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Woodwynn pitches a tent With ALC denying Woodwynn Farms’ plan, residents will soon set up camp, page A18 Friday, May 4, 2012
Happy trails Victoria International Airport expands its trail system, which will eventually measure 9.3 kilometres, page A4 Watch for breaking news at www.peninsulanewsreview.com
Market proposals due soon Erin Cardone News staff
Just days remain before the request for proposals for the Sidney summer market closes. Proposals are due to the town by 3 p.m. Monday, May 7. With the market’s original organizer, the Sidney Business Association, ousted by the town from managing the event, the popular market’s future remains unclear. “The issue around the market had to do with the process of mediation and the reaction and conduct of the SBA through that process,” Mayor Larry Cross told the News Review on Wednesday. Dozens of comments appeared on the paper’s website in response to the latest developments surrounding the market. The town echoed some of those concerns. Randy Humble, Sidney’s chief administrative officer, confirmed the town has never received an audited financial statement from the SBA, for example. “We did everything by the rules,” SBA president Edward Connor said. Sidney’s mayor and council terminated the SBA’s contract to run the market on April 23, citing a breach of trust. The SBA countered with a letter from their lawyer to the town. “It’s a culmination of things,” Humble said. “I think the town has lost a high level of trust in the SBA to run the market.”
Air devil
PLEASE SEE: Connor feels SBA being pushed, page A8
Dillon Morrison, 14, takes a jump off a trail not far from his North Saanich home. The North Saanich middle school student has lofty dreams of a career in downhill biking after winning the Island Cup in Cumberland. See the story, page A13.
Christine van Reeuwyk/News staff