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Canadian songwriter Lennie Gallant is in Sidney Saturday night, page 12
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Island Series race returns to Sidney and North Saanich this weekend, page 19
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Sidney’s Mary Winspear Centre makes it all about community
Carlie Connolly News staff
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nside the doors of the town’s community hotspot lies a rich history and a promising future. The Mary Winspear Centre. Executive Director Brad Edgett walked the PNR through the Centre’s beginning, its success, its struggles and what’s to come. It all began in 1921. The Women’s Auxiliary and the Sidney and North Saanich Athletic Club came together to form the Sidney and North Saanich War Memorial Park Society. The lands were purchased from a fellow named Edwyn Blackburn and were held in trust to pay respect to the soldiers from the Saanich Peninsula who gave their lives in the service of Canada in the First World War. Held in trust, the lands were home to baseball diamonds, a park, tennis courts and a cenotaph — which was later rededicated to include soldiers who died in the Second World War. Years later, in 1957, the Sidney and North Saanich Community Hall Association (SANSCHA) Hall was created. By 1965, the Sidney North Saanich War Memorial Park Society ended its run as an organization. From 1965 to 1986, the trust was held by Royal Trust. In the meantime, the Saanscha Hall was still there — a real gathering place for community groups. “It was a real community area,” Edgett said. In ‘86, Royal Trust gave up management of the lands and the Sidney North Saanich War Memorial Park Society was reformed in a new entity called the Memorial Park Society (or in long form, the Sidney and North Saanich Memorial Park Society). The SANSCHA Hall was still thriving and so the land was left in trust for all residents of Sidney and North Saanich to enjoy. Please see: Expansion in the Centre’s long-term plans, page 5
WsaNeC chiefs oppose Malahat lNG project Area First Nations looking into legal and political options to prevent LNG terminal on Saanich Inlet Steven Heywood News staff
First Nations Chiefs on the east side of the Saanich Inlet are opposing the proposed Malahat LNG
project and are calling on their neighbours to stand with them. The Chiefs of the Tsawout, Pauquachin, Tseycum and Tsartlip First Nations stood at an overlook at the Tsawout community
Tuesday morning. With the site of the proposed floating liquified natural gas terminal in the background, the Chiefs decried what they called a lack of consultation by the proponent, Steelhead LNG,
and the granting in October last year of an export license to the company by the National Energy Board. Steelhead LNG has proposed an LNG terminal and liquefaction
plant on the west side of the inlet at Bamberton, as well as an underwater gas pipeline. Please see: Malahat LNG facing scrutiny page 3
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