Iroquois Park, cricket match at Parkland School, the Rotary salmon barbecue at Sans- cha Hall and a country and west- em dance at Sanscha Hall. Tulista Park is the location for many of Sunday’s events, includ- ing the hole-in-one contest, a food fair, build a quick boat contest and race, band concerts, Canada Day celebration and 100th birthday fes- tivities and a fireworks display. Monday starts with a pancake breakfast at Sanscha Hall, fol- lowed by an 8K fun run and 4K walk, slow pitch finals in Blue Heron Park, bed races and the parade down Beacon Ave., a food fair, children carnival, petting zoo, bingo and kayak races in Tulista Park and a croquet tourney in the Stonehouse Pub. Also on Monday, a citizenship court will be held on the mine- sweepers docked at the govern- ment wharf at the foot of Beacon Avenue. Volunteers to help with any of the events are always welcome. For more information, contact the Peninsula Celebration Society at 656-4365. Knife wound A 28-year-old man on the Tsey- kum Indian band lands was taken to hospital about 6:30 a.m. Thurs- day with a knife wound to the shoulder, Sidney RCMP said. Police are investigating and believe the wound could be self- inflicted. They would not release further information at press time. Model #G0930Y ‘399° *10” AC/DC *Cable Ready *D.C. Cord Included *Earphone Jack *3 yr. Warranty HURDLE Continued from Page Al to build a school, “unbeknownst tO us initially, the proposal includ- ed a strip next to the school site which Brentwood Gardens wanted rezoned as a condition of sale,” Bolt said. “We only found out about this condition after we pressured the - school board for details about the sale,” Bolt said. “In other words we had been asked to approve an application without knowing all of the conditions. This is hardly open dealing and it gets worse.” Council asked the land commis- sion to approve special use on the 12-acre portion, moving the east- erm property line west to eliminate the strip of land. Bolt then said that Brentwood Gardens’ manager John Cowlin is a former Saanich municipal plan- ner who served under then-mayor Mel Couvelier. “T am making no allegations of Hunier blasts police funding culback by feds Reductions in federal funding for RCMP rural contracts are unfair to Canadians living in smaller communities, Saanich- Gulf Islands MP Lynn Hunter said during a day-long debate in the House of Commons on the cut- backs. The May 27 debate by New Democrat MPs protested the new cost-sharing proposals with the RCMP which will result in munic- ipalities paying up to 27 per cent more for municipal policing. “This cut amounts to an unfair tax for Canadians who chose to live in smaller towns,’ Hunter said. “Canadians in rural communi- ties are already hurting from post office cuts, CBC cuts and the downsizing in VIA Rail. They have the same right to police protection as do citizens in larger cities,” she added. 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I do, however, want to make one thing clear,” Bolt said. “T have information that prior to the land commission decision, Couvelier phoned the Mr. Green- away, chairman of the land com- mission, about possible school sites.” The land commission’s deci- sion, handed down April 15, “was a bombshell,” Bolt said, because it ignored council’s request for property line adjustment and also granted exclusion instead of per- mitted use, as was applied for. it permitted use was granted the strip retained by Brentwood Gar- dens would have remained ALR land, Bolt said. “Deals, phone calls, conditions — this thing stinks,” Bolt said. “Ideally the community has the right to expect a straight deal ... and above all openness with the community. That must be the norm next time. I will not stand in the way of this bylaw’s passage,” Bolt said. Bolt and other aldermen also noted that election promises they made to parents (guaranteeing that Central Saanich children will be educated in Central Saanich) will be broken by their approval of the bylaws. Ald. Ian Cameron said that in five or ten years the Saanich School District will have to build a new middle school on property it Owns at Bazan bay, resulting in Saanichton students being bused to North Saanich. Ald. Bruce Tobin said that the official community plan spells out very Clearly that residential devel- opment is not to be built on agricultural land. “Although hous- es are not being built in the immediate future that famous strip is now closer and it’s fate is probably sealed.” “Tm not comfortable about them making an end run around the philosophy of the OCP, howev- er urgent the need,’ Tobin said. 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