G* lv. Vesvuius Bay Head, 1, ulf 3sl .C. rifttooob Tenth Year No. 42 GANGES, British Columbia Thursday, October 16, 1969 $4.00 per year. Copy 10$ GREASY PIGS DRAW EAGER CROWD TEN-ROOM SCHOOL FOR SALT SPRING ISLAND PLANS LAID FOR NEW SCHOOL REFERENDUM TO BE PRESENTED IN DECEMBER AT ANNUAL ELECTIONS New elementary school is erendum for the approval of the school," asserted Mr. Campbell. planned for Salt Spring Island. department of education. This Siting of the new school will On Tuesday evening trustees of is then presented to the property be based on the distribution of Gulf Islands School District gave owners of the district. population on the island. unanimous approval to the con- Possibility of adding to the Irustees will investigate the struction of a 10-room school at present elementary school was possibility of reducing costs by an estimated cost of $350,000. discounted. "It would be wrong adopting standard plans of the The project will be put to the to add a single 2x4 to that department of education. ratepayers of the islands in the form of a referendum. An effort is to be made to have the neces- sary details completed in time for the vote to be taken at the LEVEL ROAD PLEASE annual elections in December. Based on the present rate of school growth it is expected that the new school will be operating * to its capacity by 1972. Another Voice Is Heard J.W.Campbell summed up the Archdeacon R.K.Horsefield a crossing be provided between future needs of the islands. "We has asked for the co-operation the Gulf Oil plant and Mahon can expect steady and increas- of the Salt Spring Island Chamb- Hall. Children have to wait ingly rapid growth in the Gulf er of Commerce in the elimina- indefinitely to cross the road to Islands," he told his colleagues, tion of a traffic hazard at Gan- get to school, he stated. "The assumption has got to be ges. Master of ceremonies Jack Webster checks his notes oa Saturday* made that Salt Spring Island will Last week a letter was read OPERATION OF SCHOOL (rum the Anglican minister, ex- There was considerable debate pressing his concern for the on the pattern of operation of hump in the road at the foot of Trustees such a school in the future. It Church Road. was suggested that the new The turn onto Church Road is PIG DAY IS BIG DAY school might cater to students so deeply hidden that only a from kindergarten to grade three Look To Only difference between rab- ies, Jack Webster, Vancouver truck driver can see over the with grades four to seven rem- hump, he wrote. ,a pigs un Saturday was the radio personality who has acqu- aining at the present school. grease...and the squeals. ired a home on the island. "Northbound traffic turning Second annual greasy pig con- Proposal was not unanimously left must lake a deliberate The contest had been publi - accepted, but no firm decision Election test at Ganges featured 16 pigs cized over CFAX and CKNW, chance in entering Church Road' and seven rabbits. There were and in Victoria and Vancouver was reached. said Archdeacon liorsefield. Cost of the school is estimat- "The driver must turn fast and Trustee P.A.ftattinget has also hundreds of spectators as daily newspapers. withdrawn from the board of well as the contestants. Judges were M. F. Peiler, ed on classroom cost of $25,000, hope to avoid collision with an- Top catcher of the day was and an activity roorn at other vehicle." i,ulf Islands School District.His D.G.Crofton and Alan Best, $100,000. Offices and service resignation was received vvith Ian Kyle. Ian won the bicycle curator of Stanley Park Zoo. lie expressed the hope that it for top ticket sale and a pig for accommodation are included in might be possible to re-profile regret by his colleagues. Jack Webster carefully ex- Mr. I'rattinger explained that good measure. He sold 88 tick- plained that the event had not the classroom estimates. Total the section before the blacktop- ets. would be $350,000. ping program is completed. lie is entering the pulp and pap- been sponsored by Jack Scott. The board must prepare a ref- er industry again and for the Afternoon's events opened The newspaper columnist had J.lj.-Stewart also asked that with a short concert by the band next several yc.Ts docs not an- written to the editor of DRIFT- ticipate having the necessary of 676 Royal Canadian Air Cad- WOOD protesting the contest. et Squadron from Sidney. Band SCHOOL TRUSTEES time. The radio man kept up a live- Mr. Krattinger's term expired was under the direction of Lt. ly spiel throughout the after- Rudolph Ohm and accompanied in December and there will be noon. no by-clcction. by the commanding officer, The work was done by John TO SERVE NEW TERM Capt. David Price. and Mary Stepaniuk, who Trustees whose terms expire Adrian Wolfe-Milner, chair- brought the 16 six-week-old J.M.Campbell, school trustee this year ;ire Chairman cieorge man of the park committee, in- pigs, greased them, released Saturna Island farmer, Camp- lleinekey and Mr. Frattinger, troduced the master of ceremon- them, caught them and sorted from Saturna Island, will serve bell is better known as an educa- of North Salt Spring Island; them. onpe again as president ot the tionalist man agriculturist. For Robert Patterson, oT South Salt Project was John's, who British Columbia School Trust- more than 10 years he has been Spring; J. M. Campbell, Sat- thought it up last year, present- ees' Association. At the recent a trustee of the Gulf Islands urna and Mrs. Elizabeth Ross, ed it to the Legion and passed trustees' convention he was School District. During that of Maync Island. They Came warmly re-elected for a second rime he has served the provinci- One trustee has announced ( Turn to Page Three ) term. al association in various capaci- liis intentions and lli::t is Mr. ties, lie has been chairman of I'rattiiiger. islanders have ab- his own board and he has headed out a month in which to decide In Hundreds the British Columbia Education- to contest these seats. TEACHER PLANS TRIP al Research Institute. For Summer The Saturna trustee has been SATURNA PROJECT spokesman for school boards in WEATHERELL '1 oral of 1,460 tourists called salary negotiations with teachers ELECTED TO In i.llat capacity he has been in t the information bureau in Group of Saturna students are in this district who thought that & TURTLE CLUB Ganges this summer. close and sometimes heated planning a trip across British taking students to Victoria was *: touch with schools and teachers When he gave the figures to Columbia. a tall order," observed J. M.. :*:| RLunie Wcathcrcll of G.iliano the Salt Spring Island Chamber Campbell. in many part of the province. is a proud member of the Turtle of Commerce last week, Joe On Tuesday evening trustees Students taking part have al- Mr. Campbell is also an ac- Club. He was accepted as a Nickerson noted that 196 had of Gulf Islands School District ready opened an account with cepted authority on many phases member last week. Turtle come seeking accommodation heard a request from Mrs.Taimi the Saanich Peninsula Credit of school administration and has Club is open exclusively to and had been found vacancies Hindmarch for permission to Union, added Mr. Campbell, been sought as a speaker across those whose lives have been in local resorts. take the trip. to save towards the cost of the N'orth America. saved by the wearing of a hard Tourists brought business am- For one week, in April or c.-mping holiday. hat. ounting to $60, 000 to SaltSpring May, four or five children will Trustees approved the venture' The Caliano logger was Island this summer, estimated set out with Mrs. Ilindmarch. A relief teacher will be supp- struck by a falling tree at North the vice-president of the cham- They will travel through the lied for the week concerned. MOORAGE (ialiano several months ago and ber. Food sales in the commu- province as far as the Alberta Saturna is the least populated Moorage is a profitable busi- was critically injured. nity amounted to $30,000, he border. There they will gaze of the Gulf Islands and there- ness in the summer months. Last week the sequel to his suggested. His figures did not over the mountains of Alberta are nine students in the school. Last week Salt Spring Island accident came when he was pre- include liquor sales. and head back for home. They are travel-minded on Chamber of Commerce was sented with his pin by John Mar- In a few cases people had to Trustees had no comment but Saturna. All students on the is- told that between June 1 and low, of the forestry division of go off the island to find acco- pleasure. land were sent to Expo t>7 as a Oct. 1 total of :$2,400 was taken McMillan-Bloedel, at Nanaimc mmodation, he told the general "We have run across teachers special centennial year project. in moorage fees at Ganges. Me received a new hard hat, meeting. lapel pin and certificate. Page Two Gulf Islands DRIFTWOOD Thursday, October 16, 1969 THREE DEDICATIONS AT SALT SPRING CLUB 0 A P 0 Three dedications will be made at St. Mark's Church, GOOFY GOLF AND TURKEYS Salt Spring Island, at the II am.