Ad - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 2, 2000
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ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G 5R2
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“TERRACE.
PUBLISHER: ROD LINK
EMAIL: standard@kermode.net

Parking

IF THERE’S one thing that people who live in

small towns regard as a constitutional right, it’s
parking. There’s this assumption out there that
we should expect to park within mere feet of our
destination and if we don’t, we get pretty grou-
chy. .
Which brings us to the Saturday morning far-
mers’ market congestion along Davis as motor-
ists and pedestrians compete for space, making it
crowded and unsafe. The growing popularity of
the market has come to the point that adjacent

parking spots alongside George Little Park are

often full.

So it was no wonder that when council began '

to enforce its no parking signs on Davis that trou-

ble began to brew. Council’s response is to now

cover those signs and plan to install curbs and
angle parking slots next year.

But will that solve the problem? Not really. In
many ways, the market is a victim of its own
success and there is a good case to be made that
the market has outgrown its current location.

Two years ago the idea of perhaps moving the

market to a location offering more amenities and

parking was broached at Terrace city council.
This resulted in accusations that council wanted to
do away with the market altogether, Things then
became rather personal until a lease suitable to the

market was signed that gave it comfort as to its

location.

Perhaps it’s time once again to consider the
idea of a new location for the market. It’s proven
itself as a solid Terrace fixture and is one of the
busiest such markets outside of the lower main-
land.

A new and betier location, worked out in harm-
ony between the market and city council, would
be a suitable recognition for what the market has
become today.

Gas pains

METHANEX says it’ll close its Kitimat metha-

nol plant permanently if it doesn’t get some kind

of cost relief.

Part of that cost comes in transmission fees

charged by Pacific Northern Gas to move Metha-
nex’s gas from the northeast to Kitimat.

The prospect of losing that revenue, says PNG,
means the rest of us will have to pay more to
maintain the pipeline. In anticipation of that, it’s
applying for a rate increase. But it’s doing so
without an airing of Methanex’s cost relief plan.

PNG should put its rate hike request on hold
until we have a chance to judge the Methanex
plan. That’s because the Methanex plan calls for
us to shoulder some of its costs with the anticipa-
tion of sharing profits.

Since they both want our help, we must be in a
position to judge each plan’s worthiness,

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VICTORIA — Last week,
Canadians were told by Statis-
tics Canada that crime rates
have fallen to their lowest le-

- vels in 20 years,

Comforting news, indeed,
until one reads between the
lines. True, the overall crime
rate is dawn, but violent crime
and youth crime have sharply
increased, In- fact, violent
crime overall rose by 57 per
cent over the last 20 years.

If you cull youth crime from
the overall violent crime rate,
it pets even scarier. The num-
ber of minors charged with
violent crime went up by 77
per cent over the last 10 years.

The topper is violent crimes
committed by young girls,
which rose by 127 per cent
since 1988, with the most
marked increases in categories
such as murder and hostage-
taking.

These statistics probably
mean a new round of pinning
the blame on everything from
violent movies and video
games to dietary deficiencies.
- . While virtual violence may
arguably have a desensitizing
effect on young people and
thereby lower the threshold of
what is acceptable and what
isn't, the root causes for the
staggering rise in youth crime
go back to a time when video
games had not yet been inven-
ted and movie violence was
still to come.

FROM THE CAPITAL”
HUBERT BEYER

It was the permissiveness
preached by Dr. Spock and the
state’s intrusion into what was
hitherto the domain of parents
that raised the generation of
Canadians who are now the
parents of the youths
responsible for the sharp in-
crease in crime committed by
young people. a

Spock was half right in the
design of his model for raising
children. Love and forgiveness
are very much necessary to
raising children. But he forgot
the other half that is equally
important for the development
of a child ~ the realization
that every transgression has a
consequence. That conse-

quence is punishment.

And 1 don’t mean just
grounding or the withdrawal of
privileges. That may be en-
ough for minor misdeeds. For

Family is now f

ONCE KIDS grow up and
leave home, gathering every-
one logether for a family photo
oflen requires a special occa-
sion such as a wedding, a re-
union, or a funeral. Last week,
when opportunity arose, I sur-
prised everyone by hiring a
professional photographer on
six hours’ notice.

The infrequency of our get-
* togethers made me reject ex-

cusing anyone from the agony
of posing to photograph the
test of us. My aim was an in-
formal family portrait, every-
one present, worthy of an 8x10
frame.

Had | asked who was will-
ing to take part, all would
have refused, As it was, I
heard the usual complaints: I
don't like having my picture
taken. [ always look terrible.
And from one who primps
passing a glass oven door, a
black TV monitor, or a shiny
hubcap, a theatrical hand to

THROUGH BIFOCALS
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

the forehead and a fake faint.

We were scheduled to ga-
ther for supper at 5. “Wear
what you wish, just be there,”
I said in my best Fonz voice.
“Those who don’t pose, don’t
eat.” Being matriarch of this
octet carries some weight, 1]
figured,

Promptly at 4, the photo-
grapher arrived equipped only

WHY US ANP
NOT OTHER

major wrongs, a parent should
not be afraid to put the little
beggar over his or her knee
and administer a few slaps on
the behind.

Yet, we have been so con-
ditioned as a society to view
any kind of physical punish-
ment as violence and abuse
that millions of parents were
astounded last week when a
court ruled that physical pu-
nishment of children is consti-
tutional and not to be viewed
as abuse,

I know of cases where tea-
chers instructed their pupils to
phone the abuse help line if
their parents laid the slightest
hand on them. This isn’t that
far removed from teachers tell-
ing me in my native Germany
during the war to notify the au-
thorities if our parents uttered
any criticism of Hitler.

The court saying that it is

OK under certain: circum-

“stances to administer corporal
punishment was the first en-
couraging sign that maybe,
just maybe, we are beginning
to realize that the pendulum
has swung too far.
Well-meaning people often
tell me that today’s young
people aren't as bad as one
would think from media ac-

Spare the rod and spoil the Child

ment. I, too, know a fot of good.
kids, who do not commit
crimes, who volunteer in hospi-
tals, who work on environ-
mental projects. But the statis-
tics are there for anyone to see.
Youth crime has reached stag-
geting proportions.

There are other things we
can do, aside from reinforcing
parental authority, to stem the
tide of youth crime. It, too,
means realizing that each ac-
tion has its consequence.

Anne McLellan, the justice
minister, promised two years
ago to overhaul the Young Of-
fenders Act. She has yet to de-
liver on that promise. Maybe a
recent petition signed by nearly
a million Canadians that she
finally does what she promised
will do the trick.

My father was a very gentle
man whose love for me J] never
doubted, even when he put me
across his knee and let me: now
in no uncertain terms that’ what
I had done was wrong and de-
served punishment. It happened
maybe half a dozen times, but
it made an impression on me.

Dr. Spock’s recipe hasn’t
worked very well. Isn’t it time
we go back to some of the tried
and proven ideas of the past?

Beyer can be reached at:

counts. And they invariably E - m ail
tell me of young people they pybert@coolcom.com; Tel
know who are damned good (250) 381-6900, Web’

kids.
I don’t doubt it for a mo-

frozen In

with a hand help digital ca-
mera, With a sweeping glance,
he sized up our lot for poten-
tial backdrops.

He chose a broad pine
whose thick branches swoop toa
meet the grass. Hoisting a
wooden box eighteen inches
square that I use in scaffald-
ing, he loped across the un-
trimmed lawn, calling orders
over his shoulder,

Both sons-in-law each snat-
ched up another wooden cube
and followed him. They fined
the three boxes in a row before
the pine. We took our places,
four sitting, four standing,

The digital camera let the
photographer see what the pic-
ture would be. With little
jokes, he cajoled us to relax,
to lean closer together, to look
at him not a birch, and to
smile.

Usually I worry who will be
caught with her eyes shut,

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whose face will be blocked off
by someone’s elbow, who will
be scrubbing and itchy nose
with a fist. Not this time.

Despite two moves for dif-
ferent backgrounds, the whole
shoot tasted only 10 minutes. ’

Told one couple would be
leaving early the next morning,
the photographer rushed the
proofs to us before we finished
dessert. Everyone had a chance
to vote for a favourite. How
often does that happen?

We agreed one pose was the
best of everyone. How often
does that happen?

Oh, our selected pose has a
couple of flaws. A mother’s
hand resting on her daughter’s
shoulder sprouts from the left
side of her sister’s head like a
flipper. And a jacket zipper
zigzags in a long, distracting
silver line.

But we’re all relaxed, smil-
ing, and present. me

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