SSI Historical Ar Box 1264 Ganges, BC Wednesday, August 17, 1994 Vol. 35, No. 33 Your Community Newspaper GANGES, B.C. 75 cents Housing project gets ministry approval A 24-unit affordable housing Pharamond Developments is complex may be completed next also designing the on-site sewage year on Salt Spring, following last system, which Jawl expects to be week's approval of $2.7 million in complete within the next 60 days. provincial funding for Salt Spring He has also approached the Community Services' Village church about sharing the cost of Green project. off-site services. The church will Executive director Jane Parlee be able to develop 20 residential described the funding as a one-time- lots once the entire 37.8-acre only opportunity to build social property is rezoned. Rezoning of housing on the island. "I strongly the property was given third read­ believe there will not be another ing by the Islands Trust a year ago opportunity for affordable housing but fourth reading was delayed for decades to come," Parlee said. until funding was received for the "Everybody should be on side to try Village Green project. and make things happen." If all the pieces can be pulled Already on side is the Catholic together, Jawl hopes to start con­ diocese, which is leasing five struction next spring. The project acres of land to the project for the will take seven months to build, he next 60 years. The affordability of added. the leased land is one reason the The 24 townhomes will be project is possible, Parlee noted. grouped around a treed, grassy area Contractor-developer Bob Jawl with parking off a circular driveway, of Victoria-based Pharamond Parlee said. Planned are four two- Development Ltd. is negotiating to bedroom units, 12 three-bedroom keep the project within the $2.7 units and four four-bedroom units. million budget. "We're trying to Still under discussion are four complete the revised capital bud­ one-bedroom units. Originally, get," he said Monday. these units were intended to pro­ Major obstacles are off-site ser­ vide accommodation for physical­ vices, installation of an indepen­ ly handicapped people. However, dent sewage treatment centre and Parlee pointed out that there is no upgrading of the road. Jawl said reason to assume a physically he is negotiating with the Islands handicapped person would be liv- Trust and the Ministry of Fire damages new home Highways on the road upgrading. HOUSING A4 It was moving day at new home of Ken and The owners were thankful on Sunday that Jill Lee when fire broke out shortly after the fire had not spread to nearby woods. noon Sunday, causing severe fire and smoke Fire chief Les Wagg couldn't give a damage Lamb fit for a queen will damage. Officials blame an appliance for estimate Tuesday but said the home was causing the blaze at 147 Amblewood Drive. reparable. moot* Ton, MW* come from Salt Spring Queen Elizabeth will enjoy a security which surrounded the Committee unites islands taste of Salt Spring while in project. The couple cannot reveal Victoria for the Commonwealth the exact source of the lamb or the for the possibility of establishing The Gulf Islands are working Games, thanks to the efforts of amount supplied for the banquet of a community health council for together once more to establish Zoe and Lynn Woodside of The until after the event. the Gulf Islands. how health care will be offered Fat Rascal in Ganges. "It's quite an honour for us and under the provincial government's "I believe we need a community for Salt Spring," Woodside said. health council for all the southern On Tuesday the couple were New Directions program. The couple have been told that Gulf Islands," English said. "We preparing Salt Spring lamb for a The southern Gulf Islands health their store will receive some indi­ have the potential for forming the banquet in Victoria later this planning committee has two repre­ cation that they have served royal­ smallest community health coun­ week, which will be attended by sentatives from each island and Queen Elizabeth. ty after the event. will function separately from the cil in the whole of British Zoe Woodside said they learned The couple have lived on Salt individual island committees Columbia. We have a combined Salt Spring Islanders population of some 15,000 and four months ago that they had Spring for 13 years and operated examining health planning. been chosen to supply the lamb The Fat Rascal for the last three turned out en masse at The committee's mission is to they really want about 50,000 in each area." for the queen. "It's tremendously and a half years. Drummond Park Sat­ coordinate community health exciting and a huge responsibili­ The queen is in Victoria this week The vice-chairman of the new urday for Fulford's annual planning among the islands, Salt ty," she said. for the official opening Thursday of Spring member Gordon English celebration. Page B6 She was surprised by the tight the Commonwealth Games. said, and to lay the groundwork COMMITTEE A3 Bounty mutineers' descendants visit Salt Spring BY TONY RICHARDS Chamber welcomes Norfolk Islanders with barbecue rency, is almost at par with the Driftwood Staff Canadian dollar.) Revenue was "If I'd been a sailor on the threw in his lot with first mate visit by 24 members of Norfolk the island internally," Lloyd said. expected to come in at $8.3 mil­ Bounty, I wouldn't have wanted Fletcher Christian and mutinied Island's Commonwealth Games Not only that, Norfolk has no lion for a small surplus. to go back to cold and miserable against Captain Bligh in 1789. delegation. All but one team debt. At the conclusion of Sunday's England either." Mutineers settled first on member — a clay shooter — are But perhaps the most intrigu­ get-together in Ganges, Tom With those words, Tom Lloyd Pitcairn Island and then on competing in lawn bowling and ing aspect of Norfolk as far as Lloyd presented chamber presi­ of Norfolk Island summed up a Norfolk — located east of hopes are high that they might Salt Spring Islanders were con­ dent Joyce Carlson with a clock quick history lesson Sunday Australia — in 1856. In 1984, return home with a medal. But cerned was the lack of tax on carved in the shape of Norfolk when he and fellow islanders Lloyd travelled to Pitcairn Island, much of the conversation with income or consumption. There is Island, and a set of books about paid a visit to Salt Spring. the first of the mutineers' descen­ their Canadian hosts revolved neither income tax nor sales tax. Norfolk for the high school Editor and publisher of the dants to do so since they left for around Norfolk's colourful histo­ Instead, government revenue is library. In return, "goody bags" weekly Norfolk Islander and sec­ Norfolk 128 years before. ry and comparisons between the derived mostly from import were presented by the chamber to retary-general of the island's "It was a tremendous experi­ two islands. levies. each of the visitors. Commonwealth Games ence to go back and see where it Several members of the visit­ A recent issue of the Norfolk After billeting with their Federation, Lloyd is the great- all started from," Lloyd said. ing delegation were proud of the Islander announced that 1994-95 Canadian hosts Sunday night, the great-great-great-grandson of But more history was made Norfolk Island government's government expenditures would visitors returned to Victoria Edward Young, midshipman Sunday when the Salt Spring record. "We take pride in the fact total $8.27 million. (The Monday to prepare for the aboard the HMS Bounty. Young Chamber of Commerce hosted a that we raise all the money to run Australian dollar, Norfolk's cur­ Games, which open Thursday. A2 » WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1994 N E W S B EAT GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD Address changes trigger f R4DAREAC-\ This Week second property tax bill T10NT0WASP Around the Islands B14 No one has to pay their taxes ment of taxes, so some residents OR EN SECT Arts, Entertainment A23 twice, even if they receive two bills. have thought their payment was Capital Comment A10 A glitch in a Victoria computer mislaid or assumed the bill was BITE? is causing an extra tax bill to be for further unpaid taxes. Classifieds A29 sent to residents who have report­ The Ganges office has intercept­ Crossword B12 ed a changed postal code, Ganges ed two or three attempts by fly- Through the years B13 government agent Virginia Winter seniors — diligent about immedi­ Editorials A8 explained Tuesday. ately paying their bills — who Homeopathic Apis Green Thumb B4 Winter said the computer pro­ have brought in the second bill or one of our other safe gram treats the postal code change and tried to pay twice. Letters to the Editor A9 remedies available. Real Estate B1-16 as if ownership of the property has "It's just a computer glitch," changed, so it is sending out an Winter said. Records are kept at Sports B7 Mon. - Fri. 9am-5pm extra tax bill. the Ganges office of all payments To Be Frank B2 "Victoria's computer is causing made to that office, so residents 130 McPhillips View Point A8 can get a receipt proving they a considerable amount of grief in (across from the library) dealing with our postal code have paid their taxes. change," she remarked. The sec­ "You don't have to pay twice," 537-4419 Fair Change ond bill does not record any pay­ Winter stressed.