BH lie Sunshine ..-•/ '.7 .:,vr - /Published at Gibsons, B.C. Serving the Sunshine Coast since 1945 , 15€ per copy on newsstands Volume 30, Number 48 i November 29,1977 storm ii&s Victoria delays ifp coast traffic prove cos * Many residents of the Sunshine Coast are expressing strong Concern was expressed by the trustees of School District #46- displeasure with the Department of Highways on the heels of about the delay in receipt of funding approval from Victoria '- the snow storm which dumped a considerable amount of the which has brought the construction of the new Pender Harbour v white stuff on the roads of the Sunshine Coast oii Wednesday, Secondary School to a standstill. Secretary-treasurer Roy Mills7 November ;23i& :Th^ been accurately predicted told the trustees that th? delay in construction was costing the; two days in advance and the general feeling being expressed local school board and taxpayers $10,000 per month. 7 by local people is that the Department of Highways had ample "The delay is between the Minister of Education and the; opportunity to put salt and sand on the roads to counteract the Ministry,'' said Mills. Apparently the funding approval has; effects ofthe storm on local traffic patterns. passed all the requisite stages within the Ministry of Education : As it was an accumulation of snow was allowed to build up and awaits only the signature of Education Minister Pat throughout the area rendering the roads virtually impassable in McGeer. "Nobody at the Department can tell us when the some areas. Pender Harbour was almost entirely cut off from Minister will sign the approval". the rest of the Sunshine Coast for the duration of the storm. Repeated telephonings from Elsewhere the worst trouble spots appeared to be the Langdale application could not be support­ the local board office and tele­ ed by their Ministry. This hill on the other side of the ferry terminal and the perennial grams have failed to elicit positive information reached us the day problem area of the Davis Bay Hill in Selma Park. reaction from Victoria. The prior to the Advisory Board At the Langdale Hill things any Department of Highways trustees agreed that another Meeting, and did not expand got totally out of control after a activity. About three o'clock telegram should be sent over on the reasons for such a position.' school bus being driven by Jim on Wednesday afternoon there the signature of Board Chairman The Board had no alternative Mullen was hit by a sliding were as many as a hundred Celia Fisher urging the Education but to reject your submission, truck just at the top of the hill. cars lined up in a line which Minister's attention. Trustee however they instructed the Pro-:; Mullen was driving eight stu­ stretched back virtually into Don Douglas spoke with unusual ject Officers to establish what dents back to Langdale School Sechelt waiting either for the road asperity criticizing the discourte­ future guidelines for the develop-; after curling activity. to clear or for sanding trucks sy of the Department of Educa­ ment of educational projects tion and suggested that repre­ "There was a Coca Cola truck to arrive. A small group of would be and to provide the The Elphinstone Community Forum was a Rain-Reusch also played at a concert held in sentative trustees should ac­ ahead of me when I got to the local residents and homeward School Board with this informa­ great success last Sunday. Picture here is dulci­ company the secretary-treasurer Granthams Hill," said Mullen, Roberts Creek on Saturday night. tion. • .77 walking school students did to Victoria if the latest telegram "and he went out pf control as yeoman work in manhandling mer playing Randy Rain-Reusch of Victoria. : "Further correspondence with 7 is also ignored. Secretary- the Department of Education • he tried to go down the hill. a few vehicles through the treasurer Mills pointed out, Only the curb at the bottom treacherous corner but in the mid­ has since established that two Outgoing Regional Board's last meeting however, that since the approval of the four sub-projects (Library • prevented him from sliding into dle of the afternoon the area only required the Minister's At the Regional Board's and the killed-deer - except for and to replace it was felt to be Regional Board as too many Inventory and Community School the Granthams Landing Store." resembled a multi-ringed circus signature it could come any day. According to the veteran bus with vehicles all over the road regular meeting held Thursday, one which had been wounded an unwarranted expense as the new members could break the Co-ordinator) would be accept­ driver, at that point his instinct pointing in all the directions of director Peter Hoemburg alerted and escaped. • new line would shortly be com- continuity. Superintendent of Schools, able activities within their provin­ was to leave his bus right there the compass. the board to the lack of co-oper­ As it turned out the wildlife pleted. It was decided that This was the last meeting John Denley, said that the cial policy. We would therefore encourage you to eliminate the rather than risk trying to move Local man Jack Warn told the ation from the Federal Wildlife officer was "given hell" from he should be tied in early. of the present board and those construction delay was having on the supremely treacherous and the RCMP in upholding the his superiors for the seizure, Sechelt representative in­ who had served on it were an adverse effect on the morale unacceptable positions and Coast News that he eventually submit an application in January roads but a consideration for his board's no shooting by-law. and the two men had the charges formed the board that his Council thanked for their civic duties. ofthe students of Pender Harbour managed to negotiate the hill for re-consideration." young passenters persuaded with the aid of seven or eight The incident in question changed to trespassing. had recommended that he should The new members will be sworn Secondary. "They are coping him to try to get them back students from Chatelech School occurred on Edgecombe Island. Director Hoemburg felt that serve another term with the in at 7:15 on December 7th. very • well with their limited It was not clear why partial to their school in the blizzard. who pushed him through . the The caretaker had found two there was little reason to go to facilities," said Denley, "but "I should have trusted my in­ people hunting illegally on the all the trouble of forming by­ when they see no progress being approval could not have been trouble spot. He loaded his. given to the original submis­ stinct," said Mullen, whose island. He towed their boat laws if they would not be sup­ made on their school it has to station wagon up. with them and sion. previous twenty-one years driving gave them a ride home. "It away, stranding them there and ported by the authorities, and. affect them." the school bus had been free was only when I got to Roberts informed the police. made a motion to send a letter, Secretary-treasurer Mills The protracted business of acquiring a new site for the of major incident. Creek," said Warn, "that I The police seized the guns to Victoria asking for clarifi­ pointed out ironically that the category of fire-loss replacement Bowen Island School was again As he eased his bus to the discovered that in addition to . cation on what backing they could was placed at the top of the' before the board. At the present top of the Langdale Hill, Mullen the eight inside the car there m g\\lfW*t WMmOlmnQ expect from other governing was beginning to breathe a little bodies. first priority *dn the Ministry of time it would appear that the were three who had travelled *JUU,I I MWW9 Collins Farm site on the islaiid : more easily: 'T thought I'd The motion'was-amended by Education^ llit of education*! behind me. from Davis Bayvto • C^A'fcfJmlV funding priories."" Thefe was « '•*•»» tfe n»P»f-likeh/ possif made ii," said Mullen. It was the Crpek hanging on the back I fl i3 €?CTM? I £ director Metzler, to read that a copy be sent to the Fish and some speculation by trustees; bittty. • , '*'?X- *?-' then that he met the truck, driven and sliding along the road." '' - • In other Board business. Super­ by 7 Mary"' Puchalski who was Wildlife along with a demand about how lesser priorities were Sechelt police, reported that At the Provincial Court in treated. intendent Denley requested the returning to Gibsons from sub­ the latest tabulation accounted that the two people involved be Sechelt last Wednesday, William In another matter involving the Board's approval of his absence stitute teaching at Langdale for more than twenty separate McSweeney was charged with prosecuted. A letter was received from the local School Board in consulta­ from the district from November School. "There were two or accidents on the,, afternoon, having a blood alcohol count of 28th to December 2nd. Denley B.C.Corrections Branch asking tion with the Department of three cars already in the ditch with cars in ditches all along over .08 while driving. He was has been offered the opportunity ' there when I got to the top of Highway lOi. At the height the board *s opinion on persons Education, local trustees learned sentenced to 28 days to be served that the submission made by the to participate in a week-long the hill," said Puchalski, "and of j the7 storm .eyeiry available on weekends at the Sechelt on probation doing free work workshop of the American- I was just trying to ease down police,car .and, tow truck on the for the Regional District to work local board for four appoint­ detachment, plus two years ments, under a Canada Works based National Association of'' the hill' when I saw the bus Sunshine .Coast was on the roads probation.