AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 14, 1998

Book sale to raise money

Tyler returns to bureau

LOVINA TYLER is back in mene
charge of the Terrace |& é:
Volunteer Bureau.

Tyler retired from the
position in November and
was teplaced by Pat St
Thomas —- a member of the
bureau’s board of directors.

St. Thomas took over at a
challenging lime, when the
volunteer bureau was look-
ing for $20,000 to help it
survive the next year.

However last week she
was replaced by Tyler.

St Thomas, who gave up
her position on the board to
become execulive director,
didn’t have any comment on
why she was no fonger
working as executive direc-
tor.

Tyler is now voluntecring
as acting director.

“You think about all the
volunteer hours people put
in over five years — I'm
just doing all my volunteer-
ing at once,’’ says Tyler.

CLEAN OUT YOUR BOOKSHELVES — The Volunteer Bureau is hoping to
raise money by selling used books. Lovina Tyler, Sonja Slana and Lynn Patter-
son of the bureau encourage everyone to bring used books to their office.

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She says shell be on the
job until the bureau is in a
better financial position,
That means finding money
for both short and long term
operations.

Towards that end she’s
embarking on a new money-

books.

Tyler’s asking for dona-
tions of hard and softcover
books. Many boxes have al-
ready been collected and the
volunteer bureau plans to
display them in the front of
their office, al 4621 Lakelse
Ave. The sale will start Jan-

uary 19 and prices will be
by suggested donation.

If you have a box of books
but no transportation, the
bureau will arrange pick up.
Businesses can also put out
boxes for their staff to make
donations.

at the volunteer bureau dur-
ing, office hours, or al Hava
Java next store early in the
morning or at night.

“Small donations add up
to a lot,” said Tyler about
the possible success of the
book sale.

Skeena Room - Terrace Inn
8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)

Tickets are $15 each at
Uniglobe Courtesy Travel

raising plan — selling used

Books can be dropped off °

Food bank benefits a lot
by food store coupon test

THE TERRACE CHURCHES Food Bank is being boosted
by a $2 coupon program at three local food stores.

More than $9,500 has been raised through B.C. Sharing
from its start last October until the end of December. The
program is an experiment and runs until the end of next
month. ;

Christine Simmons says the program has made donating
to the food bank easy and painless.

The food bank’s January distribution period began Mon-
day serving people whose last names were at the beginning
of the alphabet. [t finishes tomorrow with anyone who
was missed, The food bank takes place from 1-3 p.m. at

the old Ukrainian hall in the 4600 block of Walsh Ave.
It costs between $4,000 and $5,000 to run the food bank
each month;in‘addition to donations of non-perishables,

said Simmibis.; >

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to continue
coupon plan

A TEST PROGRAM to
help food banks is so popu-
lar the government minister
behind it wants it to con-
tinue,

Agriculture | minister
Corky Evans estimates that
the program in which food
shoppers buy $2 coupens at
cash registers will raise at
least $250,000 by the time
the test phase is over next
month,

“This has been successful
past anybody’s dream,’
said Evans of B,C, Sharing
which was introduced last
October.

Participating stores add up
the worth of the $2 coupons
the end of each month and
give registered food banks a
credit. This is then spent on
B.C. food products, giving
the program a _ double
benefit.

Evans said he wants to
gather all the coupon
players together to talk
about what worked and
what didn’t work before
deciding to go beyond the
test phase.

Although the test phrase
was reslricted to a limited
number of food stores,
Evans noted that some com-
panies conducted their own
coupon efforts.

*] know that’s the case
with the Co-op in Terrace,”
he said.

In Terrace, the test pro-
gram was restricted to Over-
waitea and Safeway.

Safeway public affairs of-
ficial Mark Storiz said its 79
stores collected approxi.
mately $100,000 by the end
of November.

Given that the local
Safeway store gathered in
$3,520 over that period,
Stortz said Terrace and area
residents rank among the
highest per capita donators.

All told, the Co-op,
Safeway and Overwaitea
sold more than $9,500
worth of coupons up uulil

the end of December.

“As long as we have the
coupons, we'll keep going,’’
Overwaitea manager Dale
Lufkin said last week. ‘It
certainly helps a food bank
this time of the year.”’

The food bank operates for a four-day period cach No-
vember, January, February, March and April.

That's why the more than $9,500 raised through B.C.
Sharing is such a big help to the food bank, Simmons said,

‘*We can fill out the bags with a basic food order,” she
added. ,

B.C. Sharing coupons are bought at grocery tills, with to-
tals added up each month for the Tertace Churches Food
Bank.

Overwaitea and Safeway are part of B.C. Sharing here
while Terrace Co-op began its own.

The $2 coupon program continues into the next month.

The food bank also reccived some of the surplus from
the December Salvation Army Christmas hamper drive.

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““The Salvation Army handed out over 450 hampers this
Christmas. The hampers included toys for children and the
fixings for Christmas dinner, including a voucher for a
turkey,

However, about 50 of those turkeys haven’t been picked
up yet, says Lt. Norm Hamelin.

He thinks what likely happened was that some needy
families received invilations for Christmas dinner from
friends. Not having a freezer in which to store the turkey,
those families didu’t pick up the birds from the grocery
stores.

However, the grocery stores couldn’t hold onto the
turkeys indefinitely, so passed them along to the Salvation
Army. Hamelin says anyone with a voucher can still come
in and pick up their turkeys.

And he hopes they’ll do it soon since the Salvation Army
doesn’t have its own freezer. Instead staff are storing the
birds in their own freezers.

Many of us attach
meaning to money that
has nothing to do with
what it really is and
everything to do with
emotion. And the
emotional associations
with inherited money -
because they’re
conflicting and legitimate
- are doubly strong: A
loved one has been lost,
yet that loss has created a
windfall.

But remember: Your
benefactor wanted you to
teceive a legacy. And
managing that inheritance
wisely is the. best tribute
you can pay your
benefactor...the best way
of saying “thank you.”

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most of it.

«Step One; Do
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this could include
anything form a cottage or
car to a dream vacation.
Then let reality sink in
and consider your “real”

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For the parents of a
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YOU BE THE JUDGE

STEWED EMPLOYEE GETS CANNE

Everett was proudly giving his
Polish visitors the grand tour of the
brewery his father had buiit.

“Und vat is dis?” asked one of the
visitors, pointing to a room filled with
barrels, tables and employees sitting
around drinking.

“Ah,” said Everett, “That is the
employees’ beer room. Remember the
days of yore on British ships where
sailors could drink all the rum they
wanted? But of course, here we drink
in moderation.”

As Everett started to move on, an
employee !urched out of the room, bare-
ly able to stay on his feet.

“Wha is that,” whispered Everett to
the supervisor.

“Ted Willls, he's been with us 10
years, Past 3 years he’s developed an
alcohol and drug problem. We've been
trying to help him." |

The next day Everett came in early,
taking a detour through the brewery,

To his amazement, there was Ted
Willis sprawled on the floor screaming
at the top of his fungs at the
supervisor.

“What kind of supervisor would
leave the lift truck right in the middle of
the floor? Bet you did it on purpose to
make me fall flat on my face.”

Everett pulled the supervisor aside.

“Sick or not, this Buy has got ta ga.
Fire hill”

The next day Ted Willis filed a
grievance against the company.

The company reinstated Ted,

“But under certain conditions,”
explained the supervisor. "Twenty days
suspension. No drinking or drugs for 3
years and get counseling for drug adcic-
tion, Otherwise, you're out for good.”

Ted and the union president signed

tel

BASED ON
ACTUAL COURT
CASES
the agreement.

A year later, it started again.

“Ted, you're late. And you look
unusually tired. Why don't you see the
company coctor.” Said his supervisor,

Ted flew into a rage. “Mind your
own %#1!*&! business.” Then he
slumped onto the floor.

Ted was admitted to a rehabilita-
tion center.

The social worker sant her report.
“Ted never gave up drugs and alcohol.”

Everett was adamant. “That's it,
Fire this guy. He's beyond our help.”

Ted sued for wrongful dismissal.

In court, Ted was well-groomed
and sober. “Your Honour, 1 wasn't fully
aware of the conditions of the agree-
ment. | was In denial of my alcohol-
ism. | now understand my problem and
am receiving treatment for it. It isn't
fair for them to fire me on the basis of
an agreement | didn't really
understand,”

The company was adamant. “Your
Honour, If Ted didn’t understand the
conditions, the union should have
explained it to him. It's not our fault
that the union failed to do so. You
can't expect us to rehire a known alco-
holic to work at a brewery.”

Should the company have to rehire
Ted despite his alcoholism?

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