Danny Roy,

a student at Skeena Junlor Secondary School,

spent two months last summer in China — but not through
a Pacific Rim Initiative tour. The iterns he brought back in-

clude a large handpainted

fan and a hollow bamboo pipe

used for smoking.

Dispute mutes phones

__A one-day work stoppage by
about 1,200 northern B.C.
Telephone employees shut down
all but direct dial services last
Thursday. But as a result, says
Telephone Workers Union
(TWU) representative Ken
Blanes of Terrace, a Dawson
Creek employee has been
reinstated and the union now
has a ‘‘letter of understanding’’
from the company which prom-
ises to address manage-
‘ment/labor friction in B.C.
Telephone’s MacKenzie Divi-
sion. The MacKenzie Division
includes B.C. Telephone opera-

tions north of Williams Lake.

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regional district says that in

some cases the lots may not be |

large enough to adhere to
regulations such as the required
200-foot setback of sewage
-. disposal systems (the Ministry of
Health only requires 100 feet).
This: district also notes that
regulations could be “difficult
to enforce’ once the landlord
aspect of crown lands is lost.
The Cariboo Regional District
is also concerned about sewage
‘disposal and has asked the gov-
ernment to respond to concerns
regarding the impact of provin-
cial policy changes on focal

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Blanes said about 90 percent
of the MacKenzie Division
workforce was involved in the
spontaneous work stoppage,

_which meant operators were not

available to make long distance
connections, and services such
as repair and installations were
shut down. Blanes says that
following the walk out, TWU
leaders met in Prince George
with representatives of the In-
dustrial Relations Council to ad-
dress the problem of manage-
ment relations within the com-

pany. .

While a number of local
students went on Ministry: of
Education-sponsored tours of
China fast summer, one local
youth went to that ancient na-
tion under ‘somewhat different
circumstances.

When 14-year-old Danny Roy

-got an invitation from Chinese-

Canadian friends to accompany
them on a trip to visit relatives in
the old country, it seemed an op-
portunity he couldn’t turn
down. As a result, he saw China
the way most people who live
there see it — from the peasant’s

point of view.

Victim assistance

“Local youth sees China
as the Chinese

Danny left Terrace in late
June, and said he had no dif-
ficulty obtaining a visa to enter
the country. Once there, his
movements were unrestricted.
He spent most of his time in the
southeast, travelling through
Canton and other provincial
capitals, Luchow, Nanking and
many small villages. He and his
friends stayed in low-cost ac-
comodation, some of which he
described as being ‘‘pretty
awful’.

_ The villages of the southeast,
he said, are home to many Viet-
-namese who fled their country as

coordinator named

TERRACE — After a lengthy
search and interviewing process
that involved advertising
throughout the province, Cst.
Ewen Harvie of the Terrace
RCMP has found what he was
looking for right here in town:
someone qualified and willing to
act as full-time coordinator for
the Terrace Victims Assistance
Program.

She’s Karen Walker, a native
of Montreal who moved here
early this year. Harvie says she
“brings a variety of experience
to our program and the victims
of crime... and an understand-
ing of criminal | court
procedure.”’

The-victim assistance program
in Terrace received funding

from the B.C. Ministry of the.

Attorney General about a year
ago. It is intended to aid victims

regional government regulations
and bylaws. The Regional
District of Bulkley-Nechako

demand for public services such
as school busing, road main-
tenance and garbage disposal.

goes into greater detail and notes —

that this area as well does not
contain properties of sufficient
size to meet health or minimum
size requirements.

Along with the Regional
District of Kitimat-Stikine,
Bulkley-Nechako also expresses
concern that ‘‘the conversion to
fee simple ownership may result
in an increase in permanent
residential development”’. This,
they say, could result in an in-
creased and possibly unrealistic

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Finally; the Cowichan Valley
Regional District has passed a
motion asking that regional
districts have a final say in the
matter. They want the govern-
ment to ensure that the sale of
waterfront properties doesn’t in-
clude anything other than ‘‘ex-
isting recreational leases above
the high water mark” and that
all sales be referred to local
government ‘‘prior to any action
being taken’’.

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of crime with counselling, sup-
port, and advise in court pro-
cedure by using community-
based social service organiza-
‘tions.

Since her arrival in Terrace
Walker has been working at
Osborne House, a residence for
the handicapped. In ‘Montreal
she was a staff member of the
Ville Marie Social Services
organization, where she worked
for many years assessing the
needs of families and individuals
and developing programs to help
them.

She has been involved-with the
Volunteer Bureau in Montreal,
Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the
One Parent Family Association
and the Open Door Society.

Walker officially takes up the
position Oct. 19. Harvie says she
will be working directly with him
and other members of the local
detachment for several months
to learn the intricacies of the
job.

After Walker's preparation -
period the program will be seck-
ing volunteers to help with the
referral duties.

see it —

a result of the China-Vietnam
border conflict and whose
strongest desire is to return to
their native country. ,

Goods are inexpensive and _

there is some impressive scenery,
he said, but added that sewage

systems are primitive, there are - -
no private bathrooms or flush —

toilets, and the water is unfit for
drinking unless. boiled, There is
electricity, but blackouts are fre-
quent and all the hotels supply
candles in the rooms.

The people generally live
together in large households
under crowded conditions in
order to economize. —

In a farm village where he

stayed, workers in the fields put _

in about five hours a day grow-
ing tea, oranges and rice for a
wage of two yuan, equivalent to
$.80 Canadian per day. Work
begins early in -the morning:
because it becomes too hot: for
labor in the full heat of the sun.
Intense heat and frequent
thunderstorms were two of Dan--.

ny’s most persistent memories of

the region. ‘‘In the heat, most of
the people just sit around and
fan themselves,” he said.

The diet was another difficult
adjustment, There are no
refrigerators, and: much of the
food is preserved by drying; a
typical meal would consist of.
cooked rice and dried fish.

Danny also had a hard time
getting used to the attention he
attracted: ‘‘Everywhere I went,
people stared at me. Most of
them had never seen a Cana-
dian, they were amazed.”’

At the end of August Danny
returned to Terrace. “I was’
definitely glad to get back —

two months of drinking boiled.

water and all that.was just too-
much.’’

When asked if, given the”

chance, he would go back, he
seemed uncertain. ‘‘Still,’’ he
said, ‘I wanted to see more.”**

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