6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 31, 1991 hat was wrong with last week’s cover photo in the Terrace Review? It certainly enjoyed some degree of notoriety. For those of you who missed it, Miss Terrace contestant Nikki Shafhauser (now 2nd princess, and winner of the Judges’ Award) was pictured in a brief bathing suit at a Miss Terrace fashion show. The photo was a permanent visual image of something we see at the beach or the pool every day. Is this wrong? Some female readers thought so. The Miss Terrace Pageant, with all its components, including the fashion show, is a legitimate activity undertaken by well-meaning individuals and supported by local businesses. It also has community support. The main purpose of the pageant is to select an ambassador for the City, to attend functions locally and regionally. This year, Shelley O’Brian (Miss Terrace Shopping Centre) was chosen Miss Terrace. Congratulations to all the competitors. Although the City of Terrace fully supports the Miss ' Terrace Pageant, they are not directly involved in the -competition. The pageant also provides a venue (in workshops, group activities and interaction with the community) for a group of young women to gain skills of communication, social skills and poise, whether they become Miss Terrace or go on to other good things. The Pageant IS.a combination of ’show biz’ and diplomacy. Since the original criticisms of "beauty pageants’ almost three decades ago, more useful components such as public speaking have been added, and the bathing beauty image has been downplayed. It is up. to the individuals and businesses involved to determine, and agree upon, the balance. The photo on our front cover shows a lovely young women, proud of her body AND her brains, choosing to model a bathing suit. Three of the Miss.Terrace contestants modelled bathing suits in the fashion show. 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V8G 1M7 Phone: 635-7840 Fax: 635-7269 One year subscriptions: + tn Canada $39.00 Out of Canada $100.00 Seniors in Terrace and District $30.00 Senlors out of Terrace and District $33.00 GST will be added to the above prices. Letters to the editor will ba considered for publication only when signed, Please include your telephone number. The editdr. reserves the right to condense and edit letters. Opinions expressed afe fot necassérily those ot the Terrace Review. ( aloes, toes, ee x oS we lel GA |, A TIS INSASINIL fs 4 Wye) E a, Adj py We fe Dp VEAL GOOD SHOW! ty New LAWN FIBNITURE HAS ARRIVED. UST WHAT INEED 5 WESICOKST WESTIE. cpt. ev Ys _ The view from Victoria — by John Pifer VICTORIA — At this stage, 10 days after the Social Credit leadership convention, it is hard to imagine any other outcome for this fall’s general election than an NDP victory. That analysis is based on sev- eral factors, all of which add up to the need for a political miracte for the Socreds even to make the contest close. Whether it be from conversa- tions with long-serving Socreds, or from observing the magical mystery tour of Premier Rita Johnston on her special TV train journey, all evidence supports the probability (I nearly said certain- ty) of a New Democratic govern- ment being elected in B.C. for only the second time in history. Watching the pathetic progress of the Disoriented Express (as Province columnist Brian Kieran dubbed it), one could not help but wonder whyinhell they even went ahead with it. . After all, it has served only to prove; * That Labour Minister Jim Rabbitt could not organize a booze-up in a brewery. As Yale- Lillooct MLA, he and his consti- tuency workers surely should have managed to get more than three (yes, 3!) local people out for Breakfast with Rita in his home riding. And when he did not, he should have been publicly put in the doghouse by his leader, if only to serve warning to other MLAs to get their act together when Pre- mier Mom ard her political family are to visit. * That the NDP is very well- organized, to the point of having signs, protestors, and spokesinefi lined up all along the route to question why the politically-moti- vated pre-election trip was at public expense, rather than So- cred party expense. ¢ That Patrick Kinsella and the Premier’s other handlers need to work on her manner of dealing with real people, if she is to be Premier for longer than just another few weeks. . Personally, I like Mrs. Johnston, and will sit down with her ata poker table any day (poker, not stuke). But when she starts to scold the media, or the people, or her colleagues, she comes across poorly, especially on TV... sort of like the Schoolteacher from Hell. * That stubbornness and arro- gance are replacing wise deci- sions and flexibility in the Premier’s inner circle. Pressing ahead with such a disastrous, ill- planned and ill-advised PR cam- paign despite widespread criti- cism and repeated foul-ups before and during the jaunt was just plain dumb, dumb, dumb. The terminal stupidity looks like continuing, too. For the next four weeks, Mrs. Johnston and the surviving mem- bers of her Cabinet who have not had the good sense to book August holidays, will stay on the road. Wednesday Cabinet meetings are set for Surrey, Langley, Pen- ticton and Nelson, and all are sure to be targets for the NDP, for disgruntled Socreds, citizens and protestors, and for smart-ass columnists. The detriments look like far oulnumbering the benefits of sustaining such trips, so why not find some easy, convenient way of dumping the whole dumb touring plan altogether? Cutting your losses, it’s called. But no, you watch. This troupe will forge ahead, shovelling more fuel onto the fire to make the Socreds’ Farewell Tour tive up to that name. Socred convention leftover 1: I have been asked if the outcome of the Socred contest for leader was a disappointment to me. Apparently the questioner believed that this scribe must have had a personal preference for another candidate, rather than the eventual winner. Perhaps it is worth spelling out, dear readers, that I was no more disappointed in that result than I was in the resignation of dis- graced former premier Bill Van- der Zalm. The July 20th weekend conven- tion was exciting, intriguing and a lot of fun from my standpoint, with the outcome being secondary to the task of trying to cover it professionally, and subsequently to analyze it accurately. It’s what I do. Personal prefer- ences do not apply. Convention leftover 2: Who would have thought that more than a week after the event, people would still be lining up to dump all over Mel Couvelier for his role in ensuring the election of Mrs. Johnston? From his constituency executive members (o media pundits, from Grace McCarthy supporters to political science professors, the list of Mel critics just keeps on growing. Pmesitesaes at " i SEA POTN EER ASE Shee