Fight on Local martial artists explain why they like - rolling around on the mat - SO much\SPORTS B5S : More cutbacks Six government employees here are the latest to find out they'll lose their JobS\NEWS A8& made during the Second World War on - and off — the $1.00 pLus 7¢ GST ($1.10 plus 8¢ GST outside of the Terrace area) TERRACE'S Ctiris:Spangl got into the Halloween sp ‘two days — pranksters made. off with the dummy’s bench home Oct. 31. Spang! started the Halloween irit last week by érectitig this effigy on ‘his front lawn. The display pumpkin head which ended up in dozens of pieces on the road outside his . tradition of lampocning Politicians five years ago. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO Gyn st gte qe, isplay only lasted: Fund may be tapped to buffer job losses THE SCHOOL district hopes to tap into a special account to pre- vent some of its workers frum jos- ing their jobs or having their hours cut. It hopes to have a deal in place with the workers’ union before the layoffs take effect Nov. 25. The district has already issued notice of a one hour a day work reduction to more than 250 Cana- dian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members. Among them are special ser- vices assistants and noon hour supervisors. The latter only work one hour a day so the work reduc- tion notice effectively eliminates — their jobs. The deal the school district wants with CUPE involves using a special $568,000 account set aside to prevent job losses be- cause of declining enrolment and school closures, says district human resources manager Don MacPherson. “We've been working very hard with CUPE on this,” he said last week, The money is contained in one of the current provisions in CUPE’s contract with the school district. ' Tapping into it requires not only local management-union ap-. proval, but the approval of senior public sector managers and union officials in Vancouver. “Our greatest resources are our human resources,” said MacPher- | son. “We don’t want to do any- thing more to lower morale.” While optimistic the district ‘and CUPE can reach a deal to. send south for approval, MacPher- son did say the CUPE contract is coming up renegotiation and that the’ future of the job security ac- count will be on the table. MacPherson said that using the security money is the only active plan, to date, the district has de- veloped to cope with losing noon hour supervisors and reduced spe- cial service assistant hours Still, MacPherson was definite in saying that teachers won’t take on any noon hour supervision role: “They do have the right ‘to a duty-free lunch and we will not be in any way interested in violating the section [of the contract],” he said. By JEFF NAGEL NEGOTIATORS for Skeena Cellulose and the IWA say they have staked out new bargaining positions that they hope leave enough room to negotiate a new deal at SCI’s Terrace mill. “I am more optimistic than [ was previous- ly,” SCI negotiator Doug Quinn said after last week’s meeting with his union counterpart. More talks are expected, likely this time formal negotiations that would also include local bargaining committee members. Quinn and [WA president Darrel Wong say they discussed all outstanding issues and ex- plored the limits of what each side could ac- cept, Both say they’re not yet at the point where they’ve mapped out a possible route to an agreement. ; But they’re hopeful there is middle ground to be found somewhere between their new po- sitions — and that further more formal talks are justified to try to find the solution. “We've got a general idea on how we can get there,” Wong said. “We had a discussion about what it would take for either party to actually put together an agreement. We have a very clear understand- ing of what it would take.” Both Wong and Quinn said they’ve agreed . SCI, IWA see room to manoeuvre not to publicly talk about the specifics. The sawmill shutdown is entering its 15th month. Workers are now getting strike pay and don’t expect the mill to reopen until spring. The company has indicated it will begin some logging in the new year. Its Prince Ru- pert pulp mill is scheduled to reopen March 1. Wong said the union is still proceeding with a complaint to the Labour Relations Board aimed at forcing the company to come up with vacation pay owed to workers here,- That hearing is scheduled for Dec. 11, Wong said, adding he hopes there will be a la- bour agreement prior to that. : - ‘If one had to blow up, then we would blow up together’ By CHANTAL MEIJER I’M SITTING with my parents, docu- menting the family history. My dad is telling me about de-mining the beaches in northern France in 1946. In Remembrance m@ More Remembrance. Day stories on Page B1 As I listen to him, I realize this is a story that must be recorded, It's a story of incredible love. And incred- ible risks. As my father speaks, I write with new purpose. “We never knew when a bomb or mine would explode,” Dad stresses. “It was really dangerous work. We ji tried not to think of how dangeroils it: °a was, because if we had, we would advisors had predicted the Allied in- vasion would take place so they had fortified it extra, though Hitler him- self had predicted -— accurately — that it would happen in. Normandy, to the south of us.” “Here,” Dad continues, “unlike the beaches of Normandy -— which _had a German-built wall - there was no actual wall, just pillboxes moun: _ ted on long stretches of beach.” ~~ "We had. three: different kinds of German-planted :obstacles to defuse: people,” Miller said, Handout stigma is: too much Rise in food bank use likely does not reflect actual need By JENNIFER LANG THERE JS such a stigma attached to accepting help that some people simply won’t tum to the food bank if they can’t afford to buy groceries. ‘ Kathy Miller, president of the Terrace Churches Food Bank, says sometimes people call her asking for help saying they’re reluctant to stand in line for groceries. “On a personal basis, I’ve taken care of some,” she says. “There are some extenuating circumstances where I've been called,” she says, ; She worries some people may go without the food bank’s services — even though they could use the help. “There’s a lot of pride out there,” she says. “Some people don’t discuss their financial situation because it hurts and yet they’re quietly carrying on the best they can.” oo, : The food bank distributed 427 bags of groceries last month. That works out to at least 270-individuals and fa- milies and breaks down as follows: The food bank distri- buted 115 bags to individuals and couples, 93 families with three to four people in them, and another 62 families with more than five or more members. “*You’re seeing a lot of single It’s hard to-predict how many § people will come to the food bank each month, She anticipates the food bank wil! be able to meet de- mand when it opens up for its No- vember distribution. More people turned to the food bank in October than the same month last year, when 352 bags of proceries were distributed, but it’s lower than local helping organizations had expected. Miller wonders if people were thrown by the fact that the food bank opened up a week earlier than usual to en- Kathy Miller _ sure it didn’t conflict with Thanksgiving. She suspects some recipients stayed away because they had recently received their quarterly GST rebate cheques. “When GST cheques come out, they will not use the food bank,” Miller says, adding people prefer to use their own money to purchase food, despite what some might think, - oe “The food bank is.a last resort for people. When. there’s no money, then they go to the food bank.” . Monthly child tax credits are another source of money for low income people who often rely on the food bank to ensure their families have enough to eat. “Again, if they've been able to purchase needed items with their [child tax credit] cheque, they don’t teally need us,” Miller explains. — a The food bank, supported through local donations of food, cash, or B.C. sharing coupons,-opens one week each month for six months of the year, starting in Octo- ber and running until April. : It's closed during December, when the Salvation Armmy’s Christmas Hamper program operates, providing local needy people with fixings for a-Christmas meal. Meanwhile, if you know of friends or acquaintances feeling a financial pinch, don’t drop off care packages of food at their home because they may be insulted, Miller advises inviting them over for dinner instead. "I believe there are families in the community that are very much in need of help. Whether they will utilize the food bank - 1 can’t answer that question for them,” she says. “It could be a sense of pride or a sense of shame. At the same time they do need the help,” pisses et . . 99 | REMEMBERING: Richard and Janine Rinaldi met after the tiberaiian of France Continued Page A2~~ . during the Second World War. They've lived in Terrace for 40 years.