The direct approach | i

The political issuc of road maintenance privatization
aside for the moment, the company that holds the Terrace
district highways contract has certainly hit on a winning

formula for making the paved approaches to’ the city look

goad. North Coast Road Maintenance lets school groups
clean them up as a method of raising money, and it’s
_ working for everyone. |

This past Sunday Thornhill Junior Secondary School
students could be seen combing the grassy strips along
Highway 16 east of town. When they finished the right-,

of-way looked trim as a golf course, In other parts of the -

highways district, studerits from Mount Elizabeth school
and Caledonia were out doing the same thing, for the rate
of six dollars per bag of garbage.

Everyone wins in this situation: it isn’t a make-work
project; it doesn’t take work away from anyone by get-
ting kids to. do it at cut-rate wages; the students doing the
work get a close look at how truly filthy our social habits
are and presumably swear off littering and other brainless
ways of dealing with objects they no longer want; and
they are able to raise money for activities that the school
system is unable or unwilling to finance. The fact that a.
decision of the school board determined that the
taxpayers would not have the right to decide whether they
are willing io support these activities, and a private com-
pany with a public contract stepped in to take up the
slack, gives us cause to wonder what might come next.

While the highways leading into Terrace and the streets
in some of the surrounding areas are looking pretty sharp,

the look of things within the city itself is not Better
Homes and Gardens cover material. It took an effort of
imagination for North Coast to come up with this
scheme, which they have used with tepcated success for
some time now, but it takes no imagination at all for city
council to duplicate it. They’ve been dithering on this
issue for months while debris accumulates in every corner
of the city. The going rate seems to be six dollars a bag,

aldermen.

This isn’t intended to belittle the clean-up work done
by the Terrace beautification society, nor the daily efforts
of Peter Nysiok, nor the work done by the city’s public
works people, but one look down the street is proof that

all of it just isn’t enough.

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Perspectives -

by Bob Jackman

Caution: This column contains
the word "condom" and may not
be suitable for all readers. —

Okay, so the local school board
has decided to play a waiting

game with the (here’s that word!) -

condom issue. While some people
might feel that avoiding the issue
is not the answer, the delay has
given time for a wise and non-
confrontational solution to be

presented by yours truly.

The crux of the matier seems to
be accessibility. And therein lies

the answer. If we don’t want the. -.

kids to squander their lunch ~
money in the school washroom
making water balloons, what are
the alternatives?

It would appear that entrepre-
neurs have installed vending
machines in the washrooms of
local drinking establishments,
which of course our young
experimentalists are not allowed
to enter until they are about three
years (some would say six or.
more) past the age of sexual
activity, When you consider that
most ‘tiealth studies have shown
that alcohol is a depressant, rather
than an aphrodisiac, the fact that
children are discouraged from
drinking may be a dominant
reason for thelr promiscuity.

One would assume that the
vending machines would not be
in the washrooms of local pubs
unless there was.a demand for

_ them. If there is a demand for.
vending machines by. the atcohol- |

" ‘depressed patrons of these estab--

=, lishments, there should also be a —
; i demand ‘by the younger set.

This answer may sound too

= simple, but the School Board

- of will not name ‘the people in

might like to consider it as a way
of getting off the hook, Why not
just increase the availability by
placing vending machines in
more public areas, such as the
mall, restaurants, service stations
and other places where young
people gather?

There seem to be a lot of sup-
porters for the idea of condom
vending machines, and many of
them must work in facilities like
government offices where the
public has access to washrooms.
They could purchase a vending
machine and plow the profits
back into the office coffee fund.
And the kids who need access
but are maybe too embarrassed to
stand in a drug-store line-up
would have an alternative.

“The RCMP turban issue appears
to have been resolved, at least
until some other group makes a
pitch. As a para-military body,
the RCMP dress code has been a
unifying factor that has helped as
well to set them apart from the
common rabble. I guess there are
two ways to see the issue, either
as a breakdown of one of Cana-
dian society's traditions or as an
inroad against the military instit-
ution. It’s a tough call, like trying
to decide whether lowering the
flag for injured workers is an
appropriate gesture. Do you
cheapen the tradition by making
it more universal? Or can you

extend the tradition further with-

out weakening its effect? Do we
need uniforms and rituals at all?

Terrace who grew up in beautiful

"Do we need uniforms
and rituals at all?"

_ you are.

My home town became the first
community in B.C. to vote for
English-only, probably setting

Meech Lake back at least three or -

four days. I always thought it
was a pretty good little communi-
ty, and it probably still is, despite

the local Council’s recent decis-

ion.

I don’t expect the decision will
affect international trade and
commerce to any great extent,
nor will it harm local tourism °
efforts - Salmo is on the Trans-
Provincial Highway (#3), not the
Trans-Canada, so most Quebecers
coming west miss the village by a
couple hundred miles anyway. It
may even increase the number of
visits, with activists like David
Suzuki dropping in to decry the
decision and get in a little quiet
fishing.

Still, I’m disappointed. I took
four years of French in "good old
Salmo High", which later became
just plain.old Salmo Secondary
School, Any of us who wanted to
graduate had to take at least two

' years, under the tutelage of Mme.

Flood, who once gave me three
detentions for saying "Jesus"

instead of what I wanted to say. I |

got to where I could think in
French during a conversation (a -
talent that, unlike riding a
bicycle, does not stay with you if
you don’t‘use it). And I was .

". always a little proud of my ability

, 0 read the back of my Ralsin

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