News Column: By Jack Knox, Pat Carney finally wins her lighthouse fight, Times Colonist, May 15, 2008

“Busy Saturday for Pat Carney on Saturna Island this weekend. After the market at the recycling centre, where she’ll be selling garden plants for her church, it’s off to the open house at the East Point lighthouse.

That open house might not seem like a big deal to some, but to Carney, just retired from the Senate, it symbolizes victory.

For almost 10 years, Carney has been striving to save B.C.’s crumbling, historic lighthouse buildings, or at least arrange it so that community groups can get their mitts on them and put them to good use. Six times she tried to push through legislation that would allow that to happen. Six times she failed, Sisyphus pushing that boulder up the hill, only to see it roll back again.

But lo and behold, her seventh attempt finally made it all the way through Parliament this month — four months after the Saturna resident flew home from Ottawa for the last time. Shows what persistence will do.”

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Pat Carney finally wins her lighthouse fight, Times Colonist, May 15, 2008