y ‘MARGARET SPEIRS ROB BROWN ‘Down in the dumps eirui’s Quarantina, Khartoum’ s Hillat . _Kusha, Calcutta’s Dhapa, and Mexico City’s Santa Cruz Meyehualaco won’t be found on any tourist brochures. They are a relatively new global phenomenon. They are the. mega dumps that serve large cities. , They are more than that too. They are dumpslums - huge festering sores on the epidermis of the planet ” surrounded by sprawling cities of shacks, homes to the poor who depend on the dump for sustenance. Since the first Sumerian farmer recognized the _ agricultural properties of wheat, the poor of the world have subsisted on what they-c the land. ~All that is changing — changing dramatically and swiftly — as peasants leave their land at a rate of 1.3 . million per. week and make their way, as part of the largest migration in human history, for the city — more specifically the slum — nearest them. As a result of the massive relocation the United Nations predicts that in very short order more peo- » ple — more than half the world’s population — will live in cities anda billion of those new city dwellers : "will live in slums like those low scale neighbour- , hoods adjacent to the giant municipal dumps. Once there they. will subsist on unnatural ‘glean- ‘ings from those landfills. Payatas, the dump that serves Quezon City,'a municipality of over two million that is but one of the 17 municipalities that make up the Megopolis of Manila, is one of these. Thirty years ago Payatas began life as a ravine and a convenient place to pitch trash in the midst of rice paddies. By 2000 it was a massive mountain 40 metres high, that drew considerable attention from the media when heavy monsoon rains triggered an avalanche of garbage on a 70° slope that buried a part of the adjacent shanty town killing hundreds of people. The Philippine Government has since passed legislation promising to clean up open dumps like Patayas by gathering up and trucking its trash to a sealed sanitary landfill, a noble idea that faces a logistical snag insofar as it would take 3,000 fully _ loaded trucks per day 11 years to accomplish this feat. And it.would cost jobs. That’s right, jobs. The jobs of some 10,000 scavengers who root through detritus looking for bits of copper wire, bottles, computer bits, and anything else that can be sold for a pittance as well as the jobs of garbage brokers and the thousands of.others who eke’ out a living from waste in a country where the millions of poor live on less than two bucks a day. Dumps are in ferment. They are cauldrons of toxicity that produce streams of heavy metal laden liquor called lechate. This‘lechate contaminates our most precious resource, water. Toxic lechate still exudes from dumps left by the Romans. And the cancerous qualities of these fantastic metasatic garbage ‘pits don’t end there. Bacterial . breakdown produces methane, causing the dumps to pump vast quantities of methane into the atmo- sphere, helping to warm the. global greenhouse. . thereby. There are more people in Manila than all of B.C. Our dumps are smaller as consequence, though we probably produce as much, and quite likely more, trash per capita than the Filipinos do. The funda- - mental environmental problems, especially:so when you consider that our unsanitary landfills were lo- cated next to salmon streams. True, it’s hard to find a sizeable chunk of land in this country that’s not located next to fish habitat, but that just speaks to the need for best landfill de- sign in those areas and the need on all our parts to consume less. T'stood ‘in front of rows upon rows of fishing lures in Canadian Tire this week, each one pack- aged in glitzy plastic blister packages | created to promote consumption. - . Walk around a BIG BOX store and check out how many products are enshrouded in unnecessary plastic that will be bound for the landfill moments - after it arrives at the home of some shopper. To its shame the City Council of this town has scrambled over itself to encourage fast food chains and big box shops to locate within the city limits while it has done.next to nothing to deal with the river of waste that flows from those establishments. There is no blue box program and adequate 're- cycling to serve the city. If nothing else the City could offer assistance to the hardworking women - who run Do Your Part Recycling out of an unheat- ed garage. _ Dumps are. monuments to “Growth is Good” Consumer capitalism. Ultimately you and I, as we stand in a store product in hand, have to ask our- selves this question: Where and how was this thing born? and Where will it be laid to rest? ould grow on. _ of three goals and the cushion proved . _ necessary. il The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - B7 638-7283 TROY BUTLER, in white, and Fred Mattersdorfer, #41, work on scoring at the Hazelton net during the game here Dec. 2. The River Kings _held on for, the 7-6 victory despite a third period comeback attempt by the Wolverines. River Kings return to > win column THE STREET hgckey’ saying goes “next goal wins.’ ‘When the Terrace River Kings hosted the Hazelton Wolverines Dec. 2 it looked. like it might just be “last goal wins.’ The River Kings were glad that wasn’t the case as they held of fa spir- ited third period comeback attempt by the visitors to capture their fourth win of the season by a 7-6 score. Terrace held four different leads ” It put a. minor tarnish on what . had been a pretty. dominant game through 50 minutes for Terrace, says co-coach Kevin Fletcher. “For 50 minutes,;"wé stuck it to them ‘but we seemed to want to sit on [the lead],’ ’ Fletcher said. “We’ ve got to put them away.” Terrace was unlucky not to have a big lead after 20 minutes with sev-_ eral near misses and key saves by Hazelton’s Cory Croft in a lopsided period. Terrace did score once on a bit of broken play when Troy Fark- _ vam snapped in a shot from the slot, catching the Wolverine goalie stand- ing still. Hazelton evened the score’ at I- I just past the midway point of the “second period, when a point shot de-, a flected off Keegan Smith in front ‘of a helpless Burny Carlsen in the Ter- "race goal. » That goal seemed to give Hazelton life and minutes later, Carlsen made’ a key glove save after having broken his stick to keep the score tied. His team responded and was . buoyed by a terrific individual effort from Ken Lavoie, playing in just his second game of the season. The small but speedy winger cut hard to the net and jammed in the | puck to make the score 2-1 with 2:15 to play in the frame. Terrace made. it 3-1 after 90 sec- onds of sustained pressure and shots when Fred: Mattersdorfer deftly - knocked a puck out of the air from the crease into the net. » Troy Butler continued the late onslaught, faking and then shooting from the slot to beat Croft with seven seconds left in the middle period. Despite the 4-1 deficit, the expan- sion team did not quit and began to. - take advantage of the power plays’ - Mattersdorfer. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO forced to put Coby Johnson on. de- » fence after Derek Jurista was ejected for fighting in the third period. ° Despite the near collapse, Fletcher was happy with the result, saying the — team can learn from its mistakes. — -. “J thought as a team we played re- ‘ally well,” said Fletcher, who point- _ ed to Lavoie, Dustin Quezada, Mike Dibblee and Mattersdorfer. as play- ers who played particularly well." “Things are looking positive with - the young guys,” said. Fletcher. “1 think this is the best team — dress- .. ing room team and the camaraderie ~ that we’ ve had in the three years.””. Terrace is idle until the Dec. 16-. 17: weekend. when it hosts the Mack- enzie Moose for two games. . “We definitely should be looking at four points out: of’ Mackenzie,” Fletcher said. 7 Terrace improved its record to 4. 8-1, while Hazelton dropped to 1-9- |. 0. Carlsen upped his record to two’ J wins and three losses. ‘ NOTES: Centreman Chris Brown left the’ game in the second period with what appeared to be a concus- . sion on a play that went unpenal- ized. : they weren't getting through 40° minutes.” ° Mitch Marshall scored his first of three third period g goals at 3:08. That goal was quickly countered _ by Ryan ‘Watson who snapped ahigh shot through traffic when, left alone in the Hazelton slot. A minute later, Amadee Marshall again got. the Wolverines back to within two on a power play. The teams didn’t give the score- ukeepers a break as Butler restored the three. goal lead on.a feed from Predictably, Hazelton scored next as Lou Parent Jr. made it 6-4 with 7:29:to play. Mattersdorfer scored what proved to be the winner with six- minutes left to. play. Mitch Marshall scored twice to narrow the gap to 7-6 as Terrace frantically defended i in fr ont of Carlsen. Fletcher said the home team was hurt in the game’s lategoing with players playing out of their natural | positions and the penaities. “We should’ ve been fresh, fatigue shouldn't have been a problem,” said Fletcher, pointing out the team was Peewee Reps rally for. home ice victory THE. Terrace.. Peewee. Rep team split a pair‘with Kitimat in front of a home. - crowd. : The first game started with a flurry of hard hits and.a lack. of discipline: . from “Terrace, - getting them into trouble with *. three early penalties, and. leading to three short- ” ‘handed: goals: ‘Against “them. 2 _ Terrace was never able : to recover and suffered a 7-1 loss with Robert Or- rey scoring. the only goal. ‘The second meeting . proved better with the Terrace squad scoring in the first five minutes. — The. game was any-. ' one’s with the score go- ing back and forth and both squads trading goals through the next two ‘Pe- riods. ‘Both teams wanted to win and it was apparent TWO skaters came up golden at a test day in Kitimat. Joanne Homeniuk, who coaches i inthe — club, completed her final gold dance test. Homeniuk passed her Argentine Tango, which means she is a triple gold skater — she has completed her gold Imenpretive, gold skills and gold dances. “Any skater with their triple g gold is quite the good skater,” said Terrace Skat- ing Club head coach Jennifer Kuehne.. “You are lucky just to finish your gold dances by the time you graduate high school.” The lower levels of dance have three dances per level and higher levels have four dances per level. SEVERAL Terrace skaters are working on 1 their gold skills tests. Two r more ladies moved on ai the test day i in Kitimat recently. Joanne Homeniuk, far left, is now a triple gold skater and Janet Lewis, second from right, isa double gold skater. Both are shown above with most of their triathlon teammates at the arena earlier this year. Skaters advance to next level dances at one time, she said. Skaters normally work on two or three -The gold level includes the Argentine Tango, Viennese Waltz, Quickstep and not’ just on the ice but in ‘the stands too... ‘With only one minute - left in the game, Colton ‘Braid was pulled from de- fence to forward to cover for an injured player. ; “He took possession of | .the. puck behind the Kiti- mat net and scored. the winning goal with 45 sec- onds left in the game. are not credited. The Terrace Skating Club looks very _ highly upon skaters who have their “Qua- druple Gold Feet,” said Kuehne. Westminster Waltz and can be complet- ed in any order. Upon completion of all four, a skater has passed | 24 dances and is a gold dancer. — Janet Lewis passed her gold interpre- tive — her second gold test — after success- fully passing her gold skills at an earlier test date. Kuehne said gold interpretive skaters perform a two to three minute long pro- gram to music that. must include creative moves. , Jumps and spins can be included but Other “golden girls” in the skating Club include Jacqueline Lenuik, who has completed all four gold tests: gold skills, gold interpretive, gold dances and gold freeskate. , Kelsey Minhinnick has . completed three gold tests:.gold skills, gold interpre- tive and gold dances and is on her way to _ quadruple gold, having completed half of her gold freeskate. Hayley Lessard has her gold skills and has only one dance left until she com- pletes her gold dances. Terrace won 5-4, Jeffrey ’ Kennedy chipped in two goals and goalie Bradley .Duarte had his best game of the year.- It was a well played game and proved to. be great free entertainment for the fans in the stands, said Terrace team spokes- person Lisa Stella. .