en SPs ae Say hea gece eet we Page A4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 24, 1990 . - ° f aS ERRACE STANDA Publisher: : ge | | Ss Cary Rodin. 2 Jeli Nagel Sports, Malcolm Baxter — News," ae ~ Special thanks fo all / _ ESTABLISHED APRIL 27,1983 _ oo PE * Carol Willoughty Compositor, Rose Fisher — Front Office Manager. | gurcontrbutors and Editor: - ‘Carolyn Chistiansen ~ Typesettingaroom ==.) eomrespondents for. ope Gar Rodin — : Advertising Manager, Janet Viveiras ~ Advertising Consultant . 3 Feats No. 7820 4847 Lazolle Ave., Terrace, B.C., VEG 188 (604) 638-7283 ‘Rod Link: ra Coir ~ oe Consulant, Katherine Hicks — Graphic Arist. | thelr time and _ Serving the Terace area. Published on Wadnesclay of each waek by Carbo Press (1969) LAL at 4047 Lazelia Ave., Terrace, Briish Columbia. ee te ce od Bt “Kevyn Kirk — Circulation Manager, talents, ’ a “fines. petits, Hesios, deals ard hypesiyies in tra Terrace Standard ara the property of the copyright hodars, Inchading Caroo Press (1068), Ist reduction Manager: - ae wy _ WraSon repro parvices and advertising ayencias. - , Reproduction in whole or i part, withoul writen permission, is specitcally provblted. Edouard Credgeur | ~ Authorized a3 second clasx mai! pending the Post dlfice Department, for payment of pcstaga in cath, rr ris EDITORIAL Street talk + It’s been a while since anything in- teresting has happened down at’ the municipal offices. One of the reasons is that elections are now held only every three. years. That kind of removes the need for artificial progress reports all politicians like to make as they ready for & trip to the polls. But that will change soon for 1990 ts an election year. Between now and this November, we'll see all sorts of pro- nouncements and nifty little lectures from our mayor and aldermen as they maneuver toward the voting date. One of slumbering items city council has kept in the closet is its Terrace to 2000 report. This is supposed to outiine what will be needed and what will occur as the city approaches the next century. (The effort to produce this report began in 1988, That means congratulations are in order for council as two years have since passed. Since this is already 1990, we're that much closer to the year 2000. ‘Now that's progress). The latest word on the report is that it is being pondered in private by council so as to weed out those ideas which might ‘be considered strange and const- quently embarassing to those at city hall. Given that council hired a consultant and spent something like $30,000 on the report, we should see what our money has produced — strange or otherwise. Although Terrace to 2,000 will have lofty objectives, it is hoped it willlook at the more mundane activities of life. Consider Lazelle Ave. Once 2 residen- tial street, the strip from the post office to the provincial government building has — and is — becoming a business cor- ridor. Are there plans to make some sense of traffic leaving and entering the parking in front of various establishments. Will there be any at- tempt to construct a sidewalk on the side of the street that now does not have one. ’ That’s the kind of stuff that will be need- ed — regardless of what year to which council affixes its gaze. Pretty weird | There’s at least one piece of interesting | news to come out of the latest hullabaloo over where the provincial government will build a new correctional centre — we know where the mayor wants to spend his retirement years. The mayor is negotiating to buy land north of Frank’s field and since the latter is on a list of possible correctional centre sites, it has raised all sorts of speculation as to what exactly is going on This is simply not only a case of the provincial government hiding its light under a bushel, but also its brains. Last year there was one favoured location for the new correctional centre. This year there are perhaps six. That’s’ because for some unknown reason the province is dithering around with its site selection. All this is causing unnecessary TUMOUrS,, worries, and Gistress. gy gees tierce patel This approach i is not unusual for the B.C. Buildings Corporation; the Crown corporation which will be the landlord of the new centre. It dallied with the loca- tion of the new provincial government building here and it is doing the same for the new training and enterprise centre. It’s not exactly the kind of thing people should expect from a government which claims it runs a business-like shop. Go East, young man Whenever we want to buy or sell a serviceable secondhand item we turn to swap and shop radio programs, ad magazines, or newspaper classifieds. A na- Bifocals tional swap and shop mighthelp by Claudette Sandecki us solve some of our country’s Through inequities. For instance, in B.C.’s Lower Mainland more than 7000 ap- Plicants have listed with the B.C. Housing Corporation waiting for government-: subsidized housing. While the vacancy rate hovers at less than one per cent, their chances of renting anything af- fordable are equal to their likelihood of winning the PNE’s furnished home. B.C.'s housing minister blames our rental crisis on newcomers flocking to our pro- vince. More than 50,000 people migrate here each year; our marketplace just can’t cope. Nor will it ever so long as low rental units are demolished to make way for posh con- dominiums. Meanwhile the Atlantic pro- vinces are losing residents through unemployment, A sizeable portion of our 50,000 migrants hail from the eastern seaboard, already, Now Sum- merside, Nova Scotia is facing the. prospect of. becoming a ghost town as the Department of National Defence closes its base and redistributes its per- sonnel among bases throughout the rest of the country, - Wouldn't it be sensible for Nova Scotia and Vancouver to do‘a little house:swapping? :-" Welfare recipients in Van- couver might be coaxed into taking up residence in the homes vacated by Summerside’s armed forces. They'd be mov- ing into first class housing in a safe, pleasant environment. And because their rental rates would be far below that of Van- couver’s, they’d have . more dollars left over for foad each month. Summerside would again blossom as a vital community. In return, pressure would ease on Vancouver's rental market, forcing down rental rates to af- fordable levels, In the bargain, families who undertook the trek to the east would enjoy a chance to travel and see more of Canada, like employed people on paid vaca- tion, something few of them can ever afford while on social assistance. Still another imbalance exists ‘Surely an enterprising fishing industry, in partnership with an aggressive government, could find a market for these odd- named species-among foreign countries that dg relish these fish as food. Then there’s the ViA Rail cutbacks, saving money by lay- ing off 2700 workers, and pay- ing out full salary for life (with annual raises) to all employees with more than eight years ser- vice. Between them, and paying turfed out. members of parlia- ment generously for as long as they live, we'll never reduce our national deficit, But we can ease the anguish of ordinary citizens by swap- ping places — if we do it quickly before B.C, sinks leaving the Atlantic provinces high and dry. The following was written by Pat Lee, daughter of Hubert Beyer, after his heart attack two weeks ago while on vacation in Hawaii, _,Beper, ‘is now recovering, after. undergoing angioplastie surgery fast week in Honoiulu, “Considering the response I got to my recent piece in sup- port of smokers’ rights, 1 thought some of my readers might be interested in the fact that I have quit smoking,’ writes Beyer from his hospital “or didn’t quit voluntarily, I had to be teken to the Straub Hospital. in Honolulu before I swore aff my life-long habit.” Dad. .. I thought I lost you, It is difficult to fathom the finality of losing a parent until the reality of it decides to sud- denly slug you in the gut. As a child, one grows up with the unchallengeable trust that no matter what, Mom and Dad will be there. Time and understanding slowly teaches the human mind that there is such a thing as death, but it’s far, far away. When Hubert Beyer and his wife Eleonore left for their vacation in Hawaii, it was to be their dream come true. A holiday for just the two of - them. No work, no stress, just play. It was their first real vacation alone in years. The phone rang at 11:00 p.m., Thursday, four days into their trip. It was Eleonore. “Hi Mom, how's Hawaii? At that moment the last thing I remembered was the family policy that when on vacation there will be no phone calls unless it is an emergency. My life would see so many ups and downs over the next 24 hours, A heart attack? My dad? Sure he smokes, but not that much. He does get some exer- cise. His eating habits aren’t too bad. Add it all up, and none of it is right, it doesn’t to quit ‘mnoting | From the Caplial si. by Hubert Beyer. .. make any sense. He’s my Dad, he’s invincible. He will always be there for me. The doctors said he is stable tonight. I do believe I cried so hard that there was pain in the very little veins of my eyes. 1 learned to loathe heavy breathers. It. was bad enough, him lying there, hours away by plane. The phone rang at three in the morning, four hours after I heard the bad news and 20 minutes after I had fallen asleep, I peered through the sleepiness in my red, sorry. eyes. My heart pounded so © loud [ could hear it. As much as I didn’t want to, ] answered _the phone. I dreaded what I might find out, what this phone call could possibly mean. It was a really bad time for an obscene phone call. I told the heavy breather to phone me in a couple months when B.C, Tei, with their new . Lightguide Transmission - System, will help me find him. Thank you, B.C. Tel. The next couple of days were spent quietly convincing ; myself that my Dad is okay and he will in fact be there - . forever. He has to, he’s my ’ dad and he’s invincible, And right now, all F can do is thank him for being there all the times he was there, I have learned that he will go away * some day. Not this week, he’s coming home this week, and not this month, he still has to take my son to the arcade, . They do that every Saturday. But he will go away some day. And there is nothirig I can do about it. _ There is something else-I can- do. I can thank him, and my, mother for bringing me into this world. It is by default that I wound up with the most caring and understanding parents available, but I can still thank them both for that, I can let them know, that everything they have tried to ' teach me was not.in vain. Every ounce of morality, con- sideration, ethics and values I have, were gifts of my upbr- inging. I can thank God, that I still have both of my parents, . .° _and for heaven’s sake I can quit smoking. People don’t usually get second chances, or warnings. So many people have been yanked from ‘their’ very existence on this earth with no warning at all. And: here [ sit, writing with fury, - cigarette in mouth, . They say you can only quit smoking for yourself. I don't want to. I enjoy a cigarette after dinner, I enjoy smoking. Up until now I did. But I believe quitting for my father and my son will be a good © enough motivator for me. I have no right to smoke, know- ing I could put my son* through this, It is amazing how fast one forgets their emotional roller © coaster once back on even ground, - Dad. . . [thought I lost you. And once again, through the sheer human nature of denial, I believe you will be. here forever, you are my Dad, you are invincible, _ - And when you get back, we are going to be smoking quit ° . ters together. Because I-love -you and you are never doing ‘ this to me again, I’m not in- , " vincible, I'm just plain scared. — in the commercial fishing in- [2 dustry. Three thousand workers are being laid off as three major fishplanis in Newfoundland close because ofa reduced cod quota. Yet the fishermen throw back into the sea tons of non- . commercial fish inadvertently _ caught: ‘while netting cod, + me Now You KNOW THIS HAMBURGER oy ‘iS SAF = BuT GET THis! HUMANS WILL EAT THIS RIGHT AFTER IT'S BEEN COOKED! EVEN WHILE IT'S STILL WARM IL! RAPA "I Sou aos! GAG- CouGu! RetcH! IT'S ASHOCK ALRIGHT !.