Commercial : OW Real Estate UBER 652-5171 NRS Peninsula Properties Audited Circulation 12,968 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday August 14,1991 40¢ Inside OPEN WIDE AND SAY AH The changing word of deniisiry is the subject in this fascinating look al a modem profession BUSINESS Al8 CALENDAR A24 CLASSIFIEDS A380 COMMUNITY A24 GARDENING A26 OPINION AZ SPORTS A27 OUTDOORS All BEYER AZ GRENBY Al18 HAMPSON All LANG A26 TOP OF THE PILE A7 UNIFIED SEWAGE TREATMENT Thinks look good for a study To start on building asewage ireaimeni system for everyone io use Page A3 THOSE NASTY WASPS~ | Outdoors ¢sitimnist Cy Hamsson brings a different perspective to colonies of wasps Page All RESPONSE TO LETTERS The president of Granville West Capital Corporation sels ihe record siraight in a Soapbex opinion piece Page Al4 PRESIDENT RESIGNS The Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation is accused of imegulanities after iis president resigns Page Al7 Victoria WEEKLIES 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.C. V8L 3S5. Second class mail registration number 0128. by Glenn Werkman The Review For 123 years it was the site of the Saanich Fair. Next year the property will be quiet during the Labour Day weekend as the oldest, continuously operating agricultur- al fair west of the Great Lakes will have set up shop on Stellys Cross- toad. Hence the theme of this year’s fair — Saluting The Future. North and South Saanich Agn-. cultural Society president Ken Button confirmed Monday: “We have an arrangement with a com- pany. It’s as final as it can be.” The society gave notice Thurs- day that it would not entertain any other offers to purchase the Saani- chton fairgrounds site. Button would not disclose details of the pending purchase , except to say that local people are involved and that about one-acre including the Saanich Pioneer Society’s log cabin will remain undisturbed. The society plans to approach Central Saanich council for rezon- ing consideration. “One thing is for sure, it will not be commercial or apartments,” Button said. “There is no desire by the people we are dealing with to do that.” ship ab¢ui-the proposed sale | Wbursday and received the mes- sage to proceed, he said. This year’s fair, Aug. 31-Sept. 2 will be held at the current site and rentals through the fall will be honored, he said. “Nothing can happen until council approves rezoning,” But- ton said. The annual fair attracts about 40,-50,000 people and the society Continued on Page A2 Saanichton fairgrounds sold to developer —— The society asked-i$*member- Some bold thieves stole,g po itt twood Bay resident shat fom the front of his homké towed it to a secluded Ot and stripped the Syen®-New engine out of it. Joseph Novosad said the inci- dent occurred sometime over the August long weekend, when he and his family were away from their West Saanich Road home. He cautions people who store their boats in the front yard to make sure it is secure, Or Move it where it is out of view. He also says people should be sure their boats are fully insured. Missing is a Yamaha Pro-50 motor valued at $5,000. Central Saanich police recov- WITH HIS NAMESAKE in the background, Bill Church, a former crewmember of the MV G.B. Church and son of the man the vessel was named for, helped direct | operations Saturday. “| hope it is a good a vessel underwater as it was above the water,’ Church said. Victim warns, ered the boat, minus the motor, on Aug. 5 near Wallace Drive and Benvenuto Avenue. “They had it all figured out. It was well prepared,” said Novosad. “It’s pretty bold to pull it mght out of West Saanich Road.” He said thieves cut through a lock before towing the boat out . He said his insurance covers $2,000 of the value. The motor was new and he had not notified his insurance company he had bought it. Central Saanich police say it’s “not unusual” for boats to be stolen from homes. Police recom- mend putting items like boats in a fenced-off area out of view of people and traffic passing by. 7s of boat thefts Few stolen boat motors are found because they can be stripped and sold as parts, or taken somewhere else and sold whole. Novosad said individual parts can be traced to his motor if sold on the black market. He said people buying parts should be on the lookout. “Some of these parts may be stolen or come from a stolen engine,” he said. Ironically, he put the boat out front because he thought it would be safer there. He assumed thieves would not be noticed in a dark backyard, but would be spotted in front, under a road light, along a busy road. “Obviously I was wrong.” Review wins three awards In newspaper competition The Canadian Community Newspaper Association recog- nized The Review with three awards during its recent 1991 Bet- ter Newspapers Competition. The Review was judged to have the best front page in its circula- tion category, was given the third place award for Best All Around Newspaper and received first place in the MacMillan Bloedel feature writing category. Detailed results were received last week. CCNA judges said: “The front page of The Review was well designed and used color well to produce an attractive package. The only complaint with the Best Front Page winner is that the headlines were mostly the same size.” In judging the Best All Around newspaper, judges found “the vast majority of editorial page copy was locally produced, which is a must in this judge’s books. “In the end, a major factor separating the winners from the test was a real or imagined com- mitment to editorial excellence.” The Selkirk (Man.) Journal eared the first place award in the tabloid 12,500-19,999 circulation category while the Wetaskiwin (Alta.) Times Advertiser placed second. The Review’s reporter Valorie Lennox was awarded with first place in an open-circulation fea- ture writing competition for her . series of news-feature stories on literacy entitled Words That Stay. The judge of that competition said Lennox “took the subject of literacy and brought it alive for her teaders with a three-part series that was both informative and personal; that challenged and entertained.” Lennox receives the Alliston (Ont.) Herald Trophy.