_A4- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 31, 1994
TERRACE |

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ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988

ADDRESS: 4647 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C, * V8G 158
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Unequal law

IN THE last couple of months city hall has
turned its by-law enforcement officer loose on a
whole number of issues. We have a water
shortage problem and now have the toughest
sprinkling restrictions ever imposed here. The
fine of $100 is among the highest in the pro-,
vince. Downtown parking is being monitored
more closely than ever before. And the by-law
enforcement officer has been directed to probe
deeply into a potential by-law to strictly control
the ownership of snakes. ;

But while city council is getting tough on ail of
this, the lack of action regarding the blocking of
a section of a city street with a log is becoming a
bit of a mystery. It’s not really a major issue but
does go to the heart of fairness, equality and uni-
versal application of city by-laws.

The log in question blocks access to a dog leg
portion of Temple Ave. in a.new subdivision on

‘the bench. There is only one house on the new
lots beyond the blocked off portion and it
belongs to former city councillor Mo Takhar.
There is a house at the end of the dog leg which
was there long before the subdivision was devel-
oped. Access to that home was opened up greatly
when trees were cleared for the subdivision.

The official city response to the log is that the
only person affected is Mr. Takhar. And to
remove the log, says the city, might cause some
hardship because of increased traffic to the other
house. |

But that’s not the point. The city has a clear and
definitive by-law prohibiting debris and materiel
from accumulating on city streets. It’s the same
by-law under which the city administers its park-
ingregulations, ng

To not equally apply the by-law. puts intodoubt ;
the workings of the city government. It’s a‘fair °
bet that any person receiving a. parking ticket
will have a good case to have it dismissed based |

on the above example. oe

Alcan puzzle

ALCAN OFFICIALS must be more than a little
bit envious with the massive public relations

coup scored by West Fraser two weeks ago. In
giving up cutting rights io the Kitlope Valley
voluntarily and without compensation, West
Fraser became an instant hero of the provincial
government, natives and environmental groups.

Compare this to Alcan’s experience in the
world of politics and public relations. It has, to
‘use an old phrase, ‘‘given at the office”? a mulli-
tude of times. The amount of hydro-electric
power foregone by Alcan in reducing the size of
its Kemano Completion Project is huge and
represents a much greater loss than the wood
given up by West Fraser. And yet the same
forces which now praise West Fraser have had.
Alcan on their bad boy list for decades.

Even worse for Alcan is that West Fraser now
has a tidy stack of political chips it can cash in
when need be, Those chips were gathered by the
company in one move. Alcan has been at the
gaming table constantly and comes away the
loser each and every time.

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VICTORIA — Haven’ heard
a lot lately from my old buddy,
Gerry Furney, the mouth that
roars on northern Vancouver
Island.

When the Commission on
Resources and Environment
came out with its land use plan
for Vancouver Island, Gerry
became the political equivaleat
of @ killer hurricane. Along
with some 15,000 loggers and
their families, the irascible
mayor of Port McNeill
marched on Victoria, teld the
government it had better forget
about the CORE plan or face
Armageddon,

Shortly after the mass rally
on the lawn of tic legislative
buildings, Premier Harcourt
went on a tour of island log-
ging communities to tell the

CORE plan. Port McNeill was
on the ‘itinerary, and it ‘was

- here, Gerry’s home turf, where

the old political gunslinger was
blown out of the water by the
normally mild-mannered
premier.

Gerry had shoWn up at the
meeting, attended by a lot of
loggers, to give Harcourt a
piece of his mind. The rhetoric
was familiar, Victoria didn’t
care about rural British Colum-
bia; it wasn’t listening to the

‘people; CORE would destroy

all the small resource-
dependent communitics, and

side ofthe. .. communities

E CAPITA.
HUBERT BEYER

SO On

lit a fire cracker under Har-
court’s seat. He gave back
twice as good as he got, saying
the CORE process was the first
ever that really involved the
muniti affected... . by
government. _ planning... .. He
talked “about “the “" Forest
Renewal Plan and the jobs it
would create.

When he was done there was
more than just polite applause
from the audience, and Gerry,
thoroughly disgusted, stomped
out of the meeting. Since then,
. things have been pretty quiet in
Port McNeill.

Walt Cobb, this is your life.

You’re Harcourt’s next target, ©

and if I were you, Pd brush up
on my political survival skills
because, believe me, if Gerry
couldn't best the premier at

Gerry’s tampage must have

No politicians sure a

high noon in his own corral,
you don’t stand much of a
chance either.

Walt is the mayor of Wil-
liams Lake, Like Gerry, Walt
believes CORE is out to
destroy the province’s resource
base and with it the com-
munities that depend on il.

And like Gerry, Walt is
aboul to be check-mated by de-
velopments that will expose
his doomsday scenatios as just
so much political posturing.

The gun that will blast
Walt’s ambition to stop CORE
and further his own political
career from the map is already
in place. It’s called the Cariboo
Economic Action Forum Steer-
ing Committee.

Terrible name, doesn’t even
make for a good acronym

(CEAFSC),:yeach;,but a goad:.::
committee. that .will:cnd_ up, as. -

the Cariboo’s legitimate orga-
nization to administer. forest
development, in accordance
with whatever CORE recom-
mendations the government
adopts. And it will do so right
from the Cariboo, not fom
Victoria.

The commiltee’s makeup is
impressive: Muriel Dodge, Big
Lake; Wade Fisher, treasurer,
TWA Local 1-425, Williams
Lake; Pat Corbett, president,
The Hills, 100 Mile Ranch; Dr.
Ellen Facey, regional co-
ordinator, University of North-

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em B.C., Quesnel; Sharon Hill,
executive director, New Focus
Society, Quesnel;

Pat Tait, school trustee,
school district 30; Don Ni-
quidet, woodlands manager,
Riverside Forest Products Ltd.,
Williams Lake; Bruce Mack,
administrator, Cariboo Tribal
Council, Williams Lake; Ted
Armstrong, chairman, Cariboo
Regional . District, Williams
Lake.

Notice something? |=No
politicians. Except for . the
regional . district chairman,
mayors councillors and other
folks who might have political

axes to grind are conspicuous- —

ly absent from this committee.
Which isn’t to say that the

commitice doesn’t listen to

good advice from politicians. It

was.-Mayor Steve Wallace of ..
Quesnel..who. first suggested...

that the Cariboo exercise its

own control over all forest in- ...

itiatives concerning the area, a

proposal endorsed by the -

Cariboo Economic Action
Forum’ Stccring Commillce
(please, find a better name),

It will be the Cariboo Eco-

“nomic Action Forum Steering.

Committee, . and . not -the.
politicians, who, in the end,
will truly be working in the in-
terest of the people in the
Cariboo. And they will deliver
the proof that the CORE plan
is a good one.

Bread’s a slice of true life

How we slice bread can be an
excellent barometer of our per-
sonality, [’m convinced per-
sonality determines how we
guide a knife through a loaf.

How else to explain why
some of us cut perfect slices
while others lackle a loaf like a
berserk hatchet murderer?

There’s the Saddledome
slice, two inches thick on ci-
ther edge but in the middle
concave as a sway-backed nag.
A sign of indecision?

Or the logger's wedge, two
inches thick to start lapering to
nothing where the knife exits.
A weakening of resolve?

Then there’s the rippled slice
done by nipping the knife in or

-out. Growing up along a gravel

road where speeders ruined our
only thoroughfare, we dubbed
this Washboard. Impatience is
ihe cause. .

An aggressive personalily |
facklng a fresh loaf applies too
much pressure with too little
sawing ending up with a com-
pact wad, the loaf squashed

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FEW MORE SHOTS.

THROUGH BIFOCALS'
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

flat, exactly as underlings feel
in this person’s presence, espe-
cially if they forget who but-
ters their bread.

And what about the Win-
chester -— a wild scattering of
shreds, arn crusts, and
crumbs. These folks are not
goal oriented,

‘Producing uniform slices of
bread calls for know how,
equilibrium, and practice, As
the oldest daughter in our fam-

TT oxAy! Just HoLD THAT
Pot ALMTLE HIGHER!

ity of seven kids (two weie
foster children) I got plenty of
practice. Slicing bread for
meals and school lunches was
my job.

Mor baked all our bread as
did most 1940s mothers, with
the exception of sandwiches
for threshing crews or for pic-
nic lunches taken along on out-
ings such as the August exhibi-
tion.

Store bread in extra long,
rectangular loaves saved pre-
cious kitchen time, made per-
fect sandwiches that packed
nicely, and got around. the
erust problem.

Bread was so much a par! of
every meal that even when we
left home as adults the paticrmn
persisted. When my younger
brother first visited us after we
married, he didn’t pick up his
fork even after he had filled his
plate with pork chops, mashed
potatoes and all the trimmings.

**What’s missing?’’ I asked.

‘*Where’s the bread?”’

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A GOOP TIMIE ?

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With a slice of bultered bread
held aloft like a waiter’s tray in
his left hand, he finally dug in.

Come lo think of it, maybe
bread was our family’s
security blanket.

It took a full loaf of Mom's
oversized loaves to make our
lunches. We also tucked away
another half a loaf or more in
after school snacks. And unless
we were having pancakes or
waffles, bread in a monumen-

tal slack was the centrepiece of ~~

every meal,

Mom's cutting board | was
round, big as a dinner plate,
with a
around its border. ’'m, sure’ it

had begun as a fiat slab of. .
pine. By the time it was be-. :—
-queathed to me, yeats of slic«.

ing had worn a_ birdbath
depression inits centre, -_

If psychologists learn to cor-
relate personalities with. the:
contours of home-made sand-
wiches, lhey may have a medi-

cal breakthrough as revolution- >

ary as sliced bread,

IT'LL HAVE. To WAIT
TILTHE FILM IS
DEVELOPER !

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