rifttooTwelth Year, No 47 GANGES, British Columbia Thursday, December 2, 1971 $4.00 per year in Canada, I0<:copy

Symphony Concerf SuccessThere were about 200 con-

cert goers at the symphonyconcert in Ganges on Fridayevening last week.

The small orchestra offereda selection which met withgeneral audience approval.

Harpist Katherine tly wonthe admiration of islanders andConductor Lazlo Gati maint-ained a happy rapport with hisaudience.

The concert was arrangedthrough the co-operation of theCentennial '71 Committee andthe Community Arts Council.

POPPYDRIVE ATGAUANO

Poppy campaign on GalianoIsland brought in a total of$174.23 for the fund.

Campaign was headed by MECam Prior, assisted by Mrs,Claire McAllister, Mrs. GeorgeSidders, Mrs. Harry Raines, snr.Mrs. Tom Drew, Mrs. Les Rob-inson, Mrs. VV. J. Maier andMrs. Gerald Steward.

PROPERTY OWNERS TO VOTE

School Programme ReducedAll property owners on all

the Gulf Islands will vote onthe $752,000 school buildingreferendum on December 11.

The school referendum wasintroduced earlier in the fallto provide a greater amount ofmoney for additional provisionsin the district.

Two weeks ago the depart-ment of education rejected thereferendum, only to switch ag-ain and invite school boards to

ELECTIONS EVERYWHERE

NINE SEEK THREE SEATS

CHARLES BAL'iZER

Q. HAROLD DIBNAH

- FOR SALT SPRING -Nine candidates have filed

nomination papers for the vac-ant school board seats on SaltSpring Island. Two candidatesare vying for the Saturna seatand there is no nomination for*the vacant seat at Mayne Island

There are two candidates torone Regional District seat forthe outer islands and three nominated for the single Salt Springseat.

In the race for three seats onthe Gulf Islands School Districtboard of trustees are:

Charles BaltzerQ. Harold DibnahEdward R. Dixonlone V. Guthrie

Jan H. HarkemaRaymond C. HillDorothy M. Kyle

Margaret SimonsMarion Thomas

The nine candidates repres-ent a record for Salt Spring Is-land. Previous top figure wastwo years ago when five cand-idates appeared.

By Tuesday afternoon, bey-ond the time for cancellation

DR. E.R. DIXON

JONE V. GUTHRIE

of nominations, ALL nine werestill in the running. Candidatemust leave his name on the

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RAYMOND C. HILL

MARGARET SIMONS

resubmit their plans op a red-uced scale.

The trustees of the Gulf Isl-ands District approved the red-uction of the by-law referend-um by withdrawing the plansfor an administration and res-ource centre.

Trustees plan to reconstructthe elementary school to bringit up to a higher standard interms of utility and fire safety.

Plans call for the tearing outof old walls and partitions anderection of new wall finish withnew wiring, heating and ventil-ation. The pattern of class-rooms will also be changed withprovision for larger teaching ar-eas where more than one classcan be accommodated whennecessary.

The activity room at the el-ementary school i-n Gangesxvould be used in company witithe community activity centreif another referendum, to bepresented by the regional dist-rict, were also successful.

Cost of the renovations to tlrschool and the activity room isestimated at $812,000. Anadditional cost for sites andsewer improvements will be$25,000.

Sum of $280,000 is soughtfor the Gulf Islands SecondarySchool. This money will beused to construct a new homeeconomics and industrial educ-ation unit.

In addition to a renovatedelementary school at Ganges,with additions to the secondaryschool, trustees have allocatedmoney for minor works at thevarious outer islands schools.

Pender has an allocation of$5,000 for the school site.Work at Galiano will cost.$3,500; at Mayne, $4,000 andat Saturna, $3,700. Another$45,000 is to be spent on equ-ipping the new buildings.

Architectural costs are estimated at $39,000 and another$32,500 has been set aside forcontingencies.

DRIVE SAFELYDURING SAFEDRIVING WEEK

Courtesy can save drivers.Ganges detachment of the

RCMPhas ask- d drivers totake particular care this week.It is Safe Driving Week. . . allweek. From December 1 toDecember 7, the emphasis ison safe driving.

There was a sting in thetail of the warning.

Spot checks will be set upduring the holiday season todetect drivers who have toomuch holiday spirit.

Don't Call Us At Christmasif Cdlf YOU IN THE NEW YEAR I I

THERE WILL BE NO DRIFTWOOD FROM THECHRISTMAS ISSUE ON DECEMBER 23 UNTILTHURSDAY, JANUARY 20

FIRST ISSUE OF 1972 WILL APPEAR JANUARY 20DRIFTWOOD staff will be off on a holiday from Christmas

until mid-January.

BLOODCLINICMONDAY

Blood conor clinic will beopen in the Legion Hall at Garges on Monday. Red Cross cli-nic is sponsored by the RoyalCanadian Legion on the island.

Record of blood giving isvery small, reports drive chairman Peter Bingham. Out ofevery 100 persons, from coastto coast, only three or four areblood donors.

" You can't rely on the otherfellow to give blood," said theLegion man, "He's relying onyou. "

Residents from 18 to 60 areentitled to donate blood.

Early StartFor C.A.R.E.Tree

Pender Pearson Care Treefund was early starting this year

George Pearson reports thatbefore November 1 he had al-ready received $155. By theend of the month the fund wasaround $650.

For every donation to Care,Mr. Pearson lights anotherlamp on his Care Tree over-looking Navy Channel.

Ed Gould, formerly of SaltSpring Island, has written thestory of the Care Tree for east-ern Canadian papers, reportsMr. Pearson.

"This year it will take atleast 700 stamps to do the job,"says George, 'but it is richlyrewarding!"

HORELIS TOPWINNER

No guest of Salt Spring IslancRotary Club starved at the GreyCup breakfast on Sunday. Mas-sive breakfast was spread overthe table at Fulford Hall andguests were able to take nour-ishment throughout the courseof the game.

Top prize, of $750, was tak-en by Charles Horel. He wasnot present to accept the prizeFirst prize drawn was promptlythrown into the pot by clubpresident Tuppy Agar. The $50prize was given to the Rotaryhospital fund for which the ev-ent was staged.

Second prize went to Rotary*!past-president Bob Blundell.He also threw it in the pot.

Third prize was won by EdChew. It was worth $100. Fin-al $50 prize went to RussellThorburn.

The contestants watched thefootball event on a variety ofscreens set up in the hall. Big-gest Rotary event of the year,it was completely successfulagreed Rotarians.

CAR IN LAKEDriver was injured when acompact car ran off the roadat St. Mary Lake early Sat-urday.

Recovering is driver Dougla;Underwood, of Fulford.

Police are investigating theincident.

Page Two Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Thursday, December 2, 1971

ACTIVITY CENTRE AND RECREATION

Two Votes For Salt SpringTwo money votes will be

presented to property ownersof Salt Spring Island on Dece-mber 11.

One will ask for.the expend-iture of one-tenth of a mill ona recreation program. Theother will invite property own-ers to approve a $50,000 com-munity activity centre in con-junction with the Salt SpringIsland elementary school.

CABLEVISIONP H O N E :

537-5550

Only property owners onSalt Spring Island will be inv-ited to cast a ballot on thesetwo referenda.

The recreation vote willseek to replenish the funds ofthe Salt Spring Island Recrea-tion Commission. The alloca^tion from the provincial gov-ernment towards recreationprograms in the communityhas been steadily reduced.This referendum will bring ina small sum to meet the costsof the commission. It,is plan-ned in order to finance swim-ming classes in the summerand to assist in the engage - .ment of a part-time recreationco-ordinator during the sum-

MODERNISEWITH

PROPANE

DEC. 11

FOR REGIONAL DIRECTOR

. BE SURE.Mark your ballot at the bottom

[VOTE; WOOD Elizabeth C. I x

BENS' LUCKYPRE-CHRISTMAS SPECIALS

For Thur. Fri. & Sat.Dec. 2, 3, & 4

GROCERIESJELLY POWDERS, Jello asstd, 3 oz. 11$

65$39$1.79

MIRACLE WHIP salad dressing 32 oz.ORANGE JUICE7Garden Gate " "COFFEE Nescafe instant 10 oz.jar..TOMATO JUICE /Heinz48oz...... 2/89$MAZOLA OIL, 24 oz. bottle...... 85$MUSHROOM SOUP,Campbells 10 oz. 2/41$SARDINES,King Oscar I/4's tins 31$ALUMINUM FOIL Reynolds l8"-25'.. 69$MEATRIB STEAKS $1.19 Ib,SIDE BACON, sliced Swifts prem... 69$ "PRODUCE

GRAPES, Emperor, U.S. No. I.... 29$ Ib.POTATOES, Alta dry belt #2,20 Ibs. 89$

537 - 5553

mer months.The activity centre at Gan-

§es would provide a stage andall, a meeting centre for the

community and a movie hallamong other things.

If the project is supported inthe community the planned ac-tivity room at Ganges elemen-tary school will be extended50 feet with a full-sized stageand acoustic ceiling throughout

Only.Salt Spring Island rate-payers will cast a ballot onthese two referenda.

ASSOCIATIONOFFERS ADVICEFOR HOLIDAYS

The B.C. Automobile Asso-ciation has often remindedparty-givers that guests whoover-imbibe and then drivehome can be a serious hazardto themselves and others.. .es-pecially when their driving isdone in the dangerous weatherconditions that often prevailat this time of year.

The wise and responsibleparty host can do much to pre-vent this situation and stillprovide an entertaining even-ing for his guests.

Here are some "soft sell* ap-proaches to alcoholic modera-tion:

* Serve that first drink your-self, but thereafter let theguests mix their own at a self--service bar featuring a varietyof low-alcoholic beveragesand soft drinks along with the'hard stuff*. (Even if you. 'rehaving a large party, stifle theurge to hire a professional bar-tender. He'll be more gener-ous with your refreshmentsthan you would.)

"Starchy dishes can be over-whelmingly tempting and canhc.lp to lessen alcohol's effectsTasty sandwiches and hot.homemade rolls, French pas-tries and cheesecake maysprinkle a few calories around,but who are you to deprive'your guests of such delights?

*Pe"ople tend to gather insmall conversational knots, us-ually around the bar. A partyhost who is with it knows thatgroup involvement is the nowthing. He would be wise to arrange activities involving ev-eryone, including the swizzlestick crowd. Party games cande-emphasize the importanceof the bar.

"Serve coffee -- and makeit delicious -- about an hourbefore the guests are due toleave. It won't sober anyoneup but a cup or two is a finesubstitute for 'one for the road1

*So you've done your best aand still you wind up with atipsy guest. Do him a favorby letting him spend the nightor making arrangements forsomeone else to'take himhome.

'Be First A Friend -- ThenA Host. *

CHRISTMAS IS COMING ---Hurrah! Hurrah!

—EARLY/CHRISTMAS ISSUE OF DRIFTWOOD WILL

BE PUBLISHED DECEMBER 23

DEADLINE FOR EVERYTHINGNews, Advertising, Classified

IS NOON, DECEMBER 15If you are planning a Christmas GreetingDO IT NOW ! (otherwise it will be early for next year )

REMEMBER - DEADLINE DECEMBER 15or we're dead !

SCHOOL BOARD(From Page One)

ballot if he doesn't withdrawwithin 24 hours of nominations'closing, ex.plained ReturningOfficer Jean Vodden.

Only one of the nine SaltSpring school board candidatesis already serving on the board.Mrs. Guthrie is chairman ofthe board. Her colleagues,George Heinekey and GeorgeLampier are not looking for afurther term in office. Mr.Lampier is ending two years onthe board and Mr. Heinekeylooks back on 14 years with theboard.

Mr. Davidson is the sittingmember for S.iturna.

At Mayne Island the Lieuten-ant-Governor-incouncil will beasked to nominate a schooltrustee. Two candidates wereprepared to serve, but one hadnot held his property for therequired two years and the oth-er failed to submit his formsbefore the midday deadline.

MERSTON TO SERVEJim Merston has been appoin

ted to represent the ProvincialGovernment on the Board ofLady Minto Hospital for a termof two years. Mr. Merstontakes over from Mrs. EthelFrench, the previous govern-ment representative.

Campbell Is DismayedJim Campbell, fiery Saturna

candidate for regional districtoffice, has entered the contestwith sinking heart.

Last Wednesday the CapitalRegional Board approved theouter islands zoning by-law

ZENITH FOR POLICERCMP detachment at Ganges

is available at all times, Cpl.Doug Burke explained this weel

Cpl. Burke asked that island*be reminded that in the eventof their being unable to reachthe Mounted Police at Gangesthey can go further.

Police in the isl arch canalways be traced from the Dun=can office.

Islanders may-call Zenith4444, at no cost to themselvesif there is no reply from thepolice number at Ganges.

and gave it third reading,"It was amazing they could

do it all in the space of sevendays," he commented on Mon-day.

The public hearing enquiringinto the by-law was held onTuesday of the previous week.

It was not the best way toensure an unbiased report of th<proceedings, he suggested.

The public hearing hadheard a number of islandersstand up to ask that the by-lawbe withdrawn. Of the islandersaddressing the hearing on thisproposal, there were 30 whofavored withdrawal of the plan-ning by-law and two who sup-ported it.

"It shows an incredible am-ount of haste," commented MrCampbell, "and for two yearsthey have sat on their hands!"

PRE-CHRISTMAS

EndsDec. 6

soBUY NOW

GANGESPHARMACY

THE CARE TREE

Do You

Care?

All contributionsbuy food for ahungry familysomewhere....

The Pearson CARE tree

will soon bealight at

PenderoverlookingNavy Channel

Every donationadds a light

•to the tree

Send your contribution for CARE of Canadato George Pearson, Pender Island, B.C.

And light another lamp on the CARE TREE

Thursday, December 2, 1971 Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Page Three

to be frank

By Richards!

Alberta grain-fed beef ispretty good beef, says Ed Che\\and he ought to know, he'sbeen in the meat business along time. Ed is hopping madover an advertisement in ano-ther newspaper. Sides of beefwere offered for 59<£ a pound.It vas Alberta beef, grain-fedhe was told. So he called toorder some. On the phone helearned it was not from Albertaand it had never eaten grain.It was grade 4 and 5 "commer-cial beef, a cow which hashad one calf before butchering.There is little or no fat andit's not guaranteed to be tender"As the saying goes," he con-cluded, "you get what you payfor!"

* * *Woody Fisher, the DRIFT-

WOOD maestro who is fishingin Saskatchewan river? now wasback home for a holiday weekend. Like always, he wasthere when the party was onand he ate a lot and drankwith the marksmen of the Rodand Gun Club. Last time wasabout nine years ago. Lasttime Woody found a shot-gunslug in his venison (deer to you- dear to Woody). With hismind on his molars, Woodywaxed wrathy. Particularly asit was illegal to attack the in-offensive deer with a shot gunin those days. This time hefound no shot gun slug, but inthe near-decade that has pass-ed, shot guns are now in as faras deer are concerned and hewould have reason to protestthe illegality if be had bitteninto a . 303 while chewing thebite fantastic. All these thinghave changed, but Woodyhasn't.

a t *

Victoria store advertising aseven-piece saucepan set lastweek. The seven ^pieces?Three pans, three lids and ahandle! Remind me not to gothere for a saucepan!

* ~ *Poetry has not always consis-

ted of odd meaningless words.I was thinking the other day ofthe poem which sent my broth-er about 30 or 40 years ago. A«I recall it published in a coll-ege paper and went somethinglike this:

Afrikander, Van den Plas,Things have gone from bad toWarse.. .My gal got anotherbaas: Ach! sorry says me. Nextgal I got pretty dumb, ja wohl!kick her in the turn! Ach! Motdiggety dog!"

I only record it to prove thesuperiority of the traditionalpoet over the current version.

Gordon Matthews came up

INVESTMENTSECURITIES

IPORTFOLIOANALYSIS

A.E.AMESCO.LTD.

612 View St. VictoriaTel.Collect

383-4171or Donald J. BainEves. 537 - 2368

last week with the best possiblereason for resigning as presid-ent of the Gulf Islands Comm-unity Arts Council. "The con-stitution says a fellow can on-ly serve two years as president,he reported, "and I've alreadydone three!"

# * *For years Ben Greenhough

has collected sets of horns frorrmembers of the Salt Spring Is-land Rod and Gun Club. Foryears he has weighed in everydeer shot by members and ent-ered in the club's derby. Thisyear he made it pay. He wonthe club's trophy for the larg -est set of horns.

So now they all say, Puttingon a bit of weight, eh? And Ihave to take it without anycomeback because it's probab-ly the truth.

I'm eating aga in .Twelve month.'; and $500

later. I 'm eating, l i k e , meals.I've had teeth. Not like

when I was little and grew tlienmyself. These I bought. Allglued in a red mouth. It looksa bit obscene at first but likeOvid probably said to the Emp-eror, tc'iscenity is in the mindand you wear your teeth in thehead.

And that was the beginningof it all when the old oneswore out or dropped out or bothThey were wrested from my

H.S.NOAKESNOTARY PUBLIC

*Wills 'Mortgages"Conveyancing 'Documents

10am-4pm, except Sat.Giegerich Rd. off Beddis

537 - 2336

jaws and replaced with manuf-actured teeth guaranteed not tcache in a century. Like asplined sleeve machined to fitthe gums.

They fill your mouth withspearmint plaster and thenmake the teeth. That's easy.It's wearing them makes fortrouble.

Ever tried chewing on a sog-gy bread sandwich? The upperdenture glues itself to the low-er plate with a paralyzedtongue somewhere in between.You make a superhuman effortand you can feel the lowerplate rise from its seat andtake a walk around yourmouth.

Worse than losing your bott-om half is trying to eat toastor potato chips without them.The crisp, crunchy edges of thttasty treat play havocVith thegums. After two bites yourmouth looks like the Saharadesert after the German Armywent east the Allies went northAnd feels like it!

All this is pleasure in store.With each agonizing effort youknow that one day you'll cat asteak, if you can afford theprice. Same thing is w i thteeth.

More they cost, the lessmouth wash you can buy.

There's only one thing for it,You may figure you never have

to face up to toothache again.OK, but one thing's for sure..it's the last time I'll have allmy teeth out!

GANGES MEAT MARKET 537-2141

BRAISED PIGS' FEET OR PORK HOCKSSelect 4 pigs' feet and have butcher cut in half .lengthwise(don't take too literally Ed). Pack into dish and add:

1/2 cup white vinegar11/2 cups tomato juice or canned tomatoes

After soaking 24-48 hours, drain well and roll in flour.Brown all surfaces in bacon dripping. Add liquid used forsoaking and simmer 3 hours until tender. Add:

1/4 tsp black pepper 2 green peppers1 minced clove garlic 1 - 2 tbsp. molasses1 chopped onion 2 tsp salt1 " celery stalk 4 tbsp. flour shaken

with 1/2 cup tomato juiceStir well and simmer 10 minutes

* PIGSFECT 19<:lb* PORK HOCKS 29<:lb* ASSORTED FRESH FISH

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P.O.BOX 3, GANGES HARBOURSALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C.

Office Phone: 537-5333 Residence Phone: 537-2279

PUBLIC MEETINGSCHOOL TRUSTEE CANDIDATES. . SALT SPRING ISLAND

A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD IN THE

High School GymnasiumWednesday, December 8, 1971 at 8pmTo provide an opportunity for the nine candidates for the twopositions of School Trustee to speak in support of their bid forthis important office.

The general public is invited to attend this meeting to see and hear thesecandidates prior to the elections. A question and answer period will bescheduled following the presentations by all candidates.

IF YOU ARE A REGISTERED VOTER, YOU ARE URGED TO ATTENDTHIS MEETING

Sponsored by your Salt Spring Island Ratepayers Association.

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Page Four Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Thursday, December 2, 1971

JBrifttoooDPublished at Ganges, Salt Spring Island

In the Province of British Columbia, every Thursday

EDITOR: FRANK RICHARDS

Member: British Columbia Weekly Newspapers' AssociationSubscription Rates: $4.00 per year in Canada

$7.50 per year to all foreign countries

Second Class Mai I Registration No 0803

Thursday/ December 2, 1971

DO N'T PUSH!There appeared to be a dearth of candidates

for school board on Salt Spring Island. That wasthe picture until last week. This week broughta new wave of islanders to the hustings with arecord nine candidates for three seats.

Local affairs are nowhere as prominent as onSalt Spring Island. For three school board seatsare nine candidates and for one regional boardseat are three. The proportion is constant.

In the outer islands the awareness is keen andthere are two candidates each for two offices.Two are seeking the one seat on the board of theRegional District and two are in the running forthe single Saturna seat on the Gulf IslandsSchool District board.

Only on Mayne Island is the picture a littledarker. There is no candidate for the unfilledschool board seat. There were two originally,but one discovered that he could not meet therequirements of the provincial government in hislength of residence on the island and the otherwas unable to file his papers in the requiredtime.

The candidates might do well to learn one les-son. The voters would lose nothing by takingheed.

The problems of planning and zoning are para-mount in the election issues!For the regionalboard. Planning can rarely be considered with-out a rise in temperature. Nevertheless, nocandidate is completely right and :^one is comp-letely wrong. Planning is a matter of opinionand rarely a matter of fact. That some islandershave differing opinions is of little real signific-ance; it was never otherwise.

If the election brings out the differences andlets animosities burn themselves out, it willhave been well worth the exposure. If they arepermitted to stay with us and fester, those differences will have gained nothing from o good air-ing at election time.

Candidates and voters should stand up andspeak up clearly during the election campaignand then they should shut up for the next :woyears until another election looms. These ani-mosities are not very important. The islands andtheir administration will remain long after weare all gone, even if the other fellow wins.

Letters fo fhe EditorDISTORTED REPORT

Editor, Driftwood,Your report of the zoning

public hearing at Port Washing-ton seems to me to give a dist-orted impression of what hap-Eened there. Saturna delegates

ad a different attitude to therest of us. The most strikingand perhaps surprising aspect ofthe meeting was the overwhel •*ming expression of opinion thatthere are serious defects in theby-law as it stands now. Andthat it should be changed tomeet the real requirements ofthe situation.

Your article says in the firstparagraph "While Saturna del-egates fought adoption of theby-law, ratepayers of the isl-ands pleaded for the protection

of the rural character of theislands". Surely this sentencegives the impression that Sat-urna people were pleading forsomething different from theother "ratepayers".

The Saturna people alongwith nearly all the other speak-ers were pleading for preciselythe same thing, as you say, tomaintain the rural aspect ofthe islands. And the reasonthere is such overwhelming op-position to the piasent by-lawis that it fails in this respect.The main defect in the by-lawwas brought out clearly enoughat the meeting. It imposessuch restrictions on the holdersof large pieces of land that im-plementation of this by-lawwould force many of these prop-

ATTMS A/sr

erties into the hands of subdiv-iders if and when the ten-acrerestriction should be lifted ormodified.

The meeting at Port Washington turned into something of acomic opera affair when thechair refused to permit any votto be taken. The chair wassupported in this by a memberof the Capital Regional Districtwho, at the previous meeting,had rep-eatedly told us that theCapital Regional Board wantedto hear local opinion. Me see-med to have changed his mind.Not permitted a simple show ofhands, we found ourselves stan-ding up one by one, like enthu-siasts at a fundamentalist reviv-al meeting affirming our nonfaith in the zoning by-law.Thisprocess went on until, accord-ing to your count, thirty oeoolehad asked for withdrawal of theby-law and two people had sup-ported it. This procedure tooka long time and the meetingdragged on to a dreary close..The headline of your articlereads "Outer Islanders Dividedon By-Law". Yes, they weredivided in the approximate ra-tio of thirty to two.

-John Smith,R. R. 1, Port Washington,South Pender Island,Nov. 22, 1971.

BLOOD CLINIC

Editor, Driftwood,The Canadian Red Cross has

requested the Salt Spring Isl-and Branch No. 92, the'RoyalCanadian Legion to sponsor aBlood Clinic on Monday, De-cember 6. The Legion consi-ders it a privilege to assist inthis most important public ser-vice.

The Blood Clinic will beheld in the Legion Hall onMonday, Dec. 6. Hours ofthe clinic are: 2. 30 to 4. 30p. m. and 6. 30 to 9 p. m.

All persons from the age of18 to 65 may give a pint ofblood. Young men of 17 yearsof age may also give a pint ofblood with the permission oftheir parents. Permissioncards are available at theGulf Islands Secondary Schooland at the Legion Hall on theday of the clinic.

The target set and urgentlyneeded by the Canadian RedCross is 175 pints! We ask allthe good people of Salt SpringIsland, who are eligible togive blood, to come to theLegion Hall on December 6thand give ths greatest gift ofall - a pint of blood - thegift of life! Be a Blood Donornow, so those you help mayLIVE!

Mr. Editor, we ask for your

support in passing this appealto the members of our com-munity through the mediumof DRIFTWOOD.

-P.R. Bingham,Chairman Blood Clinic,

The Royal Canadian LegionPacific Branch No. 92,November 22, 1971.

IS IT NECESSARY?

Editor, Driftwood,The recent enactment of the

Salt Spring Island ImprovementDistrict By-Law 15 poses a nunvber of questions: What is areasonable hour to "enter anybuilding or premises in the SaltSpring Island Improvement Dis-trict"? Is it a rubber stamp co-py of a by-law from elsewhereor is it especially designed forSalt Spring Island? There areseveral points in the by-lawwhich I feel require carefulscrutiny:1. Hours of entry,2. The Trustees' and FireChief's ability to add clausesat will,3. What constitutes a "danger-ous amount of combustible orexplosive matter"?4. Does it mean public "build-ings or premises", or private?

Wouldn't a Fire PreventionEducational Ftogram be betterthan putting a fear into peoplewith fines and imprisonment?

Is the purpose of the fines togenerate additional revenue?

-W.J. Stepaniuk.P. O. Box 5,Ganges,November 28, 1971.

A NEEDED FACILITY

Editor, Driftwood,Since coming to live on Salt

Spring Island in the summer of1967, we have been closely as-sociated with local arts, crafts,and drama.

We are therefore exceeding-ly interested in the projectedActivity Room-Community Cen

tre to be attached to the elem-entary school, and its endorsa-tion by island property owners.

In the questionnaire put outby the Salt Spring Island Com-munity Planning Advisory Com-mittee two years ago, residentswere asked

"If more jobs are needed onthe island, what kind of newdevelopment would you like tosee planned?"

In the section "Arts & Crafts?an overwhelming majority wrot"Yes".

But where do we developthem? Have you tried teachingor learning a craft, or paintingin the Mahon Hall Board Room?Or rehearsing a play there? Theexcellent workshops sponsoredby the local Potters' Guild,taught by off-island experts,during the past two winters,have only been possible becauseof the generous loan of privatefacilities.

The shortcomings of the Sec-ondary School Auditorium areknown to everyone. The Mah-on Hall and Central Hall areold, cold, and restricted by theFire Marshall to very small aud-iences. The stages are crampeddressing rooms non-existent,and lighting circuits almost so.

The community facility toadjoin the new elementaryschool activity room is theshaded area of the preliminaryarchitects' plan shown else-where in this paper.

It is an area roughly 2C'x 68'comprising a stage-workroom16'x 50', a storage room, anda corridor which would con-nect it with dressing and wash-room facilities. The main ar-ea of 800 sq.feet would be ad-aptable to many uses. Itwould be very well lit, havean easily cleaned floor, cup-boards and sink, and a loft atone end for the storage of stagsprops. It would be cut off frorrthe Activity Room by doors sothat it could be used by thepublic during the day. It wouldhave, in addition to a curtainin the proscenium arch, wingand back-stage curtains ontracks so they would be pulledout of the way when not in usefor theatrical endeavours. The$50,000 asked for by the Cap-ital Regional District plebis-cite would also cover a projec-tion booth and screen, andspecial acoustical materialsfor the activity room ceilingand walls. The activity roomwill seat from 400 to 500.

The scale of fees for rentalof the whole Community Ac t -ivity Centre has already beenset by the School Board. Foreducational or cultural eventsthere will be no charge if noadmission fee is charged -- i fthere is, $10. For a money-raising event'the fee will be$25 plus overtime janitorialservices.

We have often heard it saidthat the Island needs a Comm-unity Centre. With our pres-ent population imagine thecost of a separately built andmaintained facility. We canhave all the advantages bysaying "yes" to this plebisciteand it will cost the averagetaxpayer $3 a year.

-Gerry & Olive Clayton,Box 413. Ganges,Nov. 26th, 1971.

NO FAITH~Editor, Driftwood,

The meeting called by theRegional Planning Board at

; Turn to Page Five )

Church ServicesSUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1971

ANGLICANFulford Holy Communion 9:00 amCentral " 11:00 "Galiano Evening Prayer 7:30 pm

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Eveaing Service 7:30 pm

Thursday^ December 2, 1971 Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Page Five

YOUR SCHOOL BOARD

QUESTION CORNERPublished as a Community Service

DID YOU KNOW?

That the elementary schoolis a completely wooden structure and has no sprinkler syst-em or fire escape? Hand-op-erated fire extinguishers mustbe relied upon in the event offire,.

Because of this inadequatesituation no outside groups,such as a play school for threeand four-year-olds, are allowed to use the facilities on apermanent basis.

Yet, every day, close to400 children attend classes inthis same building, for sixhours a day.

During the regular fire drillpractices only four of the 13classrooms, including kinder-

LETTERS(From Page Four)

Pender island, Nov. 16 showedin no uncertain terms that theOuter Gulf Islands have nofaith in a planning board dom-inated by M ayor Hugh Curtisand his pals. If Miss Joan Pur-chase did not get the messageloud and clear from that meet-ing she must indeed be blindto facts.

The Regional Board shouldresign, and the minister ofmunicipal affairs appoint a re-gent outside of the planningarea to administer the presentlaws now in force until eachOuter Gulf Island had electedits own planning board and by-laws.

Outer Islanders , be warnedby the experience of SaltSpring Island, which has al-ready lost its freedom and willnow have to go municipal toget back its birthright!

A Victoria-dominated boardcan only raise taxes, increasepollution, bankrupt the oldlandowners, and destroy ourway of life.

The evil ten-acre freezewhich is destroying the outerislands by cutting up old est-ates, destroying water shedsand timberlands, should belifted before more damage isdone. By what right havethese people, who without avote from the Islanders takeupon themselves the power tointerfere with peoples' livesand property?

The Outer Islanders muststand firm lest they too losetheir birthright, resist everyattempt of these people totake away our right to determ-ine our own way of life.

Demand a vote at everymeeting; these people are af-raid of the ballot. Eventuallythe Premier and Mr. DanCampbell will give us theright to vote on our own af-fairs.

Do not listen to the twaddleof Do-It-Yourself-Kits madein Victoria. Let each Islandplan its own destiny and keepclear of the planning board'slawsuits which will be paid forfrom our taxes.

-J. E. Money,Saturna, B. C.November 29, 1971.

garten in an outside portable,have their own door leadingdirectly outside. Nine classesmust walk through the hallsand out of one of the four ex-its.

That our elementary pupilsmust also make do with MahoiHall for indoor physical educ-ation activities?

This structure is wooden,poorly lighted, and hard tokeep clean due to its antiquityIt is without permanent physi-cal education equipment. Thestorage arrangement for avail-able P.E, equipment is sadlylacking in that it is not cent-ralized in one accessible loca-tion.

Professor N. V. Scarfe,Deanof the Faculty of Education atthe University of British Colu-mbia, has emphasized thatwork and play are not oppos-ites. He has said that "thesooner it is understood thatthorough education goes ononly wYien considerable effortis expended in the spirit of se-rioas play, the better it willbe for our whole educationalsystem.. .Play is as necessaryto the mental health of thechild as food" is to physicalwell-being".

That the Industrial Educationand Home Economics roomsin the secondary school pres-ent their own unique problem^?

There are too many pupilsfoi- the space and time avail-able. The programs are sev-erely curtailed, due to limit-ed facilities. As result thereare split classes in wood andmetal, and the Home Econo-mics room must double as acooking and sewing lab. Dueto regulations only a certainnumber of students can be ac-commodated at one time.

Yet, under adverse condi-tions Mr. Neish, ths Industri-al Education teacher, has ma-naged to help his studentsbund sa'bots, canoes and dunebuggies, in addition to the re-gular courses.

Given the proper facilities,our students have the abilityto succeed in areas as yet de-nied them because of lack oftime and space.

They are oar children. Ten,20 years from now, they willstill be our children. -Weand they want to be a part ofan achieving school which op-ens up possibilities. We wantto help this most important ofour natural resources grow toits fullest potential.

-Gulf Islands Teachers'Association.

Dress Making* Original Designs* Knitting,Crocheting* Alterations

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NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT

Youngsters have more toplay with at Ganges school.

As a result of combinedplanning and work by teachersand pupils of both Salt SpringElementary and Gulf Island Se-

ISLANDART/STSSHOWING

Ralph Sketch of North Pend-er has an exhibition of bronzeequestrian statuettes at theLeaf Hill Galleries, BastionSquare, Victoria.

Fellow exhibitor is Victoriaborn artist Ronald Jacksonwhose work has been shown a-round the world.

Geoffrey Rock, StanleyPoint Drive, has a show atVancouver's Alex Fraser Gal-leries, until December 9. Re-cently he exhibited 14 oils atthe Gainsborough Gallery inCalgary.

Miss Elfriede I loffmann.MrsOra Symes and Mrs. ConnieSwartz all from Pendcr islandwere at the Joe Plaskett exhi-bition at the Print Gallery inVictoria last week.

GALIANO SHOOTOn Saturday, Dec. 12, Gal-

iano Rod and Gun Club willhold a .22 shoot. In charge ofthe program is Mrs. Dora Darl-ing.

-.Tornadoes do occur in Cana'daRegina suffered severe damagefrom one in 1912, and Sarniawas heavily hit in 1957.

condary schools, some newpieces of equipment have ap-peared on the elementaryschool field, and more arc onthe way.

Six sets of chinninq bars havebeen put up by members of the

secondary school's commr.aity'recreation class.

Elementary school pupils arebusy preparing logs for climb-ing apparatus that will be erec-ted shortly. These items arepart of an 'Adventure Play-ground' being put up in front

-of the elementary school.Students enjoy.this type of

apparatus, as well as develop-ing many physical skills andimproving co-ordination,DRIFTWOOD was told.

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*ALPHEGETTI, Libby1; 19 oz....... 2/55$*CAKE MIXES, asstd.............. 2/89$*COFFEE, Turkish reg.or fine grind 89$ Ib.*CHOCOLATECHIPITSI2oz.. . . . 59$*T.TISSUE, Facelle Royale, 4 rolls 69$*BANANAS................8 Ibs. $1.00*POTATOES,Snoboy ldaho#l, 10 Ibs. 79$*ONIONS, Canada #l........3 Ibs. 29$

NO SUBSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENCEVote Beth Wood

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PUBLIC MEETINGFulford Community Hall

Friday • December 3 • 8pmHear all three candidates for Regional Director, Capital Regional District

Published By Fulford Hall Association & Sheep Breeders Association

Page Six Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Thursday, December 2, 1971

DISTINCTIVEDECORATING

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Planning, future develop-ment, the original planningquestionnaire and the new plan-ning questionnaire were all un-der fire on Monday eveningwhen three candidates for regi-onal office vigorously attackedor defended the past two years'activities.

The coming planning quest-ionnaire is an anaesthetic,warned Candidate Beth Wood.

"Don't take the anaesthetic!"she warned.

Islanders will wake up andfind that all their planning has

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been done for them, SuggestedMrs. Wood.

The Capital Regional Boardis laughing, she continued,laughing at the simple peopleout on the islands.

"Don't be lulled into falsesecurity!"

Director Marc Holmes wasvigorous in his defence of theCapital Region's planning. Herecalled that the entire plan -ning picture was brought aboutby the "rape of North Pender".A similar program went aheadonMayne Island. The islandswere alarmed by this unrestrict-ed small-lot development, herecalled and the minister step-ped in to restrict subdivision to10-acre lots until a form ofplanning had been implement-ed.

All three candidates referredto the planning questionnairedistributed two years ago onSalt Spring Island.

Jim Wilkinson promised tonegotiate with the provincialgovernment to allocate officespace at the Court House wherehe could be located at specifictimes during each week tomeet islanders and to discussproblems.

Mr. Wilkinson took the mostpositive stand of all three can-didates when he stated franklythat he favored incorporation.

Incorporation of Salt SpringIsland as a district municipalitywould provide islanders with astrong voice in their own dest-iny, he asserted.

The two-year-old question-naire came in for a sharp ex-change.

Mrs. Wood had declined tofill one out, she told the meet-ing.

"I was fearful of question-naires and I held it in cent -empt," said the candidate.

Mr. Wilkinson was not livingon the island at the time of thequestionnaire and Mr. Holmeswas left to defend it.

The questionnaire was filledin by 1, 000 people out of atotal of 2,800, he recalled.The questionnaire was of sucha quality that it has been usedas a pattern on many occasionsin other communities, he stat-ed.

Mr. Holmes referred to thepattern drawn by the question-naire. It sought controls toprevent spoliation: it didn'twant the rural character of theisland changed; 92"/" wantedplanning; 74% wanted zoning.

"These are the facts on

which I base my policy," hestated.

First touch of humor for theevening came when Mr.Holmesstated he would also pay trib-ute to his political enemies.

"Yvette Valcourt has follow-ed me everywhere with thatlittle microphone." he recalledamid laughter. She must havestacks of me on tape!"

In the next few days, observ-ed Director Holmes, he will beaddressing the minister of mun-icipal affairs on the problemsof electoral area respresenta-tion.

"I won't be a bit surprisedto find that little microphonein a corner of Mr. Dan Camp-bell's office," he told themeeting.

Mrs. valcourt has attendedpublic meetings, planningmeetings and regional boardmeetings with her tape record'er to take down everything Dir-ector Holmes has said.

He has a four-point campaig:concluded Mr. Holmes, to keepthe present rural character ofSalt Spring Island; to keep pop-ulation density low; to preventpollution and to retain the con-dition whereby people of div-ers income levels can live onthe island.

"Don't just vote for your-selves." he told the audience,"Vote for your children!"

Mr. Wilkinson stated that heis dissatisfied with the waythings are going and the out-side influences oeing exertedon islanders and the island s.

" In order to preserve our wayof life," he told the packedhall, "we must fight for it!"

He is not in complete agree-ment with the " august body,"the Capital Regional Board,said Mr. Wilkinson.

"All decisions affecting thisisland should be made on theisland, not in Victoria," heasserted.

He faulted the island direct-or for not being sufficiently ag-gressive in gaining federal

g rants for the island. He be-lieves a stronger voice is need-ed for islanders.

"I don't intend to go inthere with a chip on my shoul-der," he stated, "But you'dbetter believe I'm going to beheard!"

The regional director is theonly link between the peopleof the island and Victoria andthe only way things can bechanged here is when all theislanders get behind the direct-or. Mr. Wilkinson felt thatthis administrative power shoiJUnot be vested in one man. Onecan be influenced. One mancan be intimidated, he warnedThere should be a group of re-presentatives from the island

NEW PLAYS TO BE PRESENTED AT SALT SPRING

BY THESPIANStrange conversations may be

heard all over Salt Spring Isl-and these days. "Bah! Hum -'bug!" : "Husbands need spank-ing regularly!" or "Why arethey bringing us somethingwhen we don't have anythingto give them?"

But don't worry!It's not a new movement of

Women's Lib, or the Anti-Chri-stmas League rearing its uglyhead. It's just members of theSalt Spring Players rehearsingtheir lines for their show on De-cember 10, 11 and 12.

Olive Clayton is haunting theMahon Hall, directing "A Mar-riage Has Been Disarranged" and"A Little Something for Christ-mas", the former written bythe English film-directing teamof Muriel and Sydney Box, andthe latter adapted from the fa-mous TV comedy series, "Etheland Albert".

The Newmans and their hard-working cast are busily rehears-ing a condensed version ofCharles Dickens' "ChristmasCarol".

The original dialogue is un-

changed, but the whole storyhas been cut down, and somedelightful additions made.

Music and lyrics by the talen-ted and versatile Newmans addcolor and life to Alf Howell'sbrilliant portrayal of Scrooge.and the climax is Mr. Fezzi-wig's Ball.

Spectacular costumes areworn with an air by the girls.and boys who are old enoughare growing impressive mutton-chop whiskers, (Others willhave to submit to having thempasted on! )

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CAPITAL REGIONAL DISTRICTNOTICE OF POLL

ELECTORAL AREA OUTER GULF ISLANDSPublic notice is hereby given to the electors of the Capital Regional District aforesaid that a poll has become necessary at the electionnow pending, and that I have granted such poll; and further, that the persons duly nominated as candidates at the said election, forwhom only votes will be'received, are:

Surname Other Name Position Term of Office Address Occupation

CAMPBELLPURCHASE

James M.Joan

REGIONAL DIRECTORREGIONAL DIRECTOR

TWO YEAR TERMTWO YEAR TERM

SATURNA ISLANDPORT WASHINGTON

FARMERRETIRED

Such poll will be open at: Galiano Island School, Pender Island School, Mayne Island School, Saturna Island Community Hall on SaturdayDecember 11, 1971, between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 8 00 p mAdvance Poll: December 6, 7, 8, at the following residences: C. Webb- Residence, Galiano Island

W. H. Morson - Residence, Mayne IslandO. Auchterlonie - Residence, Pender IslandJ. E. Money - Residence, Saturna Island

of which every person is hereby required to take notice and govern himself accordingly.Given under my hand this 29th day of November 1971 D. A. Young

Returning OfficerCapital Regional District

Thursday, December 2, 1971 Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Page Seven

SALT SPRING ISLAND

instead of a single spokesman.Mr. Wilkinson has studied

the "so-called option situation"and felt he must turn it down.

"Once they've given us thatchoice, just let's make surethey keep their word!" he war-ned his listeners.

He stressed the need for astrong man in the regional seat,

"If you give me your mand-ate you may be very sure I willnot let you down!" he told theaudience.

Mrs. Wood is concerned overplanning.

She has sensed the uncertain-ty of people to whom she hasspoken and "You sense dangerin planning of the island".

She was critical of some as-pects of the first look at the is-lands by the Capital Region,the Gulf Islands Study.

She looked askance at refer-ences to the islands and theirrelationship to the rest of theGeorgia Basin. The suggestionin the study that the future ofthe islands was the concern ofthe capital region or of theprovince affronted her.

Islanders have not been ques-tioned in connection with theirviews on developments in Sid-ney or in Snanich, she exclairred.

She did not like the idea oflinking the recreational charac-ter of the Gulf Islands with the,American San Juan Islands.

She realizes that islandersare to receive another quest-ionnaire just before the festiveseason. It will be t he firsttime in Canada that a comm-unity has been invited to planitself, Mrs. Wood recalledChairman Hugh Curtis as hav-

ing stated."First time in Canada Hea-

ven help the rest of Canada,"she exclaimed.

A questionnaire of this typeis a simple way of keepingpeople quiet, she suggestedamid applause.

Best way to plan and the on-ly way to consider the planninaoptions to be distributed is tosit down as groups and discussthem to reach a greement.

If islanders would sit downand work for one plan for theisland they could take it to theCapital Regional Board and onto the provincial governmentif necessary, she urged.

"I believe there is a sensibleway to plan Salt Spring Island1,1said the candidate.

TWO ELECTIONMEETINGS ARECOMING UP

Two more election meetingsare looming for Salt SpringIsland.

On Friday evening the threecandidates for Regional Diskrict will speak at Fulford Hall.Director M-arc Holmes, JimWilkinson and Mrs. Beth Woocwill all be there to explaintheir policies.

On December 8, next Wed-nesday evening, an electionmeeting will be held in thehigh school at Ganges by theSalt Spring Island Rat epayers*Association.

School board candidates wilbe able to present their plat-forms and visitors will learnof the modified school referendum.

CENTENNIAL MEMO -- BlighIsland in Nootka Sound was named after one of Captain Cook'scaptains, William Bligh wholater won notoriety in the fam -ous mutiny on the Bounty.

GARBAGE IS GROOVY

AND HERE'S WHAT TO SAVEBY RECYCLIST

Many thanks to all islanderswho are no'w recycling glass, .tin, paper, etc. To all therest of you who want to dp_S£mething about conservaTionjhere's wnat you can deposit inthe recycling boxes, eitherthe one on Churchill Road, orthe box at the corner of Bay-view Avenue, in Vesuvius:

1. TIN CANS, washed andflattened.

2. BOTTLES, any kind, wash-ed and labels removed.

3. ALUMINUM, TV dinnertrays, etc.

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4. PAPER, All scrap paper except newsprint or boned(waxed or plasticized).

5. PLASTIC BAGS6. EGG CARTONS1. FAT, put all drippings in a

covered tin.

Separate the above 1 itemsand deposit the separate bagsof cans, bottles, paper, etc.in one of the recycling boxes.The Vesuvius box is conveni-ently located for all recyclersalong Sunset Drive.

The boxes are emptied bythe Spec Recycling Committeemembers, and the reusablegarbage is taken to the Victor-ia Project Recycle Depot justoff Quadra at MacKenzie.

There, a staff of volunteerssorts and ships the stuff to thebuyers.

More and more people arebeginning to realize that weiive in a closed system and it'spretty stupid to destroy theship in which we sail.

It's not much trouble to sortand wash the food containers,and not too inconvenient toleave them in one of the boxes

The Spec Recycling Commi-ttee would be delighted toknow of any other groups whowant to set up their own Re-cycle Box.

Information-about-recyclingsheets are available at DRIFT-WOOD: or phone 537-2055.

ffilMSH WORLD ANGUS SHORTTDucks Unlimited

RED-NECKED GREBEThis grebe prefers the borders of freshwater

lakes and marshes where stands of bulrush arefound. It is distinguished by its black crown,white cheeks and rusty-red neck. Like all grebes itslegs are so far back that it has difficulty walkingand waddles awkwardly onto the eggs, afterjumping onto the nest from the water. Nest — awet floating platform of marsh debris, anchoredto reeds, occasionally on a muskrat house. It feedson small fish, crustaceans and aquatic insects.

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CAPITAL REGIONAL DISTRICTNOTICE OF POLL

ELECTORAL AREA SALT SPRING ISLANDPublic notice is hereby given to the electors of the Capital Regional District aforesaid that a poll has become necessary at the electionnow pending, and that I have granted such poll; and further, that the persons duly nominated as candidates at, the said elect'on. forwhom only votes will be received, are:

Surname Other Name Position Term of Office Address Occupation

HOLMESWILKINSONWOOD

MarcusJames R.Elizabeth C,

REGIONAL DIRECTORREGIONAL DIRECTORREGIONAL DIRECTOR

TWO YEAR TERMTWO YEAR TERMTWO YEAR TERM

FULFORD HARBOURGANGESGANGES

FARMERBUSINESSMANFARMER

Such poll will be open at: School Board Office, Ganges, Nan's Coffee Shop, Fulford Harbour, on Saturday, December 11, 1971 between thehours of 8.00 a.m. and 8.00 p.m.Advance poll: December 6, 7, 8 at the residence of A. J. Dillabough, Hundred Hills Subdivision Lower SuitSpring Way, Ganges, B. C., between the hours of 9.00 a.m. and 5. 00 p.m.

of which every person is hereby required to take notice and govern himself accordingly.

Given under my hand this 29th day of November 1971 Re\A * ̂ ""off i erCapital Regional District

Page Eight Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD'

\Y/fh knife and Fork Through fhe Gulf Islands \

Thursday, December 2, 1971

BY GEORGE LIDl

Isn't it hell knowing where tokeep things? How people inbungaloid blobs without atticsor basements manage, I'll nev-er know. It must be like livingin a lifeboat. I have a distinctfeeling that thwarting the mag-pie instinct builds up trouble.No home is complete without arats* nest of junk.

In that respect Nature waskinder to some of our cousins.The hamster has his cheeks andthe kangaroo its pouch. My

English grandfather Wil had alarge oaK chest which wouldhave looked at home on theSpanish Main. He had made ithimself not long after the Fran-co-Prussian war. By the timeI first saw it, it had already ac-quired the patina of age.

It was quite a simple affair,really, though all the jointswere dovetailed. It had a de-vice to stop the lid falling onyour head. This was needed,because the lid was heavy en-

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ough to brain you. Otherwiseit was remarkable only for thebeautiful finish which RollsRoyce used to brag about incar bodies. Only old cabinet-makers can give such lovingsheen to wood. You could rubyour hand along the top andfeel as if you were strokingCleopatra. It smelled of resinsand waxes and spice. LongJohn Silver would have latchedonto it on sight.

The lock wasn't terribly el-aborate: just a big hasp andstaple, with an enormous brasspadlock. Grandfather carriedthe key on a chain around hisneck.

The legend of the chest wasestablished long before I app-eared on the scene. My Grand-mother Emily had twelve boysto feed on a carpenter's wages.The ingenuity required to dothis would have made StaffordCripps look like a fumbling a-mateur. There wasn't a pennyto spare for frills, and that in-cluded Christmas. They wereproud folks, my English grand-parents, and though money wasas scarce as hen's teeth, theboys lacked for nothing.

The problem of Christmastoys must have been solvedshortly after the first boy wasborn. Grandfather Wil simplydecided to make them himself.I never saw one, but FmtoldHiey were marvels of wood-craft: things to pull, push andthrow' castles with archers andknights; building sets, cricket

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF ISLANDS )

SALT SPRING ISLAND Part of School District No. 64 (Gulf Islands)

NOTICE OF ELECTION OF TRUSTEES: THREE TRUSTEES TO BE ELECTEDFOR A TWO YEAR TERM

Public notice is hereby given to the electors of the part of schoolDistrict aforesaid that a poll lias been necessary at the election now pending, andthat I have granted such poll; and. further, that the persons duly nominated ascandidates at the said election, for whom only votes will be received are: -

BALTZERDIBNAHDIXONGUTHRIEHARKEMAHILLKYLESIMONSTHOMAS

Charles M.Q. HaroldEdward R.lone V.Jan H.Raymond C-.Dorothy M.MargaretMarion

Such poll will be opened at the School Board Office, Ganges, and Nan's Coffee Shop,Fulford Harbour. Salt Spring Island, B.C. on the Eleventh" day of December, 1971,between the hours of 8:00 o'clock in the morning and 8:00 o'clock in the evening' ofwhich every qualified voter is hereby required to take notice and govern himself 'accordingly.

Given under my hand this 29th day of November, 1971."J. Vodden"Returning Officer.

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 64 (GULF ISLANDS)

SATURNA ISLAND Partof School District No. 64 (Gulf Islands)

NOTICE OF ELECTION OF TRUSTEE:ONE TRUSTEE TO BE ELECTEDFOR A TWO YEAR TERM

Public notice is hereby given to the electors of the part of schoolDistrict aforesaid that a poll has been necessary at the election now pending, andthat I have granted such poll; and, further, that the persons duly nominated ascandidates at the said election, for whom only votes will be received are:—

CAMPBELLDAVIDSON

J .LorraineThomas

Such poll will be opened at the Saturna Island Community Hal l , Saturna Island. B. C.on the Eleventh day of December, 1971, between the hours of 8:00 o'clock in themorning and 8:00 o'clock in the evening, of which every qualified voter is hereby re-quired to take notice and govern himself accordingly.

Given under my hand this 29th day of November, 1971.

"J. Vodden"Returning Officer.

bats and much -else, allby his own hand in a littlewooden shack backing on tothe outside W. C. in the backyard. The house was in Dash-wood Road. I feel about it theway Mohammedans do aboutMecca.

Unfortunately, as the boyswere flown in by a stork work-ing on time and a half , Grand-father ran out of time in which

council house bulging with kidsisn't ideally constructed todouble as a warehouse. I thinkthat's when Grandfather felt obliged to make the woodenchest, as a kind of secure rest-ing place for toys on the inac-tive list. He must have beena man of vision, because hemade the chest large enough tcaccommodate all the toys sub-sequently required in the rear-

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to do his job, grow a few cab-bages, visit the local and cont-inue making a different toy foreach boy each Christmas. Hesolved the problem in no timeflat. If anybody thinks the cur-rent fadword "recycling" is or-iginal, all I - can say is thatGrandfather Wil invented itround about 1890. What he didwas to make a few extra toysover and beyond immediate re-quirements. He also countedon the length of human mem-ory, and wasn't far wrong. Thusabout the end of January, theboys' Christmas toys used todisappear one by one, to re-appear several Christmases la-ter with different name tags. Inbetween the spares helped tobridge the memory gap.

The key problem was, ofcourse, where to store them inbetween the annual shuffle. A

KXXX oooooooceoooooocooo<ing of his round dozen. FamilyPlanning? Just another label,reall y.

Each Christmas the kidswould troop downstairs and behanded a "new" toy. Occa -sionally one would mutter thatit looked familiar, but thenhe'd be impaled on a lookwhich put an end to the matterI suspect that Grandfather's sy-stem of rotation wasn't of thesame calibre as his cabinet-work. Anyway, it worked pre-tty well, and the chest didyeoman service. It seemed tobe bottomless.

I don't know at what pointGrandfather began to changeinto a squirrel. It must havehappened gradually, so thatthe family was at first not aw-are of a quirk solidifying intoa habit. Once established,they grew used to it. What

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Glad we can watch the GreyCup in peace and quiet, wouldsure hate to be out at EmpireStadium in this rain and withall those people!

Frank and bonny Bea Froesehad bonny Bea's sister excitingEdna and husband Harold Eng-elbrecht from the States up fora short visit. Whenever theFroese's have company theydrag out the music and end upwith a good old fashioned singsong.

Harry Oldham of Samuel Is-land says he has to read theDRIFTWOOD to catch up onthe news. It was sure "soft"news as he had heard nothingabout Bing Crosby or anyoneelse buying Samuel Island.

Out f-om Kamsack, Sask.,for the winter at their daught-er's lithesome Leona Sleeves'are William and captivatingCatherine Price. The reasonCatherine is captivating isthat she likes to do such thingsas playing cribbage wittt thejoker wild.

It never rains but it poursand bashful Betty Carpentierran into a hurricane last week,every one in her family hadsomething wrong from earachestubbed toes, toothache, etc.To put it mildly they had an

.aggravating week. The goodsaid news is that happy HildaYates is home from Lady M in-to. Lloyd Moulton had a badsession with the dentist but isOK now.

That "RED" Light flashing

out on Crispin Rock in LyallHarbour is a new b(u)oy. Theold buoy must have slippedsouth a bit as the new one isquite a ways north now.

There is little news thisweek. Opened out rny notebook and all we could findwas my wife's grocery list sowas almost tempted to printthat.

Bill and irrestible Irene Lawson have formed a "TeenClub" and are putting up abilliard and ping pong tablesfor the group. More" on thislater.

On December 18, a Saturd-<;ay, our annual Christmas Par-ty in the Hall. On SundayDecember 19, the Santa GlausShip is due. On Tuesday,December 21, our CandlelightDinner (that date is tentative)More on all these dates nextweek.

Next Saturday, Dec. 4, themale Bridge Players will hostthe Ladies to a dinner at thehall. The menu is still a sec-ret. Will type out the paeonsof praise from the Ladies nextweek.

The Saturna Island Women'sBridge Club, twelve strong,went into Burnaby last Thurs-day and were hosted by annaughty Tracy narrower andher Burnaby Ladies Club, agood number of whom holidayat East Point each year. Understand the ladies had a realrough boat trip home.

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happened was that Grandfatheigraduated from squirreling aw-ay toys to squirreling away,anything he was given; in fact,anything that wasn't naileddown. It would all disappearinto the chest. He'd pick upwhatever it was, and sidle aw-ay like a crab, trying to lookcasual. Then you'd hear thelid lift. After a pause itwould slam and the padlock

1AGIC CHESTand hasp would rattle. Thismeant the item had been safe-ly interred.

It grew to be a family joke.My father was quite a teaseand baited many a trap by cau-sing moveable items to be putin Grandfather's way. Mostly,the old man was on to it, butsometimes the packrat instinctoverpowered him. Then therewere broad grins in the familyfor days. Grandfather knewhe'd been had, but would cov-er up by muttering somethingabout tidiness. I know all thisis true, by the way, because Ionce gave him two of my fav-orite glass king cobs for hisbirthday, and after expressinghis pleasure, he shuffled up -stairs and I heard the sequenceof sounds which indicated themarbles were being put awayin the chest. I never saw therragain. Grandfather Wil wasnot prepared to revive theChristmas cycle for a singlegrandson any more than LudwigBemelman's restaurateur wasprepared to cut up his elephantfor a single cutlet.

After that, I romanticisedthe thing a bit. There was astory I'd just read about a doorin a wall that gave onto amagnificent garden. I feltsure Grandfather Wil's chestmust be like that. I was con-vinced that it had a false bot-tom, with a trapdoor leadingvia a ladder to a nether regionpeopled by goblins and elves,all looking like Grandfatherand busy makin g things withminiature tools.

Grandfather died shortly be-fore the war broke out. Myfat'ier, as the last survivingson, inherited a few gnarledpipes, a walking stick and thewooden chest. It was duly in-stalled in his bedroom.

I joined the Army, and itwas some time before I camehome on leave, v hen I did,I had managed to acquire abottle of brandy, which I gaveto my father with a flourish.

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It was a dull November mor-ning on Sunday when St.Marys'Church at Fulford was alreadyfilling with the congregationbefore the hour of 11 .

There was an air of excite-ment and expectation.

St. Mary's looked differenton that particular morning.The whole Chancel had beentransformed to take the congre-gation back to the ancient bib-lical days of Joseph, with hiscoat of many colors, and his11 brothers.

•This story was all told inmusic and song in a fascinat-ing "rock oratorio" put on bythe children's choir, the nuc-leus of which is St. Mary's chil-dren's choir, with other chil-dren joining them for this spe-cial children's service.

The back-drops were madeby A.H.R. Howell.

The play was in two parts;Mrs. Margaret Howell was sol-oist and Norman Hind-Smithwas organist. Mrs. Hind-Smithgave the introductory speech.Mrs. Edward Lacy read thestory of Joseph from the pulpit.

Behind the scenes were Mrs.Doris Andrews and Mrs. BessieDane, who were responsible foitraining the children. Mrs.Andrews deserves credit forbringing the Oratorio into be-ing, making the costumes andinspiring the whole cast withher enthusiasm.

Mrs. Dane spends her timewith the children and, with the

He wasn't to know the shenan--igans it had cost me. but I didexpect he'd break out the glas-ses and we'd hoist a few on thespot. Not on your life, NellieHe cradled the bottle on hislap, almost stroking the label.After a while, he excused himself and went upstairs with it.I heard a sequence of sounds Ihadn't heard since childhood.Father was putting the bottleaway in Grandfather's chest.

When he came down, I said.jocularly: "What's up, Dad,you caught the habit?" Hesaid he didn't know what I wastalking about; but he knewthat I knew, and I knew thathe knew I knew. Whatevermagnetism the chest had gen-erated for Grandfather hadclearly been transmitted tomy father. I asked my motherabout it, and she shrugged itoff. Viennese women expecttheir men, especially if theyhappen to be Englishmen, tobe eccentric.

After the war, I came out toCanada. My father died twoyears later, and I just didn'thave the money to fly back andhelp my mother with the arr-angements. It wss a sad andbitter moment. As a result,Grandfather's chest was dispers-ed along with other householdeffects. I was too distraught tothink of asking her to ship itout to Canada.

If she had, I wonder if thechest would have continued toexercise its strange pull. NowI'll never know. ' But some-where out there is a man,otherwise normal, who willhave turned into a human mag-pie. His family may thinkhim a bit odd, but that's asmall price to pay for the keyto my Grandfather Wil's ma-gic world inside the old oakchest.

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assistance of Mrs. E. Lacy, thechildren are gaining valuablelessons in voice culture.

The Oratorio was bound tobe a success.

Everyone seemed inspiredthat morning and the littlechurch was filled with the hap-py voices as the children wentthrough their parts with nevera falter.

Joseph, played by Alec Mc-Manus, had quite a time withhis many brothers, who finallythrew him into a pit. Jacob wasplayed by Ian Lacy and Pharaolby Kitty Byron, while the serv-ant was Wendy Reeves. GailHorrocks and Anna Mollet were

in the court scene and Joseph'sbrothers were Kathy and KirkArnold, Sunday Byron, SharonDixon, Terry Horrocks, Lomeand Paula Hughes, Jane andHeather Rooke, Michelle Stan-ton and Giselle Temmel.

The children carrying thesongs in the choir were ChristieLacy, Sharon Anderson, Jan-ette and Patti Olsen, and Lor-etta Dodds. These childrenput their heart and soul into thesinging and indeed, little Lor-

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The Board of School Trustees of SchoolDistrict No. 64 (Gulf Islands)

SCHOOL LOAN BY-LAWREFERENDUM NO. 15

Question to be submitted to the owner-electors of School DistrictNo. 64 (Gulf Islands)

"Are you in favor of the Board of School Trustees of School District No. 64 (Gulf Isl-ands) borrowing money, without further assent of the owner-electors, at any time orfrom time to time, within Three (3) years from December 31st, 1971, by the issue andsale of debentures bearing interest at a rate or rates per annum as may be specified bythe British Columbia School Districts Capital Financing Authority at the time of theborrowing and payable over a period or periods not exceeding twenty-five years fromthe date or respective dates thereof, in such principal amounts as the Board may fromtime to time deem necessary to raise net sums not exceeding in the aggregate SevenHundred and Fifty-Two Thousand Dollars ($752, 000. 00), after payment of discount,commission, brokerage, exchange, and other expenses witii respect to such issue orsale, for acquiring and developing school-sites and purchasing, constructing, recon-structing, furnishing, and equipping buildings for school purposes or use in connectiontherewith and other capital expenditures for school purposes?"

The following in brief and general terms sets out substantially the proposed projectsand the amount allocated for each, the amount specified as being within Provincialstandards and eligible for Provincial grants, and the amount specified as being aboveProvincial standards and therefore not eligible for Provincial grants and for which theschool district pays the full cost:-

- Eligible forProvincial

Grants

Not e l ig ib lefor Provincial

Grants(a) Acquiring and developing

school- sites;Salt SpringPender

(b) Purchasing, constructing, re-constructing buildings.forschool purposes or use inconnection therewith;Salt Spring Elementary..."Galiano ElementaryMayne ElementarySaturna ElementaryGulf Islands Secondary...

(c) Furnishing and equippingbuildings for school purposesor use in connection therewith:

Gulf Island's 'Secondary". .. ~Salt Spring Elementary..

(d) Other capital expenditures forschool purposes:Plans and Supervision...Contingencies

$ 20,0005,000

312,5003,5001,0003,700

280,800

40,0005,000

39,00032,500

Total

$ 25,000

TOTAL ESTIMATES

610,500

45,000

71,500

$752,000

Resolution Passed the 18th day of November, 1971Approved by the Minister of Education the 19th day of November, 1971Authorized by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council the 25th day of

November, 1971.Received the Assent of the Owner-Electors of the District the, ., day of

CORPORATESEAL (sign«i.).LojT£.Y.

CHAIRMAN OF, THE BOARD

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TREASURER.TAKE NOTICE THAT HIE ABOVE IS A TRUE COPY OF THE PROPOSED QUESTIONUPON WHICH THE VOTE OF THE OWNER-ELECTORS WILL BE TAKEN AT:

Salt Spring Island

Galiano Island

Mayne Island

Pender Island

Saturna Island

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Galiano Elementary School

Mayne Elementary School

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Saturna Island CommunityHall

On Saturday, December llth, 1971,between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.

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"Roma Sturdy"(Mrs. J. R. Sturdy),Secretary-Treasurer,School District No. 64

(Gulf Islands)

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Mrs. Coels Named To Church GroupArchdeacon and Mrs. R.B.

Horsefield welcomed 17 mem-bers of the parish eveningbranch, A.C.W. on Tuesday,Nov. 23. Members broughtpackages for the gift-exchangedraw to follow the meeting.Fifty cents per member dona-tion was made to the PenderIsland CARE tree as the priceof each draw ticket. It wasthe last meeting before the ho-liday season.

Meeting opened with pray-ers and a Bible reading byPresident, Mrs. Agnes Baker.

Proceeds from the Christmasbazaar and bake sale amountedto $59.

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Dorcas report from Mrs. AliceCoels listed 11 boxes of usedclothing delivered by Dr. Horsefield at the Deanery meeti-ngin Chemainus.

Mrs. A. Horrocks volunteer-ed delivery of two additionalboxes, now ready,

Mrs. B.A.Andrews obtainedthe new address of the PrayerPartner, Mrs. Pam Niblock.A subscription to Beautiful B. c,was sent to Pam with Christmasgreetings from the branch, byMrs. H. Newman.

After brief reports on the nu-merous activites of the pastyear, the meeting adjournedand Dr. Horsefield took thechair for election of officers.

President is Mrs. Alice Coelswith vice-president, Mrs. L.Mouat; treasurer, Mrs. A. Hor-rocks, re-elected; secretary,Mrs. J. L. Spencer, re-electedDorcas, Mrs. R. Magee; Pray-er Partner, Mrs. D.J.Piperno;educational secretary, Arch-deacon R.B. Horsefield, re-elected; social convener, Mrs.E.H. Gear, re-elected; tea andrefreshments, Mrs. D.Seward;cards to hospitalized or bereav-ed members, Mrs. H. Newman

Mrs. Alice Coels then tookthe chair.

Dr. Horsefield announced thedonation of a refrigerator forthe parish hall kitchen, byDaisy Gear. He also statedthat St. Chad's Home for Boysis now government-subsidizedso our annual $100 donationwill no longer be needed. Hephoneu -Mr. and Mrs. Doug Su-therland at St. Chad's aboutChristmas gifts for the boys.Mrs. Sutherland will send alist of names, ages and desires.''Mrs. H. Newman arid Mrs. L.Mouat will buy, wrap and seeto delivery of gifts.

CENTENNIAL MEMO --/ Vesuvi-us Bay on Salt Spring Island per-petuates the name of MM Vesu-vius, a paddle sloop of 976 tonswhich was in service againstRussia in the Black Sea 1854-56.

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A donation of $20 to the\Pen-der Island Pearson CARE treewas approved.

In December, $10 will be gi-ven to Mrs. J. Rooke, forYoung Explorers.- Resignation of Mrs. B. A.

Doris Andrews was receivedwith regret. She is leaving SaltSpring.

PENDER PLAYERSENJOY BEST COMEDYEVER ATTEMPTED

Portree supp lied the settingand Philip Johnson's Charadesupplied the fun when PenderPlayers met at the home ofJay and Maude Baird.

It was president Olive Auch-terIonic's first outing after amonth in Lady Minto.

"The most hilarious even-ing! I laughed til I cried. Thebest comedy we've ever hadl"

At their best were MaudeAdams Biird, Jessie Cornaby,Dorothy Grimmer, Edith Pear-son and Mildred Pert. Daphne'Stevens did a Cockney cookin a large house, as to themanor born... below stairs.

Egging them on, directorGertrude Bennett, John CopleyCapt. Cecil Claxton, AlexGray and Nep Grimmer. Pend-er Players gave $10 to GeorgePearson for his CARE tree.

MRS KINGSMILL DIESAT GANGES AFTERLEAVING GALIANO

One of Galiano's most-lovedformer residents passed awaysuddenly at Ganges, on Nov. 24.

Mary Alice Kingsmill is sur-vived by her husband, Jack atGanges; one daughter, Mrs.Molly Boback, Fredrickton, N.B., and two grandchildren.

Private funeral services wereheld, followed by cremation,Goodman's Funeral Home , Canges in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Kingsmill was oorn inEngland, and spent much of herearlier years in Eastern Canada,at one time owning severalhouses in Ottawa, before com-ing to Vancouver.

She moved to Galiano Islandin the early 1940's, to own andoperate a little tourist resort atRrbutus Point. She then movedto Retreat Cove, where she op-erated a store for several years.

Always a wanderer, she mov-ed to Pender Island for a shorttime, but back to Galiano,where she and her husbandwould delight in buying an old-er home, working to renovateand plant beautiful flowers, andgardens, then sell as soon as itlooked so lovely, and buy ano-ther place, and begin all overagain.

Just a short while ago, sheand her husband moved toGanges, where they lived qui-etly.

That's Bobby I.awson with the grin. He is taking the trophy fromr .F . Sli.n Thorburn for the most improved lacrosse player. And the

eason for Slim Thorburn's grin is that he's happy to present SaltSpring Insurance Agencies trophy.

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The options referred to arethe questionnaires to be distrib-uted explaining the choices op-en to islanders in terms of fut-ure development.

There has been some opposi-tion to the suggestion that thequestionnaire might be distrib-uted over a wider area than theislands.

Many islanders feel that cir-

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Thursday, December 2, 1971 Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Page Eleven

PAINTERS FROM PROVINCE AND PARISBY CULTUS COULEE

Tell them Joe sent you. Hesent us all to a love-in at Vic-toria's Print Gallery, whoseWharf Street entrance is in thenight shadows.

Some 60 previewers rejoicedto have Joe Plasken in theirmidst again that Monday, Nov-ember 1.

Of 60 paintings many weredone chez Josepn, rue Pecquay,in Paris, where he has the toptwo storeys of a 15th centurybuilding.

"I live in a house of glassand a mirror collection andchandeliers," he said on TV."They give another dimension,with light coming off every-thing."

Gallery walls glimmer andglow. Tablecloth textures arerich; rugs blue and rose. Onstereo Getz and Gilberto playCarlos Jobim. It is music tolook at pictures by.

"The Pot of Honey" $500,must be Lillooet Golden Cari-boo! A self-portrait has a fore-ground stuffed owl, like itsowner, tall, tawny, truth-seeking.

He's lived in Paris 20 years,on and off. People from homedrop in, like poet Phyllis Webb.(He returned the call at Ful-ford). Or Victoria artist Doro-thy Williams.

Around the World in 900 daysMrs. Williams, now home,

DEATH OF MAYNEISLAND RESIDENTSTIRLING SPENCER

Memorial Service was heldat St. Mary Magdalene chuich

i on Friday, Nov. 25 for StirlingSpencer, Seaview Road,Mayne Island. He is survivedby his wife Kay and sevenchildren. The Spencers retir-ed to Mayne last summer fromVancouver and Winnipeg.

tells of the Plaskett pad with itsFlea Market treasures, pianoand chamber* music.

"A narrow little street andthe house looks as if it may falldown any minute! The porter'sbell jangles and Joe rushes dowrto let you in. He paints whathe loves around him. He wasgetting a Canadian show ready.Happy, pleasant, unruffl ed.

"When Joe gives a party, allParis is there! Members of allthe arts. A farewell before heleft for Canada. Huge candlesdripping on suits and gowns!Such fun!"

Joe has a love affair with thepast. His pet old wooden hous-es are disappearing faster thanhe can record them. He paints"the magic and mystery andwonder of things. Moods. Themorning innocence of spring-time; the lazy maturity of sum-mer; autumn's melancholy. Thedeath of winter with life keptwarm in the dark and comfort-able interiors. I like to inducejoy and laughter rather thansadness and suffering."

Joe Plaskett got History hon-ors at UBC and did teachertraining. He taught for fiveyears and took night classes atVancouver School of Art withUstinov, Shadbolt, Binning,Amess and Scott. He also stu-died at Banff School of FineArts with-A.Y. Jackson.

The Emily Can- scholarshipin 1945, let Joe study full timeHe was in San Francisco withDavid Park, Clay Spohn andClyfford Still. In New Yorkhe painted with Hans Hofmann.(my "master"), followed bythe Slade, London. The Parispainter was with Leger andLombard, in Paris.

He was principal of Winnip-eg School of Art from 1947 to1949 and then taught at BanffSchool, UBC and VancouverSchool of Art.

Since 1957 he's lived solelyfrom painting, in Paris.

His work is in European gall-eries and private collections,and in the Americas from Gov.Gen. Michener to Sao Paulo.

Ottawa's National Gallery issponsoring Joe Plasken and HisParis - In Search Of Time Past,30 paintings and Jaulnes* photomurals of the studio, to tourCanada for a year.

In the summer of 1970 Joeand cousin Douglas Fraser, Os-oyoos, in a 30 ft. sailboat,dis-covered the Gulf Islands. Hefound St. Mary Lake, whereJoe's brother-in-law and sister,the Gec-ffrey Dysons, Duncan,have a place; the Colin Kings"arbutus, on Old Scott Road;Saturna and Samuel both ap-pear in the show.

The islands floored Joe.It's so beautiful! It's like a

GALIANO .BY MARY BACKLUND

Mrs. C. O. Twiss celebrat-ed her 85th birthday at herhome on Galiano on Sunday,Nov. 28, her husband by herside. Daughter, Mrs. BarbaraHoward came from Coquitlamand son Lyndon, from Coquit-lam; son Roger from Victoria.Mrs. Twiss keeps in quitegood health and is always sohappy.

Fred Robson is out of hospit-al now, but will have to spend

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some more time in Victoria.He will stay with daughter,Carol, and family, the AlWilsons. Mrs. Robson hasbeen busy going to and fro,keeping the home fires burn-ing, and rushing down to seeher husband in the city.

Mrs. Kathleen Clark, whohas resid ed on Galiano since1964, has now sold her homeand will move shortly to Ed-monton.

Terry Tryens, went with hiswife and little baby to Torontoto attend the fiuneral of hisstepfather recently.

Mrs. Shari Street is spendinga short while in Boulder, Col-orado.

Mr. and Mrs. George Geor-geson, Sr., of Sidney, cameto Galiano to spend the week

:end with son and family, theGeordie Georgesons, jr., andto attend the dinner for Mrs.Earner.

Annual bazaar of the Cali-ano Ladies Service Club repor-ted last week went off with abang. Basil Benger, principalof Galiano School, spokebriefly, then said that he hadbeen asked by president Mrs.I. A. Murphy to make the ba-zaar "go off with a bang".

Flourishing his starting pistdhe fired.

childhood tale. It's romanticdiscovering an island all byyourself."

MAYNEAboard the Tsimshean, the

island hoppers* special. Brokebut happy a group from Mayneare returning after an after-noon at the Galiano Ladies Service Guild bazaar.

Annie DeRousie, "Very En-joyable"; Meg Drummond,"Glad I went"; Ina Iwasaki,"The weather was beautiful:Effie Piggot, "An afternoonwell spent;" Maude Smith,"Anice bazaar"; Ethel Markham,"Really enjoyed it"; Betty Fry,"Such a friendly group";Blanche Anderson, "Just love-ly".

All were bringing shopping-bags full of bargains and good-ies. Also brincinc a lot ofgood ideas for the Mayne ba-zaar on Saturday, Dec. 4.That's next Saturday!

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COIM

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BOX 539, Ganges Q Ltd.

MAYNE ISLAND SERVICESales & Service

on allECONO-JET

FURNACES

• FURNACE OIL• STOVE OIL•MARINE GAS•DIESEL FUEL

We lease oil fired water heatersCall: Frank Mul la l ly or Jim Schwandt 539-5521

AuthorizedDealer for

GULF CLIMATECONTROL

EQUIPMENT

TO RESIDENTS OF THE OUTER GULF ISLANDSMISS JOAN S.PURCHASE has been your representativeon the Capital Regional Board since its application to the Outer GulfIslands over four years ago (October, 1967).

SHE HAS TRIED TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THEIR INVOLVE-MENT WITH THE CAPITAL REGIONAL BOARD, ALSO DURINGTHAT TIME ALL PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNI-TY TO TAKE ACTIVE PART IN THE ZONING BY-LAW. THIS IS ACOMPLETELY NEW CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT, WHICH EN-COURAGES INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE A MORE ACTIVE PART.Now that the first step of Island planning is being made, it seems logical to continuewith the same outlook, through subsequent steps.

Miss Purchase will make every effort to obtain answers to Islandproblems from islanders.

TO THIS END, MfSS Purchase SEEKS RE-ELECTION AS YOUR

REPRESENTATIVE TO THE CAPITAL REGIONAL DISTRICT

VOTE Joan S.PurchaseSponsored by Joan S. Purchase Re-Election Committee

Page Twelve Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Thursday, December 2, 1971

REMEMBERHELP YOURRED CROSS

TO HELP

MODERNISEWif h

PROPANE

FULFORD

BY BEA HAMILTON

What does one do on a ferrytrip when there is a small boywho is impatient to get to SaltSpring to see Granny, and thetrip seems so long and slow?You write a poem and sing itto the tune of Tipperary. Atleast, that is what Mr. and MrsKen McLean and young Doug-las', aged three, did and hereis the poem;"It'*s a long way to get to

J.McCLEAN -FREE ESTIMATES 537 - 5369

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Please contact us without obligation, forquotations on the construction & installation of -

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For convenience bills may bepaid at Mrs E.Moore's office

McPhillips Ave.

Box 489Ganges

It's a long way to go;It's a long way to get to Gran-

ny's,On the berry boat so slow;Good bye twenty dollars,Hallo, Salt Spring a i r . . .It's "a long, long way to get to

Granny's,But we'll soon be there."

Young Douglas McLean is thegrandson of Mr. and Mrs. DavidSlingsby and he proudly sangthe song to Granny when he fi-nally reached their home inBurgoyne Valley last week end.

The Symphony Concert wasdelightful on Friday night whenthe Victoria Symphony Orches-tra, under the baton of Mr.Laszlo Gati, led some 20stringsthrough a program of Mozart,Bach, Handel, Bartok andTchaikovsky.

The star performance wasKatherine Ely at the harp. Mr.Gati did mention names butdid you ever try to catch whathe is saying? He has everyonelaughing so, we all forgetwhat he says and laugh withhim.

His music is very lovely andthe whole program was wellchosen.

The Rev. Fred Andersonspoke for the Centennial '71Committee and Windsor Utleyintroduced Mr. Gati for theGulf Islands Community ArtsCounciland to these two organ-izations , we give a vote ofthanks for arranging such a sat-isgying musical evening.

On Sunday at 1. 30 p. m. thestag party was on at the FulfordI lall as the members of the Rot-ary (Tlub were enjoying a smor-gasbord provided by the RotaryAnns and watching the GreyCup final, via television. Thisis Men's Lib at its happiest,where no female dare venturewithout a dish for the table orhot water for the coffee: IFthey are drinking coffee!

Anyway, we know this isman's happiest moment andwhen the Grey Cup game cando that to over three quartersof the man-population of theworld, well, more power to

We are pleased to announce the appointment of

J. BARRY MILLS

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THIS COUNTRYIN THE MORNING

Peter Gzowski, that bright young man about Canadian journal-ism, and latterly, broadcasting, is the host of CBC Radio's newweekday magazine program, This Country In the Morning.Plenty of talk, music, humor, pocket documentaries, readings,actuality, phone-outs and information galore will be the orderof the day. Peter, who for two and a half years hosted RadioFree Friday, will get an assist from Helen Hutchinson and BrunoGerussi. Live, topical, entertaining and informative — that'sThis Country In "The Morning.

their pigskin! This is Grey CupSunday and cars were lined upalong the Fulford Hall whilethe owners were glued to thescreen.. .inside, of course.

And Monday the Grey Cupgame was over, Calgary, thewinner; Charles Horel was rich-er by $750. The Rotary Clubwill have a donation to maketo the Hospital and all is wellon Salt Spring Island.

On Friday, December 3, at8 p.m. in Fulford Hall, thethree candidates for the Region'al Board, Director MarcHolmes, who is seeking re-el-ection; Mrs. Beth Wood andJim WilHnson, contenders forthe seat, will give their viewson what they stand for. Voterswill have a chance to ask ques-tions and listen.

This is important, and it is

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also important to point outthat there is to be no mud-slinging or name-calling. Thisis sponsored by the FulfordHall Committee and the SheepBreeders' Association, and theyfeel they want a clear meet-ing just to hear the candidates,all of them, and give the vot-ers an.idea what they are vot-ing for.

ORATORIO

(From Page Nine)as if she could have carried theOratorio all by herself. Thesechildren were great!

It is wonderful to see thechildren taking part in thechurch activities and doing sowell. We hope they will keepon giving so much pleasure andthat their parents will encour-age their children to enter intothe training and activities thatthe church is willing to give.

Next Sunday, Dec. 5. at theGanges United Church at 11 amthe Oratorio will be repeated,and again, the following Sun-day, Dec. 12, it will be pres-ented at St. George's church.

After the performers had leftthe setting. Mr. Hind-Smithvery quietly closed with a prayer for the Rector who is ill inhospital. We hope for hisquick recovery; we missed him

The Lord's Prayer and theBenediction ended this mostoutstanding day.

Congratulations and manythanks for an excellent perfor-mance!

DOMINIONVICTORIA'S

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* Dining Lounge*T.V.* Free Parking

759YATES ST.VICTORIA

384-4136

Thursday, December 2, 1971 Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Page Thirteen

RENDERBY MINERVA

On Saturday Nov. 20, a suc-cessful bean feast was held atthe Port Washington hall onPender Island.

Supper was sponsored by thehall committee. Approxim-ately 150 people attendedthroughout the evening.

Sitting in shifts they devour-ed about 48 Ibs. of ham, withsalads, baked beans, home-made bread and rolls and vari-ous types of dessert. Manythanks to the numerous peoplewho donated the food and help-ed With serving and specialthanks to the clean-up crew.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Guild fromPort Washington arrived on Pen-der Sunday evening, after spen-

d ing the week end in EdmontonThere they attended a fall con-vocation for the conferring ofdegrees at the University of Al-berta. Their son, John, recei-ved his Bachelor of Science de-gree. His twin brother, Jim,who attends the same Universi-ty is in his third year of dentis-try.

Pete and Doreen Carter hadhouse guests last week end.They were Mr. and Mrs. W.L.Hoban of Victoria and Pete'sniece Miss Cynthia Carter, or-iginally from Bella Coola, whcis currently in Victoria attend-ing Sprott Shaw Business Schod

Mrs. Linda W«in of Victoriadaughter of Mr. and Mrs. MaxAllan is ataying at her parents'house on Pender Island for twoweeks with her 10-month-oldson, Don, Jr., while her par-ents are in California.

Mrs. Jan Little, of MurrayRoad, had a friend, Mrs. Dor-othy Walton, from Galiano,staying with her last week end.During the following week shehad two more house guests, Miand Mrs. Ken Glover fromHowick, Quebec, who cameto Pender for a visit and boughsome property from Mrs. Crad'dock on South Pender.

K0PPONSTRUCTION'Commercial•Residential'Remodelling

Free Estimates

537-5476Box 106, Ganges

LaFortune& JangCONSTRUCTION* Homes * Additions* Renovations* Cabinets

Steve Eddy537-5345 537-5482

Box 507,Ganges

SALT SPRING

SEPTIC TANKP u m p - O u t

SERVICENorman Twa Dave Rainsford

537-2287 537-2013DAISY HOLDINGS

BRICKLAYING&

STONEMASONRY'Fireplaces*Blockworlc'Barbecues

Skilled JourneymanBricklayer and Stonemason

Resident of SaturnaReferences readily available

Write giving telephone_ numberTo:

inn rowemasonrysatvrna island

THRIFT SHOP TO RE-OPENOn Wednesday, Nov. 25, the

monthly meeting of the LadyMinto Women's Auxiliary washeld in the Hospital Board RoorrSeveral new members were wel-comed to the group, includingMrs. P. La yard, Mrs. Blake,Mrs. E. J. Dunlop, Mrs. Nisbit.Mrs. J. R, Sturdy, Mrs. Stew-art, Mrs. T. Chester and Mrs.N. Walker.

Trays will be decorated forChristmas dinner, with a giftfor those who have to spend thebig day there. A committeewill decorate trees in the entryhall and lounge. The auxiliar}will present Candy Striper pinsto those girls who have contri-buted 50 hours of service toothers.

Harold Hoffman suggested

that members must learn agreat deal about extended careso they will be better qualifiedto assist when the new wing isopened. ,

The Thrift Shop operation isat a standstill. It is hoped tobegin operation early in theNew Year.

Readers who are cleaning outpr ior to Christmas are invitedto leave their Thrift Shop don-ations at the Nurses* Residence ,Entry Hall behind the hospital.

They will be picked up andput in storage as they accumu-late.

REMEMBERHELP YOUR RED CROSS

A NAME IN A FLASHHANDY GUIDE TO

LOCAL SERVICES

BUSINESS DIRECTORYV.SALES & SERVICE

••-F* AdmiralPhilco(Ford)

HitachiColor. B/W.

Small Appliances Radios -Service to all makes

DICK'S Radio & TV537 - 2943

S A L T S P R I N G

FREIGHTS E R V I C E L T D .

? Moving ?LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE

- STORAGE -Call Ganges: 537-2041

Victoria: 383-7331Vancouver: 254-6848

DRIFTWOODFOR

RUBBER STAMPS

W . C . C A R L S O N

SHEET METAL LTDO I L H E A T I N GIMPERIAL OIL

S E R V I C I N G

Res: 537-2914 Off: 537-5621

WALLY TWASALT SPRING

GARBAGECOLLECTION

SERVICE

Phone:537-2167

BERT'SAUTO BODY

Upper Ganges Rd.

537-2931

SOILPERCOLATION

TESTS**

SEPTIC TANKSSupplied & Installed

DITCHING&

LOADING

Call:

J.H.HARKEMA537-2963

MOBILE REPAIRSHOP

7 DAYS A WEEK* Washers* Dryers* Stovqe* Fridges653-4335

* Power Digging* Trenching* Water Lines* Drainfields* Footings* Digging of all types

Lloyd Kinney537-2662

Box 254, Ganges

• For ALL YourBUILDING NEEDS

Call -

CRUICKSHANKCONSTRUCTION

L. G.Cruickshank 537-5628G.D.Cruickshank 537-2950

Box 52Saturna Isl.

539-2185539-5509

JIM CAMPBELL JR.TREE SURGEON

DANGER TREESTOPPED & REMOVED

LANDSCAPINGCUSTOM BULLDOZING

L A N C E R

CONTRACTINGLTDBUILDERS OF:

New HomesSummer CabinsCommercial BuildingsAlso Complete PlumMng& Hot Water Heating Service

653-44 13 «•

BRADLEYULLDOZING

* LAND CLEARING* ROAD BUILDING /.

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Box 347, G a n g e s537 - 5 3 1 2

N E L S D E G N E N

B U L L D O Z I N G* Land Clearing* Excavating* Road Building, etc

Phone: 537 - 2930Gen, Del. Ganges

Aage V i l iadsenBUILDING

CONTRACTORQuality Homes

Renovations - AdditionsCabinets

FREE ESTIMATES

537 - 5412

H.L.REYNOLDS* TRUCKING* BULLDOZING

* Gravel * Shale* Fill * Building Rock

537-5691Box 284, Ganges

Steve Wawryk

BULLDOZINGBACKFILLING

ETC.Box 131 537-2301Ganges Evenings

F R E D ' S

B U L L D O Z I N G* Land Clearing* Excavating* Road Building* Mauling

Free Estimates25 years experience537 - 2822

R.R.2 Ganges

PAINTING &DECORATING

TEMMEL & VOLQUARDSEN

653-4239653-4402

G.I.WINDOWCLEANERS* FLOORS* WALLS* GUTTERS* RUGS & CARPETSFree Pick-up & Delivery

COMPLETE

CLEANING&

JANITOR SERVICEHome or Business

653-4381

SHEFFIELDFulford Harbour

RADIO - TVZENITH & RCA

Sales & ServiceColor - B/W - TV's

juaranteed Service to ALL ofSALT SPRING ISLANDCall: 653-4433

BANGERTCONSTRUCTION

* Homes* Cabinet Work* Remodelling* Commercial Buildings

Phone: 537 - 5692

TRUCK LETTERINGSHOW CARDS

Art simonsFulford Harbour

653 - 4283

Ken ByronEXCAVATING

COMPLETE BACKHOE &TRUCKING SERVICE

* Septic Tanks & Fields* Fill - Shale - Topsoil

Free Estimates

Phone: 537 - 2882

HALVORSONDRILLING

* WATER WELLS* CABLE TOOL

DRILLING

539 -2994Box 48, Mayne Isl.

TRACTOR SERVICE* Brush Cutting* Post Hole Digging* Plastic Pipe Laying* Plowing * DiscingRon Cunningham

537 - 5310

GULF ISLANDS

SEPTIC TANKSERVICE

N.Bedocs537-2929

TRUCK ON ISLANDAT ALL TIMES

Valcourt Building SuppliesSupplies Ltd.

537-5531OR

537-2929

Page Fourteen Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Thursday, December 2, 1971

Write to DRIFTWOODBOX BOX 250,

GANGES, B.C.Or Phone:537-2211

CLASSIFIED ADS.DEADLINE FOR

CLASSIFIED - TUESDAY NOONNEWS -MONDAY, 5pmDISPLAY -MONDAY, 5pm

FOR SALE

VESUVIUS STOREOpen every day 1 1 -7pm

WEEK-END BARGAINS

MOM'S MARG. 29<: Ib.TANG, 4pk... 79$HEINZ PICKLES:Sweet Mix - BabyKosher Dills - Bread &Butter, 15 oz ..... 2/89<JPINEAPPLE JUICE,Nabob, 48 oz ---- 35$GEMS, Alta #2,IO#49<:

Check our everyday low prices:ONIONS ....... 21b. 19?TURNIPS ...... 2 " 19?CARROTS ..... 2 " 19?Fresh .Chestnuts now in.

Vitc-away bread and productsfresh in twice a week.

S E E U S F O R :-Second-hand goods of all kinds'Collector's Items^Antiques

We BUY SELL TRADEOpen daily !) am - 9 pm

246-39C7

CORNER CUPBOARD8254 Crofton Road, Crofton.

just before Pulj> M^ill. _tfn

ALADDIN KEROSENE MANTLELamps and parts. Mail orderdiscount prices, liox 40,SaturnaIsland, B.C. 45-4

FRUIT TREES GALORE -Currants, rhubarb, forget-me-nots, roses. Good selection ofplants and shrubs.LITTLE GNOME NURSERYIsabella Pt.Road (Imile pastRoland Rd) 653-4289 evenings.Closed Wed. &_Thursdays. _ _ * "

N A T U R A L F O O D SAt The Salt Spring Farm,

Vesuvius Bay Road- near Central. 537-2285. tfn

PROPANE GAS REFILLSPhone 537-2460 or call at theHarbour Grocery Store in GangesAll gas appliances sold and

serviced.Gulf Islands Propane Gasu tfn__

WATER TREATMENT:Taste, odor, iron removal filt-ers, water softeners. C GA ap-proved Electric Ekco heatingpanels. R.R.Alpen Ind. Equip.Ltd., 560 Stevens Drive, WestVancouver, IB. C. _92£-7088 tfnCOMBINATION GAS-TRASHBurner Range. Gas Trailerstove with oven. Sideboard.537-2827 47-1MAN'S BICYCLE tN GOODcondition, new rear tire, $35.or nearest offer. 537-5(545____ ___ £MLARGE OIL SPACE HEATERcomplete with fan $50, Costnew $185. Phone 537-5458__ __ 47^1

OLDER PATTERNED & COLOR-ed glass vases, bowls, cream-ers, etc. ; also china & metaloddments, and some pottery.Call weekday afternoon* atthe Farmhouse, Tripp Rd, St,Mary Lake; or phone 537-5327

_______ m4jMOIL BURNING HOT WATERheater for sale. Good workingcondition. 653-4384 47-1MOBILE HOME 10*x40', FURN-ished, 1 bedroom, full plumb-ing, furnace, kitchen, & livingroom. Large front windows.$4200. 537-2633 47-1CHRISTMAS TREES & HOLLYorder now and support juniorsports. We deliver. Phone537-2885 _ _tfnGIRL'S BICYCLE, • $25.00,Phone 537-2324 evenings. 46-1

FOR SALE

STILL TIME FOR CHRISTMASPhotographs.Call M. Sharp at 537-2134.

47-1PRE - CHRTS~fT^S~S"ATTT~

with any trade26"Philco color, cabinet mark-

ed,list 895.00 now 645.00.26"Admiral color now 619.9519" Admiral or Hitachi color

now 495.0020" B/W Philco portable

189.95Philco 20 watt stereo, list

299.95 now 199.9523" B/W console Philco

now 256.9517" B/W Hitachi portable,

now 184.95Radios - Cassettes - Small

Appliances.

DICKS RADIO & T.V.,Sales and Service,

McPhillips Avenue. Ganges.____5.T7_-2_943_._ _jJ7-!

I960 FARGO PICKUP537-2598 __ -17-1ZENITH 25" COLOR T.V.with cart stand, original cost$875. SPECIAL $275. with.TO-day guarantee:.Call Sheffield Radio ft T.V._ C53-4433._ -17-1wjTsfTNGilousE PORTABLEdishwasher, as new $195.

MAPLE BUNK BEDS COMP-l£te,_537-5401_ _ 47jJ1967 BUICK WILD"CAT~2 DR.hardtop. Full power, all newtires, for sale or trade for pickup of equal value. 539-2288

CHOICE GRAINFED MUTTON537-5380 .JJ."1

M ISCELLA NEOI IS 1 lOUSEIlOLHfurnishings, beds, chairs, cur-tains, rugs. At Scott Point,Lot C, Marina Crescent onThurs., I'll., and Sat. 47-1

FRUIT TREES

$2.99.

Climbing Roses 1.35All other roses '98?Big selection of CliristmasDecorations and Novelties.

GULF ISLANDS FLORIST ANDHANDICRAFTS, 537-5751.

.17-1

WANTED

OIL RANGE IN GOOD CONDI-tion, wanted. 653-4280. 47-

WORK WANTED

ATTENTION ISLAND OWNERS:married couple available tocaretake your property, handy-man and cook. Excellent refer-ences. Write Dept. "I", Box25ti± pa_Dg£5^_ „ tfjL^TYPING ,1IOUSEWORK,ODDjobs. Will do Anything!Write Dept. "K", Box 250,Ganges, B. C. -17-2

COMING EVENTS

OLD AGE PENSIONERSChristmas Party, Wednesday,Dec. 8. All members ofBranch 32 are invited at St.George's Hall, 2 p. m.Call 537-5317, Mrs. Thacker,or 537-2059, Mrs.M.Clark fortransportation. E. Thacker, sec.

'_ _47-l_C . W . L . B I N G O *

Church Hall - Drake Road.Saturday, Dec. 4 8 p.m.

sharp.Jackpot $40. Caller Mrs.

H. J. Carlin.Everyone welcome.

Refreshments.

Call 537 - 2211 To Plaee YourClassified

NOTICE

"THE COMMUNITY OF BAHA'U'LLAH" What is it? If youare interested you are invitedto John and Lois M or land's,Thursday evening, Fulford HarB-our, _65 3 -4425. _ _tf£LCome to TWIN GABLES SPEEDWASH - 1 block south of govern1

ment wharf at Crofton for COINDRY CLEANING, $3 per 8 Ib.load - partload 40? per Ib. Op-erator in attendance. 1 HR. ser-vice available. SPEEDY LAUN-DERING - wash 25?, dry 10?. "Permapress dryer and water ex-

C H A R T E R F L I G H T SCharter flight information.Year round continuous returncharters to Britain and mostEuropean countries. One-wayflights to or from London.Flights arranged for you, yourgroup, club, union or comp-ahy. Four Seasons Travel, 5,110 Craig St. , Duncan. Tele-phone Day- Night 746-4155 or7£6-4156. ______ tfn__PUPPIES! FREE CROSS LAB-rador, now 5 weeks old andalmost ready to go to a goodhome. Good water dogs. Phone537-2053. __ __47 - 1

THE PHONE NUMBER OF MRS.Alice llammett for the nextthree months will be 537-2684(Dalsleish) 47-1

MISCELLANEOUS ;

WELDING & REPAIR SERVICEsame location as Low's Store inHundred Hills. We buy and sellfurniture and appliances andtreasures of yesteryear.Phone 537-2332. _____ tfn_PLOUGHING, ROTOTILLINC,Haying, brush cutting, postholedigging. G53-44U3 tfnH O M E M A K E R SER~V~ICECall 537j_295_0 or 537-5616 tfnNEED ANY CERAMIC TILING.Floor tiling, wallpapering orpainting done?

LET TOM DO I T .Phone 053-4402 or leave

message at 653-4425 or writeTom Volquardsen, Box 385,Ganges. tfn

LOG CABIN'SPOST £ BEAM HOUSES

Old style carpentry, design andconstruction. C. Secor,Bullman Road, Fulford. 6 53 -4J8L__> __tfn_P E N I N S U L A C H I M N E Y

S E R V I C EFor Chimney Cleaning,

Stoves,Heaters,Gutters.

For appointment call 537-2923

CEMENT & CARPENTRY WORK1. Sidewalks2. Patios3. Retaining Walls4. Renovations.

Reasonable rates by contract orhourly. Phone 537-54pg. tfn

OPEN BOWLING:Friday night 9-11 pm.Saturday night 7-11 pm.Phone 537-2054. tfn

4 CUDDLY SHORT-TAILEDkittens, make lovely children'sChristmas presents. I lave oneweek's reprieve. 537-2979.

47-1

HELP WANTED

ACCOUNTANT REQUIREDfor 40 bed Hospital, Applic-ants must have experience incarrying out all acounting dut-ies including Payroll, Invent-ory Control, Financial andStatistical Reports. Please ap-ply in writing only giving fulldetails and salary required to:

Administrator,Lady Minto Hospital,Box 307,Ganges, B.C. 47-1

FOR RENT

FURNISHED COTTAGES,winter rates, 537-2205,Cedar Beach Resort. _ _tfn_10 x 50 - TW"O BRTFURNISH-ed trailer for rent, $90. 537-2462. ___________________ jfnMODERN COTTAGES BY THEmonth. All electric, fully furn-ished, including washer & dryer.Phone Channel View Court,537-5408. ____ tfn_TWO BEDROOM FULLY FURN-"ished, all electric cottage. Ref-erence required. Phone 537-2539^ __ _____= _jfnTRAILER SPACE :OVERLOOKINGBlackburn Lake. All services,garbage collection, laundry facilities, self-contained trailersonly. Cedar View Trailer Court

1 BEDROOM COTTAGE, OILheat, $75 per month plus util-ities.2 Bedroom cottage, oil heat,electric range, $95 per monthplus utilities. 537-2832. tfn

NEW 2 BEDROOM"FULLY I N-sulated furnished house on wa-terfront property on Salt SpringElectric heating and fireplace.Available now tor at least 1year at $125 monthly, utilitiesextra. References required.Preferably no children. WriteDept. "L", Box 250, Ganges.

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENTCall 537-2943. __ 41-\SEMI- FURNISHED HOUSE ONSt. Mary Lake for 6 months asof Dec. 1 or 16. Responsiblecouple only. Phone 388-4686_ 47-1

WANTEUTO RENT

RELIABLE 'COUPLE URGENTLYneed a house or cabin. Willcaretake, repair or whatever.Write" Box 524, Gan£ej,^__tfnSMALL HOUSE OR COTTAGEon one of the Gulf Islands com-mencing May, 1972. Foraperiod of 4 to 5 months. Preferably near the water. Write:197 Aldercrest Road, Toronto14, Ontario. 47-2

ANNOUNCEMENT

Mr. and Mrs. C. O. TWISSof Galiano Island take greatpleasure in announcing ths en-gagement of their only daught-er Barbara Gil more Howard ofCoquitlam to Mr. David Bern-ard Clarke of Montreal, Que-bec. The wedding will takeplacejn early spring. 47-1

CARD OF THANKS

Sincere kindness and sympathybring consolation in a time ofsorrow. The many helpful actsflowers, messages of sympathy,donations to Burns Centre andunderstanding of relatives andfriends, doctors and nurses,after the sudden loss of ourdear son and brother Stephen,will long be remembered. Wecan only say Thank You-Mr. and Mrs. L. Bedocs and

Deirdre. 47-1

FOUND

ONE 6 FOOT WHITE DINGHYPhone 653-4380 47-1

LOST

MALE CAT,.YOUNG FLUFFYorange and white, 5 mos. old.Lost in Charlesworth Rd, area.Phone 537-2288 after 4 p.m.

47-1

PHOTOCOPYINGAT DRIFTWOOD

BIRTHS

Born to Mr. and Mrs. ArthurBUCKLEY, a son, on Novemb-er 29, 1971, at Lady MintoHospital. First grandchild forMr. and Mrs. Charles Buckley.

47-1

REAL ESTATE

BY OWNER: 2 YEAR OLD 3bedroom house on 2 1/2 acres,valley view, all electric, 2bathrooms, wall-to-wall, fire-place, carport, sundeck. Fullprice: $25,500. 653-4330. tfn

SOUTHBANK DRIVE - LOTSwith a lakeview and south.These are good lots. G. How-land, Box 71, Ganges, B. C.

LO©K!

LOOK!

LOOK!

Waterfront homes on large sec-luded properties.

Over 2 acres nearly 300* waterfront.

Over 2 acres on over 2f 0'waterfront.

Nearly 2 acres on 165* water-front.

0444444

Waterfront homes on smallerproperties.

Nearly 3/4 acre on 130* water-front.

Beautiful cottage on over 100*sandy beach.

' /rite or phone Bert or Harveyat CAM BASTEDO AGENCIESLTD., BOX 353, Ganges.Phone 537-5541. Evenings,53.7-5391 or 653-4380.

B.C.LANDAND INSURANCE

AGENCY LTD.

"Serving B. C. since 1863"Boc 63, Ganges.

REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE.VESUVIUS BAY

A Company ExclusiveCharming home in desirableVesuvius Bay within walkingdistance to the warmest swim-ming area, store and ferry. Onone acre view with fruit trees,this well maintained home haslarge Living Room with fire-place and 4 BEDROOMS. Theowner must sell and the fullprice of $21,000 makes thistruly a wonderful buy. Lookfor our sign (but please do notdisturb the owners) and thencall

PEARL MOTION537 - 5557

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REAL ESTATE

HILLSIDE FOREST•-23 acres

This lovely acreage, in thecentre of SALT SPRING, touch-ing on a Blacktop road, yetproviding quiet, seclusion,private vistas, and a good in-vestment - at this old fashion-ed price of $16,500

with Terms.Call Collect JIM SPENCEREves. 537-2490 Days 537-5515

WATERFRONT HOMEPrime western exposure water-front 2 acres, 240 ft. of choicefrontage on point, level, welltreed, with beautiful landscap-ing. Modern 2 bedroom homewith work shop, two fireplacesexcellent view.

Price $57,500

ACREAGE75 acres of wooded forest,close to business area of SaltSpring, watermain; excellentholding property at less than$550 per acre.Call Collect MEL TOPPINGEves 537-2426 Days 537-5515

13 Acres of Private SeclusionMaple & evergreens, border-ing a gentle stream - $16,000Terms.

SATURNA ISLAND140* waterfrontage in BootCove Excellent anchorage,quiet road, serviced. EXCEP-TIONAL VALUE $7,750 ongood terms.Call Collect BOB TARAEves. 653-4435 Days 537-5515

This 2 1/2 acres high on a hilloffers a magnificent view ofthe Gulf Islands and surroundingarea. Selective clearing hasleft many trees, the windingdriveway leads to a level build-ing site on this fully servicedproperty.Priced to sell at $13,500.To view call collect

DICK POOLEEves. 537-2643 Days 537-5515

GALIANO ISLANDQuiet, unspoiled woodlandacreage with sweeping south-west view of Trincomali Chan-nel, minimum of two-acre par-cels, only ten minutes fromsafe moorage at Retreat Cove,$8,000 and up, on terms.

Beautiful homesites in the ex-clusive area surrounding Gali-ano Golf & Country Club, fullyserviced, protected by coven-ant, swimming and fishing ineasy walking distance.Priced from $9,000 on terms.

Several nice homes suitable forholiday or retirement now av-ailable. For details of theseand other listings on GalianoIsland, please contact

MISS JEAN LOCKWOODEves 539-2442 Days 539-2250

SALT SPRING LANDS LTD.Ganges, B.C. 537-5515.

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Montreal TrustThis attractive 3 bedroomhome within walking distanceof stores and school nestlesamong threes on a quiet road.Only $36,000.

2 1/2 miles from Ganges.15 acres with 4 acres cleared.Creek through property. Thereare sufficient pole trees tobuild a log home. Yours foronly $20,900.

Many more properties tochoose from. Call Ernie Wat-son, resident, Ganges. Phone537-2030 or Montreal TrustCompany, 1057 Fort Street,Victoria, B. C. :

Trophy winners are lined upat Fulford Hall after the awardprogram on Friday evening.Distribution of shooting andfishing prizes took place at theannual dinner of the Salt SpringIsland Rod and Gun Club. Mrs.Ellen Bennett made the present-ations.

Questions Bring In VotersQuestion period at Monday

evening's election meeting atGanges brought voters into thepicture.

Mrs. R. Holloman askedwhether any candidate had anyinterest in a real estate opera-tion or development scheme.All three answered that theyhad neither.

Tom Toynbee asked whodrew up the questionnaire dist-ributed on the island two yearsago.

It was prepared by HenrySchubart, replied DirectorMarc Holmas.

Mrs. Phil Valcourt expressedconcern that the questionnairestill existed.

"I was assured it had beendestroyed," she stated. Therehad never been any serioussuggestion that such a docum-ent oe destroyed, replied Mr.Holmes.

Mrs. Vilcourt questionedthe manner of its distribution.She had never answered one,she explained and she objectedto the availability of the ques-tionnaire to anyone who mightwant one.

It was mailed to every nameon the voters' list, stated Mrs.Holloman.

T. E. Harcus was sure thatthe questionnaire and its sum-mary accurately reflects thefeelings of islanders at thattime.

He asked each candidatewhether he would act in accor-dance with the wishes express-ed after the options for the isl-ands has been circulated andcompleted.

"If I am convinced that thequestions have been presentedfairly and fairly answered,"said Mr. Holmes, "I will goin accordance with it."

"Most assuredly. " said JimWilkinson after a clarificationof the question.

Beth Wood is prepared toback the wishes of the peopleof Salt Spring Island, she said,after a brief dispute betweenherself and Mr, Holmes.

Miss Marg Johnston referredto a brief she presented to theplanning committee nearly tw<years ago regarding accessroads to the beaches.

The majority of access road;have been closed by the resid-ents of adjacent land, shecharged. Some residents havebuilt garages across the accessroad and others have put chainacross. How many were fami-liar with that brief, she asked.

All candidates were acquainted with it.

"It was forwarded to eachmember of the first planningcommittee on February 5,1970," said Miss Johnston lat-

er. "On August '^t>, 1970, Ireceived a letter of acknowl-edgment of the brief fromMarc Holmes. "Many monthsafter the August 25 letter MissJohnston met Mr. Holmes inan island store, she recalled.Mr. Holmes said something tothe e'ffect he had attended tothe brief.

"Over one year and threemonths later, when I spoke tothe brief at the public meet-ing on Monday, I finallylearned that some progress hadbeen made," she told DRIFT-WOOD.

"I am deeply grateful to theAdvisory Planning Committeefor this progress.

W. E, Delmonico asked thecandidates whether they wouldsupport a private bill in theprovincial legislature to createa separate Gulf Is lands Region-al District.

Marc Holmes would not.Theproposal would not be accept-able to the provincial govern-

ment and a municipal district.covering all the islands wouldbe a more logical proposal.

Jim Wilkinson would supportit very forcefully as a first stepin "helping us to control ourown affairs".

Beth _.\Vood found it too cos-tly. The liabilities and oblig-ations of a new regional dist-rict would be beyond the purseof the islands, she replied.

"How do you plaA to controlpopulation density?" askedTom Toynbee. '

"By and large we must havelarge lots" replied Mr. Holmes.

"When you try to control po-pulation, you're opening a canof worms," commented Mr.Wilkinson. "I wouldn't wantto tell someone he couldn'tcome here any more than any-one could stop me migrating toSaskatchewan."

"The question should be ad-dressed to a professional plan-ner," suggested Mrs. Wood.

Dr. David Lott quoted fromDRIFTWOOD regarding the mil'nicipal affairs minister's v i ewson development areas. Theminister is offering to help any-one to subdivide if the localpeople deny him the opportun-ity suggested Dr. Lott.

Mr. Holmes agreed."If the regional district won%

approve a development, theminister has the power to doit," he observed.

J. N. McConnell was chair-man for the evening.

GEORGE HURST, 96OLDEST ISLANDERDIES IN VICTORIA

Death occurred in hospitalin Victoria of the oldest resid-ent of Galiano, George Hurst.He has been in poor health forsome time, and died in his96th year.

Mr. Hurst was born in NovaScotia, and was orphaned atan early age, going to sea,and following the sea for muchof his life. He loved the "Ir-on ships and the iron men",ofthe olden days, and would liteto talk of his adventures to hisfriends who called to see himin his cabin at Mrs. Flo Bell-house *s.

He spent several years in thearmed forces in the First War,and received two medals.

He also received the twoCentennial medallions, the1966 and the Centennial '71medallion.

Besides his many friends onGaliano and the mainland,heleaves one daughter in Port-land, Oregon.

Funeral services have notbeen announced.

Two young men were injurewhen the steering mechanismbroke down on their pick-up.

The vehicle va«s being driveby Jesse Byron on November21 on the Fulford-Ganges RoaRoad.

Car left the road and wentinto the ditch.

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SUZUKL MAN WITH A MESSAGEDavid Suzuki is a man with

a message. Many readers haveseen him on television in therole of scientist and lectureras Suzuki on Science. His pro-gram is centred around his in-terests as a world-acclaimedgeneticist. He introduces thelayman to the general patternof his science.

Suzuki gives more than hisgenetics when he appears onTV. He is a distinctive figureand has chosen the long hair,beard and beads of modernyouth. He describes himself

as the "Oriental Hippy". OnFriday Dr. David Suzuki willaddress a gathering in Gangesto speak on current affairs.Suzuki is well-versed in curreriaffairs. His views have beenheard by many British Columb-ians. There is expected a con-siderable attendance on Fridayto hear the visiting speaker.

Dr. Suzuki was born in Brit-ish Columbia. His father op-erated a dry-cleaning businessin Marpole. During the war hewas interned in a prison camp,when all Japanese were remov-ed from the coast. For four

years he lived in Slocan underguard, with his mother andtwo sisters.

After the war they went toOntario, where the young stud-ent attended school. He learn-ed of the science of genetics inAmherst College, Massachu-setts, and went to the Univers-ity of Chicago to pursue thematter. He gained his doctOHpate in Illinois and worked inthe United States until the seg-regation pattern in some statesbecame intolerable to him.

For eight years he has beenat the University of British Col-umbia and during those eightyears he has lived eagerly withhis science.

Page Sixteen Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Thursday, December 2, 1971

SALT SPRING ISLAND CANDIDATES

DIRECTOR HOLMES

On Salt Spring Island the sealon the Capital Regional Districtboard of directors is to be cont-ested by:

Marc HolmesJames WilkinsonElizabeth Wood

JIM WILKINSON

Seeking the Outer Islandsseat on the regional board arc:

James CampbellJoan Purchase.

Seeking the seat on SaturnaIsland are:

Thomas DavidsonLorraine Campbell.

Griffin Heads PensionersBY LOPING LUCY

Reg Griffin was elected pre-sident of Salt Spring Islandbranch Old Age Pensioners'Organization. Mrs. Edi th Bar-ber and Mrs. Joan l l aywardwill again serve as first and se-cond vice-presidents respect-ively.

Mrs. Elsie Thacker was re-turned as secretary-treasurerfor the 15th consecutive year.Mrs. Mabel Clark will act asassistant secretary, and relieveMrs. Thacker of some of theheavy load she carries on be-half of the 200 -member groupin this office.

Conveners appointed includ-ed social co-conveners, Mrs.

L. Waddell and Mrs. V. Mar-shall, assisted by Mrs. S. Kit-chener and Mrs. D. Waddell;hospital visitor, Mrs. R. Grif-fin; transportation, Mrs. E.St.Onge; publicity, Mrs. J. L.Spencer. Walter Brigden vol-unteered to act as club dish-washer. Me will be assisted byother male members of thegroup. Ernest Cranswick tookthe chair for election of offi-cers.

Donation of $50 was votedto Lady Minto Hospital.

January 12 has been set asthe date for the annual dinnerof the branch.

The meeting closed with awarm vote of thanks to retiring

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FOR SALT SPRING ISLAND INTHE FUTURE AS SALT SPRING

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YOU NEED HOLMESLand use planning rather than quickbuck exploitation of island acreage

VOTE ON DEC. 11I HOLMES Marcus H. IX I

PUBLISHED BY THE COMMITTEE TO PRESERVETHE GULF ISLANDS

FOR OUTER ISLANDS SEAT

MRS. E. R. WOOD

TWO FINED FORDRIVING WITHOUTINSURANCE

Two drivers paid heavy finesin Ganes provincial court lastweek.

Appearing before JudgeD.G. Ashby, of Sidney, wereRoy Byers, Ganges and Mel-ville Orville Deem, Fender;

Both were fined $250 orthree months for driving without insurance.

A minor, Leon LlewellynLloyd-Walters, was fined $35for being in possession of liquor

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