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The Herald, Tuesday, November 27, 1879 Page 9

- Huynh Cong Danh works for Budget rent-a-car.

Refugees are adapting

Terrace's so-called
boat people are happy
with their new adopted
country, but few would
hesitate to return to their
(country and fight if there
was an opportunity to
overthrow the present
regime in Vietnam.

Huynh Cong Danh 37,
works for Budget Rent-a-
ear in Terrace, though in
his native country he was
an accountant by trade.
Danh says his wife and
daughter are still in
Vietnam and he “wants
to find a better job and
make 2 lot of money”’ and
stil hopes his family
comes to Canada.

' Aside from accounting,
Danh’s family operated a
grocery store in Vietnam.
The communist takeover
ended al] that.

“There is no store now
and they (his family) are
in the streets.”

Lanh Diep 37, is
working at Doc's Cartage
despite the language
barrier, He’s working as
a manual labourer; he
had been a “soctrang” or
alderman in his native
country. When the
communists took over, he
went to jail for two years
because he had been an
alderman. His father, as
far a3 he knows, Is still in
prison. Danh also spent
time in jail, after being a
captain in the old South
Vietnamese army.

The two men say it was
“very hot” in the prison,
the food rations a scarce
single can of rice a day.
They would be allowed to
go outside the prison to
forage for raots to sup-
pliment their diet, which
contained no meat or
vegetables.

Lanh was fortunate in
that he was able to
escape, took a boat to
Malaysia where he was
interned in the refugee
camp. From there-he met
with Canadian officials
and was sponsored to

wouldn’t have been
possible to escape to
Malaysia if he hadn’t 20
gold pieces to pay his
-passage.

The two men say that
before 1975 they had
“everything” but after
1975, because they didn't
have enough food, they
had to sell everything.
Any valuables taken by
refugees to Thailand
were usually stolen by
robbers.

Unlike Lanh and Danh,
Jimmy did not serve in
the army and was not
interned in jail. Only 25
years old, he worked for a

come here. But he says, it

‘ available.

ENGLISH
COURSE HELPS

The main barrier to full integration of the
Vietnamese into the community is language.
Accordingly English courses are being offered
by the Northwest Community College.

The classes are being held Wednesday and
Friday mornings in the arts room at the Terrace
public Ilbrary. There are also night classes

“T would think that in three or four months
they would be able to communicate thelr basic
needs,” explained Kathy Mueller, the continuing
education co-ordinator for the Northwest
Community College. Like any other person you
need about two years of support in English as a
second language afterwards.”

Mueller says the language courses are:
available for anyone requiring the instruction,
and is urging people to register with her by
calling the college at 635-6511 or 635-4705. -

Danh wants to work his

Vietnamese newspaper,
translating Chinese into
Vietnamese. He says his
wife and son are still in
Vietnam. Jimmy is now
working at a shingle
factory here.

The three men, while
missing their native
country are slowly
adapting to Canada. They
are taking language

lessons, and hope in time
to work in jobs closer
approximating their

skills, Their employers
are apparently happy
with their performance
on the = job.

The men say Canadians
are more helpful to them
than the Americans were,
and are grateful for the
help they are receiving
from the community.
They hope the Canadian
government will help
them get their families
here as soon as possible
to make the adjustment
less painful.

What do they do with
their spare time? Well,
like most Canadians, the
‘boat people’ enjoy TV
and music. In fact, one
says he'll try and save as
much money as he can to
buy some records and his
own television set.

They have plenty of
time to watch television.
The three men still have
not made many friends
here, due to the language
barrier.

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TORONTO (CP) — By
Christmas, homeowners will
ba able to buy @ $150 com-
puter aystem that its
producers say can trim
home energy use by nine to
30 per cent during the
heating spason.

The Te00 Fuel Saver, made
by Honeywell Ltd,, is a small
version of the computerized
environment control
systems for large buildings.

“Computer technology has
allowed us to do more and
more with leas and less,”
says Cliff Robertson of
Honeywell. He is referring to
such developments as the

silicon chip, no bigger than a

finger-tip, which has re-

placed bulky cables in the .

electronica industry,

The Téod is a micro-chip
computer thermostat with
push-buttons anda clock that
replaces a regular ther-
mostat. The homeowner can
program the device to raise
or lower the temperature of
his home automatically on a

24-hour, five-or seven-day -

cycle.

The device can be used to
lower temperatures while
you are asleep or at work,

then raise them by the time
you wake up or get home,
Large office towers,

schools and hospitals |
already have found that
computerized systems

controlling heat; lighting and
security pay their way in
energy savings and reduced -
manpower costs,

For example, a com-
puterized environment
system can save fuel by
turning down the tem-
perature in relation to heat
given off by lights, or can
turn down lights in a sunny
room, thus saving elec-
tricity.

The large systems cost be-
tween $50,000 and $2 million
and in Toronto d8e found in
such buildings as the CN
Tower, the Eaton Centre and
at the Toronts International

Airport. :
Oshawa General Hospital
has one and estimates its
energy savings at $100,000
over six months. The London
board of education {a ex-
pecting to save §200,000 in
energy costs by having
environment contra! sys-
tems installed in 92 area
achoals, ; Heat Lote te

The systems for buildings
also can locate a fire and re-
turn the elevators to the first
floor for firemen.

They can unlock doors to
persons having the correct
code, and monitor carbon
monoxide levels in un-
derground garages,

The system for
homeowners can't do all this
yet, but Honeywell says all
the computerized functions
now in large buildings will be
available to homeowners in
five to 10 years, °

By then, in addition to
environment control, fire

contro] and security, lights,
radios, the coffee maker and
your garage door will start
up automatically to get you
out of bed in warmth and off
to work on time.

Maat municipal, provincial
and federal government
buildings do not use com-
puterized environment
control systems. This has led
Charles Bens of the Bureau
of Municipal Research to
accuse governments of
missing out on a proven
method of saving thousands
or millions of tax dollars in
energy savings.

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