Earth Day activities:

Examine environmental alternatives

Boy Scouts on the Peninsula are poised to make the world
a better place Sunday with a concerted clean-up in numerous
locations.

Five TSartlip Boy Scout groups will clean up areas from
the Swartz Bay ferry terminal, along the Pat Bay Highway,
near the Sanscha ball diamonds, along Reay Creek, Tulista
Park, Lochside Drive, into Saanichton along Mt. Newton
Crossroad, through Centennial Park and into Brentwood Bay
through Rom Knott Park as part of Earth Week activities.

Earth Day and Earth Week events are being held across the
province and across the country this week, but no where is it
more important than nght in our own backyard. For local
residents, stopping to pause for a moment to take stock of
personal environmental initiatives is a good idea, we think.

Each and every person can contribute to the further
well-being of the planet we all enjoy. Examine how much
garbage you create and try to determine a way to generate less
waste.

BC Environment encourages people to practise the three
Rs — that is reduce, reuse and recycle. Many of their
campaigns are aimed at school children, with an intention to
have the student bring the ideas home for incorporation.

But the information is also available to the general public
and many suggestions for small savings can add up to a much
healthier world.

For Earth Day, which officially is today although many
eyents are planned for the weekend, consider a few of these
ideas. i

Haye a look at transportation altematives. Instead of going
for a Sunday drive, plan a Sunday walk.

Look at the type of packaging you purchase with your
products and consider alternatives like bulk buying. Pack
your own lunch in a reusable container.

Save plastic bags for reuse. Save aluminum foil for reuse.
Wrap gifts in leftover paper, like newspapers.

Use garbage cans instead of garbage bags. Learn how to
build a compost pile and start using it properly.

Recycle whatever you can’t reduce or reuse.

We must all lear to practise the 3 Rs in order to meet a
goal of reducing waste by 50 per cent by the year 2000.

If you need more information for specific questions, or
need some written material (on recycled paper), call the BC
Recycling Hotline toll-free at 1-800-667-4321.

Although starting with one’s self may not be entirely
appealing, if everyone does a little, the Earth will benefit.

Many people are finally realizing that we must produce
less garbage if we want our planet to remain livable.
Recycling alone will not solve our garbage problem. We must
also reduce and reuse.

Earth Day can be a time to focus on what the individual
can do to make the biggest difference.

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Conflict obvious,
needs checking

Editor:

I read recently that Clark Bink-
ley, the Dean of Forestry at UB.C,
has been appointed to the board of
directors of West Fraser Timber
(Vancouver Sun, Feb. 26). The
next day J read that former forestry
minister Claude Richmond is now
a paid lobbyist for the B.C. forest
industry (Victoria Times-Colonist,
Feb. 27).

What insider information will
this former minister pass on to
MacBlo and Fletcher-Challenge?

_ What ever happened to the B.C
Members’ Conflict of Interest
Act?

With such obvious allegiances
now evident, shouldn’t all “value
neutral” ministerial decisions
made by Richmond be reviewed
for bias?

How can Dean Binkley retain
his objectivity and academic
integrity while wearing two con-
flicting hats?

Is it any wonder that B.C is so
polarized when people like this
exhibit such cavalier disregard for
public perception and why distrust
of people in power is rampant.
Conflict of Interest Commissioner
Ted Hughes should investigate
immediately.

Jim Pine

Victoria

Fishermen profesi
no parking ban

Editor:

I’m writing in to protest a recent
decision to no longer allow park-
ing along the fishermen’s wharf at
Tseycum Harbour on Resthaven
Drive.

Apparently the parking lot on
the dock that has served us well
for a decade, and that was
designed and paid for with taxpay-
ers’ money, now suddenly is a fire
hazard. This is a joke that I do not
consider funny.

Anyone doing any repair work

or such projects can only imagine
the inconvenience of a very long
walk back and forth to your car
every time you need to get some-
thing.

But most importantly, there is no
handicapped parking available and
there are many older fishermen,
who after years of hard work, now
find it difficult to walk long dis-
tances, but still wish to contribute
to the community and not be
forced out of work.

The only place left to park is in
the overflow parking area directly
off Resthaven Drive and the latest
new rule is only boat owners are
allowed to park in this area, leav-
ing no area available for deck-
hands or service vehicles.

To me this is an outrage, and I’m
sure the people living adjacent to
the overflow parking lot would
agree.

I urge Town Council to do
something to rectify this problem.
If you disapprove, the telephone
number of the harbor manager’s
office is 666-1331.

Kevin Campbell

Sidney

| shop inthe U.S.
for good reason

Editor:

I saw in a daily newspaper last
week that- another company is
leaving Canada for the U.S. citing
high labor costs and free trade. It
seems they can produce their pro-
duct far cheaper across the border.

That's why I buy south of the
border. I can’t afford to buy Cana-
dian products here at home, so I
buy them in the States.

A Canadian-made face cloth is
$2.49 in the U.S. In Victoria the
very same one is $7.49, and yet I
saw an American-made face cloth
for $12 in Canada. Figure that one
out. Tobacco, cigarettes and alco-
hol prices are pre Trudeau across
the border.

I realize when you live in “Para-
dise” you must pay the price, but
we on this Island who are not

wealthy either do without or save
our money by not shopping here,
and then we shop “til we drop in
Bellingham.

I bought a Windsor chair down
there for $34..In Sidney the same
chair is $110. A dual pack of
typewriter ribbons is $7.99 U.S. A
single mbbon, same brand, cost us
$11.95 in Sidney, $8.95 in Vic-
toria.

Even figuring in exchange, ferry
fees, motel, food, etc. I still get
more value for my money and the
selection is far greater, and I have a
weekend away. (We won't discuss
groceries.)

So what is the problem? Uni-
ons? Even during the recession
they are still demanding more and
more money, and they would
tather have their plant shut down,
then take a pay cut. Rah! Rah!
Brothers and Sisters stand united.

Free Trade? How many compa-
nies and small businesses have

already gone under or have gone |

south? Wait until Mexico is in on
the Free Trade. We need more
small businesses, enterprises and
manufacturing plants in Canada,
but we also need our government
to stay the hell out of business, and
stick to what they do best, screw-
ing up world affairs.

Greed? I’ve seen a lot of that in
this area. Prices they are asking for
junk or shoddy goods is an insult.
Until the retailers or whomever
smartens up, Ill continue to pay
duty and still be farther ahead,
shopping tll I drop, south of the
border.

PS. to the retailers crying about
slow business, buy your own cry-
ing towel, they’re only $39.95
here, $8.95 in the States!

Anne E. Webster

Sidney

Couniry market is
revived old wave

Editor:

Thank you for the supportive
editorial for the Peninsula Country
Market and our efforts to promote

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