Nam Ge Ne aa CE ee es te | Re Ep ne ere n ~~~ ae ' \ \ LAST” ft Be a ASS Make the Warmth of Tanners apartof Your Chnstmas Tradition TANNERS A BOOKSTORE & MORE Audited Circulation 12,792 A Victoria Weeklies Publication Tuesday December 24, 1991 40¢ BUSINESS | A20 CALENDAR A10 CLASSIFIEDS A22 COMMUNITY A9 GARDENING A19 OPINION AT SPORTS A13 OUTDOORS A16 BEYER AZ CROSS Al2 GRENBY A20 HAMPSON A16 HENGEN Al4 LANG A19 TOP OF THE PILE A7 WALLBERG A21 QUARTER-MILLION BOOST Sidney’s sewage gels an effeciency expenditure Page A3 FREE NEW YEAR’S RIDES For one night only, B.C. Transit offers Victorians a free liff home Page A7 HOCKEY TO GOLF The youngest golfer on the pro Tour was an all star centre for the Peninsula Junior Eagles Page A13 PENINSULA FOCUS AT CRD CRD board chairman Frank Leonard sees big things happening here Page A28 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY Tae Saanich Peninula is homme to many firms specializing in high tech gasgels and equipment pager: Review office hours The Review office, at 9726-First St. in Sidney, is open from 9 a m. until S p.m. Monday. thrcugh Friday. Mail to Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. V8L 3S5. Second class mai! registration number 0128. Housing project a dead issue ‘unfortunately’ by Girard Hengen The Review One last stab at getting the approvals needed for an affordable housing project on McDonald Park Road to go ahead has failed _ in Sidney committee of the whole. “As far as I’m concemed it’s a dead issue, unfortunately,” said Ald. Dave Goulet. Council in September voted not to extend sewer connections to a 24-unit Kappa Developments Ltd. project on McDonald Park Road in North Saanich. Pacifica Housing Advisory Association executive director Hilary Stewardson made a presen- tation to the committee on Dec. 16 asking aldermen to reconsider so as not to lose federal financing for the project. However, no aldermen made a motion to reconsider. Acting administrator Paul Edgington said since the matter was defeated in September, and defeated again upon a motion to reconsider that night, it was his opinion that the legislation required unanimous consent of the committee in order to put it back -on the table. Ald. Ted Daly, who favored the connections, said it was obvious committee members wouldn’t be unanimous on this. He made a motion asking for a legal opinion on whether unani- mous consent was required or whether reconsideration on a two- thirds majority vote, or five of seven council members, would suffice. This motion was voted down, with Daly, Ald. John Calder and Mayor Marie Rosko in favor, and Alds. Goulet, Brenda Harfield, Don Amos and Bob Jones against. Continued on Page AZ Friday and Saturday, would help 71é story Of Mini-sul leaves Peninsula for Halifax by Valorie Lennox The Review The Pisces is gone. Canada’s only deep-diving mini-submarine was loaded on to a Hercules Wednesday for trans- port to the East Coast, after 20 years as a research vessel for the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich. 30 25 20 15 Christmas fund exceeds goal A $30,000 goal was reached, then surpassed, last week as the Sidney Lions/Review Christmas Hamper Fund and the Sidney and Peninsula Kiwanis Toy Drive completed its mission. About 1,345 individuals were assisted by the organiza- tions, Lions club treasurer Dar- by Thompson said last week. In total 452 food hampers were prepared and delivered to less fortunate families on the Penin- sula. The office in the Mariner Village Mall closed Saturday as organizers thanked the com- munity for its fabulous support. “Everything went very well, thanks to the people in the community,” Lions’ volunteer Andy Andrew said. Over $31,000 in monetary donations were made and roughly $10,000 worth of gro- ceries was received. “All of it’s been dispersed and the left over will tide (the food bank) through into Janua- ry and February,” he said. Pilot Al Witcombe of Central Saanich has piloted the Pisces IV for 13 years — after working for the North Vancouver based Inter- national Hydrodynamics, the com- pany which built the deep-diving, mini-sub. Despite the rain, he and fellow pilots Keith Shepherd and Bob Holland stood on the tarmac at Victoria Airport Wednesday to watch the Pisces being loaded on to the Hercules. The submarine is being trans- ferred to a navy base in Halifax. The pilots’ final descents in the Pisces were to train navy pilots in the use of the submersible. Witcombe said the decision to transfer the Pisces to the navy was made two years ago. “They were looking for a solu- tion to make the Pisces opera- tional,” he said. For the last three years, the Pisces has been without a base ship on the west coast, limiting the use of the sub to occasional short “fives in the Saanich inlet. Built in 1972 for about $2 ‘million, the mini-sub requires a support vessel to operate. An off-shore supply vessel, the Pandora, was modified into a sup- port ship. Loaded aboard the Pandora, the Pisces circumnavigated North America three times and dived in waters ranging from Bermuda to the Arctic, doing scientific research, surveying the ocean floor and occasionally doing military searches. The most recent military search — was done in 1990, when the navy brought in the support ship Cor- morant from Halifax so the Pisces could search for wreckage from a downed CF-18 fighter. “Pisces recovered everything that was required, including the flight data recorder,’ Witcombe said. However, aside from that mis- sion, for the last three year the Continued on page A17 Recycle old phone books The Capital Regional District will be collecting old phone books from Jan. 6 to 17. Books can be put in Blue Boxes, apartment totes and permanent drop boxes. In addition, containers will be available at Hartland to receive phone books from Jan. 2 to March 31. The permanent drop sites include Glamorgan Road and McDonald Park Road in North Saanich, and the two boxes in Central Saanich — at Mount New- ton Crossroad and Central Saanich Road, and Keating Crossroad across from the municipal works yard. There will be no additional drop boxes provided. Non-profit and school groups can collect books and deliver them to Hartland for 10 cents per book (in collections over 100). Books will be collected free of charge but they will not be purchased by the CRD from commercial and “for- profit” groups and businesses.