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4 Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 23, 1986

Job entry |
through the eyes
of a student

TERRACE — ‘Since
April 9, I have had the
pleasure of being enroll-
ed in a governmental
program known as Job
Entry. This program is
open to younger people
Detween the ages 18 and

by Philip Musselman

Since I am only 19
years of age I am the
youngest in our group.
Participants vary in ages
but have become fairly
comfortable around each
other. In fact, this group
includes a great deal of
fun along with the con-
stant learning we are
subjected to.

Our co-ordinater,
Karen Birkedal, is
almost as close a friend
as you'll find out there in
the ‘‘real world’’,

Job Entry is a pro-
gram which readies
young people for the job
market through class
work and on-the-job ex-
perience. It involves two
groups, which are
separated throughout the

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program as they are not
related; the trades and
business group.

Our trades group only
involves three people and
the rest of the 11 are in
the business end where
we learn about the effi-
ciency needed to operate
in an office environ-
ment,

The trades group
learns about skills
associated with
mechanics, welding, mill
wright, etc. Sometimes,
we all get together for
shorter programs such
as: survival first aid,
superhost, and even for
local speakers.

Program participants
learn that the business
community is the same
no matter if it involves
trades skills or other op-
tions. Students are
taught that working in-
volves satisfying people
and this concept should
be present when looking
for a job.

How do you behave at
a job interview? Or more
importantly, how do you
behave? It’s all there in
the program and the
government gives it all to
you.

Limit
proposed
for number
of pets
TERRACE — In his
monthly report to the
municipal council,

district animal control
officer Frank Bowsher
recently recommended
that a bylaw be establish-
ed to allow no more than
two cats or dogs per
household in Terrace.
Bowsher stated that
his suggestion was pro-
mpted by steeply increas-
ing numbers of un-
wanted animals being
impounded and des-
troyed at the local
animal shelter. His
report indicates that a
total of 81 dogs and cats
had to be put to sleep
during June, compared
with 30 in May. Bowsher
concluded that if the
general trend toward ir-
responibility continues,
the municipality will be
forced to take a role in
controlling the pet
population explosion.
He stated that many
other municipalities have
continued on page 5

FUNNYSIDE~
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It was easy, [tossed in afew coins,

Letter

Council should reflect
needs of people .

To the editor,

Bob Jackmanwrote a
letter to the editor of the
Terrace Review which
was directed at Grethe
Brorup on the issues of
fluoridation in the Ter-
race drinking water. Ter-
race City Council also
voted against a
November referendum
on the same issue and
Bob Jackman, in capaci-
ty of alderman, asked
the Review “‘to take a
stand on fluoridation’’.

It is not the purpose of
the media to take sides,
but rather to address all
sides of.an issue. Terrace
Review has been fair
enough to print what its
readers brought to it,
and if Bob Jackman
wants more pro-fluoride
information printed, I
should think that he will
have to provide the
Review with the
materials.

But this is a democra-
tic and free country and
regardless of Jackman’s
opinions about the safety
and efficacy of fluorida-
tion, we the public have
every right to access to as
much information as we
are willing to read.

As far as being elected
to lead, I wonder if
Jackman has considered
that the public acts like
the conscience of the
Council and that Coun-
cil, in my opinion,
should reflect the needs
of all the people. In
order to do that, it is
sometimes necessary to
ask the public to please
take the time to inform
itself on an issue — in
this case six to eight
hours of fluoridation
research — and to vote
on the issues at a conve-

nient time.

It disturbs me that a
responsible alderman
would want to make
health decisions for me
and my family without
consideration of my will-
ingness and ability to in-
form myself. We the
public are not a bunch of

children whose needs .

must be second guessed
by an alderman.

Let’s drop the pro and
con material for a
minute and consider that
only 12 percent of B.C,
communities allow
fluoridation of water
supplies. (Or that most
western, developed
countries place restric-
tions on its addition to
water and in some cases,
have.passed laws bann-
ing its use completely.)

In B.C., .that means
that 88 percent of the
population has decided
that in the interests of
health and safety, it is
better to err on the side
of safety and not
fluoridate everybody’s
water. There is a potent
message in that, and I
am extremely grateful to
Grethe Brorup and
Cecile Schoenfeld for
taking the time and
energy and for having
the courage to speak up
on this unresolved issue,

Certainly there is
power behind the words
of groups like the Dental
Assn, the Ministry of
Health, etc. But let us
not forget that these well
respected professional
bodies regularly review
statements and position
papers and regularly, as
well, are forced to

reverse stands.
continued on page 15

; _ Commentary

The value of

an opinion

4

Some people will look at the ‘‘Opinions’’ section
of a newspaper with almost a prejudiced feeling

against it.

Face it, not all people will agree with anyone’s opi-

_ nion; that is why we have wars, misunderstandings,

politics, and editorials. The ‘To whom it may con-
cern’’ aspect of an opinion is a main generator for all
that we share for the sake of opinion.

Look at this page; political opinions, and answers
to other letters. Why do we argue? Because it is our
ability to see from different viewpoints that has
brought us out of the stages of prehistoric man.

Someone will always have his way compared to
yours and if this is not so in our immediate future,
then expect to be controlled by some ‘‘omnipotent’’
force that thinks it has all the answers. Don’t scorn
the opinions page because a writer complains about
fluoride in the water; what happens when no one
likes your point of view and this results in your
“‘valued opinion’’ being overlooked?

Philip Musselman

Lotter

People have right to
practise their
religious beliefs

To the editor,

Within the mosaic of
Canadian pluralism peo-
ple havé the right to
practice their religious
beliefs; but I suggest that
certain groups have, for
over 100 years, been
spreading a false gospel.

In a recent issue of
Plain Truth magazine,
Herbert W. Armstrong
says that the ‘‘gospel of
Jesus Christ was not pro-
claimed to the world
from about 50 AD until
the year 1953.’’ I do not
single out Armstrong.

John Ahmanson gives
a clear understanding of
Mormon scriptures when
he says (that according
to Ist Nephi 13) ‘‘the
true. Christian church
died out under the
persecution of the first
centuries; the Roman
church which later
assumed the spiritual
sovereignty in Christen-
dom and thereby became

‘the mother of all the

later Protestant chur-
ches, could not have
possessed any apostolic
succession or spiritual
authority that descended
directly from the first
apostolic church.’’ In
other words, the
Catholic church is sup-
posedly the mother of

harlots and the Protes-
tant churches are the
harlots, according to
Mormon teaching.

Now we come to the
favorite door knockers,
the Jehovah Witnesses
with this attack upon the
Christian church: ‘And
in Christendom, surpris-
ing as it may seem to
some, the false religious
teachings, creeds, tradi-
tions, and commands of
men are both directly
and indirectly responsi-
ble for the physical and
spiritual miseries of the
poor, notwithstanding
Christendom’s
display of charity.”” __

Armstrong, who
regularly wins converts
on his World Tomorrow
show, gets the founda-
tion of his religion from
British Israelites, The
view is that Egypt,
Edom, Sidon,
Sodom, Athens are all
located in southern
England; Jerusalem,
Judea, Dead Sea,
Jericho, Mount Olym-
pus, Hades (Hell),
Chaldaea are located in
Scotland; and (are’ you
ready for this all you
rock contributers to
African Aid?), Ethiopia
is really Ireland. The fact

continued on page 5

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