Residential Real Esiate OK ame BER 652-5171 NRS Peninsula Properties Anhied Cena aoe A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday August 28,1991 40¢ BUSINESS A21 CALENDAR Al6 CLASSIFIEDS A27 COMMUNITY A113 GARDENING A10 OPINION AZ SPORTS A24 OUTDOORS A23 BEYER AZ GRENBY A21 HAMPSON A23 HENGEN A25 LANG A10 TOP OF THE PILE A7 PEDESTRIAN CRITICAL A Victoria man lies in hospital after being hit on Beacon Avenue late Saturday night _ Page A2 PRECISE REQUIREMENTS Those wishing to enter fruits and veggies into the Saanich Fair should be aware of precise rules Page A7 WHALE OF A TALE Billowing bluemungus is the feature attraction at Sidney Spif park as kids leam about whales Page Al3 / BOOK SPURS TREASURE HUNT A new children’s book educaies and enieriains. _lf's made on the Peninsula Page Al5 THE CLASSIC BOAT FESTIVAL This weekend's aciivities at the Victoria Inner Harbour are featured Page BI Review office hours The Review office, at 97'26-First St. in Sidney, is open from 9am. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. V8L 3S5. Second class mail registration number 0128. School programs slashed by budget cuts by Valorie Lennox The Review Elective courses are being cut at local schools in order to balance the school board budget, district 63 trustees learned Monday night. In a report to the board, assistant superintendent of schools Des Desai identified which courses will not be available when stu- dents return to school next Tues- day. Casualties include the music program and honors classes at Stelly’s Secondary school and cancellation of nine proposed pro- grams at Parkland Secondary. Stelly’s Secondary vice- principal Dierdre Freethy said she had 41 applications to fill 27 spaces in one of the remaining honors classes at the school. She added that the school was at capacity in all Grade 9 and 10 core curriculum programs and pre- dicted serious problems if the school enrollment suddenly increases. Any class with less than 15 Students enrolled was cut, she added. Continued on Page A35 Holding tank requirement far from becoming law by Girard Hengen The Review The day is coming when boaters will have to face up to demands they stop discharging sewage Straight into the water, says an official with B.C.’s Environment Ministry. New regulations will require boaters in designated waters to contain their boat sewage in hold- ing tanks, said Dale Wetter, a technical adviser with the waste management branch. Federal regulations, which should become law shortly, will enable provinces to designate areas where boats are required to have holding tanks. Sewage would be held in the tank until it could be pumped out into a sewage system. : “Things aren’t fine, and that’s been recognized. There’s too much sewage in water. We need to clean that up,” said Wetter. He said the province plans to designate lakes in the Interior first. After, the province hopes to apply the regulations to sensitive coastal waters, like those around marine parks. “The boat owners, yacht owners and marine trade organizations are familiar this may well happen. It will not hit them unawares,” said Wetter. But he added: “We're certainly not going to designate all the waters in the province.” Unlike the United States, there is no law in Canada requiring boaters to have holding tanks. However, U.S. regulations also allow discharging of holding tanks in certain areas about five kilo- metres from shore. INSPECTING CADETS is Col. J.E.H. Gibbon Friday at Cadet Camp Pat Bay. The camp held its Graduation and Wings Parade for fhe power flying scholarship Course. B.C. boaters can flush sewage into the water anywhere. They don’t have many alternatives. Boats with holding tanks have few places to unload. On the Peninsula, the Port Sidney Marina has a sewage pump-out station, which is connected to Sidney’s sewer system. The Van Isle Marina has a dump station for portable toilets, which also ties in to the sewer system. In spite of the rules Stateside, there are very few pump-out facil- ities in the nearby San Juan Islands. : Port Sidney Marina manager Gary Langstaff says boaters don’t want to damage fragile marine environments and are careful to keep waters clean. Marinas are willing to install the necessary facilities and equipment if they must, he suggested. He said there’s not much point in forcing boats to have holding tanks if there is no place to pump out sewage. “Tf marinas’) feel, as we do, it’s important for the environment, it’s a worthwhile investment to make,” he said. “The. trend is toward reducing discharges in general from boat- ing, as there is a general trend to reducing pollution in the environ- ment,” said Langstaff. The Port is required under a Continued on Page A2