Elders, inmates
share stories

_ By DAVE TAYLOR
THEY SIT ina circle.
About 20 people, mostly

young Nalive men, gather in the
common area al the Terrace
Correctional Center,

- They are inmates, but have freely
chosen to come and listen to clan
elders speak and share stories.

The inmates talk about life out-
side. How. it is hard. How despair
drives them to alcohol and alcohol
drives them deeper into despair.

One man says he found out last
week that his mother had died. He
found out alone, sitting in a city
lock-up in Prince Rupert.

The elders listen,

Bossy Bolton speaks. He is Tsim-
shizn and one of the Spirit of the
Mountain dancers asked to atiend
the meeting.

He tells a story of his own
brother’s battle with alcohol and of
his death.

“The elders always said that
death doesn’t come looking for you
— you seck it,” he says. ‘‘Death is
always above, Waiting. All you
have to do is reach out and take it.”’

Bolton sings a song in

Sm’algyax, the language of his
people. He pounds a drum and
sings.
"You feel different when you hit
the drum,’ be says. “You feel dif
ferent when you dance, when you
sing.’

Bolton encourages the men to
sing and dance and hit the drum.
When Jife is hard, he says, sit down
and hit the drum.

“We are the same,”’ he says.

New idea is third
try this year to cut

the waste stream

MAYBE THREE will be the
lucky number for recycling in the
northwest.

Another plan, the third this year,
is in the works to get a recycling
program started here,

The group that examines solid
waste. issues known as the Plan
Monitoring Advisory Committee
(PMAC) has presented the regional

“All of us. You have to choose the
path you take.”’
The inmates listen in silence.

The Spirit of the Mountain dan- -

cers gather at the entrance to the
common room.

One by one they enter, dancing to
the singing and drum beats of
leader Benita Chapdelaine. Kitsum-
kalum matriarch Vera Henry is
first, followed by her husband,
elder Charles Henry and Nisga’a
Denise Robinson.

The dancers dance and sing as the
drums pound, Music fills the small
room,

“We came to speak
about our experiences
as young persons and
encourage them to learn
about respect.”

Chapdelaine calls oui names of
nations to join the dancing. Some
of ihe inmates shifi in their seats
and Jook at the ground, Others get
up and dance as their nations are
called — Tsimshian, Gitksan,
Nisga’a, and Haida.

When the dance is over the elders
announce it is time to eal. They will
join the inmates in the dining hall
for supper.

“We were invited ta visit and
sing some songs,” says Vera Henry
as the men shuffle out. ‘‘We came
to speak about our experiences as
young persons and encourage them
to learn about respect.”’

district board with a new model for
a recycling program.

The program, which could go into
effect in 1998 or 1999, would in-
clude hiring a regional recycling
coordinator, conducting an educa-
tional program, creating demoustra-
tion gardens and doing six anaual
recycling pick-ups in Terrace.

The total cost of the project is
estimated at $139,000, to be shared
by the municipalities and electoral
areas. If it goes ahead, the amount
of waste headed to area landfills
would be reduced by sbout 10 per

POWER OF THE DRUM: Charles Henry was one of the local

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 12, 1997 - A3

elders who visited the Terrace Correctional Centre recently to en-
courage inmates there to follow a new path.

Scaled-down recycling

cen

The plan is similar to one brought
before the regional district at a
meeting, earlier this year, At thal
meeting, March 21, the board voted
unanimously to scrap the idea until
later in the year, saying then that
recycling was not a priorily.

A more ambitious $400,000
regional plan had also been pre-
viously canceled when Terrace city
council decided to opt out —
making the project too expensive
for the other areas, .

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News In Brief

Cut called unhealthy

THE CANCELLEATION OF a program aimed at
creating healthier communities docsn’t make sense, say
those involved.

Healthy Communities, which looks at social, eco-
nomic and physical factors affecting people and com-
munities, works across the province, including 12
northwestern locations.

Bot the program has now been told by the provincial
health ministry that its budget is being eliminated.

"The northwest has endured massive and continuing
plows to the economy and needs (o increase Health
Communities activily rather than have It arbitrarily
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Library uses collectors
THE TERRACE Public Library is beginning to get
long overdue books back after sending bill collectors
after offenders.

The library tumed to a collection agency about six
months ago when it realized that large amounts of
money were being spent replacing books that didn’t
come back, librarian Ed Curell said.

The total value of all books missing from the library
is estimated at more than $50,000, he said.

He said close to 40 patrons with late books have been
targeted for collections so far,

"There’s a lot of value in books these days," he
added. "It’s public property. It’s aot their property.
And therefore it should be returned."

Some people come in and pay their fines after a
warning Jetier, he said, otherwise the debt owed is reg-
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The tough measures are beginning ta work, he noted.

"We actually had some books returned from New Or-
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Besides getting books back the library is taking
measures to make sure more aren’1 siolen straight out
of the library.

A new security system is being powered up there
starting this week.

Breath of fresh air

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