Aé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 21, 2000

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

‘Dr. R.D. Greenwood

Picketers are
embarrassing

Dear Sir:

Iam embarrassed, annoyed and dismayed at the
actions of some of my neighbours on the picket
line in front of the detox centre.

I thought Terrace was a great place to live and
that many people in this community practise toler-
ance and a willingness to help one another.

I don’t think that anymore.

This nonsense over the detox centre makes me
embarrassed to admit that I live in the same neigh-
bourhood with those ill-informed, stupid people
who are picketing.

Do they think they represent the neighbours of
this proposed detox centre?

Do they think they are performing some great
civil service by showing their displeasure?

My message ta them is they do not represent
me or any of my neighbours.

So you didn’t get consulted. Grow up. Not every
thing that happens needs consultation.

What would these narrow-minded, ill-informed
people have done if they were consulted?

I suspect they would have done just what they
are doing now — showing people here and around
the region that some people are not able to think of
the future of the next generation.

Instead they worry about their property values.

In their own greedy way all they are thinking of
are their own little worlds.

Well wake up and smell the coffee. Some youth
in this city need the services of the detox centre.

I hope some day it is a child of one of these
people who has a drug or alcchol problem and
needs help. Then maybe they will understand faci-
lities like detox centres are a necessary part of any
community that cares about the future of its youth.

For decency’s sake stop picketing this facility.
Think how you would feel if you were a youth or a
parent of a youth who needed this facility.

Piease do not make these young people and
their families cross this picket line. I hope you still
have tolerance and compassion hidden somewhere.

Greg McDonald
Terrace B.C.

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Dear Sir:

1 was appalled at Karen Tait’s views
on the Detox Center in her June 7th letter
to the Standard,

First of all let me point out a few facts,
When plans are set in motion and the
neighborhood was not consulted then
people get upset.

When. was the neighborhood going -ta-
be consulted about this?

In ‘my opinion I feel as though it was
deliberately done as quick and fast as
possible because they. knew we would be
against it being here on Halliwell.

I feel they should have done more re-
search on where the detox center could
have been opened.

There are many areas here in Terrace
that would be more suitable for the cen-
ter.

If the detox center was opened in your
area I bet you would be upset having to
send your kids off to school every mam-
ing and having to pass the center, or if
your house depreciated because of the
detox center opening up.

I am a mother of two children and I
understand as well the need for a detox
center here in Terrace,

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To put it in a highly populated area
where kids who are at an impressionable

All of us who are fighting to keep the
detox centre out of our neighborhood are

We are afraid for our children.

‘Those of you out there who have child-
ren should understand this, What is wrong
for standing up and fighting for the wel-
fare of our own children and wanting to
make sure they are safe out of harm’s
way? Is that not what parents should do?

If because we love our children enough
to protect them is the reason we are pet-
ting a bad rap then I can hold my head up
high and be proud that I Jove my children
enough to protect them from harm.

All of us up here on the bench who are
against the center opening have our own

Most are against this for their children.
The main and important reason that I
must say gets me upset everytime I think
about it is that we were not consulted.

What is wrong with opening the detox
center closer to town or even on 2 farm

Cara Capener
Terrace B.C.

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