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Friday, September 12, 2014
Amalgamation idea spreads to Sidney North Saanich still only Saanich Peninsula holdout for a fall referendum Steven Heywood News staff
Electors in Sidney and Central Saanich will be asked about amalgamation on the Saanich Peninsula during this fall’s municipal election, while the residents of North Saanich will not. Monday night, Sidney councillors agreed to pose a referendum question on November 14, similar to the one agreed on earlier this month by Central Saanich: “Are you in favour of a provincially-funded study to investigate the feasibility, costs and implications of amalgamating the municipalities of the Saanich Peninsula?” While the questions being posed this fall clearly include all three municipalities in the mix, North Saanich remains the lone holdout. “Council decided a month Alice Finall ago not to (ask an amalgamation question),” said Mayor Alice Finall. Amalgamation Yes, the Victoria-area organization leading the charge on getting a question on the ballot in this year’s municipal elections, had a speaker at Monday night’s North Saanich council meeting. That, however, had no impact on the outcome of a vote. PleASe See: Ballot questions non-binding, page 5
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Colin Bishop and Alex Dombroski spent nine days in Cairns, Australia as Sidney Sister Cities Association Youth Ambassadors.
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Two Parkland students traveled to Australia as Youth Ambassadors Devon MacKenzie News staff
Colin Bishop and Alex Dombroski are two teens who shared a life experience this past summer that most people their
age haven’t. Bishop and Dombroski, both 17, traveled to Cairns, Australia as Youth Ambassadors with the Sidney Sister Cities Association. They spent nine days in Cairns with other Youth Ambassadors
from Minami (Japan), Oyama (Japan), Riga (Latvia), Zhanjiang (China) and Scottsdale, Arizona. PleASe See: Great ambassadors, page 3
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