Page A4 — Terrace Standard, Meenesey, August 8, 1990 RES TERRACE § STAN DAR a _ hustration repro services and advertising apancies, . Reoneduction in whole of jn part, without writen permission, is Ipscitcsty pronibted, ESTABLISHED APRIL 27,1900 = Registration No, 7820 4647 Lazolle Ave., Terrace; B.C; vea 188 . (608 630-7283, Authored as second-class mail panding tha Post Office Department, for payment of postage in cash. Editor: “Rod Link . Serving the Terrace aren. ‘pubishad | on Wednesday of each week by caboo Pras (1989) LM, at 4647 Larele. ive, Terrace, British Combis. , Stories, photographs, ilustrations, designs and frpestyes in the Terrace Standard ve the Proerty o at the scan paler, including Cariboo Press (1969) Lid,, its ib Gna Production Manager: : Edouard Credgeur.: ‘ - Sam cone ~ Ad Consulant Torry Miller — ‘tant Nagel "Sports, m Baxter — News, oe) Rage Fisher : ~ _ Front Oflice Manager -: ; a a ~ Caralyn Anderson — Typasattin ; : din Chute ~ ~ Advertising Manager, dant Vivalros — Advertsing Consul- ~ Chelation Superior |e spicta thanks ta Py ; "> out contributors.and coraspandants fo tor thelr time and’ - “ talents. - o oy Heading | g for home | | Just when the country’s blood pressure was returning to normal after the carefully orchestrated panic leading up to the ratification deadline for the | Meech Lake Accord, another crisis has emerged from /@ belle province and with it another deadline. _ For months now Montreal. Expos. owner. Charles Bronfman has been trying to find buyers from within the province prepared to come up with the rumoured $100 million he wants for the franchise. ‘In the absence of any locally-based takers, it appears he has now set a September 1 deadline for what Expos president Claude Brochu recently described as ‘‘a Quebec solution.’” After that date, the team is up for grabs. Although the CBC has not yet taken to devoting 90 per cent of its news coverage to this new threat to national unity, there are those across this great land who recognize the situation as a crisis, However, this particular cloud has a silver lining if the Western provinces recognize the opportunity to combine their cash. Although the $25 million per province price tag might seem a little steep at first glance, it is a perfect opportunity to gain respect and redress after being dominated by Central Canada. And Something good : City council has done a good thing by suggesting a new library be included in its community-convention centre plan. The. suggestion removes the prospect of competition between the city and the library board for tax money for their respective ideas. In doing so, council recognizes that the library board has the high moral ground in this particular situation. The proposal also comes closer to hav- - besides, it might just be a vote winner. - Chise should be located but on the face of _ by meekly allowing the Canadian Foot- ‘Of course, there is the danger of ran- corous debate over where the new fran- it the choice is obvious. Manitoba is. quickly disqualified because it showed disloyalty to the west ball League to shift the Blue Bombers to. the eastern division. — Saskatchewan could surely be per- suaded to give up its claim in exchange for support for its getting a National Hockey League franchise while Alberta is the province of champions (Oilers, Eskimos and Flames) and is hardly likely to be interested in a squad of perennial bridesmaids. Which, of course, leaves our own fair province where sports fans have long since, thanks to the Canucks, accepted “next year’ as their central philosophy. The selection of Vancouver and its domed B.C. Place should also find favour with a major league hierarchy that has lived in dread of a World Series being played out in a Central Canadian snowscape. We wouldn’t even have to change the name — Vancouver Expos ties in nicely with 1986 and all that. Come on, guys — get with it. ing one facility that fits as wide a variety of community activities as possible. Sup- porting a library is probably the most worthwhile thing a government can do. As well, council’s move indicates it wants to broaden its base of support for the convention centre aspect of. its plan for a large facility. A convention centre is a tough sell for while it will be financ- ed with tax monies, tying in any resulting benefit is harder to prove. Be ever vigilant Premier Vander Zalm and I disagree about most subjects, cee Tee ot eatin A Rocking VTL MW AS gr enc bin ant Ed Sh rehienNT L o but on one thing we see eye to eye — lawbreakers., After trying his best to catch a thief who was pinching his wife’s golf cart at 2 a.m. on a Saturday’ morning, Vander Zalm. said, ‘'] think everyone, regardless of who it is, should not allow a thief or rapist .or anyone like such to get away, if ‘you are in their presence and you see it happening.” .; Amen to that. “| don’t pose a physical threat to any lawbreaker, unless he trips me, but I'd certainly report both his presence and his ap- pearance to the RCMP, as Neighbourhood Watch members are taught to do. .. Sure, I know the excuses for : “not lifting a finger. “I’m not paid to. deal’ with crime, Cat- ching. lawbreakers is the cops’ job. ge © Apprehending and charging “¢riminals is the work of police, -but they can't be everywhere or ‘know. everything that’s happen- -ing. Private citizens can plug those gaps. A timely tip may be enough: for, ‘police. to nab a ‘ perpetrator: in the’ ‘act, limiting the loss to the victim. — Often’ the victim is us, the public, Tm. not. about-to let anyone’ entertain himself ‘destroying. public property ‘of ‘any description, regardless of i its replacement, cost. =. .: Turning a ‘deaf ear or a blind eye to-crime only encourages in- — fractions, whether it's a rowdy... tecnager Hpping: flowers: out 0 his way hon a RGM A TEI. Through Bifocals by Claudette Sandeck! bowling his battered wife down the alley in their mobile home. There have got to be witnesses to most violations of the law, Rarely is there so little pedestrian or vehicular traffic that a crime can be committed withoul some scrutiny. (Ever unzip a five-year-old’s fly beside the car on a Sunday drive along a back road?) ‘ Yet under the noses of half a dozen neighbours, drivers: squeal their tires burning pat- terns of black rubber on pave-.. ment. . Exit ‘lights and alarms are smashed off school walis by: thrown rocks, big as grapefruit, that gouge chunks of concreté from the surrounding walls, A section of gym seating is used as a ladder to the roof and three-. foot sections of sheet metal duc- ting are tossed to the ground, With hatchets, more than ‘a’ dozen hemlock: trees are chop: - : ped down, the largest measuring‘: 29.5. cms, around the’ butti © Some of these have. been left ©: hanging to fall on some inno-...'f cent child during recess, Fires - have been set, half a dozen or. - more, several directly under a i doar gills. But no one. noticed ‘anauthorized movement on the. axes or the thump.of the rocks, Wor smelled smoke’ aout \ J 1 dd dnd otal ae Bae roof, heard the whack of. the.f seer Megs eee A Se public building closed for the summer. In an odd way, I admire peoples’. lack of interest in what’s going on in their neighbourhood, If I could master the art of disinterest, 1 could boost my income by several hours a week without starting earlier. Right -now Prince Rupert -.RCMP are hoping some obser- ‘vant. person will phone them ‘with. ‘the-scrap of information - they: need to nail an arsonist | who set a fire that claimed four lives of one family. . Who knows who might have seen something odd that February morning? A mother standing at the stove waiting for her infant’s botile to warm. A pensioner walking the pain out of an arthritic hip. Or a parent “:.. driving a babysitter home. TEA HONEY B TASTES KIND: oO THANKS FoR MAKING “(ios ”YE'RE. PLAYING GOLFERS AND “INDIANS Awesome beauty a tourist araw VICTORIA -- Tourism has become one of the world’s most lucrative industries. I should know. [ live in Victoria, a tourist’ town of international repute. . At this time of year, the city is crammed with tourists; hotels _ are booked near capacity; restaurants are doing, a roaring | “business,” merchants- are smiling : and I leave the car at home because downtown is a traffic mess. Horse-drawn carriages, driv- ing visitors. around the: city, cause traffic to back up for blocks, bicycle cabs, carrying two passengers, operated by kids who’ve got the stamina to pedal the things, don’t do much ‘either to speed up traffic. Meanwhile tourists are get- ting underfoot everywhere, Oblivious of the traffic around . them, they stop in the middle of the street and take pictures of each other. In other words, they | behave exactly the way I do in Banff, Honolulu, Paris or Athens, And that’s the point. We may at times get a little frustrated when we can’t move for tourists, but most of us like to travel too, and when we do, we behave like tourists, as we should, Besides, as an economic ac- tivity, tourism beats a lot of other industries. It doesn't pollute and it attracts mostly new money rather than money from -within the community which might be spent’ on ‘something else anyway. Just how important an in- dustry tourism has become in. British Columbia is made clear in a recent report by the tourism ministry’s research branch. How's this for starters? Visitors to the province last year | left close to $4 billion behind, an increase of $500 million over 1988.. That's four billion clean, -non-polluting . dollars, more - than 60 per cent of which came from outside the province, That's nearly half of the income _ generated by the forest in- dustry, the number one industry P WeiRD! (T'S SOME, (On AS 5 STUFF vic GAVE Me. From the Capital by Hubert Beyer in.B.C,, close to $2 billion went into the cash registers of restaurants; hotels: and motels took in $674 million. Close to 40 per cent of the province's -tourism revenue comes from British Columbians themselves; other Canadians comprise 32 per cent, U.S. visitors 23 per cent and overseas travellers a mere five per cent. of the total tourism ‘receipts, are people everywhere. No village, »now-town, no- city: is more than a few miles from the next one. In Victoria, I drive 10 miles and I'm in the wilderness, And that's what we should-sell Europeans on, the beauty and solitude of our wilderness. ° : If Europeans want good restaurants and theatres, they stay at home. There’s just no way the Vancouver Symphony “| know Europe very well, and believe me, British: ° Columbia is’ every European’ S.dream whether he knows it or not.” : ~ [got no problem with British Columbians holidaying in their owl province, Better to spend their money in this province than elsewhere, but it’s the five- per-cent'figure for revenue from overseas tourists that needs im- provement. I know Europe very well, and believe me, British Columbia is every European's dream, whether he knows it or not. Europe may hold a fatal attrac- ' tion for North Americans, but to. Europeans, much of it is. . polluted and all of itis crowded. ' You have to have lived in Europe to: really appreciate what British Columbia has to offer — clean water and very few peo- ple. a fair amount of advertising in European publications, but’ most’. of. ‘it “concentrates on’ Canada’s cosmopolitan offer-' ings — modern cities with first- class restaurants and theatres. Those ads read like we want to convince ourselves that we're not some kind of backwater; | They completely miss the target. - You see, in Europe it's next to impossible to be alone. pa 0 MORE TEA 7 Teal Nal Dod? incredible beauty, - wide-open spaces, clean air, . The federal government does: can compete with the Berlin Philharmonic. And the ‘Queen Elizabeth isn’t exactly Her Ma. jesty’s Theatre in London. Let’s ‘tell Europeans about the things we have that they can’t get at ‘home. - Let’s . tell them about ur trout streams. Most streams in Europe are polluted and those that aren’t you’re not allowed to fish in. Let’s tell them-about ‘salmon fishing in the beautiful coastal inlets, The North Sea, is polluted and has no salmon anyway. Let's tell them about hunting’ ‘in northern British Columbia, In Europe, hunting. :is the privilege of the very rich, and : even they cannot hunt in a real wilderness. hunting in Europe is more like game-farming. Hunters control the population of the semi-wildlife that: in- habits the groomed forests. : ° ae Let's tell them about the we hilaration of river-rafting; let? S. tell them about canoe trips on’ our northern rivers; lets's tell: them - about hiking . ‘trails through wild. country, not. manicured fields and meadows: in short, let's tell them about. the awesome beauty- that ° ii British Columbia. 525." 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