Ad - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 18, 2006 B TERRACE STANDARD ESTABLISHED APRIL 27. 1988 PUBLISHER: ROD LINK _ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. - V8G 5R2 TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 - FAX: {250) 638-8432 "WEB: www.terracestandard. com’ _ EMAIL: newsroom@terracestandard. com | ~ Mining jobs _ “TAKE A look at thé numbers attached to the Ga- . lore Creek project of NovaGold Resources locat- ' | _ed north of here. . _ What’s in the ground? An estimated 5. 9 million | _ pounds of copper, 3.7 million ounces of gold and 40 million ounces of silver to be taken out Over.a ° mine life of at least 20 years. . —*. How much money? An investment of at least (U.S.) $1.2 billion to get the project up and run- ning. Tens of millions already spent in explora- “tion and preparing for the environmental approval - process now underway. | ~ Jobs?:A peak workforce of more than 900 peo- ple at the height. of construction located in’ sev- ; ~eral'work camps. When operating, more than 500 hese | in direct. employment. Many more in as- _, sociated. support services. . Native approval? Unlike other proposed mines in the Tahltan traditional territory, this c one is be- _ing accepted. | _ NovaGold will give preferential hiring to Tahl- tan people and Tahltan- -owned companies will, “have the opportunity for a variety of support ser- vice contracts. That’!] provide an economic base for the Tahitan, placing them on as solid asa foun- |: Prince George was a waste of |" time and energy,. but was she dation of any native group-in the country. -What’s in it for Terrace? A whole lot.. Those ~ miners who aren’t Tahltan will need a place to live for themselves and for their families. They'll be flown in and out on two- week rotations, mak- ‘ing the airport here a key « centre. . Miners, because of that. two-week rotation, can live anywhere. So why not Terrace? We’ve got land for housing and prices here are affordable compared to other placesin B.C. :o The, service: industry; needed-to support Galcre Creek will need a northern base. And that means | Terrace again because of the airport. i The Tahltan already regard Terrace as a service “centre. The stability of Galore Creek will see that | ‘grow. If you’re not convinced, think of the eco- ‘nomic benefits that have flowed to Terrace from the Nisga’a treaty. All of this will require a mind shift. We’ re not known as a mining centre. Historically and cultur- “ally that role in the northwest has fallen to Smith- ers. because earlier mines were located closer to that town.. So it was natural for mining services | to: congregate there. Smithers is also home to the _ Provincial mines ministry. But that’s no excuse not to create Terrace as a mining centre.-Our:already-proven ability to act as a general service centre framed around the log- ‘ging “industry and, to some.extent, Alcan i in Kiti- tat stands us in good stead. oo - Above all else, the airport here with its now-re- liable instrument landing system and nearly-com- ‘pleted terminal expansion is the base from which a mining service centre can grow. _ PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Rod Link ADVERTISING MANAGER: Brian Lindenbach. ' PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur . . "NEWS: Sarah A. ‘Zimmerman ; . COMMUNITY: Dustin Quezada | ee NEWS/SPORTS: Margaret Speirs | FRONT OFFICE: Darlene Keeping. Carolyn Anderson ’ CIRCULATION SUPERVISOR: Alanna Bentham ~ =. . ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: . - Bert Husband. Todd Holkestad ae: t AD ASSISTANT: Sandra Stefanik . , NEWSPAPERS . 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REMOVED FROM HIS” 1 MOUTH BY [NHAT Time Ue | rie r Remember the THE: ‘TERRACE Standard has recently published several, disturbing-items such as Clau- ~"]. dette Sandecki columns on the Highway of Tears and the arti- _cle on the’native binners who ~ make their living by recycling bottles and “cans. Claudette felt that the High- way of Tears sympsoium in there? - Did she know. any of the _ women who have gone missing along the Highway of Tears.. Never mind that the highway .. is.a “so-called”. Highway of : - Tears.Itis. : .. ° We all talk about how peo-' - ple shouldn’t hitchhike and that people shouldn’t kill other - People. Ta se -:No matter what class or: ethnicity they are from, the people who hitchhike want to get from point A to point B. Simple, right. Or so it should be but someone sees their lives | as a waste because they mur- der them like their lives don’t ” matter. . Which is what I hear when I read Claudette. Saving any lives by. attending a meet- ing and brainstorming isn’t a. _ waste of time.or energy. Claudette leads a ‘sheltered . ‘life and has no clue. Did these DAWN DERRICK - women’s lives mean less be- -cause they hitchiked? going and could you help them help them rather than regard the hitchhiker as a victim. : - Not all the women who ~ were lost along the Highway of. Tears were hitchhikers. Remember them and re- _ member that the highway that runs through the north isn’t safe. We named the highway so that it and the victims aren’t forgotten. - Sometimes when I drive home. along the highway I wonder about those women and I drive Hwy16 every sin- gle day. | Sure the north is beautiful but for some people it isn’t a When you ‘see a hitchhiker. - wonder instead where are they very safe. Being judged is a- common. occurence among Canada’s native people.: We get judged because of . the colour of our skin but so many others attend a tanning - salon to become more brown. | We’re judged because we. “hitchhike but we do what has to be done to get what we need done. And if hitchhiking is the only way to do that, we do it. -My sister is going to college ~ and she attends night classes and the only way she has to _ get home is.to hitchhike but’ _ She believes in what she is do- ing so she will do it. ee I have also hitchhiked be- cause I needed to get to school but, my pick-up was broken and it was the only way I could get to. where I was goings..i3. i Belief in‘one’s ‘self is ‘a powerful thing and a beautiful thing and who cares what oth- . ers think. _ Which brings me to the bin-» ners who are beautiful men who make living in this world better. How? Well they are princes among thieves who save our-planet by recycling waste that someone ~ couldn’t be bothered to. Because govenment offi- cials deemed it necessary to cut back on social assistance, they picked on the poorest of Highway of Tears | the poor. a - These men used to be war- tlers.would have needed their help to live in the north.: Did you read what one said? He said some loser is going around assaulting them while they sleep out in the: open. This land was all theirs once... riors and a long time ago set- and now they live where they ~ can and feed themselves by collecting recyclables to make some extra spending money. Some one is picking on the poor homeless guy and stab-». -. bing him. What are the police --— -doing-about it? Just about the same as they are for the High- . _ way of Tears? To the loser who is stabbing | them, what comes around goes -around.. You will get-what:you deserve in the end. Pick on someone who is awake and ‘can defend themselves. To the binners — hold your head up walk tall and proud because we were princes/prin- “ cesses once. Thanks for mak- ing our world a better place by recycling what someone else threw away. And remember the High- way of Tears so that it doesn’ t happen again. Dawn Derrick lives on the Gitaus subdivsion of the Kitse- las band. I ve had great service at Wal- Mart A RECENT LETTER in The Terrace Standard blames Wal-Mart for speeding the - deterioration of Terrace’s fal- tering economy since the store arrived early in 2004. I would .dispute that.-. I'm not a chamber of com--. | _merce member, and I don’t ‘-hobnob~ with ith local _finan- cial wizards. the high Canadian dollar and this sum- " mer s skyhigh gasoline prices. _ which steered away foreign Ve tourists. I've read business maga- zines that say to prosper in the face of corporate competi- tion, businesses must develop’ a niche market, know: their products, and staff their store with visible, knowledgeable clerks. (They must also stock ’ their shelves.) The .closure of the Ter- race Lumber Company’s mill certainly is not the fault of any store in town yet several: hundred loggers and spinoff workers will feel the pinch. Their lack of ample cash will impinge on other businesses, including Wal-Mart. - But clo- sure of the mill is not Wal- Mart’s doing. News reports, | . though, blame much of Ter- race's deterioration on poor - forestry markets, THROUGH BIFOCALS No) CLAUDETTE SANDECKI . The letter goes on to say staff “are underpaid for what they have to put up with and for the most part want to go home the minute their shift starts.” What staff are putting up with is customers like the letter writer. | - ['m told: Wal-Mart's staff turnover rate is average. As for being underpaid. I don’t \buy the ‘notion you should work harder only when you're paid more. Hiring on carries ‘the understanding you accept the pay rate. and in return you owe your employer your best through every shift. Oth- erwise, you are free to quit and seek out a job with an inspir- ing pay rate. . solely the staff's fault? tend to mirror the behaviour instead of, “Hey. you.” ‘knowledge how rushed they The letter says, “I've never made eye-contact with people at. the service desk.” Is that We we encounter. -Perhaps the let- ter writer's impatience drives the service clerks to serve her as swiftly as possible. w ithout ’ chitchat. Management per- mits staff to be friendly: the customer's behaviour may squelch staffs inclination to make eye contact. Who wants . to look up and meet critical body language? «| Brighten their day. “Wal- Mart staff: wear name tags. Try addressing them by name. Ac- are by saying something like. “You're really busy today.” They will appreciate knowing you see things from their point of view. Don’t drum your fin- | gers on the counter or clamp your lips | in annoyance as you Wait your turn at the checkout. And never be rude. Every em- ‘ployee, regardless of salary. deserves respect and common decency. The letter goes on. “We . have no other place than Wal- Mart to shop. And so we take our kids to Wal-Mart and all buy the same clothing. so at the beginning of semester our children look the same.” From what I know about school kids’s wardrobes, they . Strive to look the same: they buy what the popular kids wear. Dress them in anything unusual and you'll likely find” it at the bottom of their closet. Even in Vancouver. where stores abound, kids of an age dress alike. Wal-Mart has little to do with this phenomenon. Moms shop at Wal-Mart be- cause stuff tends to be cheaper - and . they can find everything. . . at one stop. When our’ kids Were young. we shopped at the _ Co-op for the-same reasons. I detested shopping for shoes at. one store, jackets at another, ‘and so on. ; My experiences at. Wal- . . _ Mart have been fine. I like having a greeter sing out “Good morning” as I enter, unlike stores. where no one notices me or I can’t even find a clerk if I need direction. When I ask for direction, 6f- ten the staffer will walk me to. the shelf. Checkout staff have ~ always been cheerful, trade a. friendly comment. And ser- vice staff. though faced with carts full of returned goods to be restocked. unfailingly have. been polite and efficient.