CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

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Terrace’s retail dinosaurs
belong in the bone yard

Dear Sir:

I agree with Diane
Pipe’s statement in her
Dec 17 letter “of people
. spouting off about things
_they know little about.”
How about people mis-

_Tepresenting the facts’?

Fact: 192 businesses in
favour of slat shopping de-
feats hands.down 24 busi-
‘nesses opposed.

’ Fact: 850 signatures
still represents 5 per cent
of the population — a darn
small minority.

Having lived, worked
and shopped in Terrace for
34 years I believe I know
what most shoppers in Ter-
race want,

Just ask the shoppers
filling our shopping centers

The beetles are done for now

‘the Star. This should kill

Dear Sir:

There has been a fan-
tastic breakthrough in the
fight against the mountain
pine beetle. Once again
science has triumphed
over nalure.

Full-page colour ads
about the lives, feeding
habits and sex lives of
- these beetles were placed

in The Province with
amazing results,
As soon as the papers
hit the streets the beetles
_ went into shock and awe.
Ten per cent of them fell
out of the trees immedia-
 tely.
Another 10 per cent of
the beetles packed up and
_ caught a bus to Alberta,
The initial results were
so good the ads were tele-
vised on BCTV and played
-during Canucks games.

and stores on Sundays and
stats,

I give credit to the
mayor and city council
members for not bowing to
the pressure of a few,

[attended council

meetings in the past. con-
cerning Sunday shopping
and watched September
and October council meet-
ings on Channel 10 be-
cause | was unable to at-
tend due to a back injury.
. I guess it would be a
fair observation to say that
businesses that oppose
Sunday and stat shopping
throughout the year and re-
main closed only to open
during Christmas season
are only greedy for the al-
mighty dollar seasonally.

This killed 40 per cent
more (or maybe it was the
game.)

After the initial success
the decision was made to
expand and ads were
placed in small rural
newspapers, including the
Terrace Standard: The kill
rate was smaller this time,
around eight per cent, pos-
sibly because these ads
were black and white.

It is suspected that an-
other 12 per cent of the
beetles suffered injuries
that will prove fatal, bring-
ing the total kill up to 80
per cent, a signficant por-
tion of the population.

The initial results of
this program were s0 suc-
cessful it is to be expan-
ded to magazines like Ma-
cleans, The Economist,
Playboy, the Enquirer and

Diane if you recall, the

old Co-op shopping center .

opposed Sunday openings.

I, being one of many,
took my shopping dollars
for gas, food, clothing,
hardware, garden supplies
etc, etc, elsewhere to the
tune of $20,000-plus an-
nually,

. By the time the Co-op:

relented and went for Sun-
day shopping their custo-

mer base had gone clse--

where and we all know
what happened to that -di-
nosaur, Diane.

So please publish the
names of the 24-businesses
and I for one will shop
elsewhere.

Bob Erb
Terrace, B.C.

off 97 per cent.

The ecological group
Enviro Earth (no Offence)
is reported to be filing a
lawsuit under the federal
cruelty prevention laws, as
they feel death by reading
The Province or watching
Calgary play hockey is as
cruel as il gets. This action
will not likely interfere
wilh the program.

If you think the above is
silly, ask yourself what
good did these ads do?
How many. beetles did
they kill? Zero? What
good did the money spent
on this do?

Well, some of the play-
ers involved got all of their
political contributions
back. ;

Les Watmough
Terrace B.C.

Where are our leaders?

Dear Sir:
I hope someone can en-

lighten me as to when our-

municipal leaders are

_ going to realize the de-.

 vastating state we are in,
and get off their duffs and
do something about it.

‘1 find it very frustrating
to continually see busines-
_ ses fighting to stay alive or
" merely exist and our local
: politicians are silent.

About eight weeks aga
mayor Talstra said we
“needed something to make.
it through the winter. I
hope that he wasn’t just
. Tealizing that. Don’t you

-think that just having that
_ ¢ome to you in October is
somewhat too late for any-
thing to materialize?

Yes you can all tell me
all the grand things you
have done because I've
brought this sensitive mat-
ter up and I’m sure there
are some, There is a lot

going.on in this area, but I .

don’t-see our elected offi-
cials. speaking oul or even
getting excited about

‘spair. “1 don't have all the -

answers but I do know that
sitting, waiting for some-
thing to happen is not the
way.

So go ahead. Throw this
back al me and get defen-
sive. But while you are
doing that take a long hard
look at where this town is
and where it is going.

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. This town will not sur-

vive on just have a great
family values and quality
family life. We can still

remain a small town with,

all the great attributes that

brings with it but we must

be a prosperous small town
for us all to survive.

Glenn Kelly

Terrace, B.C.

Concerned personal
service in the Northwest
since 1946

24 hour pager

.them. The cruise ship ter- 3m

minal, the container part,
increased CN traffic, a
proposed pipeline to the
area, and [’m sure there
are more.

All of these can bring
some business to Terrace,
but. is ‘our city council

‘vocal or excited or con- &

cemed? It sure doesn’t ap-
’ pear that way.

I’m wondering what it
will take to motivate this
council, to make them ex-
cited or do they just not
care? Yes, David D. Hull,
you can now say that if I
don't like it I should put
my name forth in the next
election and I say if that is

. your answer then maybe

you shouldn’t put your
name. on the ballot in
2005. I am not the only bu-
siness person in Terrace
who feels this way.

Now is the time for the
city council of Terrace to
- Understand the sense of ur-
gency and act, The occa-
_Sional: forum on what we
can do is not enough any-
more.

Mavor: Talstra, as the
- leader it is your job to take
the reins and help move
this town away from de-

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person maintain safe access to their
home during the winter months.
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every municipal street and road is designated as a snow
removal route, and parking on them is prohibited during the
winter months, from November 15th to April 1st.

Any vehicle that impedes snow removal and/or road
maintenance work on any snow removel roule can be towed.

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property onto the road Right-of-Way; il creates. drainage
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with routine snow plowing and/er road maintenance.

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