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THERE'S SOME

NEW FACES at the Terrace Anti-Poverty office. They are
Judith O’Morrow, who took over Gerry King's old job, and Flo Sheppard, hired to
run the community kitchens project. They join director Helga Kenny, Roseanne

Pearce, residential tenacy advisor, and Leila Burton, community garden head.

Gerry King

Poverty
fighter
is still

battling —

ALTHOUGH Gerry King is
no longer working for Ter-
race Anti-Poverty, he hasn't
stopped helping people on
social assistance.

King worked for Terrace
Anti-Poverty for over 13
years, and to many people
he was Anti-Poverty.

But King was fired in late
May, and now is suing Ter-
race Anti-Poverty —_for
wrongful dismissal. In the
meantime he’s volunteering,
helping former clicnts who
haven’t stopped phoning
him.

King has set up temporary
headquarters in the Kitimat-
Terrace and District Labour
Council office — ironically
just across the hall fom
Anti-Poverty, at 4721
Lazelle.

Norm Lavallee, president
of the labour council, says
the council was unanimous
in agreeing to let King use
the office space on a trial
basis until mid-September.

‘We're happy to help
Gerry out,’’ said Lavallee.
“If he can continue bis ad-
vocacy work through us,
we'll totally support him.

“Our understanding — is
that some of the areas Gerry
is taking (Anti Poverty)
doesn’t cover,’ said Laval-
lee,

King said one key gap in
Anti-Poverty now that he’s
gone. is someone to do
employment insurance ad-
vocacy, So he’s resumed his
old job, on a volunteer
basis, helping those people,

If someone feels he or she
has been unjustly denied
employment insurance,
King steps into help.

King himself is on EI right
now, so it’s easy for him ta
understand their problems.

King is.also continuing to
provide the other counsell-
ing and advocacy services
which he used to do for Anti
Poverty -— save for the
housing registry.

‘T'm helping a lot of the
same people,’’ be said.

Of his job at Anli-Poverty,
King says it was more a

‘mission than‘a job.

“Without this being my
mission there wouldn’t be
an Anti-Poverty group.”’

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Office still running

local advocates say

LOCAL POVERTY advocates are
getting less business this summer, but
it’s no cause for celebration.

Long-time poverty advocate Gerry
King was fired in May, and that left
many Terrace Anti-Poverty clients
wondering if the office was still open.

Calls and the number of walk-in
visitors slowed right down, said Anti-
Poverty head Helga Kenny.

At the start of July, Kenny. hired
Judith O’Morrow to replace King.
And now that O’Morrow is gaining a
reputation for her willingness to help
people, clients are returning.

Kenny says Anti-Poverty still offers
the same services it did before — so-
cial assistance, residential tenancy,
housing registry, and the community
kitchens and garden,

“Basically food,
money,’’ said Kenny.

But staff is staying away from one
area —- employment insurance. That

shelter and

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 27, 1997 - A11.

Poverty group’s stats fall

was King’s specialty and it’s a dif-
ficult one to master.

“Employment insurance is extreme-
ly detailed, lengthy and no one here
really has the knowledge to train
someone or assist us with il,”’ said
Kenny.

The focus of O’Morrow’s new job Is
social assistance, the Canada Pension
Plan and Old Age Security.

O’Morrow has disabling arthritis
and so is able to relate to clients who
have difficulties finding jobs or gel-
ting help from the government,

But O’Morrow says she’s not there
just to help people get as much money
as they can from government.

“T help people investigale any ave-
nue of help,’’ she said. ‘‘Do they have
family, friends, extended family who
can help them? It’s not easy to think
of all your options if you're under
stress.””

She wants people to discover their
strengths and use them whenever pos-
sible to avoid relying on social as-

sistance, :
For example, when O’Morrow de-:
veloped arthritis the Ministry of.
Skills, Training and Labour put her:
through a two-year program to be @
community resource worker. She just:
finished the program this June, and it:
led to her current job. :
“I'm very appreciative of having:
that opportunity, | can work rather:
than be disabled.”’
-O’Morrow will also help people
work their way through the maze of:
bureaucratic language (bat the govern-'
ment uses, for instance by helping’
them fill out forms. '
Another new face at Anti-Poverty is-
Flo Sheppard. She’s a registered.
dietitian and she’s been put in charge.
of the community kitchens. :
About 15 people took part in the:
kitchens project which Anti-Poverty.
began last year. The kitchens project
basically provides an economical and:
fun way to make nutritious meals’
ahead of time and save moncy.

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