lf (CI se, ct nant Ret, oaiinne rene a by ae eee eer ae Ppa as ta, 4 Make the Warmth of Tanners apart of Your Chnstmas Iradition TANNERS A BOOKSTORE & MORE _ Audited Circulation 12,792 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Wednesday December 11,1991 40¢ BUSINESS C7 CALENDAR C10 CLASSIFIEDS A22 COMMUNITY All GARDENING C14 OPINION AT SPORTS Gi |QUTDOORS C12 BEYER AZT GRENBY C7 “HAMPSON C12 | LANG C14 _ | TOP OF THE PILE A7 WALLBERG nes AFFORDABLE HOUSING Sidney reserves a parcel near the airport for a future housing complex | THE MISSING LINKS Are there enough golf courses in the CRD? CANADA'S BEST ROWERS Two Peninsula products are honored by Rowing Canada as top junior scullers of tne TOUR TO CHINA Limited space remains for students interested in a Cultural tour of mysterious China TRAPPING AND BANDING Discovering pattems after the difficult rapping of a Trusting snowy ow! Victoria WEEKUES Page A3 Page B1 year Page Cl Page C8 Page C12 Review office hours The Review office, at 9726-First St. in Sidney, is open from 9'a m. until 5 p.m. Monday threugh Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B-C. V8L 3S5. Second class mai! registration number 0128. Copied questionnaires caughi by APC Sidney’s advisory planning commission has uncovered an attempt to slant the findings of its Official Community Plan ques- tionnaire. The APC’s questionnaire was mailed to all town households. Sidney residents are reminded they still have a couple days left to complete and return it. The 38-question document asked pointed questions on how residents view their town, and where they think it should be headed. APC chairman Reg Teeney said the commission “thought we would be clever” be copying the questionnaire on treated paper. The effort paid off. Teeney said 24 photocopied questionnaires have been found among those returned. He said copied questionnaires will be caught, and residents need- ing an official one can pick one up at the Town office. He said the deadline for returns is Friday, and anyone who has not done so should complete the ques- tionnaire and send it promptly. It’s importance is “that it would give the APC an idea of the direction in which the town should go,” he said. At the end of last week, about one-quarter of the 4,000 question- naires sent out had been returned. Tabulating results should begin early next week. Bitter exchanges as Jones critiques new Ccommitiees by Girard Hengen The Review Bitter exchanges and acrimoni- ous remarks were exchanged by Sidney aldermen Monday after ‘Ald. Bob Jones complained he was being shunned in the new committee re-alignment. Jones was critical of some of Mayor Marie Rosko’s committee decisions, saying “I am extremely dissatisfied with the way some of the appointments have gone.” The reason, he hinted, was because he voted for Ald. John Heritage committee moves cautiously by Girard Hengen The Review The many municipal and provin- cial heritage programs and pieces of legislation can be daunting and confusing to those who have not kept pace with the heritage moye- ment. Added to the mix are a plethora of committees, groups, trusts, foundations and societies all dedi- cated to preserving and conseryv- ing historic sites, houses and buildings. Some. bodies are created under government legislation, charged with responsibilities outlined in provincial Acts and local bylaws. This week, in the second of a three-part installment by Review reporter Girard Hengen, heritage advisory committees in Sidney and Central Saanich will be examined, as will the legislation which created them. Sidney's committee sponsored a “Let's Get Organized” workshop last month, and issues arising from that will be discussed. Where to start? That is the question being pon- dered by members of Sidney’s heritage advisory | committee (HAC). A good beginning was made at a “Let’s Get Organized” workshop held in late November. Central Saanich’s HAC has Si. Pierre is wry and ginger PAUL ST. PIERRE He’s been called a literary giant in the mold of Mark Twain. He’s been an insider in the halls of Parliament and someone you met in the zocalo of a small seaside Mexican town. Paul St. Pierre is at home in a pickup truck on the Chilcotin or a cantina in Teacapan. St. Pierre has a decidedly differ- ent view of the universe and he’s going to share if with you every week in the Victoria Weeklies, Starting in this issue. There’s an introduction to the remarkable columnist on page B10. already been grappling with some of the issues raised at the work- shop. The District council has asked the committee for input on a number of issues, and the commit- tee has ambitious plans heading into its second year of operation. As for Sidney’s HAC, an array of workshop facilitators — seven in total — told town residents not to get all in a lather over heritage preservation. Slow, steady, methodical pro- gress must be made to educate the public on the role of the commit- tee in the town, they said. Then, steps can be taken to enhance Sidney’s heritage. And finally, if the HAC so recommends and if council approves, sites and buildings can be designated as heritage properties. Committee chairman Cyril Hume said: “We agree we need to introduce ourselves to the town and what it is the committee is going to be doing,...and to gently, without threatening, start a discus- sion about this thing called heri- tage. “Tt is not a monster.” The committee felt a need to consult with the public right away. Hence the rationale for the work- shop, which was held at the Library Nov. 22-23. “WHAT IS SIDNEY?” Allison Habkirk, a planning consultant and one of the facilitat- Continued on Page A13 Calder at a meeting last Monday to sit as the CRD representative. Rosko took over as Sidney's CRD rep after a secret 4-3 vote over Calder. She said Tuesday the appoint- ments were “not done with any particular malice,” and that they were not political decisions. She said she would “not get into personalities or egos because I feel I have to, along with council, decide what works best for the community.” Jones said he was turfed or demoted on some committees which he has sat on for years. He used to chair the fire wardens’ committee and report to council on the Peninsula Recreation Com- mission. _ He said he was “‘quite disap- pointed in not having been offered the chair” of the fire wardens’ committee. He was dismayed to lose the Town tep’s position on the recrea- tion commission, although he said he was pleased Calder was named to it. However, he said it was incon- sistent not to. have a commission representative report to council’s new community services commit- tee, of which he is a member, because the new committee has a broad mandate to advise council Continued on Page AZ