A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 5, 2003 CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD The Mail Bag Wal-Mart deal leaves animal shelter hanging Dear Sir: ; As the City of Terrace officials have sold out the land under the existing animal shelter in Terrace to benefit the proposed arrival of a big box retailer, | would humbly ask the powers that be that they strongly. consider the plight of the abandoned animals that do end up at the shelter. It is often not their fault thal. they are surrendered to the pound for adoption or a humane end. T have worked with the staff over the years on and off and found them to be compassionate souls with big hearts, ] wonder if they are concerned about their future, No doubt they are wondering how they will provide contin- uous service to the animals of Terrace, In the same edition as the Wal-Marl announcement The Terrace Standard reported in its Feb, 26 edition, civic land is not being made anymore. The fire hall chief was quoted on B1 that “having land is a good thing, you can’t make new land.” For an animal lover like myself, | worry then where will ihe new shelter go? Perhaps a shared civic facility is in order, It would be a win win Situation, The shelter is “Let them know 4 Valuable community re- source. you want an Sentient caring humans operational shel- would carefully view the ter in place before news of the arrival of Wal- Wal-Mart opens Mari versus the current se- itg doors.” cure location of the animal shelter. You, as a resident, may have never visited the shelter or used their services. Praise be for you, but many people do. I do as a non-resident prop- erty elector It is incumbent upon you as taxpayers and voters to ensure all civic operalions are operational and effective. They would ask themselves will the current shelter continue operations until the new shelter is operational? Regional district director Joanne Monaghan has men- tioned that 178 cats were destroyed in the regional dis- trict’s shelter this past year. A sorry state of affairs for the north. So before you all go all happy that Wal-Mart is com- ing please, for the sake of the abandoned cats and dogs of Terrace, speak up to your city councillors and let them know you want an operational shelter in place be- fore Wal-Mart opens its doors. Judy Chrysler, Lakelse Lake, B.C. PREP ONY SPRUE SYS PEILER SY = ERILE PSY = EPILEPSY E PUES Ys Turns SLL Eye Lin LLB More people have epilepsy than ALS., Muscular Dystrophy and Cerebral Patsy combined. BC EPILEPSY INFO LINE (1-366-374-5377) J-OGH-EPILEPSY Think again before allowing a Wal-Mart An open letter to: David Trawin, Planner, City of Terrace Dear Sir: I am very surprised that: no- one has . written in so. far about the - proposed Wal-Mart coming to..our' town. Is it . possible that you think that a store of that magnitude will do our town any good? How many of our smaller stores will have to fold because they will not be able to compete with the gigantic American owned franchise? The Bar- gain. Shop, Fabricland, Creative Zone, Saan Store, The Dollar Store, Terrace Interiors, SpeeDee Printers just to mention a few will, no doubt, be hurt. Possibly they would have to close.’ ' Stores like Wal-Mart come into town with lower prices to begin with _then once they have killed the compe- tition, they start rising their prices, Oh yes, and they also have no re- gard to statutory holidays. They open 364 days a year. [ myself along with numerous employees, have done our darndest over the past 15 years to keep our stat holidays. . So far, thanks to David Huil and a couple others on the town council, we have been able to keep the stores from opening. But for how long? I sure hope the powers that be will re-think their decision on allowing Wal-Mart into our city, Diane Pipe, Terrace, B.C. a proud sponsor of Ea CRIME al STOPPERS Terrace Crime Stoppers are asking for help to investigate an attempt to break & enter a liquor : Store in Terrace,B.C. " On February. 23rd, 2003 03:35 a.m., an alarm. sounded at the Skeena Cold Beer & Wine Store .. at 4519 Greig Avenue. Police arrived and: discovered unknown person(s). had been - excavating a portion of the east wall of the store °: in an attempt to gain entry. Significant damage : had been done to the wall. Various improvised excavating tools were located nearby. - No‘entry was gained and nothing was Stolen. POSES SERIO = for less... Jumbo: Assorted Colours sz While quantities last. card price Terrace Crimestoppers wants your information: not your name. 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