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News In Brief.

Police issue winter alert

TWO ACCIDENTS causing injuries and vehicular
damage last weck have prompted Terrace RCMP to is-
sue warnings about driving safely now that winter’s at
the doorstep,

On the evening of Noy. 1,. RCMP were called to a
single motor vehicle accident 29km east of town oa
Hwy16 at St. Croix Creek.

westbound when he hit black ice on the bridge surface,
causing him to strike an embankment after losing con-
trol,

The driver and an occupant received minor injuries
and vehicle damage is estimated at $10,000.

In the second incident, six people were sent to hospi-
tal suffering minor injuries after four vehicles were in-
volved in an accident on Kalum Lake Drive near
Glacier Creek in the early moming hours of Nov, 3.

Police say two vehicles were off the road when they
arrived at the scene,

Officers won't be charging anybody, saying that road
and weather conditions were the probable causes of the
accident. One of the four vehicles is a total loss.

Housing meet next week

NON-PROFIT housing in the northwest is the focus of
a Nov. 16-17 conference here in Terrace,
‘Construction costs, in particular, tend to be higher
in the north due to our longer winters and’ harsher
weather conditions,’’ says Smithers-based ‘Bulkley
Valley Housing Society representative Ruth Milne, a
co-ordinator for the conference. ‘Yet often these

most of whom are based in the lower mainland,’

The plan is to draw up a set of recommendations and
forward them to the agencies which provide the money
for non-profit housing.

A tour of the new Skeena-Kalum housing project
here is planned.

More information is available by calling Milne at
604-847-2840 or Fiona Glass at 604-847-4377,

A Chev Camaro driven by a Vancouver resident was:

necessary costs are nat recognized by funding bodies,

Union rep wants

ban on overtime

THE PROVINCIAL — government
should ban overtime in periods of high
unemployment, a local union business
agent has suggested to a pane! review-
ing the construction industry.

That’s one way of discouraging out of
province workers from taking jobs
which should go to locals, Dan Farrel!

of the carpenters union told the panel

which visited here Last week: -

‘‘Most Alberta” workers wouldn’t
come to work in B.C. for a 40-hour
week. They need 70 hour weeks to
make it worth their while to be away
from home and family,’’ said Farrell.

The panel was appointed as part of

the provincial government's overall |

review of labour practices.

Farrell keyed several times on the
growing practice of contractors coming
from outside of B.C. to work here and
bringing employees with them.

“‘Many times local tradespeople are

essentially boycotted by employers
who prefer to bring in Alberta workers
who, of course, have no ongoing stake

in either the B.C. construction industry .

or the local economy,’’ said Farrell,

He mentioned the expansion project
at Methanex in Kitimat last year as one
example.

That same criticism has been. leveled

by other union representatives on Pacif- |

ic Northern Gas projects in the area,
“Compulsory trade certification of
workers would go a long way in solv-

ing this problem since many out of pro- .
vince workers have no interprovincial |

Dan Farrell
certificate of qualification,’ Farrell
said,

Farrell said the - ‘growth of out of pro-
vince and often non-union workers is
lowering living standards, wages and
benefits.

He said the provincial government
has ignored ‘‘compelling evidence’’
that some unions work in favour of
employers and not employees.

And he wants the creation of a B.C.
Council of Construction Unions,

That council, said Farrell, would

- Fepresent every union involved in the

construction industry and become the
exclusive bargaining agent for those

~ unions.

This would stop what Farrell calls the

' fragmentation of the construction union

sector and restore wages, benefits and
training to previous levels. °

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 8, 1995 - Ais

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ond World War.

away in:1993.

members.

The silent fields siretch far beyond
The vision of our eyes;

They hold the secret of the wars,
So quiet now, yet wise,

For they have seen so many die
With nothing left to gain,

Within those past forgotten years, -

BRENDA SILSBE and her father
Raymond Taft, a veteran from the Sec-

Ray Taft trained many men to drive
army trucks during the war. He passed

“Brenda-wrote the poeir below back-i in
1965, when she was 15-years-old and a
student at Skeena Secondary School.
The poem touched many veterans of
the war, and is a favourite with legion

The Fields of War

Then tired, muddy men of steel
Would trudge through rain and sleet;
Their khaki suits would smell of sweat
And chafe them in the heat. —

- Their eyes would scan the distant hills
Where silence was their foe,

At last the war was ended, friend,

The fields were not as green, And all the fighting past;
And metal tanks chumed up the ground The fields of war lay still again,
With power then unseen. And held their secret fast.

And they have heard the sound of men: And in the fields their safely lay, My memories melt away”.

The anguish and the pain. ; . The only place to go. White turns to red :
Moist scarlet drops.

The many soldiers buried there, - "Their life was there, within those hills, | Drip from hischest,

Their place of rest unknown,.. _ Arefuge from the fight; - Forming a pool in the. grow

Are sleeping in the silent hills The trenches dug were beds of dirt The last drop of life °°

Where taller grass has grown. - And shelter in the night. Leaves the wound

.- White flakes float down like
-Feathers.from a pillow. fight. .
Sudwballs whiz by like bul lets a
And the laughter splits theair

As children build snowmen
Dreaming of St. Nick
And surprises to come.

Children ... so innocent. -
Daniel walks in my mind. *
Dressed in his uniform:
_ Marching to battle .. >: |
His brown feathered hair -
Covered with the wintery crystals,

We were children of the var

As his final breath tears the a

The childhood laughter ends.

Children of the Wer.

(This poem was written by Tamela Guise, . coe
~-a@high school student in the 1980s)”

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The history of the poppy

who gave their lives in the wars by wearing
a poppy at all times.

THE POPPY has a history dating back to
antiquity, In ancient China it was known 46

the flower of forgetfulness, because of the
drug that was distilled from its seed.

It kept that meaning until the time of the
Napoleonic Wars, when a thoughtful and
observant writer noticed a particular
phenomenon. Where there were bare
wastes before a conflict, there appeared
vast stretches of scarlet after battles — this
was the scarlet of the Flander's Poppy.

The idea of wearing a poppy for remem-
brance was first acted upon by Miss Moina
Michael, an American working in the
YMCA Canteen in New York in 1918, She
decided that she would remember those

A French woman, Madame Guerin, was
visiting the U.S.A. in 1920 and while there
she met Miss Michael and was told the rea-
son she wore a poppy.

When Madame Guerin retumed to
France, she decided to use the idea as a
means of raising money to help the French
children suffering in the war devastated
area of the country,

In 1921 she went of England where she .
persuaded legion officials to adopt the
poppy as an emblem, of remembrance. As a
result the first poppy day in Britain was
held on November 11 of that year.

Lest we Forget

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sense of the word -
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