PENINSULA One more round
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Saved by a good citizen Passerby in Sidney alerts police to seniors in need SIDNEY — A simple act of kindness last week by a passerby in Sidney proved to be life saving for one elderly Sidney couple. On Wednesday, March 12 just before midnight, Sidney North Saanich RCMP were contacted by a concerned citizen who had stopped to assist a senior whom appeared lost and confused on the street. The passerby remained with the elderly woman until police arrived and were able to figure out where she lived. Upon returning the senior (who suffers from dementia) to her residence in Sidney, members of the RCMP gained entry to her home with the assistance of the building manager and found the elderly woman’s husband laying on the floor in medical distress. The officers called an ambulance to the residence and both the man and the woman were transported to hospital for treatment. “This simple act of kindness by a citizen stopping to help someone in need unknowingly triggered a series of events averting a potentially fatal outcome,” said Constable Ryan George of the Sidney North Saanich RCMP. — News staff
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Rudy Ewart (Sir Joseph Porter), Inge Illman (Josephine) and Colin Grewar (Cpt. Corcoran) celebrate the ill-fated bethroal of Josephine and Porter in the Victoria Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of HMS Pinafore. It is on stage at the Mary Winspear Centre March 28 to 30. See page 8 for the story.
Parkland lends a hand to fire hall
Devon MacKenzie News staff
A community effort is helping to put the finishing touches on the North Saanich Fire Hall. This past week, the hall got two new signs
for the building, both of which were products of the community rallying around the hall to finish it off. “After the project was complete we really didn’t have a budget left for doing all the little finishing touches like the signs outside,”
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explained North Saanich Fire Chief Gary Wilton. “It’s really nice to see the community collaborate like they have and chip in.” Please see: Sign finishing touches, page 4
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