Page A4 - Fhe Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 19, 1993 "Jeff Nagel - News/Communtty, Malcolm Baxter - Newa/Sports, O ERRACE STA NDAR Publisher/Editor: Rosa Fisher - Front Office Manager, Pam Odell - Typesatter, Rod Link Avene Waits - Typesetter, Susan Credgeur - Composing/Darkroom, tha , —— ESTABLISHED APRILGT. oe" Janet Vivelros - Advertising Consutant, Sam Cotler - Advartising Consutant, °P eclal thanks to ; ; * Advertising Charlene Matthews « Circulation Manager aif our : Registration No. 7820 4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C., V8G 188 Manager: contributors and. Phone (604) 638-7283 Fax (604) 638-8432 Mike L Hamm CONAY correspondents — Sarving the Temtace eros. Published on Wednesday cf each weok by Cariboo Press (1960 Lid, et 4647 Lazalia Ave., Terrace, British Columbia, ; we Ga d for their time and . Stories, photographs, ilustrations, designs end lypestyles in the Terrace Slandard pre the propacty of the copyright hoklers, including Caritea Press §=9 Productlon Manager: $ vemriip talents (1965) Lid., it's Mustration repro services end adverlising agencies. _ Ed d Cred ¥ CGUEATION: ‘ Reproduction in whole ar in part, without witten permission, is specifically prohibited, CNA ouar reageur TROLLED Authorized as second-class mai pending lhe Post Office Department, for payment of postage in cash. a CONTA “EDITORIA zs Tough decisions | The clash between wood supply and mill- ing capacity in the northwest is one of those open secrets nobody likes to talk about, But that’s going to change very soon with the release of a forests ministry report. . Written by ex-IWA official and now min- isterial consultant Roger Stanyer, the report is going to give the hard numbers on the woods industry situation between Smithers and Prince Rupert. It’s going to say there isn’t enough wood out there in the forests to feed the number and type of mills upon which we all depend so much. The most obvious question is what hap- pens next. Forests minister Dan Miller tried to address that issue at the May 7 forestry conference here by saying he’s going to create a committee made up of forestry companies, unions, communities and the provincial government. But Mr, Miller was very vague in indicat- ing just exactly what this committee will do other than saying it'll be expected to lay out a blue print for the woods industry fu- ture of the northwest. Closure of some mills or reductions in what they do now? Perhaps. Reallocation of wood supply? Could be. What if com- panies don’t want to go along with whatever happens? Too bad. There'll then Istuddhis and taxpayers were spared a col lective fingernail scteech across the black- board by local teachers with the agreement last week on a new contract. It’s good news in that people can still reach a deal without having to resort to job action. ‘The interesting aspect of talks here is that they did not concem wage increases. Teachers concentrated on mainstreaming, that phrase referring to the placement in egular classes of students with mental or physical disabilities. , ‘Mainstreaming was a philosophy intro- | duced in thé heady days: of the 1970s and 1980s in an attempt to make schools be all things to all people. As with most good in- shool’s | be others that do. About the only sure thing from Mr, Miller is that at the end, itil be the provincial government which makes the final decisions. . And that brings up two things. One is that Mr. Miller is following to the letter the philosophy of his government or any other for ‘that matter. When in doubt, strike a committee to study the matter. Even the most casual observer of the provincial scene knows the seas of government are al- ready crowded with a million task forces steaming to and fro. The second, and most important, is the end game of Mr. Miller. What he is doing Arona 6 is at the very least managed competition and at the most, intrusive state control over the woods industry. To be sure, govern- ments always have the final say and some- times that’s needed. But companies operate best when they respond to market condi- tions. That creates profits, wealth and most importantly, jobs. What Mr. Miller seems to be indicating is a blend of state and private sector plan- ning. This means co-operation not enly be- tween those two parties but also by the communities in the northwest. Whether we're all up to it is a different. matter altogether. Then again, we don’t seem to Sa a Dark c ~~“, lou ds hang over forest indusiry VICTORIA — Happy days are here again for the B.C. forest industry, but there are some clouds on the horizon. On the plus side, the industry is in the black, for the first time in three years. Rising - lumber prices, largely fuelled have much choice. Snag s. “y; 4 “LA si ehanwaastal Meal antl ‘sin tentions,..tnalnstreaming is fine in ‘theory ~ but brutal in practice: = Any right thinking person must feel some empathy with teachers who are not only expected to do their job but also be psychologists and health care workers in dealing with the challenging and difficult task of educating students with handicaps. And just-in case anybody thinks the heat is off the teaching situation, it’s not. This latest contract covers:two years and is retroactive to last summer. That means teachers and the-board will be back at the table in about: six short months. Just like the Stanley Cup playoffs, teachers’ negoti-" ations seem to go on and on and on. “British Columbia women have sur done it to themselves now. p backward _ After decades of lobbying, they're a tippytoe away from the legal right to ‘give, birth at home attended only by a nildwife. Do they realize they’ll pass up their last chance to really rest until their offspring becomes adult or . runs away from home? Through | Bifocals * by Claudette Sandecki 1 Whatever . induced women to trade the sanctuary of a hospital with its specialized care, for ho-hum bustle of a home birth with casserole-carrying - callers popping in unannounced, toddlers clambering over the counterpane, and washing machines wonky with unbalanced toads of whiies mixed with colours. | , Hospitals wisely limit visitidg hours, the number of visitors, and mothers’ responsibilitles. Except for nursing her infant, donating blood to vampiré lab technicians, and waving bye-bye to her harried doctor, the new mom can rest. clay. - os , , Staging the .event” at home, though, leaves ‘her a sitting duck for extended visits from chatty friends, bedtimes delayed. by kitchen duties, and whining from deprived family members. In the 1930s. when:] was born, having a baby in a hospital was progressive © medicine,” Mom's doctor kept her. in hospital oa week, By the time she was ad- . mitted for her fifth delivery, she -* looked forward to her enforced ® respite with: the. eagerness of a fan’ condémiéd “to sit: hockey through overtime, °° ears ¢ young child was born, medical opinion had reversed. Doctors decided al- lowing healthy mothers to. laze about led to blood clots, bed shortages, and husbands without clean socks, Our daughter was bom Friday at 5 p.m, Before 11 am. Sunday we were discharged. I had no time even to unpack a crewel cushion top I had designed for the occasion, let alone em- broider so much as a stem stitch, I must confess [ was keen to retumm home. Hospitai meals are _esigned to case the pain of separation, just as regimental . Jules and furniture with parking space beneath keep a patient from _ becoming overly attached to the institutional life. But trading hos- . pital maid service for a do-it- yourself home lying-in is dubious progress. To ‘gain workplace equality women. have learned: to climb telephone poles, wrestle the steer- ing wheels of gigantic ore trucks, and struggle with sheet metal. And I applaud them for thelr “achievemmoms, But to. downgrade the one area of feminine mystique left - giving ©. birth = and torn it {oto just another Thirty years later when my first ° - non-event ... It harkens back to stories of Chinese serfs or turn- of-the-century Inuit who merely paused in their daily rigors to give birth, then resumed their tasks as though nothing momentous had occurred. , Midwives are fine for holding your hand, okay -for monitoring the baby’s progress, first rate at jump “‘starting the baby’s brea- thing with an obligatory swat to the wee behind. Only let them do it in hospital . Where there are doctors, drugs, - and matrons with moxie and ex- periencs regulating traffic. T FiGuRE Til NEED A “SE LAW PEGREE. 70 DEFENP ‘ie MY LIFESTYLE, A DIPLOMA Ti IN COMMUNICATIONS TO HANDLE THE ME DIA +e A PAP. TO GOVERNMENT, REPIRTS / by a lumber shortage in the ‘US., have been putting money ' into the coffers of British Columbia’s forest companies. jo Ten ppblicly, traded com, .... panies posted a combined ‘first-quarter profit of $136.3 _ million, a rather dramatic change from last year’s losses of $54.3 million. The turn- . around means money in the pockets of forest workers, which translates into a more buoyant economy for many forest-dependent towns, not to mention the benefits of reduced unemployment insur- ance payments and welfare rolls. As for the ominous clouds, there is Paul Watson, the eco- terrorist, who has, once again, vowed (o have an army of tree spikers in the Clayoquot Sound this summer. And there is the boycott of wood produc- ts from the Clayoquot, threatened by European en- vironmentalists. I intend to dispense with Watson rather quickly. Forest minister Dan Miller called Watson a coward and a jerk. I second those sentiments. Spik- ing trees, even threatening to do so, is criminal. Watson is: no credit to the environmental movement, and I suggest that if any loggers Come across him, that they run him clear out of the province. The second threat to the forest industry's recovery is potentially much more serious. An effective boycott could do alot of harm. And just how serious the situation is can be seen from the fact that a week ago, the European Rainforest Movement held a rally in front of the Canadian embassy in Vienna, brandishing banners that proclaimed: ‘“‘Clayoquot Sound, not Clearcut Sound.”’ - If the international environ- mental movement can mount BUSINESS TRAINING 7a WORK On ADVISORY RPS AND ooh UTER coURSE | 7a HAMDLE. THE ' PAPER wok ADMAGIUS | From the Capital by Hubert Beyer such an effective protest, the effects shouldn’t be under- estimated. And it mattérs'Iitde” whether the European’*"~". *" protesters base their com- plaints on facts or fiction. Karen Mahon, a Vancouver- based Greenpeace campaigner, warmed last week that what might start out as a specific boycott, directed against lum- ber products originating from the Clayoquot Sound, could easily escalate into a general boycott of B.C. lumber pro- ducts. And while I take Mahon’s warnings with a grain of salt, attributing them to her under- standable desire to give added effect to a European boycott of Clayoquot Sound lumber, it would be foolish to reject the idea out of hand, which is what the forest industry is doing. Scott Alexander, MacMillan - Bloedel’s media relations manager, said that the industry isn’t overly concerned by the threatened boycott. The Euro- pean Rainforest Movement, he said, wasn’t the first organiza- tion to call for a boycott of B.C. iumber products in Europe. ‘'It’s a predictable he said. That kind of cockiness could backfire, It goes without saying that the European Rain- forest Movement, which has developed this rather sudden interest in the Clayoquot Sound, gets its information from B.C,’s environmental groups. The problem is that I wouldn’t put it past some of those groups to shade the truth if it suits their purposes. I suggest that the govern- -ment make Mark Rose earn his keep. Rose is British THat’s VERY IMPRESSIVE WHICHESTER Hite ji MOOR ANP WHAT Po YoU MEGP ALL Ae THIS T? BE” Columbia’s agent general at jC. House in London. He’s another of the NDP’s pork- + Y barrel ‘appointments* but since he's there, he might as well © work for his money: Rose and his staff should be well-prepared to counter any arguments advanced by the European Rainforest Move- ment. -If he doesn’t know how, he should phone Miller, pronto. The government’s Clayoquot decision was a sound one. It allows for partial logging, in accordance with new and tough harvesting regulations that are still.to be worked out, while setting aside a large area for protection. The environmental move- . ment’s reaction to that deci- sion was exactly as Texpected. They howled. Only full pro-: tection, with no logging al- lowed whatsoever, would have satisfied them. Calling the government's - compromise decision accept- able, earned me the somewhat unflattering description of “dinosaur of journalism” by Sierra Club chief Vicky Hus- band. Well, I’ve been called . __ worse, and I still believe the winding-out of their strategy,’ - decision was a good one, a compromise all parties can live with. ; Alas, the environmentalists have obviously decided that they won’t live with it, and. - they aren’t going to let the is- sue die without a further fight. I again strongly urge the government to be prepared for that fight. In the interest of ' keeping what’s left of a viable B.C, forest industry in good health, any claims by those’: wanting to initlate a boycott in Europe should be refuted on the spot A WUNTER AND TRAPPER LIKE MY PADI!