News TheReview Wednesday, March 11,1992 — A17 Prince presents gold awards fo local youths Four Peninsula residents were among 87 recipients of gold certif- icates from HRH Prince Philip Sunday, marking their achieve- ment of the gold level of Duke of Edinburgh awards. Three of the recipients, Chad Louwerse, Phillip Rennison and Pamela Smith, earned the award though the Royal Canadian Air Cadet “Kittyhawk” Squadron 676. A fourth recipient, Roy Jensen of Sidney, earned his award through independent effort although he had been a member of cadet squadrons on the Peninsula. The certificates were presented in a ceremony held in Vancouver. To achieve the award, the recip- ients had to be between 17 and 25 years of age and complete require- ments in the categories of service, expeditions, skills and physical fitness. At the gold award level, recip- ients must perform 60 to 90 hours of community service over a year to 18 months; must participate in an expedition requiring a mini- mum of four days overnight camp- ing; must demonstrate a skill prac- ticed for at least a year and must take part in regular physical activ- ily. A fifth requirement, a residen- _ tial activity demonstrating team- work, is required of gold recip- ients. For example, Jensen’s residen- tial activity is participating as a volunteer for Saanich Search and Rescue. : - His skill is rope work, knotting hammocks and doing decorative Tope work on paddles for cadets. - He has been an instructor for the Kittyhawk air cadet squadron. His expedition was a hiking and canoeing trip on the West Coast Trail and Nitinat Lake when he ROY JENSEN ed CHAD LOUWERSE PHILLIP. RENNISON _was in Grade 12 at Stelly’s Secon- dary. Like the other recipients, Louw- erse has a varied list of achieve- ments. He participated on a four- day winter exercise at Silver Lake in Kelowna, plays saxophone and does community service through air cadet projects. “Tt's feels pretty good,” he said, describing his reaction after earn- PAMELA SMITH ing the award. “Tt is a challenge. Each person leams something different about themselves.” The award is given at bronze, silver and gold levels and is open to young people aged 14 to 25. For more information, contact the award office at 212-633 Court- ney Street, Victoria B.C. or call 385-4232. False fire alarms are posing problem False alarms are becoming a problem for Sidney’s volunteer fire department, says fire preven- tion officer Larry Buchanan. There were 29 false alarms last year, according to the depart- ment’s annual report, which has been submitted to Sidney council. Buchanan says the number of false alarms has been on the rise each year. He urged people who are working on buildings that have alarms to let the department know before they start. For example, he said a building could be having work done on its wiring network, and a false alarm could be triggered accidentally. A call to Town hall to alert the department about the work could avoid having firefighters called to the scene unnecessarily, he said. There were 78 reported inci- dents in the department’s 1991 annual report, including false alarms, 34 fires, 14 other incidents and one aircraft crash. Firefighters were called out to 12 residential fires. Other fires were: chimney and trash — four each; vehicle — three; grass, boat, beach and industrial — two each; and com- mercial, bush and letter box — one each. There were 17 “dollar loss” fires last year, with an amount of loss of $125,330, reports the department. There were no fire-related deaths in 1991, and two people sustained minor injuries. The department operates under - the direction of town council’s fire wardens committee. It is made up entirely of volunteers, and consists of 37 firefighters and a fire preven- vi BAe peo kee bea Be tion officer under Chief Doug Loney and Deputy Chief Lindsay Giles. The department held 40 practice nights, with an average attendance of 25 per night. This works out to 2,000 man-hours of practice. ee ee ee ee eee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee BDYSSIAi Last year, members started train- ing with the Victoria airport fire department on a one-crew, one- night a month basis. 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