"dad65c9d-367c-480d-82eb-8841baf46cc1"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "[Coast News]"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2012-07-25"@en . "1985-07-22"@en . "Serving the Sunshine Coast since 1945"@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xcoastnews/items/1.0172282/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Firemen urge g_-v. by Brad Benson Gibsons Volunteer Fire Department responded rapidly on Saturday afternoon to a forest fire at the.end of Fitchett Road in Gibsons. Here a pitchy log, still smouldering, is thoroughly doused. The fire was contained before it spread on what is a residential street adjacent to the Gibsons Ready Mix plant. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDianne Evans photo The five weeks' of hot, dry weather the Sunshine Coast has been experiencing is posing a serious threat of forest fires. Unless there is rain, Greg Hemphill, the Sechelt Forest District's resource officer - protection, predicts their fire danger classification will move this week from its \"high\" (at press time) to \"extreme.\" TThese classifications are based yony a combination of temperature, winds, duration andjrainfall. Pnder the \"high\" fire danger classification, fire prevention regulations require industrial operations such as logging and road construction to work on an \"early shift,\" which means they must be out of the forest by 1 p.m. At the highest classification level, \"extreme\", all industrial operations in the forest must shut down completely. This year's fire hazard has been aggravated by an abnormally hot and dry five week period following after an abnormally dry winter. The last measurable rainfall on the coast, according to forest service figures occurred on June 13 and 14 with traces on.June 29 and 30. Not only is there a threat to the forests, but to private property as well. The five fire protection districts on the Sunshine Coast, which are responsible for protecting private property (the forest service is responsible for protecting crown land) have a total closure on all burning, according to Mel Buckmaster, Gibsons Fire Chief. Even in normal conditions, burning permits are required between the months of April and October. The town of Gibsons just experienced such a severe shortage of water in its reservoirs that it would have had trouble fighting a major fire such as at a shopping mall. Lorraine Goddard, clerk- treasurer of Gibsons reported that last Friday the problem had been fixed and that by this ' Monday, the water level should be sufficient to fight any fire. The water reservoir level, which was already dropping because of heavy residential use in an attempt to keep lawns and gardens green, shrank to alarming levels when one of the pumps from the town's two wells that supply the reservoir broke down in early July. Notices forbidding the use of sprinklers and hoses were hand- delivered to all residences. The problem was aggravated further when difficulties were experienced with the replacement pump. During the crisis, a third well, which had been dug last year, was hooked into the system so , that now three wells are pumping into the reservoir. The Sechelt forest district has experienced eight forest fires this summer with the last occurring at Treat Creek in Jervis Inlet on July 16. This fire was caused by a lightning strike. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Of the other seven forest fires, Hemphill reported that two were caused by burning buildings, one by a campfire, one by an escaped slash burn, and two are suspected of being caused by careless cigarette smokers. As a fire prevention measure, campfires were banned by the forest service on July 11. In an effort to clarify a common misunderstanding, Hemphill stressed that such a ban includes all campfires, even those set on the beach below the high water mark. To prevent forest fires created by arson, a $5000 reward is offered for informa- Please turn to page 22 Scantech in Wood Bay Deputy Minister grants permit Residents of Wood Bay, near Middle Point, were astounded on Sunday morning, July 14,* to see a large fish pen put in place on the foreshore of the Sturloff property. y Mac Richardsoif', whose pm- ' periy is adjacent but one to the- site of the fish farm which is, owned by Scantech Resources, expressed his indignation in a conversation with the Coast News. According to Richardson, Scantech's application for a foreshore lease went to Richard Webber of Lands, Parks and Housing in Burnaby, who then received a telephone call from Deputy Minister of Lands, Parks and Housing, Tom Lee, directing Webber to grant the permit immediately. This was done, according to Richardson, because Scantech said they had fish which would die unless they were moved. They were brought from the May hatchery on Nelson Island. The fish, 175,000 of them according to Clark Hamilton of Scantech, are to be raised to go into U-Catch-'em pens for Expo 86. Scantech has not had any ^^^rftgeTnent^ %;ytfteylocal newspapers advising of their application for a permit to operate a fish farm in this area, nor have their notices appeared in the B.C. Gazette. Such applications, especially where they may be controversial or disputed by surrounding residents, usually come before the Sunshine Coast Regional District Board for their comments. This has not happened. \"There was no Crown referral,\" said regional planner, Jim Johnstone, \"They said they were short of time and had to move the fish from another site, so a temporary permit was granted.\" According to Richardson, Hamilton of Scantech told him that the company was \"there for a long time,\" and that the company intended to bring in several more pens. The property where the pens are situated is on the border of Areas A and B, and Area A Director -Ian '^ VAughan*' shares Richardson's concerns about the lack of due process followed by Scantech. \"This is granting of a permit by edict,\" he said in a conversation with the Coast News. \"Everyone else has to go through environmental studies, has to show their financial statements, put ads in the papers and the B.C. Gazette, go through the proper channels.\" Richardson said he will write to Bob Gilmour, of Lands, Parks and Housing to try to register his complaints and those of the some 300 people he has approached during the last week. \"Of all those people, not one has said they wouldn't sign a petition if I brought it around to \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDprotest this^?> Richardson .said. ' ' ' \" ' 'a'-'*- \"I didn't sleep last night, all night there was a boat banging against one of the pens. I suppose they could take care of that, but if they bring in another 16 pens, like they say they will, it's going to be awfully noisy. \"They are metal, and have to make noise with the wave action. The property (Sturloff's) extends right around into Wood Bay, so I don't know why they can't move somewhere where they won't be a nuisance to the neighbours.\" Mayor Larry Labonte of Gibsons was among the 54 people who arrived in Gibsons on the Beachcomber Tours yacht Radiant, last Thursday. (See story on page 12). \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDianne Evans photo Municipality gives more control Ritchie favours restructuring While the provincial Minister of Municipal Affairs Bill Ritchie was in Sechelt last week to sign the Partners in Enterprise agreement, he was questioned about several aspects of the proposed Sechelt boundary expansion which has been under study this year and which is currently the subject of informal public meetings. The minister clearly stated that he is in favour of a municipal structure of government over the regional structure as it currently stands. He stressed that the \"at large\" system of electing representatives which municipal structures allow is more democratic than the \"ward\" system of the regional boards. lUnder the \"at large system\", the representatives on the governing body are responsible to the whole constituency whereas in the \"ward system\" the representatives are responsible only to those constituents in their particular area. This means that decisions affecting a particular area may be made contrary to the wishes of the people in that area and against the vote of the area's representative. In addition, more local control of government accrues to municipalities in the areas of roads and zoning. Ritchie explained that regional boards were brought into existence to provide a vehicle for unorganized areas to have some form of local government. However, Ritchie stated that his ministry, in cooperation with the union of B.C. municipalities is currently studying changes that will affect regional boards, particularly in the areas of planning and taxation. Ritchie was questioned about current plans for changes in the policing cost formula that re quires a municipality, once it exceeds a population of 5000 to begin assuming these costs directly. . This is an important issue in the proposed Sechelt municipality since the estimated population of the proposed area is 4800. Ritchie stated that though he could not comment publicly at this time, the issue is currently under study. \"It is something we have to take a look at.\" Under the current system of paying for policing costs, municipalities under 5000 and regional districts do not pay their share directly. These issues are among many that the residents of West Sechelt, Porpoise Bay- Tuwanek, Selma Park, Davis Bay and Wilson Creek will be considering as the question of whether or not they wish to join in the proposed new Sechelt municipality continues through the process of public hearing and the possibility of a public referendum. Angry businessman protests taxes \"I feel that I want to dynamite the whole top floor,\" said Bill Copping to the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) board at a public utilities committee meeting July 18. On the top floor of his building Copping has seven offices and two washrooms; his water and sewer taxes have increased from $102 in July, 1980, to nearly $2000 in 1985. Trail Bay Mall pays $3888, the Sechelt Insurance Agencies pay $288, and Capilano College, $225, according to a list released at the meeting; in Gibsons, Copping said, Gibsons Building Supplies pay only $48 per year for water. \"To draw comparisons with Gibsons is like comparing apples and oranges,\" said Chairman Jim Gurney, \"what our rate schedule didn't do is recognize situations where you have cubbyhole offices. They are all treated as separate residences.\" Gurney proposed that the bylaw be amended to better interpret what premises are, and to differentiate separate tenants from multi-use office space. He also proposed that property owners who would be affected by the amendment be notified in writing and receive a refund for the years in which over-charges were made. The payment date for 1985 taxes would be extended until October 31. Director Jon McRae, chairman of the PUC, asked where the costs incurred by this would come from. \"Do you want to pass these costs onto the residents?\" he asked. \"Whose taxes are you going to raise?\" Gurney responded by saying that the amount involved was not great, because few properties were affected, and that a very modest increase in 1986 would help offset whatever deficit would be incurred. Provincial minister of municipal affairs Bill Ritchie was on the Coast last week to sign the Partners in Enterprise agreements with both Sechelt Mayor Joyce Kolibas and Gibsons Mayor Larry Labonte. 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If any concerned members of the public wish to contact them please phone 886-8811 and make an appointment for one of those dates. If you are unable to meet with them in person, they will receive written information addressed to the Consultant Team, c/o School District No. 46 (Sunshine Coast), P.O. Box 220, Gibsons, B.C. VON 1V0. Restructuring The next restructuring drop-in meeting will be on Saturday, July 27, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the village office in Sechelt. On Sunday, July 28, there'll be another meeting at Jack Marsden's home, #44 Caramel Place in Tuwanek, from 2 to 4 p.m. Museum meeting The Elphinstone Pioneer Museum Society will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday, July 24, at 7 p.m. in the museum. All welcome. 2. r Coast News, July 22,1985 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ~r *t*' Forty years after /* This Tuesday past marked the fortieth anniversary of the first explosion of the A-Bomb in a New Mexico desert. Less than a month later, Hiroshima was bombed and on August 9 Nagasaki fell to the new and deadly weapon. For 40 years since we have pursued the path that the explosion opened up to us and today we stand on the brink of a catastrophe none of us in those more innocent times would have imagined possible. Our technology has advanced in leaps and bounds, always accelerating in its progress. At the close of the Nineteenth Century it was not generally believed that man could fly; today we explore the far reaches of the solar system, we seriously work towards a permanent colony in space, settlements on the moon, science fiction becomes reality. Today it is possible, with a neutron bomb, to destroy all the living creatures within a city without laying waste the real estate. Today it is possible for us to destroy the planet Earth many times over within minutes. Today 500,000,000 people in this world are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. There are no easy solutions; there is no quick-fix answer. Although in some ways we are powerless to intervene and in others we can make changes, there is one thing that remains the same, no matter what our political colour, no matter what we see the solution to be. That is, that we are fellow travellers on the spaceship Earth; we are hurtling through space on the only home we have; this is our only earthly chance. We, have to look about us and see what we have to lose. And that's what we have to save. When we see pictures of our planet making its glorious passage through the infinity of space, we have to realize that without cooperation, without love and kindness, without compassion, and without recognizing the humanity that lives in each one of us, we don't have a future. If we don't care, and act on that, we'll lose it all. Dianne Evans from the file* of the COAST NEWS 5 YEARS AGO At their planning committee meeting last Friday, Gibsons council gave approval-in-principle to development of the 48-unit Ritz Motel at the corner of Gower Point Road and Dougal Road. Carl Chrismas acted as master of ceremonies at the official opening of the new fishing lodge at Clowholm Falls. Over 150 Madeira Park residents turned out to ask their water board to raise its charges to developers Sunday, but most of them went home unsatisfied. 10 YEARS AGO Regional Director Peter Hoemberg moves that the regional board spend $50,000 for the acquisition of Coopers' Green. In what is believed to be the first venture of its type in the province, the regional board, the village of Sechelt and the Indian Band are meeting to initiate the development of a community plan for the Sechelt vicinity. 15 YEARS AGO Bird Construction Company has low tender for the construction of St. Mary's Hospital with a bid of $599,044. 20 YEARS AGO Tenders on five local projects on schools were $52,000 higher than school board expectations. Gibsons water rate has been increased from $8.50 to $15 per quarter. 25 YEARS AGO Sechelt Lockers advertises spare riblets at 15 cents a pound; Grade A round steak is advertised for sale at 69 cents a pound. 30 YEARS AGO Seven tugs had trouble with log booms when high winds descended on the area. A local taxi driver, charged by provincial police with bootlegging, was fined $300 and $17.20 costs. 30 YEARS AGO First reading by Gibsons council outlined a $7,000 water main replacement program. .Mary Drew and Molly Kennett open a bake shop in Gibsons to be known as the Cake Basket. 40 YEARS AGO The sudden death of Doctor Keith Wray-Johnson came as a shock to all who knew him, The doctor died in his office in Vancouver at the age of 38 of a heart attack. He had been in charge of St. Mary's Hospital in Garden Bay. Summer visitors out for a walk near Hopkins Landing on Friday, July 6, reported a cow mired to its neck in a bog. The boys who went to rescue it couldn't find it and presumed it had sunk out of sight. The same visitors out walking on Sunday, July 8, saw the same cow in the same bog and finally rescued it. This photograph was taken from the parapet on the roof-top of the Standard Building on the corner of Pender and Howe Streets shortly after Pier B.C. was completed in 1931. The sailing ship being manoeuvered in the harbour is the Pamir which plied in regular trade between the B.C. coast ports and the Antipodes. I remember once when I was on leave from my navy frigate HMCS Royalmount refitting in Cape Breton Island shortly after VE day I took a job unloading sacks of glue which we trucked from Pamir to a box factory near the B.C. Sugar plant. It was the summer of 1945 and I had 45 days leave while our ship was being readied for the Pacific War. Shortly after I went back to my ship the Japanese surrendered. We \"spliced the mainbrace\" with an extra tot of rum and eventually in October made our way home to our loved ones. The white Empress at Pier B is one of the four that plied the passenger trade to the Orient, namely the Empress of Asia, Empress of Russia, Empress of Canada and Empress of Japan (which was renamed Empress of Ireland after the outbreak of hostilities with Japan). Aorangi is berthed at Pier C and was engaged in passenger service to the Antipodes along with her sister ship the Niagara. In Maori language \"Aorangi\" means \"cloud piercer\". This picture came from even an older place, namely the Vancouver Port Meteorological Office which was first opened by the Shearman Brothers in 1905 and kept the official records for Vancouver City till 1937 when Vancouver Airport became the official site. T.S.H. Shearman was an astronomer by profession. When he died in 1914 his brother Eustace B. Shearman took over weather observer duties. When he retired in 1947 former Commander Bromley took over and in 1950 when he retired, I was appointed to the position. Aorangi was one of my 'selected weather ships* as was Waitomo, Waikawa, Wairuna, Waitemata, Waihemo, all of Union Steamships in New Zealand and Canadian Australasian Lines. During the Korean peace keeping mission CPR's Maplecove and Mapledett were also weather reporting ships for my office. In the 1950's the Port Meteorological Office was located in the Winch Building (after Ernie Winch) at the bottom right of the picture and now part of Liberal \"Jimmy Sinclair\" Square. Caption by Richard F. Kennett Dianne Evans Political - but why not? by Dianne Evans Women from North America, attending the United Nations' world conference marking the end of the Decade for Women, in Nairobi, Kenya, were admonished by President Ronald Reagan to keep from politicising the conference by indulging in propaganda and arguing issues such as peace and disarmament. It is hard to imagine a more powerful and political issue than women's rights and the struggle to attain them. The United Nations reported in 1980, that women, representing 50 per cent of the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of the work, receive one-tenth of the world income and own less than one per cent of world property. These figures are alarming, and point out the imbalance of power that exists all over the world. And this does not reflect the fact that it is the women who bear the children, and do most of the child-rearing. Half the world's population surely has the right to discuss matters of peace and the arms race; women and their children are the ones who suffer most from the astronomically high expenditures on weapons which leaves too little for other purposes. There are numerous examples which vividly illustrate this point. Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, Dean of the Harvard University School of Public Health, in an address to a conference held at UBC in 1984, by Physicians for Social Responsibility, quoted some disturbing figures. Eleven million babies die before their first birthday; half the world's population does not have safe drinking water and most sickness and death in the Third World is directly attributable to contaminated water. An estimated two-thirds of all couples in the Third World lack ready access to family planning services. Less than 10 per cent of the Third World's children are immunized against six common , childhood diseases for which vaccines exist and five million children die of those diseases each year. In Kenya, the average woman has eight children, and does all the field work to produce all the food. And the problems exist not only in the Third World. In the same address Dr. Hiatt reported that the infant mortality rate in the population served by health clinics in poverty-area, inner city districts had increased by 46 per cent. Infant and maternal health funds had been decreased by 40 per cent. This amounted to a $600,000 cut in the Boston area to which Dr. Hiatt was referring. A Bl bomber, of which the United States has 34, costs, on a prorated basis, $240 million, more than enough to provide decent infant and maternal care across all of North America. It is interesting to note that the nuclear powers are down on the list of infant mortality rates; in 1983, France was tenth, the United Kingdom, thirteenth, the US, fourteenth,. and the USSR, twenty-eighth, whereas non-nuclear powers such as Finland, Japan, and Sweden had the lowest rates. Were these issues not to concern women it would be surprising. To know that, as in 1983, $663 billion were spent on military expenditures globally when there are half a billion people in the world suffering from hunger and malnutrition is to know that there is something very wrong with the way we view our fellow human beings, and priorities which we deem to be the most important. It is political, that's true, but why should we apologise for that? Women are not in positions of power in the world, with a few notable exceptions. In many countries they are held in contempt, viewed as second class citizens, as chattels of men; in our own country women are frequently paid less than men and do many of the most menial tasks. There are those who rail against these inequities with strident voices, it is true, but we need to hear about the issues. Men and women are not the same, and I bless many of the differences, but we are all human beings and we should all come into the world with the equal opportunity to achieve our life's dreams. Women one day must achieve control over their ability to reproduce, over their rights to be viewed as human beings, equally as valuable as men. When women can walk beside men and not several paces behind, then all of us, men and women, will have reached a better place. i t SC-S-SB-B-CC Dawn uvumun;\ Maryanne's viewpoint _ Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD heating color up into it at a far edge,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbeating it, beating it with rising triumphant ardor,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD stirring it into warmth, quickening in it a spreading change- bursting wildly against if as dividing the horizon, a heavy sun lifts himself\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDis lifted\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD bit by bit above the edge of things,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDruns free at last out into the open\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD/ lumbering glorified in Jul! release upward\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD songs cease. * asE-sssc William Carlos Williams M Imaginative blueprint for peace by Maryanne West The Sunshine CO-PUBLISHERS John Burnside M.M. Vaughan EDITORIAL Editor, Dianne Evans Brad Benton PRODUCTION Fran Burnside Leif Pedersen Jo Forrest ADVERTISING J. Fred Duncan pat Tripp TYPESETTING Anne Thomscn DISTRIBUTION Steve Carroll The Sunshine Coast News is a co-operative locally owned newspaper, published on the Sunshine Coast, B.C. every Monday by Glassford Press Ltd., Box 460, Gibsons, B.C. VON 1V0. Gibsons Tel. 886-2622 or 886-7817; Sechelt Tel. 885-3930. Second Class Mail Registration No. 4702. The Sunshine Coast News is protected by copyright and reproduction of any part if it by any means is prohibited unless permission in writing is first secured from Glassford Press Ltd., holders of the copyright. I Subscription Rates: Canada: 1 year $30; 6 months $18; Foreign: 1 year $35 This week we will wind up Thomas Fehsenfeld's \"peace\" scenario written from the vantage point of the year 2010. His hypothesis that by trying to make agreements with a government we don't like or trust, we are working backwards and are bound to fail, is so obvious it's easy to overlook. I also liked his pragmatic approach, that human nature being what it is, peace is probably unattainable \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand therefore he recommends conflict management, using areas of common interest upon which to build trust. How the McConnell network got governments interested in its ideas also offers useful suggestions for those interested in change and getting ideas accepted. The interview with the Macronet Educational network continues:- McConnell: \"We decided early in our endeavour that it was not enough to think up new deas and make logical irguments for them. There was i wise old politician who joined our group, he continually asked of each idea, 'Who has the power to implement this? How could they be motivated to do so?' It was fine to argue about what should be, but if no one could find an answer to George's question the ideas was dropped. MN: \"Did he come up with the idea of 'a program, a constituency, a coalition'?\" McConnell: \"Yes. After we had answered his questions about who had the power to implement the ideas, we asked what groups in society would benefit by its implementation and what groups could influence the policy maker. We then searched for a way to create a coalition between them to get the job done. We had to carry it one step further and ask which groups would be opposed to such a change and how their opposition could be dealt with.\" MN: \"Especially the armed forces and their suppliers?\" McConnell: \"Yes indeed, in a pluralistic society such as ours, you cannot simply advocate ideas which will put many hundreds of thousands out of a job. New missions had to be found for them. \"When you said that military budgets have dropped one tenth their twentieth century level, you were technically correct, ^but we still have a very large army. They are now performing non-military missions. The ecological disasters Of the late 1980's were the main motivation in this change. The reforestation of the Sahara by the American Army was one of its finest hours. \"Today the American services are widely respected and welcomed around the world for their contributions to preserving the ecosystems and aid in the construction of transportation and communications systems. Their scientific work on the seas and in space is providing us with greater understanding of the world.\" MN: \"How could a simple computer network gain so much influence?\" McConnell: \"Numbers. We simply recruited and recruited. At one time we had almost 20,000 active members. This in itself was a powerful forum of new ideas. Equally important were the many groups which used the network. It also spawned many businesses. The conflict management industry did not exist 25 years ago. Now there are many conflict management data bases, expert systems programs, consulting programs, conflict resolution centres. They deal with anything from family disputes to labour/management problems to international relations.\" MN: \"Where does the conflict management movement go from here?\" McConnell: \"There is a growing awareness that we must move beyond conflict management. The techniques are now so widely known and people are becoming better managers of their own conflicts. The most progressive companies are developing approaches to emphasize the constructive uses of conflict. Once the connection between conflict and violence is broken it can be a very creative experience.\" Coast News. Julv 22.1985 araty &pp& Editor: I am writing on behalf of the Sunshine Coast Solidarity Coalition regarding the closure : of the Gibsons Service Mart. We are opposed to the decision of B.C. Telephone Company to close this facility. With this closure, our com- rriunity loses two jobs. We also lose the personal service provided by Barb Chiasson and Marie ;Synnot. These two people are Ijiot being allowed to continue :tfieir work here. We are now ^forced,to pay a fee or charge ; just to pay our telephone bill. We find that regardless of the needs and wishes of the community, as expressed in two \"Town Hall Meetings\", B.C. Telephone Company has carried on with its policy of centralization and forced transfer of employees. Our community is almost completely dependent on work for large outside interests, like forest companies, crown corporations and foreign-owned monopolies like B.C. Telephone Company. It is unacceptable to us that these companies con tinue to make decisions with complete indifference to the effect their decisions have on workers and our community. We intend to continue to support the TWU in its efforts to keep the service mart and the two jobs in Gibsons.- We believe it is time that the well- being of workers and their communities take precedence over the maximization of profits by corporations. Hans Penner Sunshine Coast Solidarity Coalition Firemen give good response Editor: I am writing to advise of a recent experience involving a house fire at my home. On July 6 I called upon the services of the Roberts Creek Volunteer Fire Department at my home in Roberts Creek and was amazed with the promptness of their response and pleased with the effectiveness of their efforts. Within a matter of minutes the truck was on the scene of the fire. It is my opinion that the fire department is \"volunteer\" in name only as the actions of the fire volunteers and their Chief indicated a \"high degree of professionalism\" in every sense. I was very impressed with the professionalism displayed, not only by Chief Mulligan in his giving of firm directives to his staff, but also with the teamwork response by them. Class re-union warmly greeted Editor: \"Emily Fraser said it well in her letter to you last week expressing her reaction to \"coming home to Gibsons\" for the 10 year reunion of the Elphinstone class of 1975. I think she spoke Pesticide appeal Editor: Residents of Sakinaw and Ruby Lakes whose domestic water sources are near the power line should be aware that hydro has been granted a permit to apply herbicide in that area. 'Apparently no provision has been made for protection of water courses. The usual practice is to leave a pesticide free zone on either side of a water course. ^ 1 have made an appeal which will be heard by ministry of the environment officials on August 20 at 9 a.m. in the Driftwood Inn in Sechelt. Anyone who wants more details particularly those who may be affected should phone for all of us who were there when she thanked the organizers of that reunion. It was a great event! Greeting my students of 10 years ago was a pleasant experience. They brought back memories of the rich years I spent teaching at Elphie and the hundreds of students in my class during those years. Emily wrote, \"I left with many warm feelings about the town of Gibsons and the people with whom I grew up.\" What she wrote made me feel glad that I still live here and get a chance to greet them when they come home again - and can oc- cassionally say hello to those that never left. Frank Fuller Gibsons Roverlander club me at 883-9958. Joe Harrison RR.tfl Garden Bav Editor: The Roverlanders of British Columbia, a newly-formed group of Land Rover owners in the province dedicated to self- ,help between members, begs space in your columns to help publicize its program. It may not generally be known that, circa 1973, British Leyland stopped export to North America of its unique 'go anywhere' Land Rover. The resultant drying-up of parts and service placed the owners of the mark on their own resources towards keeping their wheels rolling. We feel reasonably certain that a few at.least, Land Rovers are extant in your section of the province the owners of which could stand to benefit from our program.. Our chief function is that of an information exchange via a periodic newsletter providing sources of parts, sales & exchange, do-it-yourself maintenance, etc., all designed to keep the wheels turning wherever they may be in B.C. We cordially invite interested readers of your newspaper to enquire further by letter to this address. Rene H. Bischef Roverlanders of B.C. 2843 Stephens Street Vancouver, B.C V6K3X4 FINANCING AT ON 1985 FORD RANGER, BRONCO ESCORT/LYNX and TEMPO! TOPAZ Available for a limited time only, on the full amount financed for the full term of the contract, maximum 36 months. Extended term financing at a favourable rate up to 60 months is also available. We will not be undersold. You make us #1. Thanks to their efforts, the damage to the home was minimized. Like other taxpayers, I occasionally complain about the \"ever-increasing\" tax costs. Before doing so again, however, I will pause and reflect upon the value of the services such as those provided by the Roberts Creek Volunteer Fire Department. I have written to Chief Mulligan expressing my appreciation and by means of this letter, wish to apprise others in the community of the high calibre of \"volunteers\" who give so unselfishly of their time and energies on behalf of all of us. ' A.L. Cobbin Roberts Creek, B.C. Federal Business Development Bank North Vancouver: 980-6571 On Wednesday, July 31st, MEL WEST one of our representatives, will be at DRIFTWOOD INN Sechelt. Tel: 885-5811 Please give us a call for information on the Bank's Financial Services, Management Counselling, Seminars, Clinics and Government Assistance Programmes Discover Indian Heritage 'on Exhibits \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Slide shows \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Help US analyze Archaeological Interpretation a midden! Centre, Willingdon Beach Park 9:30-4:30 Wed. thru Sun. Closed Mon. and Tue., but open Aug. 5 Aisisted by (. / \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Powell Riuer June, July, AugusM985 \"'Park on Marine Ave.& walk in! THE CAR THE CASE The Skoda Commuter is the best value on the road today. Case in point: A roomy four door sedan Rack and pinion steering Servo assisted brakes Steel belted radial tires Quartz halogen headlamps Front and rear spoilers Rear mud ilaps Shoulder type seat belts front and rear Fold down rear seats Door to door carpeting Reclining front seats Daily trip meter Lockable gas cap Child-proof door locks Full How through ventilation Arm rests on all lour doors Coast-to-coast parts and service network THE CLINCHER Mark Guignard says: You're right! At this inexpensive price our 1st shipment has sold out. However, you can still view a new Commuter on our lot. One of our valued customers has agreed to display her new Commuter so you can order yours. \"2nd COMMUTER SHIPMENT ARRIVES SOON\" Deal Writer Days Continue Brd Big Week 1979 BUICK RIVIERA 'S TYPE' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD superb condition in and out \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD all power conveniences including air conditioning, 6 way power driver's seat, even automatic leveling \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Only 65,000 km carefully driven ULTIMATE LUXURY COUPE $9950 AFFORDABLE 1977 DODGE VAN FOR CAMPING OR WORK! \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 318 V8, automatic transmission \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD power steering, power brakes \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD look good \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD runs well SUPER SKOOKUM $1450 SALES Hwy 101 Sechelt SERVICE Wharf St. 885-7512 Dealer 7381 Plus Freight, PDI, tax and licence M.D.L. 5936 Wharf road, SecheCt 885-3281 w Coast News, July 22,1985 W&^S^K^SSi^mi Gibsons Mayor Larry Labonte and Minister of Municipal Affairs, Bill Ritchie study the plaque which has just been installed in Pioneer Park to commemorate Gibsons' Revitalization. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLeif Pedeison photo George in Gibsons by Jean Robinson, 885-2954 Attention! All ladies of the Sunshine Coast. The Sunshine Coast Dressing Society meets again on July 25, 10 a.m. Anyone can come help cut dressings for the five people served here. It takes a great many dressings and if enough are made ahead, then it will not be necessary to meet in August. Just bring a sandwich; coffee and tea will be supplied. The kind ladies who regularly attend have worked so hard all year with their only reward being the satisfaction of a job well done for their fellow man. Please take an hour or two to help and find out what makes these ladies so very special. W.C. FIELDERS The W.C. Fielders made a good showing in the recent tournament. They lasted four games. Their last regular game is on July 25, 6:30 p.m. against the Warriors at north east Hackett Park. There is a playoff starting \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDon July 26 at 7 p.m., upper Chatelech, with the W.C. Fielders against Wildwind Logging. If they win that game they will play at 9 a.m. on July 26 upper Chatelech. If they lose, A warm welcome surprises by George Cooper, .886-8520 Bob Emerson of Abbs Road had a real \"surprise\" party last July 12. His seventieth birthday was still a couple of weeks away and when step-daughter, Carol Skytte, invited him to her house for the evening he went quite unsuspecting of anything unusual. About 30 guests however, family, relatives, and close friends, gave him the warm welcome to the golden age. ELECTORS' ASSOCIATION The Gibsons Electors' Association is holding its first general meeting Thursday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Marine Room below the library. .':;. \"If you are on the list of \"voters,\" says a spokesman, \"please come to this meeting for an information report on town business, and other matters concerning the town, and the coming by-election.\" LOOKING BACK Since the Coast News report of Edward \"Ted\" Bennett's visit to Gibsons.from his home in Southampton, England, some more anecdotes have come to hand. Les Peterson and Ted compared photos of Gibsons in the 1920's to find what had happened to landmarks that Ted knew in his brief stay in 1924 iri Gibsons. \"He found the dock and ramp familiar,\" said Les, \"although, of course, he remembered the W.W. Winn store at the head of the ramp where Gramma's Pub now stands. \"We noted a photo taken at the time by W. Ribelin of Grantham's Landing showed 'candy, ice cream, tobacco' lettered on the side of the building to catch the eye of the visiting boater, and at the other\" end of the wall 'Post Office and Telegraph', Peterson said. \"We remembered that By field's Greenhouses were located where our present post office building stands,\" he continued, \"and Ted remembered climbing the trail, now School Road, on his way to school during the few months he lived in Gibsons.\" Ted's family had lived briefly here, his great aunt was Emma Fletcher, before their settling on Sonora Island near Campbell River. \"My father worked with horses,\" Ted told Les, \"and he often told of his days on a delivery route in his hometown in England. The horse got to know the route so well that my father scarcely had to tell him when to stop and start. Along the route my father always stop ped for a pint at the pub, and when, one day, my father's supervisor rode along to inspect the route, no amount of flailing or strong language could prevent that horse turning into the pub.\" While in Gibsons on this recent visit, Ted visited Robin and Wendy Allen, of Marine Drive. By coincidence the taxi driver \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtaking Ted Bennett from his home in Southampton to catch a plane for Canada said, \"Off to Canada are you? I have a daughter in Gibsons Landing out in British Columbia. Are you going that way.\" It's still a small enough world. Happy 100th Clarice Clarkson Mrs. Clarice Clarkson a 60 year resident of Pratt Road in Gibsons, celebrates her one hundredth birthday on July 24. Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England, Mrs. Clarkson trained as a milliner in Birmingham apprenticing for 12 months for no pay but one shilling a week pocket money. After her apprenticeship she worked with her widowed mother, a dressmaker, who specialized in completely outfitting wedding parties. When she was 25, Mrs. Clarkson travelled with a girlfriend to New York, then continued on to Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, where she met her husband, Bob. After World War I they came to B.C. to look around and after travelling to lots of places on Vancouver Island, visited an area on the mainland advertised as a soldliers' settlement, where they fell in love with an eight acre parcel on a country lane called Pratt Road. The Clarksons kept eight Toggenberg goats which provided milk for butter, devon cream and three cheeses which annually won prizes for Mrs. Clarkson at the Farmers' Institute fair. Mrs. Clarkson is sure it is the goat's milk which has built up her strength and contributed to. her longevity. Mrs. Clarkson lives in the same house on Pratt Road today, attended by a homemaker daily. This wonderful lady's humour, spirit and health are blessings which many of us would wish to share. Happy one hundredth birthday Clarice Clarkson! CLARICE CLARKSON Department of Fisheries & Oceans CHILDREN'S ART CONTEST SUBJECT: The Salmon in its Natural Habitat AGE GROUPS: 4 to 6, 7 to 9, 10 to 12 years old PRIZES: 4 to 6 7 to 9 10 to 12 1st Prize $20 $20 $20 2nd Prize $10 and a Bonus Prize of $10.00 f\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDr Most Original Entry Entries can be dropped off Saturday, July 27th up to 5:00 p.m, at the Department of Fisheries & Oceans. Central display facility located at the Seaview Plaza next to the Omega Restaurant. Winners to be announced Sunday, July 28th at noon at the display centre. For more information about the Department of Fisheries & Oceans display centre & activities check the Sea Cavalcade list of events. heaven forbid, they will play at 10:30 a.m south west Hackett Park. The final game will be a play-off on July J28, 2 p.m. south west Hackett. For any further information, phone Bob Allen, 885-9581. WILSON CREEK LIBRARY The Wilson Creek Library is still in operation Fridays and Saturday afternoons, thanks to some fine people who contribute their time and knowledge to serving the area of Kolibas / Lugsdin meet Mayor Joyce Kolibas, in her report to Sechelt council last week regarding her meeting with Irene Lugsdin, the newly appointed community development officer, said that she likes Lugsdin's idea of getting the various communities on the Sunshine Coast to work together. \"I told her I would attend meetings (in support of this).\" Alderman Pressley reported that, as a part of Expo's promotional efforts, a mailing has gone out to 35,000 aircraft owners in the Pacific Northwest listing facilities available in the lower mainland, including the Gibsons-Sechelt airport. Concern was expressed about the lack of transportation facilities at the airport should the Coast suddenly experience a large number of these visitors. Alderman Craig suggested a car rental service might possibly be set up by local business and that Coast Taxi could station a car close by. Both Alderman Craig and Alderman Short complimented the work of the Challenge 85 summer students hired by the village to work on Kinnikinnick Park. \"We're very impressed with how they are working,\" said Short. The crew has been taken out of Kinnikinnick Park and assigned chores around the village because of the current fire hazard. Davis Bay. A lot of thanks go to Hilda Costerton, Helen and Ed Cuylites, Edith Richardson, Georgina Sager, Babs Brydon, Betty Vetterli, Terry Gardiner and Sue Le Neve. HELP!! Help is desperately needed to complete the bleachers for Whittaker Park. Please call Bill LeNeve, 885-7490 if you can give a hand. (Preferably with a hammer in it!) Private Sale. This 2 bedroom home in Roberts Creek is well maintained and has a sunny southern exposure. It is situated on a Vi acre and is only one block from a secluded beach. Call 886-8217. $45,000. r 3 DAYS ONLY THURS. FRI. SAT. JULY 25, 26, 27 9 AM - 6 PM Annual Anniversary Sale Everything 1/2 Price! (Except accessories and undergarments) * We add 5% to Visa and Mastercharge FMHICNS COWRIE STREET, SECHELT COAST ?aXe