Make the Warmth ot Tanners apart ot Your Chnstmas Tradition TANNERS A BOOKSTORE & MORE Audited Circulation 12,792 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wenesday November 27,1991 40¢ Inside ARTS A16 BUSINESS —A28 CALENDAR A12 CLASSIFIEDS A30 COMMUNITY Ali GARDENING _ A19 OPINION AT SPORTS A25 OUTDOORS A22 BEYER AT CROSS A16 GRENBY — A28 HAMPSON A22 LANG | A19 TOP OF THE PILE A7 WALLBERG A20 TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC Sidney council is set to face the public in a town hall meeting Monday Page A4 FRONTAGE ROADS Consultant calls for roads on both sides of the Pat Bay Hwy, Page A23 TONS OF CANDLES Sidney resident reaches landmark 104th birthday Page A24 DEATH OF A HARBOR The Victoria Harbour is hemonhaging through indecision, neglect and lack of Coordination. Victoria Weeklies’ first of a three-part series deals with the cost of neglect Page B1 WEEKLIES Review office hours The Review office, at 97726-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. Sidney outraged at ‘band aid’ for Beacon by Girard Hengen The Review Outrage greeted the provincial government's new plan for minor changes to Sidney’s busiest inter: section in council chambers Mon- day night. Calling the proposal a “band aid,” a quick “‘fix, and “‘too little, too late,” aldermen denounced the Highways Ministry’s proposal to add an eastbound lane on Beacon Avenue at the Pat Bay Highway. The proposal, which is esti- mated to cost $35,000, was referred to council by the Capital Regional District board. “We're not happy at all with the band-aid solution that has been proposed,” said Ald. Don Amos, relaying the concerns of Sidney’s transportation task force. The task force, which includes council members, staff and trans- portation consultant Derek Wild, met earlier Monday. It recommended council not support the plan because, accord- ing to the minutes, it “is seen as being too little and does not go far enough in resolving the immediate problems of the intersection.” Aldermen voted to endorse a multi-faceted motion brought for- ward by the task force. Saying he is “very distressed, upset” with the proposal as it was “too little, too late,” Ald. Dave Goulet said the ministry planners have ignored all of the problems at the intersection. He noted the plan makes no provision for westbound traffic on Beacon, specifically the proposal to put two left-hand turn lanes onto the highway. Amos said a temporary solution Continued on Page A2 _ New community cenire process now underway ‘The first steps toward planning a new community centre in Sidney are underway. ‘The Sidney and North Saanich Memorial Park Society, which owns the property Sanscha Hall sits on, invited any interested par- ties to attend a meeting to “discuss and determine the feasibility of the proposal to construct a new com- munity facility which will replace Sanscha Hall.” Called by Memorial Park Socie- ty president John Lapham, the meeting was intended to “go to the residents to get direction.” Tsarilip elder receiving honorary degree by Valorie Lennox The Review Four years of school — and a lifetime of teaching — are enough to eam a doctorate of law from the University of Victoria for Tsartlip elder and Chief Samuel Sam. SAMUEL SAM On Saturday, Sam will receive the honorary degree from Univer- sity Chancellor Dr. Robert Rogers. Also receiving degrees at the same ceremony will be Bertha Williams, the first woman named to the Supreme Court of Canada, and philanthropist, educator and busi- nessman Francis George Win- spear. Sam is receiving the degree in recognition of his Canada-wide work against alcohol addiction on native reserves. Chairman of the national native advisory board for four years, he has worked with the National Native Alcohol Abuse program for the past 16 years and was one of the founders of the Round Lake Treatment Centre near Vernon and the Tsow Tun Le Lum Treatment Centre at Nanoose Bay. Both centres offer alcoholism treatment based on traditional native beliefs and culture. Sam first advocated using tradi- tional native methods while train- ing counselors for the National Native Alcohol Abuse program. He amended the official training program to include native values, a step which led to his appointment to a task force to plan the first all-native treatment centre. Native traditions have been part of Sam’s life from the beginning — he was born in the Tsawout Longhouse on February 19, 1925. He did not leam English until 1933, when he attended his first year of school at a small native- only school which had just opened on the Tsartlip band lands. However he was fluent in two Salish dialects, the Sencoten of the Saanich peoples and the Hul-kem- menum of the Cowichan peoples. He retained his fluency despite being forbidden to speak the native language during the follow- ing three years, which he spent at the native residential school on Kuper Island. -“T learned how to write my name and read a little bit,” he - recalls. “That was the entire edu- cation I had.” Yet he loves to read and in the past 20 to 25 years has tried to educate himself as much as possi- -ble. Two years ago, at 65, he attended the PALS literacy pro- gram at Stelly’s Secondary in order to improve his skills. Sam’s doctorate will be written in both Salish and English and will be presented both in Sam’s English name and in his native name, Xwe-xya-luc. Appropriately, Sam’s native name means “warm stone.” Sam still works as a drug and alcohol counselor, work which has brought him into close contact with the criminal justice system. He feels alcohol abuse and lack of education bring many native Continued on Page A2 “According to regulations gov- ering the society, the public has a right to be involved in future plans. Lapham said a questionnaire will be circulated to gauge support for the development of a new community hall. The next step will be the estab- lishment of a “high-powered com- mittee to determine the feasibility of building” either on the same location or elsewhere. : A symposium held in 1988 pro- vides substantial information for a task force or committee to start with, Lapham said. Persons with expertise are required to make up the task force. The Memorial Park Society is a unique body, Lapham said. Although it owns property, it can- not build. It owns Sanscha Hall, but it can’t be the one to operate it. Continued on Page A2 “E | 30