Aé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 28, 1999
Think twice before shooting

Ravens have their role here

Dear Sir:

I really hope this man is
just voicing one opinion
about his pet peeve, the
beautiful and majestic raven
(‘Man urges city to gun
down ravens,’’ The Terrace
Standard, July 14,1999),

This story particularly of-
fended my wife who is a
member of the Raven Clan.
Surely this man must have
researched the native
legends.

Could anyone be that ig-
norant in 1999 about their
surroundings? Why does he
think natives include the
raven in their artwork,
which, by the way, is world
renowned because of the
herilage and the story be-
hind the art. I really think
this man should think twice

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before shooting a raven.

Secondly, ravens eat eggs,
small birds, and carrion
which may include your
garbage. It is called the food
chain. Get over it.

L lived right in the middle
of town on Lazelle and we
had a few ravens hanging
around. With our en-
couragenient.

Ravens and crows will not
get into you garbage if there
is nothing in there for them
to eat. By the instinct placed
wilhin them by God, they

They're still a

Dear sir:

Regarding the problem of
ravens, (The Terrace Stan-
dard, July 14, 1999).

Mr. David Hull of the city
council thinks that natives
still honour ravens as their
ancestors..... [doubt that.

My native relatives don’t.
Most natives call them-
selves Christian now, and
do not belicve that prirai-
tive, nice myth any longer.

‘We don’t want to push our
beliefs down their throats
and native Canadians should
not force their religion
through our throats either,

Ravens are a nuisance ito
us and to their fellow birds.
I am glad that our natives
don’t do to me what their
so-called ancestors do to me
and our property. They drop
their dirty stool on me and

Church
among
us all

Dear Sir:

It has been very encourag-
ing to sce a number of
pecple from different chur-
ches in Terrace coming to-
gether to pray and plan out-
teach events,

It appears as though the
common ground of knowing
Jesus Christ and 2 heart for
sharing His love with the
community is enough to set
aside doctrinal differences.

The community —- at —
large must get quite con-
fused at times trying to fig-
ure out which church is
right. There are, after all, so
many of them,

Here’s the thing: If you
have accepted Christ and are
folowing Him then you
don’t go to church, You are
the ‘church’ — the living,
breathing body of Christ in
Terrace.

This makes things in-
credibly exciting, especially
when you get together with
Christians from other
denominations,

So, way to go ‘church’.
The community will finally
see the reality of God’s love
as we begin not only to
speak of it but to live it.

Rod Myers,
Terrace, B.C.
(received via ematt}

rip open my garbage bags,
looking for rotten food.

We saw this egg stealing
and nest destruction on Dis-
covery Channel this weck,

We do eat cows regardiess
of the fact thal some lonely
Canadian Hindu considers
that beast holy.

We Canadians in general

are our cleaners of cock-
toaches, termites, bac-
lerium, rats, etc.

The presence of these
creatures is directly propor-
tionate to our cleanliness.
Has he ever heard of gar-
bage cans?

Our ravens used to come
and call every morning and
if T slept in, they would land
in the cherry tree oulside my
window and call me out.

I found this to be such an
amazing event I almost al-
ways got up and fed them.

pest

do not believe in holy cows,
neither do we believe in
holy raveus, do we?

By the way, these
“ravens’’? might be crows
tistcad, I cannot tell the dif-
ference, but perhaps Mr.
David Hull can.

Bill Homburg,
Terrace, B.C.

Also, I've had as many as
20 crows in the yard ai the
same time. Arc these the
birds he wants to murder?

There is an old male
think) that perches around
the library that my wife and
1 actually _ communicated
with. If you have never
tried, you will never know,

He seemed to be talking to
us so We tried. {0 mimic his
sounds. This went on for 20
minutes and then we shared
a bagel with him and went
on our way.

It was a profound and en-
lightening experience. Is
this the raven he wants to

murder?,

I wonder where such a
person would stop if he had
the authority. Pigeons also
have droppings. Swallows
have droppings. So do dogs.
Cats have droppings and
have been known to make
noise in the middle of the
night. People walking home
from the bar have been
known to make noise.

This man calls himself a

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bird lover yet it seems be
would love them more if

they didi’t make noise or
had natural bodily functions.

Perhaps he feels that we
should kill them all and let
God ‘sort it-out With a man
like this behind the trigger,
I'll be praying to God as
while I believe. in free
specch and freedom of the
press, I don’t believe in
murder,

Absolute power cormpts
absolutely. Are we not our
brothers’ keepers? Do you
not think this extends to the
aninial kingdom?

Please do not kill the
ravens. Thank you.

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