Vol. 2. Issue No. 6

TERRACE, B.C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1986

Legislative Library,

Parliament Bu
Victoria, B.C,
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ildings,

Little hope left |
for soup kitchen

by Michael Kelly
TERRACE — The local
soup kitchen was reviled
from both the political
right and left from the
beginning.

The right called it a
manifestation of com-
munism and a collection
of ‘“‘welfare bums'’. The
left said it was a
makeshift band-aid for
chronic social problems
and an excuse for
governments to avoid
solutions.

It was regarded by the
municipal council as an
embarrassment to the
community at a time
when national television
broadcasts depicted Ter-
race as a place with emp-
ty streets and plagued by
unemployment and
bankruptcy.

In spite of tacit disap-
proval from nearly every
significant political -fac-
tion here, the soup kit-
chen became an estab-
lished, if controversial,

is

Terrace Twins

institution in Terrace for
nearly three years.

Jo Buck has been the
volunteer administrator
of Food for Thought
from its inception in
September of 1982. In a
recent interview she
reflected on the structure

and history of the organ-
ization.
Buck said, ‘‘There

were lots of misconcep-
tions about us — I think
there still are. In fact, we
were never associated
with any political move-
ment or religious belief.

“The soup kitchen is a
registered society in con-
juction with the
federated anti-poverty
groups. Meticulous
records were kept of
donations, expenses,
number of meals
served... everything,”
said Buck.

Food for Thought was
originally an idea which
emerged from the North-
west Study Conference

One way to tell seven-year-old Terrace twins Phillp
Robinson (left) and his brother, Peter, apart, is to read
the names on their matching orange lunch buckets. The
boys are outfitted in perfect wet-weather attire as they
gumboot It through sloppy streets on thelr way to

school.

; 50 CENTS

False
Heart
Fund
canvassers

of 1982. It became reali- in town

ty through the efforts of

the now-defunct Unem- by Sherry Halfyard

ployed People’s Com-
mittee.

“IT was contacted by
Flo Bork who solicited
the start-up donations,”’
Buck said. ‘I’m sort of
shy and prefer to work
behind the scenes, but it
just turned out that I had
the most experience in
doing this sort of thing.”’

Food for Thought
dished out its first bowl
of soup in St. Matthew’s
Anglican Church hall
during September of
1982. The operation
moved to the Carpen-
ters’ Hall in February of
1984.

The kitchen closed for
a summer leave in June

of 1985.
‘Some of the
volunteers had been

working full-time for —

one and a half to two
years,”” Buck said. ‘We
were getting pretty ex-
hausted and we decided
it was time for a break.”

After two months they
proposed reopening. The
carpenters’ union, how-
ever, issued a gentle, but
firm, refusal.

continued p.2

story page 12.

Rockhound’s Haven
For Terrace resident. Kaye Ehses, happiness Is a-barrel-
of rocks; the more exotic and unusual, the better. See

TERRACE — Last week
two teenagers driving a
green pickup truck were
reported to be illegally
canvassing in Terrace
claiming they
represented the Heart
Fund, said Heart Fund
President Betty Camp-
bell.

Local RCMP have
been notified but have

not been able to locate

one false canvassers.
Householders should
look for the Heart Fund
indentification tag,
Campbell said.
Canvassing by the
Heart Fund will not

‘begin until Monday,

March 3.

Inside

Business Guide
Church Directory
Classiflad Ads
Close-Up Update

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Continuing mild with In-
creased probability of
precipitation. Conditions
have been averaging 2 to 3
degree above normal for
this time of year.

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Stork Book
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Heart Fund drive postp
Mayor Jack Taistra ralses a flag In front of City Hall to declare February
dant, Betty Campbell (front), publicity chairman Karen

Balinhard, were on hand to watch the flag belng flown.

B.C. Winter Games. See story page 10.

Enriquez (back telt),

oned

“heart month” in Terrace. Heart Fund presi-
and Chairman for Special Events, Lillian de
Haart Fund canvassers will postpone their drive until after the

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