has = RUT TS Commercial - Real Estate OC if BE. 652-5171 NRS Peninsula Properties Audited Circulation 12,968 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday September 18,1991 40¢ Inside E BUSINESS Ao4 CALENDAR _—A18 CLASSIFIEDS —_A30 COMMUNITY 17 GARDENING A15 OPINION AT SPORTS A27 OUTDOORS _A10 BEYER AZ GRENBY A24 HAMPSON A10 LANG Al5 TOP OF THE PILE A7 JAZZY PULL OUT SECTION A handy guide to the Sevenih Annual Sidney Jazz Festival includes info on sites and bands EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT Monitoring equipment used by Ocean Sciences is sometimes lost but usually | retumed by fishermen Page Al2 STEAM ENGINES GALORE A weekend at the Historical Anifacts’ festival of steam is documenied with comprehensive photos Page Alé SPORTS HALL OF FAME A North Saanich woman is behind a push To establish a place for Victoria’s special athletes Page A28 DRIVING HOOK Highway heroes or scrounge of the sireets, i's job variety for south Island tow truck drivers Review office hours The Review office, at 97’26-First St. in Sidney, is open from 9a m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. V8L 3S5. Second class mail registration number 0128. Sirikers hurt af airport picket line by Glenn Werkman The Review Legislation is being prepared to deal with striking Public Service Alliance Canada workers this week. But last week, one picketer at the Victoria Airport were rushed to hospital with a fractured pelvic and another man hurt only his hand after a near miss with a speeding van. Doug Reynolds, a PSAC worker from the DND installation at Work Point Barracks, called for the driv- er of a van to be charged with attempted manslaughter after an incident about 9:30 a.m. Friday at the entrance to private businesses beside the airport along the south side of Mills Road in which a windshield was smashed. “He wasn’t trying to pass through (the picket line), he was trying to crash through,” Reynolds said. A blue Chev van apparently approached a driveway to airport lands just east of the business entrance. It then “tried to get by on the grass. It pulled around and came in very fast at an angle, a picketer dived out of the way and I hit (the windshield) hard. “The only way to stop the van was to take a slap at the window. After he stopped the vehicle he said “You’re making a very serious mistake here’,” Reynolds said. Mike Fofonoff was the picketer who dived out of the way, hurting his hand in the process. “He goosed it and he wasn’t shooting for the driveway,” Fofonoff said. “He wasn’t going to stop. It was as if he didn’t see me.” Police did not identify the driver of the van. In another incident, this time on the east side of the airport along Canora Road, Sidney RCMP said the driver of a Toyota pick-up was refused access to the airport at about 5:30 a.m. The driver, Arnold Parlee of Sidney, attempted to get access by Continued on Page A2 B.C. Ferries fined for diesel spill B.C. Ferries was fined $500 in Sidney provincial court Thursday for a diesel spill by the M.V. Quinitsa off Fulford Harbour Feb. 18. The fine is the first ever levied against the ferry corporation under the Canada Shipping Act regula- tion against discharging a pollut- ant into Canadian waters. Crown counsel Kenn Kardish said 20 to 24 litres of light diesel oil overflowed from the ferry deck into the water at the entrance to the harbor shortly after 9 a.m. Given the need to protect the environment, he asked for a $1,000 fine. Defence lawyer Gary Wharton said the 394-passenger, 1,100- tonneferry had returned to service between Swartz Bay and Fulford Harbour after a refit Feb. 17. At some point during the refit, a valve regulating retum of unused ip SAILING TO ONE of the buoys in a Round-the-Buoys yacht race Saturday is NVS and Blade Runner The boats competed in the Sidney-North Saanich Yacht Club’s annual Regatta over the weekend. GIRARD HENGEN photo diesel fuel from the main engine was closed. The fuel travelled up a vent pipe, spilled on to the deck and then went over the side into the ocean, Wharton said. The spill was noticed almost immediately and the flow stopped within minutes Wharton said. Ferry crew used absorbent mate- rial carried on the ship to clean up much of the spill before complet- ing the journey to Fulford Harbour and notifying the Coast Guard of the incident. Wharton stressed the accident is the first such offence for B.C. Ferries, despite the corporation’s 40-vessel fleet. He added that only a small amount of fuel was spilled and that diesel fuel is non-toxic, disperses quickly and also evaporates. Wharton asked for an absolute discharge, saying there was no noted environmental damage and citing B.C. Ferries’ excellent envir- onmental record. Judge Wayne Smith said a dis- charge for a pollution offence would be rare. Given the amount of fuel dis- charged and referring to penalties levied against other ships respon- sible for small spills, Smith fined the ferry corporation $500. sidney man in serious condition after crash A RCMP traffic analyst is piec- ing together the details of a spec- tacular two-vehicle accident Satur- day afternoon that sent a Sidney man to hospital with serious injur- ies. A 1985 Dodge Aries four-door driven northbound on the Pat Bay Highway by a 71-year-old Victoria man was in the process of tuming eastbound onto Beacon Avenue about 2 p.m. Police said the car struck the triangle concrete median, became airborne and slammed into the driver’s side door of a 1988 Ford four-door waiting in the left-turn holding lane to turn south on the highway, police said. The impact of the collision forced the Ford to roll over on its Toof, with the Dodge landing on top. Sidney volunteer firemen apparently used the Jaws of Life to remove the Ford’s driver from his overturned vehicle. Edwin Thomas Bayliss, 69 of Sidney, is listed in serious but stable condition in hospital. “He’s not out of the woods yet,” Sidney RCMP Staff-Set. Jim Wilson said Tuesday. Police anticipate laying charges against Frederick Kahlig of Victor- ia. “My understanding is he just completed a medical examination and had his licence validated,” Wilson said. Police have not laid charges pending the results of a mechani- cal inspection on the car, a Rent- A-Wreck vehicle rented in Victor- ia. “There was nothing to indicate a violent application of the brakes,” Wilson said. The Ford is believed to be the third car waiting in a line-up to turn left at the traffic lights at Beacon Avenue and the highway.