' I I s I r) i '"Jftil.ip".1 AvreCh,VeS 01/01/97 Wednesday, April 3, 1996 Vol. 38, No. 14 Your Community Newspaper Salt Spring Island, B.C. $1 (incl. GST) Islander's different lifestyle raises ire By VALORIE LENNOX Driftwood Staff A different lifestyle in the mid­ dle of a residential lot is irritating neighbours and prompting legal action by the Capital Regional District (CRD) against Keith i MacHattie of Salt Spring. For at least two year^ MacHattie, who lives on Grantville Street, has been asked to get a building permit to con­ struct a home on his lot. Meanwhile, he is living in an eight by 24-foot travel trailer on the lot with an outhouse, an outdoor bath­ tub and a collection of sheds, two of which are accented by bright pink stop work orders from the regional district. "Quite myself." MacHattie observed. His I trailer has a bed. a tiny kitchenette with fridge and stove plus a fur nace. There is also a small wash room but he prefers to use th space for storage. "Outhouses are legal, by the way," he noted. The bathtub rests on rocks, with a firepit under­ Easter accessories neath. WTien MacHattie wants to Three-year-old Nicole Pal checks out a special chick-bearing week Foxglove had 100 chicks brought in for sale. Easter must take a bath, he lights a fire, heats Easter basket at Foxglove Farm and Garden Supplies. Late last be just around the corner. ptwoyo*. up the water in the tub and then climbs inside. "It's the hot tul experience for the unrich," h. said, adding that the only draw­ back is the smoke from the fire. Soccer DFO plan called' devastating' Enough neighbours have com­ plained that building inspector By TONY RICHARDS fishing industry is overfishing. She method. Dick Stubbs felt compelled to take players Driftwood Staff said no new commercial licences have The measures will mean tough action. "We don't have time or an Plans announced Friday to halve the heen Issued tot 25 years, yet the num- decisions for the Salt Spring couple, inclination for a witch hunt." size of the commercial salmon fishing ber of Sj ig licences has whose boat represents an investment Stubbs said. score cups fleet in British Columbia were increaseu nd - have been reallo­ worth more than 5180,000. They must Part of the problem is the loca­ Island soccer players posted described Monday as "devastating" by cations to native peoples. decide which of the three regions they tion of MacHattie's lot. At lea- • grand results as the season one local vessel owner. Scarfo said Fisheries has not yet are going to fish for the next lour years five neighbours have a clear vie>< came to a conclusion this week. Kathy Scarfo. who with husband decided on catch allocations to the dif­ — and those regions have yet to be of MacHattie's unconventional The under-16A Salt Spring James owns the 40-foot combination ferent groups "ihat should have been defined — and whether to use trolling residence. Stars boys team ended its sea­ troller-gjllnetter Ruby N D, said the the first step" gear or gillnets. "It's nothing like the rest of the son with a district cup win over federal Department of Fisheries and She said there is no reason for the Scarfo likened regional licensing to places on the street," one neigh­ Prospect Lake Deli. Salt Oceans (DFO) has not addressed the speed with which DFO has moved or a property owner having one-third of bour observed. Spring's under-19 boys soccer number-one problem: there are too for the '"drastic measures" it has adopt­ his property taken away. MacHattie is not disliked per­ team also won the district cup many stakeholders chasing the fish. ed, and forecast that management will In the meantime, the market for sonally but some other residents in a hard-fought battle against Fisheries Minister Fred Mifflin not improve as a result of a reduction either fishing vessels or gear is not a don't appreciate the outdoor bath­ Juan de Fuca. announced an $80-million buy-back in the fleet size. good one. Few fishermen will be inter­ tub, scattered sheds, trailer and Rounding off the top scores plan Friday, along with other measures In addition to the buy-back plan. ested in the Ruby N's 14 gillnets if its LIFESTYLE 3 was the Slashers under-16 girls designed to reduce the 4,400-vesscl DFO will require that vessels be owners decide to go trolling team which won its division fleet by half. licensed for one of three different Said Scarfo: "The market value of title as well. I or more details, Declining salmon stocks have regions for rrollcrs and gillnetters or your vessel is just about nil. The mar­ Clocks spring turn to Sports and Recreation, prompted the move by Fisheries, but two regions for seiners, and that com­ ket value of your gear is just about nil." beginning on Page 28. as far as Scarfo is concerned, there is a bination boats such as the Scarfos'will DFO, she charged, Ls "squeezing ahead for misconception that the commercial only be allowed to fish using one out the small guy." daylight saving The time change giveth and the Islanders impressed with workers' quiet caring time change taketh away. This weekend B.C. residents By GAIL SJUBERG lost her husband John when she was to be there all the time," recalls group be contacted. will lose that extra hour's S1C<Y Driftwood Staff 85 years old. Livingston. Livingston says their first reaction they gained last October. Th, Third in a series When Wilson's health rapidly Their husbands and other family was reluctance to leave their mother province switches back to daylight Ruby Livingston had always declined as she approached her 90th members helped out too, but with "strangers," but at the same savings time Sunday at 2 a.m. assumed she would look after her birthday, they were spending every Greenwoods staff could see time she worried about her mother Those wanting to keep in s\ ns parents' needs in their old age. available minute with her in her Wilson's daughters needed the ser­ waking up in the middle of the night with the rest of the province are And that is what she and sister Greenwoods Intermediate Care vices of Bessie Dane Foundation alone and needing something. There advised to move their clock for­ Pearl Graham did, particularly for Facility home. and Hospice (BDFH) palliative care ward one hour before going to their mother Susan Wilson after she "It got so we pretty well needed volunteers. It was suggested the QUIET CARING 6 sleep Saturday night. 2 A WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 19% N E W S B EAT GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD Duped again! Publisher falls victim to April 1 joke Surely it's a human characteristic that we A faint smile began to show on Lundy's Islands. It would provide the corporation with like to think of ourselves as worldly-wise, face as she continued to insist that 40 was the a means of publishing schedule information clued-in, well-informed, quick-witted and a best choice. Finally, she gave in and began to and island news as well, I was informed. host of other admirable yet rare traits. That's TONY reveal the details of a trick by Lennox, who I responded somewhat angrily. I soon had why it's so galling, so frustrating, so damn RICHARDS was actually writing at home for the morning calls in to several Victoria offices, including maddening to be taken in by a dumb April while I worried about a newsless newspaper. that of the minister responsible for the ferry Fool's joke. show up before the weekend': It was a simple joke, well executed, and corporation. I had a sympathetic response I use the word dumb freely because of all out I went back home to pound a few fence effective. from most of the people I was able to reach the tricks of which I have been a victim, not posts and I forgot about the gloomy prospect It reminded me of another some years ago but my frustration was growing as I was one was actually dumb. In fact, they've been of a half-empty newspaper. shortly after salesman Jeff Outerbridge joined unable to get a definitive answer on the mat­ pretty good: subtle, refined and carefully exe­ But Monday morning brought no sign of the staff. I received a letter from lawyer Ian ter. cuted. Dumb can only be properly used to change to the usually brimming story list. Clement advising that Jeff wished to take However, before the day was out I learned describe the victim. And worse yet, reporter Valorie Lennox had legal action against the paper for having pub­ my sister Valerie had been a busy bureaucrat The most recent April Fool's joke began to called in sick from Victoria, where she was lished a demeaning photograph of him for a in Victoria. As an employee of the provincial take effect Sunday, when a glance at the believed to have contracted food poisoning. happy-birthday ad. I sweated that one out for government, she had access to such things as week's story list stopped me in my tracks. It This was no joke. a day or more before I met with Clement to B.C. Ferries letterheads, along with the pull was empty, bare, bereft of the filenames that At 11 o'clock Susan Lundy was pushing discuss it.